Washington Post Loses Over 200,000 Subscribers After Bezos Nixes Harris Endorsement

The Washington Post has lost more than 200,000 subscribers since owner Jeff Bezos blocked the publication’s plans to endorse Kamala Harris in the presidential race.

That 200,000 number represents only those that had cancelled their subscriptions as of Monday afternoon. Still, for a paper with 2.5 million total subscribers, the number represents around 8% of the publication’s paid circulation. The number of cancelations is likely to continue growing through the week.

“It’s a colossal number,” Marcus Brauchli, former Washington Post eExecutive editor, told NPR. “The problem is, people don’t know why the decision was made. We basically know the decision was made but we don’t know what led to it.”

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