I may be the only subscriber on this board. We even get the print and digital. When Jeff Bezos bought the paper, it was on the rocks. It revived for a while during Trump's first term with all that news.

The paper continues to shrink and decline, and today the Post announced major cuts (maybe 30%). I don't want more national news and politics. That stuff is everywhere.

From the NY Times:

The Washington Post told employees on Wednesday that it was beginning a widespread round of layoffs that are expected to decimate the organization’s sports, local news and international coverage.

Matt Murray, The Post’s executive editor, told newsroom employees on a call that all sections would be affected in some way. But he said that the end result would be a publication that focused even more on national news and politics, as well as business and health, and far less on other areas.

Mr. Murray said the sports section would close, though some of its reporters would stay on and move to the features department to cover the culture of sports.

Mr. Murray added that The Post’s metro section would shrink. The books section will close....

“The actions we are taking include a broad strategic reset with a significant staff reduction,” Mr. Murray said. The company is also making broad cuts on the business side.

He said the company had lost too much money for too long, and had not been meeting readers’ needs....

The cuts are a sign that Jeff Bezos, who became one of the world’s richest people by selling things on the internet, has not yet figured out how to build and maintain a profitable publication on the internet. The paper expanded during the first several years of his ownership, but the company has sputtered more recently.

Mr. Bezos hired Will Lewis as publisher in late 2023 to find a path to profitability for The Post, which had been suffering from declining audiences and sagging subscriptions....

At the end of 2024, Mr. Bezos described the struggle in an interview at a conference hosted by The New York Times: “We saved The Washington Post once, and we’re going to save it a second time.”

In a staff meeting in 2024, Mr. Lewis warned that The Post was in trouble. “We are losing large amounts of money,” he said. “Your audience has halved in recent years. People are not reading your stuff.”

The Post is far from alone among publishers in its struggles to achieve profitability. For many outlets, print circulation has continued to nosedive, digital traffic has been hampered by generative A.I. and audiences have splintered to various social media platforms. Publishers have had to experiment with different revenue streams, such as events and premium memberships, to offset losses.