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Paul Lovely, WEYMOUTH, MASS...
...mistake was to suggest that we would hold and participate in an off-the-record dinner with journalists and power brokers paid for by a sponsor.' KATHARINE WEYMOUTH, publisher of the Washington Post, after the newspaper sent out flyers advertising $25,000 "sponsorships" for an exclusive salon at her home in which lobbyists could meet with White House officials and the Post reporters who cover them...
...Weymouth's decor and catering are perfectly acceptable, we hear, but what really made the evening worth the coin is the guest list. Joining the CEO at the intime gathering of 20, according to the flier, would be "Obama administration officials, Congress members, business leaders, advocacy leaders and other select minds," plus "health-care reporting and editorial staff members of The Washington Post." In other words, for a fee, businesses and lobbyists could have access to the sort of high-level opinion makers that the Post has access to as well as the journalists, all in a cozy...
Even after that, though, Post executive editor Marcus Brauchli was still pretty steamed. He knew, he says, that the Post was developing an events and conferences business, as a way of "extending our franchise." He knew there would be events at Weymouth's house. But he didn't know the details. Ah, and those details. "I think there are ways of structuring events that are respectful of journalism," he says. "This wasn't even close...
That, we guess, would have been the job of Weymouth, 42, who is the granddaughter of Post's longtime publisher, Katharine Graham, and has only been the Washington Post's CEO since February of last year. Unlike her uncle Donald Graham, current chairman of the Washington Post Co., and the man she is expected to succeed, Weymouth, 42, never worked as a journalist, joining the family company in 1996 as a lawyer...