The Washington Post can close its sports desk, but not even Jeff Bezos can kill it

Carl Bernstein Says Jeff Bezos Is ‘At Odds With’ Washington Post’s Democratic Mission Amid Layoffs

Carl Bernstein joined Bob Woodward, Marty Baron and many other journalists in speaking out against Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos after the paper made sweeping cuts to its staff on Wednesday. Bernstein, one half of the legendary duo that led the historic newspaper’s Watergate investigation, took to Instagram on Friday to decry the slashing of one third of the Post’s staff in a move that executive editor Matt Murray called a “strategic reset.” …

“Journalism Deserves Better”: Ex-Washington Post Staffers Slam Billionaire Bezos for Gutting Paper

The Washington Post has laid off more than 300 journalists, dismantling its sports, local news and international coverage. “Everybody is grieving, and it’s a loss for our readers,” says Nilo Tabrizy, one of the paper’s recently laid-off staff, who describes a “robotic” meeting announcing the cuts. “They didn’t have the dignity to look us in the eye.” The shocking staff culling has been widely attributed to the paper’s leadership under Amazon foun

The Washington Post can close its sports desk, but not even Jeff Bezos can kill it

Whether it’s a year or a decade, some big management brain of the future will bring sports back into the mix

Glenn Kessler: Jeff Bezos Runs the Washington Post for an Audience of One

Glenn Kessler is the relentless fact-checker who spent many years at The Washington Post and now writes his own blog at Substack, still fact-checking. He wrote recently about Jeff Bezos’s plan to lay off a large number of staff at the venerable newspaper. News of the impending cuts circulated for days. When it finally happened, journalists were shocked by the depth of the cuts. One third of the writers lost their jobs. The sports section was eli…

Billionaire Bezos guts Washington Post

The gutting of the Washington Post has reignited a deeper question about who controls the media – and whether billionaire ownership is compatible with a free press.

Washington Post Slashes Staff in Many Departments | Corp! Magazine

One of the country’s largest and arguably most-respected newspapers on Wednesday continued a transformation begun since Jeff Bezos bought it. The Post announced it has begun widespread layoffs, moves that will drastically reduce the newspaper’s size. The moves were discussed on a recording of a call obtained by Reuters and reported in a number of […]