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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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Washington Post Announces Cost Cutting Measures
Seeking Alpha
- 2009-11-30
Zacks.com submits: The Washington Post Company WPO, a diversified education and media company, recently announced that it would close its bureau offices in New York , Los Angeles and Chicago effective Dec 31, 2009, in an effort to cut costs and focus more on local news. Consequently,...
Washington Post closing several U.S. bureaus
BNET
- 2009-11-25
NEW YORK - The Washington Post is closing its last U.S. bureaus outside the nation's capital as the money-losing newspaper retrenches to focus on politics and local news. "At a time of limited resources and increased competitive pressure, it's necessary to concentrate our journalistic firepower on our central mission of...
Marcus Brauchli — [Pullquote]
BNET
- 2009-11-24
executive editor of the Washington Post explaining the newspaper's decision to close its remaining U.S. bureaus in New York, Los Angeles and Chicago , to the Washington Post .
Washington Post: Print-Heads vs. Web-Heads
Seeking Alpha
- 2009-11-22
Mathew Ingram submits: The recent cuts at the Washington Post WPO — as reported by Politico and Washington’s City Paper — have once again brought to the surface a culture clash that has been going on in mainstream newsrooms for most of the last decade, and one that shows...
Layoffs hit The Washington Post after BusinessWeek, AP
BNET
- 2009-11-20
Several media reporters wrote on Twitter on Thursday that this was one of the worst weeks in journalism, and it's hard to argue with them. BusinessWeek is canning a third of its staff as Bloomberg gets ready to buy the magazine. The Associated Press is laying off 90 people as...
Slate Reverts Women's Site DoubleX As A Section; No Longer A Standalone
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- 2009-11-16
Slate is pulling the plug on women’s news and views site DoubleX and will fold the content under that heading back into the media group’s main site, the NYT reported. It was only six months ago that Slate formed DoubleX out of its XX Factor blog. Back in February,...
States May End Up Making All the Decisions
BNET
- 2009-11-04
This is from The Washington Post: A bill approved by the Finance Committee would leave virtually every major decision to state officials…States could let low-income families shop the exchanges or offer them some other kind of coverage, such as policies already offered to state employees. Under a provision authored by...
Both the Washington Post and Newsweek Are Loss Leaders At WPO
BNET
- 2009-11-03
Although the Washington Post Co. posted positive numbers in the third quarter, the flagship newspaper of the same name continues to lose the company money. So does Newsweek magazine, where ad revenue is off by a third from this time last year. by David Weir
Why AARP is Selling Out Seniors
BNET
- 2009-10-29
This is Dan Eggen, writing in The Washington Post: The group and its subsidiaries collected more than $650 million in royalties and other fees last year from the sale of insurance policies, credit cards and other products that carry the AARP name, accounting for the majority of its $1.14 billion...
HuffPo CEO Eric Hippeau: 'We Are Now In The Big Leagues'
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- 2009-10-19
The news spread quickly, aided by PR and the characteristic web glee anytime an online property appears to be leaving old media in the dust: the September numbers for comScore and Nielsen showed Arianna Huffington and The Huffington Post beating WashingtonPost.com in unique visitors for the first time. Coincidentally,...
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