Job Cuts at the Washington Post Were More Extensive Than Previously Known
It was recently reported that the Washington Post cut a third of its staff in a large round of layoffs. Conservatives, who have been annoyed for years by the paper’s left-wing bias, took pleasure in this news.
But it turns out that the job cuts were far more extensive than people knew.
The paper actually cut almost 48 percent of their staff. That is huge.
The Washingtonian reported:
The layoffs announced last week at the Washington Post were disfiguring to the esteemed news organization, with whole sections and departments—sports, books, staff photography—wiped away, and devastating cuts inflicted on its Metro section and foreign bureaus. But the extent of the damage is actually greater than first reported.
News reports about the layoffs, including this one from the New York Times, generally agreed that about one-third of the Post’s newsroom would be eliminated by the layoffs. However, an accounting by the Washington-Baltimore Newspaper Guild, the union that represents Post journalists, finds that the paper’s management eliminated closer to half of the journalists it used to employ.
According to guild steward Sarah Kaplan, a Post climate reporter, the paper is dropping between 350 and 375 journalists. With the newsroom’s pre-layoff strength at 790 people, that means between 44 percent and 47.5 percent of the newsroom has been axed…
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/02/report-job-cuts-washington-post-were-more-extensive/