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Washington Post lays off a third of its staff - eliminating its sports section
US newspaper The Washington Post is making a third of its staff redundant, bosses at the title have said.
The long-rumoured layoffs, affecting almost all areas of the newsroom, were confirmed to employees in a video conference on Wednesday. Afterwards, they received emails with one of two subject lines - telling them their role was either going or being kept.
Among the departments being scrapped is the sports section, along with several foreign bureaus and the newspaper's books coverage. In a note to staff, executive editor Matt Murray called the move painful but necessary to put it on a stronger footing and weather changes in technology and user habits, telling them the Post "can't be everything to everyone".
Mr Murray said: "Significantly, our daily story output has substantially fallen in the last five years.
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