How Jeff Bezos can stop the bleeding at the Washington Post | Margaret Sullivan

The paper's owner should show up - soon - to hold a town hall with the newsroom, answer questions, and take the heat

More than 400 newsroom staffers at the Washington Post pleaded with the paper's owner, Jeff Bezos, this week to do something about their beloved paper's rapid - and very public - decline.

We are deeply alarmed by recent leadership decisions that have led readers to question the integrity of this institution, broken with a tradition of transparency, and prompted some of our most distinguished colleagues to leave, with more departures imminent," an extraordinary letter to Bezos read in part, as first reported by NPR's David Folkenflik. It was signed by some of the Post's most respected names, including the investigative reporter Carol Leonnig and the unofficial dean of DC politics writers Dan Balz.

Margaret Sullivan is a Guardian US columnist writing on media, politics and culture