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Market Cap:$3.3B
Last Fiscal Year Sales:$4.1B
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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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1150 15th St NW
Washington, District of Columbia 20071-0001
(202) 334-6000
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NAICS Code All Other Miscellaneous Schools and Instruction: 611699
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A disabled Berkeley artist gets inside own head with her work
- 2008-02-11
APAINTING by UC Berkeley art professor Katherine Sherwood contains surprising medical content. Some of the blue-and-white swirls behind a mystical medieval symbol are not painted on: They're actually an angiogram of blood vessels in the artist's brain. Even before a brain hemorrhage paralyzed her...
Tilting at windmills
- 2007-09-01
How to clear your inbox The Small Business Administration canceled 8,000 loans to hurricane victims without notice to the borrowers. When the borrowers sought an explanation, they were told, according to Ron Nixon of the New York Times, "that they had voluntarily given up their loans," which was not...
Man does not live by stress alone
- 2007-03-22
The Washington Post recently reported that Baby Boomers appear to be less healthy than their parents were at the same age. Researchers from the University of Texas at Austin found that "the trend seems to be that people are not as healthy as they approach retirement as they were in...
DNC: The Real Newt Gingrich: Special Interest Shill
- 2007-01-26
To: POLITICAL EDITORSContact: Damien LaVera or Stacie Paxton, +1-202-863-8148, both of the Democratic National Committee WASHINGTON, Jan. 26 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The following was released today by the Democratic National Committee on Newt Gingrich:As Newt Gingrich prepares to address leading conservative activists at this weekend's National Review Institute summit, recent reports...
Five years ago, a Washington Post poll asked whether race should be a factor in congressional redistricting "in order to elect more minorities to public office
- 2006-07-03
Five years ago, a Washington Post poll asked whether race should be a factor in congressional redistricting "in order to elect more minorities to public office." An overwhelming majority of Americans said no, including 90 percent of whites, 83 percent of Hispanics, and 70 percent of blacks. But now Congress...
Tale of two posts.(Up Front)
- 2006-05-01
An April 9 Washington Post editorial on the revelation that "Scooter" Libby leaked portions of an October 2002 National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq to Judith Miller referred to administration critics as using the news to launch "hyperbolic charges." The editorialists claimed "the public benefits" from...
Perspectives
- 2006-01-16
"Tell all--I see them on the other side." Martin Toler Jr., in a note to loved ones, before dying with 11 other miners after an explosion at a Sago, W.Va., mine "Sharon was personally a very likable person, and I am sad to see him in this condition,...
"Workers of the World Uniting"
- 2005-09-01
...was the attention-getting title of an op-ed in the Washington Post this August. In it, Harold Meyerson, editor at The American Prospect and LA Weekly, described the other union convention in Chicago this summer: a meeting of about 1,500 unionists from around the world to begin forming an international building-services...
The lessons of 'Deep Throat' and Watergate
- 2005-06-06
All good things have unexpected consequences. When Washington Post reporters Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward broke the Watergate scandal, saving our democracy wasn't the only outcome. Now, with W. Mark Felt outing himself as their key source in 1972-73, we can look back. Here are some lasting effects: ...
US press gives mixed welcome to new pope
- 2005-04-20
WASHINGTON AFP — Leading US newspapers divided neatly into conservative and liberal camps in welcoming the elevation of Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger to Pope Benedict XVI, some suggesting that his papacy might surprise the church's critics. The Washington Post and New York Times inferred from the German pope's past statements...
