{"id":18681,"date":"2026-02-05T19:22:26","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T19:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/washington-post-editor-bezos-wants-bigger-relevant-thriving-institution\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T19:22:26","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T19:22:26","slug":"washington-post-editor-bezos-wants-bigger-relevant-thriving-institution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/washington-post-editor-bezos-wants-bigger-relevant-thriving-institution\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington Post editor: Bezos wants &#8216;bigger, relevant, thriving institution&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Matt Murray, the executive editor of the Washington Post, is defending a decision by the outlet&#8217;s billionaire owner Jeff Bezos to make sweeping cuts to its newsroom, a move that has reduced its staff by hundreds. &ldquo;He wants the Post to be a bigger, relevant, thriving institution,&rdquo; Murray said of Bezos during an interview with&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/media\/5724214-washington-post-matt-murray-jeff-bezos-layoffs\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matt Murray, the executive editor of the Washington Post, is defending a decision by the outlet&#8217;s billionaire owner Jeff Bezos to make sweeping cuts to its newsroom, a move that has reduced its staff by hundreds. &ldquo;He wants the Post to be a bigger, relevant, thriving institution,&rdquo; Murray said of Bezos during an interview with&#8230;Read [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18682,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18681\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}