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375: 31: 338:"health care reporting and editorial staff." Weymouth had planned a series of exclusive dinner parties or "salons" at her private residence, to which she had invited prominent lobbyists, trade group members, politicians and business people. The cost of attendance to the parties was up to $ 250,000 per individual, with the events being closed to the press and the public. 273:
as executive editor and placing him in charge of both newspaper and the website (the previous editor had not been in charge of the website). The hire from outside the organization "surprised the newsroom. ... Brauchli ... had accepted a large payout and resigned from his previous job, running
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s revelation sparked controversy in Washington, as it gave the impression the parties' sole purpose was to allow a select group of Washington insiders and business people to purchase face time with
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announced that Weymouth would serve as an adviser to the company. She is now CEO of dineXpert, a company that calls itself a community for independent restaurant owners.
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account put it. The 2012 account outlined signs and reports that more recently her relationship with Brauchli may have "cooled" and noted that
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On September 2, 2014, it was announced that she would resign as publisher the following month, with the position to be assumed by
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Weymouth married lawyer Richard Alan Scully on July 25, 1998. The couple later divorced. They have three children.
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Almost immediately, Weymouth canceled the salons and blamed the entire incident on the marketing department at
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in 2013. Weymouth is the fifth member of her family to have held the publisher position.
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reported that a health care lobbyist had received an "astonishing" offer of access to the
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in 1996. She later became the head of advertising. Weymouth was named publisher of the
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On September 27, 2019, Katharine Weymouth stepped into the role of board chair of the
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and chief executive officer of Washington Post Media on 7 February 2008, succeeding
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from 1933, when the bankrupt paper was bought by Weymouth's great-grandfather (
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as a close partner "in the digital reinvention of the newsroom", had left the
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said that "magazines host similar conferences all the time".
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Weymouth is a daughter of columnist and publishing heiress
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and chief executive officer of Washington Post Media.
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21st-century American newspaper publishers (people)
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Harvard University
BA
Stanford University
JD
Publisher
CEO
The Washington Post
Yann Weymouth
Lally Weymouth
Tina Weymouth
The Washington Post
Lally Weymouth
Yann Weymouth
Upper East Side
Manhattan
New York City
Dalton School
Brearley School
Harvard College
Mark Twain
Oxford University
Stanford Law School
Williams & Connolly
Washington, D.C.
Boisfeuillet Jones Jr.
Marcus Brauchli
The Wall Street Journal
Rupert Murdoch
Raju Narisetti

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