Posted on 12/31/2024 3:34:37 PM PST by Libloather
Two top Washington Post reporters have defected from the Jeff Bezos-owned paper as it continues to reel following the billionaire’s decision to kill an endorsement of Kamala Harris.
Political correspondents Ashley Parker and Michael Scherer were poached by The Atlantic — owned by Laurene Powell Jobs — and will join the left-leaning magazine ahead of President-elect Donald Trump’s second inauguration, the New York Times reported on Tuesday.
Their departures comes on the heels of a report Monday by Puck News that White House correspondent Tyler Pager and investigative reporter Josh Dawsey have been “mulling a transfer or have already decided to exit.”
The Beltway broadsheet has suffered an exodus of top talent — and a reported loss of more than 200,000 subscribers — since Bezos blocked the editorial board from endorsing the Democratic candidate just weeks before the election.
Three Opinions section members — David Hoffman, Molly Roberts and Robert Kagan — quit following the decision not to endorse any candidate for the first time in decades.
Bezos, the second-richest person in the world with a net worth valued by Bloomberg Billionaires Index at $241 billion, was a frequent target of Trump during his first term in office — mainly due to the Washington Post’s coverage of his administration.
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Wait... no... it was just a little dust in my eye.
The dinosaur media extinction continues apace.
What does it take to be a “top” reporter for the WP?
Don’t celebrate too much as there were 86,572 ‘Journalism’ and related graduates in 2024. I suspect that the Washington Post won’t have much trouble replacing these two.
Laurene Powell Jobs is a Marxist true believer worth bajoodles of money she didn’t earn. Do not underestimate her however, as she is clearly very capable. I do wish there was a way to cure her delusions.
86,572 ‘Journalism’ and related graduates in 2024.
They are not going to find jobs in the dying old dominant Media.
How long will these philanthropists continue to squander money on such publications as the WaPo and The Atlantic as their readership approaches zero?
It does appear that Jeff Bezos wants to turn the Post into a newspaper once again. Jobs’s widow is just pissing away his money on her hobby. Once she begins to run out of his money, the Atlantic is done for. She is not even trying to make it an economically viable entity.
Fixed! 😉Political correspondentsLeft-wing activists Ashley Parker and Michael Scherer...
That's 86,572 people looking for work. Today, if you want to write, report, do journalism, then do it - you have a platform available to you at your fingertips. If what you produce strikes a chord you will find your audience. No one - no one! - gives credence to the WaPo or NYT or the LAT banner anymore - except others members of the journalism establishment, who are simply rearranging the deck chairs on their dinosaur media Titanic. The 2024 election proved that - Joe Rogan was much more influential than all the broadcast and cable networks combined.
Further left pastures?!?
Any further left and they’ll be...well....whatever is further left!! :)
To Liberal reporters,
“Don’t go away mad, just go away”
Let the Marxist mob take over and she’ll be against the wall right away.
Just put a capital “H” on Hack, to be a top reporter at the WaPo
“what does it take be a top reporter for the WP?” easy...start as a bottom reporter and then wait. two more bottom reporters are about to get their wings because they waited their turn. now these two new “top” reporters will have to decide which way THEY want to turn.
Just put a capital “H” on Hack, to be a top reporter at the WaPo
They were never reporters. They were propagandists at best.
No doubt. People driven by resentment aren't likely to express gratitude, especially to someone with her kind of money. She does have an interesting Wikipedia page.
On July 28, 2017, The Atlantic announced that billionaire investor and philanthropist Laurene Powell Jobs (the widow of former Apple Inc. chairman and CEO Steve Jobs) had acquired majority ownership through her Emerson Collective organization, with a staff member of Emerson Collective, Peter Lattman, being immediately named as vice chairman of The Atlantic. David G. Bradley and Atlantic Media retained a minority share position in this sale.
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