An opinion writer at the Washington Post who worked there for more than 40 years says she resigned from the publication after a publisher killed her piece on Jeff Bezos

Ruth Marcus, a longtime op-ed writer for the Washington Post, quit on Monday after, she said, her column criticizing owner Jeff Bezos was killed by publisher.

Ruth Marcus, an associate editor of the Washington Post, has quit after CEO Will Lewis decided to cancel her opinion piece critical of Jeff Bezos 's recent changes to the paper. In her resignation letter to Lewis and the billionaire owner, Marcus said she was sad to leave the publication she loved.