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November 2002: "The Washington Post newspaper is an operating division of The Washington Post Company....Company headquarters are in Washington, D.C."  https://washpost.com/gen_info/corporateinfo/
"The Washington Post was first published in 1877...The Post is the product of a complex, technologically advanced process....Working around the clock seven days a week, nearly 1000 people in the Production department...The Post is produced at two state-of-the-art printing plants, one in Springfield, Virginia, and the other in College Park, Maryland."
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Third-Party Descriptions

July 2009: "The Washington Post indicated that a slump in visitors to Mr. Froomkin’s well-known Web column, White House Watch, contributed to its decision not to renew his contract in June. The popularity of Mr. Froomkin’s column was tied in part to its consistent critiques of the Bush administration, and he acknowledges that his page views declined after President Obama took office."

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/13/business/media/13froomkin.html

Relationships

RoleNameTypeLast Updated
Owned by (partial or full, past or present) Washington Post Company Organization Dec 17, 2005
Owner of (partial or full, past or present) Washington Post Writers Group Source Dec 17, 2005
Owner of (partial or full, past or present) Washington Post Source
Organization Executive (past or present) Benjamin C. Bradlee Person
Advised by (past or present) Prof. Ben Edelman J.D., Ph.D Person Mar 30, 2008
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Charles Krauthammer Person
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) William Raspberry Person

Articles and Resources

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Jul 28, 2010 NTSB blames '09 Metro crash on track circuit failures, negligent safety attitude

QUOTE: Chronic track circuit failures and a negligent attitude toward safety made a catastrophic accident such as last year's fatal Red Line crash inevitable, the National Transportation Safety Board determined in its final report on the incident Tuesday, warning that the conditions that led to the crash pose a continuing risk.

 Washington Post
Jul 04, 2010 Adrian Johns's "Piracy: The Intellectual Property Wars From Gutenberg to Gates"

QUOTE: In his invaluable book "Piracy," Adrian Jones argues that the tendency of intellectual property battles to undermine privacy is not new. On the contrary, Johns, a history professor at the University of Chicago, argues that ever since the medieval and Enlightenment eras, corporations have tried to defend their economic interests by searching for intellectual piracy in the private sphere of people's homes.

 Washington Post
Jul 01, 2010 Change in IRS rules could block rewards for whistleblowers

QUOTE: When information from whistleblowers helps the IRS recover unpaid taxes, the informants are entitled to as much as 30 percent of the proceeds. However, the new manual explains that the tipster is out of luck if, instead of yielding a payment to the IRS, the tip stops a refund or reduces a credit.

 Washington Post
Jun 27, 2010 Travelers, be wary of 'data passing' online

QUOTE: "Data pass" refers to a shady practice of sending credit card information along to a third party at the end of a transaction without the buyer's explicit approval. In years past, travelers often found themselves unwittingly enrolled in clubs that automatically charged a monthly enrollment fee while travel companies raked in millions in profits, according to investigators and consumers.

 Washington Post
Jun 26, 2010 Gen. McChrystal allies, Rolling Stone disagree over article's ground rules

QUOTE: McChrystal had been relieved of his command, his 34-year military career in tatters...officials close to McChrystal began trying to salvage his reputation by asserting that the author, Michael Hastings, quoted the general and his staff in conversations that he was allowed to witness but not report.

 Washington Post
Jun 25, 2010 Justices say petition signers should not expect their names to be kept secret

QUOTE: Those who sign referendum petitions should generally not expect to keep their names secret, the Supreme Court ruled Thursday, rejecting the argument of an anti-gay-rights group that disclosure would violate their First Amendment protection of political expression.

 Washington Post
Jun 24, 2010 Talks on reducing whale hunting break down

QUOTE: Three years of talks aimed at reducing whaling activity by Japan, Norway and Iceland broke down Wednesday, leaving management of the population of the world's largest animals essentially in the hands of whale hunters.

 Washington Post
Jun 18, 2010 Supreme Court rules on employer monitoring of cellphone, computer conversations

QUOTE: A hesitant Supreme Court waded cautiously into a question that arises daily in workplaces and offices across the country: whether employers have the right to look over the shoulders of workers who use company computers and cellphones for personal communication. In the first ruling of its kind, the justices said they do, as long as there is a "legitimate work-related purpose" to monitor them.

 Washington Post
Jun 17, 2010 Interior inspector general expected to fault oil spill probe

QUOTE: Elected officials should consider imposing ethics rules on oil and gas companies that do business with the federal government, the Interior Department's acting inspector general plans to tell the House Natural Resources Committee...

 Washington Post
Jun 06, 2010 Understanding how colleges hand out aid can improve your chances

QUOTE: the FAFSA considers fewer assets than the Profile; it ignores home equity as well as the assets of family-business owners with 100 or fewer full-time employees. If you have significant wealth in home equity or in a small family business, the institutional formula will penalize you. The federal formula will not.

 Washington Post
Jun 06, 2010 Colleges offer grants, work-study to reduce students' debt

QUOTE: More than 50 colleges -- including elite private schools and flagship state universities in Virginia and Maryland -- have eliminated or capped loans in their financial aid portfolios for some or all students, promising enough aid in grants and work-study to cover most of the gap between what they charge and what each student can afford to pay. At a handful of private universities with sizable endowments, including Princeton, Harvard and the University of Pennsylvania, the goal is quite literally to eliminate loan debt for most graduating seniors.

 Washington Post
May 28, 2010 SEC settles charges with Pequot firm over insider trading

QUOTE: ...withering criticism from lawmakers that the agency had mishandled an earlier investigation of the matter. Pequot Capital Management and its chief executive, Arthur Samberg, agreed to pay $28 million to settle the SEC's charges that the firm traded shares of Microsoft based on insider information.

 Washington Post
May 27, 2010 With credit scores, it should be equal access for all

QUOTE: Why in the world would Congress provide some consumers with free access to credit scores, but not others? This could happen under a measure being considered by lawmakers that would grant free access to people whose credit scores were used to deny them credit or a job.

 Washington Post
May 26, 2010 Europe's burqa rage

QUOTE: The vast majority of Muslim women do not wear complete covering because the Koran mandates only modesty, not sartorial imprisonment. But at issue in Europe is not social disapproval; it is criminalization.

 Washington Post
May 25, 2010 Justices say employers may not use discriminatory testing practices

QUOTE: Employers who use tests that have the effect of ruling out disproportionate numbers of women and minorities may be sued each time they use the results to hire, the Supreme Court ruled...

 Washington Post
May 25, 2010 Rep. James Moran's investments illustrate Congress's leeway in trading

QUOTE: Long-standing congressional ethics rules allow almost any kind of trading and investment, subject in general to the judgment of individual lawmakers. Those rules also allow spouses to have jobs in areas that touch on a lawmaker's activity or investments. Moreover, lawmakers are not required to abstain from voting or divest themselves of stock when most potential conflicts arise.

 Washington Post
May 22, 2010 Congress should repeal 'don't ask, don't tell' and let the Pentagon do the rest

QUOTE: Current efforts to end "don't ask, don't tell" have focused on repealing the law and on replacing it with a policy that requires equal treatment of gay, lesbian and bisexual troops. This is a tougher sell to moderates in Congress and has the downside of perpetuating congressional meddling in military policy. By contrast, the "repeal only" option would leave to the Pentagon any questions about the possibility, content and timing of policy changes...

 Washington Post
May 22, 2010 No criminal charges for executives in troubled AIG subsidiary

QUOTE: The Justice Department has closed its high-profile investigation into current and former executives of an American International Group subsidiary that was linked to the insurance giant's near collapse, sources familiar with the probe said Friday evening.

 Washington Post
May 22, 2010 In shoppers' online networks, privacy has no price tag

QUOTE: Blippy, a sort of Twitter for shopping that allows users to automatically broadcast what they bought using credit and debit cards to the rest of the world....privacy advocates say that users are divulging a dangerous level of personal financial information...

 Washington Post
May 21, 2010 Pakistan blocks YouTube a day after shutdown of Facebook over Muhammad issue

QUOTE: A simmering clash between free speech and religious sensibilities in Pakistan burst from the streets onto the Internet on Thursday, as the government blocked the video-sharing site YouTube and other pages it deemed "sacrilegious" to the nation's Muslim majority.

 Washington Post

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