"This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form. AMY GOODMAN: We're going to stay on the media right now. In what's been described a "bloodbath," The Washington Post has laid off more than 300 journalists, about 30% of all its employees, dismantling its sports, local news and international coverage, including all of the newspaper's Middle East correspondents and editors. The Post's Ukraine reporter Lizzie Johnson wrote on X, quote, "I was just laid off by The Washington Post in the middle of a war zone," she wrote from Ukraine."
"The shocking staff culling has been widely attributed to the paper's leadership under Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, who bought the nearly 150-year-old institution in 2013. Karen Attiah, the former global opinion editor at the , was hired soon after Bezos's arrival. She recounts how the arrival of a billionaire backer initially revitalized the paper with resources and creative freedom, before souring over the next decade."
"The Washington Post has laid off more than 300 journalists, dismantling its sports, local news and international coverage. "Everybody is grieving, and it's a loss for our readers," says Nilo Tabrizy, one of the paper's recently laid-off staff, who describes a "robotic" meeting announcing the cuts. "They didn't have the dignity to look us in the eye.""
More than 300 journalists—roughly 30% of The Washington Post's workforce—were laid off, eliminating sports, local news, and international coverage, including all Middle East correspondents and editors. A Ukraine-based reporter was dismissed while covering a war. Fired staff rallied outside the paper's offices and described the layoff announcement as "robotic" and lacking dignity. The cuts have been widely linked to ownership and leadership changes after Jeff Bezos bought the paper in 2013. A former global opinion editor was hired soon after that purchase and was later fired last fall; newsroom morale and priorities reportedly deteriorated over the following decade.
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