BNET Industries
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
Peer Companies
NAICS Code All Other Miscellaneous Schools and Instruction: 611699
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Countrywide gave special treatment to US lawmakers: reports
- 2008-06-14
WASHINGTON AFP — Countrywide Financial, the largest mortgage lender at the center of the US housing crisis, regularly gave loans on favorable terms to prominent lawmakers and former cabinet members, according to US media. The preferential treatment for senators including Democrat Chris Dodd, chairman of the Senate Banking Committee...
AHF Cheers Wash. Post Nod to Sen. Coburn on Saving More Lives Through PEPFAR
- 2008-06-02
Sunday Editorial Concedes the Senator "Has a Point" in Striving to Preserve the Bill's Focus on Treatment AHF Calls for Treatment Goal Increase Equal to Funding Increase. The Results? Four Million Additional Lives Saved WASHINGTON D.C. -- AIDS Healthcare Foundation AHF, which operates free AIDS treatment clinics in...
DNC: Fumbling Fred Thompson Flip Flops on Fair Tax Pledge
- 2007-07-31
To: POLITICAL EDITORSContact: Stacie Paxton or Amaya Smith of Democratic National Committee, +1-202-863-8148 WASHINGTON, July 31 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The following was released today by the Democratic National Committee: According to ABC News, former Senator turned actor, turned lobbyist turned presidential candidate Fred Thompson is denying that he agreed to...
New US commander in Iraq is a high-brow paratrooper
- 2007-02-10
BAGHDAD AFP — The general tasked with saving the faltering US-Iraqi campaign is a wiry 54-year-old paratrooper and strategist with a reputation for innovative thinking and two-and-a-half years of Iraq experience. General David H. Petraeus is "the General Grant of the surge. He's our last best chance as a...
Barbara Mikulski
- 2005-01-01
Barbara Mikulski Barbara Ann Mikulski became the first Democratic woman elected to the United States Senate to hold a seat not previously held by her husband. Barbara Ann Milulski is known as the feisty senator from Baltimore, she is also the first Democratic woman ever to have served in both...
Bob Kerrey and Max Cleland Call for Karl Rove's Resignation
- 2004-09-01
WASHINGTON, Sept. 1 /U.S. Newswire/ -- In response to today's outrageous attacks on John Kerry's service by Karl Rove, former George Senator Max Cleland and former Nebraska Senator Bob Kerrey made the following statements Senator Max Cleland: "Karl Rove was behind it all, it's part of his smear campaign to...
Democrats for Life
- 2003-07-01
Part I. What They FaceOn June 25th, at a festive dinner in Washington, D.C., the Democratic National Committee raised $1.7 million for next year's presidential campaign. The Grand Ballroom of the Mayflower Hotel was decorated to look like a political-convention hall, and the Democratic presidential candidates were out in force....
Barbara Mikulski
- 2003-01-01
Barbara Mikulski Barbara Ann Mikulski became the first Democratic woman elected to the United States Senate to hold a seat not previously held by her husband. Barbara Ann Milulski is known as the feisty senator from Baltimore, she is also the first Democratic woman ever to have served in both...
Civil rights at bayonet point
- 2002-12-30
"When Strom Thurmond ran for president, we voted for him. We're proud of it," declared incoming Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott (R-Miss.) at a retirement party for Senator Strom Thurmond (R-S.C.). "And if the rest of the country had followed our lead, we wouldn't have had all these problems over...
A Final Farewell
- 2001-07-23
Washington's premier power hostess brought the giants of politics, media and business together one last time today-to say a painful goodbye. Some 4,000 friends, relatives and Washington Post Company employees-including Vice President Dick Cheney, former President Bill Clinton, and a host of senators, governors, mayors, Supreme Court justices, former...
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