Report: Washington Post loses more than 200,000 subscriptions following non-endorsement

The Washington Post has reportedly mislaid much than 200,000 subscribers pursuing a determination announced past week not to endorse a campaigner successful nan statesmanlike race

NEW YORK -- More than 200,000 group person canceled subscriptions to The Washington Post since nan newspaper announced its decision past week not to endorse a campaigner for president, a published study said Monday.

NPR reported nan figure, citing “two group astatine nan insubstantial pinch knowledge of soul matters.”

The reported nonaccomplishment of subscriptions of that magnitude would beryllium a rustle to a news outlet that is already facing financial headwinds. The Post had much than 2.5 cardinal subscribers past year, nan bulk of them digital, making it 3rd down The New York Times and Wall Street Journal successful circulation.

A Post spokeswoman, Olivia Peterson, would not remark connected nan study erstwhile contacted by The Associated Press.

The Post's editorial unit had reportedly prepared an endorsement of Democrat Kamala Harris earlier announcing alternatively Friday that it would time off it up for readers to dress up their ain minds. The timing, little than 2 weeks earlier Election Day, led critics to mobility whether Post proprietor and Amazon laminitis Jeff Bezos had been concerned astir whether Republican Donald Trump mightiness retaliate if he were elected president.

The Post's retired erstwhile editor, Marty Baron, had denounced nan decision connected societal media arsenic “cowardice, pinch populist arsenic its casualty.”

Some journalists, including Post columnist Dana Milbank, urged readers not to definitive their anger astatine nan determination by canceling subscriptions, for fearfulness it could costs reporters aliases editors their jobs.

The Post's determination came only days aft nan Los Angeles Times besides said it would not endorse a statesmanlike candidate, which nan newspaper has acknowledged has costs them thousands of subscribers.

An article connected nan Post's website astir nan fallout from nan non-endorsement had much than 2,000 comments, galore of them from readers saying they were leaving.

“I americium unsubscribing aft 70 years,” wrote 1 commenter, claiming to person mislaid dream and belief that nan Post would people nan truth.