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In tonight’s edition, Washington Post Executive Editor Matt Murray details extensive changes to the newsroom, including a pullback on print in favor of a full digital (and AI) embrace. Plus, how the beleaguered news organization is looking to hit its ambitious subscriber goal by targeting a segment of the population they have dubbed “confidence strivers.”

We have scooplets on Fox News’s Bret Baier dumping his agent Jay Sures at UTA, more talent fleeing POLITICO as they announce a big hire, and what Vox management plans on doing if staffers at Vox.com, Eater, SB Nation, and other digital sites go on strike this evening at midnight. 

Finally, tonight we issue a mea culpa about our coverage of the Sulzberger family BBQ.

Mentioned tonight: A.G. Sulzberger, Joe Kahn, Lydia Polgreen, Masha Gessen, Mathias Döpfner, Jan Bayer, John Harris, Carrie Budoff Brown, Alex Burns, Jim Bankoff, David Haskell, Norah O’Donnell, David Muir, Anderson Cooper and Jake Tapper.

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(Exclusive.) At 2.30 pm on Thursday, staff gathered on the fourth floor of The Washington Post building as  Executive Editor Matt Murray took to the stage for what would be a marathon two-hour address.

The occasion marked a year since Murray took the reins of the Jeff Bezos-owned paper following Sally Buzbee’s messy departure. “There’s nowhere I’d rather be than a bustling newsroom,” Murray told the packed room of more than 300 people.

But hard truths were delivered to staffers. Among them, a full embrace of digital publishing and a shift away from the traditional print product. An emphasis would also be placed on video, and journalists were told they should all be embracing AI within their roles.

“A lot has been done here, but remarkably and candidly, we still haven't and today still haven't made the full digital leap, 30 years into the digital revolution, our publishing schedule still too often mirrors the print cycle,” Murray said in a recording of the meeting obtained by Breaker.

The former Wall Street Journal editor acknowledged both traffic and subscription numbers are down and that in the last three years, search traffic has almost halved by …