'Shock to the system': Audio reveals how a top Washington Post editor explained the paper's sweeping layoffs

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• The Washington Post cut reporters across its newsroom on Wednesday as part of a major reset.
• Top editor Matt Murray told staffers that every newsroom department would be impacted to some degree.
• The changes would "feel like a shock to the system," Murray said during a company Zoom call.

On Wednesday morning, after weeks of anticipation of layoffs, Washington Post staffers dialed into a Zoom call led by executive editor Matt Murray.