Boisfeuillet Jones, Jr.

Boisfeuillet Jones, Jr. is publisher and chief executive officer of The Washington Post.

Jones joined The Post in 1980 as vice president and counsel. In 1995, he became president and general manager of The Post, assuming responsibility for the business side of the newspaper. In January 2000, he was named associate publisher, assuming responsibility of The Post on a day-to-day basis. In September 2000 he assumed his present responsibilities.

Born in Atlanta in 1946, Jones received an AB in 1968 from Harvard College, where he was president of the Harvard Crimson. He attended Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar and received a DPhil in Modern History. He received his law degree in 1974 from Harvard Law School, where he was an editor of the Harvard Law Review. Prior to joining The Post, Jones was an attorney with Hill & Barlow in Boston from 1975 to 1980, and was law clerk for the Honorable Levin H. Campbell, U.S. Court of Appeals for First Circuit, from 1974 to 1975.

He is a director of the Associated Press, the Newspaper Association of America, the Eugene and Agnes E. Meyer Foundation, and the Federal City Council.

Donald Graham

Donald E. Graham

Donald E. Graham is chief executive officer and chairman of the board of The Washington Post Company. He is also chairman of The Washington Post newspaper. Graham was publisher of The Washington Post from January 1979 to September 2000.

Graham was born on April 22, 1945 in Baltimore, a son of Philip L. and Katharine Meyer Graham. His father was publisher of The Washington Post from 1946 until 1961. Eugene Meyer, Graham's grandfather, purchased The Washington Post at a bankruptcy sale in 1933.

After graduating in 1966 from Harvard College, where he was president of the Harvard Crimson, Graham was drafted and served as an information specialist with the 1st Cavalry Division in Vietnam from 1967 to 1968. He was a patrolman with the Washington Metropolitan Police Department from January 1969 to June 1970. Graham joined The Washington Post newspaper in 1971 as a reporter and subsequently held several news and business positions at the newspaper and at Newsweek. He was named executive vice president and general manager of the newspaper in 1976.

He was elected a director of The Washington Post Company in 1974 and served as president from May 1991 to September 1993.

Graham is a trustee of the Federal City Council in Washington, DC and president of the District of Columbia College Access Program.

Katharine Graham

Katharine Graham

Katharine Graham was chairman of the executive committee of The Washington Post Company from 1993 until her death on July 17, 2001. She was chairman of the board from May 1973 to May 1991 and served as president from 1963 to 1973. She was publisher of The Washington Post newspaper from 1969 to 1979.

Mrs. Graham was born on June 16, 1917, in New York City. She was a daughter of Agnes Ernst Meyer and Eugene Meyer, who purchased The Washington Post at a bankruptcy sale in 1933.

After attending Vassar for two years, Mrs. Graham graduated from the University of Chicago in 1938. She worked as a reporter for the San Francisco News and later joined the staff of The Washington Post, working in the editorial and circulation departments.

Philip L. Graham, Mrs. Graham's husband, was publisher of The Washington Post from 1946 until 1961.

Mrs. Graham is survived by her four children: Elizabeth Weymouth and Donald, William and Stephen Graham. Donald Graham is chairman and chief executive officer of The Washington Post Company and chairman of The Washington Post.

Mrs. Graham served as co-chairman of the International Herald Tribune. She was vice chairman of the board of the Urban Institute and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Overseas Development Council. Mrs. Graham was a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She was a board member of the National Campaign to Prevent Teenage Pregnancy. She also had served as chairman and president of the American Newspaper Publishers Association and as a board member of the Associated Press.

Mrs. Graham was the author of Personal History, a memoir for which she received the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for Biography.