Glenn Greenwald
@ggreenwald · Oct 11, 2023
Despite being funded and owned by one of the 5 richest people on the planet, Jeff Bezos, the Washington Post has had significant drops in their readership and subscription base, and as a result is laying off 240 employees: 10% of its staff.
It lost $100 million this year alone.
Paul Farhi@farhip· Oct 11, 2023Context for @washingtonpost buyout program announced this morning, per interim publisher Patty Stonesifer. Since 2021:
--Audience: down 28 percent.
--Subscriptions: down 15 percent (to around 2.5 million).
--Print revenue: down 10 percent.
--Digital ads: down 30 percent.
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Elon Musk
@elonmusk
While there are still some good reporters at WaPo, the publication as a whole became tediously partisan
03:06 PM · October 11, 2023 · 128.3K views
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