The Washington Post announces that she will not endorse in the 2024 race or in “future presidential elections.”

William Lewis, publisher and chief executive of the Washington Post, announced Friday that the newspaper would not support the 2024 presidential campaign or any future presidential campaign.

In a post on the newspaper's website, he wrote: “The Washington Post will not be endorsing a presidential candidate in this election. Not even in any future presidential election. We’re going back to our roots of not supporting presidential candidates.”

He quoted the newspaper's editorial board in 1960 as saying: “The Washington Post did not 'endorse' either candidate in the presidential campaign. This is in our tradition and consistent with our approach in five of the last six elections.”

The editor called the decision “a statement in support of our readers' ability to form their own opinions on this most consequential American decision – who to vote for as the next president.”

William Lewis, publisher and chief executive of the Washington Post, announced Friday that the newspaper will not endorse Kamala Harris or Donald Trump in the 2024 campaign or any candidate in a future presidential race. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson) (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

Lewis added: “Our mission at The Washington Post is to provide nonpartisan news for all Americans through the newsroom as well as thought-provoking, reported views from our opinion team to help our readers form their own opinions.”

He concluded: “Our mission as a newspaper in the capital of the most important country in the world is, above all, to be independent. And that is who we are and will remain.”

This week, the Los Angeles Times announced that it would not endorse a candidate for the first time since 2008. As a result, the paper's editor, Mariel Garza, resigned over what she said was a lack of support for the owner's decision not to support Vice President Kamala Harris.

“I’m resigning because I want to make it clear that I don’t agree with us remaining silent,” Garza told the Columbia Journalism Review (CJR) on Wednesday. “In dangerous times, honest people must stand up. So I get up.”

The union representing LA Times employees appealed to readers not to cancel their subscriptions after criticizing the owner for its role in the paper's controversial decision not to offer presidential endorsements this year.

“We know that many loyal readers are angry, upset or confused and some are canceling their subscriptions. “Before you hit the cancel button: This subscription covers the salaries of hundreds of journalists in our newsroom,” the Los Angeles Times Guild Unit Council wrote in a social media post on Thursday. “Our member journalists work every day to keep readers informed during these turbulent times. A healthy democracy is an informed democracy.”

Fox News' Alexander Hall and Lindsay Kornick contributed to this report.

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