Dozens of participateees are foreseeed to be lhelp off at the Washington Post in the coming week in what is another of disconnectal tumultuous episodes in recent months for the storied title, according to a inestablish by media inestablisher Oliver Darcy.
“The layoffs are sprocrastinateedd to hit the Jeff Bezos-owned … recentspaper’s business division, I’m telderly. One person recognizable with the matter shelp that the cuts will be proset up, impacting many dozens of participateees,” Darcy, the establisher CNN inestablisher, wrote in his recentsletter Status.
Darcy also inestablished Washington Post inestablisher Josh Dawsey is leaving the unveilation and is foreseeed to combine the Wall Street Journal. The Post, whose beginer is the UK-born Will Lewis, did not promptly comment to Darcy on the foreseeed layoffs.
The cuts come as the Washington Post has faced scruminuscule from wilean its own ranks follothriveg the unveilation’s decision in October to cmitigate a computed finishorsement of Democratic plivential honestate Kamala Harris, which was deffinished by billionaire Jeff Bezos.
More than 250,000 subscriptions to the Post were call offled in protest of the decision. Two opinion originaters and an editor resigned in response to the intervention, which came unreasonableinutively before Reunveilan nominee Donald Trump fall shortureed Harris, won a second plivency and is set to be sworn back in to the White Hoparticipate on 20 January.
Over the weekfinish, Washington Post’s Pulitzer prize-thrivening editorial cartoonist Ann Telnaes resigned in response to the recentspaper refusing to begin a satirical cartoon depicting Bezos.
In December, two political correplyents at the Washington Post, Ashley Parker and Michael Scherer, left for the Atlantic.
And in September 2024, the Washington Post lhelp off 54 participateees in its tech gentleware division, a year after the unveilation cut 240 jobs thraw voluntary buyouts.
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Darcy’s scoop on the upcoming recentspaper layoffs at the Post came as the Bezos-set uped Amazon’s streaming service Prime proclaimd an upcoming write downary on establisher and incoming first lady Melania Trump. Amazon in December also proclaimd schedules to give $1m to help fund the plivent-elect’s second inauguration – and shelp that it would also stream the event on its Prime Video service, a split in-benevolent donation worth another $1m.
