The layoffs announced last week at the Washington Post were disfiguring to the esteemed news organization, with whole sections and departments—sports, books, staff photography—wiped away, and devastating cuts inflicted on its Metro section and foreign bureaus. However, an accounting by the Washington-Baltimore Newspaper Guild, the union that represents Post journalists, finds that the paper’s management eliminated closer to half of the journalists it used to employ. According to guild steward Sarah Kaplan, a Post climate reporter, the paper is dropping between 350 and 375 journalists. That figure did not account for dozens more layoffs among Post journalists who aren’t covered by the Guild’s contract, including staffers in its foreign bureaus and editors and managers in Washington. Correction: an earlier version of this article mistakenly referred to Sarah Kaplan as a Metro reporter.

Source: Washington Post February 10, 2026 12:24 UTC