Washington Post CEO Will Lewis has resigned immediately following the layoff of 300 employees, one-third of the staff. Amid financial losses and shrinking readership, CFO Jeff D'Onofrio takes over as acting CEO to stabilize the 147-year-old newspaper during its greatest internal crisis.
Pranshu Verma begged the Washington Post management to spare his position by claiming that the media house was one of the few in India that can do "accountability reporting without fear of government censure." However, his statement, which was intended to portray the Modi government as autocratic and was actually a resume, a loyalty affidavit and an ideological confession consolidated into one, appeared to have fallen on deaf ears.
Pranshu Verma’s desperate public plea to Jeff Bezos lays bare how attacking India and its institutions has become the currency of survival at The Washington Post.
Protestors are pleased that the Jeff Bezos wedding location had to be changed and are still determined to keep protesting till Bezos and his guests leave Venice.
Amidst the continuous fall in subscription count of The Washington Post, Amazon founder and WaPo owner Jeff Bezos penned an opinion piece defending his decision to go neutral in this and future presidential elections in the US.