"Search, which once helped the paper "thrive," was in decline due to the growth of artificial intelligence. Organic search fell by nearly half in the last three years, Murray wrote. "We have concluded that the company's structure is too rooted in a different era, when we were a dominant, local print product," he wrote. "This restructure will help to secure our future in service of our journalistic mission and provide us stability moving forward.""
""Post Reports," the paper's flagship daily podcast, will also stop production. Murray added that some areas of the Post, including video, have not kept up with the changes in how people consume news. "Significantly, our daily story output has substantially fallen in the last five years. And even as we produce much excellent work, we too often write from one perspective, for one slice of the audience," Murray wrote."
The Washington Post implemented wide-ranging layoffs across nearly all news departments, eliminating the sports and books desks, restructuring the metro desk, closing several foreign bureaus, and ending the Post Reports podcast. Approximately one-third of company employees were cut, including over 300 from an 800-person newsroom, following sustained financial losses, leadership turnover, and controversial editorial choices. Organic search traffic declined nearly half in three years amid the growth of artificial intelligence, reducing a key audience and revenue stream. Daily story output has substantially fallen in five years, and some areas, including video, have not kept up with changing consumption habits. The Washington-Baltimore News Guild strongly condemned the layoffs.
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