Washington Post editor acknowledges concern over possible 'death spiral' at newspaper after major layoffs

The Washington Post executive editor Matt Murray spoke out Wednesday after massive layoffs recently rocked the outlet.

"I'd say the reality is that the Post had been facing some decline for quite some time," Murray told Semafor media editor Max Tani at the Restoring Trust in Media Summit in Washington, D.C. "The data really demonstrated that."

Murray added that the Post had been on a five-year trajectory of "losing revenues" and seeing subscriptions "wane."

He said the outlet...