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# WaPo may cut staff, reports rival NY Times
- URL: https://capitolcommunicator.com/wapo-may-cut-staff-positions-reports-rival-ny-times/
- Published: 2022-08-31T15:11:20.000Z
- Updated: 2022-08-31T15:29:15.000Z
- Author: Capitol Communicator
- Tags: Media, #wp-top-center-sponsored, #Import 2026-10-08 18:52

***The Washington Post,* thought by some to be immune from the pressures facing smaller publications**, may cut staff positions, according to a report in the rival *New York Times,* states MediaPost.

Quoting unnamed sources, continues MediaPost, “the *Times* writes that the *Post* now has fewer than the three million paying digital subscribers it had boasted of internally near the end of 2020\. And digital ad revenue fell by 15% in the first half of 2022 YoY to roughly $70 million.

“Fred Ryan, the *Post’s* chief executive and publisher, has floated the idea of cutting 100 positions through hiring freezes for open jobs or in other ways, according to the *Times*—this in the year that the *Post* won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for its reporting on the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol. The newsroom now has approximately 1,000 employees.

“Sally Buzbee, the *Post’s* top editor, told the *Times* that the newsroom was, in fact, adding 150 positions. Ryan, Joy Robins, *The Post’*s chief revenue officer, and Buzbee, are overseeing a new initiative called “5 by 25,” an effort to reach five million total digital subscribers by 2025, the *Time*s states.

“But the report also says “Mr. Ryan’s focus on productivity and office attendance in the newsroom has also been a source of tension.””

More [here](https://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/377159/washington-post-mulls-staff-reduction-report.html?ref=capitolcommunicator.com).