Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos has reportedly told the newspaper that it needs to add more conservative columnists in a bid to make the paper more balanced.
The directive comes as the paper has lost more than hundreds of thousands of subscribers over the last several days after Bezos killed the Editorial Board’s endorsement of Vice President Kamala Harris.
NPR reported that by midday on Monday, more than 200,000 people canceled their subscriptions, more than 8% of the company’s total number of subscribers.
Bezos has told people at the newspaper that he wants to grow the paper’s reach with conservatives, The New York Times reported.
The Times noted that part of Bezos’ shift with what he wants at the newspaper was signaled when he hired Will Lewis — who previously worked at Rupert Murdoch’s Wall Street Journal— to be its chief executive.
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