New: Washington Post Executive Editor Matt Murray and HR Chief Wayne Connell tell employees to stay home for a zoom...

[demmiblue]

New: Washington Post Executive Editor Matt Murray and HR Chief Wayne Connell tell employees to stay home for a zoom webinar ahead of “significant actions across the company.” Widely expected layoffs are scheduled to begin today.

New: Washington Post Executive Editor Matt Murray and HR Chief Wayne Connell tell employees to stay home for a zoom webinar ahead of “significant actions across the company.” Widely expected layoffs are scheduled to begin today.

— Ben Mullin (@benmullin.bsky.social) 2026-02-04T11:13:56.756Z

I personally do not think some rich man should be able to buy an institution like this like a toy and then break it when he doesn’t want to play with it anymore. bsky.app/profile/benm...

— Adam Serwer (@adamserwer.bsky.social) 2026-02-04T11:53:22.902Z

1. Build huge subscriber base by telling them their $ supports democracy.
2. Don’t establish other revenue sources.
3. Rug-pull subscribers by pushing opinion side to the right.
4. Subscribers leave, revenue falls.
5. Enact crippling newsroom cuts.

— Matthew Gertz (@mattgertz.bsky.social) 2026-02-04T11:52:11.448Z

[mahatmakanejeeves]

1. Oh, darn. NT

[Lovie777]

2. UGH.........

[Jarqui]

3. Gertz covered some of it for me...

I WAS a subscriber ...

There was a time they upheld a respectable bar for journalism

When they abandoned that, they lost me.

[Lonestarblue]

4. Bezos has taken a once vaunted newspaper and turned it into Fox lite trash.

Sucking up to Trump may help his space businesses, but it is killing the Post. As a former subscriber, I regularly get emails offering a renewal for 50 cents per week for a year. Even that is too much. The excellent opinion writers have been replaced by right-wing nobodies. And last time I looked months ago, the troglodyte George Will was still there. The man hasn't had an interesting idea in decades.

I wish Bezos would sell it to investors who want to see it publish news, facts, and truth again. For sure, the current leadership would not do the type of reporting on Watergate now or publish anything like the Pentagon Papers.

[Jim__]

5. Maybe they'll be picking up the news off the AP wire and then have AI write the article for the paper.

[dalton99a]

6. It is a rough job market out there

[dem4decades]

7. I have a feeling the same memo is going to be going out at CBS too.

Get in bed with Trump, and things turn to shit.

[Botany]

8. Zoom meeting in short:

Kathrine Harris and Ben Bradley are dead the Post is no longer in the News business but
it is now into the propaganda business.

[Kid Berwyn]

9. No more Epstein-Bezos coverage, either.

And nothing at all on inequality of income, civil rights, Trumputin, or any of that what matters to democracy because what’s newly dead should stay dead, like justice, liberty, and the free press.

[617Blue]

10. Who cares, I hope they turn it into a print version of Fox News.

[IzzaNuDay]

11. Today is the day my WaPo subscription runs out

will be celebrating with removing the app from my devices and sending a big FU letter.

[spanone]

12. When Bezos took control of the opinion page, I had enough,

Fuck the post.

[demmiblue]

13. WaPo closing Sports department, WaPo also closing Books section and downsizing International and Metro sections

[demmiblue]

14. WaPo laying off entire Middle East team