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Executive editor Matt Murray addressed the entire newsroom by Zoom Wednesday morning.
Murray called the cuts a strategic reset, as the paper's readers preferred coverage of national politics and national security.
Bezos is the founder of Amazon and one of the world's richest people.
He bought the paper in 2013 and invested in it deeply, saying it needed to innovate to survive.
Now he demanded deep cuts to stem years of red ink.
Former executive editors Marty Baron and Marcus Browkley questioned the strategy...
Notably, the paper's chief executive and publisher, Will Lewis, did not address the newsroom and has not so far spelled out the roadmap for the path ahead.
The precise charges have not yet been revealed, but U.S.
Attorney General Pam Bondi linked the arrest to Don Lemon and Georgia Fort's presence at the church protest.
Demonstrators focused on the church because a pastor there is a senior local ICE official.
Lemon interviewed the pastor and congregants as well as protesters.
Lemon's attorney says his client was simply there as a reporter to document the events.
He described the arrest as intimidation.
Human rights groups and media advocates say this is a clear violation of First Amendment protections for the press.
Nearly two years ago, Washington Post publisher Will Lewis told his newsroom no one is reading its stories.
He said he had a mandate to find new revenues and to cut costs.
The new revenues have been slow in coming.