Washington Post Staffers Panic as Paper Sheds 200,000 Subscribers After Refusal to Endorse Harris

The Washington Post has shed a whopping 200,000 subscribers after the newspaper’s editorial board refused to endorse Democrat presidential candidate Kamala Harris.

Last week, the Jeff Bezos-owned corporate media outlet announced that it would not be endorsing any candidate in the critical 2024 election.

However, the move has sent shockwaves through the left-wing newsroom.

On Monday, NPR reported that The Post has shed more than 200,000 subscribers since it revealed its editorial board would not formally endorse Vice President Harris.

The announcement stunned many on the Left as the paper had planned to endorse Harris.

According to NPR, it marks roughly an 8% loss of The Post’s 2.5 million paid subscribers.

A veteran Washington Post insider reportedly told Fox News that the NPR report was “the talk of the newsroom.”

“People are outraged at such a boneheaded decision,” the insider said.

“Just recently, [Washington Post CEO and publisher Will] Lewis’ team was bragging about stemming subscription losses and how we had ‘green shoots’ of a gain of 4,000 subscribers so far this year.

“That’s been wiped out in a nanosecond.”

“It’s a steep hole to climb out of, and it’s only going to get worse once the election is over and more people cancel,” the source added.

When asked whether the Post can recover or if the damage is already done, they replied:

“No idea. A lot of damage has been done.”

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A trio of Post reporters wrote Sunday that positive internal momentum at the newspaper “came to a halt” on Friday.

The Post’s staffers were devastated to learn that Lewis declared the “Democracy Dies in Darkness” paper would not endorse a presidential candidate.

In the days since, an onslaught of readers posted on social media about canceling subscriptions in protest.

The reaction has been prompting Washington Post reporters to fret over how many subscribers would ultimately walk away.

In an article headlined “For The Post, more outrage from readers who say they’ve canceled,” Post reporters Manuel Roig-Franzia, Herb Scribner, and Laura Wagner wrote:

“A cancellation movement swept through social networks.

“Instead of using an internal analytics tool to check traffic to their own stories, some Post journalists used it to chart the soaring number of subscribers visiting the customer account page that allows them to cancel their subscriptions.

“On social media, sharing screenshots of Post subscription cancellation confirmations became more than just a thing,” the Post reporters continued.

“It was a political statement primarily coming from the American Left, enraged by reports in The Post and elsewhere that the newspaper’s editorial writers had drafted an endorsement of the Democratic nominee.”

The Post also noted that Lewis has “sought to tamp down speculation” about the motivations of the paper’s billionaire owner, Jeff Bezos.

Some on the Left have claimed that Bezos made the decision to help President Donald Trump.

However, The Post previously reported that Bezos was behind the move “according to four people who were briefed on the decision.”

Lewis has claimed the decision to end presidential endorsements “was made entirely internally and neither campaign nor candidate was given a heads up or consulted.”

The publisher has told concerned staffers that “it is the wrong thing for an independent newspaper to tell readers how to vote in a presidential election.”

The Post announced on Friday that it would not be offering an endorsement in the upcoming presidential election or any future one.

Lewis said it was because the publisher wants the paper to begin “returning to our roots.”

An endorsement of Harris was reportedly drafted and ready to publish before it was suddenly shelved.

The paper, which has been reliably hostile to Trump for years, has endorsed a Democrat for president in every election since 1976, except for when it skipped one in 1988.

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