Following layoffs at The Washington Post, GoFundMe campaigns have raised over $700,000 to support affected employees, with additional funds specifically for international staff. The cuts, which included the sports section and photography staff, were deeper than anticipated.
As of Monday morning, the GoFundMe campaigns have raised over $700,000 after the layoffs were announced on Wednesday, Business Insider“A separate GoFundMe page for the Post’s international employees has also raised almost $200,000 with about 2,100 donations.
The fundraising push for international staff was set up by the Post’s Tokyo bureau chief, Michelle Lee. The funds will be disbursed to laid-off international employees who are not covered by the newsroom’s union,” the outlet said.owner, billionaire Jeff Bezos, said “The Post has an essential journalistic mission and an extraordinary opportunity. Each and every day our readers give us a roadmap to success. The data tells us what is valuable and where to focus.”Siegel’s page has so far raised $522,061.00 and the second fundraiser clocked in at $202,589.00.to the newspaper as the “serial-lying Washington Post” and listed the numerous hoaxes in which the paper has participated.Neither Lewis nor the newspaper’s billionaire owner Jeff Bezos participated in the meeting with staff members announcing the layoffs on Wednesday. While anticipated, the cutbacks were deeper than expected, resulting in the shutdown of the Post’s renowned sports section, the elimination of its photography staff and sharp reductions in personnel responsible for coverage of metropolitan Washington and overseas. They came on top of widespread talent defections in recent years at the newspaper, which lost tens of thousands of subscribers following Bezos’ order late in the 2024 presidential campaign pulling back from a planned endorsement of Kamala Harris, and a subsequent reorienting of its opinion section in a more conservative direction.is far more fiction than fact. Story after story is made up garbage — more like a poorly written novel than good reporting,” according to Breitbart News.'The Design Is to Destroy the System': Are Mamdani, Newsom Trying to Fail?Turning Point USA's All-American Halftime Show Wins the Super BowlExclusive — Cypriot Foreign Minister: President Trump in ‘Unique Position to Define Global Order and Developments’‘The Design Is to Destroy the System’: Are Mamdani and Newsom Trying to Fail?Nolte: Savannah Guthrie Pleads for Help ‘As We Enter Another Week of This Nightmare’Chinese Media Elevate Anti-American Comments by U.S. Athletes at Winter Olympics Frozen Dead Rat Next to Frozen Pile of Garbage: Emma-Jo Morris Describes Mamdani’s Third World Vision Come True in NYC
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