The Washington Post has announced sweeping layoffs, sharply scaling back the paper's coverage of sports and foreign news.
The job cuts, announced on Wednesday, will impact employees across departments with roles in the newsroom's sports, local and foreign sections hit particularly hard.
The cut marks the latest upheaval for the leading US newspaper, which is owned by billionaire Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon.
Executive editor Matt Murray said the cuts would bring "stability". But the announcement was met with condemnation from the paper's employees and some former leaders, one of whom described it as among the "darkest days in the history of" the storied newspaper.
"Today's news is painful. These are difficult actions," Murray wrote in a note to staff on Wednesday.
