Two Washington Star Outlets Challenge The Post After 300 Newsroom Cuts
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Updated · The New York Times · May 28
Two Washington Star Outlets Challenge The Post After 300 Newsroom Cuts
1 articles · Updated · The New York Times · May 28
Washington now has two outlets using the Star name: Dovid Efune has revived The Washington Star, while politics site NOTUS recently rebranded as The Star and broadened into local news and sports.
Both are targeting readers left exposed by The Washington Post’s retreat after February layoffs cut more than 300 of its 800 journalists and followed losses of more than $100 million a year.
Efune cast the launch as a revival of a historic newspaper fight in the capital, where the original conservative-leaning Washington Star was once The Post’s main rival.
That paper published for 128 years before collapsing in bankruptcy in 1981, after which The Post bought its former headquarters and printing presses.
Can two rival news outlets named 'The Star' both survive in a battle for the Washington D.C. market?
What does D.C.'s media showdown signal for the future of local news across America?