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Washington Post sees sweeping layoffs gutting multiple desks
Washington Post employees were informed on an internal call Wednesday that multiple desks would be closed, including sports.
www.usatoday.com
Sweeping layoffs have hit The Washington Post newsroom on Wednesday, Feb. 4, causing hundreds of job cuts and the shuttering of multiple desks, including its sports and books teams, the Associated Press reported.
One-third of The Washington Post staff across all departments were cut in the layoffs, according to the AP. This encompasses members of the sports and books departments and will also lessen the number of overseas journalists and suspend The Post Reports podcast. The paper's Washington-area news department and editing staff will also see changes, the outlet reported.
The layoffs were announced by Executive Editor Matt Murray on a morning Zoom call with employees, multiple outlets reported. Employees were told to join the company-wide call at 8:30 a.m. ET and later found out the status of their jobs via email after the meeting's conclusion.
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Who didn't see this coming?
The "journalists" at the WaPo turned mostly into activists... It's a good way to turn off at least 50% of your potential audience when you are a news organization. I blame the Columbia Journalism School and other higher education institutions, as they went away from reporting the news and doing real research and investigations, and turned their students into propagandists pushing agendas. It's not easy to find good, solid journalist outlets anymore, and I think the profession committed suicide, as did the WaPo Newsroom.
Now these "journalists" can't even learn to code thanks to AI, but perhaps they can do something useful like learn to weld, or become electricians, plumbers, boilermakers, mechanics, or other skilled labor that we need dearly in the USA and pay quite well.
