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The Washington Post began laying off a large number of its employees on Tuesday, reducing the numbers on the business side of the company.
The cuts did not affect the newsroom. About 4% of the company, or fewer than 100 people, will be laid off in its business divisions, Fox News Digital said. The layoffs, effective Tuesday, were first reported by The New York Times.
“The Washington Post continues to transform to meet the needs of the industry, build a sustainable future and reach audiences where they are,” said a Post spokesperson. “The changes across our business operations are all in service of our overarching goal of putting the Post in the best possible position for the future.”
A source familiar with the matter told Fox News Digital earlier this week that, while newsroom staff have been exempted from the upcoming layoffs, “morale is very bad” under publisher Will Lewis due to an exodus of talent leaving jobs at various outlets, too. such as huge financial losses and reduced traffic.
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Layoffs at the Washington Post began Tuesday, affecting about 4 percent of its workforce. (Photos by Andrew Harnik/Getty/Getty)
The layoffs come one year after The Post used bulk purchasing. It is reported that 240 workers took severance packages, preventing a round of layoffs at that time.
It was reported last fall that The Post was set to lose $77 million by 2024, and that estimate came before the paper shed 250,000 subscribers as part of widespread anger over the paper’s move to not endorse a presidential candidate in the election. a decision made by its billionaire owner Jeff Bezos.
The Post’s editorial board was poised, to no one’s surprise, to endorse Vice President Kamala Harris before Bezos intervened. Since it began issuing White House endorsements in 1976, the paper has endorsed a Democratic candidate in every race except 1988, when it did not endorse anyone.
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The Bezos-owned Washington Post was on track to lose more than $77 million by 2024. ((Photo by Karwai Tang/WireImage) ERIC BARADAT/AFP via Getty Images / Getty Images)
A number of the paper’s top staffers have announced departures from other outlets in recent weeks, including reporters Josh Dawsey, Ashley Parker, Michael Scherer and Tyler Page, reporter Charles Lane and editor Matea Gold.
The Post’s Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Ann Telnaes also resigned from the paper last week after her bosses rejected her illustration of Bezos poking fun at President-elect Donald Trump.
Fox News Digital has also learned about The Post’s plans to reassign “sex writer” Monica Hesse after a piece she wrote was “killed” by editors.
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The Washington Post will reclassify Monica Hesse as a “sex columnist” after a piece she wrote was killed by editors. (Marvin Joseph / The Washington Post via Getty Images / Getty Images)
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Bezos previously talked about making changes to the paper in an op-ed defending the decertification decision.
“Many people believe that the media is biased. Anyone who doesn’t see this is ignoring the truth, and those who fight the truth lose,” Bezos. he wrote in October. “Truth is an undefeated champion. It would be easy to blame others for our long and continuous decline in credibility (and, therefore, decline in influence), but a victim mentality will not help. Complaining is not a strategy. We must work hard to control what we can control in order to increase our credibility.”