Washington Post to reduce paper staff, increase web focus

Washington Post Executive Editor Leonard Downie, Jr. announced several changes this week "to maximize readership of the printed newspaper, build audience on the Web site and further reduce costs in the newsroom" including a plan to "shrink" the newspaper staff via attrition.

This comes on the heels of The Post appointing Liz Spayd, previously the assistant managing editor responsible for national news, to be the new editor of washingtonpost.com.

In a memo this week to staff, Downie wrote:

We also are working on ways to expand and increase the impact of our journalism on washingtonpost.com. The re-launches of Health, Food and Home will be accompanied by the launch of a related section of the Web site. Our plans for coverage of the two-year 2008 campaign, which is beginning now, will include both re-direction of newsroom resources for expanded political coverage in the printed newspaper and significant initiatives on washingtonpost.com. In her new role as editor of washingtonpost.com, Liz Spayd will help us think first about the Web site for all of our best journalism.

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