WaPo saw a 50% decline in readership "since the highs of 2020"
Take that Jeff Bezos and the other mainstream media on life support. Censorship and propaganda only work for so long.
The Executive Editor “abruptly stepped down” at the Washington Post.
Ms. Buzbee, hired by The Washington Post in May 2021 by then-chief executive Fred Ryan, did not immediately return a request for comment.
Major Restructuring Operations
Her abrupt departure comes after a miserable few years financially for the news industry, including The Washington Post, which has bled subscribers to the point where Mr. Lewis told employees in May that the company lost $77 million in 2023 and saw a 50 percent decline in viewership since the highs of 2020.
“To speak candidly, we are in a hole, and have been for some time,” Mr. Lewis told staff during a presentation on May 22, according to the publication’s own reporting.
Addendum June 5: The NY Times wants to turn this story into a personality clash regarding the new WaPo editor Will Lewis becoming embroiled in a lawsuit brought by Prince Harry about phone hacking by a British paper, in which the new editor is a defendant. Well, I am sure the new editor was not pleased that his own newspaper covered a scandal in which he was being sued.
But the much larger story is that the public does not want to pay for propaganda any more, and the news outlets have hemorrhaged reporters, fired some of the good investigative journalists, and now they are reaping what they sowed: over 500 journalists were let go by news outlets in January 2024 alone.
Was Taylor Lorenz of the Washington Post and her genre of “nasty girl” reporters among those let go? Her reportage is fit for a gossip rag, not a news source.
While the Post editor wants to recreate the newsroom with a focus on social media, perhaps readers could educate him that all readers want is honest journalism. Is that really too much to ask?
Why are social media popular? Only because we don’t believe the mainstream media. Why is that so hard to understand?
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As a former victim of Trump Derangement Syndrome, I fell for the propaganda in 2016 that said we all needed to support liberal media and dutifully subscribed to both WaPo AND the NY Times. Over the next two years I noticed that all their headlines were practically identical, so I cancelled my NYT subscription. As the Covid debacle unfolded, the scales finally fell from my eyes and I cancelled WaPo as well. Both papers are a travesty -- along with the rest of the so-called Trusted News Initiative and mainstream outlets -- and it's painful that I didn't see it sooner. So many lies.