Washington Post rolls out new mission statement, keeping ‘Democracy Dies in Darkness’ slogan

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The Washington Post gets new internal mission amid company challenges

The Washington Post has a new mission statement ahead of President-elect Donald Trump's second term and as the news outlet deals with multiple challenges, including staff members leaving and a decrease in readership. The New York Times reported Friday, Jan. 17, the Post revealed to staff its new newsroom philosophy: “Riveting Storytelling for All of America". According to the Times, the post doesn’t plan to replace its public slogan “Democracy D…

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“Democracy Dies in Darkness”, in the shadows democracy dies, is one of the most famous mottos of international journalism and in the United States in particular. Since 2017, it has been the slogan of the Washington Post, the historic American newspaper, the creator of countless investigations that have earned the magazine 76 Pulitzer Prizes. The best known is the one conducted in 1972 by the two journalists Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, which…

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The Washington Post Has a New Mission Statement

The Washington Post is apparently keeping the "Democracy Dies in Darkness" slogan it rolled out in the early weeks of the first Trump administration, but it has a new mission statement. Sources tell the New York Times that "Riveting Storytelling for All of America" is being used as an "internal...

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Washington Post Tries New Tagline

“After Donald Trump entered the White House in 2017, The Washington Post adopted a slogan that underscored the newspaper’s traditional role as a government watchdog: ‘Democracy Dies in Darkness,’” the New York Times reports. “This week, as Mr. Trump prepares to re-enter the White House, the newspaper debuted a mission statement that evokes a more expansive view of The Post’s journalism, without death or darkness: ‘Riveting Storytelling for All o…

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Washington Post’s new ‘riveting’ mission statement for sparks instant mockery

‘Quick don't look is this the statement for Disney Plus, Max, or The Washington Post,’ one observer noted after it as reported The Washington Post had embraced ‘Riveting Storytelling for All of America’ as its new motto.

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The Washington Post kills off its "Democracy Dies In Darkness" slogan

The Post is now focused on "Riveting Storytelling for All of America." The paper is also setting a new goal to reach 200 million users.