Here is something you do not hear every day: The Trump Administration heaping praise on The Washington Post. But that is what happened on Tuesday, with White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt saying she would like to “commend” Jeff Bezos’ paper for overhauling its newsroom.

“It appears that the mainstream media, including The Post, is finally learning that having disdain for more than half of the country who supports this president does not help you sell newspapers. It’s not a very good business model,” Leavitt said.

Her comment, made during a White House press briefing, comes a day after Axios reported The Post was making big changes to its newsroom “meant to broaden the outlet’s coverage and reach a wider audience.”

That includes dividing its national desk into two sections, with one side focused on national reporting and the other focused on politics and government coverage. And moving forward, WaPo’s business, tech, health, science and climate teams will be combined into a new department focused on “how businesses are transforming” across the economy. Executive editor Matt Murray told Axios the plan is to broaden WaPo’s coverage to make it less dependent on political news.

It also follows Bezos’ recent decision to revamp his paper’s opinion section to focus on “two pillars,” personal liberties and free markets.

“There was a time when a newspaper, especially one that was a local monopoly, might have seen it as a service to bring to the reader’s doorstep every morning a broad-based opinion section that sought to cover all views,” the WaPo owner said last month. “Today, the Internet does that job.”

That change was skewered by several WaPo staffers and mainstream journalists. It also led to opinion editor David Shipley quitting the paper; on Monday, veteran WaPo columnist Ruth Marcus quit after she said a column criticizing Bezos’ decision was “spiked.” In related news, Marcus was critical of Bezos canceling WaPo editorial board’s planned endorsement of Kamala Harris leading up to the 2024 election.

Bezos, following the election, said it was the “right decision” to not endorse a candidate. If the editorial board had endorsed Harris, he said, it would have added a “perception of bias” to the paper’s coverage.

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