The Washington Post Begins Layoffs After Months of Turmoil
The Washington Post began its promised layoffs on Tuesday, sources confirmed to The Daily Beast, fulfilling its promise to cut costs just days after its billionaire owner Jeff Bezos visited the newsroom.
The layoffs will ultimately affect 20 people at the paper, according to The Washington Post’s own write-up of the news, and 30 vacancies will not be filled.
The newspaper’s union confirmed the cuts in an email to staffers, saying it had “good reason” to believe the layoffs were significantly less than what publisher Fred Ryan dramatically announced at a town hall last month.