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[88] But as a leading Republican (it was his old friend Herbert Hoover who had made him Federal Reserve Chairman in 1930), his opposition to FDR’s New Deal colored the paper’s
editorial stance as well as its news coverage. -
[34] The Washington Post and Union masthead, April 16, 1878 In April 1878, about four months into publication, The Washington Post purchased The Washington Union, a competing
newspaper which was founded by John Lynch in late 1877. -
[25] Mary Jordan was the founding editor, head of content, and moderator for Washington Post Live,[26][27] The Post’s editorial events business, which organizes political
debates, conferences and news events for the media company, including “The 40th Anniversary of Watergate” in June 2012 that featured key Watergate figures including former White House counsel John Dean, Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee,
and reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, which was held at the Watergate hotel. -
During the Wilson presidency, the Post was credited with the “most famous newspaper typo” in D.C. history according to Reason magazine; the Post intended to report that President
Wilson had been “entertaining” his future-wife Mrs. Galt, but instead wrote that he had been “entering” Mrs. -
[110] According to author and journalist Greg Mitchell: “By the Post’s own admission, in the months before the war, it ran more than 140 stories on its front page promoting
the war, while contrary information got lost”. -
[111] On March 23, 2007, Chris Matthews said on his television program, “The Washington Post is not the liberal newspaper it was […] I have been reading it for years and
it is a neocon newspaper”. -
[57] Graham took The Washington Post Company public on June 15, 1971, in the midst of the Pentagon Papers controversy.
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[54] The combined paper was officially named The Washington Post and Times-Herald until 1973, although the Times-Herald portion of the nameplate became less and less prominent
over time. -
[62] Executive editor Ben Bradlee put the newspaper’s reputation and resources behind reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, who, in a long series of articles, chipped
away at the story behind the 1972 burglary of Democratic National Committee offices in the Watergate complex in Washington. -
“[117] According to a 2009 Oxford University Press book by Richard Davis on the impact of blogs on American politics, liberal bloggers link to The Washington Post and The
New York Times more often than other major newspapers; however, conservative bloggers also link predominantly to liberal newspapers. -
The Washington Post (also known as the Post[5] and, informally, WaPo) is an American daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C.
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Post Executive Editor Marcus Brauchli, who was named on the flier as one of the salon’s “Hosts and Discussion Leaders”, said he was “appalled” by the plan, adding, “It suggests
that access to Washington Post journalists was available for purchase. -
It is considered a newspaper of record in the U.S.[12][13][14] Unlike The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post does not print an edition for distribution
away from the East Coast. -
The post-war years saw the developing friendship of Phil and Kay Graham with the Kennedys, the Bradlees and the rest of the “Georgetown Set” (many Harvard alumni) that would
color the Post’s political orientation. -
Subsequently, in the best-known episode in the newspaper’s history, reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein led the American press’s investigation into what became known
as the Watergate scandal, which resulted in the 1974 resignation of President Richard Nixon. -
Criticism by elected officials[edit] Former president Donald Trump repeatedly railed against The Washington Post on his Twitter account,[168] having “tweeted or retweeted
criticism of the paper, tying it to Amazon more than 20 times since his campaign for president” by August 2018. -
[76][77] Bezos said he has a vision that recreates “the ‘daily ritual’ of reading the Post as a bundle, not merely a series of individual stories…”[78] He has been described
as a “hands-off owner”, holding teleconference calls with executive editor Martin Baron every two weeks. -
[50][51] These included William Randolph Hearst, who had long hoped to shut down the ailing Post to benefit his own Washington newspaper presence.
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To promote the newspaper, the new owners requested the leader of the United States Marine Band, John Philip Sousa, to compose a march for the newspaper’s essay contest awards
ceremony. -
[17] Overview The Washington Post is regarded as one of the leading daily American newspapers[18] along with The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and The Wall Street
Journal. -
In 2009, after 37 years, with great reader outcries and protest, The Washington Post Book World as a standalone insert was discontinued, the last issue being Sunday, February
15, 2009,[65] along with a general reorganization of the paper, such as placing the Sunday editorials on the back page of the main front section rather than the “Outlook” section and distributing some other locally oriented “op-ed” letters
and commentaries in other sections. -
[167] In 2022, actor Johnny Depp successfully sued ex-wife Amber Heard for an op-ed she wrote in The Washington Post where she described herself as a public figure representing
domestic abuse two years after she had publicly accused him of domestic violence. -
[55][56] The Monday, July 21, 1969, edition, with the headline “‘The Eagle Has Landed’—Two Men Walk on the Moon” After Phil Graham’s death in 1963, control of The Washington
Post Company passed to his wife Katharine Graham (1917–2001), who was also Eugene Meyer’s daughter. -
[149] Employee relations[edit] In 1986, five employees (including Newspaper Guild unit chairman Thomas R. Sherwood and assistant Maryland editor Claudia Levy) sued The Washington
Post for overtime pay, stating that the newspaper had claimed that budgets did not allow for overtime wages. -
[125] Criticism and controversies “Jimmy’s World” fabrication[edit] In September 1980, a Sunday feature story appeared on the front page of the Post titled “Jimmy’s World”
in which reporter Janet Cooke wrote a profile of the life of an eight-year-old heroin addict. -
[21] In November 2009, it announced the closure of its U.S. regional bureaus—Chicago, Los Angeles and New York—as part of an increased focus on “political stories and local
news coverage in Washington. -
[138] Politico’s revelation gained a somewhat mixed response in Washington[139][140][141] as it gave the impression that the parties’ sole purpose was to allow insiders to
purchase face time with Post staff. -
In a study published on April 18, 2007, by Yale professors Alan Gerber, Dean Karlan, and Daniel Bergan, citizens were given a subscription to either the conservative-leaning
Washington Times or the liberal-leaning Washington Post to see the effect that media has on voting patterns. -
Although the header to the online “China Watch” section included the text “A Paid Supplement to The Washington Post”, James Fallows of The Atlantic suggested that the notice
was not clear enough for most readers to see. -
[32][33] History Founding and early period[edit] The Washington Post building the week after the 1948 Presidential election.
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The newspaper was founded in 1877 by Stilson Hutchins (1838–1912), and in 1880 it added a Sunday edition, becoming the city’s first newspaper to publish seven days a week.
-
“[166] The headline of a 2020 op-ed titled “It’s time to give the elites a bigger say in choosing the president” was changed, without an editor’s note, after backlash.
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The combined newspaper was published from the Globe Building as The Washington Post and Union beginning on April 15, 1878, with a circulation of 13,000.
-
[68] Jeff Bezos era (2013–present)[edit] Demolition of the 15th Street headquarters in April 2016 One Franklin Square, the current home of the Post In late September 2013,
Jeff Bezos purchased the Washington Post and other local publications, websites, and real estate[69][70][71] for US$250 million,[72][73][74] transferring ownership to Nash Holdings LLC, Bezos’s private investment company. -
[53] Meyer eventually gained the last laugh over Hearst, who had owned the old Washington Times and the Herald before their 1939 merger that formed the Times-Herald.
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The Post’s dogged coverage of the story, the outcome of which ultimately played a major role in the resignation of President Richard Nixon, won the newspaper a Pulitzer Prize
in 1973. -
The merger left the Post with two remaining local competitors, the Washington Star (Evening Star) and The Washington Daily News which merged in 1972, forming the Washington
Star-News. -
[35][36] The Post and Union name was used about two weeks until April 29, 1878, returning to the original masthead the following day.
-
[161] Controversial op-eds and columns[edit] Several Washington Post op-eds and columns have prompted criticism, including a number of comments on race by columnist Richard
Cohen over the years,[162][163] and a controversial 2014 column on campus sexual assault by George Will. -
[46] Meyer–Graham period[edit] In 1929, financier Eugene Meyer (who had run the War Finance Corp. since World War I[47]) secretly made an offer of $5 million for the Post,
but he was rebuffed by Ned McLean. -
[103] FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover reportedly told the new President Lyndon B. Johnson, “I don’t have much influence with the Post because I frankly don’t read it.
-
Gerber had estimated based on his work that the Post slanted as much to the left as the Times did to the right.
-
[23] As of May 2013, its average weekday circulation was 474,767, according to the Audit Bureau of Circulations, making it the seventh largest newspaper in the country by
circulation, behind USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Daily News, and the New York Post. -
“[148] According to The Guardian, the Post had already stopped running “China Watch” in 2019.
-
Gerber found those who were given a free subscription of the Post were 7.9–11.4% more likely to vote for the Democratic candidate for governor than those assigned to the control
group, depending on the adjustment for the date on which individual participants were surveyed and the survey interviewer; however, people who received the Times were also more likely than controls to vote for the Democrat, with an effect
approximately 60% as large as that estimated for the Post. -
The Washington Post Company (1948–2013) 7.
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[113][114] The study authors said that sampling error might have played a role in the effect of the conservative-leaning Times, as might the fact that the Democratic candidate
took more conservative-leaning positions than is typical for his party, and “the month prior to the post-election survey was a difficult period for President Bush, one in which his overall approval rating fell by approximately 4 percentage
points nationwide. -
[123] Since 2011, the Post has been running a column called “The Fact Checker” that the Post describes as a “truth squad”.
-
[15][16] The paper is well known for its political reporting and is one of the few remaining American newspapers to operate foreign bureaus.
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“[114] In November 2007, the newspaper was criticized by independent journalist Robert Parry for reporting on anti-Obama chain e-mails without sufficiently emphasizing to
its readers the false nature of the anonymous claims. -
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“[144] In 2020, a report by Freedom House titled “Beijing’s Global Megaphone” was also critical of the Post and other newspapers for distributing “China Watch”.
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[145][146] In the same year, 35 Republican members of the U.S. Congress wrote a letter to the U.S. Department of Justice in February 2020 calling for an investigation of potential
FARA violations by China Daily. -
[8][9] As of 2020 the newspaper had won the Pulitzer Prize 65 times for its work,[10] the second-most of any publication (after The New York Times).
-
[108][109] 2000–present[edit] In the PBS documentary Buying the War, journalist Bill Moyers said in the year prior to the Iraq War there were 27 editorials supporting the
Bush administration’s ambitions to invade the country. -
[133] Although some within the Post doubted the story’s veracity, the paper’s editors defended it, and assistant managing editor Bob Woodward submitted the story to the Pulitzer
Prize Board at Columbia University for consideration. -
[116] Responding to criticism of the newspaper’s coverage during the run-up to the 2008 presidential election, former Post ombudsman Deborah Howell wrote: “The opinion pages
have strong conservative voices; the editorial board includes centrists and conservatives; and there were editorials critical of Obama. -
[118] In mid-September 2016, Matthew Ingram of Forbes joined Glenn Greenwald of The Intercept, and Trevor Timm of The Guardian in criticizing The Washington Post for “demanding
that [former National Security Agency contractor Edward] Snowden … stand trial on espionage charges”. -
[11] It is considered a newspaper of record in the U.S.[12][13][14] Post journalists have also received 18 Nieman Fellowships and 368 White House News Photographers Association
awards. -
[154] Following the feud, the newspaper suspended Weigel for a month for violating the company’s social media guidelines, and the newspaper’s executive editor Sally Buzbee
sent out a newsroom-wide memorandum directing employees to “Be constructive and collegial” in their interactions with colleagues. -
“[142][137] China Daily advertising supplements[edit] Dating back to 2011, The Washington Post began to include “China Watch” advertising supplements provided by China Daily,
an English language newspaper owned by the Publicity Department of the Chinese Communist Party, on the print and online editions. -
The newspaper moved into its new offices on December 14, 2015.
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After Wilkins’ death in 1903, his sons John and Robert ran the Post for two years before selling it in 1905 to John Roll McLean, owner of the Cincinnati Enquirer.
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She was reinstated after over 200 Post journalists wrote an open letter criticizing the paper’s decision.
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“[136] Post publisher Katharine Weymouth had planned a series of exclusive dinner parties or “salons” at her private residence, to which she had invited prominent lobbyists,
trade group members, politicians, and business people. -
Financier Eugene Meyer purchased it out of bankruptcy in 1933 and revived its health and reputation, work continued by his successors Katharine and Phil Graham (Meyer’s daughter
and son-in-law), who bought out several rival publications. -
[150] In June 2018, over 400 employees of The Washington Post signed an open letter to the owner Jeff Bezos demanding “fair wages; fair benefits for retirement, family leave
and health care; and a fair amount of job security.” -
[92][93][94][95] Eugene Meyer became head of the World Bank in 1946, and he named his son-in-law Phil Graham to succeed him as Post publisher.
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[45] During the Red Summer of 1919 the Post supported the white mobs and even ran a front-page story which advertised the location at which white servicemen were planning
to meet to carry out attacks on black Washingtonians.
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