{"id":2314,"date":"2026-02-11T03:34:59","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T23:34:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/bezos-could-have-saved-the-washington-posts-local-news-and-sports-reporters\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T03:34:59","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T23:34:59","slug":"bezos-could-have-saved-the-washington-posts-local-news-and-sports-reporters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/bezos-could-have-saved-the-washington-posts-local-news-and-sports-reporters\/","title":{"rendered":"Bezos could have saved The Washington Post\u2019s local news and sports reporters"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n\tDemonstrators hold a \u00ab\u00a0Save The Post\u00a0\u00bb sign next to a cutout image of Jeff Bezos during a \u00ab\u00a0Save The Post\u00a0\u00bb rally outside the Washington Post headquarters in Washington, DC, US, on Thursday, Feb. 5, 2026. | Kent Nishimura\/Bloomberg via Getty Images.\t<\/figcaption><\/p><\/figure>\n

Hello and welcome to <\/em>Regulator, a newsletter for <\/em>Verge subscribers about tech politicking in the age of Trump. If you’re a subscriber, you are dominant and talented, like the Seattle Seahawks. If you’re not a subscriber yet, <\/em>it’s time to get your act together<\/em><\/a>, like the New England Patriots. (I’m from Boston and I’m allowed to say this.) <\/em><\/p>\n

The biggest tech story dominating Washington right now is, incidentally, a media story. Last week, shortly after The Washington Post <\/em>laid off 400 staffers and closed many of its desks, and before its absentee CEO Will Lewis<\/strong> got summarily shoved out, I wrote a column trying to figure out whether there was e \u2026<\/p>\n

Read the full story at The Verge.<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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