diff --git a/test/test_utils.py b/test/test_utils.py
index e920d661f6..2348c04159 100644
--- a/test/test_utils.py
+++ b/test/test_utils.py
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ sys.path.insert(0, os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__))))
 
 # Various small unit tests
 import io
+import json
 import xml.etree.ElementTree
 
 #from youtube_dl.utils import htmlentity_transform
@@ -36,6 +37,7 @@ from youtube_dl.utils import (
     urlencode_postdata,
     xpath_with_ns,
     parse_iso8601,
+    strip_jsonp,
 )
 
 if sys.version_info < (3, 0):
@@ -272,5 +274,11 @@ class TestUtil(unittest.TestCase):
         self.assertEqual(parse_iso8601('2014-03-23T22:04:26+0000'), 1395612266)
         self.assertEqual(parse_iso8601('2014-03-23T22:04:26Z'), 1395612266)
 
+    def test_strip_jsonp(self):
+        stripped = strip_jsonp('cb ([ {"id":"532cb",\n\n\n"x":\n3}\n]\n);')
+        d = json.loads(stripped)
+        self.assertEqual(d, [{"id": "532cb", "x": 3}])
+
+
 if __name__ == '__main__':
     unittest.main()
diff --git a/youtube_dl/extractor/__init__.py b/youtube_dl/extractor/__init__.py
index 39b250b103..56b382aed6 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/extractor/__init__.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/__init__.py
@@ -282,6 +282,7 @@ from .vine import VineIE
 from .viki import VikiIE
 from .vk import VKIE
 from .vube import VubeIE
+from .washingtonpost import WashingtonPostIE
 from .wat import WatIE
 from .wdr import WDRIE
 from .weibo import WeiboIE
diff --git a/youtube_dl/extractor/washingtonpost.py b/youtube_dl/extractor/washingtonpost.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..cb8f0887de
--- /dev/null
+++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/washingtonpost.py
@@ -0,0 +1,103 @@
+from __future__ import unicode_literals
+
+import re
+
+from .common import InfoExtractor
+from ..utils import (
+    int_or_none,
+    strip_jsonp,
+)
+
+
+class WashingtonPostIE(InfoExtractor):
+    _VALID_URL = r'^https?://(?:www\.)?washingtonpost\.com/.*?/(?P<id>[^/]+)/(?:$|[?#])'
+    _TEST = {
+        'url': 'http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/national/2014/03/22/sinkhole-of-bureaucracy/',
+        'playlist': [{
+            'md5': 'c3f4b4922ffa259243f68e928db2db8c',
+            'info_dict': {
+                'id': 'fc433c38-b146-11e3-b8b3-44b1d1cd4c1f',
+                'ext': 'mp4',
+                'title': 'Breaking Points: The Paper Mine',
+                'duration': 1287,
+                'description': 'Overly complicated paper pushing is nothing new to government bureaucracy. But the way federal retirement applications are filed may be the most outdated. David Fahrenthold explains.',
+                'uploader': 'The Washington Post',
+                'timestamp': 1395527908,
+                'upload_date': '20140322',
+            },
+        }, {
+            'md5': 'f645a07652c2950cd9134bb852c5f5eb',
+            'info_dict': {
+                'id': '41255e28-b14a-11e3-b8b3-44b1d1cd4c1f',
+                'ext': 'mp4',
+                'title': 'The town bureaucracy sustains',
+                'description': 'Underneath the friendly town of Boyers is a sea of government paperwork. In a disused limestone mine, hundreds of locals now track, file and process retirement applications for the federal government. We set out to find out what it\'s like to do paperwork 230 feet underground.',
+                'duration': 2217,
+                'timestamp': 1395528005,
+                'upload_date': '20140322',
+                'uploader': 'The Washington Post',
+            },
+        }]
+    }
+
+    def _real_extract(self, url):
+        mobj = re.match(self._VALID_URL, url)
+        page_id = mobj.group('id')
+
+        webpage = self._download_webpage(url, page_id)
+        title = self._og_search_title(webpage)
+        uuids = re.findall(r'data-video-uuid="([^"]+)"', webpage)
+        entries = []
+        for i, uuid in enumerate(uuids, start=1):
+            vinfo_all = self._download_json(
+                'http://www.washingtonpost.com/posttv/c/videojson/%s?resType=jsonp' % uuid,
+                page_id,
+                transform_source=strip_jsonp,
+                note='Downloading information of video %d/%d' % (i, len(uuids))
+            )
+            vinfo = vinfo_all[0]['contentConfig']
+            uploader = vinfo.get('credits', {}).get('source')
+            timestamp = int_or_none(
+                vinfo.get('dateConfig', {}).get('dateFirstPublished'), 1000)
+
+            formats = [{
+                'format_id': (
+                    '%s-%s-%s' % (s.get('type'), s.get('width'), s.get('bitrate'))
+                    if s.get('width')
+                    else s.get('type')),
+                'vbr': s.get('bitrate') if s.get('width') != 0 else None,
+                'width': s.get('width'),
+                'height': s.get('height'),
+                'acodec': s.get('audioCodec'),
+                'vcodec': s.get('videoCodec') if s.get('width') != 0 else 'none',
+                'filesize': s.get('fileSize'),
+                'url': s.get('url'),
+                'ext': 'mp4',
+                'protocol': {
+                    'MP4': 'http',
+                    'F4F': 'f4m',
+                }.get(s.get('type'))
+            } for s in vinfo.get('streams', [])]
+            source_media_url = vinfo.get('sourceMediaURL')
+            if source_media_url:
+                formats.append({
+                    'format_id': 'source_media',
+                    'url': source_media_url,
+                })
+            self._sort_formats(formats)
+            entries.append({
+                'id': uuid,
+                'title': vinfo['title'],
+                'description': vinfo.get('blurb'),
+                'uploader': uploader,
+                'formats': formats,
+                'duration': int_or_none(vinfo.get('videoDuration'), 100),
+                'timestamp': timestamp,
+            })
+
+        return {
+            '_type': 'playlist',
+            'entries': entries,
+            'id': page_id,
+            'title': title,
+        }
diff --git a/youtube_dl/utils.py b/youtube_dl/utils.py
index fd03b0d7c2..29c9b1a4cb 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/utils.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/utils.py
@@ -1328,3 +1328,7 @@ US_RATINGS = {
     'R': 16,
     'NC': 18,
 }
+
+
+def strip_jsonp(code):
+    return re.sub(r'(?s)^[a-zA-Z_]+\s*\(\s*(.*)\);\s*?\s*$', r'\1', code)