Katharine Meyer Kay Graham was an American newspaper publisher.
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32 Facts About Kay Graham
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Kay Graham's led her family's newspaper, The Washington Post, from 1963 to 1991.
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Kay Graham presided over the paper as it reported on the Watergate scandal, which eventually led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon.
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Kay Graham's was the first 20th century female publisher of a major American newspaper.
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Philip Kay Graham became publisher of the Post in 1946, when Eugene Meyer handed over the newspaper to his son-in-law.
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Kay Graham was Chairman of the Washington Post Company until his death in 1959, when Philip Graham took that position and the company expanded with the purchases of television stations and Newsweek magazine.
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Kay Graham was known for a long-time friendship with Warren Buffett, whose Berkshire Hathaway owned a substantial stake in the Post.
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Philip Kay Graham dealt with alcoholism and mental illness throughout his marriage to Katharine.
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Kay Graham was sedated, flown back to Washington, and placed in the Chestnut Lodge psychiatric facility in nearby Rockville.
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Katharine Kay Graham assumed the reins of the company and of the Post after Philip Kay Graham's suicide.
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Kay Graham's held the title of president and was de facto publisher of the paper from September 1963.
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Kay Graham's formally held the title of publisher from 1969 to 1979, and that of chairwoman of the board from 1973 to 1991.
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Kay Graham's became the first female Fortune 500 CEO in 1972, as CEO of the Washington Post company.
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Kay Graham outlined in her memoir her lack of confidence and distrust in her own knowledge.
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Kay Graham hired Benjamin Bradlee as editor, and cultivated Warren Buffett for his financial advice; he became a major shareholder and something of an eminence grise in the company.
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Kay Graham presided over the Post at a crucial time in its history.
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When Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein brought the Watergate story to Bradlee, Kay Graham supported their investigative reporting and Bradlee ran stories about Watergate when few other news outlets were reporting on the matter.
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In conjunction with the Watergate scandal, Kay Graham was the subject of one of the best-known threats in American journalistic history.
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Kay Graham had strong links to the Rockefeller family, serving both as a member of the Rockefeller University council and as a close friend of the Museum of Modern Art, where she was honored as a recipient of the David Rockefeller Award for enlightened generosity and advocacy of cultural and civic endeavors.
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At the University of Chicago, Katherine Kay Graham has a dormhouse in Max Palevsky Residential Commons named after her.
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In 1973, Kay Graham received the Elijah Parish Lovejoy Award as well as an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Colby College.
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In 1975, Graham received the S Roger Horchow Award for Greatest Public Service by a Private Citizen, an award given out annually by Jefferson Awards.
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In 1987, Kay Graham won the Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism.
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In 1988, Kay Graham was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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Kay Graham's found it an amazing story of how Graham was able to succeed in a male-dominated industry.
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In 1999, Kay Graham received the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement.
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In 2000, Kay Graham was named one of the International Press Institute's 50 World Press Freedom Heroes of the past 50 years.
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In 2002, Graham was presented, posthumously, with the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President George W Bush.
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In 2002, Kay Graham was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame.
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In 2017, Kay Graham was portrayed by Meryl Streep in the Steven Spielberg film The Post.
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Kay Graham is buried in historic Oak Hill Cemetery, across the street from her former home in Georgetown.
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