Alex Ip 葉清霖INBOX: Washington Post Ukraine Correspondent Lizzie Johnson announces that she has been laid off in the middle of a below-freezing war zone without power, heat, or running water.
This is a day that will forever live in journalism infamy.
Lizzie Johnson's boss Siobhán O'Grady, the WaPo Ukraine bureau chief, has been laid off as well:
Today, the Philadelphia Inquirer is still hiring a National Politics Reporter, and the Washington Post just laid off a third of its workforce.
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My criticism of oligarch-owned news outlets does not stop at Jeff Bezos' gutting of The Washington Post.
For the regime and right-wing billionaires, the value of national media is what it *doesn't* produce.
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Why do I care about Ukraine correspondents who were left hanging out to dry? Because I sent one out to Kyiv and Lviv *twice* last year.
These international desk cuts create an irreversible domino effect that endangers journalists and fixers on the ground:
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Yes, I know that @[email protected] does not have an international desk yet, but anything you can do to help them absorb ex-WaPo staff so that they don't need to physically uproot their families is much appreciated:
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How exactly is the Washington Post documenting the War in Ukraine? bsky.app/profile/alex...
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Just did some mental math: The amount of staffers that The Washington Post laid off today was roughly the same number as the Atlanta Journal-Constitution's total headcount... before they also made layoffs today
UPDATE: former Washington Post Ukraine correspondent Lizzie Johnson, who was laid off yesterday in the middle of a warzone, is now looking for work, preferably in the Kyiv region.
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This is one of the stories that resulted from @[email protected]'s second assignment to Ukraine, this time on the eastern frontlines near Kharkiv.
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