• Washington City Paper, Monday, April 13, 2009 9:30 AM

A wide-ranging editorial reorganization is afoot at The Washington Post. A key element of the plan is a "universal" editing hub for much of the newsroom. It will be made up of a locus of editors and specialists who can process news copy and transmit it via blogs, Tweets, online articles and print stories.

The paper is working out how many topical sections of the paper, such as Metro, Style, Sports, Business, will feed this multimedia hub. Post brass is reportedly working overtime on the plan because some editors are now evaluating the buyout that the paper announced in March and will make their decisions based on their hub status.

Joe Kahraman, a union rep with the Newspaper Guild, says the company has moved "very quickly" to present the buyout package to editor-level personnel at the paper. That's the strongest sign yet that the Post is targeting its editor ranks for shrinkage in its fourth round of buyouts since 2003.

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