60,000 customers cancel Washington Post subscriptions after recent Post job cuts
More than 60,000 customers canceled their digital subscriptions to The Washington Post after it implemented sweeping job cuts last month, according to a report in The New York Times, states Mediaite.
The story — titled “How Jeff Bezos Upended the Washington Post” — looked at how the Amazon founder has played a larger role at his paper in recent years.
According to Mediaite, “WaPo ended up laying off roughly 350 reporters out of 800 in February — accounting for 44% of its journalists. “The sports and books departments were folded, and the metro section was gutted,” The Times reported. “Most international correspondents and editors were laid off.”
“In response, more than 60,000 digital subscribers ditched the paper in the week following the job cuts, according to the NYT report.
“WaPo offers a $40 per year digital-only subscription on the low end of its subscription offerings currently, meaning those canceled subscriptions would account for $2.40 million in annual revenue if you used a conservative estimate.
“Bezos had put the plan in motion to cut jobs in late 2025, as the paper was grappling with an annual loss of $100 million.”
While Bezos “has not shown up in the newsroom since 2023,” the report stated, “he has dipped in more forcefully in the past two years, resulting in a series of jarring upheavals in strategy and leadership at one of the country’s most decorated news organizations.”
