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            Newly named Washington Post editor decides not to                                                                                HEALTH

            take job after backlash, will stay in Britain                                                                          DOCTOR ON DUTY



                                                                                                   members earlier this week,          Oranjestad
                                                                                                   Bezos  assured  them  that   Hospital 7:00 pm / 10:00pm
                                                                                                   journalistic  standards  and   Tel. 527 4000
                                                                                                   ethics  at  the  newspaper         San Nicolas
                                                                                                   would not change. “I know     Imsan 24 hours
                                                                                                   you’ve  already  heard  this   Tel.524 8833
                                                                                                   from  Will,  but  I  wanted  to   Women in Difficulties
                                                                                                   also  weigh  in  directly,”   PHARMACY ON DUTY
                                                                                                   he  wrote.  “To  be  sure,  it
                                                                                                   can’t be business as usual   Oranjestad:
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                                                                                                   at  The  Post,”  Bezos  wrote.   San Nicolas:
                                                                                                   “The world is evolving rap-  San Nicolas:tel. 584 5712
                                                                                                   idly  and  we  do  need  to
                                                                                                   change as a business.”       OTHER
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                                                                                                   raniss said that the issue for   Blood Bank Aruba 587 0002
                                                                                                   staff  members  is  integrity,   Urgent Care 586 0448
                                                                                                   not  resistance  to  change.   Walk-In Doctor’s Clinic
                                                                                                   To  that  end,  it  remains  to   +297 588 0539
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                                                                                                   be seen whether Lewis can    EMERGENCY
                                                                                                   gain staff support.
                                                                                                   Lewis  said  Friday  that  the   Police         100
            People walk by the One Franklin Square Building, home of The Washington Post newspaper, in   recruitment  firm  and  pro-  Oranjestad      527 3140
            downtown Washington, Feb. 21, 2019.                                                    cess  for  replacing  Winnett   Noord         527 3200
                                                                                  Associated Press  will  be  announced  soon.   Sta. Cruz       527 2900
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            By DAVID BAUDER              nalistic  ethics  of  Lewis   litzer  Prize  winner  who  has   Winnett’s  sudden  hiring  —   Police Tipline      11141
            AP Media Writer              and    Winnett   stemming    worked  at  the  newspaper   without  any  indication  of   Ambulancia      911
            NEW  YORK  (AP)  —  The      from their work in England.   for  four  decades,  said  this   an extensive search — had   Fire Dept.      115
            Washington  Post  said  Fri-  For  example,  both  men    week  that  he  didn’t  know   also rankled staff members.  Red Cross      582 2219
            day  that  newly  named      worked together in a series   anyone there who thought    But  Lewis  also  said  that   TAXI SERVICES
            editor  Robert  Winnett  has   of  scoops  about  extrava-  the situation with the pub-  the  reorganization  efforts   Taxi Tas    587 5900
            decided  not  to  take  the   gant  spending  by  British   lisher  and  “supposed  new   would continue.q          Prof. Taxi    588 0035
            job  and  remain  in  Britain   politicians  fueled  by  infor-  editor” could stand.                               Taxi D.T.S.   587 2300
            instead, another upheaval    mation  that  they  paid  a   “The  body  is  rejecting                                Taxi Serv. Aruba 583 3232
            at  a  news  outlet  where  a   data  information  compa-  the  transfusion,”  Maraniss                             A1 Taxi Serv.   280 2828
            reorganization  plan  has    ny for  a practice frowned   wrote on Facebook.                                        Women in Difficulties
            gone disastrously wrong.     upon by American journal-    Lewis, a former Wall Street                               TRAVEL INFO
            The Post’s CEO and publish-  ists.  The  New  York  Times   Journal publisher and vice                              Aruba Airport   524 2424
            er,  Will  Lewis,  announced   wrote  that  both  Winnett   chairman  of  The  Associ-                              American Airlines 582 2700
            Winnett’s decision to with-  and  Lewis  were  involved   ated  Press’  board  of  di-                              Avianca       588 0059
            draw in a note to staff on   in stories that appeared to   rectors, started at The Post                             Jet Blue      588 2244
            Friday morning, and said a   be  based  on  fraudulently-  earlier  this  year,  hired  by                          Surinam       582 7896
            recruitment  firm  would  be   obtained phone and busi-   billionaire owner Jeff Bezos                              Women in Difficulties
            hired  to  launch  a  search   ness records.              to stem a costly exodus of                                AID FOUNDATIONS
            for a replacement immedi-    It  sparked  a  newsroom     readers. The Post had said                                FAVI- Visually Impaired
            ately. The financially strug-  revolt  at  The  Post.  David   it  had  lost  $77  million  last                    Tel. 582 5051
            gling Post had announced     Maraniss,  a  two-time  Pu-  year. In a memo to key staff
            Winnett  would  take  over                                                                                          Alcoholics Anonymous
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            as editor of the core news-                                                                                         Narcotics Anonymous
            room  functions  after  No-                                                                                         Tel. 583 8989
            vember’s       presidential                                                                                         Fundacion Contra Violencia
            election,  while  it  was  also                                                                                     Relacional Tel. 583 5400
            setting  up  a  “third  news-                                                                                       Centre for Diabetes
            room”  devoted  to  finding                                                                                         Tel. 524 8888
            new ways for its journalism                                                                                         Child Abuse Prevention
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            to make money.
            Three weeks ago, then-ex-                                                                                           Quota Club Tel. 525 2672
                                                                                                                                Women in Difficulties
            ecutive editor Sally Buzbee                                                                                         General Info
            said  that  she  would  quit
            rather  than  take  a  demo-                                                                                        Phone Directory Tel. 118
            tion  to  head  this  revenue-
            enhancement  effort.  For-
            mer  Wall  Street  Journal
            editor  Matt  Murray  was
            brought  on  as  her  interim
            replacement  and  future
            leader  of  the  “third  news-
            room.”
            Since  then,  several  pub-
            lished  reports  had  raised
            questions  about  the  jour-                                                                                        facebook.com/arubatoday/
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