The Washington Post is laying off around 4% of its workforce, the company announced on Tuesday — the latest blow to the newspaper that has seen steep financial losses as well as an exodus of top talent from a newsroom that has grown increasingly alienated from owner Jeff Bezos and publisher Will Lewis.
Amazon founder, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Senate Majority Leader John Thune all chatted with New York University student for half an hour
Both current and former Washington Post staffers are expressing dismay at the paper's ongoing turmoil from financial woes to an ideological battle unfolding in the newsroom.
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has faced criticism since he killed a Washington Post endorsement of Kamala Harris in the election against Donald Trump.
A recent exodus of talent from The Washington Post has prompted more than 400 of its staffers to send an unusual letter to the Post’s owner, Jeff Bezos, expressing alarm over the newspaper’s direction and asking him to intervene.
More than 400 Washington Post journalists sent an angry letter on Wednesday to owner Jeff Bezos, pleading with him to intervene on the paper’s direction to restore the “trust
Billionaires at the Capitol on Monday included Tesla founder and CEO Elon Musk, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, former presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, billionaire Trump supporter Miriam Adelson, media mogul Rupert Murdoch and others.
Amazon has agreed to pat $40 million to license a Melania Trump documentary, as Jeff Bezos makes overtures to Trump.
And the timing couldn’t be better, as Donald Trump is set to be inaugurated on Monday. Jeff Bezos, the owner of the Post, will even be in attendance, cheering on his billionaire buddy as America enters a new phase of oligarchy accelerated beyond measure.
Hundreds of Washington Post staffers sent a letter to owner Jeff Bezos imploring him to meet and expressing deep anxiety over decisions at the struggling newspaper.
Donald Trump’s inauguration ceremony was attended by a who’s who of billionaires and moguls, including some surprising faces.