WaPo offers voluntary buyouts to some employees as it works toward “reimagining the newsroom”
The Washington Post will offer voluntary buyouts to employees who have been at the paper for 10 years or more, reports TheWrap.
An internal memo from executive editor Matt Murray, shared to X by The New York Times’ Ben Mullin, noted that the buyouts are “part of our ongoing newsroom transformation efforts aimed at reshaping and modernizing the newsroom for the current environment.”
The Voluntary Separation Program is open to news employees with 10 or more years on staff, as well as to all members of the video department and to all members of the copy desk and sports copy desk, Murray wrote.
He acknowledged that “reimagining the newsroom” is “disruptive and even uncomfortable.”
Murray also noted, “I want to underscore that the VSP is voluntary, and that we are fortunate we can offer enhanced packages for those who choose them.”
The package, states TheWrap, is also being offered to the entire video team and copy desks in a shift to “place greater emphasis on developing repeatable franchises and more personality-driven formats” for YouTube and other social media channels.
