"The billionaire Amazon founder, who built one of the world's most valuable companies with a relentless focus on customer satisfaction, indicated he wanted to see that same energy at the Post. "The Post has an essential journalistic mission and an extraordinary opportunity," Bezos wrote. "Each and every day our readers give us a roadmap to success. The data tells us what is valuable and where to focus.""
""Today is about positioning ourselves to become more essential to people's lives in what has become a more crowded, competitive, and complicated media landscape," Murray said during a staff call on Wednesday. "For too long, we've operated with a structure that's too rooted in the days when we were a quasi-monopoly local newspaper." Murray sent staffers a detailed memo on Wednesday that outlined focus areas in which he said the Post demonstrates "authority, distinctiveness, and impact.""
Jeff Bezos issued his first public statement since the Washington Post enacted large job cuts, stressing the importance of reader data and audience interests for prioritization. The billionaire urged applying the customer-focused energy that built Amazon to the Post's newsroom and described the paper as having an essential mission and an extraordinary opportunity. Post CEO Will Lewis stepped down and CFO Jeff D'Onofrio became interim leader. Editor Matt Murray said the newsroom must become more essential amid a crowded media landscape, identified priority beats including politics, national affairs, national security, science, and business, and emphasized use of audience data.
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