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Originally published by Capital Businessbusiness
February 5, 2026
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Washington Post announces sweeping layoffs, scaling back news coverage

FEB 5 - The Washington Post has announced it is laying off one-third of its work force, sharply scaling back the paper's coverage of sports and foreign Kenya breaking news | Kenya news today |..
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The Washington Post announced sweeping layoffs, cutting one-third of its workforce and significantly scaling back coverage in its sports, local, and foreign news sections.
- Approximately one-third of the Washington Post's workforce is being laid off.
- Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon, owns the newspaper.
- Former editor Marty Baron described the day as among the “darkest days in the history of” the storied newspaper.
- The layoffs are attributed to plummeting online traffic amid the artificial intelligence boom and a need for the paper to "reinvent" itself.
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