Washington Post Cutting Last 3 U.S. Bureaus
via NYT
In what is being called a “cost-cutting” move, the Washington Post is going to close it’s three reamaining bureaus in New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles. This means that in order to cover national stories, the Washington Post will have to send reporters out directly from their headquarters in Washington.
The Post’s executive editor Marcus W. Brauchli says the decision was made due to “limited resources and increased competitive pressure.” Publisher Katharine Weymouth says that the paper plans to “cover Washington as a place to live and as a place that has impact on the nation and the world.”
When I see another story like this, I just can’t help but look at graduation day differently. It seems like every day there’s another story about how some newspaper is cutting it’s staff. Regardless of how they spin it, this is still a very bad thing. It makes me think that if there was really something that could be done to save the newspapers, someone would have already done it.
Unlike most of these stories, it’s good to hear that many of the people currently employed in those three bureaus will be offered jobs in Washington, though three news-assistants at these locations will lose their jobs. The Post still has a dozen foreign bureaus, so at least they’re retaining their presence abroad – for the time being, at least.
