{"id":159500,"date":"2026-02-12T16:07:38","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T11:07:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zamanturkmenistan.com.tm\/?p=159500"},"modified":"2026-02-12T16:09:43","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T11:09:43","slug":"the-washington-post-ceo-has-resigned-after-massive-layoffs-at-the-newspaper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zamanturkmenistan.com.tm\/the-washington-post-ceo-has-resigned-after-massive-layoffs-at-the-newspaper\/","title":{"rendered":"The Washington Post CEO has resigned after massive layoffs at the newspaper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Post&#8217;s (WP) CEO William Lewis has resigned amid widespread layoffs, according to Axios and Politico, citing a letter Lewis addressed to the newspaper&#8217;s staff.<br \/>\nLewis will take over as WP CEO in 2023. In his message to employees, he noted that he was forced to make &#8220;difficult decisions&#8221; to ensure the newspaper&#8217;s &#8220;sustainable future.&#8221;<br \/>\nJeff D&#8217;Onofrio, who served as The Washington Post&#8217;s CFO since 2025, has been appointed interim CEO.<br \/>\nOn February 4, WP management notified employees of the start of widespread layoffs due to financial concerns. Editor-in-Chief Matt Murray said that the decision included closing the sports department in its current form.<br \/>\nAccording to Reuters, the personnel changes were expected to affect all departments. However, the department that produces news on politics and government will remain the core unit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Post&#8217;s (WP) CEO William Lewis has resigned amid widespread layoffs, according to Axios and Politico, citing a letter Lewis addressed to the newspaper&#8217;s staff. Lewis will take over as WP CEO in 2023. In his message to employees, he noted that he was forced to make &#8220;difficult decisions&#8221; to ensure the newspaper&#8217;s &#8220;sustainable [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":159101,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10916],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zamanturkmenistan.com.tm\/%77%70%2d%6a%73%6f%6e\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159500"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zamanturkmenistan.com.tm\/%77%70%2d%6a%73%6f%6e\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zamanturkmenistan.com.tm\/%77%70%2d%6a%73%6f%6e\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zamanturkmenistan.com.tm\/%77%70%2d%6a%73%6f%6e\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zamanturkmenistan.com.tm\/%77%70%2d%6a%73%6f%6e\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159500"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/zamanturkmenistan.com.tm\/%77%70%2d%6a%73%6f%6e\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":159501,"href":"https:\/\/zamanturkmenistan.com.tm\/%77%70%2d%6a%73%6f%6e\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159500\/revisions\/159501"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zamanturkmenistan.com.tm\/%77%70%2d%6a%73%6f%6e\/wp\/v2\/media\/159101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zamanturkmenistan.com.tm\/%77%70%2d%6a%73%6f%6e\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zamanturkmenistan.com.tm\/%77%70%2d%6a%73%6f%6e\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zamanturkmenistan.com.tm\/%77%70%2d%6a%73%6f%6e\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}