The Washington Post
NEWSPAPER
Daily broadsheet, published since 1877. Acquired at auction from Edward McLean in 1933 by Eugene Meyer; the paper was then passed through the Graham Family until 2013, when the Post was sold to Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon. See also The Washington Post Co..
Official Website:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/
Location:
Washington, DC
| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Maryon Allen | Politician | 30-Nov-1925 | US Senator from Alabama, 1978 | |
| Mike Allen | Journalist | 21-Jun-1964 | Politico | |
| Joseph Alsop | Journalist | 11-Oct-1910 | 28-Aug-1989 | Matter of Fact |
| Jack Anderson | Columnist | 19-Oct-1922 | 17-Dec-2005 | Uncovered CIA plot to kill Fidel Castro |
| Anne Applebaum | Author | 25-Jul-1964 | Gulag: A History | |
| Chuck Babington | Journalist | ? | Washington Post political editor | |
| Peter Baker | Journalist | c. 1964 | Washington Post reporter | |
| Dan Balz | Journalist | c. 1946 | Washington Post political reporter | |
| Michael Barone | Pundit | 19-Sep-1944 | Almanac of American Politics | |
| Peter Beinart | Columnist | 1971 | Washington Post columnist | |
| Peter Benchley | Novelist | 8-May-1940 | 11-Feb-2006 | Jaws |
| Carl Bernstein | Journalist | 14-Feb-1944 | Broke the Watergate story | |
| Clifford K. Berryman | Cartoonist | 2-Apr-1869 | 11-Dec-1949 | Political cartoonist |
| Jeffrey H. Birnbaum | Columnist | c. 1955 | K Street Confidential | |
| Joan Biskupic | Journalist | c. 1956 | USA Today Supreme Court reporter | |
| Douglas A. Blackmon | Journalist | 6-Sep-1964 | Slavery by Another Name | |
| Ben Bradlee | Editor | 26-Aug-1921 | 21-Oct-2014 | Editor of The Washington Post, 1965-91 |
| David Broder | Journalist | 11-Sep-1929 | 9-Mar-2011 | Washington Post reporter |
| David Brooks | Columnist | 11-Aug-1961 | Conservative pundit | |
| Tina Brown | Editor | 21-Nov-1953 | Powerhouse magazine editor | |
| Warren Buffett | Business | 30-Aug-1930 | Billionaire in Omaha | |
| Elisabeth Bumiller | Journalist | c. 1955 | New York Times Washington correspondent | |
| Lou Cannon | Journalist | 3-Jun-1933 | Reagan | |
| Chris Cillizza | Journalist | 20-Feb-1976 | Washington Post columnist | |
| Richard Cohen | Columnist | 1941 | Washington Post columnist | |
| Steve Coll | Journalist | 8-Oct-1958 | Ghost Wars | |
| Bob Considine | Journalist | 4-Nov-1906 | 25-Sep-1975 | Ghostwriter, Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo |
| Janet Cooke | Journalist | 23-Jul-1954 | Caught writing fake news | |
| Timothy Curran | Journalist | ? | Roll Call editor | |
| E. J. Dionne | Journalist | 23-Apr-1952 | The Washington Post | |
| Michael Drosnin | Journalist | c. 1944 | The Bible Code | |
| William M. Drozdiak | Journalist | c. 1949 | American Council on Germany | |
| Ervin S. Duggan | Government | 30-Jun-1939 | CEO of PBS, 1994-99 | |
| David A. Fahrenthold | Journalist | c. 1978 | Washington Post reporter | |
| Jonathan Finer | Journalist | c. 1976 | Washington Post reporter | |
| Dan Froomkin | Columnist | c. 1963 | Huffington Post writer and media critic | |
| Michael Gerson | Politician | 1965 | Washington Post columnist | |
| Philip Geyelin | Journalist | 27-Feb-1923 | 9-Jan-2004 | Former editor, The Washington Post |
| Malcolm Gladwell | Columnist | 3-Sep-1963 | The Tipping Point | |
| James Glassman | Publisher | 1-Jan-1947 | Roll Call editor | |
| Jeffrey Goldberg | Journalist | 22-Sep-1965 | Atlantic Monthly | |
| Donald E. Graham | Journalist | 22-Apr-1945 | CEO of Washington Post | |
| Katharine Graham | Publisher | 16-Jun-1917 | 17-Jul-2001 | Washington Post publisher, 1966-79 |
| Philip L. Graham | Publisher | 18-Jul-1915 | 3-Aug-1963 | Washington Post publisher, 1947-63 |
| Meg Greenfield | Journalist | 27-Dec-1930 | 13-May-1999 | The Washington Post |
| Lloyd Grove | Columnist | c. 1954 | Gossip columnist | |
| George Hager | Journalist | c. 1950 | USA Today economics reporter | |
| Ruth Hale | Activist | 1886 | 18-Sep-1933 | Maiden name crusader |
| John F. Harris | Journalist | c. 1963 | Politico editor-in-chief | |
| Louis Harris | Business | 6-Jan-1921 | Pollster, Louis Harris and Associates | |
| Sam Harris | Author | 9-Apr-1967 | The End of Faith | |
| Paul Hendrickson | Author | 29-Apr-1944 | Hemingway's Boat | |
| Herblock | Cartoonist | 13-Oct-1909 | 7-Oct-2001 | Editorial Cartoonist, The Washington Post |
| Fred Hiatt | Columnist | 30-Apr-1955 | Washington Post Editorial Page Editor | |
| Jim Hoagland | Journalist | 22-Jan-1940 | The Washington Post | |
| David E. Hoffman | Journalist | 1953 | The Dead Hand | |
| Brit Hume | Journalist | 22-Jun-1943 | Fox News DC correspondent | |
| Gwen Ifill | Journalist | 29-Sep-1955 | Washington Week, Lehrer News Hour | |
| David Ignatius | Columnist | 1950 | Washington Post op-ed columnist | |
| Michael Isikoff | Journalist | c. 1952 | Reporter who broke Lewinsky story | |
| Susan Jacoby | Author | 4-Jun-1945 | Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism | |
| Haynes Johnson | Journalist | 9-Jul-1931 | 24-May-2013 | Sleepwalking Through History |
| Boisfeuillet Jones, Jr. | Publisher | 1946 | Washington Post publisher, 2000-08 | |
| Robert Kagan | Government | 26-Sep-1958 | Influential neocon, cofounded PNAC | |
| Robert G. Kaiser | Journalist | 7-Apr-1943 | So Damn Much Money | |
| Michiko Kakutani | Critic | 9-Jan-1955 | Quirky New York Times book critic | |
| Kitty Kelley | Author | 4-Apr-1942 | Controversial biogratrix | |
| Ronald Kessler | Journalist | 31-Dec-1943 | Inside the CIA | |
| Colbert King | Columnist | 20-Sep-1939 | Washington Post columnist | |
| Michael Kinsley | Pundit | 9-Mar-1951 | Founding editor of Slate | |
| Ezra Klein | Journalist | 9-May-1984 | The Washington Post | |
| Kevin Klose | Government | c. 1940 | CEO of National Public Radio | |
| Tony Kornheiser | Journalist | 13-Jul-1948 | Pardon the Interruption | |
| Nick Kotz | Journalist | 16-Sep-1932 | Judgment Days | |
| Charles Krauthammer | Columnist | 13-Mar-1950 | Washington Post columnist | |
| Bill Kristol | Columnist | 23-Dec-1952 | Editor of The Weekly Standard | |
| Howard Kurtz | Journalist | 1-Aug-1953 | Media critic | |
| Robert Kuttner | Editor | 17-Apr-1943 | The American Prospect | |
| David Laventhol | Publisher | 15-Jul-1933 | 8-Apr-2015 | President of Times Mirror, 1987-93 |
| Jennifer 8. Lee | Journalist | 15-Mar-1976 | New York Times reporter | |
| Thomas W. Lippman | Journalist | c. 1939 | Washington Post Mideast Correspondent | |
| David Lodge | Novelist | 28-Jan-1935 | How Far Can You Go? | |
| James Mann | Author | 18-Sep-1946 | Rise of the Vulcans | |
| David Maraniss | Journalist | 6-Aug-1949 | First in His Class | |
| Ruth A. Marcus | Columnist | 1958 | Washington Post columnist | |
| Judith Martin | Columnist | 13-Sep-1938 | Miss Manners | |
| Jessica Tuchman Mathews | Government | 1946 | Carnegie Endowment for International Peace | |
| Mary McGrory | Journalist | 22-Aug-1918 | 21-Apr-2004 | Pulitzer Prize-winning Liberal Icon |
| Eugene Meyer | Publisher | 31-Oct-1875 | 17-Jul-1959 | Washington Post publisher, 1933-47 |
| Dana Milbank | Journalist | 27-Apr-1968 | Washington Post White House reporter | |
| David Mills | Screenwriter | 20-Nov-1961 | 30-Mar-2010 | Writer for The Wire |
| Michele Norris | Radio Personality | 7-Sep-1961 | NPR host, All Things Considered | |
| Tim O'Brien | Novelist | 1-Oct-1946 | Going After Cacciato | |
| Don Oberdorfer | Journalist | 28-May-1931 | 23-Jul-2015 | The Washington Post |
| Kathleen Parker | Columnist | c. 1954 | Washington Post columnist | |
| Drew Pearson | Journalist | 13-Dec-1897 | 1-Sep-1969 | Washington Merry-Go-Round |
| Walter Pincus | Journalist | 24-Dec-1932 | Washington Post reporter with CIA ties | |
| Dana Priest | Journalist | c. 1959 | Washington Post Pentagon reporter | |
| Jane Bryant Quinn | Journalist | 5-Feb-1939 | Personal finance columnist | |
| William Raspberry | Columnist | 12-Oct-1935 | 17-Jul-2012 | The Washington Post |
| Diane Ravitch | Government | 1-Jul-1938 | Education reformer | |
| David Remnick | Editor | 29-Oct-1958 | Editor of The New Yorker | |
| Thomas Ricks | Journalist | 25-Sep-1955 | Fiasco | |
| Eugene H. Robinson | Journalist | 12-Mar-1954 | Associate Editor, Washington Post | |
| Jennifer Rubin | Blogger | ? | Washington Post blogger | |
| Robert J. Samuelson | Columnist | 23-Dec-1945 | Newsweek columnist | |
| Tom Shales | Critic | 3-Nov-1948 | TV critic | |
| Mark Shields | Columnist | 25-May-1937 | Shields and Brooks | |
| Paul Taylor | Journalist | 3-Sep-1949 | See How They Run | |
| Jim VandeHei | Journalist | 1972 | The Washington Post | |
| Sander Vanocur | Journalist | 8-Jan-1928 | ABC and NBC correspondent | |
| Henry C. Wallich | Economist | 10-Jun-1914 | 16-Sep-1988 | Council of Economic Advisers, 1959-61 |
| Gene Weingarten | Columnist | 2-Oct-1951 | Below the Beltway | |
| Jonathan Weisman | Journalist | c. 1966 | Wall Street Journal | |
| Katharine Weymouth | Publisher | c. 1966 | Washington Post publisher | |
| Lally Weymouth | Journalist | 3-Jul-1943 | The Washington Post | |
| Michael Wilbon | Sports Journalist | 19-Nov-1958 | Co-host of Pardon the Interruption | |
| Roger Wilkins | Educator | 25-Mar-1932 | Author, blackademic | |
| Juan Williams | Pundit | 10-Apr-1954 | Fox News commentator | |
| George C. Wilson | Journalist | 11-Jul-1927 | Bridge of No Return | |
| Jules Witcover | Columnist | 16-Jul-1927 | Longtime Baltimore Sun columnist | |
| Tom Wolfe | Author | 2-Mar-1931 | Bonfire of the Vanities | |
| Bob Woodward | Journalist | 26-Mar-1943 | Broke the Watergate story | |
| Jonathan Yardley | Critic | 27-Oct-1939 | Influential book critic |
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