Washington Post’s White House team urges Jeff Bezos to halt massive newsroom cuts

With widespread layoffs expected at The Washington Post in the coming weeks, teams of reporters are sending impassioned letters to owner Jeff Bezos, urging him not to shrink the newsroom.

In a letter obtained by CNN, the newspaper’s White House reporters banded together to defend some of the desks facing major cutbacks.

“If the plan, to the extent there is one, is to reorient around politics we wanted to emphasize how much we rely on collaboration with foreign, sports, local — the entire paper, really. And if other sections are diminished, we all are,” bureau chief Matt Viser wrote in one of the Post’s internal Slack channels on Thursday morning.

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