- INBOX: Washington Post Ukraine Correspondent Lizzie Johnson announces that she has been laid off in the middle of a below-freezing war zone without power, heat, or running water.
- This is a day that will forever live in journalism infamy.
- Lizzie Johnson's boss Siobhán O'Grady, the WaPo Ukraine bureau chief, has been laid off as well:
- Today, the Philadelphia Inquirer is still hiring a National Politics Reporter, and the Washington Post just laid off a third of its workforce. bsky.app/profile/alex...
- My criticism of oligarch-owned news outlets does not stop at Jeff Bezos' gutting of The Washington Post. For the regime and right-wing billionaires, the value of national media is what it *doesn't* produce. bsky.app/profile/alex...
- BREAKING: @ajc.com on Tuesday evening said it will lay off approximately 50 staffers, about 15% of its headcount, as it seeks to cut costs and marshal resources to invest in its growth. The AJC published its last print edition on 12/31. About half of those laid off will come from the newsroom.
- Today is a good day to follow and support news outlets that avoid generative AI slop: bsky.app/profile/alex...
- Why do I care about Ukraine correspondents who were left hanging out to dry? Because I sent one out to Kyiv and Lviv *twice* last year. These international desk cuts create an irreversible domino effect that endangers journalists and fixers on the ground: www.thexylom.com/post/ukraine...
- I founded @thexylom.com to cover *global* environmental and health disparities. As regime-aligned media turn more insular, we are committed to documenting how the world is sicker, poorer, and dirtier everywhere from South Texas to South Sudan, from Nepal to Ukraine. Please support my colleagues:
