https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2026/feb/04/washington-post-begins-laying-off-more-than-300-jo/

The Washington Post is laying off 300 journalists today. Which is crazy since Jeff Bezos owns the Post and has more money than God

What does Bezos plan on doing, use AI to generate the news? Have AI write the articles? Will AI do all that investigative journalism on its own? How about fact checking sources? Can AI do that?

It's funny, laying off a third of your staff means you have 1/3rd less content in your paper. At this point just shut the whole thing down jfc

Washington Post begins laying off more than 300 journalists

The Washington Post told employees Wednesday that it was beginning a widespread round of layoffs that are expected to decimate the organization's sports, local news and international coverage.

The Spokesman-Review