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Washington Post Plans Cuts to Reshape Newsroom

NYT > Business > Media · Erik Wemple, Katie Robertson and Benjamin Mullin · last updated

The changes are expected to include significant layoffs in areas like sports and international coverage.

Fewer reporters are being sent to the Super Bowl. Foreign correspondents are being asked to hold off on trips to conflict zones. And editors are being encouraged to experiment with new forms of storytelling.

They are signs of things to come at The Washington Post.

The Post’s leadership is expected to announce significant layoffs in the newsroom and the business sides of the paper in the coming days, as part of an effort to end years of financial losses, according to three people with direct knowledge of the changes. But the cuts also appear to be aimed at something else: reorienting The Post’s coverage.