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Washington Post Tears Up Plans to Cover Winter Olympics

NYT - Media · Benjamin Mullin and Erik Wemple · last updated

The abrupt change in direction came just weeks before the Olympic Games are set to begin in Italy.

The Winter Olympics is a quadrennial media spectacle, drawing parka-clad sportswriters, photojournalists and TV anchors from around the world.

This year, a team from The Washington Post won’t be among them.

Kimi Yoshino, a managing editor of The Washington Post, sent a terse and unexpected email to more than a dozen of the newspaper’s journalists on Friday, notifying them that their coverage plans were abruptly being changed.

“As we assess our priorities for 2026, we have decided not to send a contingent to the Winter Olympics,” Ms. Yoshino wrote. “We realize this decision and its timing will be disappointing to many of you, so please reach out to me if you want to talk further.”

 

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