'The mood is really grim': Washington Post staffers livid at publisher Fred Ryan after layoff announcementFox 55, Dec 15, 2022, CNN
Staffers at The Washington Post are livid at publisher Fred Ryan.
That's according to conversations I had on Wednesday with nearly a dozen employees at The Post who expressed fury at the way Ryan announced in a town hall that the company would undergo layoffs in early 2023. Ryan said that the layoffs would only amount to a single-digit percentage of the workforce and that the overall size of the company would not shrink, given there would be reinvestments in other areas. But none of that quelled outrage from staffers.
The staffers at The Post, who were already seeking answers over the way their colleagues who worked on the now-canceled Sunday magazine were summarily let go late last month, were aghast at the way Ryan conducted himself in the town hall, they told me. "He does this whole dog and pony show about how things are going great and then drops at the end that he's gong to cut the workforce — and then he refuses to take questions," one staffer told me.
Video posted on Twitter by national reporter Annie Gowen showed Ryan walk off stage as staffers peppered him with questions. Instead of answering the queries from his startled and anxious employees, Ryan told them that he would not "turn the town hall into a grievance session." In a blistering statement, The Washington Post Guild fired back at Ryan, describing his refusal to take questions as "unacceptable" behavior "from any leader," but "especially the leader of a news organization whose core values include transparency and accountability."
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