- published: 18 Jul 2010
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Graham Holdings Company (formerly The Washington Post Company) is a diversified American conglomerate, best known for formerly owning the newspaper for which it was once named, The Washington Post, and Newsweek.
Its holdings include the online magazine Slate, Graham Media Group (formerly Post-Newsweek Stations), a group of five large-market television stations, higher education company Kaplan, and Trove (formerly WaPo Labs)—the developers of a news reader app. Graham Holdings Company also owned cable television and internet service provider Cable One until it was spun off in 2015.
The history of Graham Holdings Company dates back to 1877, when the Post was first published. The Washington Post Company was incorporated in the District of Columbia in 1889, and remained a District of Columbia corporation until it changed its place of incorporation to Delaware in 2003. It is a public company and its Class B common stock trades on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol GHC; it went public in 1971.
WASHINGTON POST
Get the news, the very latest news, the news youll never get from any other source, sir.
The Washington Post is my newspaper
The Washington Post the one to read, the Washington Post is all you need,
The Washington Post is my view shaper,
The Washington Post, The Washington Post, The Washington Post, the Post, the Post
So if youre after the latest news, The Washington Post will give you the most,
And if youre craving the latest views, The Washington Post is the one you need, sir!
So if you are after the latest news, The Washington Post will give you the most,
And if youre craving the latest views, The Washington Post is the one to read, sir!
Theyve got the comics and the crossword puzzles, too
Theyve got the help wanted pages and want ads there
So if you think youll ever find a better paper in the world
You better go to church and say a prayer (and say a prayer)
Theyve got photographers and correspondents too
Theyve got a big editorial staff as well
So if you think youll ever find a better paper in the world
My friend then you can always go to Hell, (you go to hell, you go to hell you go to hell
You go to hell you go to hell then you can always go to hell, sir!
You might be wondering about their op-ed page
And if theyll print what you offer as timeless prose?
Well, its agreed at least theyll read whatever screed youve scribbled
Right before they tell you, Stick it up your nose! (yes up your nose, yes up your nose,
Yes up your nose, before they tell you, you can stick it up your nose, sir!
Reporters write their stories down by hand sometimes
They use computers and typewriter keyboards, too
So if you think youll ever find a better paper anywhere