Things Are Somehow Getting Worse for the Washington Post

It briefly felt like the Washington Post had gained a semblance of stability after a tumultuous six months. Several high-profile reporters and editors had departed, but there were new hires, and the paper was doing good work, with coverage of the Texas floods drawing tens of thousands of new subscribers over a two-week period. But as the deadline to accept buyouts nears — offered this spring to all newsroom staffers who had been at the paper ten years or more as well as all of the “Opinion” section — it is becoming clear how much further the paper has to fall. “There’s been a lot of optimism that we were at the worst part a while ago, and I just don’t think there’s any reason to believe that anymore,” said one Post staffer.