Per former colleagues at the @washingtonpost: In a Zoom meeting today, Post foreign staff was told by editors that up to *half* the Post’s newsroom will be cut imminently. Biggest cuts to foreign and sports staff. Sickening.
Context: Post newsroom is currently about 650 people.
Repeating this here, if you missed earlier quotepost: Clarification/correction: Newsroom folks now saying impending cuts will be very large—up to 300 people—and will fall most heavily on sports and foreign staff. But cuts *will* include non-newsroom (ie., business) personnel.
So cuts will not *solely* affect newsroom. Lotta pain, but spread across entire company.
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