Washington Post Subscription Cancellations Hit 250K

A full 10% of the 's subscribers, which numbered 2.5 million prior to the newspaper's announcement that it would not endorse a presidential candidate, have canceled their subscriptions in the wake of the announcement. Sources on Tuesday told more than 250,000 people have ended their subscriptions so far; on Monday, the number .

Employees can no longer view the subscriber dashboard, which is apparently how the sources previously came by the numbers, the reports. The , which is undergoing , has also lost subscribers since deciding not to endorse a presidential candidate, the newspaper . owner Jeff Bezos as one that would help the paper earn back trust with the public, who, he says, tend to believe the media is biased.



But count iconic alums Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein among those who disagree with him: The reporters who broke the Watergate story released a Tuesday denouncing the decision, which, they argue, "ignores the [newspaper's] own overwhelming reportorial evidence on the threat Donald Trump poses to democracy." (Meanwhile, a chain of more than 200 newspapers just announced its papers will also .).