Larry Weissman
@larryweissman
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Enthusiast, Flâneur, New Yorker
Brooklyn, NY
Joined June 2009
Dear Mr. @JeffBezos, can you please sell the @washingtonpost to someone or a group of investors who are interested in the news business? Thank you for your attention to this matter.
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So I join the ranks of the WashPost laid off, including so much of the international staff, my Russia-Ukraine department has been gutted and some of the best people fired. What serious paper doesn't cover that conflict?
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For those looking for freelance work in the wake of WaPo layoffs: I'm an editor at large overseeing Ideas & Culture at Bloomberg, including our Books coverage. Find me at skillingswo2@bloomberg.net
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It seems like only yesterday that nearly every American newspaper, dozens and dozens of them, even in mid-size cities, ran book reviews by local critics. The alt-weeklies (I wrote for many of them) were everywhere and had feisty and boisterous book sections. Time, Newsweek
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For those of you looking for freelance work in the wake of WaPo layoffs: I'm an editor at large overseeing Ideas & Culture at Bloomberg, including our Books coverage. Find me at skillingswo2@bloomberg.net
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We are witnessing a murder at The Washington Post. This massacre will be the enduring legacy of Jeff Bezos and Will Lewis and the leadership who stood by. But please read my love letter to the paper that felt like home, and will always be my “we.” ❤️🩹 https://t.co/b4zaDlCr3B
theatlantic.com
Today’s layoffs are the latest attempt to kill what makes the paper special.
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to @wapo international journalists: @eurasiagroup is hiring and committed to understanding global affairs without fear or favor.
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as usual, @AshleyRParker writes it beautifully and says it better than most anyone else could.
theatlantic.com
Today’s layoffs are the latest attempt to kill what makes the paper special.
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Such as a sad day at @washingtonpost. (I, too, was let go a while back as a monthly columnist.) Bezos has destroyed one of the best newspapers of my lifetime. Americans and the world will understand less about the world now when we need to understand more.
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Jeff Bezos wealth in 2024: $194 billion Jeff Bezos wealth in 2025: $215 billion Jeff Bezos wealth today: $249.4 billion Net increase in Bezos wealth since 2024: $55.4 billion Cost of Bezos’s 417-foot superyacht: $500 million Amazon investment in "Melania": $75 million
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Lizzie is so incredibly talented and so unbelievably empathetic. These layoffs are not only devastating for journalists who are losing their livelihoods, they're devastating for an informed public and our shaky democracy.
I was just laid off by The Washington Post in the middle of a warzone. I have no words. I'm devastated.
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Inside an AI start-up’s plan to scan and dispose of millions of books
washingtonpost.com
Court filings reveal how AI companies raced to obtain more books to feed chatbots, including by buying, scanning and disposing of millions of titles.
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Many have been shocked by this admission of killing 30,000 by Iranian officials. But plse note - even if accurate - this was not a total figure. It refers to a deathtoll in just TWO DAYS.
30,000 innocent Iranians killed in 2 days - a rate of killing that resembles Babi Yar in Holocaust, says Time: “The only parallel offered by online databases occurred in the Holocaust. On the outskirts of Kyiv on Sept. 29 and 30, 1941, Nazi death squads executed 33,000 Ukrainian
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Two of the strongest parts of the @washingtonpost are its international and sports coverage. They have amazing must-read writers. If they are gutted by Bezos's publisher, it would be one of the most self-destructive acts in American journalism in years. Praying it's not true.
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A top Post reporter tells me "there's now a strong sense" across the newsroom "that neither Jeff Bezos nor Will Lewis are serious, good-faith stewards of The Washington Post."
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@JeffBezos. I am the foreign affairs columnist of the New York Times. I have enormous respect for the foreign staff and foreign reporting of the @washingtonpost. It has been indispensable for citizens, journalists, opinion writers and diplomats. Please preserve and expand it.
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I love my job. Every day, I put my life on the line for my job. And I would very much like to keep my job, telling stories from the front lines of a war that is reshaping the world. (I think Washington Post readers would agree int’l coverage is vital.) Please, @JeffBezos.
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Waking up without power, heat, or running water. (Again.) But the work here in Kyiv continues. Warming up in the car, writing in pencil — pen ink freezes — by headlamp. Despite how difficult this job can be, I am proud to be a foreign correspondent at The Washington Post.
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Another angle of federal agents killing a Minnesota legal observer, which appears to come from the direction of the woman in pink filming from the sidewalk. Obtained by Drop Site News
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