How Jeff Bezos Brought Down the Washington Post | The New Yorker

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The Amazon founder bought the paper to save it. Instead, with a mass layoff, he’s forced it into severe decline.

Save this story Save this story On September 4, 2013, the Amazon founder Jeff Bezos held his first meeting with the staff of the Washington Post , the newspaper he had agreed to purchase a month earlier from the Graham family, for two hundred and fifty million dollars. It had been a long and unsettling stretch for the paper’s staff. We—I was a deputy editor of the editorial page at the time—had suffered through years of retrenchment. We trusted that Don Graham would place us in capable hands, but we did not know this new owner, and he did not know or love our business in the way that the Graha

How Jeff Bezos Brought Down the Washington Post | The New Yorker

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