Washington:
Greater than 200,000 folks had canceled their digital subscriptions for the Washington Put up by noon on Monday, following the newspaper’s determination to dam an endorsement of Vice President Kamala Harris for president, Nationwide Public Radio reported.
Not all cancellations take impact instantly, the NPR report mentioned, including that also, the determine represents about 8% of the paper’s paid circulation of two.5 million subscribers, which incorporates print as nicely.
A collection columnists have additionally resigned from the Washington Put up, NPR reported.
The Washington Put up didn’t instantly reply to a Reuters request for touch upon the report.
In a publish on Friday, William Lewis, the writer and chief govt officer of the newspaper mentioned it is not going to be making an endorsement of a presidential candidate within the Nov. 5 election, nor in any future presidential election.
“We’re returning to our roots of not endorsing presidential candidates,” Lewis wrote.
“The Washington Put up’s determination to not make an endorsement within the presidential marketing campaign is a horrible mistake,” wrote 20 columnists in an opinion piece on the Put up’s web site, including that it “represents an abandonment of the basic editorial convictions of the newspaper that we love.”
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