‘Darkest days’: Washington Post announces sweeping, ‘difficult’ layoffs amid financial distress

President Donald J. Trump shows a Washington Post headline during his address Thursday, Feb. 6, 2020, in the East Room of the White House, in response to being acquitted in the U.S. Senate impeachment irial. (Official White House photo by D. Myles Cullen)

The Washington Post, whose slogan is “Democracy Dies in Darkness,” announced sweeping layoffs on Wednesday, after employees were told not to come to work by executive editor Matt Murray, but learn their fate on a morning Zoom call.

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