Karen Attiah’s future at The Washington Post is in doubt after a fraught one-on-one meeting with Adam O’Neal, the paper’s newly installed opinion editor, according to a report.

Sources told the Status newsletter that last month’s discussion between Attiah and O’Neal, a former Economist correspondent who has been meeting columnists to say their work does not fit his vision and suggest they consider buyouts, was uncomfortable and did not go well.

Attiah, a staunch anti-Trump commentator, had publicly noted prior to the meeting that she remained at the paper amid the latest exodus in which colleagues were taking voluntary packages. 4

She wrote on X : “So… officially, I’m the last Black staff columnist left in the Washington Post’s opinion section.” Keith Richburg and Theodore Jo

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