"But the extent of the damage is actually greater than first reported. News reports about the layoffs, including this one from the New York Times, generally agreed that about one-third of the Post's newsroom would be eliminated by the layoffs. However, an accounting by the Washington-Baltimore Newspaper Guild, the union that represents Post journalists, finds that the paper's management eliminated closer to half of the journalists it used to employ."
"According to guild steward Sarah Kaplan, a Post Metro reporter, the paper is dropping between 350 and 375 journalists. With the newsroom's pre-layoff strength at 790 people, that means between 44 percent and 47.5 percent of the newsroom has been axed. In a dreadful era for journalism jobs, the Post's bloodbath stands out: last week may have been the biggest one-day wipeout of journalists in a generation."
Massive layoffs at the Washington Post eliminated whole sections and departments—sports, books, staff photography—and inflicted major cuts on the Metro section and foreign bureaus. Union accounting by the Washington-Baltimore Newspaper Guild finds the paper dropped between 350 and 375 journalists out of a pre-layoff newsroom of 790, a reduction of roughly 44 to 47.5 percent. Earlier tallies that cited nearly 300 union members omitted dozens of non-union staff, foreign-bureau employees, editors, and managers. The closure of the Post's Seoul "news hub" will affect more than a dozen people, deepening a severe contraction in journalism jobs.
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