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Katharine Meyer Graham (June 16, 1917 – July 17, 2001) was an American newspaper publisher. She led her family's newspaper, The Washington Post, from 1963 to 1991.Graham presided over the paper as it reported on the Watergate scandal, which eventually led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon.
Eugene Meyer, Graham's maternal grandfather, bought The Washington Post at a bankruptcy sale in 1933. Graham's father Philip was publisher of The Washington Post from 1946 until 1961, and president of the Washington Post Company from 1947 until his death in 1963. Graham’s mother Katharine took over the newspaper as publisher after her husband ...
Graham Holdings Company (formerly The Washington Post Company) is a diversified American conglomerate holding company. Headquartered in Arlington County, Virginia , and incorporated in Delaware , [ 3 ] it was formerly the owner of The Washington Post newspaper and Newsweek magazine.
While running the Washington Post and other parts of the Post Company, Graham played a backstage role in national and local politics. In 1954, Graham was the leading force behind the founding of the Federal City Council , a highly influential group of business, civic, education, and other leaders interested in economic development in Washington ...
Elizabeth Morris "Lally" Graham Weymouth (born July 3, 1943) [1] is an American journalist, and senior associate editor of The Washington Post. She was previously special diplomatic correspondent for Newsweek magazine during her family's ownership of the publication.
Meyer owned the The Washington Post and was its publisher from 1933 to 1946; the paper stayed in his family throughout the rest of the 20th century. He was the first president of the World Bank Group from June to December 1946. His daughter, Katharine "Kay" Graham, took the Post over in 1963 and remained its titular head until her death in 2001.
Personal History is the 1997 autobiography of Washington Post publisher Katharine Graham.It won the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography, [1] and received widespread critical acclaim for its candour in dealing with her husband's mental illness and the challenges she faced in a male-dominated working environment.
She is a granddaughter and namesake of long-time Washington Post chairwoman and publisher Katharine Graham. Her mother's family owned the Post from 1933, when the bankrupt paper was bought by Weymouth's great-grandfather (Fed chairman Eugene Meyer), until it was sold to Jeff Bezos in 2013. [19]