Washington Post expected to lay off dozens of staffers in coming week – report
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‘Cuts will be deep’, media reporter writes, after paper faced scrutiny for halting endorsement of Harris in October. Dozens of employees are expected to be laid off at the Washington Post in the coming week in what is another of several tumultuous episodes in recent months for the storied title, according to a report by the media reporter Oliver Darcy.
“The layoffs are slated to hit the Jeff Bezos-owned … newspaper’s business division, I’m told. One person familiar with the matter said that the cuts will be deep, impacting many dozens of employees,” Darcy, the former CNN reporter, wrote in his newsletter Status.
Darcy also reported that the Washington Post reporter Josh Dawsey is leaving the publication and is expected to join the Wall Street Journal. The Post, whose publisher is the UK-born Will Lewis, did not immediately comment to Darcy on the expected layoffs.
The cuts come as the Washington Post has faced scrutiny from within its own ranks following the publication’s decision in October to halt a planned endorsement of the Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris, which was defended by the billionaire owner, Jeff Bezos.
More than 250,000 subscriptions to the Post were cancelled in protest of the decision. Two opinion writers and an editor resigned in response to the intervention, which came shortly before the Republican nominee Donald Trump defeated Harris, won a second presidency and is set to be sworn back in to the White House on 20 January.
