Unless you work — or used to work given the layoffs and closings of so many newspapers — in the declining profession of journalism, you may not be aware of the problems at The WashingtonPost... .
... since the internet came into existence and killed its business model is hardly new, but last week’s brutal cull of hundreds of journalists at the Bezos-owned WashingtonPost marks a new low.
Think of a big-city newspaper as being analogous to a department store. You can get anything you want there, from breaking political news to dinner recipes. When you pick it up, you should be enchanted by the multiplicity of its ... .
News that the WashingtonPost had laid off hundreds of workers and scrapped several sections of the storied paper altogether stunned the journalism community last week ... The Post is and will continue to ...
Unless you work -- or used to work given the layoffs and closings of so many newspapers -- in the declining profession of journalism, you may not be aware of the problems at The WashingtonPost....
In December of 2016, The WashingtonPost reported that Russian hackers had penetrated the U.S. electricity grid through a Vermont utility company, leaving millions without heat ....
... not be aware of the problems at The WashingtonPost ... They probably won’t be applying for a job at The Washington Post or other media outlets where the front door is opening for people on the way out.
So, there was no keening from the youth of the United States when cultural vandal Jeff Bezos laid off 300 people from the WashingtonPost last week ... The Washington Post ran a vaunted sports section ...
The debacle of the WashingtonPost’s hara-kiri last week dispatched the myth that a tech billionaire could save journalism ...Surely he would figure out innovative new ways to bring the Post’s rigorous reporting to hungry new audiences?.