The Washington Post is going through some major changes right now and what the end result is will be anyone guess.

The newspaper has been losing readers and money for a while, and they’re trying to turn things around. On Monday, they announced that Sally Buzbee, the executive editor, was leaving. They also revealed a new plan to split the newsroom into three parts: one for news, one for opinions, and one for trying out new ways to reach people using things like social media and artificial intelligence.

Using AI is code for how many positions can we replace with automation.

Buzbee didn’t agree with this new plan, so she decided to leave. Of course the mess the paper is facing is her fault. The person taking over for her, Matt Murray, used to work at the Wall Street Journal. He’s going to be in charge until after the presidential election in November. Then, a guy named Robert Winnett, who used to work with the new boss, Will Lewis, at a newspaper in England, will take over the news part of the Post.

Lewis is the new publisher and CEO of the Post, and he’s been there for about five months. He’s not happy about the paper losing money and readers, and he wants to do something about it. He told the staff that they need to act quickly to stop the decline.

“I’m not interested in managing decline. I’m interested in growth.” He bluntly told staffers, “People are not reading your stuff. We need to take decisive action.”

The Post has been struggling. They lost $77 million last year, and they’ve lost about half of their readers since 2020. Lewis wants to try different ways to get people to pay for the paper, like offering different levels of subscriptions for different topics.