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BumRushDaShow

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Tue May 27, 2025, 05:23 PM May 27

Jeff Bezos' Washington Post launches major newsroom clear-out [View all]

Source: Raw Story

May 27, 2025 1:03PM ET


Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos is offering buyouts to dozens of staffers.

The newspaper has offered buyout packages to opinion writers, staffers with 10 years’ experience and entire departments, including the video desk, the copy desk and the sports copy desks, reported The Daily Beast.

“Like the rest of our industry, we are adapting to changing habits and new technologies that are transforming news experiences,” executive editor Matt Murray told staffers in a memo obtained by the Beast. “Even as we have begun creating new departments and welcoming new colleagues, to reach new audiences we must increase our staffing flexibility and expand in areas such as audience data and social video.”

Staffers were given until July to decide whether to accept the buyouts, but opinion staffers were also told the offer was meant to let them “make a clear-eyed decision on whether they want to be part of the new direction for Post Opinion.”

Read more: https://www.rawstory.com/jeff-bezos-washington-post-2672214970/

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"I want any lingering traces of responsible, objective, investigative journalism gone by 5pm!" unblock May 27 #1
"If you aren't a bot or a volunteer, please leave now" FakeNoose May 27 #2
A once-great paper destroyed. Is the NYT next? brush May 27 #3
The new Washington Post Botany May 28 #17
Are consumers of newspapers now considered "audiences"? 🤔 IcyPeas May 27 #4
Nothing political. Just business. The "new narratives" business. ancianita May 27 #5
He makes me want to vomit. His plastic wife lol wolfie001 May 27 #6
Get out while you can, folks. Sorry about your craft, your career, and your mortgage. Hekate May 27 #7
Basically.... Quanto Magnus May 27 #8
Sickening. highplainsdem May 27 #9
"(We are) transforming news experiences" Grins May 27 #10
"... transforming news experiences "??? calimary May 28 #11
It means that journalistic integrity classes Dr. T May 28 #19
Thank goodness my dad never had to see this. DFW May 28 #12
Great, now we can read about lists of books that don't exist. Mawspam2 May 28 #13
Cancelled my subscription in Nov 2024 perdita9 May 28 #14
opinion staffers were told the offer was meant to let them know "whether they want to part of the new direction Botany May 28 #15
I delivered the Washington Post in the 1950s dedl67 May 28 #16
These newspaper people can't adapt. Most people read articles from a wide travelingthrulife May 28 #22
going full Pravda nt Javaman May 28 #18
Damn! I just might have to unsubscribe to WaPo, just like I did NYT. lark May 28 #20
"The Atlantic" sends me stuff "daily" BumRushDaShow May 28 #23
Thanks! lark May 28 #25
Most welcome! BumRushDaShow May 28 #26
The Detroit Free Press bif May 28 #24
He must 'expand into audience data'??? travelingthrulife May 28 #21
He showed you who he was Keepthesoulalive May 28 #27
It looks like he wants a sewer of misinformation and hate to support the MAGA fascist agenda. Doodley May 28 #28
Replace all the humans with AI yes-bots Blue Owl May 28 #29
Yet the reputation will remain Ruby the Liberal May 28 #30
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