Quite a lot of what news publications like the New York Times do is precisely regenerating articles that roughly approximate source material from some other publication. If I remember rightly, a lot of smaller, more local news organisations aren't happy about this because of course it's a more or less direct substitute for the original and a handful of big news organisations (particularly the New York Times) are taking so much of the money that people are willing to pay for news that it's affecting the viability of the rest - but it's not illegal, since facts cannot be copyrighted.