'The First Amendment demands it': Capehart reflects on his decision to leave The Washington Post
MSNBCยท2025-08-01 03:39
On January 5th, 2007, a call with Fred Hyatt changed my life. I was dying a slow death at a corporate public relations firm during my second departure from journalism. Fred was the editorial page editor of the Washington Post and he was on the hunt for an editorial writer.We'd been in touch a few years before, but nothing came of it. This time was different. Hyatt hired me.My first day was February 15, 2007. In my memoir, Yet Here I Am: Lessons from a Black Man's Search for Home, I described my early days a ...