Washington Post says one-third of its staff across all departments is being laid off

The Washington Post says one-third of its unit crossed each departments, not conscionable the newsroom, is being laid off.

The troubled Post began implementing large-scale cutbacks connected Wednesday, including eliminating its sports section and shrinking the fig of journalists it stations overseas. The changes were announced by enforcement exertion Matt Murray successful a Zoom gathering with staff.

Staff members successful the newsroom were told they would beryllium getting emails with 1 of 2 taxable lines, announcing that the person’s relation has oregon hasn’t been eliminated. A full fig of layoffs was not announced successful the call, and the Post wouldn't accidental however large its existent staffing is.

The newspaper’s books section volition beryllium closed, and its Washington-area quality section and editing unit volition beryllium restructured, Murray told unit members. Its Post Reports podcast volition beryllium suspended.

Murray acknowledged that the cuts volition beryllium a daze to the strategy but said the extremity is to make a Post that tin turn and thrive again.

The moves were expected for respective weeks, since connection leaked retired that the Post had told its sports staffers who had arranged to screen the Winter Olympics successful Italy that they would not beryllium going. After it became public, the Post reversed people and said it would beryllium sending a constricted staff.

The Post’s troubles basal successful opposition to its longtime rival The New York Times, which has been thriving successful caller years, successful ample portion owed to investments successful ancillary products similar its Games tract and Wirecutter merchandise recommendations. The Times has doubled its unit implicit the past decade.

In caller weeks, galore Post unit members person been appealing straight to the newspaper’s owner, billionaire Jeff Bezos. The paper has been bleeding subscribers successful portion owed to decisions made by him — pulling backmost from an endorsement of Democratic statesmanlike nominee Kamala Harris during the 2024 predetermination against Republican Donald Trump and directing a much blimpish crook connected wide sentiment pages.

The Washington Post Guild, the national for unit members, had appealed to the nationalist to nonstop a connection to Bezos: “Enough is enough. Without the unit of The Washington Post, determination is nary Washington Post.”

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