THE WASHINGTON POST IS SOLD

THE GRAHAMS 

SELL THE 

WASHINGTON POST 

DONALD E. GRAHAM 
IN THE POST-WATERGATE 
GLORY DAYS 

Photographed in the Washington Post building 

His mother, Katharine (Kay) Graham here 

Jeffrey Bezos of Amazon on buying the Post, here: 

I have had the great pleasure of getting to know Don very well over the last ten plus years. I do not know a finer man. 

Donald Graham, (ex-)CEO, on the sale of the Post, here 

An outside view, here 

From the other side; compliments from the competition 
(for the champion quitting the field?): 

Perhaps  the biggest surprise in the sale is that it happened under the watch of Donald Graham. All scions of industry do their time on the shop-room floor, but Mr. Graham had shown that he didn’t want to just inherit his enterprise, he wanted to earn it. He served in Vietnam and later joined the Washington police force to walk a beat before doing his stations in the Post newsroom and on the business side.  

He was perhaps not the legend that his mother was, but to many he represented a certain kind of stubborn belief that good newspapering was its own end.