Washington Post columnist Michele Norris has resigned from her position after the paper declined to endorse Vice President Kamala Harris.
“As of yesterday, I have decided to resign from my role as a columnist for The Washington Post — a newspaper that I love. In a moment like this, everyone needs to make their own decisions,” Norris wrote on X.
“The Washington Post’s decision to withhold an endorsement that had been written & approved in an election where core democratic principles are at stake was a terrible mistake & an insult to the paper’s own longstanding standard of regularly endorsing candidates since 1976,” she continued. “The reason given in no way justifies why the newspaper would abdicate its role in informing and guiding voters as it has done in making endorsements in other key races this year, and as it has done in endorsing the candidates who were running against Trump in both 2016 and 2020.”
Last week, the Washington Post’s editor-at-large, Robert Kagan, resigned. The resignation followed the paper announcing that it would no longer provide endorsements in any presidential election.
Similarly, the head of the Los Angeles Times editorial board quit after the paper did not endorse Harris for president.
“I am resigning because I want to make it clear that I am not okay with us being silent,” editorial editor Mariel Garza told the Columbia Journalism Review. “In dangerous times, honest people need to stand up. This is how I’m standing up.”
Two other LA Times staffers also resigned, Deadline reported.