Washington Post Shakeup
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@Jolly said in Washington Post Shakeup:
At some point, even billionaires cut their losses.
Like Elon with X/Twitter?
@Axtremus said in Washington Post Shakeup:
@Jolly said in Washington Post Shakeup:
At some point, even billionaires cut their losses.
Like Elon with X/Twitter?
I suspect Elon bought Twitter for the data mining and AI possibilities.
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Wait, back to WaPo, they hired white guys from 2 perceived Conservative media sources?!
Oh man, grab your popcorn!
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The Blaze:
Will Lewis, the Washington Post's publisher and CEO, told whiplashed staff on Monday the paper needs to do something radical to make the company profitable because readership has drastically declined.
The meeting was held after executive editor Sally Buzbee abruptly left the Washington Post after coming from the Associated Press in 2021.
“We need world-class journalism every single day, and the people that are coming in to help us do that will be a real benefit to the organization,” he said. He said he “really enjoyed working with Sally” and “wish[ed] it could have gone on for longer, but it couldn’t," according to Vanity Fair, based on people who were in the meeting.
The meeting became tense at times because some staffers felt Buzbee's departure was not handled correctly and they objected to a woman being replaced with another white man. The issue of diversity within the paper's leadership was brought up several times. Lewis said the lack of diversity is an issue but that the main problem is how the nation's capital newspaper is hemorrhaging money.
“We are losing large amounts of money. Your audience has halved in recent years. People are not reading your stuff. I can’t sugarcoat it anymore,” Lewis said. “So I’ve had to take decisive, urgent action to set us on a different path, sourcing talent that I have worked with that are the best of the best.”
The Washington Post sent out a quick note on Sunday about Buzbee's departure in order to try to prevent getting scooped by the New York Times, one of the reasons employees felt Buzbee was disrespected. Politico noted the Times did beat the Post to the announcement anyway.
Despite the urgent news about the company's dire finances and dwindling audience, an employee who spoke to Vanity Fair was still hung up on the lack of diversity.
“I don’t think she deserved to go out this way,” the staffer said, noting that in conversations with their colleagues, people “don’t feel good about the fact that the first female executive editor of The Washington Post got a one paragraph goodbye note at 8:30 p.m. on a Sunday, and that she’s being replaced by more white men we don’t know.”
The New York Post reports Lewis impressed upon people they needed to "get with the program."
Lewis cannot “expect to bring in new readers” when he’s “abolished all diversity from the leadership," a source similarly told the NY Post.
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Robert Winnett will not join The Post as editor
Robert Winnett, hired by Washington Post publisher William Lewis, faced questions about his U.K. work, including stories based on stolen records.Robert Winnett, the British journalist recently tapped to become editor of The Washington Post later this year, will not take the job and will remain at the Daily Telegraph in London, according to a memo obtained by The Washington Post on Friday.
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@Jolly said in Washington Post Shakeup:
May they lose many more
That’s actually kinda backwards thinking. I would hope that as they start to go back towards the middle that they will regain some of their readership to encourage them to continue, and maybe motivate a few more outlets to come back to the middle.
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@Jolly said in Washington Post Shakeup:
May they lose many more
That’s actually kinda backwards thinking. I would hope that as they start to go back towards the middle that they will regain some of their readership to encourage them to continue, and maybe motivate a few more outlets to come back to the middle.
@LuFins-Dad said in Washington Post Shakeup:
@Jolly said in Washington Post Shakeup:
May they lose many more
That’s actually kinda backwards thinking. I would hope that as they start to go back towards the middle that they will regain some of their readership to encourage them to continue, and maybe motivate a few more outlets to come back to the middle.
I said that because I don't think they're going back to the middle. I the newsrooms are so polluted by college-educated, nouveau jornalists, that the middle road is unobtainable.
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@LuFins-Dad said in Washington Post Shakeup:
@Jolly said in Washington Post Shakeup:
May they lose many more
That’s actually kinda backwards thinking. I would hope that as they start to go back towards the middle that they will regain some of their readership to encourage them to continue, and maybe motivate a few more outlets to come back to the middle.
I said that because I don't think they're going back to the middle. I the newsrooms are so polluted by college-educated, nouveau jornalists, that the middle road is unobtainable.
@Jolly said in Washington Post Shakeup:
@LuFins-Dad said in Washington Post Shakeup:
@Jolly said in Washington Post Shakeup:
May they lose many more
That’s actually kinda backwards thinking. I would hope that as they start to go back towards the middle that they will regain some of their readership to encourage them to continue, and maybe motivate a few more outlets to come back to the middle.
I said that because I don't think they're going back to the middle. I the newsrooms are so polluted by college-educated, nouveau jornalists, that the middle road is unobtainable.
Jolly's right. It starts in the schools. Without revamping the schools the publications will never improve.
They don't learn this nonsense on the job, they bring it with them because it's part of the interview process.
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@Jolly said in Washington Post Shakeup:
@LuFins-Dad said in Washington Post Shakeup:
@Jolly said in Washington Post Shakeup:
May they lose many more
That’s actually kinda backwards thinking. I would hope that as they start to go back towards the middle that they will regain some of their readership to encourage them to continue, and maybe motivate a few more outlets to come back to the middle.
I said that because I don't think they're going back to the middle. I the newsrooms are so polluted by college-educated, nouveau jornalists, that the middle road is unobtainable.
Jolly's right. It starts in the schools. Without revamping the schools the publications will never improve.
They don't learn this nonsense on the job, they bring it with them because it's part of the interview process.
@Aqua-Letifer said in Washington Post Shakeup:
@Jolly said in Washington Post Shakeup:
@LuFins-Dad said in Washington Post Shakeup:
@Jolly said in Washington Post Shakeup:
May they lose many more
That’s actually kinda backwards thinking. I would hope that as they start to go back towards the middle that they will regain some of their readership to encourage them to continue, and maybe motivate a few more outlets to come back to the middle.
I said that because I don't think they're going back to the middle. I the newsrooms are so polluted by college-educated, nouveau jornalists, that the middle road is unobtainable.
Jolly's right. It starts in the schools. Without revamping the schools the publications will never improve.
They don't learn this nonsense on the job, they bring it with them because it's part of the interview process.
Schools won’t change until the employers change. Employers will change if they get the carrot and the stick…
Imagine if a Matt Taibbi wound up going to WaPo? Or Bari Weiss? Two journos that aren’t conservative, but also aren’t kowtowing to the left, either?
You think readership would go up? I do. And both would be reaching a bigger audience than they are strictly through the substack medium or if they went to a conservative outlet like NY Post or Washington Examiner
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@Aqua-Letifer said in Washington Post Shakeup:
@Jolly said in Washington Post Shakeup:
@LuFins-Dad said in Washington Post Shakeup:
@Jolly said in Washington Post Shakeup:
May they lose many more
That’s actually kinda backwards thinking. I would hope that as they start to go back towards the middle that they will regain some of their readership to encourage them to continue, and maybe motivate a few more outlets to come back to the middle.
I said that because I don't think they're going back to the middle. I the newsrooms are so polluted by college-educated, nouveau jornalists, that the middle road is unobtainable.
Jolly's right. It starts in the schools. Without revamping the schools the publications will never improve.
They don't learn this nonsense on the job, they bring it with them because it's part of the interview process.
Schools won’t change until the employers change. Employers will change if they get the carrot and the stick…
Imagine if a Matt Taibbi wound up going to WaPo? Or Bari Weiss? Two journos that aren’t conservative, but also aren’t kowtowing to the left, either?
You think readership would go up? I do. And both would be reaching a bigger audience than they are strictly through the substack medium or if they went to a conservative outlet like NY Post or Washington Examiner
@LuFins-Dad said in Washington Post Shakeup:
@Aqua-Letifer said in Washington Post Shakeup:
@Jolly said in Washington Post Shakeup:
@LuFins-Dad said in Washington Post Shakeup:
@Jolly said in Washington Post Shakeup:
May they lose many more
That’s actually kinda backwards thinking. I would hope that as they start to go back towards the middle that they will regain some of their readership to encourage them to continue, and maybe motivate a few more outlets to come back to the middle.
I said that because I don't think they're going back to the middle. I the newsrooms are so polluted by college-educated, nouveau jornalists, that the middle road is unobtainable.
Jolly's right. It starts in the schools. Without revamping the schools the publications will never improve.
They don't learn this nonsense on the job, they bring it with them because it's part of the interview process.
Schools won’t change until the employers change.
Uh, no, they won't. That's not where their money comes from.
