Bezos could have saved the Washington Post’s local news and sports reporters

Demonstrators hold a "Save The Post" sign next to a cutout image of Jeff Bezos during a "Save The Post" rally outside the Washington Post headquarters in Washington, DC, US, on Thursday, Feb. 5, 2026. | Kent Nishimura/Bloomberg via Getty Images.

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

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