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CNN —The Washington Post’s incoming chief executive and publisher will start the job with a mess on his hands. Workforce tensionsThe Washington Post Guild, the union that represents staffers, has been negotiating with executives on a new contract for a year and a half, but it has yet to reach an agreement. Wages and staff reductions have remained a major sticking point between the two sides, causing dismay among union members with the newspaper’s management. The Post’s management has so far rejected the union’s wage demand and has yet to directly confirm whether remaining staffers’ positions are safe from cuts, the union said. On Thursday, departing staffers were sent an email from management encouraging them to buy official merchandise emblazoned with the Post’s logo.

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☆ Washington Post Removes Hamas Cartoon After Backlash From Staff and Readers
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-09 | by ( Alexandra Bruell | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Washington Post Executive Editor Sally Buzbee acknowledged deep concerns in the newsroom over the cartoon. Photo: Graeme Sloan/Sipa USA/Associated PressThe Washington Post removed a cartoon depicting a Hamas spokesman putting civilians in the line of fire after multiple employees inside the newsroom and readers complained that it was racist. In the cartoon, the Hamas official has a woman and children bound to his body by rope, with a baby tied to his head. He is standing next to a Palestinian flag, and in a speech bubble says, “HOW DARE ISRAEL ATTACK CIVILIANS…”

Persons: Sally Buzbee, Graeme Sloan, “ HOW, … Organizations: Washington, Sipa, Associated Press, Hamas Locations: Palestinian

☆ Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is playing an increasingly active role in The Washington Post's operations, report says
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-22 | by ( John L. Dorman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Jeff Bezos is playing an increasingly active role in operations at The Post, The New York Times says. Bezos has sought to make The Post an international force and has encouraged digital experimentation. Patty Stonesifer, the interim chief executive for The Post, told The Times that Bezos was thrilled with "every dollar invested" in the company. Bezos encouraged digital experimentation when he first bought the newspaper, angling to make The Post into an international powerhouse. After Bezos' initial purchase of The Post, his influence was less visible in the newsroom, according to two individuals who spoke with The Times.

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☆ 2023 layoff tracker: The latest on which companies have announced job cuts
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-25 | by ( Jennifer Korn | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +20 min

New York CNN —BuzzFeed, Lyft, Whole Foods and Deloitte all recently announced layoffs affecting thousands of US workers. With 11,000 job cuts announced in November and the 10,000 announced in March, Meta’s headcount will fall to around 66,000 — a total reduction of about 25%. The company announced in January that it was eliminating some 18,000 positions as part of a major cost-cutting bid at the e-commerce giant. IndeedJob listing website Indeed.com announced cuts of approximately 2,200 employees, representing almost 15% of its total workforce, the company said in March. The cuts come after the company announced several rounds of job cuts throughout the pandemic due to falling demand, followed by rapid hiring last year.

☆ Washington Post begins layoffs
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-24 | by ( Oliver Darcy | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —The Washington Post on Tuesday became the latest media company to conduct layoffs, people familiar with the matter said, a move that publisher Fred Ryan had indicated last month the newspaper would take in early 2023. But The Post said at the time of Ryan’s announcement that it anticipated the layoffs being in the “single digit percentage” of its workforce. The Post also stressed the layoffs would ultimately not result in a “net reduction” of its workforce as it would invest in other areas. Ryan’s December announcement about future layoffs prompted fury inside the Post newsroom, nearly a dozen employees at The Post told CNN at the time. “The mood is really grim,” one staffer had told CNN.

☆ Musk Censors the Press
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-16 | by ( Oliver Darcy | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

New York CNN —Elon Musk is no free speech warrior. Will news and media organizations remain on the platform, while Musk hastily bans their reporters without explanation? Musk has touted that he is a free speech maximalist and repeatedly said he would like to permit all legal speech. “I hope that even my worst critics remain on Twitter, because that is what free speech means,” Musk once tweeted. As Harwell told me, “Elon says he is a free speech champion and he is banning journalists for exercising free speech.

☆ 'The mood is really grim': Washington Post staffers lived at publisher Fred Ryan after layoff announcement
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-15 | by ( Oliver Darcy | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

New York CNN —Staffers at The Washington Post are livid at publisher Fred Ryan. Video posted on Twitter by national reporter Annie Gowen showed Ryan walk off stage as staffers peppered him with questions. In fact, I haven’t spoken to a single person at The Post yet who has gone to bat for the publisher. Buzbee indicated to staffers on Wednesday that she had only learned about the layoff situation the night before. “The mood is really grim,” one staffer candidly told me.

☆ O nouă serie de atacuri aeriene puternice asupra Gaza City: Circa 200 de oameni au fost ucişi de la începutul ostilităţilor
▼ + stars: | 2021-05-17 | by ( ) www.jurnal.md time to read: +4 min

Armata israeliană a spus că a atacat casele a nouă comandanţi Hamas din Gaza. Nu au fost deocamdată raportate victime şi nici nu a fost făcută o evaluare a pagubelor create luni. Ministerul Sănătăţii din Gaza a spus că 16 femei şi 10 copii s-au numărat prin cei ucişi duminică, iar 50 de oameni au fost răniţi. Purtătorul de cuvânt al armatei israeliene a declarat că ţinta atacurilor a reprezentat-o „infrastructura militară subterană” a Hamas. În urma loviturii, unitatea subterană a fost distrusă, făcând ca fundaţiile caselor de deasupra să cadă, ducând la victime neintenţionate, a explicat el.

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