The Washington Post is making one-third of its employees redundant.
In the headline, the bosses have said that the American newspaper The Washington Post is making one-third of its employees redundant.
The long-rumoured layoffs, affecting nearly all areas of the newsroom, were confirmed to employees in a video conference Wednesday.
Subsequently, he received emails with one of two subject lines, alerting him to the potential departure or retention of his role.
Amazon founder and Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos at his new headquarters in 2016. File photo: AP
The image shows US President Richard Nixon during the Watergate scandal in 1974. File photo: AP
The departments being eliminated include the sports section as well as several foreign bureaus and the newspaper’s book coverage.
In a note to staff, executive editor Matt Murray described the move as painful but necessary to bring it to a stronger position and weather changes in technology and user habits and told them that the Post “cannot be everything to everyone”.
Mr Murray said, “The important thing is that our daily story output has fallen substantially over the last five years,” adding, “And even though we produce very excellent work, we too often write for one section of the audience, from one perspective.”
The layoffs come days after the more than 145-year-old newspaper withdrew its coverage of the 2026 Winter Olympics amid mounting financial losses.
The newspaper’s Cairo bureau chief, Claire Parker, along with all of the newspaper’s Middle East correspondents and editors, announced her additional appointment to the X, saying it was “hard to understand the logic”.
Some, including former editor Martin Baron, criticised the owner, Jeff Bezos.
Mr Baron, the Post’s first editor under the Amazon founder, said his former boss was guilty of “a case study in almost immediate, self-inflicted brand destruction”.
Margaret Sullivan, a journalism professor and former columnist at the Post and The New York Times, said the layoffs were “devastating news for anyone who cares about journalism in America and, indeed, the world.
“The Washington Post has been very important in many ways in news, sports, and cultural coverage.”
Mr Bezos, who has not commented, has had a generally indifferent attitude toward the newspaper’s editorial policy since he bought the Post in 2013.
But that appeared to change during last year’s US presidential election when he blocked the Post’s editorial board from publishing support for Donald Trump’s rival Kamala Harris.
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As of 8 pm UK time (3 pm Washington time), there was no mention of the layoffs on the newspaper’s home page or media index page, nor were they announced on the title’s X account.
The Post is famous for its coverage of the Watergate scandal in the early 1970s, which led to the resignation of US President Richard Nixon.
