Alex Ip 葉清霖Feb 4
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.
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This is a day that will forever live in journalism infamy.
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Lizzie Johnson's boss Siobhán O'Grady, the WaPo Ukraine bureau chief, has been laid off as well:
Show threadAlex Ip 葉清霖Feb 4
Today, the Philadelphia Inquirer is still hiring a National Politics Reporter, and the Washington Post just laid off a third of its workforce. bsky.app/profile/alex...

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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. bsky.app/profile/alex...

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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: www.thexylom.com/post/ukraine...

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I founded @[email protected] to cover *global* environmental and health disparities. As regime-aligned media turn more insular, we are committed to documenting how the world is sicker, poorer, and dirtier everywhere from South Texas to South Sudan, from Nepal to Ukraine. Please support my colleagues:

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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: bsky.app/profile/alex...

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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
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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. Please boost!

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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. The Washington Post is turning more shallow, insular, and jingoistic, but @[email protected] is committed to covering what matters. Support our work:

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