While Bezos is cranking up the process of turning the Post into a zombified corpse, currently it is still stands as one of the largest employers of actual, full time, fully qualified journalists who are paid to take the time to go talk to real live people, dig through spreadsheets and corporate records, check their sources against other sources, and do, you know, real journalism. Pulitzers they won in 2024;
National Reporting: Staff of The Washington Post
For its sobering examination of the AR-15 semi-automatic rifle, which forced readers to reckon with the horrors wrought by the weapon often used for mass shootings in America.
Commentary
Vladimir Kara-Murza, contributor, The Washington Post
For passionate columns written under great personal risk from his prison cell, warning of the consequences of dissent in Vladimir Putin’s Russia and insisting on a democratic future for his country.
Editorial Writing
David E. Hoffman of The Washington Post
For a compelling and well-researched series on new technologies and the tactics authoritarian regimes use to repress dissent in the digital age, and how they can be fought.
Between Google and Bezos I think they'll be clickbait soon enough though. Which really sucks for this country - we're running out of legitimate news sources.
