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.
President Donald Trump, whose administration is in the midst of a sweeping campaign to terminate diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives aimed partly at reducing discrimination against Black Americans, hosted a reception in honor of Black history at the White House on Thursday. Inside the East Room, dozens of donors, influencers, rappers and political figures gathered to hear from Trump, who entered with champion golfer Tiger Woods. The crowd — predominantly Black and overwhelmingly male — erupted in chants of “four more years” as Trump argued that his return to the...