After a rocky year for leftwing media, 2025 is picking up right where 2024 left off. Vox, The Washington Post and the HuffPost have all announced mass layoffs to start the year.
WaPo kicked off the cull, as former CNN media reporter Oliver Darcy reported Sunday that the paper was planning to lay off “dozens.” The New York Times confirmed the news Tuesday, writing that WaPo had kicked off a round of cuts that were set to affect four percent of the company’s staff, largely in the business division.
The cuts, NYT reported, will not affect the newsroom, which saw a New Years slaughter in 2023 after the paper cut or elected not to fill 50 positions in January, then eliminated 240 more jobs in October 2023.
Following the WaPo news, HuffPo’s editor in chief, Danielle C. Belton, told staff they would be laying off 30 editorial positions in an internal memo obtained by NYT.
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