Washington Post Loses Over 200,000 Subscribers For Failing To Endorse Presidential Candidate In US Elections
Washington Post Loses Over 200,000 Subscribers For Failing To Endorse Presidential Candidate In US Elections
This position was revealed in a report by NPR, the organisation cited two people at the paper with knowledge of internal matters for the position, The Hill reports.
For failing to endorse either of Kamala Harris or Donald Trump, the Washington Post has lost more than 200,000 digital subscriptions.
This position was revealed in a report by NPR, the organisation cited two people at the paper with knowledge of internal matters for the position, The Hill reports.
The number drop represents 8 percent of the 2.5 million subscriptions to the digital and print versions of the platform.
The spokesperson for the Post has however declined to comment.
It was gathered that the editorial board of the organisation had planned to endorse Kamala Harris but were stopped by by Jeff Bezos, the newspaper’s billionaire owner.
Robert Kagan, an editor-at-large at the Post, resigned Friday, while two members of the Post’s editorial board, Molly Roberts and David Hoffman, said they were stepping down from the editorial board.
Roberts said she was stepping down because “the imperative to endorse Kamala Harris over Donald Trump is about as morally clear as it gets,” while Hoffman, a Pulitzer Prize winner, wrote in a note to his editors obtained by The New York Times that he was stepping down from the board but keeping his position. “I refuse to give up on The Post, where I have spent 42 years,” he wrote.
The decision has also led to a handful of resignations, while scores of Post subscribers have taken to social media to share their decision to cancel a subscription.
Many of those doing so have noted the newspaper’s “democracy dies in darkness” motto.
