(Reuters) – Greater than 200,000 folks had canceled their digital subscriptions for the Washington Publish by noon on Monday, following the newspaper’s resolution 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 properly.
A collection columnists have additionally resigned from the Washington Publish, NPR reported.
The Washington Publish didn’t instantly reply to a Reuters request for touch upon the report.
In a submit on Friday, William Lewis, the writer and chief government officer of the newspaper mentioned it won’t be making an endorsement of a presidential candidate within the Nov. 5 election, nor in any future presidential election.
“We are returning to our roots of not endorsing presidential candidates,” Lewis wrote.
“The Washington Post’s decision not to make an endorsement in the presidential campaign is a terrible mistake,” wrote 20 columnists in an opinion piece on the Publish’s web site, including that it “represents an abandonment of the fundamental editorial convictions of the newspaper that we love.”
