More than 75,000 digital subscribers have cancelled their subscriptions to The Washington Post following owner Jeff Bezos' decision to overhaul the paper's opinion pages to reflect libertarian priorities and exclude opposing views. Opinions Editor David Shipley resigned after failing to dissuade Bezos from the changes. Former Post figures criticized the move, with former Executive Editor Marty Baron calling it "craven." Bezos' decision has sparked outrage and led to a historic level of reader cancellations, with a net loss of hundreds of thousands of subscribers since the changes were announced. The move has raised concerns about the paper's editorial direction and its relationship with the broader public.
Source: https://www.npr.org/2025/02/28/nx-s1-5312819/washington-post-bezos-subscriptions-cancellations