The Washington Post will let a wire service deal with this piddling event
05.03.2026 23:31
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The Washington Post will let a wire service deal with this piddling event
Once again stupidity by the WSJ b-team that hijacked the Washington Post is the NY Times’s gain - a great Iran correspondent when most needed. www.nytco.com/press/our-ne...
One worked in a Westinghouse factory in Pittsburgh building turbines for the Hoover dam (after fleeing Pogroms in Belarus) the other ran a liquor store in Atlanta
How bout this for a middle-finger: entire Washington Post sports section now gone, save for 1 staffer moved to "features." The Post wanted to keep four sportswriters, but 3 of them rejected staying, instead joined raft of folks scooped by NY Times's @theathletic.com. www.nytco.com/press/the-at...
Many such cases
All I can think about is Jeff Bezos saying that he slashed jobs at the Washington Post — including those of foreign correspondents in the Middle East — based on "the data," and a few weeks later a whole war breaks out in the Middle East that these laid off folks would have covered as true experts.
I feel like my dad, born in 1946 should run in ‘28
How toxic is Scott Jennings inside CNN? @status.news has learned some producers are giving on-air talent a heads-up when he is scheduled to appear on shows, quietly offering them the option to preemptively excuse themselves rather than appear alongside him.
With respect, that’s not a scalable sell to most readers. That gets some limited subscribers, but a news organization needs to offer much more to be of value. The Post eliminated significant departments that drove readers and subscribers.
Jeff Bezos wants Americans to be as dumb as possible so they won’t ask questions about his government contracts.
As the laid off Middle East News Editor, I concur. Management eliminated the positions of every single staff correspondent and bureau chief in the Middle East.
Erin Cunningham O @erinmcunningham…... As the laid off Middle East News Editor, I concur. Management eliminated the positions of every single staff correspondent and bureau chief in the Middle East. Paul Musgrave @professormusg... • 5h I have to say the Post chose a hell of a moment to lay off all their foreign correspondents 3:39 PM • Mar 2, 2026 ® Everybody can reply
Just the dumbest newsroom decision you could make, unless you were trying to undermine your own newsroom
Donate to the @apnews.com instead
Why would anyone pay for this?
Jeff Bezos bought the Washington Post offering “financial runway." This month it gutted its newsroom—more than 300 layoffs.
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Good time for Washington Post to have gutted it’s foreign coverage.
Press gave Biden far worse coverage for a small number of American soldiers dying while leaving a war than to Trump for a similar number dying while starting a war for no reason. It makes you think!
To The Hague with all of them
Well, one thing I'm wondering is just how bad subscriptions and advertising cratered under these WSJ junior varsity rejects.
Yes. Numerous. William Lewis said it and Matt Murray said it on numerous occasions. I heard them, you heard them, and the whole staff did. How can Murray meet anyone's eye in the newsroom?
There were numerous meetings where senior editors said to publish less
Will Lewis club memberships
I'm trying to figure out how @washingtonpost leaders were SO horrible they managed to lose $100 million despite the 450 people laid off or bought out from 2023-205. That's a 20-percent payroll reduction -- yet they lost even more $?? And had to fire one third of staff? They crashed the plane.
Washington Post is using a stringer in Tel Aviv. On February 4 it closed its Jerusalem bureau and laid off its Middle East reporters, which is a decision right up there with Halsey sailing into a typhoon.
Unsurprisingly they were way behind NYT and WSJ reporting the strikes overnight
Who is the audience for this sophistry?
This was the sell that made be an Onion print subscriber.
We are a few thousand subscribers away from being a bigger print newspaper than the Washington Post.
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