How Jeff Bezos Broke The Washington Post

In a dismal morning Zoom call on Wednesday, The Washington Post’s executive editor, Matt Murray, announced that they were laying off roughly a third of its already diminished staff. We talk to Joshua Benton, the founder of and a senior writer at the Nieman Journalism Lab at Harvard University, about how the Post reached this point, the loss to journalism, and how Jeff Bezos is uniquely responsible. - - - Get more from your favorite Atlantic voices when you

You can listen to How Jeff Bezos Broke The Washington Post online on Radio and Podcast. Open the player on this page to stream the available audio.

How Jeff Bezos Broke The Washington Post is an episode from Radio Atlantic by The Atlantic.

This episode is 30:32 long.

This episode was published on Feb 5, 2026.

Yes. Use the heart button on the episode page to add it to your favorite episodes list.

Yes. This page shows related episodes from Radio Atlantic when more episodes are available from the podcast feed.