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4 unusual facts about The Washington Post


Charles Antone Horsky

Phillip Graham, the publisher of The Washington Post at the time, recommended Horsky to Kennedy as the man to help improve conditions in the District, and in 1962 Horsky was appointed as the first-ever Presidential Advisor on National Capital Affairs.

David Renton, Baron Renton

According to The Washington Post in 2005, Renton maintained that "the genius of the upper house is that it includes world-renowned experts in law, science and the arts who would never run for election", and that "Democracy has its limitations." His memoirs, The Spice of Life, were published in 2006.

Luke Montgomery

Montgomery's personal website defines his current activity as "a marketing and Internet fundraising consultant for non-profits and a media strategist whose work has captured front page coverage in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Los Angeles Times.

Rudolph Sze

The Washington Post of December 24, 1911 noted that "Sze, the Chinese Player, Will Take Place of Whitaker."


Andy Greenwald

Previously, he was a senior contributing writer at Spin Magazine, and has also written for such publications as The Washington Post, Blender, Entertainment Weekly, The Village Voice, MTV Magazine, Complex, and Magnet.

Baghdad Bulletin

The newspaper had a full-time reporting pool of Iraqis and Westerners, many of whom were young Oxbridge graduates who had previously written for Associated Press, the New York Times, The Washington Post, Reuters and the Evening Standard.

Bill Cowan

He has also been a Fox News Channel contributor since 2001, has been a co-host with Ambassador Dick Carlson of the radio and television show Danger Zone, and he has written articles for The Washington Post and been featured in several television shows apart from the documentary such as 60 Minutes, Larry King Live and others.

Bill Watterson

In 2005, Gene Weingarten of the The Washington Post sent Watterson the first edition of the Barnaby book, as an incentive, hoping to land an interview.

Caroline Kang

Her playing has been described as “particularly distinguished” by De Volkskrant and “sincere and nuanced” by The Washington Post.

CO2 is Green

The Washington Post's Steven Mufson reported that the CO2 is Green campaign was produced by H. Leighton Steward, a retired former oil industry executive, as well as Corbin Robertson, the CEO of Natural Resource Partners, an owner of coal resources based in Houston.

Colin Woodard

His work has appeared in dozens of publications including The Economist, Smithsonian, The Washington Post, Newsweek/The Daily Beast, Bloomberg View, Washington Monthly, and Down East, where he was a contributing editor.

CollegeWeekLive

CollegeWeekLive has been featured in the media including ABC News, The Washington Post, Fox 25 News, the San Francisco Chronicle, Business Week, USA Today and The New York Times.

Confucius Lives Next Door

Confucius Lives Next Door: What Living in the East Teaches Us About Living in the West is a 1999 book by Washington Post writer T.R. Reid.

Craig Crossman

Throughout the years his articles have appeared in hundreds of newspapers including The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, The Orange County Register, The Hawaiian Advertiser, The San Jose Mercury News and The Press-Enterprise.

David Farley

Farley writes mostly about travel, food, and culture for AFAR magazine, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Conde Nast Traveler, and World Hum, among other publications.

Edward C. Lawson

Stern was referring to front page newspaper articles in the New York Times, The Washington Post, The Chicago Tribune, The Miami Herald, The Los Angeles Times as well as articles in Newsweek Magazine, Time Magazine, Fortune Magazine, The Village Voice and other news publications.

Gary and Tony Have a Baby

Tom Shales of The Washington Post praised "Gary and Tony", calling it "an intimate and affecting portrait of what happens when partners in a same-sex marriage set out to secure for themselves a blessed event, the limits of biology notwithstanding".

Gemma Puglisi

and she has been quoted in many media outlets including the Associated Press, abcnews.com; The Irish Times, Agence France-Presse, the Hollywood Reporter, The Washington Post, the The Washington Times, nbcsports.com; sportsillustrated.com; the Sarasota Herald-Tribune, Roll Call, the Boston Herald and the Congressional Quarterly.

Gerard Ryle

"To analyze the documents, ICIJ collaborated with reporters from The Guardian and the BBC in the U.K., Le Monde in France, Süddeutsche Zeitung and Norddeutscher Rundfunk in Germany, The Washington Post, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) and 31 other media partners around the world.

James Kirchick

In addition, Erik Wemple for The Washington Post wrote an article that included Kirchick's response to Fox19, where Kirchick implied that the writer of the Fox19 article, Ben Swann, was incorrect in his naming of the supposed writer of the "Special Edition on Racial Terrorism".

James Shikwati

He has written widely on a variety of subjects in Kenyan and international newspapers, magazines, such as The Times, The Guardian, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Sydney Morning Herald, The Business News, The Daily Nation, The East African Standard and The African Executive.

Jamie P. Merisotis

His writing has appeared in The Washington Post, National Journal, Times Higher Education Supplement (London), The Chronicle of Higher Education, Huffington Post, Politico, Roll Call and numerous other print and online publications.

Keri Smith

Smith is a freelance illustrator and has most recently worked for Random House, The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Boston Globe as well as for companies like Ford Motor Company, Gallison/Mudpuppy Press and Hallmark.

Leah Gilliam

The daughter of Sam Gilliam, an abstract painter, and Dorothy Butler Gilliam, the first black woman reporter for The Washington Post, she grew up with parents who were instrumental in exposing her to cultural production early on in life.

Lothar Machtan

In discussing his book in The Washington Post, Machtan told his interviewer that his research showed that some of Hitler's homosexual friends in Munich were the ones who opened many important doors for him, especially Ernst Röhm, Dietrich Eckart, and Ernst Hanfstaengl.

Marc Leepson

His work has appeared in many magazines and newspapers, including The Washington Post, The New York Times, The New York Times Book Review, Chicago Tribune, The Baltimore Sun, and Smithsonian, Preservation, and Military History magazines.

Marie Arana

For more than a decade she was the editor in chief of "Book World", the book review section of The Washington Post, during which time she instituted the partnership of The Washington Post with the White House (First Lady Laura Bush) and the Library of Congress (Dr. James H. Billington, Librarian of Congress) in hosting the annual National Book Festival on the Washington Mall.

Musicophilia

In a review for The Washington Post, Peter D. Kramer wrote, "In Musicophilia, Sacks turns to the intersection of music and neurology -- music as affliction and music as treatment."

Niagara Falls Reporter

Since its launch, the paper's reporting on a wide variety of topics has been cited or linked to by The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and The Washington Post, along with magazines like Editor & Publisher and the Columbia Journalism Review, and web outlets including Salon.

North Stafford High School

Nate Ilaoa, Class of 2001 - Philadelphia Eagles running back; 236th overall pick in the 2007 NFL Draft; 2007 NFL Combine Invite; Starting running back at the University of Hawaii; 2000 Washington Post Offensive Player of the Year, 2-time All-Met selection.

Nothing Like It in the World

On January 11, 2001, Washington Post columnist Lloyd Grove reported in his column, The Reliable Source, that a co-worker had found a "serious historical error" in the same book that "a chastened Ambrose" promised to correct in future editions.

On Chesil Beach

The Washington Post and Pulitzer Prize-winning book critic Jonathan Yardley placed On Chesil Beach on his top ten for 2007, praising McEwan's writing and saying that "even when he's in a minor mode, as he is here, he is nothing short of amazing".

Rachel Elson

She has been a freelance editor and reporter whose articles have appeared in Time Out New York, The Washington Post, Salon.com, People.com, The New York Post and The San Francisco Examiner.

Raymond Bonner

Bonner is best known as one of two journalists (the other was Alma Guillermoprieto of The Washington Post) who broke the story of the El Mozote massacre, in which some 900 villagers at El Mozote, El Salvador, were slaughtered by the Salvadoran army in December 1981.

Richard Krawiec

This novel was featured in Publishers Weekly 'Recommended List', the Village Voice 'Real Life Rock Top Ten column, and received attention from Jonathan Yardley in The Washington Post, Richard Eder in the Los Angeles Times, and in the 'In Short' column of the 'N.Y. Sunday Times', although it got a mixed review from Michiko Kakutani in The New York Times.

Salim Muwakkil

Other publications in which Muwakkil's work has appeared include The Washington Post, ″The New York Times Book Review″, The Chicago Reader, The Progressive, Newsday, Cineaste, The Baltimore Sun, Z Magazine, Toronto Star, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and Utne Reader.

Salvador Bru

He has been regularly commissioned to illustrate for the Washingtonian magazine, corporations including Mobil, the United States Government, and newspapers such as The Washington Post, The Baltimore Sun, The Boston Globe and The New York Times.

Sherri Mandell

She is the author of Writers of the Holocaust and has written for numerous magazines and journals, including The Washington Post, The Denver Post and The Jerusalem Post, as well as Hadassah Magazine.

Sherri W. Goodman

Goodman has also published articles on climate change, energy, environmental security, weapons acquisition and nuclear energy and waste cleanup in a wide variety of publications, among them The Washington Post, The National Interest and Defense News.

SpongeBob's Atlantis SquarePantis

Tom Shales, a television critic of the The Washington Post, lambasted the film in a November 11, 2007 review.

StudentLoanJustice.org

StudentLoanJustice.org or its members have been covered by a number of newspapers, radio, and television shows, including The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, National Public Radio, The Washington Post, The National Review, The Wall Street Journal, Public Broadcasting System, Fortune Magazine, Businessweek, Fox Television, CNN, CBS News, Democracy Now!, The Chicago Sun-Times, and others.

Supply-side economics

In 2006 Sebastian Mallaby of The Washington Post quoted George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Bill Frist, Chuck Grassley, and Rick Santorum misstating the effect of the Bush Administration's tax cuts.

The Greenbrier

The bunker's existence was not acknowledged until Ted Gup of the The Washington Post revealed it in a 1992 story; immediately after the Post story, the government decommissioned the bunker.

Thomas N. Schroth

She was a reporter for United Press International and the daughter of James Russell Wiggins, who was managing editor of The Washington Post at the time of his marriage and later served as United States Ambassador to the United Nations.

Wallace Stroby

Writing in The New York Times, reviewer Marilyn Stasio said, “Stroby does wonders with his blue-collar characters,” and The Washington Post called the book “a scorching first novel ... full of attention to character and memory and, even more, to the neighborhoods of New Jersey.”

Yoshihiko Noda

In an interview with The Washington Post Noda said he loved watching movies and is a fan of Meryl Streep, who recently won an Academy Award for her portrayal of the former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher in The Iron Lady.


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1983 Pulitzer Prize

Thomas Friedman and Loren Jenkins of The New York Times and The Washington Post (respectively), "For their individual reporting of the Israeli invasion of Beirut and its tragic aftermath. "

Atiyah Abd al-Rahman

The Washington Post reported that another prominent Libyan exile, Noman Benotman, he was sent to Algeria in the 1990s to serve as an envoy to a group they said was then known as the Armed Islamic Group (GIA).

Brandon Lloyd

According to Howard Bryant of the Washington Post, citing NFL.com, "Lloyd suffered through the worst season for a starting receiver in the Super Bowl era... No starting No. 2 wide receiver in the NFL started more games (12) while producing less (23 catches, 365 yards)."

Bunny McBride

Her articles appeared in various US newspapers and magazines, including the Washington Post, Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, International Wildlife, Travel & Leisure, Sierra, Yankee Magazine, Downeast, and Reader's Digest. From 1981 onwards, she was also actively involved in oral history and community development projects with Micmac Indians in Maine.

Chris Cillizza

Dana Milbank and Chris Cillizza appeared in a series of humor videos called "Mouthpiece Theater" which appeared on the Washington Posts website.

David Allyn

The Advocate, The Washington Post, The New York Daily News, The Boston Globe and The San Francisco Chronicle.

David Corn

In the Washington Post, Roger Warner called it "an impressive feat of research"; but, in the New York Times, Joseph Finder claimed Corn was seriously distorting history to blame Shackley for a series of CIA failings.

David L. Downie

David Downie is the son of Leonard Downie, Jr., Executive Editor of the Washington Post from 1991–2008, and Barbara Sims, an environmental lawyer.

Denise Schmandt-Besserat

Her work has been widely reported in the public media (Scientific American, Time, Life, New York Times, The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Christian Science Monitor.) She was featured in several television programs such as Out of the Past (Discovery Channel), Discover (Disney Channel); The Nature of Things (CBC), Search for Solutions (PBS), and Tell the Truth (NBC).

Edward Beale

Edward Beale McLean (1889–1941), publisher and owner of the Washington Post

Jacques Berlinerblau

In 2010 he launched a second show with The Washington Post's Sally Quinn entitled "The God Vote" which focuses on news cycle issues involving faith and politics.

Jan Šejna

Unna, Warren: Key Czech General Asks U.S. Asylum, The Washington Post, Washington, D.C.: March 7, 1968 (pg. A1)

Jay Mathews

His national ranking system for high schools, the Challenge Index, formerly in Newsweek, runs on the Washington Post’s website as the High School Challenge.

John D. McCormick

The Washington Post made mention of the exchange in a column by Dana Milbank.

JournoList

Kathleen Parker, writing in The Washington Post, argued that "perspective is needed here."

Lactagen

In an interview with the Washington Post, gastroenterologist Theodore Bayless of Johns Hopkins School of Medicine suggested that such a course can relieve symptoms of lactose intolerance, but the relief would not be permanent, particularly if the user were to take antibiotics at a later date.

Loren Pope

His first book, The Right College: How to Get In, Stay In, Get Back In (Macmillan, 1970), was followed by a nationally syndicated article series, "Twenty Myths That Can Jinx Your College Choice," published in The Washington Post Magazine and Reader's Digest.

Mario Miranda

Miranda's big break came in 1974, when, at the invitation of the United States Information Services, he travelled to America, which enabled him to promote his art and interact with other cartoonists in the United States and also got a chance to work with Charles M. Schulz, the creator of Peanuts) and met Herblock, the editorial cartoonist of the Washington Post.

Mathland

Mathland was among the math curricula rated as "promising" by an Education Department panel, although subsequently 200 mathematicians and scientists, including four Nobel Prize recipients and two winners of the Fields Medal, published a letter in the Washington Post deploring the findings of that panel.

Phil Graham

The Washington Post Company's ABC affiliate station in Miami, Florida, has call letters that were assigned to the station in honor of Philip Graham in 1970 — station WPLG uses his initials.

Phillip Jauregui

His legal work has been featured in publications including The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, and Joyce Meyer Ministries Publication, “Enjoying Everyday Life” magazine.

Rob Curley

Prior to moving to the Washington Post, Rob Curley was the Director of New Media/Convergence of the Naples Daily News between 2005 and 2006.

Robert Kaiser

Robert G. Kaiser, American author and journalist - associate editor and senior correspondent of the Washington Post

Robert Pierre

Robert E. Pierre (born 1968), reporter and editor at The Washington Post

Sally Quinn

A Savannah, Georgia, native and Smith College graduate, Quinn began at The Washington Post with very little experience: reportedly called by Ben Bradlee after a report of her pajama party in celebration of the election to Congress of Barry Goldwater, Jr., the job interview included the following exchange.

Stellar Wind

In June 2013 the Washington Post and the Guardian published an OIG draft report, dated March 2009, leaked by Edward Snowden detailing the Stellar Wind program.

STORMBREW

That partner was identified on October 23, 2013 by the Washington Post -- quoting NSA historian Matthew Aid -- as Verizon.

Tariq Alhomayed

The Washington Post editor Jim Hoagland characterised Almohayed in 2009 as "a courageous columnist".

The Lurker's Guide to Babylon 5

In an early piece on the World Wide Web, The Washington Post noted The Lurker's Guide as a "Star Trek" (sic) resource accessible through www.infi.net/cool.html.

Vishal Arora

Arora's articles have appeared in Guardian, The Washington Post, The Huffington Post, USA Today, Daily Caller, World Politics Review, Foreign Policy in Focus, Hindustan Times, The Indian Express, The Deccan Herald, The Tribune, The Statesman, Mint, Indo-Asian News Service, Sify.com, Swagat, The International Indian (U.A.E), Compass Direct News (U.S.), Religion News Service (U.S.), and Religious Intelligence (UK).