Yet another Washington Post employee has called it quits, complaining about the influence of the paper’s owner, tech billionaire Jeff Bezos. Ruth Marcus, a longtime political columnist and Associate Editor for The Post, has resigned following a clash with the paper’s leadership regarding changes to the opinion section.

Marcus, who has been with the Post for 40 years, cited Bezos’s push to align columns with his libertarian views as the reason for her departure. In a resignation letter, Marcus claimed that Bezos’s approach would damage the integrity of the opinion section.

Marcus’s departure follows the resignation of Opinions Editor David Shipley, who attempted to persuade Bezos to reconsider his directive.

When Bezos canceled a planned endorsement of Democratic nominee Kamala Harris, it lost 300,000 digital subscribers. Bezos defended his decision in an opinion piece, asserting that ending presidential endorsements was a move to maintain perceived neutrality. Following President Donald J. Trump’s election victory last year, the paper lost an estimated $100 million in revenue.

Last month, the company lost another 75,000 digital subscriptions when Bezos announced that the editorial page would focus more on promoting “personal liberties and free markets.”

Numerous resignations have followed Bezos’s changes at the Post, including those of Associate Editor David Maraniss and former Senior Managing Editor Cameron Barr.

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