"More than 750 journalists and business-side staffers at The #WashingtonPost walked off the job today...
"The newspaper's acting CEO, Patty Stonesifer, announced plans in October to cut 240 jobs, about 10% of the workforce
"Union members say specific areas have been disproportionately targeted for buyouts, including metro news, copy editors and the audio team.
"'What they're doing is really going to decimate the local news desk'"
https://www.npr.org/2023/12/07/1217690720/washington-post-workers-strike
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#media #journalism #WaPo
The tension between whether the Washington Post should be a local or a global publication online has plagued it since the Digital Ink days. Print is dying. Now the question is unavoidable.
NYT pretty much abandoned local years ago, and that's how we got George Santos.
I know it's ancient history, but it's worth remembering that the WaPo Metro desk broke the Watergate story.