{"id":7716,"date":"2026-04-03T23:48:38","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T23:48:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/7716\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T23:48:38","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T23:48:38","slug":"more-than-60000-washington-post-customers-canceled-subscriptions-after-jeff-bezos-axed-44-of-reporters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/7716\/","title":{"rendered":"More Than 60,000 Washington Post Customers Canceled Subscriptions After Jeff Bezos Axed 44% of Reporters"},"content":{"rendered":"

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(AP Photo\/John Locher, File)<\/p>\n

The sweeping job cuts that Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos supported led to more than 60,000 customers canceling their digital subscriptions last month, according to a report from The New York Times on Saturday.<\/p>\n

The story<\/a> \u2014 titled \u201cHow Jeff Bezos Upended the Washington Post\u201d \u2014 looked at how the Amazon founder has played a larger role at his paper in recent years.<\/p>\n

Bezos was able to convince executive editor Matt Murray to stick around late last year and handle hundreds of job cuts alongside then-CEO and publisher Will Lewis,\u00a0according to the report.<\/p>\n

WaPo ended up laying off roughly 350 reporters out of 800 in February \u2014 accounting for 44% of its journalists. \u201cThe sports and books departments were folded, and the metro section was gutted,\u201d The Times reported. \u201cMost international correspondents and editors were laid off.\u201d<\/p>\n

In response, more than 60,000 digital subscribers ditched the paper in the week following the job cuts, according to the NYT report.<\/p>\n

WaPo offers a $40 per year digital-only subscription on the low end of its subscription offerings currently, meaning those canceled subscriptions would account for $2.40 million in annual revenue if you used a conservative estimate.<\/p>\n

Bezos had put the plan in motion to cut jobs in late 2025, as the paper was grappling with an annual loss of $100 million.<\/p>\n

\u201c[He] stays out of the paper\u2019s day-to-day operations, as he always has. He has not shown up in the newsroom since 2023,\u201d the report said on Saturday. \u201cBut he has dipped in more forcefully in the past two years, resulting in a series of jarring upheavals in strategy and leadership at one of the country\u2019s most decorated news organizations.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lewis quit in February<\/a>, just days after the job cuts were announced. The reported \u201clast straw\u201d for Lewis<\/a> was Bezos seeing him partying at the Super Bowl right after the layoffs, which other senior WaPo staffers felt was \u201ccallous.\u201d<\/p>\n

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