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Katharine Meyer Graham (June 16, 1917 – July 17, 2001) was an American newspaper publisher. She led her family's newspaper, The Washington Post, from 1963 to 1991. Graham presided over the paper as it reported on the Watergate scandal, which eventually led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon.
Jul 27, 2024 · Katharine Graham (born June 16, 1917, New York, New York, U.S.—died July 17, 2001, Boise, Idaho) was an American business executive who owned and published various news publications, most notably The Washington Post, which she transformed into one of the leading newspapers in the United States.
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Apr 2, 2014 · Katharine Graham was America’s first female Fortune 500 CEO. As publisher of the Washington Post, she guided the newspaper to national prominence, most notably when it published The Pentagon ...
May 19, 2021 · That is one of the revelations in “ Cover Story: Katharine Graham, CEO,” an exhibition at the New-York Historical Society that illustrates both her courage and tenacity as the first woman to lead...
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Feb 27, 2018 · Meryl Streep earned an Oscar nomination, her 21st to be exact, for her portrayal of legendary Washington Post publisher Katharine "Kay" Graham in Stephen Spielberg's The Post. The film depicts...
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Jul 17, 2001 · Katharine Graham, who transformed The Washington Post from a mediocre newspaper into an American institution and, in the process, transformed herself from a lonely widow into a publishing legend,...
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Dec 15, 2017 · The new movie "The Post," directed by Steven Spielberg, is about how the Washington Post publisher Katharine Graham and executive editor Ben Bradlee defied a federal judge by publishing the...
