Washington Post’s White House team tries to halt massive layoffs by appealing directly to Jeff Bezos

Washington Post reporters are now publicly pleading with billionaire owner Jeff Bezos to reconsider the expected massive layoffs that will gut much of the paper. - (AFP/Getty)

With sweeping layoffs expected to hit The Washington Post next month, the paper’s White House reporters joined the “collective plea” from the newsroom to publicly urge mega-wealthy owner Jeff Bezos to halt the massive rumored cuts.

The note to Bezos, which was first reported by Semafor on Thursday, comes as rumors have swirled that the Will Lewis-led newspaper is looking to gut the Post’s sports, arts, metro and foreign news departments. According to multiple reports, the newsroom could see over 100 employees laid off, and the company as a whole may cut as many as 300 staffers.