Washington Put up anticipated to put off dozens of staffers in coming week – report

Dozens of staff are anticipated to be laid off on the Washington Put up within the coming week in what’s one other of a number of tumultuous episodes in latest months for the storied title, in line with a report by media reporter Oliver Darcy.

“The layoffs are slated to hit the Jeff Bezos-owned … newspaper’s enterprise division, I’m advised. One particular person accustomed to the matter mentioned that the cuts will likely be deep, impacting many dozens of staff,” Darcy, the previous CNN reporter, wrote in his e-newsletter Standing.

Darcy additionally reported Washington Put up reporter Josh Dawsey is leaving the publication and is predicted to affix the Wall Avenue Journal. The Put up, whose writer is the UK-born Will Lewis, didn’t instantly remark to Darcy on the anticipated layoffs.

The cuts come because the Washington Put up has confronted scrutiny from inside its personal ranks following the publication’s choice in October to halt a deliberate endorsement of Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris, which was defended by billionaire Jeff Bezos.

Greater than 250,000 subscriptions to the Put up had been cancelled in protest of the choice. Two opinion writers and an editor resigned in response to the intervention, which got here shortly earlier than Republican nominee Donald Trump defeated Harris, gained a second presidency and is ready to be sworn again in to the White Home on 20 January.

Over the weekend, Washington Put up’s Pulitzer prize-winning editorial cartoonist Ann Telnaes resigned in response to the newspaper refusing to publish a satirical cartoon depicting Bezos.

In December, two political correspondents on the Washington Put up, Ashley Parker and Michael Scherer, left for the Atlantic.

And in September 2024, the Washington Put up laid off 54 staff in its tech software program division, a yr after the publication reduce 240 jobs by means of voluntary buyouts.

Darcy’s scoop on the upcoming newspaper layoffs on the Put up got here because the Bezos-founded Amazon’s streaming service Prime introduced an upcoming documentary on former and incoming first woman Melania Trump. Amazon in December additionally introduced plans to donate $1m to assist fund the president-elect’s second inauguration – and mentioned that it will additionally stream the occasion on its Prime Video service, a separate in-kind donation value one other $1m.