The Washington Post Just Keeps Bleeding Money — Over $100 Million Lost in 2025
The financial problems facing The Washington Post just keep on mounting.
Despite aggressive staff cuts and the backing of billionaire proprietor Jeff Bezos, the paper lost an additional $100 million in 2025, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal.
The company also posted losses exceeding $100 million last year, deepening a multiyear downturn that recently led to sweeping layoffs.
The paper also lost roughly $100 million in 2024 and $77 million in 2023, continuing a trend of mounting red ink.
Earlier this month, the company cut approximately 30 percent of its staff in an effort to reset operations and reduce costs.
A staggering statement from former Washington Post editor Marty Baron: "This ranks among the darkest days in the history of one of the world's greatest news organizations." pic.twitter.com/xWQrN8B1P4
— Ben Mullin (@BenMullin) February 4, 2026
I am part of the mass layoffs at the Washington Post.
I am sad and angry. We all want to keep doing the work.
But for now I want to document a reality of being in journalism today. pic.twitter.com/Xzrq6HhiP7
— Sam Fortier (@Sam4TR) February 4, 2026
At a staff meeting on Wednesday, acting CEO and publisher Jeff D’Onofrio and executive editor Matt Murray addressed employees for the first time since the layoffs.
D’Onofrio said the organization’s expenses outpaced revenue between 2022 and 2025, citing a rapid hiring surge in previous years.
According to remarks shared by attendees, the number of stories published has dropped 42 percent since 2020, while newsroom costs in 2025 were 16 percent higher than five years earlier.
Murray, who took over as executive editor in mid-2024, acknowledged the severity of the situation.
“We don’t want or need to do every story or jump on everything that happens,” Murray told staff.
“We’re not a paper of record; there’s no such thing anymore in today’s world.”
He added that the goal is to be “distinctive, urgent, must-read with every chance we have.”
D’Onofrio, appointed earlier this month following the departure of publisher and CEO Will Lewis, said leadership is working on a longer-term strategy to stabilize its precarious financial situation.
“Bear with me, because that will take some time and obvious care, but I’m keen to get going on it,” he told staff.
“And we are going to go after it, and we’re going to go after it hard, because we owe it to this place to do that.”
Bezos, meanwhile, has recently tried to move the paper away from its traditional left-wing activist journalism in the hope of currying favor with President Trump.
Last year, he announced that the paper’s entire opinion section would be dedicated to promoting “personal liberties and free markets.”
Whatever the Post’s future, few conservatives are mourning the decline of one of America’s most entrenched Democratic-aligned newsrooms.
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