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From: S. maltophilia8/4/2025 8:25:33 PM
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The Exodus from the Washington Post
Is the storied paper dying?


August 4, 2025 By Jon Allsop

....At the same time as pivoting the opinion section, intentionally or not, to embrace ideas popular among this elite, Bezos has reportedly insisted that the Post as a whole move away from serving elites and instead appeal to America at large; he has spoken of broadening the paper’s appeal such that firefighters in the Midwest might want to read it. The patronizing assumptions behind this imperative aside, it appears incoherent; according to Malone, Bezos has also suggested to editors that the Post should be more like The Atlantic, a publication with a carefully targeted audience. This sort of strategic confusion has come across in other news out of the Post in recent months. An executive reportedly laid out what she called a “Big Hairy Audacious Goal” for the Post to eventually reach two hundred million paying users. (I can think of some other adjectives for this goal, but they’re not printable.) Recently, it was reported that what was once known as the “third newsroom” was being spun away from the (first?) newsroom and turned into a more commercial endeavor, with the ability to, for example, explore “enhanced brand integrations.” (“Lots of people are unsure what all of this ...

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