The newspaper’s books department will be closed, the Associated Press reported, and its Washington-area news department and editing staff will be restructured. The Washington Post Guild, the union for staff members, said roughly 400 people have lost their jobs in the last three years. Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein famously broke the Watergate scandal in the 1970s, contributing to President Nixon’s resignation. The Washington Post Guild had appealed to the public to send a message to Bezos: “Enough is enough. Without the staff of The Washington Post, there is no Washington Post.”
