The Washington Post

part of The Washington Post Company

8 statements across 4 episodes · 1 bullish · 4 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Jun 7, 2024 by Sam Lessin · across every show →

Everything said about The Washington Post, oldest first

Jun 7, 2024 positive
What-if
Sam Lessin: WaPo Would Make More Catering Exclusively to Elite Insiders
“What they should have been doing is saying like, Why do I care? Like, I'll be the Washington Post. I'm going to be super elitist. I only cater to Washington insiders. Guess what? Great fucking business because everyone's trying to influence those thousand peop…”
Sam Lessin Jun 7, 2024 ▶ 34:45 #50: Startups to Start: Media Edition · More or Less Podcast
Jun 7, 2024 negative
Assertion Partly supported
Jessica Lessin: The Washington Post Lost 50% of Its Audience
“The Washington Post lost half its audience and seventy seven million dollars last year, not 77% of its audience.”
Jessica Lessin Jun 7, 2024 ▶ 35:08 #50: Startups to Start: Media Edition · More or Less Podcast
Jun 7, 2024 negative
Opinion
Jessica Lessin: WaPo's General News Strategy Competing With NYT Isn't Working
“And this is, again, to the point you're making, Sam, that even, this is the Washington Post, but it went a kind of middle strategy, right, of trying to be more general news, trying to compete with the New York Times. It just really, really isn't working”
Jessica Lessin Jun 7, 2024 ▶ 31:41 #50: Startups to Start: Media Edition · More or Less Podcast
Nov 1, 2024 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Lessin: NPR sourced Post subscriber losses by tracking internal cancellation email counts
“The way that NPR broke those subscription figures is they had access somehow to the number of cancellation emails that were being sent.”
Jessica Lessin Nov 1, 2024 ▶ 56:31 #71: Big Tech Earnings and the AI Revolution · More or Less Podcast
Nov 1, 2024 bearish
Opinion
Lessin: The Washington Post's product is stuck in a non-essential subscription tier
“The product is also really stuck in like a non-essential tier.”
Jessica Lessin Nov 1, 2024 ▶ 54:58 #71: Big Tech Earnings and the AI Revolution · More or Less Podcast
Nov 1, 2024 negative
Assertion Supported
Lessin: The Washington Post lost 250,000 subscribers over the endorsement decision
“The Washington Post, which is about 10% of their subscribers.”
Jessica Lessin Nov 1, 2024 ▶ 54:15 #71: Big Tech Earnings and the AI Revolution · More or Less Podcast
Nov 8, 2024
Assertion Supported
Rauch: Vercel Hosted Polymarket and Washington Post During 2024 Election
“In fact, in terms of the election, we hosted the election microsites for Washington post. We hosted polymarket.com, which was extremely hot this election, like quite literally hot in terms of like, How many servers, how much infrastructure it took to help them…”
Guillermo Rauch Nov 8, 2024 ▶ 27:47 #72: Trump's Influencer Strategy Pays Off and the Future of App Building (with Guillermo Rauch!) · More or Less Podcast
Feb 28, 2025 neutral
Assertion Supported
Lessin: Bezos directs Washington Post opinion to focus on free markets
“Bezos announced today that the Washington Post opinion section is going to wholly, wholly focus on topics that support personal liberties and free markets. So as a result of this, the opinion editor who is award winning, probably Pulitzer Prize winning, but I …”
Jessica Lessin Feb 28, 2025 ▶ 7:20 #88: Meta’s $200B AI Bet, Instagram Reels & The Future of Content · More or Less Podcast
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