SoJ Web Report | Feb. 18, 2012
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| Washington Post publisher Katharine |
| Weymouth |
Weymouth’s visit is part of the School of Journalism’s Speaker Series, which brings notable media professionals to campus for free talks open to the public.
After her remarks, Weymouth will join a conversation with Perry Metz, director of IU’s Radio and Television Services, and Yvette Alex-Assensoh, dean of the Office of Women's Affairs. CSPAN will tape this event for airing during the congressional recess.
Since 2008, Weymouth has been chief executive officer of Washington Post Media and publisher of The Washington Post. She had been vice president of advertising for The Washington Post since January 2005.
Weymouth is the great-granddaughter of Eugene Meyer, who bought the Post in 1933, and granddaughter and namesake of Katharine Graham, who led the company for 30 years and oversaw the Post reporters’ uncovering of the Watergate scandal.
She joined the Post in 1996 as assistant counsel and moved to an online publishing subsidiary of The Washington Post Company as associate counsel. She became director of the advertising department’s jobs unit in 2002 and was named director of advertising sales in April 2004.
She earned a bachelor’s degree, magna cum laude, from Harvard College in 1988 and a law degree from Stanford Law School in 1992. Following law school, she clerked on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals for one year. She practiced law at Williams & Connolly in Washington, D.C., from 1993-1996.
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