How Billionaire Jeff Bezos Could Still Emerge as Saviour to the Ailing Washington Post

How billionaire Jeff Bezos could still emerge as saviour to the ailing Washington Post

Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos, writes David Olive, could yet emerge as a saviour of the paper by emulating philanthropic tycoons of the past.

Come on, Jeff. Don’t let the Washington Post die in darkness

There’s still a way the Amazon boss can save his legacy, even as his hitman Sir William Lewis walks away from the wreckage of the great American newspaper he owns

Dying in Broad Daylight: The Washington Post

We’ve seen newspapers go into a death-spiral before. But who thought it could happen to The Washington Post? Maybe you’ve seen this pattern with your own local newspaper: It has financial problems, so it lays off staff. Then the paper shrinks and has less to offer, so its readership declines, creating new financial problems. So the cycle repeats: more layoffs, less coverage, fewer readers, less revenue. When that happens to a small-town paper (a…