Posted on 06/04/2024 11:39:50 AM PDT by Twotone
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 TheWashington 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.
They could try changing its name to “Pravda”.
“World Class Journalism”?
First of all there is no such thing and if there was, the WP would be the first to attack it.
Get a clue! When you print lies and garbage, a large number people don’t want to hear it. (Besides, all the “in” people get their news from tiktok...snark!)
are you confessing to purchasing a copy of the post?
That’s what happens when you hire people who would rather see your business fail than not follow progressivism.
Don’t worry, they will just move on to the next business and start destroying it. Assuming any will have them.
Lewis cannot “expect to bring in new readers” when he’s “abolished all diversity from the leadership,” a source similarly told the NY Post.
but the readership decline occurred under the first female ceo
“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 TheWashington 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.”
This one needs to be president of the company. Then it would be gone in months, which would be nice.
If I saw WaPo on someone's resume, I wouldn't even bring them in for an interview. That also goes for Harvard and the other Ivy League schools.
MAYBE BECAUSE YOU ARE LEFT WING BIASED.
I WONT READ IT.
Case in point...
New York just committed $90 million to help save local journalism. Will it work?
On our nickel.
You don’t have to read it.
But you’ll still be made to pay for the enemedia’s excrement sandwiches...
See my reply #29.
The Washington Compost is an operation for illegal political contributions-in-kind, nothing more.
But their fiction writing both sucks and blows.
Oh the problem IS diversity. It’s all left wing at the WP. No dissent allowed. So let left wingers exclusively be responsible for reading and funding them.
LOL. He just told the Post reporters that they were a bunch of no-talent losers, and he is replacing them with real talent. LOL.
“Where else are we going to get CIA fed disinformation and opinionated hack pieces?”
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Pretty much everywhere you look, these days.
Along with AI generated “content” bonuses.
We now need an LLM “Smart” enough to identify and filter out the bs.
I don't see much future in the rag as a profit-making enterprise when its entire staff refuses to believe that's what they're really there for. They think they're in the thought control business.
Put a chick in your stories and make her gay and lame!
Jeff Bezos is proving he knows little of the print business. Let’s count down the weeks he’ll be holding on to a loser.
“World class urinalism” lol.
These assclowns actually think anyone gives a flying F about the sewage they spew out every day.
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