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Oct 25 • 1 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X
As I reported on the air tonight, the Washington Post registered 1600+ cancelations of digital subscriptions in the first three hours after my story broke, according to internal WP correspondence I’ve reviewed.

That’s bananas.

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Oct 29
Wash Post Exec Editor Matt Murray is holding an all-staff - claims he can't confirm cancellation numbers and doesn't know what they are.

This has triggered "an anger bordering on incredulity," one attendee says: "Widespread fury about an obvious lie from the editor in chief."
I'm told that Murray told the hundreds of people attending that he doesn't *want* to know those figures because he wants them to settle out over time.
The cheapest annual sub is $40/yr (goes up to $120 in yr 2).

It suggests 250K cancellations could cost the paper well in excess of $10M a year, in absence of new subs.

Post journalists want some reassurance it won't lead to job cuts. Murray says the paper needs to grow.
Read 4 tweets
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Oct 28
NEWS: More than 200,000 subscribers have canceled their digital subscriptions to the Washington Post after the revelation that owner Jeff Bezos blocked an endorsement of VP Harris.
That's about 8 percent of WaPo's subscriber base - a staggering sum
MORE
npr.org/2024/10/28/nx-…
That's as of midday, according to two people with direct knowledge. The figure continues to rise.

A corporate spokesperson declined to comment, citing The Washington Post Co.'s status as a privately held company. / MORE
“It’s a colossal number,” former WaPo Executive Editor Marcus Brauchli told NPR. “People don’t know why the decision was made. We basically know the decision was made but we don’t know what led to it.”

MORE
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Oct 28
WaPost's @DavidHoffman has stepped down from the paper's editorial board warning of appeasing tyranny.
From his resignation:
"For decades, the Washington Post's editorials have been a beacon of light, signaling hope to dissidents, political prisoners and the voiceless. MORE
"When victims of repression were harassed, exiled, imprisoned and murdered, we made sure the whole world knew the truth... I believe we face a very real threat of autocracy in the candidacy of Donald Trump. I find it untenable and unconscionable that we have lost our voice." MORE
On Thursday, Hoffman received a Pulitzer for "a compelling and well-researched series on new technologies and the tactics authoritarian regimes use to repress dissent in the digital age, and how they can be fought."

David Shipley announced Bezos' decision the next day. MORE
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Oct 25
NEWS: The Washington Post will not be making an endorsement in this year's presidential race, the editor of the editorial pages has told colleagues at a tense meeting this morning

THREAD AND LINK: npr.org/2024/10/25/nx-…
This information according to a person with direct knowledge.

It is not clear whether Post owner Jeff Bezos or Publisher/CEO Will Lewis made the call

Shipley said the paper wanted to give readers an "independent" space in which to decide or whom to vote on their own /MORE
The decision was revealed in a tense meeting with people on the editorial staff

And it arrives at a time of heightened concern over whether news outles are pulling their punches in order to appease Trump in final days of a neck and neck presidential race agst VP Harris MORE
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Jun 16
New: The ‘Washington Post’ newsroom is on edge as the past record of new publisher Will Lewis and top editor Rob Winnett in U.K. raise red flags

Lewis first pressured the Post’s editor not to cover the ghosts of his past *before starting the job*

🧵

npr.org/2024/06/15/nx-…
Among the episodes: a six-figure payment for a major scoop; planting a junior reporter in a government job to secure secret documents; and relying on a private investigator who used subterfuge to secure private documents from their computers and phones.
CEO Lewis pressured exec editor Sally Buzbee and me not to cover allegations that arose in British court proceedings against Murdoch’s UK papers.

Will pressed Busbee not to publish in March and May. The Post touched on it in March and did a deep piece in May.
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Jun 3
Some WashPost thoughts, based on conversations with six people with knowledge of events, overlaid with a touch of analysis.

Let's even call it a 🧵

First: Will Lewis wanted to force out Sally Buzbee and bring a trusted pal to run the WaPo newsroom. He wanted to make his mark.
2/ Buzbee didn't want to give up her job for an ill-defined position.

Though Lewis praised her as "an incredible leader and a supremely talented media executive who will be sorely missed," Buzbee offered no comments in statement announcing her departure /con't
3/ That left Lewis with a conundrum:
His pal, a Brit with no US experience, could not lead the WaPo newsroom during a heated presidential election cycle (not mention unprecendented legal troubles for a former and potentially future president).

Enter Murray.
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