How Jeff Bezos Broke The Washington Post

In a dismal morning Zoom call on Wednesday, the Washington Post’s Executive Editor Matt Murray announced that they were laying off roughly a third of its already diminished staff.

We talk to Joshua Benton, founder of and senior writer at the Nieman Journalism Lab at Harvard University about how the Post reached this point, the loss to journalism, and how Jeff Bezos is uniquely responsible. 

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