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Brazil Times (blog)
April 25, 2018
“The Post,” for those who were alive during Watergate in the early '70s (or were too young to care) refers to The Washington Post, at one time a family-owned newspaper run by Katherine Graham and edited by Ben Bradlee. Two young reporters, Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, became famous forÃâà...
smallwarsjournal
April 20, 2018
Pairing Tom Hanks and Meryl Streep together for the first time as the intrepid Ben Bradlee and Katherine Graham of the Washington Post, was an inspired commercial idea. Especially given the controversies generated in the last few years over what constitutes “real news”. However, since the film weaves in an around aÃâà...
Lasentinel
April 19, 2018
At the time, Chicago Defender publisher, John H. Sengstacke, and “EBONY” and “Jet” magazines publisher, John H. Johnson, were fierce competitors. Like the late Katherine Graham of The Washington Post, Dorothy would often attend board and corporate meetings with male executives. Some of themÃâà...
Entertainment Tonight
April 18, 2018
'The Post' Screenwriter Liz Hannah on Writing for Meryl Streep and Toasting with Tom Hanks (Exclusive) .... so the fact that so many people wanted to stand behind the story of Katherine Graham and stand behind the story of this woman standing on her own two feet for the first time…is so important to me.
Sumter Item
April 18, 2018
But, without question, Meryl Streep powers this movie with her terrific portrayal of a reticent Katherine Graham, the longtime Post publisher and one of the first ... Spielberg has crafted a true love letter to print journalism, and I left the theater feeling invigorated about the newspaper industry and its mission: ToÃâà...
Black Press USA
April 17, 2018
At the time, Chicago Defender publisher, John H. Sengstacke, and “EBONY” and “Jet” magazines publisher, John H. Johnson, were fierce competitors. Like the late Katherine Graham of The Washington Post, Dorothy would often attend board and corporate meetings with male executives. Some of themÃâà...
Bustle
April 17, 2018
The movie marked Oscar nomination number 21 for Streep, a number well over any other actor in Academy history, and this clip makes it clear that her Post castmates and crew weren't surprised at all by her latest success. "I cannot imagine anybody else playing Katherine Graham. The way Meryl StreepÃâà...
The Guam Daily Post
April 10, 2018
As to The Washington Post, this is not the first time a president has tried to pressure the newspaper because of its reporting. During the Watergate scandal, Nixon's attorney general threatened the then publisher of The Washington Post, Katherine Graham, saying that she would “be caught in a big fatÃâà...
ValueWalk
April 4, 2018
In the 46 years since Katherine Graham began her tenure as Publisher and CEO of The Washington Post, there have been only 60 female CEOs of Fortune 500 companies. And for 28 years, there were only four: aforementioned Graham, Marion O. Sandler of Golden West Financial, Linda Wachner ofÃâà...
INSIDER
March 31, 2018
According to the fact-checkers, there were some convenient Hollywood moments added (like the intern sneaking into the New York Times for intel) and left out a dramatic altercation between Post reporters and Chief Justice Warren Burger. The real-life story is just as dramatic, starting with Daniel Ellsberg photocopying theÃâà...
The Journal
March 21, 2018
For example, posters of former Washington Post Publisher Katherine Graham, former Durango Herald Editor and Publisher Morley Ballantine and trailblazing journalist Ida B. Wells hang at the Ballantine Media Center. Marie Curie's poster hands in the chemistry building, because Curie was a pioneeringÃâà...
Philippine Star
March 19, 2018
The second movie was The Post. It had me teary-eyed. I thought the acting of ... I became teary-eyed as Katherine Graham stood for principle. Her walking down and all these young girls ... I ended up looking at the Internet and searching for things on Katherine Graham. I ended up downloading the bookÃâà...
Niagara Gazette
March 18, 2018
... FILM: Before any more critics sound off about “The Post,” the movie directed by Steven Spielberg, they should know that many respected journalists, active in the profession for years, have weighed in with glowing praise for Meryl Streep's performance as Washington Post publisher Katherine Graham andÃâà...
Bonesville
March 15, 2018
In the excellent movie “The Post,” Katherine Graham is giving a lavish dinner party — a retirement soiree for a friend — when she learns of a highly sensitive and tense situation involving The Washington Post, the newspaper for which she is the publisher, and the potential release of the Pentagon Papers.
Bonesville
March 15, 2018
In the excellent movie “The Post,” Katherine Graham is giving a lavish dinner party — a retirement soiree for a friend — when she learns of a highly sensitive and tense situation involving The Washington Post, the newspaper for which she is the publisher, and the potential release of the Pentagon Papers.
/FILM
March 9, 2018
In recent years, Spielberg has proven to be interested in telling smaller-scale stories about real people, whether it's Katherine Graham in The Post, James Donovan in Bridge of Spies, Abraham Lincoln in Lincoln, and most famously, The Big Friendly Giant in The BFG. (Kidding, kidding.) A biopic aboutÃâà...
The Geekiary (blog)
March 8, 2018
In The Post, Meryl Streep plays Katherine Graham, the first female publisher of a major US newspaper (The Washington Post). Great! Now studios should expand on this idea by making a movie about Nellie Bly. Nellie was serving as the foreign correspondent for the Pittsburgh Dispatch at 21, writing aboutÃâà...
Observer
March 7, 2018
The only other woman who received the award was The Washington Post owner Katherine Graham, who collected the accolade in 2014. Perhaps her name sounds familiar? That's because Meryl Streep recently played her in the Oscar-nominated film, The Post. Graham's daughter, Lally Weymouth, was inÃâà...
TIME
March 6, 2018
After clambering back over the velvet rope to Guillermo, he asked what Streep smelled like. “What does she smell like? She smells like success,” Haddish responded without missing a beat. While Streep may not have won for her role as famed publisher Katherine Graham in The Post at this year's awards,Ãâà...
CBS News
March 5, 2018
And that is particularly true of her performance as Katherine Graham, owner of the Washington Post, in Steven Spielberg's "The Post." After coming into her position following the death of her husband, to become that rare female business executive in the late 1960s and early '70s, Graham is uncertain andÃâà...
Refinery29
March 5, 2018
There is nothing that can prevent Lawrence from getting to Streep — she hikes up her skirt and clambers over several sets of chairs in order to chat with the Post star, all the while cradling a glass of wine. Lawrence employs the classic party technique: the awkward-but-effective beeline. (Remember the lastÃâà...
The Intelligencer
March 5, 2018
Brilliantly performed and spellbinding, it depicted the agony of the publisher of the Washington Post in the summer of 1971 when — against the advice ... Executive Editor Ben Bradlee was the lone voice among Katherine Graham's advisers who insisted that The Post had an absolute duty to publish this vitalÃâà...
POLITICO Magazine
March 4, 2018
No argument here from me that Graham, as the Washington Post's 54-year-old publisher, took a breathtaking risk when, in the immediate aftermath of a judge enjoining the New York Times from publishing the Pentagon Papers, she told the Post's editor, Ben Bradlee (played by Tom Hanks), “Let's go, let'sÃâà...
NYU Washington Square News
March 1, 2018
Steven Spielberg's latest feature tells the story of Katherine Graham (Meryl Streep), the first female publisher of the Washington Post. Graham was faced with ... When journalism exposes the truth and holds those in power accountable, every letter has an impact and every story has a consequence. In the case of “The Post,”Ãâà...
The Colgate Maroon-News
March 1, 2018
Katherine Graham (Streep) – now owner of The Washington Post after the death of her husband – takes her family newspaper public. Her lack of ... The ending pays tribute to the movie, All the President's Men, potentially one of the most renowned films revolving around journalism of all time. Will this movieÃâà...
Haaretz
March 1, 2018
It sparked what became known as the “mutiny” of Post journalists, the first and last organized effort by Israeli journalists to rise up against hostile owners .... The Post shows, the decision to publish or not publish the Pentagon Papers was ultimately left to the Washington Post's publisher, Katherine Graham,Ãâà...
Lima Ohio
February 28, 2018
“The Post [is] a thrilling drama about the unlikely partnership between The Washington Post's Katherine Graham (Meryl Streep), the first female publisher of a major American newspaper, and editor Ben Bradlee (Tom Hanks), as they race to catch up with The New York Times to expose a massive cover-upÃâà...
gulfnews.com
February 28, 2018
These two films are brilliant examples of journalism and its role in society. ... “Quality and profitability go hand-in-hand,” Streep, who plays Katherine Graham, the Washington Post publisher, says in the movie. ... Journalists are the eyes and ears of the world, and journalism is the “first draft of history”.
American Theatre
February 27, 2018
The recording included a post-play discussion with Bradlee himself, along with other journalists. ... At the top of the play, an older Katherine Graham, serving as narrator in retrospect, explains how The New York Times, after bravely deciding to publish an earth-shattering study that had been improperlyÃâà...
PolitiFact
February 26, 2018
The Post, Steven Spielberg's paean to the First Amendment and the free press, tells the tale of the Washington Post's diffident publisher and ambitious editor summoning the courage to publish a top-secret study in the face of unprecedented government censorship. The action begins when a disillusionedÃâà...
The Economist
February 22, 2018
Between the film's success and opinion polls recording a modest uptick in public trust for newspapers, optimistic journalists might conclude that they, or at ... “The Post” was initially pitched as a human drama about Katherine Graham, a Georgetown heiress who found herself running the Washington Post,Ãâà...
Poynter (blog)
February 18, 2018
Join Poynter for a day of empowerment for women journalists at the Hearst Tower in New York City. ... in American newsrooms can be seen today at your local movie theater in the Academy Award nominated film The Post, as Meryl Streep portrays Katherine Graham, then publisher of The Washington Post.
TownandCountrymag.com
January 24, 2018
Katherine Graham never expected to be the publisher of the Post, though she was born into the family that owned the paper. In June of 1933, when Graham was 16, her father, Eugene Meyer, bought the Washington Post at auction. Per the paper itself, he paid only $825,000 for for the whole operation—theÃâà...
PEOPLE.com
January 12, 2018
Meryl Streep brings Katharine Graham to life in The Post, Steven Spielberg's new movie about the Washington Post's first female publisher famous for choosing to print the Pentagon Papers. ... For more about Katherine Graham and The Post, pick up this week's issue of PEOPLE, on newsstands now.
Smithsonian
December 29, 2017
The decision to publish the famed Pentagon Papers in The Washington Post ultimately came before its publisher, Katharine Graham. Caught between the caution of her lawyers and the zeal of her hardworking journalists, Graham was under enormous pressure. The estimable New York Times first brokeÃâà...
Markets Insider
December 31, 1999
Jeff Bezos, who bought The Washington Post in 2013, was once wary of wading into the Washington, DC, limelight. But the Amazon CEO now embraces Washington and sees himself as the successor to the former Post publisher Katherine Graham, according to the Washingtonian. Insiders who spoke withÃâà...
National Catholic Reporter
December 31, 1999
Multiple encomiums have been lavished on "The Post," the Steven Spielberg film about The Washington Post publisher Katharine Graham and her brave ... Journalism aside, "I had no business experience, no management experience and little knowledge of the governmental, political or other matters weÃâà...
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