The Washington Post

===Jeff Bezos era (2013–present)===
[[File:Washington Post demolition 2016.jpg|thumb|The demolition of ''The Washington Post''{{'s}} 15th Street headquarters in April 2016]]
[[File:One Franklin Square - November 2023.jpg|thumb|[[One Franklin Square]], the current home of the ''Post'']]
In late September 2013, [[Jeff Bezos]] purchased ''The Washington Post'' and other local publications, websites, and real estate<ref name="NashHoldingsincludes">{{cite news|url=http://www.gazette.net/article/20131001/NEWS/131009761/1033/bezos-completes-purchase-of-gazettes-post&template=gazette |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140313195854/http://www.gazette.net/article/20131001/NEWS/131009761/1033/bezos-completes-purchase-of-gazettes-post%26template%3Dgazette |archive-date=March 13, 2014 |first=Kevin James |last=Shay |title=Bezos completes purchase of Gazettes, Post |work=The Maryland Gazette |date=October 1, 2013 |access-date=March 13, 2014 |url-status = dead}}</ref><ref name=Form8K>{{cite web | url=https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/104889/000095015713000294/ex2-1.htm | title=Form 8-K. THE WASHINGTON POST COMPANY. Commission File Number 1-6714. Exhibit 2.1: Letter Agreement. | publisher=U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission | date=August 5, 2013 | access-date=March 13, 2014 | archive-date=August 21, 2013 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130821213504/http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/104889/000095015713000294/ex2-1.htm | url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/gazette-papers-in-montgomery-prince-georges-to-close/2015/06/12/1ffc315e-112f-11e5-9726-49d6fa26a8c6_story.html|last=Harwell|first=Drew|title=Gazette Papers in Montgomery, Prince George's to Close|newspaper=The Washington Post|date=June 12, 2015|access-date=June 13, 2015|archive-date=June 13, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150613222131/http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/gazette-papers-in-montgomery-prince-georges-to-close/2015/06/12/1ffc315e-112f-11e5-9726-49d6fa26a8c6_story.html|url-status=live}}</ref> for {{US$|250{{nbsp}}million}},<ref name="clabaugh2013">{{cite news|url=https://www.bizjournals.com/washington/news/2013/10/01/jeff-bezos-completes-washington-post.html|title=Jeff Bezos Completes Washington Post Acquisition|last=Clabaugh|first=Jeff|date=October 1, 2013|newspaper=Washington Business Journal|access-date=October 1, 2013|archive-date=October 2, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131002003337/http://www.bizjournals.com/washington/news/2013/10/01/jeff-bezos-completes-washington-post.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="fahri2013a">{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/washington-post-closes-sale-to-amazon-founder-jeff-bezos/2013/10/01/fca3b16a-2acf-11e3-97a3-ff2758228523_story.html|title=The Washington Post Closes Sale to Amazon Founder Jeff Bezos|last=Fahri|first=Paul|date=October 1, 2013|newspaper=The Washington Post|issn=0190-8286|access-date=February 5, 2016|archive-date=May 28, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140528092936/http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/washington-post-closes-sale-to-amazon-founder-jeff-bezos/2013/10/01/fca3b16a-2acf-11e3-97a3-ff2758228523_story.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="fahri2013">{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/washington-post-to-be-sold-to-jeff-bezos/2013/08/05/ca537c9e-fe0c-11e2-9711-3708310f6f4d_story.html?hpid=z1|title=Washington Post To Be Sold to Jeff Bezos, the Founder of Amazon|last=Farhi|first=Paul|date=August 5, 2013|newspaper=The Washington Post|access-date=August 5, 2013|issn=0190-8286|archive-date=April 2, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190402112329/https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/washington-post-to-be-sold-to-jeff-bezos/2013/08/05/ca537c9e-fe0c-11e2-9711-3708310f6f4d_story.html?hpid=z1|url-status=live}}</ref> transferring ownership to Nash Holdings LLC, Bezos's private investment company.<ref name=fahri2013a /> The paper's former parent company, which retained some other assets such as Kaplan and a group of TV stations, was renamed [[Graham Holdings]] shortly after the sale.<ref name="Irwin">{{cite news |last1=Irwin |first1=Neil |last2=Mui |first2=Ylan Q. |date=August 5, 2013 |title=Washington Post Sale: Details of Bezos Deal |newspaper=The Washington Post |location=Washington, D.C. |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/details-of-bezos-deal-to-buy-washington-post/2013/08/05/968a2bc4-fe1b-11e2-9711-3708310f6f4d_story.html |url-status=live |access-date=October 1, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140113205846/http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/details-of-bezos-deal-to-buy-washington-post/2013/08/05/968a2bc4-fe1b-11e2-9711-3708310f6f4d_story.html |archive-date=January 13, 2014 |issn=0190-8286}}</ref><ref name=RenamedGraham>{{cite news|title=Washington Post Co. renamed Graham Holdings Company to mark sale of newspaper|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/washington-post-co-renamed-graham-holdings-company-to-mark-sale-of-newspaper/2013/11/18/57fbc7fe-5060-11e3-9e2c-e1d01116fd98_story.html|access-date=January 3, 2014|newspaper=Washington Post|date=November 18, 2013|author=Debbi Wilgoren|archive-date=December 18, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131218094951/http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/washington-post-co-renamed-graham-holdings-company-to-mark-sale-of-newspaper/2013/11/18/57fbc7fe-5060-11e3-9e2c-e1d01116fd98_story.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

Nash Holdings, which includes the ''Post'', is operated separately from technology company [[Amazon (company)|Amazon]], which Bezos founded and where he is {{as of|2022|lc=y}} executive chairman and the largest single shareholder, with 12.7% of voting rights.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.washingtonian.com/2015/12/07/jeff-bezoss-ownership-of-the-washington-post-explained-for-donald-trump/|title=Jeff Bezos's Ownership of the Washington Post, Explained for Donald Trump|work=[[Washingtonian (magazine)|Washingtonian]]|date=December 7, 2015|access-date=November 4, 2020|archive-date=October 10, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201010025932/https://www.washingtonian.com/2015/12/07/jeff-bezoss-ownership-of-the-washington-post-explained-for-donald-trump/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/0001018724/000110465922041196/tm223357-2_pre14a.htm#tBOOS|title=2022 Proxy Statement|author=Amazon.com, Inc.|page=66|date=April 1, 2022|access-date=April 7, 2022|archive-date=April 7, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220407184149/https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/0001018724/000110465922041196/tm223357-2_pre14a.htm#tBOOS|url-status=live}}</ref>

Bezos said he has a vision that recreates "the 'daily ritual' of reading the ''Post'' as a bundle, not merely a series of individual stories..."<ref name="wp20130904">{{cite news |last1=Farhi |first1=Paul |first2=Craig |last2=Timberg |title=Jeff Bezos to His Future Washington Post Journalists: Put the Readers First |url=https://articles.washingtonpost.com/2013-09-04/lifestyle/41765347_1_jeff-bezos-tablet-computers-readers |access-date=September 4, 2013 |newspaper=The Washington Post |date=September 28, 2013 |url-status = dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130921023130/http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2013-09-04/lifestyle/41765347_1_jeff-bezos-tablet-computers-readers |archive-date=September 21, 2013 }}</ref> He has been described as a "hands-off owner", holding teleconference calls with executive editor [[Martin Baron]] every two weeks.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/19/business/washington-post-digital-news.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170519121638/https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/19/business/washington-post-digital-news.html |archive-date=May 19, 2017 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Washington Post, Breaking News, Is Also Breaking New Ground|last=Stewart|first=James B.|date=May 19, 2017|work=The New York Times|access-date=May 20, 2017|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> Bezos appointed [[Fred Ryan]] (founder and CEO of ''[[Politico]]'') to serve as publisher and chief executive officer. This signaled Bezos' intent to shift the ''Post'' to a more digital focus with a national and global readership.<ref name="Fred">{{cite web|last1=Bond|first1=Shannon|title=Jeff Bezos picks Fred Ryan of Politico to run Washington Post|url=https://www.ft.com/content/29f586b0-32b9-11e4-b86e-00144feabdc0|website=FT|publisher=Financial Times|access-date=September 17, 2016|date=September 2, 2014|archive-date=October 11, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161011195027/https://www.ft.com/content/29f586b0-32b9-11e4-b86e-00144feabdc0|url-status=live}}</ref>

In 2015, the ''Post'' moved from the building it owned at 1150 15th Street to a leased space three blocks away at One Franklin Square on [[K Street (Washington, D.C.)|K Street]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/digger/wp/2015/09/04/inside-the-wild-ride-that-landed-the-washington-post-on-k-street/|last=O'Connell|first=Jonathan|title=Inside the wild ride that landed The Washington Post on K Street|newspaper=The Washington Post|date=September 4, 2015|access-date=September 5, 2015|archive-date=September 5, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150905093557/http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/digger/wp/2015/09/04/inside-the-wild-ride-that-landed-the-washington-post-on-k-street/|url-status=live}}</ref> Since 2014 the ''Post'' launched an online personal finance section,<ref>{{cite news|last1=Barr|first1=Jeremy|title=Washington Post launches personal finance section|url=http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/media/2014/08/8551341/emwashington-postem-launches-personal-finance-section|newspaper=The Washington Post|date=August 25, 2014|archive-date=August 26, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140826114405/http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/media/2014/08/8551341/emwashington-postem-launches-personal-finance-section|url-status=dead}}</ref> a blog, and a podcast with a retro theme.<ref>{{cite press release|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/pr/wp/2017/04/03/the-washington-post-launches-retropolis-a-history-blog/|title=The Washington Post launches Retropolis: A History Blog|newspaper=The Washington Post|date=April 3, 2017|archive-date=July 23, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180723003548/https://www.washingtonpost.com/pr/wp/2017/04/03/the-washington-post-launches-retropolis-a-history-blog/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite press release|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/pr/wp/2018/02/07/the-washington-post-to-launch-retropod-podcast/|title=The Washington Post to launch Retropod podcast|newspaper=The Washington Post|date=February 7, 2018|archive-date=July 23, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180723003812/https://www.washingtonpost.com/pr/wp/2018/02/07/the-washington-post-to-launch-retropod-podcast/|url-status=live}}</ref> The ''Post'' won the [[2020 Webby Award|2020 Webby People's Voice Award for News & Politics]] in the Social and Web categories.<ref name="Kastrenakes">{{cite web |last1=Kastrenakes |first1=Jacob |title=Here are all the winners of the 2020 Webby Awards |url=https://www.theverge.com/2020/5/20/21263445/2020-webby-awards-winners-lil-nas-x-nasa-jon-krasinski |website=The Verge |access-date=May 22, 2020 |language=en |date=May 20, 2020 |archive-date=May 21, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200521205535/https://www.theverge.com/2020/5/20/21263445/2020-webby-awards-winners-lil-nas-x-nasa-jon-krasinski |url-status=live }}</ref>

In 2017, the newspaper hired [[Jamal Khashoggi]] as a columnist. In 2018, Khashoggi was murdered by [[Saudi Arabia|Saudi]] agents in [[Istanbul]].<ref>{{cite news|newspaper=The Washington Post|title=Where is Jamal Khashoggi?|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/where-is-jamal-khashoggi/2018/10/04/2681e000-c7f7-11e8-9b1c-a90f1daae309_story.html|date=October 4, 2018|access-date=October 13, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181013093613/https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/where-is-jamal-khashoggi/2018/10/04/2681e000-c7f7-11e8-9b1c-a90f1daae309_story.html|archive-date=October 13, 2018|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Souad Mekhennet |last2=Greg Miller |title=Jamal Khashoggi's final months as an exile in the long shadow of Saudi Arabia |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/jamal-khashoggis-final-months-an-exile-in-the-long-shadow-of-saudi-arabia/2018/12/21/d6fc68c2-0476-11e9-b6a9-0aa5c2fcc9e4_story.html |access-date=December 27, 2018 |newspaper=The Washington Post |date=December 22, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181227014129/https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/jamal-khashoggis-final-months-an-exile-in-the-long-shadow-of-saudi-arabia/2018/12/21/d6fc68c2-0476-11e9-b6a9-0aa5c2fcc9e4_story.html |archive-date=December 27, 2018 |url-status=live }}</ref>

In October 2023, the ''Post'' announced it would cut 240 jobs across the organization by offering voluntary separation packages to employees.<ref name="Robertson">{{Cite news |last=Robertson |first=Katie |date=October 10, 2023 |title=The Washington Post to Cut 240 Jobs |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/10/business/media/washington-post-job-cuts.html |access-date=October 12, 2023 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> In a staff-wide email announcing the job cuts, interim CEO [[Patty Stonesifer]] wrote, "Our prior projections for traffic, subscriptions and advertising growth for the past two years — and into 2024 — have been overly optimistic".<ref name="Robertson" /> The ''Post'' has lost around 500,000 subscribers since the end of 2020 and was set to lose $100 million in 2023, according to ''The New York Times''.<ref name="Robertson" /> The layoffs prompted [[Dan Froomkin]] of ''Presswatchers'' to suggest that the decline in readership could be reversed by focusing on the rise of authoritarianism (in a fashion similar to the role the ''Post'' played during the [[Watergate scandal]]) instead of staying strictly neutral, which Froomkin says places the paper into an undistinguished secondary role in competition with other contemporary media.<ref>Froomkin, Dan, ''[https://presswatchers.org/2023/10/the-washington-post-blew-its-chance/ The Washington Post blew its chance]'', ''Presswatchers'', October 13, 2023</ref>

In November 2023, the ''Post'' joined with the [[International Consortium of Investigative Journalists]], [[Paper Trail Media]] and 69 media partners including [[Distributed Denial of Secrets]] and the [[Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project]] (OCCRP) and more than 270 journalists in 55 countries and territories<ref name=":02">{{Cite web |date=November 14, 2023 |title=Inside Cyprus Confidential: The data-driven journalism that helped expose an island under Russian influence - ICIJ |url=https://www.icij.org/investigations/cyprus-confidential/leaked-data-journalism-methodology/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231130214812/https://www.icij.org/investigations/cyprus-confidential/leaked-data-journalism-methodology/ |archive-date=November 30, 2023 |access-date=December 24, 2023 |language=en-US}}</ref><ref name=":12">{{Cite web |date=November 14, 2023 |title=About the Cyprus Confidential investigation - ICIJ |url=https://www.icij.org/investigations/cyprus-confidential/about-cyprus-confidential-investigation/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231121093552/https://www.icij.org/investigations/cyprus-confidential/about-cyprus-confidential-investigation/ |archive-date=November 21, 2023 |access-date=December 24, 2023 |language=en-US}}</ref> to produce the '[[Cyprus Confidential]]' report on the financial network which supports the regime of [[Vladimir Putin]], mostly with connections to Cyprus, and showed Cyprus to have strong links with high-up figures in the Kremlin, some of whom have been sanctioned.<ref>{{cite news |date=November 15, 2023 |title=Cyprus Confidential: Leaked Roman Abramovich documents raise fresh questions for Chelsea FC: ICIJ-led investigation reveals how Mediterranean island ignores Russian atrocities and western sanctions to cash in on Putin's oligarchs |language=en |newspaper=The Irish Times |url=https://www.irishtimes.com/business/financial-services/2023/11/15/cyprus-confidential-leaked-roman-abramovich-documents-raise-fresh-questions-for-chelsea-fc/ |access-date=November 15, 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |date=November 14, 2023 |title=Cyprus Confidential - ICIJ |url=https://www.icij.org/investigations/cyprus-confidential/ |access-date=November 14, 2023 |website=www.icij.org}}</ref> Government officials including Cyprus president [[Nikos Christodoulides]]<ref name=":72">{{Cite web |date=November 15, 2023 |title=Cypriot president pledges government probe into Cyprus Confidential revelations - ICIJ |url=https://www.icij.org/investigations/cyprus-confidential/cypriot-president-pledges-government-probe-into-cyprus-confidential-revelations/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231214203142/https://www.icij.org/investigations/cyprus-confidential/cypriot-president-pledges-government-probe-into-cyprus-confidential-revelations/ |archive-date=December 14, 2023 |access-date=December 24, 2023 |language=en-US}}</ref> and European lawmakers<ref>{{Cite web |date=November 23, 2023 |title=Lawmakers call for EU crackdown after ICIJ's Cyprus Confidential revelations - ICIJ |url=https://www.icij.org/investigations/cyprus-confidential/lawmakers-call-for-eu-crackdown-after-icijs-cyprus-confidential-revelations/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231224114123/https://www.icij.org/investigations/cyprus-confidential/lawmakers-call-for-eu-crackdown-after-icijs-cyprus-confidential-revelations/ |archive-date=December 24, 2023 |access-date=December 24, 2023 |language=en-US}}</ref> began responding to the investigation's findings in less than 24 hours,<ref name=":72" /> calling for reforms and launching probes.<ref name=":5">{{Cite web |date=November 14, 2023 |title=Cyprus ignores Russian atrocities, Western sanctions to shield vast wealth of Putin allies - ICIJ |url=https://www.icij.org/investigations/cyprus-confidential/cyprus-russia-eu-secrecy-tax-haven/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231214002320/https://www.icij.org/investigations/cyprus-confidential/cyprus-russia-eu-secrecy-tax-haven/ |archive-date=December 14, 2023 |access-date=December 24, 2023 |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Solutions |first=BDigital Web |title=Finance Minister perturbed over 'Cyprus Confidential' |url=https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/finance-minister-perturbed-over-cyprus-confidential |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231224114126/https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/finance-minister-perturbed-over-cyprus-confidential |archive-date=December 24, 2023 |access-date=December 24, 2023 |website=knews.com.cy}}</ref>