#subscriber-decline

#subscriber-decline

WaPo reportedly plans to slash 100 of its 800 newsroom positions next month, with the cuts likely to primarily impact the sports, metro and foreign news teams. In total, 300 positions may be eliminated across the company. Why the layoffs? WaPo's advertising and subscription businesses have been struggling for years. WaPo infamously lost a quarter million digital subscribers , or 10% of its subscriber base, after Bezos spiked the paper's planned endorsement of former Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 US presidential election.