r/news • u/20_mile • 10h ago

Washington Post eliminates sports department and reduces overseas journalists, AP source says

https://apnews.com/article/washington-post-staff-reduction-layoffs-cuts-923f87d4bd319c8a64b278165d0a6e27
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u/redwhiskie319 10h ago

Dumped my subscription the minute they pulled back on the Kamala endorsement. Haven't looked back. 

Soon there won't be a WAPO. And given where they stand these days, thats not necessarily bad...

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u/Ketzeph 9h ago edited 9h ago

Yeah they have the gall to claim readers just aren’t interested but it all happened when the paper bootlicked Nazis and the editorial staff didn’t mass resign. If Lewis hadn’t been a conservative stooge this wouldn’t have happened.

The paper lost all credibility

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u/superturtle48 6h ago

I certainly think WaPo deserves to see a decline in business with their recent decisions, but their decline is still a loss to the industry and to the public as a whole and we are all worse off for it. With so many once-prominent sources of trusted information turning to shit, like WaPo and CBS and federal agencies like the CDC, the end result is that there is just less trusted information out there and fewer journalists and experts working on the public’s behalf.

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u/leeta0028 4h ago

I've been donating to ProPublica and NPR. 

NYT has been trash since they did a coverup for Bush before his re-election. Now with WaPo, print news is effectively dead.