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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On an unusually warm Tuesday in February, students settle in to a classroom at George Mason University in Fairfax, Va., for their Comm 203 class. Professor Beth Jannery, director of the school’s journalism program, asks students about current events they’ve been following. What have they researched about stories they have read or seen or heard? What stories seemed accurate and balanced? What stories might have misled them or omitted important information?