Overview
- Executive editor Matt Murray announced the cuts in a company-wide call and told staff to watch for emails indicating whether their roles were eliminated.
- The paper eliminated its sports desk in its current form, shut the books department, suspended the Post Reports podcast, and began a significant Metro reorganization.
- Foreign coverage was scaled back with numerous correspondent roles and several bureaus cut, and laid-off staffers including Cairo bureau chief Claire Parker and Amazon reporter Caroline O’Donovan announced their departures.
- About one-third of employees across the company were affected, with reports indicating more than 300 of roughly 800 newsroom positions were eliminated as coverage refocuses on politics and national affairs.
- The Washington Post Guild and former leaders condemned the reductions and criticized owner Jeff Bezos, pointing to earlier editorial decisions they say spurred subscriber cancellations.