- 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.
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.
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