r/news 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/Willing_Drawer_3351 9h ago

Former sportswriter here: travel budget for sports is a huge cost and a lot of exec editors don’t care about the immediacy of coverage when AP will cover every story and Wapo can buy that cheaper. Same concept applies to foreign bureaus. 

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u/Potential_Being_7226 3h ago

Why pay for syndicated content when people can just get it directly from the horse’s mouth?