Jeff Bezos attends the Dior show in Paris on January 26 amid rumors that the Washington Post is set to lay off hundreds of employees. Some of the paper’s most-prized reporters and editors, having lost faith in the Post’s journalistic mission and business, left for rival publications, further damaging the paper. A new team led by chief communications officer Kathy Baird would focus on marketing the Post’s star talents. Baird left the Post a year later — part of a pattern of fits and starts for Lewis’s rebuilding project. Then what?”One thing Bezos’s Post won’t be doing anytime soon is resurrecting the paper’s old model of turning a profit.

Source: Washington Post January 28, 2026 18:02 UTC