In the third installment in a series of interviews with world leaders and prominent figures, Katherine Graham, former chairman of the board and chief executive officer of The Washington Post Co., stresses the need for newspapers to change their editorial methods since the advent of electronic media. Born in 1917 in New York, Graham graduated from the University of Chicago in 1938. She succeeded her husband as president of The Washington Post Co. in 1963, assuming the top post at the paper in 1973, a position she kept until 1991. The Internet has changed all our lives and it is an enormous force to be reckoned with.
People have maybe too much information.
It is a little bit alarming in ways. So I think that the shape of all our businesses is threatened and will change. The only thing we can do is change with it to edit differently, but it is very important for print to survive because I do not think that you can explain the very complicated issues the world is going to have to deal with via electronic media, because people lose interest too quickly. I think it takes print to report all that, and it is very important for us to survive. When your father bought The Washington Post, back in 1933, he put forward seven principles by which to work.