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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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St. Petersburg Times and CQs PolitiFact.com Wins Edgie Award for Best Overall News Site
- 2008-03-07
To: TECHNOLOGY EDITORS Contact: Scott Montgomery, +1-727-893-8145, smontgomery@sptimes.com; or Bill Adair, +1-202-463-0575, badair@sptimes.com, both of the St. Petersburg Times; or Janet Donovan, +1-202-904-1035, ceiinfo@erols.com, for the Congressional Quarterly PolitiFact tops washingtonpost.com and StarTribune.com as best large-newspaper site WASHINGTON, March 7 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ --PolitiFact, the fact-checking Web site of the St....
Michael Hill.(1981)(Brief Article)
- 2005-06-22
Michael Hill retired last year after 33 years as an editor at The Washington Post. He's now pursuing some of his other passions, which include trains and baseball. He says he "hopes to ride all the major Amtrak routes before they shut them down and visit all...
Call before you lynch
- 2005-06-22
"Depend upon it, sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully." SAMUEL JOHNSON I pretty much had a ho-hum attitude about Armstrong Williams and his government contract to promote the No Child Left Behind Act. He wasn't one...
Eugene Robinson.(1988)(Brief Article)
- 2005-03-22
Eugene Robinson is now associate editor and op-ed columnist at The Washington Post. Robinson has served at the Post in several capacities, including city editor, city hall reporter, assistant managing editor of the style section, and Latin America bureau chief in Buenos Aires. Robinson is author...
Facts, fiction, and the fourth estate: the Washington Post and "Jimmy's World"
- 2004-11-01
Adam Smith in The Wealth of Nations outlined the basic conflict of interests between owners of a firm and those who manage it or work in its employ. He writes that "the directors of ... companies, being the managers of other people's money than of their own, it cannot well...
Freelance Op-Ed Pieces Show Newspapers' Political Slant
- 2004-07-01
This study found The Washington Post and The Washington Times favored articles on foreign affairs and by authors affiliated with think tanks in the 1990s.Since The New York Times took the initiative to devote a corner of its editorial page for a quality public forum in 1970, the op-ed page...
Michael Kelly, 1957-2003
- 2003-04-04
Michael Kelly, a Washington Post columnist and editor at large for the Atlantic Monthly, died near Saddam International Airport last night. He was 46 years old, and is survived by his wife, Madelyn, and two sons, Tom, 6, and Jack, 3. Kelly was the first American journalist killed in...
Jim Hoagland
- 2000-09-22
Associate editor, The Washington Post hoaglandj@washpost.com How long on the job, and how did you get there: I've been at the Post for 34 years, through luck and stubbornness
Critical issues: Writing for Rosie: How a journalist uses (and doesn't use) research
- 2000-09-01
Editors' Introduction. There were several reasons that we invited Jay Mathews, a seasoned education reporter for the Washington Post, to write the following piece for JLR'S Critical Issues section. First, we believed JLR should address in some fashion the National Reading Panel report released, after several delays, in April of...
How a Caged Bird Learns to Sing.(Transcript)
- 2000-06-26
Or, my life at the New York Times, CBS and other pillars of the media establishment Like a tribal warrior in the Ramayana, throwing dice, juiced on soma, I want to tell some stories and brood out loud. But it's tricky. My favorite stories...
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