Two people have withdrawn their names to serve as executive editor of the Washington Post, Axios said.

Cliff Levy, an editor at the New York Times and two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, and Anne Korblut, a former Post editor who now works at Meta's VP of global product content operations, took their names out of the running over disagreements with the newspaper's strategy, Axios reported.

Publisher and CEO Will Lewis hasn't impressed candidates with his vision for the Post's future, amid a decline in paid subscribers and revenue, Axios said. The Washington Post is owned by Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon.