The Ledger
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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 …”
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…”
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.”
Lessin: The Washington Post lost 250,000 subscribers over the endorsement decision
“The Washington Post, which is about 10% of their subscribers.”
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: 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”
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.”
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…”