The Washington Post continues losing its subscribers after the newspaper editors and owner Jeff Bezos decided not to endorse former Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris.
Semafor reported that traffic to the Post’s website had tanked over the last four years. According to internal data discovered by the news source recently, the newspaper’s regular 2024 daily traffic sunk to less than a quarter of its peak in January 2021, when the Post reached approximately 22.5 million people using the website daily. However, by the middle of 2024, only about 2.5-3 million people were using the website daily.
In April 2024, Washington City Paper wrote that the newspaper stopped publicly disclosing its traffic numbers in press releases after discovering a 60% decline in monthly traffic.
The Wall Street Journal also recently reported that the Post’s revenue fell from $190 million in 2023 to $174 million in 2024.
Headline USA also pointed out that after almost losing $77 million in 2024, the newspaper started firing people, resulting in 4% of the Post’s employees losing their jobs. […]
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