Washington Post hit with over 200K cancellations after move to block Harris endorsement: report

More than 200,000 people had canceled their integer subscriptions for nan Washington Post by midday connected Monday, pursuing nan newspaper’s determination to block an endorsement of Vice President Kamala Harris for president, National Public Radio reported.

Not each cancellations return effect immediately, the NPR report said, adding that still, nan fig represents astir 8% of nan paper’s paid circulation of 2.5 cardinal subscribers, which includes people arsenic well.

A bid of columnists person besides resigned from nan Washington Post, which is owned by billionaire Jeff Bezos, NPR reported.

The Washington Post declined to remark connected nan study erstwhile contacted by Reuters.

In a post on Friday, William Lewis, nan patient and main executive serviceman of the Washington Post, said the newspaper would not be making an endorsement of a statesmanlike campaigner successful nan Nov. 5 election, nor successful immoderate early statesmanlike election.

“We are returning to our roots of not endorsing statesmanlike candidates,” Lewis wrote.

“The Washington Post’s determination not to make an endorsement successful nan statesmanlike run is simply a unspeakable mistake,” wrote 20 columnists successful an opinion piece on nan Post’s website, adding that it “represents an abandonment of nan basal editorial convictions of nan newspaper that we love.”