Anonymous wrote:Post Executive: We lose 77 million dollars a year. Our numbers have been cut in half. Former customers want us to eat shit and are laughing at our plight.

Post Journalists: Read the room. A diverse hire should be telling us this.

This sums up just how out-of-touch and tone-deaf the WaPo has become.

It is a similar phenomenon to what happened to NPR.

Do they not understand they have no monopoly on opinion?

Anonymous wrote:Post Executive: We lose 77 million dollars a year. Our numbers have been cut in half. Former customers want us to eat shit and are laughing at our plight.

Post Journalists: Read the room. A diverse hire should be telling us this.

Did you know it’s possible to focus on more than one problem at a time? The Post needs to address its lack of any coherent business plan, and to come up with a plan to attract more readers. It also needs to find ways to diversify its newsroom leadership, in no small part because that will make its journalism better and more likely to attract readers who aren’t currently reading it. And at any rate, even if you only hire the white candidate, it’s not a terrible idea to at least SPEAK TO a few candidates with different backgrounds. Most businesses have decided diversity is an important goal for bottom-line reasons. Apparently not the Post?

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Anonymous wrote:Clash Over Phone Hacking Article Preceded Exit of Washington Post Editor
Will Lewis, the chief executive of The Washington Post, objected to coverage of a legal development involving him in a phone hacking case.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/05/business/media/washington-post-buzbee-lewis.html

Hats off to Buzbee. Management does not tell the newsroom to quash stories.

This feels like Buzbee trying to salvage some job prospects elsewhere. It doesn't negate the fact that she lost HALF of the WaPo's readership.

She doesn’t need to “salvage” her job prospects. She wasn’t particularly beloved at the Post, but she was the top editor there and at the AP, and both organizations won a bunch of awards for their work under her tenure.

The drop in readership is obviously not only her fault, and no one who’s in a position to hire her would think it was.

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Anonymous wrote:Clash Over Phone Hacking Article Preceded Exit of Washington Post Editor
Will Lewis, the chief executive of The Washington Post, objected to coverage of a legal development involving him in a phone hacking case.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/05/business/media/washington-post-buzbee-lewis.html

Hats off to Buzbee. Management does not tell the newsroom to quash stories.

This feels like Buzbee trying to salvage some job prospects elsewhere. It doesn't negate the fact that she lost HALF of the WaPo's readership.

Anonymous wrote:Clash Over Phone Hacking Article Preceded Exit of Washington Post Editor
Will Lewis, the chief executive of The Washington Post, objected to coverage of a legal development involving him in a phone hacking case.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/05/business/media/washington-post-buzbee-lewis.html

Hats off to Buzbee. Management does not tell the newsroom to quash stories.

Eat shi$ Post

Post Executive: We lose 77 million dollars a year. Our numbers have been cut in half. Former customers want us to eat shit and are laughing at our plight.

Post Journalists: Read the room. A diverse hire should be telling us this.

Anonymous wrote:The Post's conference is so bad sometimes. Like the NY Times reported about Alito's wife flying those insurrectionist flags over their house, and then the WaPo pops in and was like "oopsie, we had that story years ago, but our editor thought it wasn't a story."

Journalistic malpractice.

Anonymous wrote:I’ve been a faithful reader for 40 years and just cancelled my subscription. Going to try NY Times. Maybe WaPo can get back on track. Maybe this editor can help.

Trade one loser for another.

Clash Over Phone Hacking Article Preceded Exit of Washington Post Editor
Will Lewis, the chief executive of The Washington Post, objected to coverage of a legal development involving him in a phone hacking case.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/05/business/media/washington-post-buzbee-lewis.html

Ditto everyone who has pointed out how needed a change this is. I subscribed to the Post for about 20 years (since college) but dropped it over Covid when I got so fed up with their refusal to do actual reporting on local issues. Instead Local was just a regurgitation of press releases the county gov or school boards put out plus “random person perspectives” interview pieces.

Their ridiculously shallow coverage of the VA plans to revamp math education (which had implications for VA governor race so was no small peanuts issue) is what finally did me in.

I’d be willing to give it another shot if:
1) they offered a couple free articles a month online so I could see if reporting has changed at all. Unlike most other publications though Post blocks ALL articles from non-subscribers.

2) they restored actual reporting of local issues

3) like others have said they have got to reign in the far left bent. I’m a moderate D voter and even for me it veered too far off to one side that it was clear reporting couldn’t be inpartial anymore.

The Post's conference is so bad sometimes. Like the NY Times reported about Alito's wife flying those insurrectionist flags over their house, and then the WaPo pops in and was like "oopsie, we had that story years ago, but our editor thought it wasn't a story."

Anonymous wrote:Oh goody--I'm sure with the new editors we'll get many more gem articles like this infamous The ideal number of kids in a family: Four (at a minimum).

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/04/30/family-size-big-families/

That one was from Opinions, which does not have a new editor.

Oh goody--I'm sure with the new editors we'll get many more gem articles like this infamous The ideal number of kids in a family: Four (at a minimum).

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/04/30/family-size-big-families/

Anonymous wrote:He used to work in Murdoch land. I also see they removed “Democracy Dies in Darkness” and now “Independent Newspaper”. He is editor through the election. Bezos shows his cards—not a pretty sight.

Where? I just went to the washington post website and it still says "democracy dies in darkness" right at the top.