David Shipley, The Post’s opinion editor, is resigning after trying to persuade Jeff Bezos to reconsider the new direction.

In an email and social media post, Jeff Bezos outlined dramatic changes to The Washington Post’s opinions section, and announced that opinions editor David Shipley has resigned.

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Billionaire Jeff Bezos, the owner of the Washington Post, announced that the paper's opinion pages would now only write about "personal liberties and free markets."

Jeff Bezos, the billionaire owner of the Washington Post, is making changes to the newspaper’s opinion pages to limit what he described as viewpoints opposing “personal liberties and free markets.”

This is not about siding with any political party. This is about being crystal clear about what we stand for as a newspaper,” publisher and CEO Will Lewis added.

Washington Post editorial page editor David Shipley is leaving the paper as its opinion section shifts its focus to supporting and defending the topics of personal liberties and free markets, owner and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos wrote in a memo to staff on Wednesday.

Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos on Wednesday announced a “significant shift” to the publisher’s opinion page that led David Shipley, the paper’s editorial page editor, to leave the paper.

The newspaper's billionaire owner announced the opinion section will now focus on “personal liberties and free markets.”