DONALD E. GRAHAM IS NAMED PUBLISHER OF WASHINGTON POST

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• Publication Date: January 10, 1979
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D d.
o" na. dE. Graham Is INICIMI-P,
i er-of Wash&
FORsh inglon eos't
Donald E. Graham has been named
publisher of The Washington Post, ef-
His appointment- Was announced by
Katharine- Graham, the board chair-
man and chief executive -officer --of
The Washington Post Co., .which -in-
eludes Newsweek magazine, broad.
casting stations and three newspapers,
including The Post.
She is relinquishing to?her.son.th.e
'title of , publisher ? of The Post which
she held-for 10 years, but'she will
continue her other corporate. responsi-
bilities.
Donald Graham, 33, has held a vari-
ety of positions with 'the. Post Co:
since 1971. In 1976 he was appointed
executive vice-president and general
manager of The Post,' succeeding
Mark Meagher, who is now _president
of the company.`,.. ,
Graham ''was! graduated from Har-
vard College, where he was. president
of The Harvard, Crimson, the student
newspaper.,He_served,in Vietnam as a
soldier with the First Air Cavalry Di.
vision and as a. patrolman t4n -the
'Washington, D:C., Police Department.
He ;joined. the--Post in 1971, and for
four years wonted in many depart-
ments of the newspaper=as a re-
porter, 'assistant city editor;, advertis.
iii.g salesman,': circulator,. market re-
searcher, budget analyst and.. night.'
production manager.
He then did -a stint as a Newsweek
writer in the NPw York and. Los Anse-
Since. the paper's, acquisition by l
Zleyer more than 45 years, ago, it has
grown into a major Cc nirnunications?
corporation, which Mrs. Graham will
continue to manage. In addition to its
-'-`ownership of Newsweek, broadcast-
ing stations and newspapers, in Tren-
ton, N.J., and Everett, -,Wash., the
-Washington Post Co. is a partner in
the Los Angeles Times-Washington
Post News Service, the International
Herald-Tribune, Bowaters-Mersey Pa-
per Co. Ltd., 'the Robinson' Terminal
Warehouse in Alexandria and a newl
newsprint manufacturing consortium
in Southern Virginia.a_
Mrs. Graham is a director of the
Associated Press, diractor 'and treas-
urer of the American Newspaper Pub.
lishers Association, board member of
Allied Chemical Corp.; a member of
the Industrial Confer%nce .,Board, a
trustee, of George Washington I-rni-
versity and the University. of Chicago j
and is actively involved with the In
dependent Commission.-. on Intema-
tional Development Issues, popularly
`known as the Brandt Commission.
- Donald Graham is m
r
i
d
r
a
e
to the
former Diary Whistler, a lawyer. They!
have' two children and,,live in the,
Cleveland Park area of Washington.
The directors of The Post Co. meet
+-,I-..
r---- - - .. .. - - -
to
as Puousner of the newspaper.
The Post In 1978 reported the high-
est circulation, advertising lineages
and earnings in its 101year?.history.
DONALD E. GRAHAM
..appointment effective today
lee bureaus and returned:-to?The Post '
as assistant managing editor -in charge'
of the sports-department. ,,,,x:
He was a
ppointed assistant general
manager in 1973. In 1976 he succeeded Meagher- and. now --succeeds his
mother as publisher of the newspaper,-.:.
The Washington Post observed its.
100th anniversary
in--December`;197?.`
For'iiearly half of its existence- it has'
-been. a family ;enterprise., Mrs ? Ora-
ham's father, Eugene Meyer, bought.
the newspaper an June 1, 1933:::He
assumed the titlb of publisher, and re. -
stained it until `1948, when: lie was
'succeeded. by . his son-in-law, Philip
2.. Graham, the husband of Katharine,
and the father-of Donald Graham; 17
Dirs. Graham became The post's
.publisher in 1969. Donald Graham now;
becomes the, fourth member tIM'
,family to fill that-Awn oVPd ,Or lease 2004/09/28 CIA-RDP88-01314R000300380003-9
Since - 1971, The Post has 'been a
--publicly owned company, but control
of 'the enterprise rernaInn - Inha