Article in Columbia Journalism Review by Riddhi Setty 4/22/26
Headline: “The Post Tries to Regroup”
Subhead: “After announcing major cuts, the paper is delaying layoffs and attempting to hire back former staffers.”
“When the Washington Post announced mass layoffs, in February, the company offered severance packages to the roughly three hundred and fifty staff members losing their jobs. To receive their severance, these employees would have to sign their packages by April 10; they would then begin receiving the payments after April 30. But after the terms were set, something strange happened. Editors who were overseeing the laid-off employees began contacting several of them, asking them to return—not as full-time staff, but to work under what their union called a ‘delayed layoff.’. . .”
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