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The Washington Post began laying off a portion of its staff Tuesday, cutting figures from the company's business side.
The cuts did not affect the newsroom. About 4% of the company, or fewer than 100 people, will be laid off across its business divisions, Fox News Digital has learned. The layoffs, which began Tuesday, were first reported by The New York Times.
“The Washington Post continues its transformation to meet industry needs, build a more sustainable future and reach audiences,” a Post spokesperson said. “The changes across our business functions are in service of our larger goal to best position Post for the future.”
A source familiar with the matter informed this information Fox News Digital Earlier this week, while newsroom staff were relieved of impending layoffs, “morale is just terrible” under publisher Will Lewis due to talent leaving for jobs at various outlets, as well as heavy financial losses and declining traffic.
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The layoffs began Tuesday at The Washington Post, affecting about four percent of its workforce. (Andrew Harnick/Getty Images/Getty Images)
The Post has been laid off a year after implementing a massive buyout. That is known 240 employees Accepting exit packages, preventing a round of layoffs at times.
It was reported last fall that The Post was set to lose $77 million in 2024, and that estimate came before the paper's deficit. Rocking 250,000 subscribers As part of liberal outrage over the paper's move not to endorse a presidential candidate in the election, a decision made by its billionaire owner Jeff Bezos.
The Post editorial board was set, to no one's surprise, Vice President Kamala Harris to approve Before Bezos intervened. Since it began endorsing the White House in 1976, the paper has endorsed a Democratic candidate in every race except 1988, when it endorsed none.
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The Bezos-owned Washington Post is set to lose more than $77 million in 2024. (Photo by Karwai Tang/WireImage) Eric Baradat/AFP via Getty Images/Getty Images)
Several high-profile staffers at the paper have announced departures for other outlets in recent weeks, including reporters Josh Dossey, Ashley Parker, Michael Scheer and Tyler Page, columnist Charles Lane and editor Meta Gold.
The Post's Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Anne Telnes also resigned from the paper last week after her bosses rejected an image of Bezos sauntering past President-elect Donald Trump.
Fox News Digital also learned of plans to rehire The Post's “gender columnist” Monica Hess after a piece she wrote was “killed” by editors.
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The Washington Post is set to reassign Monica Hess as the paper's “gender 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 hinted at reforming the paper in an op-ed defending the non-approval decision.
“Most people believe the media is biased. Anyone who doesn't watch it is paying too little attention to reality, and anyone who fights reality is a loser,” Bezos said. Written in October. “Reality is an undefeated champion. It would be easy to blame others for the long and steady decline in our credibility (and, therefore, diminishing influence), but a victim mentality will not help. Complaining is not a strategy. We have to work hard. Increase our credibility. To control what we can control.”