Weymouth new media chief and publisher of Washington Post Co.
By Leah McBride Mensching, Monday 11 February 2008 at 23:54 :: Management :: #1243 :: rss
Katharine Weymouth was named publisher of The Washington Post and chief executive of Washington Post Media on Thursday, giving her oversight of The Washington Post newspaper and its online version, washingtonpost.com, The Post reported Friday.
Weymouth, who will take over from her grandmother and late Washington Post Co. Chairman Katharine Graham, will examine the newspaper and Web site's business and advertising departments, which could lead to merging some operations.
“We hope to get under the sheets, look at each other more closely, exchange information more freely and figure out what areas we can be more effective in working closely together and what areas should remain separate,” Weymouth said, according to The Post.
Weymouth, 41, is the fifth member of her family's newspaper dynasty. Her great-grandfather, Eugene Meyer, bought the newspaper at a bankruptcy sale in 1933. She has been with The Post since 1996, and vice-president of advertising there since 2005.
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