Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos has tapped Politico co-founder Fred Ryan as the new publisher of The Washington Post. Ryan will begin working Oct. 1 and takes over for Katharine Weymouth, who was publisher since 2008. The leadership change is significant in part because Weymouth’s departure ends more than 80 years of leadership from the Graham family, which owned the Post before Bezos bought the publication last year for $250 million. Politico is the Post’s big rival as far political coverage goes in D.C.

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