I began my journalism career as an unpaid student intern at The Washington Post and Newsweek owned WPLG Phillip L Graham.
He was an American newspaperman, publisher and co-owner of The Washington Post and its parent company, The Washington Post Company.
During his years with the Post Company, Graham helped The Washington Post grow from a struggling local paper to a national publication and the Post Company expand to own other newspapers as well as radio and television stations. He was married to Katharine Graham, a daughter of Eugene Meyer, the previous owner of The Washington Post.
In 1946, when his father-in-law, Washington Post publisher Eugene Meyer, was named the first president of the World Bank, he passed the position of publisher to Graham. When Meyer left the World Bank later that year, he took the title of chairman of the board of the Washington Post Company, leaving Graham as publisher.
In 1948, Meyer transferred his control of the Post Company stock (the company was privately owned) to his daughter and her husband. Katharine Graham received 30 percent as a gift. Phil received 70 percent of the stock, his purchase financed by his father-in-law. Meyer remained a close adviser to his son-in-law until he died in 1959, at which time Graham assumed the titles of President and Chairman of the Board of the Post company.
Graham, who had bipolar disorder, died by suicide in 1963, after which Katharine took over as publisher, making her one of the first women in charge of a major American newspaper.
Republican President Richard M Nixon despised this newspaper, so perhaps this is the way a GOP POTUS deals with the news of the day.