Washington Post
The Washington
Post group (Post),
controlled by the Graham family, has around 7,200
employees. Recent sales were around US$2.3 billion. Apart
from the flagship newspaper, the group has television,
print, pulp and other interests.
studies
David Halberstam's
classic The Powers That Be (New York, Knopf 79) is
a picture by the leading US journalist of the Washington
Post, CBS, New York Times and LA
Times at the peak of the 'television age'.
It's greatly superior to
the more recent Paper Tigers (London, Heinemann 93)
by Nicholas Coleridge, supplying chatty profiles of the
Sulzbergers, Rothermeres, Grahams, Coxs, Aga Khans and
less prominent nabobs. Piers Brendon, in The Life
& Death of the Press Barons (London, Secker &
Warburg 82), pronounced the barons dead; we suggest that
the species survives and is disguised by better tailors.
Personal History
(New York, Vintage 96) by Katherine Graham is
characteristically guarded. It's complemented by
editor Ben Bradlee's A Good Life: Newspapering &
Other Adventures (New York, Touchstone 96).
The more insightful, if at times gossipy, Power,
Privilege & the Post: The Katherine Graham Story
(Seven Stories, New York 99) by Carol Felsenthal was
initially pulped at the request of Ms Graham's lawyers,
apparently over its account of happy days within the
Graham family.
David Rudenstine's The Day the Presses Stopped: A
History of The Pentagon Papers Case (Berkeley, Uni of
California Press 96) is an excellent introduction to the
interplay between beancounters, proprietors, journos and
lawyers in dealing with 'national interest' disputes.
holdings
[Under Development]
Newspapers
The Washington Post
The Washington Post
National Weekly Edition
The Herald
(Everett)
Gazette Newspapers,
Inc. (community weekly newspapers and a monthly business
publication, in Maryland; 11 military newspapers)
International Herald
Tribune (50%) - with The New York Times Company
The Washington Post
Writers Group (syndication)
Los Angeles
Times-Washington Post News Service (50% with
Times-Mirror; restructuring likely following Tribune
takeover of Times-Mirror)
Enterprise Newspapers -
4 weekly community newspapers
Magazines
Newsweek
Newsweek
International
Newsweek Nihon Ban
Japan
Newsweek Hankuk Pan
Korea
Newsweek En Espanol
Itogi - Russian
language newsweekly
Tempo - Greek
language newsweekly with New Communications, S.A.
Post-Newsweek Business
Information - trade magazines and trade shows
Broadcast and cable
television
WDIV (Detroit) (NBC)
KPRC (Houston) (NBC)
WPLG (Miami) (ABC)
WKMG (Orlando) (CBS)
KSAT (San Antonio)
(ABC)
WJXT (Jacksonville)
(CBS)
ACTV (20%) -
interactive television
Newsweek Productions
Cable One
Other
Kaplan Educational
Centers
Digital Ink - new
media and electronic publishing
Classified Ventures -
partnership with Times-Mirror and Tribune
LEGI-SLATE - online
federal government and regulatory info services
Robinson Terminal
Warehouse - newsprint facility in Virginia
Capitol Fiber -
recycling center in Washington/Baltimore area
Bowater Mersey Paper
Company (49%) – newsprint mills in Canada
Dearborn Publishing
Group - a publisher and provider of licensing training
for securities, insurance and real estate professionals
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