I’ll pay attention to how the new ventures work out. It does appear WaPo has not been thoughtfully managed since the Trump 1 / Biden news attention boom. But it’s hard to completely mock the “data-driven” model talk.

When you worked for the “paper,” and when I read the “paper” as a local, money came from delivering readers to advertisers - Hechts, Woodward and Lothrop, Bloomingdales, Garfinkels, Hechingers, Safeway, Giant, Crown Books, Track (?) Auto, movie theaters, car dealers, shoe stores. And WaPo was a monopoly after the Star folded.

I understand the need now to at least consider how to sell stories to readers. But I don’t understand the logic of the February layoff targets for either approach. (I’m a digital subscriber to WaPo.)

Where I live now it’s apparent that local t.v. is now where newspapers were 20 years ago.