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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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UBS Media Week: WaPo's Graham: Having 'Conversations' About Online Pay; Backs Comcast-NBCU Deal
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- 2009-12-07
The Washington Post Co. (NYSE: WPO) continues to avoid any overt suggestion that it will start charging for charging for Washington Post content online but CEO Don Graham’s response to an investor at the UBS conference this morning left some wiggle room. “We haven’t announced any plans to charge...
UBS Media Week: WaPo's Graham: Conversations About Online Pay But No Announcements
PaidContent
- 2009-12-07
The Washington Post Co. (NYSE: WPO) continues to avoid any overt suggestion that it will start charging for charging for Washington Post content online but CEO Don Graham’s response to an invest at the UBS conference this morning left some wiggle room. “We haven’t announced any plans to charge...
Washington Post, Bloomberg Team Up For New Syndication Service:
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- 2009-10-01
The Washington Post (NYSE: WPO) and Bloomberg News are launching a new syndication service Jan. 1, 2010—the Washington Post News Service with Bloomberg News, which will provide daily content from the paper and the financial newswire to newspapers, website and other subs. The move follows by a day the...
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...
Washington Post Online, Print Operations Will Merge Jan. 1, 2010
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- 2009-09-17
Washington Post Publisher Katharine Weymouth’s push to integrate the paper’s print and online operations continues to move at a rapid pace with Jan. 1, 2010 as the target. Weymouth told the staffs via memo Thursday that The Washington Post and Washington Post (NYSE: WPO) Digital, which operates washingtonpost.com, will...
How Do You Define Hyperlocal?
PaidContent
- 2009-08-18
When the MSNBC acquisition of EveryBlock popped Monday, just about everyone—paidContent included—quickly added “hyperlocal” as the key description. But it’s a term founder and new MSNBC employee Adrian Holovaty has actively disavowed in the past—and one the MSNBC announcement avoided, opting instead for “innovative local site” that “goes...
Washington Post's Kurtz Loses Hope for Newspapers
BNET
- 2009-05-11
As he noted in his popular media column in today's Washington Post, Howard Kurtz has long been one of the newspaper industry's "most fervent optimists."Â But, witnessing the kinds of chaos gripping his industry these past few weeks, he says, has undermined his belief that newspapers can "find a path...
Media Roundup: NYT to Sell Red Sox, Post and Sun Share Content, and More
BNET
- 2008-12-26
In today's Media Roundup: New York Times to sell stake in Red Sox, Post and Sun to share content, USA Today to be sold on Kindle and TV still #1 source for news, Web catching up by Sean Blanda
washingtonpost.com Launches New Aggregation Technologies for Final Week of 2008 Presidential Election
- 2008-10-29
Searchable Timeline and Interactive Map Let Readers Track Minute-by-Minute Coverage Happening in Real-Time Across the Nation Special Post Feed to Aggregate Users' Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and Flickr Feeds WASHINGTON -- washingtonpost.com, an award-winning news and information Web site, today launches TimeSpace Election, a presidential election map and timeline...
Obama Biographer Whines About Campaign's PR Tactics
BNET
- 2008-10-18
Pity the poor quickie biographer -- trying to cash in on the sudden fame of a national figure by rushing a book into publication and onto store shelves in enough time to harvest some pre-Election Day sales. After all, if the candidate loses, those books will be remaindered quicker than...
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