
Billionaire and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has been reportedly shaking up the Washington Post after the paper engendered severe backlash for spiking an endorsement of Kamala Harris on the eve of President-elect Donald Trump’s victory.
Jeff Bezos set off a firestorm in the political world this year when he reportedly stepped in to spike the paper’s editorial board from endorsing Kamala Harris, which then prompted an exodus of over 250,000 subscribers and a a whirlwind of backlash from various media figures. Given that the paper has been hemorrhaging revenue to the tune of $77 million for well over a year, editors and managers have been secretly panicking behind closed doors over Bezos’s plans to make the Post functional again.
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