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For Whom Will Tolls

When Bezos bought the ‘Post’ in 2013, he said, “You can’t shrink your way to relevance.” Today, however, his newspaper is attempting to do just that and then some—shuttering entire sections, laying off 300 reporters, and pulling back on crucial reporting. Is a comeback possible, or has K Street officially entered its late Ottoman era?

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Whatever Bezos’s designs on the Post, there seems to be a near-universal rejection of Will Lewis, pictured. Photo: Robert Miller/The Washington Post/Getty Images
Dylan Byers
February 4, 2026

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Rarely does such a sharp and jarring industrial juxtaposition present itself in a single winter morning, but such was the case on Wednesday. Earlier today, The New York Times Company announced its solid, if unspectacular, fourth-quarter earnings results: 450,000 more digital subscribers, which has the company ready to cross the 13 million threshold early this year; revenue of $802 million; adjusted EBITDA of around $192 million. Yes, the NYT stock dropped on the NYSE, but it rebounded later in trading hours as investors recognized that C.E.O. Meredith Kopit Levien remains on track to reach her stated goal of 15 million subscribers by the end of 2027.