The Washington Post
- ''Alternative meaning: The Washington Post (march)
The Washington Post is the largest and oldest
newspaper in
Washington, DC. It gained worldwide fame in the early
1970s for its
Watergate investigation by
Bob Woodward and
Carl Bernstein which played a major role in the undoing of the
Nixon presidency. It is generally considered second only to the
New York Times in stature among American daily newspapers. The
Post has a reputation for being especially good at coverage of
American national politics, befitting its location in the nation's
capital; in contrast, the
Times focuses more on
foreign affairs coverage. The flip side of this image, however, is that the
Post (and Washington itself) is sometimes seen as devoted to politics at the expense of the rest of life.
It is now part of the
Washington Post Company, which owns a number of other media and non-media companies, including
Newsweek magazine.
Controlled by two generations of the McLean family, it was purchased in a bankruptcy sale by Eugene Meyer (
1875-
1959) whose daughter,
Katharine Graham, took control of the Washington Post Company after the suicide of her husband Philip L. Graham in
1963. She was publisher of the newspaper from
1969 to
1979, chairman of the board from
1973 to
1991 and chairman of the executive committee from 1993 until her death in
2001. Her son, Donald Graham, was publisher from
1979 to
2000 when Boisfeuillet Jones, Jr. took over as publisher and
CEO of The Washington Post.
Notable Contributors
External links
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Timeline of the history of The Washington Post
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