I know that it makes me a terrible person that I don’t care about the plight of the Washington Post’s employees that the paper’s owner, Jeff Bezos, has just put out of their porridge.
I know, but I don’t care about that part, either.Oh, you didn’t hear about the professional abattoir being established at the Post? Yes, this is happening:
The Washington Post told employees Wednesday that it will begin sweeping layoffs, the latest blow to the storied newspaper under billionaire owner Jeff Bezos, confirming weeks of speculation about drastic newsroom cuts.
“We have grappled with financial challenges for some time. They have affected us in multiple rounds of cost cuts and buyouts, along with periodic constraints on other kinds of spending,” The Post’s Executive Editor Matt Murray said in a newsroom note seen by POLITICO, stating that the reductions would impact “nearly all news departments.”
The size and scope of the layoffs are not immediately clear. But hundreds of Post employees could lose their jobs, according to Post reporters, with sections including sports, metro, books and international coverage hit particularly hard.
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