Katharine Graham

Katharine Meyer Graham (June 16, 1917 – July 17, 2001) was an American newspaper publisher. She led her family's newspaper, The Washington Post, from 1963 to 1991. 

Graham was known for her leadership of The Washington Post during the Watergate scandal, the resignation of President Richard Nixon and the release of the Pentagon Papers. She was one of the first 20th-century female publishers of a major American newspaper and the first woman elected to the board of the Associated Press. 

Graham's memoir, Personal History, won the Pulitzer Prize in 1998.

Graham died on July 17, 2001 from problems caused by a fall at a hospital in Boise, Idaho at the age of 84.

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Other websites

Charlie Rose's interview with Katharine Graham, year-1997 

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