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2025-07-26 22:33:14

Back when #Billionaire #Bezos bought the #WaPo , the DC newspaper claiming to shed light on daily doings in the nation's capital , that paper was selling a quarter million copies a day,... Now after Bezos has neutered the news by pu…

The Washington Post print circulation has now fallen to 97,000; a low mark for the former Katherine Graham owned paper that used to sell more than 500,000 papers a day (the paper does not disclose website traffic to the public anymore under Bezos handpicked Publisher Will Lewis) Washington Post to Merge Metro Coverage Into Sports and Style Sections
. Last fall, when owner Jeff Bezos began taking a wrecking ball to the paper’s opinion section by killing a planned endorsement of Kamala Harris just before the election, paid digital was thought to be around 2.5 million. About 200,000 vanished overnight. And who knows what it is today after further damage caused by high-profile resignations such as that of Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Ann Telnaes and Bezos’ announcement that he planned to transform the opinion pages into some sort of chee…