I sat and watched a piece yesterday.....WaPo management held a meeting with employees.
Basically, 500,000 subscribers left the paper in 2022.
Management laid out the path....there would have to be some layoffs. They didn't say the numbers, but the plan would start up in the first quarter of 2023.
Actual number of journalists working there presently? 1,050 approximately. I would suggest that a 10-percent cut is the probable outcome of this. But you'd have to ask the question....will more subscribers leave in 2023?
What really happened? It's basically the CNN/NY Times trend.....you get to a biased state of existence, and people reach a stage where they say 'enough'.
The days where they did investigative reporting? Long gone.
The sad part of this story.....those hundred-odd journalists that they release...won't find any jobs in the region, for the pay-scale required. A lot of these people will be disgruntled, and shake their heads because they saw this coming five years ago.
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