Exploring The Washington Post’s Staff Cuts: A Risky Strategy

The Washington Post’s recent layoffs have reignited a familiar — and deeply uncomfortable — debate in American journalism: when a newsroom faces sustained financial losses, is cutting staff a necessary step toward survival, or a self-defeating move that accelerates decline?

Reporting Data Journalism

The polls have taken a huge hit in the past, especially since the 2016 election that correctly predicted the popular vote for Clinton but failed to predict the electoral college victory of Trump. The tend has only been exasperated by bad methodology and push polling.