'Washington Post' CEO resigns after going AWOL during massive job cuts

'Washington Post' CEO resigns after going AWOL amid massive job cuts We have breaking news to bring you about the Washington Post,

My former employer, as it turns out. Will Lewis, the newspaper's chief executive and publisher since 2024, has announced that he is stepping down. This comes just days after the historic news.

The organization cut about 30 percent of its staff. More than 300 journalists were laid off in a move that emboldened a former editor.

Marty Baron,

To call it one of the darkest days in the history of one of the world's largest news organizations. Um, I don't know. How do you feel about that?

Yeah, there's someone who works there. Um, I've been really sad all week. Like, I feel like I'm grieving the loss of this great institution. I mean,

It is, it still exists, but it is a shadow of its former self. A lot of people, myself included, bought out last year.

A lot of people voluntarily left for other reasons. And now they have left a third of the editorial staff, basically the entire sports section, the entire local section,

a lot of foreign correspondents, including people who live in war zones. So it's just, I don't know.

It's a disaster for this great institution. It's terrible for journalism. And you know what Will Lewis's point was? What was the point of all this? I'm going to say something

because I know it's important and we talk about a lot of things like the changing media landscape and the challenges facing media organizations and whether it's financially viable

or not. How much effort do you put into it and how much do you put into it and how much do you put into it? This is, at least to me, about the elite, who are controlling our free press institutions.

Jeff Bezos and people have been talking about numbers all week, spending billions of dollars on yachts, weddings, parties, all sorts of things,

which he fully deserves, who decided to diminish or diminish your idea of one of the most sacred institutions we have,

one of the most important institutions for the press in this country. And the way you did last year with the endorsement of Kamala Harris and so on,

we are polling by saying that we are talking about anything but free markets. And personally think that the alarm bells have been ringing

If what happened this week didn't tell every American to stand up and say that the people who have the money in this country have too much power

and they're destroying so many things that are important to our democracy. I don't know what's going to happen. And that's how I'm looking at it. I don't see it as a business decision by people like that

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The numbers that were looking for weren't there and we're going to have to kind of re-trust and we're going to have to downsize. First of all, if you have the direction of the newspaper business

and the challenges of the newspaper business are everywhere and everyone understands them well and right before Bezos actually got in.

So he was seen as a savior. Yeah, I didn't like saying that money was needed. About the principle of it. Yeah, absolutely.

And so, you know, and, and he was actually a decent steward for a time and then he took a very sharp turn. And I think that kind of tells you exactly what it is.

And let's not forget that he spent $75 million to buy, or promote, and sign Melania Trump to a contract with her,

Like I want to do tomorrow like this. Can give us an inside look at what it was like to work with Mr. Bezos. We'll leave that for now.

Washington Post CEO Resigns Following Mass Layoffs, Citing ‘Difficult Decisions’

The firing is shameful. Washington Post publisher and CEO Will Lewis is stepping down after a series of massive layoffs at the newspaper. In a message to staff,

Lewis said the difficult decisions were made to secure the Post’s long-term future and its commitment to high-quality, unbiased journalism.

Unions representing Post employees said Lewis’ departure was necessary. Bezos, who bought the paper in 2013, called the leadership change an extraordinary opportunity for the paper.

D.C. is a city that believes in economic justice, believes in workers’ rights and also believes it deserves the high-quality reporting that the Post used to provide.

Parts, and then turning it into an AI, a mindless organization that just, honestly, builds the Post. You’ve killed our Metro desk,

right? The desk that broke Watergate, the desk that covered it, won the Politburo Prize for its coverage of the coup in the capital. So these were the journalists who lost

the best journalists in the world. Um, this community needs them. America and the planet needs them. And I mean, I can only speak for myself,

but I let some of us down very badly when he realized that he couldn't do what he needed to do without us, where over 300 of my talented colleagues

and myself were fired from this newspaper yesterday by email. We know the impact of losing 300 journalists who hold power to account,

who investigate corruption, who tell you what's going on in war zones overseas and whether your kids' schools will open because it's snowing,

oh, it's immense. And if you're still here to pick up these pieces, I can speak for myself and I know for many others

that the amazing work that the Post Guild does and continues to do on a daily basis is what I owe my work here, despite the continued lack of support from our leadership.

It's sad that we have a lack of communication from Will, we have a lack of communication from Jeff, and they don't seem to have a say in this organization or the people

who run it. What do we do? When tech workers are under attack, what do we do? Workers everywhere we go under attack are helpless.

Jeff Bezos, the richest man in the world, owns the Washington Post. He could have run it at a loss for the rest. And yet, he refuses. And instead he's spending tens of millions of dollars

buying a document from Melania Trump to incriminate himself as the President of the United States. When people show you who they are, believe them.

They are cowards. They are cowards who refused to show us their faces and look us in the eye and took away our livelihood. They are cowards who left incredible reporters stranded in Ukraine

And threw away reporters who gave their lives for the newspaper. I know they don't feel ashamed, but they should, be ashamed,

Even though they were the ones who refused to invest, acquire and innovate and listen, they were eager to blame no one but themselves.

It's not too late. It's not too late. It's not too late. It's not too late. It's not too late. It's not too late.