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They know the fine print! The Washington Post Co (NYSE: WPO) founded by Stilson Hutchins in 1877, publishes newspapers, principally the Washington Post, The Herald and about 40 other Maryland community newspapers. It has interests in TV broadcasting, cable, magazines, education and career development services. This $3.55 billion company is based in Washington, DC and employs about 16,400 people. It owns six TV stations, a regional cable system, and an educational services firm, Kaplan. In 2005 the company bought Slate, the online magazine, from Microsoft Corp.
Number of Employees 20,000
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Washington, District of Columbia 20071-0001
(202) 334-6000
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The Washington Post ran a front-page story on the administration's "bold new assertion of executive authority."
- 2007-08-13
The Washington Post ran a front-page story on the administration's "bold new assertion of executive authority." Experts were quoted on how "astonishing" and "breathtaking" and "Nixonian" the administration's claim of executive privilege was, and Democratic senators got in the words "outrageous" and "constitutional crisis." (One expert who took the pro-administration...
Even the Washington Post says that the Bush administration got suckered
- 2007-06-11
Even the Washington Post says that the Bush administration got suckered. It reached a deal with top congressional Democrats to require that trade agreements include strict regulations on environmental and labor issues. In return, the Democrats are supposed to approve free-trade pacts with Panama and Peru--two countries that, together, do...
Washington Post legend apologizes over CIA leak case
- 2005-11-16
WASHINGTON AFP — Respected US journalist Bob Woodward apologized to The Washington Post for failing to reveal that a top administration official had discussed a CIA agent now at the centre of a White House scandal. Woodward, part of the Post team that brought down President Richard Nixon over...
National Parks Under Assault from Poachers; Parks Group Warns About Affect of Potential Budget Cuts
- 2005-10-24
WASHINGTON, Oct. 24 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The nation's leading park advocacy group, the nonpartisan National Parks Conservation Association NPCA, today called on Congress and the administration to provide much-needed funding and staffing to enable the National Park Service to combat poaching in America's national parks, a widespread problem profiled in...
Agent's name marked as secret in pre-CIA leak memo
- 2005-07-21
WASHINGTON, AFP — A covert CIA agent's name was marked as secret in a confidential memo delivered to the State Deparement a week before the name was leaked to the press in 2003, The Washington Post said. The memo is part of a federal investigation into whether White House...
Bennett long denied he was source
- 2005-06-01
Sen. Bob Bennett said Tuesday's revelation that a former FBI official was Deep Throat should finally end any suspicion that he was the source behind newspaper stories that helped bring down President Nixon in the Watergate scandal. "If this turns out to be in fact true, why this...
Trickle-down incentives
- 2004-12-01
In addition to the "merit raises" mentioned earlier in this column, the Transportation Security Administration awarded cash bonuses to its staff last year. In a Republican administration, you may not be surprised that 76 percent of the executives were deemed deserving, but, reports The Washington Post's Stephen Barr, "only three...
Kerry: What Did He Know and When Did He Know It? Bush Fights the Release of More Potential Damaging Information
- 2004-07-14
WASHINGTON, July 14 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Following was released by John Kerry for President: "The White House's refusal to release this one-page summary stands in the way of getting to the bottom of our intelligence failures, and weakens our ability to fight the war on terror. There is serious...
It was a very bad year: there's little to celebrate about Bill Keller's first anniversary at the helm of The New York Times. And the Judith Miller fiasco is only part of the problem.(Media)
- 2004-07-01
THERE WAS A TIME WHEN READERS of The New York Times never knew what they were missing. You had to run down to Hotaling's, the out-of-town newsstand in Times Square, to check The Washington Post or the Los Angeles Times, or wait a few days for the...
Did President Bush mislead the country in his arguments for war with Iraq?(Critical Essay)
- 2004-03-01
President Bush bas been accused by some in the popular press of lying in his arguments for taking the United States to war with Iraq in 2003. This article examines several sets of statements by President Bush and his administration: first, about the implication that there was a link between...
