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The Washington Post has become a much smaller news organization because of several rounds of layoffs and voluntary buyouts.<\/p>\n

At an employee town hall Wednesday, one week after the paper underwent a brutal round of layoffs, Washington Post executive editor Matt Murray said roughly 1,300 total staffers remain, according to The Guardian’s Jeremy Barr, a former Post media reporter.<\/p>\n

In October 2023, the Post itself reported it had employed “about 2,500 people across the entire company” at the time.<\/p>\n

WASHINGTON POST BOMBARDED WITH \u2018CAKE’ PARTIES FOR DEPARTING STAFFERS<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

The number of journalists in the Post newsroom has taken a worse beating. Murray said that 400 people stayed in what he called a “well-stocked newsroom.” But in 2022, the Post newsroom reportedly had 1,000 journalists.<\/p>\n

While Murray told staffers he doesn’t anticipate more layoffs, he acknowledged he couldn’t be certain that there wouldn’t be.<\/p>\n

The Washington Post did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital<\/a>‘s request for comment.<\/p>\n

WASHINGTON POST’S TOP EDITOR BACKS JEFF BEZOS AS CRITICS LASH OUT OVER STRUGGLING PAPER’S LAYOFFS<\/u><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Last week, Murray delivered the highly-anticipated news that hundreds of Post staffers would be dismissed. Several departments, including Sports, Books and Metro were gutted, as well as its foreign correspondents and photojournalists.<\/p>\n

Speaking with Fox News Digital, Murray acknowledged<\/a> “morale has been a challenge at the Post for a while.”<\/p>\n

“The Post has been dealing with different kinds of problems for some number of years now,” Murray said. “We want to be in a different period, [after] this painful exercise, and that’s a period of collaboration, growth, innovation and reinventing the place for the future.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

WASHINGTON POST CEO STEPS DOWN AMID ONSLAUGHT OF BACKLASH FOLLOWING MASS LAYOFFS<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

On Saturday, Washington Post CEO and publisher Will Lewis abruptly resigned after a two-year stint at the paper as critics slammed his absence during the painful layoffs while drawing outrage after he was spotted at a pre-Super Bowl event in San Francisco.<\/p>\n

The Post announced that Jeff D\u2019Onofrio, who joined the paper in June 2025 as its chief financial officer, was taking over as acting CEO and publisher effective immediately.<\/p>\n

The paper’s billionaire owner, Jeff Bezos,<\/a> has also taken heat as critics accuse him of being disinterested in saving the paper he bought more than a decade ago.<\/p>\n

Fox News’ Brian Flood contributed to this report.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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