The Washington Post
Web site:	http://www.washingtonpost.com/
Location:	Washington, D.C., USA.
Owner:	Washington Post Company
Circulation:	Daily Sunday 707,690 1,007,487

The Washington Post is one of the largest and most-respected newsapers in the United States.

Leonard Downie Jr. has been the executive editor since Sept. 1, 1991.

Contact information

• The Washington Post

1150 15th Street NW

Washington, DC 20071

(202) 334-6000

Staffing

• About 850 people work in the news department.
• Bureaus: 12 in Maryland and Virginia, five bureaus elsewhere in the country and 20 in other countries.

History

• Founded in 1877.
• Began publishing excerpts of Pentagon Papers in 1971.
• Started reporting on Watergate in 1972.

Scandal

In 1980, The Post published an article by Janet Cooke about a child heroin addict. It was later determined that this child did not exist.

Pulitzer PrizesEdit

The Post has won at least one Pulitzer Prize in each of the following years:

• 1936
• 1947
• 1949
• 1954
• 1968
• 1970
• 1971
• 1973
• 1975-1979
• 1983
• 1988-1991
• 1993-1995
• 1999
• 2000
• 2002-2005

Sources and more informationEdit

• The Washington Post home page
  • About the Post
• Wikipedia category