Jeff Bezos Gutted the Newsroom. He Kept the Megaphone.

Bezos didn’t abandon the Washington Post. He just decided which part of it he wanted.

On Wednesday morning, Washington Post executive editor Matt Murray got on a Zoom call at 8:30 a.m. and told roughly a third of the newsroom they no longer had jobs. The sports section, gone. The books desk, gone. The entire Middle East reporting team, including the Cairo bureau chief, gone. The Asia editor, the bureau chiefs in New Delhi and Sydney, cor…