As Jeff Bezos dismantles The Washington Post, 5 regional papers chart a course for survival

We need the Washington Post too much to give up on it entirely

Bezos’s cuts were devastating and unforgiveable. But I’m rooting for the journalists who are still there.

As Jeff Bezos dismantles The Washington Post, 5 regional papers chart a course for survival

Other billionaires who own newspapers are doing a better job, a journalism professor explains.

Bezos & The Post: How Austerity Gutted a Newsroom

Just 16 years after acquiring The Washington Post for $250 million, Jeff Bezos has overseen a dramatic restructuring – widely described as a gutting – of the

Jeff Bezos Is Gutting The Washington Post’s Newsroom — And Rebuilding It in His Own Image

The Washington Post, once a crown jewel of American journalism and the paper that brought down a president, is undergoing a transformation so radical that many of its own journalists barely recognize the institution anymore. Under owner Jeff Bezos and his handpicked chief executive, Will Lewis, the storied newspaper is shedding reporters, abandoning local coverage, and pivoting toward sports and service journalism — a strategic overhaul that has…

The Jeff Bezos who bought WaPo in 2013 is not the same one allowing its destruction now, and he has ended the myth that a tech billionaire could save journalism

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Jeff Bezos’s Destruction of “The Washington Post” Is a Disgraceful Plutocratic Crime – International Psychoanalysis

Click Here to Read: Jeff Bezos’s Destruction of “The Washington Post” Is a Disgraceful Plutocratic Crime. It turns out that democracy doesn’t die in darkness at all—it succumbs to repeated group muggings at the hands of the moneyed power elit. by Chris Lehmann on the Nation website on February 5, 2026. Jeff Bezos. image: Los Angeles Air Force Base Space and Missile System Center,  Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.