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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 16, 2001 · Katharine Graham, who deftly steered The Washington Post through the tumult of the Pentagon papers and Watergate and built it into a leading force in American journalism, died Tuesday. She was...
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Jul 18, 2001 · Katharine Graham, the tough-minded media giant who led the Washington Post through the publishing minefields of the Watergate scandal and the Pentagon Papers and ultimately became the most...
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...
Katherine Graham took the reins at The Washington Post immediately after Philip killed himself. At the top of the organization, she was surrounded almost entirely by male editors and business...
Jul 23, 2001 · Graham, who served as chairman of The Washington Post Co. for two decades, died Tuesday, three days after suffering a head injury in a fall outside a condominium in Sun Valley, Idaho.
Jul 17, 2001 · One August weekend in 1963, he shot himself to death at their Virginia farm. At the age of 46, Katharine Graham became the new president of the Washington Post, and its sister magazine,...
