Washington Post lays off 4% of workforce as turmoil engulfs paper
The Washington Post announced Tuesday that it will lay off about 4% of its employees. It's the latest blow to the paper, which has seen huge financial losses as well as an exodus of top talent from a newsroom increasingly estranged from owner Jeff. Bezos and publisher Will Lewis. The paper said the job cuts […]
Jimmy Carter is back in the Washington D.C. area
WASHINGTON (AP) — Nearly 44 years after Jimmy Carter left the nation's capital after a humiliating defeat, the 39th president returned to the Washington area for a three-day state funeral starting Tuesday. Carter's remains, which had been in state at the Carter Presidential Center since Saturday, left the Atlanta campus on Tuesday morning, accompanied by […]
Washington Post media critic blasts his own paper for keeping mum over spiking anti-Bezos cartoon
Washington Post media critic reports on internal turmoil plaguing the Jeff Bezos-owned publication, including the decision to scrap an editorial cartoon depicting the Amazon billionaire fawning over President-elect Donald Trump He blamed his own paper for failing to do so. Eric Wemple didn't throw any punches during the match. live chat session When asked by […]
Tens of thousands of Amazon workers return to in-person work in Washington
Bruce Mosler, chairman of global brokerage at Cushman & Wakefield, weighs in on the push for in-person offices in New York City. Monday marked the first day 50,000 Amazon employees in Seattle returned to work in person. The return of employees was expected to impact traffic in the city, as many employees transitioned to remote […]
EXCLUSIVE: Joni Ernst takes another crack at evicting bureaucrats from Washington
Sen. Joni Ernst, Republican of Iowa, on Tuesday introduced a series of bills aimed at relocating more than a quarter of the federal bureaucracy out of the Washington, D.C., area and addressing remote work issues. This set of bills includes the “An Act to Decentralize and Reorganize Government Infrastructure Nationwide to Take Advantage of Efficient […]
Washington Post expected to lay off ‘many dozens’ amid top exits, report
Staff at The Washington Post are reportedly bracing for layoffs as newsroom morale plummets following the exodus of top talent from Jeff Bezos' Broadsheet. The impending job cuts are expected to affect “dozens” of employees across the business and could be announced as early as this week. According to Oliver Darcy of Status Newsletter. News […]
Washington Post editors ‘killed’ piece from its ‘gender columnist,’ plan to scrap role entirely
The Washington Post plans to eliminate its “gender columnist” position after the paper wrote an article that was ultimately scrapped by the paper's editors, Fox News Digital has learned. Monica Hesse, who made headlines in 2018 when she became the Post's first ever “gender columnist,” is unlikely to hold that title for long after writing […]
Trump: Washington Post report on tariff policy 'wrong'
President-elect Trump has denied a Washington Post report that outlined how his aides are considering a tariff plan that would target only critical imports. post report Three sources familiar with the plan said that while the plan “cuts the most far-reaching elements of President Trump's campaign plan,” it would still likely “transform global trade” if […]
Washington Post columnist hammers Biden’s legacy
Washington Post columnist Matt Bye on Monday criticized President Biden for clinging to power for too long, saying the president's legacy will be that he “didn't know when to step down.” “After a lifetime of noble service, he, like many of his contemporaries, will be remembered primarily as a man who never knew when to […]
Trump critic named new Washington archbishop
Cardinal Robert W. McElroy, a critic of President-elect Trump, was appointed Monday as the new archbishop of Washington. Pope Francis has named Bishop McElroy of San Diego to replace Cardinal Wilton Gregory of Washington. catholic standard Reported. McElroy, a native of San Francisco, is known as a progressive in the Catholic Church, and his San […]