The Washington Post cut 10% of its staff via buyouts. More than 100 reporters, editors, photographers, and artists were affected. The
Post reported that some well-known bylines are
exiting the D.C. paper: military affairs reporter Thomas E. Ricks; feature writers Linton Weeks and Peter Carlson; health reporter Laura Sessions Stepp; science reporter Rick Weiss; the foreign
correspondent team of John Ward Anderson and Molly Moore; critics Stephen Hunter, Desson Thomson and Tim Page; Federal Diary columnist Stephen Barr; Weekend writers Richard Harrington and Eve Zibart;
and Metro reporters Sue Anne Pressley Montes and Yolanda Woodlee. The editors of the books and travel are also leaving.
