Share the pain, share the post
A sign outside Washington Post HQ read: Democracy Dies with Billionaires. It echoed the paper’s own motto and captured a new discomfort – one of America’s most storied newsrooms now lives at the mercy of a single balance sheet and a single temperament.
When Jeff Bezos bought the Post in 2013, his early message was pragmatic: you cannot shrink your way to relevance.
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