The Washington Post’s journal multiplication was losing money
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The Washington Post every day journal is to tighten the bureaus in Chicago, Los Angeles and New York.
Executive editor Marcus Brauchli told staff which nonetheless the posts of 6 correspondents in the offices were safe, 3 headlines aides had mislaid jobs.
In a memo, he pronounced the inhabitant paper would concentration some-more on domestic stories and internal headlines coverage in Washington.
Like alternative US media, the paper has seen a decrease in promotion income and dissemination in new years.
There has additionally been a ubiquitous enlarge in the numbers of people removing their headlines online for free.
Pressures
The bureaus have been due to tighten at the finish of the year.
Mr Brauchli pronounced the measures came “at a time of singular resources and increasing rival pressure”.
The paper has a dissemination of some-more than 582,000 copies during weekdays and 822,000 on Sundays, with many writings distributed in the Washington area.
This is seen as the ultimate try to cut costs.
The journal multiplication mislaid $166.7m (£100.5m) during the initial 3 buliding of this year.
However Mr Brauchli attempted to encourage his staff which the paper would go on to yield the readers with inhabitant stories.
He wrote: “We will go on to cover events around the nation as we have for decades, by promulgation reporters in to the field.”
