Washington Post
The Washington Post is a major American daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C. It is the most widely circulated newspaper in the Washington metropolitan area and widely read around the country. The newspaper has won 47 Pulitzer Prizes. It employs around 800 journalists and had a 2015 daily circulation of 356,768. Its digital circulation was 1,000,000 in 2018.
Jeff Bezos bought the paper in 2013. Tensions between he and the newsroon have continued; in 2024 and 2025, multiple personnel resigned over the paper's non-endorsement of Kamala Harris and editorial changes advanced by Bezos.
In the late 1990s, when Gaby Moreno was 17, she sat in a classroom in her native Guatemala and penned a poem. Originally written in Spanish, it has lines emblematic of teenage longing for change and a realized selfhood: “Maybe the wind will roar more violently today. … Maybe at this point I don’t know where I’m going.”