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Market Cap:$3.3B
Last Fiscal Year Sales:$4.1B
- Public
- US
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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
Contact Information
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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Obama top lawyer expected to quit: sources
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WaPo's Social Media Guidelines Paint Staff Into Virtual Corner
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- 2009-09-27
Late Friday afternoon, Washington Post (NYSE: WPO) Senior Editor Milton Coleman sent a memo to the staff with a social media policy—effectively immediately—aimed at staffers’ use of “individual accounts on online social networks, when used for reporting and for personal use.” The new policy was translated externally by WaPo...
Industry Moves: Washington Post Events Exec Resigns After Misfire
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- 2009-09-11
Charles Pelton, who was supposed to establish an events business for the Washington Post and wound up being at the center of a fuss over the way a “salon” series was marketed, has resigned. WaPo reports that Pelton told Post President Stephen P. Hills by letter: ““Given the current...
Iraq War Coverage Differs In U.S., German Papers
- 2007-07-01
A content analysis of The Washington Post and the Frankfurter Allegemeine Zeitung revealed that both papers relied on official sources, but the German paper provided far less coverage of the conflict. On March 19,2003, the United States military led a "pre-emptive" strike on Iraq, thrusting media into a...
Deconstructing Tyrone: A New Look at Black Masculinity in the Hip-Hop Generation
- 2007-01-01
In DECONSTRUCTING TYRONE: A NEW LOOK AT BLACK MASCULINITY IN THE HIP-HOP GENERATION (Cleis Press, $14.95), journalists Natalie Hopkinson and Natalie Y. Moore examine Black masculinity from a variety of perspectives, looking not for consensus but for insight. Tyrone is the Black man seen through the media lens, through stereotype,...
In 1979, journalists could be trusted to keep secret
- 2006-07-22
Toward the end of 1979, hundreds of American and Canadian journalists and news organizations got hold of a dynamite news story that would have made personal reputations and careers and sent circulation or broadcast ratings soaring. The facts were confirmed, unassailably. Any one of these reporters could have had the...
Newspaper ideological bias or "statist quo"? The acid test
- 2006-07-01
I Introduction FOR 30 YEARS, debate has swirled around the alleged "liberal bias" of U.S. journalists, and especially journalists who write for publications such as Time, Newsweek, the New York Times, and the Washington Post. Sutter (2001) has written that a veritable "cottage industry" has sprung up as...
Washington Post critic Robin Givhan wins 2006 Pulitzer Prize
- 2006-05-08
Washington Post writer Robin Givhan, known for her eminent fashion assessments with political commentary, recently won the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for criticism in the journalism category. Pulitzer board judges bestowed Givhan, 41, with the honor because of "her witty, closely observed essays that transform fashion criticism into cultural criticism."...
GAC To Feature AGM, Journalist Bob Woodward
- 2006-01-23
CUNA's Governmental Affairs Conference boasts two new features for this year: the trade group's Annual General Meeting will take place in conjunction with GAC, and The Washington Post's famed investigative journalist, Bob Woodward will be a guest speaker. The CUNA AGM, which had been held in conjunction with Future...
Washington Post watchdog says star reporter committed 'sin'
- 2005-11-20
WASHINGTON AFP — The Washington Post's editorial watchdog slammed legendary reporter Bob Woodward for committing a journalistic "sin" by keeping from his paper what he knew in a CIA leak case that has rocked the White House. The newspaper's ombudsman, Deborah Howell, said Woodward should follow the same rules...
'Deep Throat' unveiled; Woodward offers perspective
- 2005-09-01
'Deep Throat' unveiled; Woodward offers perspective THE SECRET MAN: The Story of Watergate's Deep Throat By Bob Woodward Simon & Schuster, 249 pages, $23When an inexperienced Washington Post reporter granted anonymity to a Federal Bureau of Investigation official 33 years ago in exchange for information about a scandal that became...
