Washington Post Dozens of its employees will reportedly be fired over the next few days, with the news coming after the publication drew criticism for not endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris (D) during the presidential election won by Donald Trump in November.
In his article published on Status Sunday, Oliver Darcy wrote that “I am told that these layoffs will impact the business division of the newspaper, owned by Jeff Bezos and led by Will Lewis. A person familiar with the matter said the cuts would be deep, affecting several dozen employees.
Bezos is reportedly shaking up Post According to Breitbart News, she then decided not to endorse Harris.
Darcy continued:
The layoffs will certainly further reduce morale inside the beleaguered newspaper, which has faced a brain drain over the past several weeks. As I previously reported, star reporter Josh Dawsey will be leaving The Post for a job at The Wall Street Journal. His departure follows the exodus of other top staffers, including Mattia Gold, Ashley Parker, Michael Scherer, Charles Lane, Tyler Pager and Amanda Katz.
The newspaper has been struggling financially and the problems worsened when Bezos halted The Post’s planned endorsement of Kamala Harris before the November election, causing more than 250,000 readers to cancel their subscriptions.
in November, PostAccording to Breitbart News, the senior politics editor claimed that the newspaper fired him.
Following his decision not to endorse Harris, Bezos offered Trump a “huge congratulations” on his “extraordinary political comeback and decisive victory”.
According to Breitbart News, Bezos, who founded Amazon, has large contracts with the US government.
Meanwhile, Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Ann Telnes resigned Post And accused its editor of destroying a finished cartoon because of its derisive depiction of Bezos and Trump, Breitbart News reported Sunday:
“I have worked for The Washington Post as an editorial cartoonist since 2008. I’ve had editorial feedback and useful conversations — and some disagreements — about cartoons I’ve submitted for publication, but in all that time I’ve never killed a cartoon because of who or what I criticized. Chose to aim his pen. “So far,” Telnes said.
