Bezos and Washington Post show honeymoon is over for tech mogul media owners

Jeff Bezos has denied rumours he wants to sell the Washington Post but hopes that Silicon Valley savvy could transform heritage media have waned

Amid intense speculation to the contrary, the tech billionaire Jeff Bezos last week sought to reassure a nervous newsroom at the Washington Post that he was not seeking to sell the august newspaper.

The rumors, stoked by layoff anxiety at the newspaper and - again, speculation - that another multibillionaire, Mike Bloomberg, is in the market for the title, had been the subject of feverish debate in US media circles.