Washington Post
The Washington Post is a major American daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C. It is the most widely circulated newspaper in the Washington metropolitan area and widely read around the country. The newspaper has won 47 Pulitzer Prizes. It employs around 800 journalists and had a 2015 daily circulation of 356,768. Its digital circulation was 1,000,000 in 2018.
Jeff Bezos bought the paper in 2013. Tensions between he and the newsroon have continued; in 2024 and 2025, multiple personnel resigned over the paper's non-endorsement of Kamala Harris and editorial changes advanced by Bezos.
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The Internal Revenue Service plans to eliminate nearly a quarter of its workforce in layoffs starting Friday, according to records obtained by The Washington Post and people familiar with the plans, shedding roughly 20,000 jobs as part of plans from President Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s cost-cutting team, the U.S. DOGE Service. The agency began Friday by announcing it would eliminate its Office of Civil Rights and Compliance, firing roughly 130 employees from a division responsible for protecting taxpayers from discrimination in the tax code, audits and investigations. Remaining employees...