A series columnists have also resigned from the Washington Post, NPR reported.
WASHINGTON: More than 200,000 people had canceled their digital subscriptions to The Washington Post as of noon on Monday, following the newspaper’s decision to halt its endorsement of Vice President Kamala Harris’ presidential run, National Public Radio reported.
Not all of the cancellations are effective immediately, yet, the figure represents roughly 8% of the newspaper’s paid circulation of 2.5 million subscribers, including in print, the NPR report said.
Several columnists have also resigned from The Washington Post, NPR reported.
The Washington Post did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment on the report.
In a post on Friday, the paper’s publisher and CEO, William Lewis, said it would not endorse any presidential candidate in the Nov. 5 election or any future presidential election.
“We are returning to our roots of not endorsing presidential candidates,” Lewis wrote.
“The Washington Post’s decision not to endorse a presidential campaign is a terrible mistake,” 20 columnists wrote in an opinion article on the Post’s website. They added that it “represents an abandonment of the fundamental editorial beliefs of our beloved newspaper.”
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