June 9, 2013: Bamboo Innovator: Washington Post Media’s Katharine Weymouth on why running the business is tough; “You have to fail. You have to make mistakes in order to have the successes”
Scotch-taped to the door of Katharine Weymouth’s office in the executive suite of the Washington Post headquarters are printouts of two photographs she took during a visit last year to Facebook’s Silicon Valley headquarters.
Scotch-taped to the door of Katharine Weymouth’s office in the executive suite of the Washington Post headquarters are printouts of two photographs she took during a visit last year to Facebook’s Silicon Valley headquarters.
Apr 2012: Vanity Fair: Ghosts in the Newsroom
Despite The Washington Post’s history of swashbuckling journalism, its business strategy has been deeply conservative. Can the heirs to Kay Graham and Ben Bradlee’s legacy—Graham’s son Don, the chairman and C.E.O.; her granddaughter Katharine Weymouth, the publisher; and executive editor Marcus Brauchli—save the Post from a lack of vision?
Despite The Washington Post’s history of swashbuckling journalism, its business strategy has been deeply conservative. Can the heirs to Kay Graham and Ben Bradlee’s legacy—Graham’s son Don, the chairman and C.E.O.; her granddaughter Katharine Weymouth, the publisher; and executive editor Marcus Brauchli—save the Post from a lack of vision?
