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Newspaper owner who took on the print unions and in 1986 launched Today, Britain’s first full-colour daily

The Washington Post – WaPo for short – has inspired journalists of several generations, thanks in part to Hollywood. Two Oscar-nominated movies have been made about the paper and its people. The first was All the President’s Men, based on the story of how the paper broke the mother of…

Pranshu Verma, the Washington Post’s Delhi bureau chief, learned on Wednesday that his contract was being terminated. He was among nearly 300 editorial staffers laid off as Jeff Bezos gutted the newspaper’s newsroom – a purge that has almost ended the Post’s presence in South Asia.

On Wednesday, storied newspaper axed nearly one-third of company after earlier unpopular moves by owner Jeff Bezos

The Post's financial struggles predate Lewis' tenure, but have been compounded by a series of unforced errors over the past two years.

Ex-House speaker says at dinner ‘facts are challenged, truth is distorted and press is treated as enemy’ by those in power

The Washington Post has eliminated its sports section while laying off a third of its staff

The Washington Post on Wednesday announced sweeping layoffs that will significantly shrink its newsroom. The Post eliminated its sports section, large parts of its foreign coverage and its storied books division, in what current and former staff described as one of the darkest moments in the paper’s history.

About 300 journalists in the newsroom are expected to lose their jobs as part of a ‘broad strategic reset’