Founded December 6th, 1877 by Stilson Hutchins, The Washington Post has since been the most widely circulating newspaper in the Washington D.C. area. Adding to that, The Washington Post was also the first newspaper in D.C. to publish papers every day of the week, starting in 1880. By 1933, the Post had published Clifford K. Berryman's classic illustration Remember the Maine during the Spanish American War in 1898, his other illustration, Drawing the Line in Mississippi, in 1902, and was purchased in a bankruptcy auction in 1933. In 1954, The Post was merged with the Washington Times-Herald, renaming it The Washington Post and Times-Herald until 1973. The Post is best known for it's leaning liberal views and it's reporting of the Pentagon Papers and Watergate scandal.Jeff Bezos purchased the newspaper for US$250 million in cash in 2013. Currently, Nash Holdings LLC, a company controlled by Bezos, owns The Post. The Post liked to define itself as a local newspaper, but considering that it's located in the nation's capital, local has become national and even global in some cases.
The Post in 1948
The Post in 1948