“It’s over” – comments investigative journalist Kit Klarenberg after noticing that The Washington Post quietly deleted a prominent tab from its Masthead.

What was a long featured “War in Ukraine” tab, which had been there from the start of the war going back to Feb. 2022 has disappeared…

An Internet Archive search and review of all Washington Post frontpages shows the tab was there throughout all of 2022. It was also present through most of 2023, until very recently.

[I don’t think this was a scrub in the sense of memory-holing Ukraine coverage. I’d bet that interest in this coverage has waned considerably over the past year as the fight has become more of a stalemate. The war in Gaza has eclipsed it for now, although the WaPo has yet to set a masthead tab for it. — Ed]