Turmoil at The Washington Post continued Tuesday, when the company announced it began laying off around 4% of its workforce.
Unlike recent Post departures, the layoffs will not affect the newspaper's editorial staff. Two years ago, the newsroom reduced its workforce as part of a voluntary buyout program that eliminated 240 jobs.
Oliver Darcy, of the Status newsletter, first reported the layoffs on Sunday.
"The Washington Post is continuing its transformation to meet the needs of the industry, build a more sustainable future, and reach audiences where they are," the Post said in a statement, The New York Times reported.
"Changes across our business functions are all in service of our greater goal to best position The Post for the future."
The Post said the cuts will affect fewer than 100 staffers across its business divisions, which include advertising sales, marketing, and information technology teams.
Post Publisher Will Lewis said in a meeting last year that in 2023, the newspaper lost $77 million and had suffered a falloff in its digital audience since 2020, the Times reported.
The news of layoffs follows six months of upheaval at the newspaper. The tumult heightened after the Post decided not to endorse Vice President Kamala Harris for president in her race against Donald Trump. More than 250,000 readers canceled their subscriptions after the non-endorsement.
On Friday, Post Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Ann Telnaes quit the newspaper in protest of the decision not to publish a cartoon that depicts owner Jeff Bezos and other billionaires kowtowing to President-elect Donald Trump, the New York Post reported.
Last week, the Times reported that correspondents Ashley Parker and Michael Scherer are leaving the Post to join The Atlantic.
Parker and Scherer's departures follow Matea Gold, an editor overseeing the Post's national staff and other departments, recently leaving to join the Times as a senior editor in its Washington bureau. The Atlantic hired Shane Harris, a former Post national security reporter.
Michele Norris, an opinion columnist and the first Black female host for National Public Radio, called the move not to support Harris a "terrible mistake" in announcing her resignation Oct. 27.
Norris' resignation came two days after that of Robert Kagan, who had been an editor-at-large.
According to Darcy, Post editorial exits are not finished.
"[S]tar reporter Josh Dawsey will exit The Post for a job at The Wall Street Journal. His departure comes on the heels of other top staffers fleeing, including Matea Gold, Ashley Parker, Michael Scherer, Charles Lane, Tyler Pager, and Amanda Katz," Darcy wrote.