The Washington Post’s C.E.O., Fred Ryan, has framed the paper’s recent layoffs not as a cost-cutting measure but as a move to transform the paper. But many staff felt the layoffs were chaotically implemented and capricious.
, to nearly three million, and its annual revenue grew from ten million to more than two hundred million dollars.staff say Baron tended to win out in disagreements with Ryan, which could get loud. When Baron retired in early 2021, internal candidates like Steven Ginsberg—who left theand is now the executive editor of the Athletic—and the senior managing editor Cameron Barr lost out. Instead, Ryan chose Buzbee, who was then the executive editor of the Associated Press.
Ryan told me that he has “enormous respect” for Buzbee. “I think we have a good, cordial relationship,” he said. But, at the December town hall, Buzbee was noticeably quiet. Areporter told me, “There was certainly a belief of, like, ‘Oh, this guy has decided this is his fiefdom and he’s gonna rule it.
Of course, industry-wide, the much talked-about “Trump bump” has been followed by a downturn in page views and advertising sales across the media sector. Theinvested in technology systems that are more behind the scenes. Arc XP, which started as an internal publishing system and is now sold to outside companies, was viewed as a moderate success, though it’s not profitable and, recently, executives at the paper approached Bezos about selling or spinning it off, according to the.
In the run up to the 2020 Presidential race, the paper was looking to bolster its elections-data operations. It considered acquiring FiveThirtyEight, but ultimately passed. People inside thealso wanted to acquire Decision Desk HQ, a much smaller outfit that would have provided a proprietary feed of results data that could also have been packaged in sales of Arc software to other news companies.
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