The outgoing interim CEO Paty Stonesifer helped select Lewis from greater than two dozen candidates as a result of he understood that “nice journalism wants nice enterprise”. Bezos was additionally drawn to Lewis’s “ardour for driving monetary success” however his new CEO needs extra time “beneath the hood” earlier than he reveals detailed plans for a return to monetary well being. They are going to, nevertheless, contain makes an attempt to herald elusive youthful audiences utilizing the expertise he gleaned from co-founding Information Motion, which gives information to youthful audiences on TikTok and YouTube. Synthetic intelligence will play an element too, however he insists as a “co-pilot not a alternative” for journalists, as will extra bespoke choices for information subscribers. “I don’t like having all our eggs in a single basket,” Lewis instructed his new paper “so if promoting dips, it’s not panic stations.”