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Market Cap:$3.3B
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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Leonard Downie, Jr., Executive Editor of The Washington Post, to Retire
- 2008-06-23
WASHINGTON -- Leonard Downie, Jr., who has served as executive editor of The Washington Post since September 1, 1991, has decided to retire in the fall of 2008. No successor has been named. "Len's extraordinary news judgment, his ferocious sense of fairness, his honesty with the staff and with...
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....
In Washington, It's Always the Year of the Rat
- 2007-03-19
Democrats have leapt on reports of mold, rats and bureaucratic hurdles at Walter Reed Army Medical Center as further proof of President George Bush's failed war policies. To the contrary, the problems at Walter Reed are further proof of the Democrats' failed domestic policies-to wit, the civil service rules that...
Wounded US troops tell lawmakers of deplorable medical treatment
- 2007-03-06
WASHINGTON AFP — Injuries, then anger and tears: for US troops, their wounds in Iraq and Afghanistan are just the beginning of a painful journey through a daunting medical bureacracy at home. US lawmakers listened Monday to stories of neglect and mistreatment at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, two...
DNC: Reality Catches Up With Representative No. 1 ; Leading Symbol of GOP Culture of Corruption Pleads Guilty
- 2006-09-15
WASHINGTON, Sept. 15 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The following release was issued today by the Democratic National Committee: Ohio Republican Congressman Bob Ney's guilty plea may mean his long denial is finally coming to an end, but it doesn't mean the Republicans in Columbus or Washington are wrapping up their culture...
NUCLEAR IRAN: PERILS AND PROSPECTS
- 2006-07-01
On April 11, 2006, Iran's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, proudly and triumphantly announced that the Islamic Republic had joined "the club of nuclear countries." Calling it "a very historic moment" of epochal significance, he said that Iranian scientists had succeeded in enriching uranium in a pilot test, thus paving the way...
US airstrikes in Afghanistan surge: Washington Post
- 2006-06-18
WASHINGTON AFP — US airstrikes in Afghanistan have surged in the past three months as fighting has spread, The Washington Post reports. Washington carried out 340 airstrikes in that time frame, "more than twice the 160 carried out in the much higher-profile war in Iraq", the report said, citing...
'American Idol': Good, cheesy fun
- 2006-05-27
LET us briefly turn away from consequential matters of state -- the $90,000 in ice-cold cash the FBI says it found in Rep. William Jefferson's freezer, the donnybrook on Capitol Hill over immigration, the Bush administration's latest delusional claims of light at the end of the Iraq tunnel -- to...
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...
DNC: Culture of Corruption: TGIF Edition
- 2005-10-07
WASHINGTON, Oct. 7 /U.S. Newswire/ -- In just the last 24 hours, there have been significant developments in five separate scandals relating to the culture of corruption and cronyism that Republican leaders have brought to Washington, D.C. As a public service, the Democratic National Committee DNC has compiled this primer...
