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.
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David Ng held back tears as he approached the stone steps of North America’s largest Roman Catholic Church, its bells tolling in the Monday midday gloom. The news of Pope Francis’s death had reached him hours earlier in a message from his family in the Philippines. He’d spent the morning rewatching videos of the leader’s visit to his country a decade ago, praying with typhoon-battered residents. “He’s the pope of the people,” said Ng, 44, before joining the stream of people flowing into the Basilica of the National Shrine of...