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‘Bloodbath’ at the Washington Post as Jeff Bezos lays off roughly one-third of staff (www.independent.co.uk)

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The Washington Post told staffers today that it was moving forward with a sweeping round of layoffs that was part of a “broad strategic reset” of the storied newspaper, which will include eliminating the sports desk, severely cutting back on its international coverage, dismantling its books section, and restructuring its local news team.

Though it was not immediately known exactly how many employees would be impacted by the cuts, it had previously been reported that about 100 staffers from the newsroom could be laid off, and as many as 300 employees from the broader company would face terminations.

However, after emails were sent to staffers on Wednesday morning, it is expected that roughly one-third of staff — about 300 of the roughly 800 journalists in the newsroom — will be laid off, with some staffers saying that this was a “bloodbath”.

Murray revealed that the paper would be “shrinking” its foreign news bureaus and drastically altering its local metro coverage.

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[–] WhoWhatHuh@kopitalk.net 8 points 1 day ago (4 children)

I'd love to see some sort of news media co-op where journalists are in charge, it's grass-roots/community reporting focused, and big business is not entwined in the underlying structure.

[–] tatterdemalion@programming.dev 3 points 23 hours ago

Isn't that exactly what the Associated Press is?

[–] BigDiction@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

There’s some great outfits like 404 Media, but I see complaints all the time on here about login or paywall requirements that they use to try and make it a sustainable operation.

[–] sibachian@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

honest news don't sell.

[–] ameancow@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

No, boring news doesn't sell. You can make boring news exciting and get viewers.

The problem is access.

You don't get access to the biggest stories, the insiders, the interviews and the releases from major organizations without a complicated establishment within the system.

Independent journalists can do a lot but are cut out at a certain point. Only particular representatives are invited to press briefings by various organizations.

And in case nobody is reading between the lines here, getting that kind of clout and acce$$ i$ Some kind of Secret formula that involve$ a lot of thing$ I'm probably not an expert on.

[–] dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

It needs to happen. We're in a situation right now where media is captive by the same forces driving EVERYTHING right now. Re-establishing a free and honest press is pretty much required at this point.