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'The mood is really grim': Washington Post staffers livid at publisher Fred Ryan after layoff announcement
CNN via FOX 55 ^ | December 15, 2022 | Oliver Darcy, CNN Business

Posted on 12/15/2022 1:02:19 PM PST by John W

Staffers at The Washington Post are livid at publisher Fred Ryan.

That's according to conversations I had on Wednesday with nearly a dozen employees at The Post who expressed fury at the way Ryan announced in a town hall that the company would undergo layoffs in early 2023. Ryan said that the layoffs would only amount to a single-digit percentage of the workforce and that the overall size of the company would not shrink, given there would be reinvestments in other areas. But none of that quelled outrage from staffers.

The staffers at The Post, who were already seeking answers over the way their colleagues who worked on the now-canceled Sunday magazine were summarily let go late last month, were aghast at the way Ryan conducted himself in the town hall, they told me. "He does this whole dog and pony show about how things are going great and then drops at the end that he's gong to cut the workforce — and then he refuses to take questions," one staffer told me.

Video posted on Twitter by national reporter Annie Gowen showed Ryan walk off stage as staffers peppered him with questions. Instead of answering the queries from his startled and anxious employees, Ryan told them that he would not "turn the town hall into a grievance session." In a blistering statement, The Washington Post Guild fired back at Ryan, describing his refusal to take questions as "unacceptable" behavior "from any leader," but "especially the leader of a news organization whose core values include transparency and accountability."

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: District of Columbia; US: Virginia
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To: Dilbert San Diego

And just FYI, I do still buy the hardcopy paper once or twice a week. But the New York Post only. Great sports section and fairly conservative op ed page.


41 posted on 12/15/2022 2:26:05 PM PST by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. )
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To: John W

The WaPo decided to abandon journalism to advocate propaganda for the DNC, and now they’re realizing there’s no money in it. Let Bezos foot the bill.


42 posted on 12/15/2022 2:27:06 PM PST by Spok
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To: John W
... a news organization whose core values are transparency and accountability."

Hahahahahahahohoho!


43 posted on 12/15/2022 2:34:00 PM PST by sauropod (Fascists also buy Comcast cable packages" - Olby - Wanna buy mine?)
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To: John W

they’d rather get an email???


44 posted on 12/15/2022 2:34:47 PM PST by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: John W

They can go to work at Jaguar in England.


45 posted on 12/15/2022 2:54:02 PM PST by subterfuge (I'm a pure-blood!)
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To: John W

“Ha Ha!”


46 posted on 12/15/2022 2:56:21 PM PST by ChessExpert (Dem mandates: slavery, segregation, Indian removal, experimental vaccines)
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To: John W

“”The mood is really grim,” one staffer candidly told me. “People are just so livid right now. It’s bad. Just bad.””

if things are REALLY that bad, they can always quit and learn to mine coal ...


47 posted on 12/15/2022 3:07:14 PM PST by catnipman (In a post-covid world, ALL "science" is now political science: stolen elections have consequences)
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It hasn’t changed since clam shells were money. If you produce more than you cost you are golden. If you cost more than you produce you are temporary.


48 posted on 12/15/2022 3:07:38 PM PST by SaxxonWoods (Successful People Have a Sense of Gratitude. Unsuccessful People Have a Sense of Entitlement)
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To: John W

That’s a shame.

5.56mm


49 posted on 12/15/2022 3:16:04 PM PST by M Kehoe (Quid Pro Joe and the Ho got to go)
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To: Fido969
"unacceptable behavior"

Accept it, punk.


50 posted on 12/15/2022 3:32:08 PM PST by Flick Lives (Cui bono)
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To: John W
…a news organization whose core values include transparency and accountability."

😂😂🤣🤣

51 posted on 12/15/2022 3:34:51 PM PST by Allegra
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To: John W

Gosh darn. 😀😀😀


52 posted on 12/15/2022 3:37:01 PM PST by MarMema (No bugs for consumption)
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To: John W

Bezos with his. money could have made up the losses at the Post for the next 50 years without it hurting him, Charles Foster Kane he is not.


53 posted on 12/15/2022 3:39:24 PM PST by Captain Peter Blood
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To: GulliverSwift

He just spent $500 Million on his new Yacht, now he could have taken that money and subsidized the Post for several years.


54 posted on 12/15/2022 3:40:59 PM PST by Captain Peter Blood
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To: Vaduz

That tells you all you need to know right there, they are bleeding subscribers because they put out a crappy product but they will not change, that its a huge number of people to lose, I want to know whether that number is Digital or a Mix of Digital and Home delivery in the D.C. Metro area. Either way that is really bad.


55 posted on 12/15/2022 3:43:24 PM PST by Captain Peter Blood
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To: Rummyfan

Back about 42 years ago I was getting the N. Times Sunday Paper, the L.A. Times Sunday Paper and the London Times, Cost was reasonable and I got read a lot of stuff I normally would not. I was about 25 and the papers were still first rate then.

Today none of those papers are worth even a digital subscription. Waste of money. I still read my state paper but it is in a digital form and I like to at least keep up with where I live.


56 posted on 12/15/2022 3:47:41 PM PST by Captain Peter Blood
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To: John W

No sympathy for leftists. They should learn to code.


57 posted on 12/15/2022 3:49:49 PM PST by joma89 (Buy weapons and ammo, folks, and have the will to use them.)
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To: Chode
they’d rather get an email???

It's been done other ways too. Employees come in Friday morning and find they're locked out of their company computers. Next thing you know an all-hands meeting and you're out the door before lunch.

58 posted on 12/15/2022 3:53:27 PM PST by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. )
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To: Spok
Democracy Dies in Darkness... LOL!
59 posted on 12/15/2022 3:54:48 PM PST by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. )
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To: Rummyfan

It’s not Democracy that died, it is the Republic that has died and that started with the 17th Amendment.


60 posted on 12/15/2022 3:55:40 PM PST by Captain Peter Blood
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