"The Washington Post has been my professional home for 55 years. I believe in it. I love it. I am crushed that so many of my beloved colleagues have lost their jobs and our readers have been given less news and sound analysis, adding that readers deserve more. On Wednesday, during a staff-wide meeting with executive editor Matt Murray, it was announced that the paper would cut about 300 jobs about one-third of its total workforce with sports coverage hit particularly hard."
"If anything, today is about positioning ourselves to become more essential to people's lives in what is becoming a more crowded, competitive, and complicated media landscape, said Murray during the layoffs announcement call."
"In 2013, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos bought the paper for $250 million. According to former executive editor Marty Baron, in a Wednesday statement against the layoffs, Bezos once spoke forcefully and eloquently of a free press. Today, he said, There is no sign of it. This ranks among the darkest days in the history of one of the world's greatest news organizations, added Baron."
The Washington Post announced cuts of about 300 jobs, roughly one-third of its workforce, with sports coverage particularly affected. Executive editor Matt Murray framed the move as positioning the paper to become more essential in a crowded, competitive media landscape. Bob Woodward, who began at the Post in 1971, said he is crushed by the layoffs, lamented reduced news and analysis, and pledged to help the paper thrive and survive. Jeff Bezos bought the paper in 2013 for $250 million; former executive editor Marty Baron criticized the cuts, said there is "no sign" of a free press, and called the moment among the paper's darkest days.
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