On November 20, the City Paper reported that the Post was laying off about ten website employees as it merged that operation with the newspaper. One of the workers was told the “numbers have been bad on the digital side and because of that, that’s why they’re doing it.”
On November 24, Howard Kurtz reported that the Post was closing all its remaining U.S. bureaus outside Washington, including New York, Chicago and Los Angeles. Kurtz quoted Executive Editor Marcus Brauchli as saying, “We are not a national news organization of record serving a general audience. Nor are we a wire service or cable channel.” Kurtz also noted that the Post’s newspaper division had lost $166.7 million in the first three quarters of this year.
When is this going to end?