With Washington Post Local diminished, other news sites step up their D.C. coverage

What was widely recognized as a national tragedy was also a local one. When leadership at The Washington Post laid off more than 300 journalists last month , Post Local was among the hardest-hit sections. Successive rounds of cuts had already shrunk the section down to around 40 reporters and editors. (In the early 2000s, the metro department had around 200 journalists .) But the latest layoffs le