Today's Washington Post Recycles Months-Old Article on Wine Theft - Washingtonian

""So nice, they ran it twice," wrote Marc Fisher, a former writer and editor for the , in pointing out the apparent re-print."

"It comes on the heels of last week's crushing round of layoffs, which eliminated the jobs of ran a review of the new TV show a social media post stories from the Associated Press almost half of the newsroom's reporters and editors."

"Since then, the paper has been running an unusual number of , rather than ones produced in-house."

"Printing news from a wire service is common, but re-running a months-old article is highly unusual-perhaps unprecedented-and entirely out of step with the mission of informing readers of the news."

Following a crushing round of layoffs that eliminated almost half of the newsroom's reporters and editors, a paper has run an unusual number of content items produced outside its newsroom and syndicated content from other papers. The paper reprinted a months-old wire-service item, prompting notice that it was run twice. The paper's TV critic, Lili Loofbourow, was among those laid off. Printing wire-service news is common, but re-running months-old material is highly unusual and appears out of step with the mission of informing readers. Attempts to reach the two credited reporters and the Metro editor for explanation produced no immediate response.

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