Washington Post cancellations hit 250,000 – 10% of subscribers

People walk by the One Franklin Square Building, home of the Washington Post newspaper. Photograph: Pablo Martínez Monsiváis/AP

Deterioration of the Washington Post’s subscriber base continued on Tuesday, hours after its proprietor, Jeff Bezos, defended the decision to forgo formally endorsing a presidential candidate as part of an effort to restore trust in the media.

The publication has now shed 250,000 subscribers, or 10% of the 2.5 million customers it had before the decision was made public on Friday, according to the NPR reporter David Folkenflik.