The Washington Post begins layoffs, cutting 4% of workforce

The Washington Post began laying off a significant portion of its workforce on Tuesday, cutting numbers on the business side of the company.

The cuts did not affect the newsroom. About 4% of the company, or fewer than 100 employees, will be laid off across its business divisions, Fox News Digital has learned. The layoffs, which began Tuesday, were first reported by New York Times.

“The Washington Post continues its transformation to meet the needs of the industry, build a more sustainable future, and reach audiences where they are,” a Washington Post spokesperson said. “The changes to our business functions all serve our larger goal of putting the newspaper in the best position for the future.”

A source familiar with the matter said Fox News Digital Earlier this week, despite newsroom staff being relieved of upcoming layoffs, “morale is terrible” under publisher Will Lewis due to an exodus of talent leaving jobs at various outlets, as well as heavy financial losses and declining traffic.

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The layoffs come one year after The Post carried out mass buyouts. It was reported that 240 employees He took the packages out, preventing a round of layoffs at the time.

It was reported last fall that The Post was on track to lose $77 million in 2024, and that estimate came before the paper was set to lose $77 million in 2024. 250,000 subscribers As part of liberal outrage over the newspaper’s move not to endorse a presidential candidate in the election, a decision made by its billionaire owner, Jeff Bezos.

The editorial board of The Washington Post, to no one’s surprise, was appointed. To endorse Vice President Kamala Harris Before Bezos intervened. Since it began offering White House endorsements in 1976, the newspaper has backed the Democratic nominee in every race except 1988, when it did not endorse anyone.

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Several prominent staffers at the newspaper have announced their departures for other outlets in recent weeks, including reporters Josh Dawsey, Ashley Parker, Michael Scherer and Tyler Page, columnist Charles Lane and editor Mattia Gould.

Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Anne Telnes also resigned last week from the newspaper after her bosses rejected her cartoon depicting Bezos groveling to President-elect Donald Trump.

Fox News Digital has also learned of The Post’s plans to reassign Monica Hess as “gender columnist” after an article she wrote was “murdered” by editors.

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Bezos previously hinted at reforms at the newspaper in an op-ed defending the decertification decision.

“Most people believe the media is biased. Anyone who doesn’t see that pays little attention to reality, and those who fight reality lose,” Bezos said. Written in October. “Reality is the unbeatable champion. It would be easy to blame others for our long and sustained decline in credibility (and thus diminished influence), but a victim mentality will not help. Complaining is not a strategy. We must work harder to control what we can control to increase “Our credibility.”