On the front page of the Metro section in today’s Washington Post, one can read a lively article about the theft of six high-end wine bottles from a French restaurant in Virginia, which led to a car chase across the countryside. The strange thing is that this isn’t news—the theft occurred last year—and the very same article already appeared in the Post. That one was published online on November 26, 2025, and then in print on December 1. In fact, it appeared on the newspaper’s front page. “So nice, they ran it twice,” wrote Marc Fisher, a former writer and editor for the Post, in a social media post pointing out the apparent re-print. It comes on the heels of last week’s crushing round of layoffs, which eliminated the jobs of almost half of the newsroom’s reporters and editors. Since then, the paper has been running an unusual number of stories from the Associated Press, rather than ones produced in-house. It has also run stories syndicated from other papers. Today, for instance, the Post ran a review of the new TV show The Burbs that was originally published in the LA Times. The Post’s TV critic, Lili Loofbourow, was laid off last week. 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. For more info on why this occurred, we reached out to the story’s two authors and the editor of the Metro section, none of whom immediately responded.  UPDATE: After this story published, a Post spokesperson told us the old wine-theft article had been republished in today’s newspaper “inadvertently.”The post Today’s Washington Post Recycles Months-Old Article on Wine Theft first appeared on Washingtonian. ...read more read less