The Brits Invade US Newsrooms With a ‘Killer Instinct’ and Fleet Street Ethics

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Robert Winnett, the soon-to-be executive editor of the Washington Post, is the latest British journalist to be put in charge of a U.S. news outlet.

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(Clockwise from left) Former News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch, Washington Post CEO Will Lewis, Post upcoming Executive Editor Robert Winnett, CNN CEO Mark Thompson and Emma Tucker, the editor in chief of The Wall Street Journal. (Chris Smith/TheWrap)

The crisis in American news media has led to an unexpected result in a very short time: The invasion of executive news suites by British editors, who experts say bring a “killer instinct” to news gathering, while notably downgrading the diversity quotient in news leadership.

Most recently with the appointment of Will Lewis as the publisher and CEO of the Washington Post — and his latest restructuring plan, featuring the appointment of Fleet Street-bred editor Robert Winnett as executive editor after the election — British players are gaining a significant foothold in the U.S. media industry. 

These latest U.K. natives arrive just months after a growing list of others — CNN’s CEO Mark Thompson, The Wall Street Journal Editor-in-Chief Emma Tucker, Bloomberg News Editor-in-Chief John Micklethwait, The Daily Beast’s content chief Joanna Coles and the outlet’s new executive editor Hugh Dougherty.

Natalie Korach

Before becoming a Media Reporter for TheWrap in 2023, Natalie was a Guest Producer for i24News English in Tel Aviv, Israel. She was also previously a Breaking News Reporter for Mediaite, specifically covering the cable news industry.

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5 responses to “The Brits Invade US Newsrooms With a ‘Killer Instinct’ and Fleet Street Ethics”

  1. Lonnie Avatar
    Lonnie

    Other than Stuart Varney, I change the channel if someone from other than the US is the news anchor.

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  2. bevus Avatar
    bevus

    WE do not need Brits, canadians, aussies telling us how to run our country, they cannot run theirs, most if not all are more bigotted, racist and eltitis than ours. They are giant hypocrits.

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  3. John Avatar
    John

    Nothing will change until you drive out all of the woke and DEI hires. And that won’t happen so enjoy your slide into bankruptcy.

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  4. Larry Weber Avatar
    Larry Weber

    It is disgusting to see Jarvis trying to defend the performance of those he trained. He and his academicians are a major source of the problem. [I use the term “academicians” as their record has shown them not to be “scholars”.] One thought for those fretting about diversity: “Ride that horse all the way to the bankruptcy court”.

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  5. Charles P. Avatar
    Charles P.

    As an U.S. American, I’ve always said we have an infatuation with our British cousins’ accents. I’ve also said a person from the U.K. could come here, kill someone, and then start talking and we would say, “Oh, they have a British accent, so it couldn’t have been on purpose.”

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