Mass layoffs fuel fears of 'death spiral' at Washington Post

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Under Marty Baron, the Washington Post won 11 Pulitzer prizes and expanded its newsroom to house more than 1,000 journalists. The storied newspaper’s future is now in question, according to its former executive editor.

“The aspirations of this news organization are diminished,” Baron told the Guardian in an interview. “I think that’ll translate into fewer subscribers. And I hope it’s not a death spiral, but I worry that it might be.”

Matt Murray, who now leads the Post as editor in chief, promised staffers on Wednesday that the news organization had a plan to survive and thrive into the future – as it executed one of the largest layoffs in American newspaper history. Nearly one-third of the entire company – which stood at 2,500 employees in late 2023, before a round of buyouts – was axed.

The cuts decimated large swaths of the newspaper, shuttering its sports department and shredding its teams covering local news, style and the world, not to mention its audio and video departments, which had already been battered by previous cuts. Commercial teams were also cut.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/mass-layoffs-fuel-fears-death-100005751.html

Bezos trying to appease the orange hell beast for rocket ship money.

[vapor2]

1. Too bad so sad

[Blues Heron]

3. But It is sad, this paper brought down Nixon

[Blues Heron]

2. They fired all the photographers d'oh!

[Marcuse]

4. I cancelled a year ago.

[Mark.b2]

5. No one really needs what they're selling....

When I see the occasional link to one of their stories, it’s behind a paywall. Then, 90%of the time, I can find another source for free elsewhere if I’m interested enough. The same happens for content from NYT and WSJ. Fine. I can go somewhere else. No biggy.