After Bezos squashed the Post’s endorsement of Harris, Post writers pleaded with us online to keep our subscriptions to the Post because they pay for a lot of good writers. It’s a good argument and I kept mine. Now, some Post writers are leaving. I may change my mind since they have changed their view of the Post. Bezos is doing to the Post what Musk did to Twitter.
The other takeaway from what's happening at WaPo is that there are at least 300,000 Americans out there who were paying ~$100 a year or more for a media outlet to hold the powerful accountable. That's a huge, documented audience with enough money to support a new media outlet.
— James Downie (@jamescdownie.bsky.social) 2025-01-06T20:47:13.723Z
Everyone knows the Washingon Post is in turmoil, bleeding subscribers, journalists, reader respect. But if the boss is asking how to attract Trump supporters that means self-respect is eroding too. For me, at least, that's a step further than I thought we were at. http://www.semafor.com/newsletter/0…
— Jay Rosen (@jayrosen.bsky.social) 2025-01-06T15:09:59.660Z
Scoop: Layoffs are slated to hit The Washington Post this week, I'm told. Dozens are expected to be impacted. Details here: http://www.status.news/p/washington…
— Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy.bsky.social) 2025-01-06T03:17:32.122Z
Replacing this entire crop of reporters is going to be like trying to regrow a mature forest with saplings. The current generation signed up for jobs in accountability journalism, which no longer seems to be Post management’s focus — if that remains true, anyone who can will leave.
— Amanda Katz (@katzish.bsky.social) 2025-01-06T02:25:18.365Z
The problems at WaPo are twofold.First, new publisher Will Lewis is in an untenable position. His first major act as publisher was to mislead (lie?) to the public about the process of the Kamala Harris editorial getting spiked.
— Jonathan V. Last (@jvl.bsky.social) 2025-01-06T00:58:03.848Z
From my story: 300,000 people canceled digital subscriptions to Wash Post between Oct 24, when NPR revealed Bezos’s decision to kill a planned endorsement of VP Harris, and Election Night
— David Folkenflik (@davidfolkenflik.bsky.social) 2025-01-04T20:01:13.866Z
I could continue to list hundreds of names of great reporters and editors who remain at the Washington Post, and who like me have every intention of staying to see what's around the next corner.
— Sally Jenkins (@sallyjenx.bsky.social) 2025-01-07T18:37:55.024Z
The Washington Post laid off most of their PR team as part of today’s cuts. Comms chief Kathy Baird said in an email to her team that the Post will “stop the dedicated practice of publicity for our journalism across broadcast and traditional media outlets."
— Charlotte Klein (@charlottetklein.bsky.social) 2025-01-07T20:08:19.800Z
Sad! 