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{{Infobox Newspaper |name = |caption = The September 22,
2005 front page of
The Washington Post ] |format = Broadsheet ] |owners =
Washington Post Company ] 20071
|editor =
Leonard Downie, Jr. ] in
Washington, D.C.. It is also one of the city's oldest papers, having been founded in 1877.
Perhaps the most notable incident in the
Post's history was when, in the early 1970s, reporters Bob Woodward and
Carl Bernstein began the media's investigation of Watergate scandal. This played a major role in the undoing of the Richard Nixon presidency.
General overview
The
Post is generally regarded among the leading daily American newspapers, along with
The New York Times, which is known for its general reporting and international coverage, and
The Wall Street Journal, which is known for its financial reporting. The Washington Post is owned by the
Washington Post Company. The
Post has distinguished itself through its reporting on the workings of the White House,
Congress of the United States, and other aspects of the Federal government of the United States.
Unlike the
Times and the
Journal, however, it does not currently print a daily national edition for distribution away from the East Coast. However, a "National Weekly Edition", combining stories from a week of
Post editions, is published. The majority of its newsprint readership is in the District of Columbia, as well as its suburbs in Maryland and
Northern Virginia.
As of April 2007, its average weekday circulation was 699,130 and its Sunday circulation was 929,921, according to the
Audit Bureau of Circulations, making it the seventh largest newspaper in the country by circulation, behind
USA Today,
The Wall Street Journal,
The New York Times, the
Los Angeles Times, the
New York Post and the
New York Daily News. While its circulation, like that of almost all newspapers, has been slipping, it has one of the highest market-penetration rates of any metropolitan news daily.
History
The paper was founded in
1877 by
Stilson Hutchins and in
1880 added a Sunday edition, thus becoming the city's first newspaper to publish seven days a week. In 1889, Hutchins sold the paper to Frank Hatton, a former Postmaster General, and Beriah Wilkins, a former Democratic congressman from Ohio. To promote the paper, the new owners requested the leader of the Marine Band,
John Philip Sousa, to compose a march for the newspaper's essay contest awards ceremony. Sousa composed
The Washington Post (march), which remains one of his best-known works and is credited to have brought the newspaper to worldwide fame.
In
1899, during the Spanish-American War, the
Post printed
Clifford K. Berryman's classic illustration
Remember the Maine.
Wilkins acquired Hatton's share of the paper in 1894 at Hatton's death. After Wilkins' death in 1903, his sons John and Robert ran the
Post for two years before selling it in
1905 to
Washington McLean and his son
John Roll McLean, owners of the
Cincinnati Enquirer. When John died in 1916, he put the paper in trust, having little faith that his playboy son
Edward Beale McLean could manage his inheritance. Ned went to court and broke the trust, but, under his management, the paper slumped toward ruin. It was purchased in a bankruptcy auction in
1933 by a member of the
Federal Reserve's board of governors,
Eugene Meyer, who restored the paper's health and reputation. In 1946, Meyer was succeeded as publisher by his son-in-law
Philip Graham.
In 1954, the
Post consolidated its position by acquiring its last morning rival, the
Washington Times-Herald, leaving as its remaining competitors two afternoon papers, the
Washington Star (
Evening Star) (until that paper's demise in 1981) and
The Washington Daily News, which was bought and merged into the
Star in 1972. More recently,
The Washington Times, established in 1982, has been a local rival with a circulation (in 2005) about one-seventh that of the
Posthttp://www.washtimes.com/business/20050518-120247-7729r.htm.
After Graham's death, in 1963, control of the Washington Post Company passed to Katharine Graham, his wife and Meyer's daughter. No woman before had ever run a nationally prominent newspaper in the United States. She described her own anxiety and lack of confidence based on her gender in her autobiography, and she did not assign duties to her daughter at the paper as she did to her son. She served as publisher from 1969 to 1979 and headed the Washington Post Company into the early 1990s as chairman of the board and CEO. After 1993, she retained a position as chairman of the executive committee until her death in 2001.
Her tenure is credited with seeing the Post rise in national stature through effective investigative reporting, most notably to assure
The New York Times did not surpass its Washington reporting of the Pentagon Papers and Watergate scandal. Executive editor Ben Bradlee, put the paper's reputation and resources behind reporters
Bob Woodward and
Carl Bernstein, who, in a long series of articles, chipped away at the story behind the 1972 burglary of
Democratic National Committee offices in the
Watergate complex complex in Washington. The Post's dogged coverage of the story, the outcome of which ultimately played a major role in the resignation of President Richard Nixon, won the paper a
Pulitzer Prize in 1973.
Also in 1972, the "
Book World" section was introduced. Book World 25th Anniversary:
Views From Publisher's Row, Marie Arana-Ward (then-deputy editor of "Book World"),
The Washington Post, June 1, 1997
In 1980, the
Post published a dramatic story called 'Jimmy's World', describing the life of an eight-year-old heroin addict in Washington, for which reporter Janet Cooke won acclaim and a
Pulitzer Prize. Subsequent investigation, however, revealed the story to be a fabrication. The Pulitzer Prize was returned.
Donald Graham, Katherine's son, succeeded her as publisher in 1979 and in the early 1990s became chief executive officer and chairman of the board, as well. He was succeeded in 2000 as publisher and CEO by
Boisfeuillet Jones, Jr., with Graham remaining as chairman.
Like
The New York Times, the
Post was slow in moving to color photographs and features. On
January 28,
1999 its first color front-page photograph appeared. After that, color slowly integrated itself into other photographs and advertising throughout the paper.
The newspaper established a web site in 1996, http://www.washingtonpost.com/
As of
2006 Pulitzer Prize the
Post had been honored with 22 Pulitzer Prizes, 18
Nieman Fellowships, and 368 White House News Photographers Association awards, among others.
The paper is part of
The Washington Post Company, which owns a number of other media and non-media companies, including
Newsweek magazine, the online magazine Slate_magazine, and the education company
Kaplan%2C_Inc..
The paper runs its own
Print syndication service for its columnists and cartoonists, The Washington Post Writers Group.
The
Post has its main office at 1150 15th St, N.W., and the newspaper has the exclusive zip code 20071.
Political leanings
Beginning with Nixonhttp://www.amconmag.com/2005_02_14/buchanan.html, conservatives often cite the
Post, along with
The New York Times, as exemplars of "liberal media bias." As late publisher Katherine Graham noted in her memoirs
Personal History, the paper long had a policy of not making endorsements for presidential candidates. In 2004, however, the Post endorsed John Kerryhttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57584-2004Oct23.html. It also has endorsed Republican politicians, such as Maryland Governor
Robert Ehrlichhttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/25/AR2006102501668.html. In 2006 it repeated its historic endorsements of every Republican incumbent for Congress in Northern Virginiahttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/29/AR2006102900552.html. There have also been times when the
Post has specifically chosen not to endorse any candidate, such as in 1988 when it refused to endorse then Governor Michael Dukakis or then Vice President George_H._W._Bushhttp://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.htmlres=940DE2DF1F3CF931A35752C1A96E948260.
It has regularly published a political mixture of op-ed columnists, some of them center-left (including
E.J. Dionne and Richard Cohen (journalist)) and a few center-right (including
George Will and Charles Krauthammer)
In "Buying the War" on PBS, Bill Moyers noted 27 editorials supporting the President's ambitions to invade Iraq. National security correspondent
Walter Pincus reported that he had been ordered to cease his reports that were critical of Republican administrationshttp://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003574260.
Its editorial positions have taken both liberal and conservative stances: it has steadfastly supported the 2003 invasion of Iraq, warmed to President
George W. Bush's proposal to partially privatize
Social Security (United States), opposed a deadline for U.S. withdrawal from the Iraq War, and advocated free trade agreements, including, among others,
Dominican Republic–Central America Free Trade Agreement.
In 1992 the PBS investigative news program Frontline (US TV series) suggested that the Post had moved to the right in response to its smaller, more conservative rival the Washington Times. The program quoted Paul Weyrich, one of the founders of the conservative activist organization the
Moral Majority, as saying "
The Washington Post became very arrogant and they just decided that they would determine what was news and what wasn't news and they wouldn't cover a lot of things that went on. And the
Washington Times has forced the
Post to cover a lot of things that they wouldn't cover if the
Times wasn't in existence."http://www.mediachannel.org/originals/moontranscript.shtml
On March 26, 2007,
Chris Matthews said on his television program, "Well,
The Washington Post is not the liberal newspaper it was, Congressman, let me tell you. I have been reading it for years and it is a neoconservatism newspaper"http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17798805.
The conservative leadership of Donald Graham and editorial page editor Fred Hiatt has been seen as a catalyst of these changes.
Ombudsmen
In 1970 the
Post became one of the first newspapers in the United States to establish a position of "ombudsman," or readers' representative, assigned to address reader complaints about
Post news coverage and to monitor the newspaper's adherence to its own standards. Ever since, the ombudsman's commentary has been a frequent feature of the
Post editorial page.
Notable contributors
Executive Officers and Editors (past and present)
References
External links
- Official website
- Corporate website
- Timeline of the history of The Washington Post
- Scott Sherman, Columbia Journalism Review, May 2002, "Donald Graham's Washington Post"
- Video Interview with Baghdad Bureau Chief Rajiv Chandrasekaran
{{Infobox Newspaper |name = |caption = The September 22, 2005 front page of
The Washington Post ] |format = Broadsheet ] |owners = Washington Post Company ] 20071
|editor =
Leonard Downie, Jr. ] in Washington, D.C.. It is also one of the city's oldest papers, having been founded in 1877.
Perhaps the most notable incident in the
Post's history was when, in the early 1970s, reporters
Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein began the media's investigation of Watergate scandal. This played a major role in the undoing of the Richard Nixon presidency.
General overview
The
Post is generally regarded among the leading daily American newspapers, along with
The New York Times, which is known for its general reporting and international coverage, and
The Wall Street Journal, which is known for its financial reporting. The Washington Post is owned by the
Washington Post Company. The
Post has distinguished itself through its reporting on the workings of the
White House, Congress of the United States, and other aspects of the
Federal government of the United States.
Unlike the
Times and the
Journal, however, it does not currently print a daily national edition for distribution away from the East Coast. However, a "National Weekly Edition", combining stories from a week of
Post editions, is published. The majority of its newsprint readership is in the District of Columbia, as well as its suburbs in
Maryland and
Northern Virginia.
As of April 2007, its average weekday circulation was 699,130 and its Sunday circulation was 929,921, according to the
Audit Bureau of Circulations, making it the seventh largest newspaper in the country by circulation, behind
USA Today,
The Wall Street Journal,
The New York Times, the
Los Angeles Times, the
New York Post and the
New York Daily News. While its circulation, like that of almost all newspapers, has been slipping, it has one of the highest market-penetration rates of any metropolitan news daily.
History
The paper was founded in
1877 by Stilson Hutchins and in
1880 added a Sunday edition, thus becoming the city's first newspaper to publish seven days a week. In 1889, Hutchins sold the paper to Frank Hatton, a former Postmaster General, and Beriah Wilkins, a former Democratic congressman from Ohio. To promote the paper, the new owners requested the leader of the Marine Band, John Philip Sousa, to compose a march for the newspaper's essay contest awards ceremony. Sousa composed
The Washington Post (march), which remains one of his best-known works and is credited to have brought the newspaper to worldwide fame.
In 1899, during the
Spanish-American War, the
Post printed Clifford K. Berryman's classic illustration
Remember the Maine.
Wilkins acquired Hatton's share of the paper in 1894 at Hatton's death. After Wilkins' death in 1903, his sons John and Robert ran the
Post for two years before selling it in 1905 to
Washington McLean and his son
John Roll McLean, owners of the
Cincinnati Enquirer. When John died in 1916, he put the paper in trust, having little faith that his playboy son
Edward Beale McLean could manage his inheritance. Ned went to court and broke the trust, but, under his management, the paper slumped toward ruin. It was purchased in a bankruptcy auction in
1933 by a member of the
Federal Reserve's board of governors, Eugene Meyer, who restored the paper's health and reputation. In
1946, Meyer was succeeded as publisher by his son-in-law
Philip Graham.
In 1954, the
Post consolidated its position by acquiring its last morning rival, the
Washington Times-Herald, leaving as its remaining competitors two afternoon papers, the
Washington Star (
Evening Star) (until that paper's demise in 1981) and
The Washington Daily News, which was bought and merged into the
Star in 1972. More recently,
The Washington Times, established in 1982, has been a local rival with a circulation (in 2005) about one-seventh that of the
Posthttp://www.washtimes.com/business/20050518-120247-7729r.htm.
After Graham's death, in 1963, control of the Washington Post Company passed to
Katharine Graham, his wife and Meyer's daughter. No woman before had ever run a nationally prominent newspaper in the United States. She described her own anxiety and lack of confidence based on her gender in her autobiography, and she did not assign duties to her daughter at the paper as she did to her son. She served as publisher from 1969 to 1979 and headed the Washington Post Company into the early 1990s as chairman of the board and CEO. After 1993, she retained a position as chairman of the executive committee until her death in 2001.
Her tenure is credited with seeing the Post rise in national stature through effective investigative reporting, most notably to assure
The New York Times did not surpass its Washington reporting of the Pentagon Papers and Watergate scandal. Executive editor Ben Bradlee, put the paper's reputation and resources behind reporters
Bob Woodward and
Carl Bernstein, who, in a long series of articles, chipped away at the story behind the 1972 burglary of Democratic National Committee offices in the Watergate complex complex in Washington. The Post's dogged coverage of the story, the outcome of which ultimately played a major role in the resignation of President Richard Nixon, won the paper a Pulitzer Prize in 1973.
Also in 1972, the "Book World" section was introduced. Book World 25th Anniversary:
Views From Publisher's Row,
Marie Arana-Ward (then-deputy editor of "Book World"),
The Washington Post, June 1, 1997
In 1980, the
Post published a dramatic story called 'Jimmy's World', describing the life of an eight-year-old heroin addict in Washington, for which reporter
Janet Cooke won acclaim and a
Pulitzer Prize. Subsequent investigation, however, revealed the story to be a fabrication. The Pulitzer Prize was returned.
Donald Graham, Katherine's son, succeeded her as publisher in 1979 and in the early 1990s became chief executive officer and chairman of the board, as well. He was succeeded in 2000 as publisher and CEO by
Boisfeuillet Jones, Jr., with Graham remaining as chairman.
Like
The New York Times, the
Post was slow in moving to color photographs and features. On January 28,
1999 its first color front-page photograph appeared. After that, color slowly integrated itself into other photographs and advertising throughout the paper.
The newspaper established a web site in 1996, http://www.washingtonpost.com/
As of
2006 Pulitzer Prize the
Post had been honored with 22 Pulitzer Prizes, 18
Nieman Fellowships, and 368
White House News Photographers Association awards, among others.
The paper is part of The Washington Post Company, which owns a number of other media and non-media companies, including Newsweek magazine, the online magazine Slate_magazine, and the education company
Kaplan%2C_Inc..
The paper runs its own
Print syndication service for its columnists and cartoonists,
The Washington Post Writers Group.
The
Post has its main office at 1150 15th St, N.W., and the newspaper has the exclusive zip code 20071.
Political leanings
Beginning with Nixonhttp://www.amconmag.com/2005_02_14/buchanan.html, conservatives often cite the
Post, along with
The New York Times, as exemplars of "liberal media bias." As late publisher Katherine Graham noted in her memoirs
Personal History, the paper long had a policy of not making endorsements for presidential candidates. In 2004, however, the Post endorsed John Kerryhttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57584-2004Oct23.html. It also has endorsed Republican politicians, such as Maryland Governor
Robert Ehrlichhttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/25/AR2006102501668.html. In 2006 it repeated its historic endorsements of every Republican incumbent for Congress in Northern Virginiahttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/29/AR2006102900552.html. There have also been times when the
Post has specifically chosen not to endorse any candidate, such as in 1988 when it refused to endorse then Governor Michael Dukakis or then Vice President George_H._W._Bushhttp://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.htmlres=940DE2DF1F3CF931A35752C1A96E948260.
It has regularly published a political mixture of op-ed columnists, some of them center-left (including
E.J. Dionne and
Richard Cohen (journalist)) and a few center-right (including
George Will and
Charles Krauthammer)
In "Buying the War" on PBS, Bill Moyers noted 27 editorials supporting the President's ambitions to invade Iraq. National security correspondent Walter Pincus reported that he had been ordered to cease his reports that were critical of Republican administrationshttp://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003574260.
Its editorial positions have taken both liberal and conservative stances: it has steadfastly supported the 2003 invasion of Iraq, warmed to President George W. Bush's proposal to partially privatize Social Security (United States), opposed a deadline for U.S. withdrawal from the
Iraq War, and advocated
free trade agreements, including, among others,
Dominican Republic–Central America Free Trade Agreement.
In 1992 the PBS investigative news program Frontline (US TV series) suggested that the Post had moved to the right in response to its smaller, more conservative rival the
Washington Times. The program quoted Paul Weyrich, one of the founders of the conservative activist organization the Moral Majority, as saying "
The Washington Post became very arrogant and they just decided that they would determine what was news and what wasn't news and they wouldn't cover a lot of things that went on. And the
Washington Times has forced the
Post to cover a lot of things that they wouldn't cover if the
Times wasn't in existence."http://www.mediachannel.org/originals/moontranscript.shtml
On March 26, 2007, Chris Matthews said on his television program, "Well,
The Washington Post is not the liberal newspaper it was, Congressman, let me tell you. I have been reading it for years and it is a
neoconservatism newspaper"http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17798805.
The conservative leadership of
Donald Graham and editorial page editor
Fred Hiatt has been seen as a catalyst of these changes.
Ombudsmen
In 1970 the
Post became one of the first newspapers in the United States to establish a position of "ombudsman," or readers' representative, assigned to address reader complaints about
Post news coverage and to monitor the newspaper's adherence to its own standards. Ever since, the ombudsman's commentary has been a frequent feature of the
Post editorial page.
Notable contributors
- Joel Achenbach (writer)
- Anne Applebaum (writer)
- Marie Arana (editor of "Book World")
- Cathy Areu (contributing editor, "First Person Singular")
- Dan Balz (national political reporter)
- Carl Bernstein (writer)
- Andrew Beyer (horse racing columnist)
- Herbert Lawrence Block (cartoonist)
- Thomas Boswell (sports columnist)
- David S. Broder (writer)
- Tina Brown (writer)
- Art Buchwald (writer)
- Chris Cillizza (writer; author of The Fix weblog)
- Libby Copeland (writer)
- Richard L. Coe (theatre critic/writer)
- Richard Cohen (journalist) (writer)
- Steve Coll (editor)
- Lisa de Moraes (television columnist)
- Helen Dewar (Senate political reporter)
- E.J. Dionne (writer)
- Michael Dirda (book critic)
- Leonard Downie, Jr. (editor)
- Michel duCille (photo editor, photographer)
- Dan Froomkin (columnist)
- Barbara Garson (writer)
- Meg Greenfield (editor)
- Mike Grunwald (writer)
- Walter Haight (sports writer and columnist)
- Jim Hoagland (writer)
Executive Officers and Editors (past and present)
References
External links
- Official website
- Corporate website
- Timeline of the history of The Washington Post
- Scott Sherman, Columbia Journalism Review, May 2002, "Donald Graham's Washington Post"
- Video Interview with Baghdad Bureau Chief Rajiv Chandrasekaran
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