By Jackie Spinner Earlier this year, Will Lewis, the Washington Post’s new publisher and CEO, disclosed in a staff meeting that the Post had lost nearly half of its digital subscribers since the peak of 2020 when Donald Trump was still president and the COVID-19 pandemic was raging. The Post had already announced that it
By William H. Freivogel The purpose of a newspaper endorsement of a president or other political candidate is to pull together the information about the candidates, measure the candidates against the news organization’s and the nation’s values and then cogently explain to readers/voters why a particular candidate deserves their vote. That’s why my decade of
In early October, Alden Global Capital instructed the newspapers it owns to stop endorsing for major political offices after this year. “Unfortunately, as the public discourse has become increasingly acrimonious, common ground has become a no man’s land between the clashing forces of the culture wars,” the company confirmed to the New York Times. Alden
