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INSANE: 8 - The Real Truth

Six great reads: a writer’s last words, inside Epstein’s world and on the Zack Polanski trail

Need something brilliant to read this weekend? Here are six of our favourite pieces from the last seven days

The Guardian - UK

The Crunch: political donations, exceptional figure skating and the year of the horse

It was donations disclosure season and we crunched the numbers on the amount of money going to different places

The Guardian - AU

Why is the Washington Post cratering so spectacularly?

To understand the change in Washington Post’s fortunes, it is worth comparing its demise to the New York Times’s trajectory

The Guardian - US

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Inside Will Lewis’s tumultuous two years as publisher of the Washington Post

Before the Post’s sweeping layoffs and Lewis’s abrupt resignation, his tenure was marked by controversy and clashes with staff

The Guardian - US

Washington Post editor acknowledges ‘genuine trauma’ over mass layoffs

Matt Murray defends paper’s strategy as ‘demoralized’ staffers ask tough questions in contentious town hall

The Guardian - US

Democracy dies in broad daylight: the Trump administration’s frontal assault on the free press

When the billionaire owner of Amazon, Jeff Bezos, bought the Washington Post from the Graham family in 2013, he promised a “golden era to come”. In February 2017, one month into Donald Trump’s first term as US president, the paper adopted the motto: “Democracy Dies in Darkness”, reflecting the perceived…

The Conversation

Award-winning editor Tina Brown lays into Bezos and ‘junket schmoozer’ ex-publisher Will Lewis over gutting of WaPo newsroom

The Washington Post laid off one-third of its staff last week, with Lewis stepping down just days later

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Why Republicans are suddenly seriously sweating the Texas Senate race

NEWS ANALYSIS: Senate leaders are still hopeful that Trump will save a beleaguered GOP senator from a primary challenge. But Trump prefers to back a winner, writes John Bowden

The Independent UK

Dan Quinn Had Classy Gesture for Post Reporters After Sports Section Was Dissolved

Dan Quinn and the Commanders had a classy gesture for The Washington Post reporters after the newspaper eliminated its sports section.

Sports Illustrated

Trump’s push to have donors fund his $400 million White House ballroom might cost him the whole project

Donations get pushed through a nonprofit intermediary, which stands to see major profits as a result

The Independent UK

As Jeff Bezos dismantles The Washington Post, 5 regional papers chart a course for survival

The Washington Post’s evisceration at the hands of its billionaire owner, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, didn’t have to happen.

The Conversation

Fired reporter claims that his layoff from Washington Post wasn’t a budget cut – it was purely ideological and race-driven

He claims they are backing down from old commitments.

We Got This Covered

Russian officials are warning Putin that a financial crisis could arrive this summer, report says, while his war on Ukraine becomes too big to fail

“Russia has to continue the war because this war is too big for Putin to fail.”

Fortune

‘This falls squarely on Jeff Bezos’ shoulders’: Internet reacts to GoFundMe for laid-off Washington Post journalists

The Washington Post Guild created a GoFundMe for more than 300 journalists who were laid off at the mainstay newspaper on Wednesday morning, and said they were overwhelmed by the influx of donations from near and far.

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CEO of The Washington Post steps down days after mass layoffs

In an email to staff shared on social media by one of the newspaper's reporters, Will Lewis said it was "the right time for me to step aside."

The Guardian - US

As goes the Washington Post: US democracy takes another hit under Trump

Jeff Bezos’s axing of more than 300 jobs at the storied newspaper has renewed fears about the resilience of America’s democracy to withstand Trump’s attacks

Newslaundry

The Indian rightwing is celebrating the Washington Post layoffs. Here’s why that’s terribly idiotic

There are several serious conversations to be had about the Washington Post layoffs – about money, sustainability, the slow cannibalisation of news by tech platforms, and what journalism is now expected to do in 2026.

The Guardian - US

Washington Post publisher Will Lewis abruptly resigns amid criticism of staff cuts

Departure comes days after newspaper laid off nearly one-third of staff, including more than 300 journalists

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The Independent UK

Washington Post publisher Will Lewis says he's stepping down, days after big layoffs at the paper

Washington Post publisher Will Lewis says he’s stepping down, three days after the troubled newspaper said that it was laying off one-third of its staff

The Independent UK

Washington Post publisher Will Lewis steps down just days after axing hundreds of staff at Jeff Bezos’ newspaper

Post reporters shared images of a memo sent by publisher and CEO William Lewis announcing his departure

The Guardian - US

Bob Woodward says he is ‘crushed’ by Washington Post layoffs

Watergate reporter says colleagues and readers ‘deserve more’ after newspaper lays off hundreds of workers

The Guardian - UK

Eddy Shah obituary

Newspaper owner who took on the print unions and in 1986 launched Today, Britain’s first full-colour daily

Newslaundry

From Watergate to watered-down: Every Indian journalist should read this piece

The Washington Post – WaPo for short – has inspired journalists of several generations, thanks in part to Hollywood. Two Oscar-nominated movies have been made about the paper and its people. The first was All the President’s Men, based on the story of how the paper broke the mother of…

The Guardian - US

Amazon reveals plans to spend $200bn in one year the day after Bezos guts Washington Post

Tech giant reports $213bn in revenue after its founder, who owns the Post, lays off a third of newspaper’s employees

Reason

Don Lemon May Be a Hack, but That Does Not Make Him a Felon

The federal case against the former CNN anchor hinges on conduct that can plausibly be viewed as part of a journalist's work, combined with the obvious partiality of that work.

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