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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A recent analysis by Axios found that traffic to online news sites has dramatically declined in the months since President Biden’s inauguration. That’s both good and bad news for American democracy.
The good news is that this decline applies to sites of all political leanings. Web traffic, social media engagement and app user sessions declined by 18 percent for so-called mainstream sources, such as the New York Times; 17 percent for center-left sites (the Atlantic, Vox); and 27 percent for center-right ones (Fox News, the Daily Caller). It fell by even more on the ideological extremes, plummeting 27 percent for far-left sites such as Mother Jones and 44 percent for far-right ones such as Newsmax. This indicates a cooling of the white-hot partisan passions that erupted after the election and the Jan. 6 riots.