BrianKrebsFeb 4
This makes me sad (been there). From Joe Menn at WaPo: "Most of the Washington Post’s tech reporters were laid off today, including me. I have loved my time at the paper, which is where I wanted to work from age 15. I take some consolation in not being among the survivors who will have to work harder with less for fewer readers. On to better things."
Show threadBrianKrebs

The NYT says WaPo is laying off about 30 percent of all employees, including more than 300 of the roughly 800 journalists in the newsroom.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/business/media/washington-post-layoffs.html

Washington Post Cuts More Than 300 Jobs

The layoffs cut into The Post’s local, international and sports coverage, and reduced its entire work force by about 30 percent.

The New York Times
Feb 4 at 8:01pmWeb
Show threadFaraiweFeb 4
@briankrebs makes sense, they are no longer a newspaper, just a tRump ball-licking enterprise, so... why bother have PEOPLE around to write something beyond stenography?
Show threadGrumble 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🇬🇱Feb 4

@briankrebs From "Democracy Dies in Darkness" to "We're Turning Off the Lights" in 9 years.

Well done, Mr. Bezos.

Show threadPaul Chambers🚧Feb 4

@briankrebs re the WAPO laying off 300 of the roughly 800 journalists in the newsroom: "In a staff meeting in 2024, Mr. Lewis, [the publisher hired by Bezos] warned that The Post was in trouble. “We are losing large amounts of money,” he said. “Your audience has halved in recent years. People are not reading your stuff.”

Ugh, no. A lot of us stopped reading the WAPO after Bezos started putting his finger on what could and couldn't be published... #WAPO #WashingtonPost

https://archive.ph/0eeHj#selection-763.0-767.158

Show threadGreg JohnstonFeb 4
@briankrebs Bezos/Lewis will run it into the ground, by no longer focusing on factual reporting and adopting a once fringe lunatic MAGA/MAHA focus while introducing AI hog slop a la Fuckbook. Just like Weiss and CBS. Both all in on trumpian alternative facts.
Show threadTodd Heberlein (social)Feb 4

@briankrebs I wonder how much revenue declined because WaPo started sane-washing Trump and then stopped the staff’s endorsement of Harris?

That is why I cancelled my subscription.

Their “Democracy Dies in the Dark” slogan became too much hypocrisy for me to swallow.