Deterioration of the Washington Post’s subscriber base continued on Tuesday, hours after its proprietor, Jeff Bezos, defended the decision to forgo formally endorsing a presidential candidate as part of an effort to restore trust in the media.

The publication has now shed 250,000 subscribers, or 10% of the 2.5 million customers it had before the decision was made public on Friday, according to the NPR reporter David Folkenflik.

A day earlier, 200,000 had left according to the same outlet.

The numbers are based on the number of cancellation emails that have been sent out, according to a source at the paper, though the subscriber dashboard is no longer viewable to employees.

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  • Charlatan@lemm.ee
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    21 days ago

    Totally agree on the opinion section. I think if they want to they can opine on their candidate of choice, but I don’t see it as a necessity.

    Clearly I can’t read…

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      21 days ago

      They want to, but Bezos (who is not a journalist) is preventing them. That’s the problem.