Jeff Bezos’s Washington Post guts staff, shrinks news coverage

February 5, 2026 12:54 PM

Jeff Bezos’s Washington Post guts staff, shrinks news coverage

The Washington Post, owned by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, began widespread layoffs on Wednesday that will drastically shrink the size of the storied newspaper and affect all departments, according to a recording of a company-wide call shared with Reuters. The cuts will impact a third of all employees, according to the newspaper's spokesperson. The newsroom is losing "hundreds" of staffers, according to a spokesperson for the Washington-Baltimore News Guild union, which represents Post employe...

Blue Origin’s debut New Glenn rocket blasts off from Florida

January 16, 2025 1:05 PM

Blue Origin’s debut New Glenn rocket blasts off from Florida

Blue Origin's giant New Glenn rocket blasted off from Florida early Thursday morning on its first mission to space, an inaugural step into Earth's orbit for Jeff Bezos' space company as it aims to rival SpaceX in the satellite launch business. Thirty stories tall with a reusable first stage filled with liquid oxygen and methane, New Glenn launched around 2 a.m. ET (0700 GMT) from Blue Origin's launchpad at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station under cloudy skies on its second attempt this week...