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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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Getty Images joins forces with Daylife and invests USD4m
Strategy Eye
- 2009-09-16
Visual content creator and distributor Getty Images is partnering with news aggregator Daylife to create a new range of SmartMedia products that allow customers to easily incorporate visual content onto their websites. Getty also invested USD4m into the startup in June, although Getty's role has only just been revealed....
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...
Italy changes governments
- 2006-05-01
In an editorial on April 12, 2006, the venerable Washington Post Washington characterized Silvio Berlusconi's stewardship of the Italian government as "a palsy of leadership in the face of globalization's challenge." Berlusconi's tenure-the longest in Italy since the end of World War II-ended on April 11, 2006 when Berlusconi...
Media Matters for America Places Ad Critical of Washington Post's Editorial Practices on Washingtonpost.com
- 2006-04-19
WASHINGTON, April 20 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Media Matters for America - - the leading voice against conservative misinformation in the U.S. media -- is running an ad critical of a recent Washington Post editorial that promoted falsehoods directly contradictedWASHINGTON, April 20 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Media Matters for America - -...
Outcry for Release of ITS Records Continues.
- 2006-04-10
By IsraelNewsFaxx.com Services In an editorial titled "A Holocaust Denial," a leading American newspaper has demanded that the International Tracing Service in Arolsen, Germany, make their vast collection of Holocaust-related data available to the public. The Washington Post accused the International Committee of...
YERGIN: 'WE'RE NOT RUNNING OUT OF OIL,' YET
- 2005-08-08
In an editorial published last week in the Washington Post, Daniel Yergin says the world is not running out of oil. In fact, the next few years will witness a "large, unprecedented buildup of oil supply," Yergin, author of The Prize and chairman of Cambridge Energy Research Associates, wrote.By 2010,...
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...
Washington Post off-the-mark in its assumption
- 2005-03-30
Indian Country Today Lakota Times 03-30-2005 The Washington Post did this newspaper an unsavory disservice recently with a misleading, sleight-of-hand comment on our editorial intents. In an otherwise factual article, Post staff writers lames V. Grimaldi and R. Jeffrey Smith opine rather carelessly...
Volcker's UN whitewash
- 2005-03-07
The first and most important point to make about the preliminary report on corruption in the United Nations' oil-for-food program is that it is not a whitewash." So declared the Washington Post in a February 5 editorial. The Post was referring, of course, to the "interim report" issued two days...
What They're Saying: President Bush's Inaugural Address; Reaction Round-up from the RNC
- 2005-01-21
WASHINGTON, Jan. 21 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The following round-up of media reaction to President Bush's inaugural address was released today by the Republican National Committee: Editorials And Op-Eds: The Wall Street Journal: "Not Since JFK In 1960 Has An American President Provided Such An Ambitious And Unabashed Case For The...
