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Washington Post Gutting Its Climate Team The Washington Post produced some of America’s finest climate journalism over the last decade, aggressively covering President Trump’s regulatory rollbacks and winning a Pulitzer Prize for a series about Earth’s fastest-warming places, writes former LA Times climate columnist Sammy Roth on his Climate-Colored Goggles newsletter. Alongside the New York Times and the Associated Press, I don’t think any U.S. news outlet published a greater volume of urgent, high-quality climate and clean energy coverage. Everything changed on Wednesday morning. The Post sent layoff notices to at least 14 climate journalists, newsroom sources told me, part of a massive round of cost-cutting that will see more than 300 journalists lose their jobs—about 30% of all employees at the Jeff Bezos-owned company. The climate team layoffs include eight writer/reporters, an editor, and several video, data, and graphics journalists, I’m told. I’m not publishing their names, since many of them haven’t discussed their situations publicly. But to see the invaluable work they and their colleagues have been doing, check out the Post’s climate page here. After the layoffs, the Post will have five writer/reporters left on its climate desk, by my sources’ count, and possibly a few other journalists. That’s a far cry from... https://www.theenergymix.com/washington-post-gutting-its-climate-team/