More Than 60,000 Washington Post Customers Canceled Subscriptions After Jeff Bezos Axed 44% of Reporters

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14. This is how the NYT framed it (the piece is a lengthy long-form thing that is typical of something in the magazine)

How Jeff Bezos Upended The Washington Post

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After Mr. Bezos talked Mr. Murray into staying around Thanksgiving and gave him a major role in the layoff plan, Mr. Murray and his deputies took their cues from Mr. Bezos. They examined customer data to assess which sections generated the most readership and compared that against the cost to produce that coverage.

The math was not easy. Foreign reporting was expensive, for example, but it was essential to keeping The Post competitive on national security, a key beat for The Post. There was no way to hit their target without affecting the scope of the newsroom’s coverage.

In the end, the sports and books departments were folded, and the metro section was gutted. Most international correspondents and editors were laid off, including those in the Middle East, just weeks before the United States and Israel attacked Iran.

More than 60,000 readers canceled their digital subscriptions that week, according to an internal document reviewed by The Times. (A spokeswoman for The Post disputed that figure but declined to provide an alternate number.)

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So the context was that this was a reaction to further gutting of what would be typical "for the locals" coverage sections of the paper.