The Washington Post is reportedly poised to make deep staffing cuts, marking the latest retrenchment by the
As many as 300 people could be let go, with the biggest cuts coming in sports and the foreign staff, former Post media reporter Paul Farhi said on X. Now a freelancer, he cited former colleagues saying the cuts will include non-newsroom personnel.
Several of the Post’s foreign correspondents took to social media to publicly plead their case. In a post on X, Yeganeh Torbati, who covers Turkey and Iran, wrote to the newspaper’s owner saying, “Since ...