Max Tani

And that's just on the editorial side.

They also got rid of a number of people

on the product and technology side as well.

You'll hear less about those because they're not as visible.

Bezos came in and promised to help the paper expand and grow and become this digital media behemoth.

And it did for a while.

It was really helped by Trump's election and the interest in that story and The Post's fantastic coverage of politics and Washington and the federal government.

It didn't diversify its business effectively enough in the way that competitors such as The New York Times did.

The Post was really reliant, overly reliant on politics and Trump.

And so once they started to see that drop off, it was already a little bit late.

I think that it definitely decided to find a different audience, which is really, really hard to do in 2026, especially when online audiences, particularly for legacy publications, already most likely have a particular view of what that publication is and what it stands for.

He's invested hundreds of millions of his own dollars into this paper, this money losing entity.

And he wants to save the post by making it financially viable for the future.

And at this point, that includes some really, really difficult cuts.

That's what his defenders would say.

Many of his detractors point out the fact that this is one of the richest individuals in the world.

And for as much as $100 million sounds to us, he spends a lot more than that every year on various other projects.

When he bought this paper, he promised to be a good steward of it.

And this week, he's decided to make some decisions to cut back on it quite significantly.

My name is Max Tani.