The Washington Post Eliminates Its Sports Department
The Post is laying off or reassigning all the reporters and editors in its sports section, days before the Super Bowl and the Winter Olympics in Italy.
Don Graham, whose family owned The Washington Post for 80 years, published a touching eulogy for the newspaper’s sports department on Wednesday after he learned it was being eliminated by Jeff Bezos, the man who bought his family business.
“I will have to learn a new way to read the paper, since I have started with the sports page since the late 1940s,” Mr. Graham wrote on Facebook.
Mr. Graham has professional experience with the sports department. Years before he succeeded his mother, Katharine Graham, as publisher of The Washington Post, he edited the section — a sign of the clout its pages carried in Washington.
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