Daniel Gilbert

I was laid off from The Washington Post today. My feeds are full of other Post journalists — great reporters and editors, and really good humans — who are in the same situation, and my heart aches for every one. Some work I'm proud of:

Some personal news: This is my last week at The Washington Post. I’ve loved so much of the last 9 years here, but my faith in the paper’s current leadership is broken beyond repair. Incredibly excited to get to work with the newsroom below (I start in June) & join the extraordinarily talented kickass reporters such as @anna_c_kramer, @OrianaBeLike, @reesejgorman & many more Please get in touch w/ me anytime on Signal: 9178872891

BOMBSHELL: The longtime Chevron executive was friends with Hugo Chavez, an admirer of Delcy and a CIA informant. He warned the spy agency that backing Venezuela's democratic opposition would mean another Iraq. @cmatthews9 @VeraMBergen wsj.com/world/americas…

He was the real thing: One of the true masters in a line of work—a way of looking at the world—that’s already largely gone. Journey well, John. nytimes.com/2026/03/13/wor…

Elon Musk is not living poor. He is just hiding his spending through a secret network of private companies in Texas. Mansions, private jets, land. Read our @nytimes investigation nytimes.com/2026/02/27/tec…

Every time I drop my son off at a bar mitzvah or go to a synagogue for an event, seeing the needed security guards, makes me angry and sad. I haven’t seen anything like this at a church or a temple The epidemic of antisemitic attacks on synagogues is pure evil and must stop

scooplet: at the meeting, Jeff Bezos also said he had spurned seven (!) offers to sell The Post

Wild story on parents holding their 8th graders back for an athletic advantage. But do middle schoolers really grow 8 inches in a year?

I want to sincerely thank one of the great writers out there, @barrysvrluga, who will sadly be closing this chapter with the @washingtonpost…you have covered the highs and lows of my career with integrity and passion. Thank you. Looking forward to following your next chapter.🙏

Apparently running old stories in the print edition of @washingtonpost wasn’t an error but a new strategy for filling the paper with no staff. Take this Retropolis column today:

Maybe this is how @washingtonpost plans to focus on health coverage despite laying off most of its health reporters: variations on the same headline "I'm an oncologist..."

Powerful, damning essay: wsj.com/health/wellnes…

Why Americans are disaffected with healthcare, in one devastating graf by @jtoonkel

New Washington Post, new approach to news. Today: News reruns! On the Metro front, this excellent piece about the theft of a $24,000 wine bottle—a story that originally appeared on November 26 of last year. So nice, they ran it twice. washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/…

Scoop: Top FDA official Vinay Prasad overruled the agency’s reviewers when he refused to accept Moderna’s application for a new influenza vaccine, STAT has learned. statnews.com/2026/02/11/mod…

Unfortunate time for the @washingtonpost to have laid off all our excellent transportation reporters.

FDA won’t review Moderna application for 1st mRNA-based flu vaccine. Part of stricter approach for vaccine approvals that former FDA leaders who have said risks undermining US ability to fight diseases. ⁦@rachel_roubein⁩ ⁦@Carolynyjohnson⁩ washingtonpost.com/health/2026/02…

For 8 years my stories had to include: "Jeff Bezos owns The Washington Post, but I review all technology with the same critical eye." Not anymore. My first Substack is about what it was like covering Amazon while Bezos paid my salary—and why accountability matters. Link below.

An entire page of wire stories in @murraymatt’s @washingtonpost today, three of eight AP stories in the A section.

I've had a gnarly cold the last week so it's been hard for me to collect my thoughts through the haze of meds but — Wednesday was my last day as an investigative reporter for The Washington Post. I happened to accept an offer last week, so I'll be landing on my feet, but many of my immensely talented colleagues are not as fortunate. I will be forever grateful to my teammates and editors for taking a chance and hiring an infosec engineer with 0 past reporting experience. I got to experience firsthand what it's like to work in a big newsroom and it's wild how far public perception is from reality, so I'd like to help set the record straight — To the people who think the Post is too far left or too far to the center or too far right or too far from your chosen worldview, I've got bad news for you: the newsroom was the most apolitical job I've ever held. We held power to account. Period. Not once did I hear anyone bring up personal politics when discussing a story, and I know if anyone did, they would have been met with a healthy dose of side-eye. We cared about only one thing: the truth. If the truth upsets you because it's incongruent with your worldview...good. It should. The truth should illuminate and infuriate. If you're looking to live in the safe confines of an echo chamber that won't hurt your feelings, then there are a few billionaires with hypertuned algorithms that would love for you to spend hours mainlining hopium while you live safely in your bubble. To those who are still willing to share an objective reality, but think you're sending a message to people like Bezos by canceling your subscriptions — what message do you think you're sending, and to whom? Because I promise you that Jeff was not laying awake at night fretting over the subscriber figures. But I don't blame readers — most people don't realize that editorial (opinions) and news are completely different sections. They operate independently. Opinions are subjective — the truth is not. A strong newsroom leader would have gotten out in front of all the backlash and helped educate people, helped reassure the public that regardless of the very stupid decisions of a few, there were many more people in the newsroom dedicated to reporting the truth. Instead the newsroom was hung out to dry while Will Lewis was...doing whatever the fuck he's been doing the last few years. I will never forget my time at The Washington Post. I have never worked harder in my life with people that are so dedicated to what they do, and to ensuring that they do it with the utmost care and attention. Whether or not you read the Post, I promise you that the decimation of that newsroom is a net negative for society and reality.