tidbit: I’m told The Washington Post town hall with Matt Murray and Jeff D’onofrio is underway. Per source, Matt kicked it off with a shoutout to the lawyers representing Hannah Natanson, leading the room in applause
25.02.2026 18:09 — 👍 10 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0scooplet: Mathias Dopfner, C.E.O. of Axel Springer (Politico, Business Insider, Welt) met with White House chief of staff Susie Wiles earlier today. Source says it was an introductory, get-to-know-you meeting.
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NEW: “CBS Evening News” producer Alicia Hastey sends a bombshell farewell note:
Stories are “evaluated not just on their journalistic merit but on whether they conform to a shifting set of ideological expectations.”
“I’m glad Will Lewis has been fired. I wish it had happened before he fired all my friends.”
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/t...
NEW: A eulogy for The Post's sports department, which transformed the press box forever and created some of the best sportswriters in America
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/b...
NEWS: The cuts were so severe that at least one department head asked to leave The Post rather than be included in the planning.
Peter Finn, The Post's international editor, requested that he be laid off once he learned about the scope of the cuts to his section.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/b...
A staggering statement from former Washington Post editor Marty Baron: "This ranks among the darkest days in the history of one of the world's greatest news organizations."
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New: Washington Post Executive Editor Matt Murray and HR Chief Wayne Connell tell employees to stay home for a zoom webinar ahead of “significant actions across the company.” Widely expected layoffs are scheduled to begin today.
04.02.2026 11:13 — 👍 866 🔁 323 💬 107 📌 227News: Former CBS digital exec Christy Tanner is the new CEO of NYPR (the parent organization of WNYC and WQXR)
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Jim Butcher's "Twelve Months" is at the top of the NYT's best-seller list this week.
I went down to Colorado in March to profile Jim and discovered some surprising connections between his life and the fantasy world of his ultra-popular Dresden Files
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/19/b...
The Wall Street Journal opinion page allows President Trump to impugn The Journal (and flout its style guide):
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Among the batch of newly released emails from Jeffrey Epstein: Epstein telling Peter Thiel he would “gladly share…expenses for the Gawker suit.”
This was sent the day after @rmac.bsky.social and @mattdrange.bsky.social reported in Forbes that Thiel was behind the lawsuit that would bankrupt Gawker
More: Matt Murray is expected to be seated next to Don Graham, the former owner of the Post, according to the seating chart.
31.01.2026 19:20 — 👍 9 🔁 4 💬 3 📌 2Of note: On the attendee roster of this D.C. fete, Bezos is listed as the founder of Amazon, Blue Origin and Prometheus, but not as the owner of The Washington Post
31.01.2026 18:58 — 👍 80 🔁 12 💬 4 📌 4More: Will Lewis, the current CEO of The Post, is also expected to attend, as is Matt Murray, the executive editor, according to the seating chart.
31.01.2026 16:13 — 👍 9 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 2some Washington Post news: Jeff Bezos is expected to attend the Alfalfa Club dinner in Washington, D.C. tonight, according to a seating chart obtained by @tylerpager.bsky.social. He is sitting at a table near Fred Ryan, the former Washington Post publisher. President Trump will also be there.
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30.01.2026 15:54 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Just a quick heads-up that @mulbenmulinben.bsky.social is not me. I’ve heard the account is messaging people.
30.01.2026 15:41 — 👍 8 🔁 5 💬 3 📌 1New, with @erikwemple.bsky.social and @katierobertson.bsky.social: The Washington Post is planning cuts that are set to reshape one of America's foremost news organizations
30.01.2026 00:22 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
The CEO of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, Pat Harrison, just delivered her last words to the board. "Together, we will prove that a nation of neighbors will survive."
29.01.2026 20:55 — 👍 32 🔁 11 💬 0 📌 1I don’t think that’s true. She’s an excellent broadcast interviewer.
28.01.2026 17:30 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0During Bari Weiss's employee town hall at CBS News today, Gayle King gave a passionate speech, rallying the troops and criticizing leakers: "I'll be curious to see how long it takes for this to get out. 'Cause it'll be somebody in this room." w/ Mike Grynbaum
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some (rare) good news for the journalism industry: The Philadelphia Inquirer is profitable
www.inquirer.com/opinion/comm...
new w/ @erikwemple.bsky.social: The Washington Post has reversed course on its Olympics coverage — again
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/26/b...
NEW: When Congress killed The Corporation for Public Broadcasting in July, experts predicted scores of stations could go dark. Six months later, vanishingly few have shut down. Inside the public media apocalypse that wasn't (yet.)
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/26/b...
NEWS: Bari Weiss will hold an all-hands meeting to discuss the future of CBS News tomorrow, per note that just went out to employees.
26.01.2026 15:08 — 👍 2214 🔁 280 💬 600 📌 944More: @erikwemple and I have been told that employees on The Washington Post foreign staff have been told explicitly that their jobs are at risk. There was also a directive barring reporters from going to high-risk zones as of Feb. 1, which some have taken as a precursor to cuts.
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