Washington Post shed roughly half its staffers in recent years

The Washington Post has become a much smaller news organization because of several rounds of layoffs and voluntary buyouts.

At an employee town hall Wednesday, one week after the paper underwent a brutal round of layoffs, Washington Post executive editor Matt Murray said roughly 1,300 total staffers remain, according to The Guardian's Jeremy Barr, a former Post media reporter.

In October 2023, the Post reported it had employed "about 2,500 people across the entire company."

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