Washington Submit staffers are bracing for layoffs as morale within the newsroom has plummeted within the wake of an exodus of prime expertise from the Jeff Bezos-owned broadsheet, based on a report.
The approaching workers cuts are anticipated to affect “many dozens” of staff within the enterprise division — with an announcement presumably coming down as quickly as this week, based on Oliver Darcy of the Standing publication.
Information of the anticipated layoffs got here on the heels of Friday’s resignation from the Washington Submit by Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Ann Telnaes, who stop in protest of the paper’s resolution to not publish a cartoon that depicts Bezos and different billionaires kowtowing to President-elect Donald Trump.
The Washington Submit suffered one other blow as one in all its prime political reporters, Josh Dawsey, is about to depart the publication and take up a place with the Wall Road Journal, Darcy reported in Standing over the weekend.
Dawsey, recognized for his scoops and his investigative reporting, is predicted to start his new gig as political investigations reporter for the Journal beginning subsequent month, based on Standing.
Final month, Puck Information reported that Dawsey and White Home reporter Tyler Pager had been two of a number of Washington Submit staffers who had been “mulling a transfer or have already decided to exit.”
The Journal’s father or mother firm, Dow Jones, is owned by The Submit’s company father or mother, Information Corp.
Final week, two different senior political reporters for the Washington Submit — Ashley Parker and Michael Scherer — left the publication to take up new positions at The Atlantic, the journal owned by Laurene Powell Jobs, widow of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs.
In late October, two Washington Submit staffers stop its editorial board in protest of Bezos’ resolution to dam an endorsement of the Democratic nominee, Vice President Kamala Harris.
Bezos mentioned the transfer to dam the endorsement was made with the intention to bolster public confidence in his newspaper’s impartiality.
However readers of the newspaper had been angered by the transfer. As many as 250,000 subscribers canceled their memberships consequently, based on stories.
The Amazon founder denied that the choice was motivated by his need to ingratiate himself with Trump in order to safeguard his different enterprise pursuits.
Amazon Prime, the streaming video service run by the e-commerce big based by Bezos, introduced over the weekend that it obtained unique rights to a documentary that provides an “unprecedented behind-the-scenes look” on the lifetime of Melania Trump, the previous and future first girl.
Throughout Trump’s first time period, the then-president took frequent photographs at Bezos and cited the Washington Submit’s vital protection of his administration.
Amazon filed swimsuit in opposition to the Trump administration after the e-commerce firm misplaced out on a profitable cloud-computing contract with the Pentagon. The contract was awarded to Microsoft.
Bezos seems keen to show over a brand new leaf in his relations with the incoming president.
Final month, Bezos made a $1 million donation to Trump’s inaugural fund via Amazon. Although Bezos stepped down as CEO in 2021, he stays the corporate’s largest shareholder.
A Washington Submit spokesperson declined to remark.
