Post Apocalyptic

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Welcome back, I’m Dylan Byers.

Thanks as always for reading In The Room, my biweekly private email on the inner workings of the media industry. This evening, a close look at the growing tensions between Washington Post newsroom and the paper’s publisher Fred Ryan, which were exacerbated today following an awkward and poorly-executed layoff announcement.

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Post Apocalyptic

A brutally awkward town hall amplified long-simmering anxieties within The Washington Post, which is suffering from its own leadership blues and deja vu anxiety about receding from relevance—again.

DYLAN BYERS

On Wednesday, the dapper and hyper-well-connected Washington Post C.E.O. Fred Ryan stood up before the company’s thousand-plus staff and announced that the organization would be conducting layoffs in the first quarter of next year, resulting in a less-than-10 percent reduction of the workforce. Since Trump left office, and Marty Baron retired from his role as executive editor, the Post has been churning subscribers and losing ad revenue. During the town hall, Ryan told staff that ad revenue was at “recession levels.”...

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