Washington Post Company
 |
|
|
Formerly called
|
The Washington Post Company (1947–2013) |
|---|---|
| Public | |
| Traded as | Class A Common Stock: unlisted Class B Common Stock: : GHC S&P 400 Component |
| Industry | Mass media |
| Founded | August 4, 1947 Washington, D.C. |
| Headquarters | Arlington, Virginia, U.S. |
|
Key people
|
Donald E. Graham (Chairman and CEO) Timothy J. O'Shaughnessy (president) Hal S. Jones (CFO) |
| Products |
Magazines Educational Services Television Cable television Electronic media |
| Revenue |
 US$ 2.58 billion (2015)
|
|
US$ -80 million (2015)
|
|
|
US$ -101 million (2015)
|
|
|
Number of employees
|
11,500 (2015) |
| Website | www |
Coordinates: 38°53′38″N 77°04′21″W / 38.893755°N 77.072568°W
Graham Holdings Company (formerly The Washington Post Company) is a diversified American conglomerate, best known for formerly owning the newspaper for which it was once named, The Washington Post, and Newsweek.
Its holdings include the online magazine Slate, Graham Media Group (formerly Post-Newsweek Stations), a group of five large-market television stations, higher education company Kaplan, and Trove (formerly WaPo Labs)—the developers of a news reader app. Graham Holdings Company also owned cable television and internet service provider Cable One until it was spun off in 2015.
The history of Graham Holdings Company dates back to 1877, when the Post was first published. The Washington Post Company was incorporated in the District of Columbia in 1889, and remained a District of Columbia corporation until it changed its place of incorporation to Delaware in 2003. It is a public company and its Class B common stock trades on the under the ticker symbol GHC; it went public in 1971.
...
Wikipedia