According to internal data shared with digital news website Semafor, The Washington Post lost most of its daily digital traffic during President Biden’s time in office.
Although the outlet’s website reached its peak in daily online readers near the start of the Biden administration, it had lost nearly all of those readers by the time it ended.
Scoreboard reported on Monday that “Post’s daily traffic last year reached its lowest level of only a quarter of what it was at its peak in January 2021. That month, Post had about 22.5 million daily active users. But by mid-2024, its daily users ranged from 2.5-3 million daily users.”
That’s about an 87 percent drop in online readership.
The Washington Post’s daily online digital readership fell by nearly 90 percent during the Biden administration. (ERIC BARADAT/AFP via Getty Images)
As The New York Post reportedthe liberal edition had 114 million readers for the entire month of November 2020. That number dropped to 54 million digital visitors by November 2024.
The Wall Street Journal reported last week how much damage this drop in readership has done to the paper’s bottom line. Newspapers lost about $100 million in subscription and ad revenue in 2024.
The Post’s woes have only increased in recent months. In addition to this massive drop in traffic over the years, the outlet lost 250,000 paid subscribers in one fell swoop after Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos ordered it not to endorse a 2024 presidential candidate.
Several prominent postal workers resigned from the newspaper after Bezos’ move.
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Longtime Washington Post columnist Jennifer Rubin is the latest person to resign from The Washington Post, following months of turmoil at the publication. ((Photo: William B. Plowman/NBC/NBC Newswire/NBCUniversal via Getty Images))
The Washington Post’s editor-in-chief, Robert Kagan, resigned in the weeks that followed, as did reporters Josh Dawsey, Ashley Parker, Michael Scherer, Tyler Page and Leigh Ann Caldwell, columnist Charles Lane and veteran editor Matea Gold.
Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Ann Telnaes resigned from The Post in January after the paper refused to publish her cartoon depicting Bezos groveling to President-elect Donald Trump.
Prominent Post columnist Jennifer Rubin also announced her resignation on Monday, telling CNN in a recent interview that The Post had “failed spectacularly at a time when we most need a strong, aggressive free press.”
In her resignation letter, the columnist stated, “I cannot justify staying at The Post,” Jeff Bezos and his cronies are accommodating and enabling the most acute threat to American democracy—Donald Trump—at a time when a vibrant free press is more important than the survival and viability of our democracy. to progress.”
In addition to these resignations, it was announced that the way out would lay off 4 percent workforce in their business divisions this month.
Representatives for The Washington Post did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment.
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