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@briankrebs Seriously, I don't understand why the ex-pats don't form an enity called "realWashingtonPost".
I would pay.
I'm already paying some of them.
https://contrarian.substack.com/p/the-killing-of-the-postIf you know them and will get them to email me I'll incorporate and be the temporary editer and nominal Producer of this new news outlet. To get outside funding I need them to be on-board for the project, though.
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@briankrebs Seriously, I don't understand why the ex-pats don't form an enity called "realWashingtonPost".
I would pay.
I'm already paying some of them.
https://contrarian.substack.com/p/the-killing-of-the-post@jab01701mid @briankrebs go on substack I think everyone fired or quit after Bezos now has their own substack.
But I don't believe there is a unified substack for all of th.
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@briankrebs Seriously, I don't understand why the ex-pats don't form an enity called "realWashingtonPost".
I would pay.
I'm already paying some of them.
https://contrarian.substack.com/p/the-killing-of-the-postThe Washington Pre
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@jab01701mid @briankrebs "The Outsider Post"?
@howtophil @briankrebs Just The Outpost, or The Outhouse, as appropriate.
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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."
@briankrebs Man, as someone who applied for WaPo internships from j school in the 90s this bums me out so much.
(But brings me a little joy to see "less" and "fewer" used correctly)
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@briankrebs Seriously, I don't understand why the ex-pats don't form an enity called "realWashingtonPost".
I would pay.
I'm already paying some of them.
https://contrarian.substack.com/p/the-killing-of-the-post@jab01701mid @briankrebs The folks at the excellent @404mediaco did exactly that after being laid off when Vice went bankrupt.
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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."
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
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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
@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?
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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
@briankrebs From "Democracy Dies in Darkness" to "We're Turning Off the Lights" in 9 years.
Well done, Mr. Bezos.
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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."
@briankrebs democracy dies in darkness, so we’re firing the people who are lighting the lamps and providing the energy for those lamps
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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
@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
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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."
She didn't say what the ostensibly "better things" were did she. -
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
@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.
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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."
Good coverage from The New Yorker
"The announcement was left to the executive editor, Matt Murray, and human-relations chief Wayne Connell; the newspaper’s publisher, Will Lewis, was nowhere to be seen as the grim news was unveiled. In what Murray termed a “broad strategic reset,” the Post’s storied sports department was shuttered “in its current form”; several reporters will now cover sports as a “cultural and societal phenomenon.” The metro staff, already cut to about forty staffers during the past five years, has been shrunk to about twelve; the foreign desks will be reduced to approximately twelve locations from more than twenty; Peter Finn, the international editor, told me that he asked to be laid off. The books section and the flagship podcast, “Post Reports,” will end. Shortly after the meeting, staffers received individualized e-mails letting them know whether they would stay or go. Murray said the retrenched Post would “concentrate on areas that demonstrate authority, distinctiveness, and impact,” focusing on areas such as politics and national security. This strategy, a kind of Politico-lite, would be more convincing if so many of the most talented players were not already gone."
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@briankrebs Meanwhile Lizzie Johnson has been laid off by WaPo in Kiev, in the middle of winter in a war zone, without electricity, running water, or heat: https://bsky.app/profile/alexip718.com/post/3me2enjr6ss2d
@cstross @briankrebs Democracy, and foreign correspondents, die in darkness.
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Good coverage from The New Yorker
"The announcement was left to the executive editor, Matt Murray, and human-relations chief Wayne Connell; the newspaper’s publisher, Will Lewis, was nowhere to be seen as the grim news was unveiled. In what Murray termed a “broad strategic reset,” the Post’s storied sports department was shuttered “in its current form”; several reporters will now cover sports as a “cultural and societal phenomenon.” The metro staff, already cut to about forty staffers during the past five years, has been shrunk to about twelve; the foreign desks will be reduced to approximately twelve locations from more than twenty; Peter Finn, the international editor, told me that he asked to be laid off. The books section and the flagship podcast, “Post Reports,” will end. Shortly after the meeting, staffers received individualized e-mails letting them know whether they would stay or go. Murray said the retrenched Post would “concentrate on areas that demonstrate authority, distinctiveness, and impact,” focusing on areas such as politics and national security. This strategy, a kind of Politico-lite, would be more convincing if so many of the most talented players were not already gone."
The boycott has been effective
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Good coverage from The New Yorker
"The announcement was left to the executive editor, Matt Murray, and human-relations chief Wayne Connell; the newspaper’s publisher, Will Lewis, was nowhere to be seen as the grim news was unveiled. In what Murray termed a “broad strategic reset,” the Post’s storied sports department was shuttered “in its current form”; several reporters will now cover sports as a “cultural and societal phenomenon.” The metro staff, already cut to about forty staffers during the past five years, has been shrunk to about twelve; the foreign desks will be reduced to approximately twelve locations from more than twenty; Peter Finn, the international editor, told me that he asked to be laid off. The books section and the flagship podcast, “Post Reports,” will end. Shortly after the meeting, staffers received individualized e-mails letting them know whether they would stay or go. Murray said the retrenched Post would “concentrate on areas that demonstrate authority, distinctiveness, and impact,” focusing on areas such as politics and national security. This strategy, a kind of Politico-lite, would be more convincing if so many of the most talented players were not already gone."
Oof. Like an ad for an airline right next to a story about a plane crash. From The New Yorker article:
"It did not help the staff’s morale that Lewis and his team were hobnobbing in Davos, or that Bezos and his wife, Lauren Sánchez, were in Paris for Haute Couture Week. More troubling were reminders that Bezos, who once emblazoned “Democracy Dies in Darkness” on the paper’s masthead, appears to be pursuing a policy of appeasement toward the Trump Administration."
"As the staff awaited the axe, the President and the First Lady celebrated the première of “Melania,” a documentary that Amazon had licensed for forty million dollars and was reported to be spending another thirty-five million to promote. The deal was inked after Bezos had dinner with the Trumps shortly before the Inauguration."
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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
@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.
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Oof. Like an ad for an airline right next to a story about a plane crash. From The New Yorker article:
"It did not help the staff’s morale that Lewis and his team were hobnobbing in Davos, or that Bezos and his wife, Lauren Sánchez, were in Paris for Haute Couture Week. More troubling were reminders that Bezos, who once emblazoned “Democracy Dies in Darkness” on the paper’s masthead, appears to be pursuing a policy of appeasement toward the Trump Administration."
"As the staff awaited the axe, the President and the First Lady celebrated the première of “Melania,” a documentary that Amazon had licensed for forty million dollars and was reported to be spending another thirty-five million to promote. The deal was inked after Bezos had dinner with the Trumps shortly before the Inauguration."
apparently, bezos is ok with democracy dying in darkness. or at least dying in a spray on tan.
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