The Washington Post

The Washington Post is a daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C. Since October 2013 it has been owned by Nash Holdings LLC, a Delaware limited liability company that its previous owner described in an SEC filing as “an entity that belongs to Mr. Bezos in his individual capacity and is not Amazon.com, Inc.”

Change of Ownership, 2013

On 5 August 2013 The Washington Post Company announced a binding letter agreement to sell its newspaper publishing subsidiaries — including The Washington Post, Express, The Gazette Newspapers, Southern Maryland Newspapers, the Fairfax County Times and El Tiempo Latino — to Jeff Bezos. The sale closed on 1 October 2013 for $250 million, subject to working-capital adjustments.

The transaction transferred all of the seller’s rights in the name “The Washington Post,” and the seller was required to change its own corporate name within 60 days; it became Graham Holdings Company. Slate, TheRoot.com, Foreign Policy, Kaplan, the Post–Newsweek television stations, Cable ONE and the downtown Washington headquarters building stayed with the former parent.

In announcing the sale, Donald E. Graham said the family “decided to sell only after years of familiar newspaper-industry challenges made us wonder if there might be another owner who would be better for the Post.” Bezos said “the Post’s values will not change” and that “our duty to readers will continue to be the heart of the Post.” Bezos asked the then publisher Katharine Weymouth, president Stephen P. Hills, executive editor Martin Baron and editorial page editor Fred Hiatt to remain in their roles.

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