- <cite>Post</cite>'s Weymouth: The Last Media Tycoon
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News from Portfolio.com Also on Portfolio Game On: The VC Who Focuses Solely on Games In Praise of the Career Woman Ariana Huffington Plagiarizes Herself Subscribe to Portfolio magazine Editor's Note: Condé Nast Portfolio spoke with Katharine Weymouth prior to July 7, when the Washington Post named former Wall Street Journal managing editor Marcus Brauchli as its new executive editor. Nobody knows better than Katharine Weymouth that the newspaper industry is experiencing what may be called, euphemistically, a period of transition. But the new publisher of the Washington Post isn't big on euphemisms. "The numbers suck in our business," the 42-year-old granddaughter of legendary Post publisher Katharine Graham declares, holding her tall, lithe frame dancer-straight, the result of a childhood spent in ballet classes. It's a lovely day in early April, and Weymouth is at the Post's downtown D.C. headquarters, meeting with the staff of Style, one of the paper's more popular sections. The session is a stop on the listening tour of the newsroom that she's been conducting since February, when she was named publisher and chief executive of Washington Post Media, a newly configured unit that encompasses the newspaper's long-divided print and web operations. (View a slideshow featuring some of the newspaper's major players.) This should be a very good day at the Post. view original article
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