The Washington Post

The Washington Post (also referred as the Post and, colloquially, WaPo) is a daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C., that is owned by The Washington Post Company. There are over a million copies of it distributed daily in the Washington metropolitan region, and it has a big national readership as well. The District of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia each get a daily broadsheet edition.

The newspaper has received 69 Pulitzer Prizes, which is the second-highest total of any publication in history (after The New York Times). There have also been 18 Nieman Fellowships given to Post journalists, as well as 368 White House News Photographers Association prizes. Known for its political reporting, the publication is also one of the few surviving American newspapers to maintain international offices in a number of countries.

The Washington Post was established in 1877. During its early years, it was owned by a number of different people and suffered both financially and editorially. It was acquired out of bankruptcy by financier Eugene Meyer in 1933, and his efforts to restore its health and reputation were continued by his successors Katharine and Phil Graham (Meyer's daughter and son-in-law), who went on to buy numerous competing magazines after Meyer's death. The publication of the Pentagon Papers by the Washington Post in 1971 aided in the mobilisation of opposition to the Vietnam War. Following that, in the most well-known incident in the newspaper's history, reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein led the American press's investigation into what became known as the Watergate crisis, which ended in President Richard Nixon's resignation in 1974. With the introduction of the internet, the Post's national and worldwide reach was greatly increased. The Graham family sold the newspaper to Nash Holdings, a holding company founded by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, for $250 million in October 2013.