Katharine followed him on military assignments to Sioux Falls, S.D., and Harrisburg, Pa. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. After getting to know each other at the Hockley group's social gatherings and continuing discussions of life and politics, Katharine Meyer and Philip Graham fell in love. She led her family's newspaper, The Washington Post, for more than two decades, overseeing its most famous period, the Watergate coverage that eventually led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon. His only son, Eugene III, who was called "Bill," had become a physician, and Meyer didn't think the role of publisher was suitable for a woman. Showing 30 distinct works. Or I could go to work. The Post, founded in 1877, had fallen on hard times. As production costs rose, profit margins decreased. The writer Truman Capote in 1966 had thrown a masked ball in her honor at the Plaza Hotel in New York -- guests wore black and white attire -- that became famous in the annals of party-giving. By that time, Philip Graham had started to work at The Post. She remained active in the company and the community after her retirement, hosting newly elected Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush at her home, actively participating in interviews that Post and Newsweek editors and reporters had with newsmakers in Washington and New York, leading delegations of editors and reporters on visits to heads of state overseas, lending her presence to charitable events throughout the country and working on such local mattters as improving public schools. "It isn't right for a publisher to tell an editor what to do or not to do. & Epstein, Noel (July 18, 2001). She also served as chairman of the newspaper publishers group. She also was active in groups seeking to improve public education in Washington. She denounced various stories as "bitchy," "tasteless," "snide" or "grisly." Home. ", Warren Buffett, the legendary stock investor and the company's largest shareholder outside the Graham family, became a close friend and business mentor to Mrs. Graham after he began buying large amounts of Post stock soon after it was first offered publicly in the l970s. . She found an influential mentor in Buffett, the investor from Omaha. Mrs. Graham had a more direct involvement with the editorial page of The Post, which was, and is now, run separately from the rest of the newsroom in what is known internally as the "church-state" separation of news-gathering and editorial opinion. There are some things the general public does not need to know, and shouldn't. [9] Her siblings included Florence, Eugene III (Bill), Ruth and Elizabeth Meyer. Our thanks to friends and neighbors, Helen Graham Cancer Center, Bayada Home Care and Bayada Hospice for all of their wonderful help throughout Steve's illness. Washington Post heir Stephen Graham is getting a divorce, and it might not be amicable. If profitability was going to be increased, she had to change this. Even when speaking about her role at The Post, she insisted that no single person could shape the persona of a newspaper. [27][28] As the only woman to be in such a high position at a publishing company, she had no female role models and had difficulty being taken seriously by many of her male colleagues and employees. While running the newspaper, Mr. Graham played a backstage role in politics. The pressmen maintained a picket line for many more weeks, but the strike was over, as was their union's existence at The Post. Mr. Stephen W Meyer, PAC, is a Physician Assistant specialist in Rhinelander, Wisconsin. Buffett, who had been a Post carrier as a teenager after his father's 1942 election to Congress, became the company's largest stockholder outside the Graham family as well as one of its directors. Characteristically modest about her accomplishment, Mrs. Graham, then 80, was amazed that she had won a Pulitzer Prize. In 1981, it was sold to cut losses. Stephen Meyer Graham - Biographical Summaries of Notable People - MyHeritage Stephen Meyer Graham In Biographical Summaries of Notable People Save this record and choose the information you want to add to your family tree Save record Spotted an error? In this role, her conversations with editorial page editors sometimes led to major new opinion policies. By Mrs. Graham's own account, the most difficult part of her business career was a bitter, 139-day strike by the pressmen's union at The Post in 1975 and 1976 that began when strikers set fire to part of the pressroom. Ethnicity: African-Jamaican (paternal grandfather), Swedish, English, Irish. "I loved my job, I loved the paper, I loved the whole company," she said. And a Wall Street friend with administration contacts ominously warned Mrs. Graham "not to be alone. It ended with replacement workers being hired. Her father's sister, Florence Meyer Blumenthal, founded the Prix Blumenthal. It was harder for Mrs. Graham to make her mark as a businesswoman than as a news executive. His work tears down many purported barriers between science, philosophy, and religion. His father's name is Stephen Kelly. Katharine Meyer was born June 16, 1917, in New York City, the fourth of five children. Ephron said. There, at age 48, he killed himself with a shotgun. His other film roles include Tommy in Snatch (2000), Shang in Gangs of New York (2002), Baby Face Nelson in Public Enemies . Gartner's New Healthcare Supply Chain Top 25 Awards By Stephen Meyer Sep 6, 2017. She was the first woman to head a Fortune 500 company and the first to serve as a director of the Associated Press, the news service owned by member newspapers, and of the American Newspaper Publishers Association. Mrs. Graham traveled widely, often joining Post and Newsweek editors and reporters in meetings with foreign leaders. William Graham was a 1966 graduate of the private St. Albans School in Washington and a 1970 graduate of Stanford University, where he majored in history and was active in the antiwar movement. Mrs. Graham made frequent public speeches, particularly on news media issues on which she was widely recognized as an authority, ranging from the roles of investigative reporting and foreign correspondence to the impact of the Internet on the news. After she hired him as an assistant managing editor in 1965, Bradlee quickly moved up to managing editor and then executive editor. . A leading figure in international political, business and social circles, Mrs. Graham was a personal friend of many of the most prominent leaders of her time, including American Presidents Lyndon B. Johnson and Ronald Reagan; Presidents Valery Giscard d'Estaing of France, Corazon Aquino of the Philippines, Vaclav Havel of the Czech Republic and Kenneth Kaunda of Zambia; Chancellor Willy Brandt of West Germany; and Prime Minister Edward Heath of Britain. Meyer acted through an intermediary and kept his identity secret until the sale became final. To Mrs. Graham, her father was "very shy and remote on one level, witty but very distant and unable to be intimate." On January 30, 1998, television station WCPX-TV in Orlando changed its callsign to WKMG-TV in honor of longtime Washington Post publisher, Katharine M. Graham. When the war began, The Post supported it. Katharine relata en su autobiografa, la historia personal, cmo no se . In 2002, Graham was presented, posthumously, with the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President George W. Bush. The award was presented by Awards Council member Coretta Scott King. [1] Her father was a financier and, later, Chairman of the Federal Reserve. By this time, Mrs. Graham had acquired glamour as well as fame and influence. Mrs. Graham loved being involved with the news, calling or dropping by the offices of her editors for updates on what the newspaper was covering. Many men also said it helped them better understand what it meant for women to move out of traditional roles and into positions of power. As a manager, her strengths were intelligence, toughness, a willingness to listen and learn, and an ability to judge character. She visited Vietnam in the early 1960s, and she continued to inform herself. Inside The Post, Mrs. Graham worked cheerfully beside the others, taking classified ads, bundling papers in the mailroom, fielding subscriber complaints and cleaning up trash in the pressroom, where newly trained employees had begun to run the presses as they were repaired. Every year on March 2 they celebrate "Graham Day," honoring their namesake and her accomplishments.[36]. She served as a special diplomatic correspondent for Newsweek Magazine during the family's ownership for the publication. Stephen Hills, who is the president of the Post Media Group and Katharine's deputy, suggested that . In addition to The Post and Newsweek, the corporation now includes the Herald newspaper in Everett, Wash.; television stations in Detroit, Houston, San Antonio, Miami, Orlando and Jacksonville, Fla.; cable television operations in 19 states; Kaplan Inc., which provides test preparation, education and career services; Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive, an electronic information company that publishes washingtonpost.com on the Internet; Post Newsweek Tech Media Group, a publisher of business periodicals; the Gazette Newspapers, publishers of community newspapers in suburban Maryland; and Robinson Terminal Warehouse Co. After the New York Times obtained the Pentagon Papers and began publishing stories about them, the Nixon administration obtained a court order barring further publication pending a final higher court decision. In December 1988, Business Month magazine named The Post Co. one of the five best-managed companies in the nation. The Post Co. also grew enormously as a business during her three decades of leadership. USD/t oz. [citation needed], In her 1997 autobiography, Graham comments several times about how close her husband was to politicians of his day (he was instrumental, for example, in getting Johnson to be the Democratic vice presidential nominee in 1960), and how such personal closeness with politicians later became unacceptable in journalism. Vindicated by events, she gained a reputation for courage and devotion to principle that carried around the world. It immediately jumped ahead of the Evening Star in circulation, and in 1959, it passed the Star in advertising linage. I did all the scut work: paid the bills, ran the house, drove the children. At first, she relied on Frederick S. "Fritz" Beebe, a New York lawyer who had become chairman of the company after the purchase of Newsweek in 1961. Within days after her husband's death, Mrs. Graham told the board of directors that The Post Co. would stay in the family. "This was not a step in the long dance of life; it was the whole show.". When friends persuaded her to pay attention to clothes, she patronized Halston, Oscar de la Renta and Bill Blass. "What I essentially did," she said, "was to put one foot in front of the other, shut my eyes and step off the ledge. His work tears down many purported barriers between science, philosophy, and religion. In 1973, she and her management team found during a wildcat walkout that nonunion Post workers, trained to use new computer and photocomposition technology, could put out the paper without the printers. Graham and editor Bradlee first experienced challenges when they published the content of the Pentagon Papers. In My Heart is a Chainsaw, the first book in his Indian Lake Trilogy, Stephen Graham Jones devised a climactic scene in which scores of people watching the movie Jaws while floating on the lake over the 4th of July are suddenly engulfed in a tornadic . Liderazgo de The Washington Post. [21][23] On August 3, 1963, he committed suicide with a shotgun at the couple's "Glen Welby" estate near Marshall in the Virginia horse country.[24][25]. An important book of both breadth and depth. "The uncertainties, the difficulties, the violence against the people who were working, the fear that the Star would use the opportunity to turn the tables, were all overwhelming," she said. She led her family's newspaper, The Washington Post, for more than two decades, overseeing its most famous period, the Watergate coverage that eventually led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon. The home at 18 East 78th Street spans. By Stephen Meyer Nov 16, 2017. Graham pointed to a picture of his grandfather Eugene Meyer and his father, Philip Graham, . As a young woman living in Paris, she knew many luminaries of the art world. And she eagerly accepted invitations to after-hours newsroom parties, accommodating eager young reporters with stories about her career and interviewing them about their lives. "Ned" McLean, who had squandered a fortune and was confined to a psychiatric hospital. Media. ", D.C. Mayor Anthony A. Williams, who ordered that flags be flown at half staff at all District government facilities, said that "Mrs. Graham has been a part of this city not only as a preeminent publisher, but as a businesswoman and an active civic leader.". People named Stephen Meyer. "And so the person who succeeds you inherits something different, and you add to it or you subtract from it or you do whatever you do. Several employees, including editorial and commercial workers who had voted to cross the picket line because of the pressroom violence, were beaten. All along the way, her heart remained in The Washington Post, of which she once said: "When my husband died, I had three choices. Six months later, when Meyer joined the World Bank, he became publisher. The position went to Howard University-educated lawyer Walter Washington. Bradlee twice turned down promotions that would have required him to move to New York. ", But Mrs. Graham again stood behind Bradlee and his staff. [20], At a newspaper conference in Phoenix, Arizona, Philip apparently had a nervous breakdown. Graham does not appear in the film adaptation of All The President's Men, but Robert Redford, who plays Woodward, revealed that Graham had a scene written for her in earlier versions where she asks Woodward and Bernstein (played by Dustin Hoffman) about the Watergate story, beginning with, "What are you doing with my paper? Zweigenhaft, Richard L. and G. William Domhoff, Graham, K., Personal History, Vintage Books 1998, Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism, Katharine Graham Funeral Service, July 23, 2001, USA Today: "Personal History" By Katharine Graham, The New CEOs: Women, African American, Latino, and Asian American Leaders of Fortune 500 Companies, "Who Is William Graham? Philip Graham planned to follow in his father's footsteps in the Florida legislature and perhaps one day run for the U.S. Senate. "She set the newspaper on a course that took it to the very top ranks of American journalism in principle and excellence and fairness," said Bradlee, now a Post vice president. She stimulated conversation and explored ideas. The Post played an integral role in unveiling the Watergate conspiracy which ultimately led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon. Katharine Meyer Graham (June 16, 1917 - July 17, 2001) was an American publisher. The most difficult task, however, was transforming The Post Co. from a relatively small, family-owned business into a major modern corporation. Associated persons: David F Albright, Deborah K Albright, Gregory Charles Burkett, Candice Griffin, Earla Spencer (386) 752-6700 . ", Bradlee remained determined to pursue his vision for Style and answered another of her suggestions for it by saying, "I can't edit this section unless you get your finger out of my eye.". What she despised was the sexist way that her mistakes, particularly with executives, were ascribed to the belief that she was a "difficult woman" to work with, one who acted on female whims. Suggest an alternative Share your comments about this record Stephen Meyer Graham. The once passive Mrs. Graham, who had long thought of herself as a "Goody Two Shoes," as always trying to please, clearly was no longer the same person. Stephen Meyer in Graham, WA Stephen Meyer may also have lived outside of Graham, such as Chehalis, Carnation and 2 other cities in Washington. He graduated in 2008, having over 15 years of diverse experience, especially in Physician Assistant. "[46], On July 14, 2001, Graham fell and struck her head while visiting Sun Valley, Idaho; she died three days later at the age of 84. Summers and holidays were spent at the family estate in Mount Kisco, N.Y., or at her father's ranch near Jackson Hole, Wyo., or on trips to Europe. . Meyer sold 3,500 of the 5,000 Class A shares of voting stock to his son-in-law and 1,500 shares to his daughter. So he offered it to his son-in-law, and after talking it over with his wife, Philip Graham agreed. In 1974, the company bought the Trenton (N.J.) Times. She led her family's newspaper, The Washington Post, from 1963 to 1991. His work tears down many purported barriers between science, philosophy, and religion. William Welsh Graham arrived in 1948 and Stephen Meyer Graham in 1952. Smith, J. Y. When Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein brought the Watergate story to Bradlee, Graham supported their investigative reporting and Bradlee ran stories about Watergate when few other news outlets were reporting on the matter. In all, Meyer put about $20 million into the enterprise. She played a major role in The Post's shared ownership and direction, with the New York Times, of the International Herald Tribune. Within a decade, she was making momentous decisions about the Pentagon Papers and Watergate. (That is Jerry Coyne's blog.) Dr. Henry F. Schaefer III A pleasure to read, [Meyer's] inviting voice brings light to bear on complicated and profoundly influential subjects. Former president Jimmy Carter emphasized yesterday that "she was dedicated to the principles of fairness and accuracy." During the more than two years of the Watergate scandal that followed, The Post Co. was the target of unrelenting hostility from the White House and its friends. Meyer founded Allied Chemical Co. The two dated, but broke off the relationship due to conflicting interests. . Bradlee said she "had the guts of a burglar.". Complaints from readers and advertisers proliferated. And I accepted it. Nixon, it was learned later, told aides, "The main thing is The Post is going to have damnable, damnable problems out of this one. Her parents, banker Eugene Meyer and author . She could also be extremely forceful, and she could match Ben Bradlee's well-known facility for colorful language. The Post Co. also has interests in Bowater Mersey Paper Co., the International Herald Tribune newspaper and the Los Angeles Times-Washington Post News Service. "I felt desperate and secretly wondered if I might have blown the whole thing and lost the paper.". She had an impact because she brought together people who had something to say. Of the five Meyer children, she was the closest to her parents, and she was the only one to show an interest in journalism. During World War II, Philip Graham enlisted in the Army Air Corps in 1942 and rose to the rank of major. He said in an interview that she "used The Post editorial board as a bully pulpit for self-determination . Katharine Meyer Graham (June 16, 1917 - July 17, 2001) was an American publisher and the second female publisher of a major American newspaper, following Eliza Jane Nicholson's ownership of the New Orleans Daily Picayune (1876-1896). shelved 20,638 times. Mr. Stephen Meyer Graham Private Party Private jet tours for Forbes list clients: Mr Russel Wight, Mr Edward Easton, Mr Gerald Hosier, Mr William Schenkman. Global Teachers Conference group IBM Leadership Award Forum St. Petersburg Lifestyle Bentley Motors group Rotary Club International Dr. Stephen C. Meyer received his Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge in the philosophy of science. ", The Princess of Wales visited Mrs. Graham in Washington on several occasions during the period when Diana was struggling through a divorce from Britain's Prince Charles. Eugene Meyer had another idea. [citation needed], On June 5, 1940, Meyer was married in a Lutheran ceremony,[9] to Philip Graham, a graduate of Harvard Law School and a clerk for Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter. He persuaded Philip Graham to buy Newsweek after the death of Vincent Astor, its previous owner. +8.90 +0.48%. Peaky Blinders - Hayden Stagg. It also involved possible consequences for The Post that threatened its financial stability. (His half brother, Bob Graham, became governor of Florida and a senator). The Post obtained its own copy of the papers on the day of that court order, and Bradlee brought reporters to his Georgetown home to begin secretly preparing stories for publication about the 7,000 pages of Vietnam war history. Mrs. Graham also insisted that she never be surprised by what she read in the paper, although she believed in leaving most journalistic decisions to her editors. By the early 1970s, the unions for both the printers, who set stories in type, and the pressmen, who ran the presses that printed the paper, were using slowdowns as bargaining tactics in contract negotiations in which the company sought work rule changes. And she frequently hosted local, national and international political, business and civic leaders at the newspaper and in her Georgetown home. Graham took over the Post company in 1963 after the suicide of her husband, Philip Graham, and built it into a profitable conglomerate of newspaper, magazine, broadcast and cable properties, including Newsweek. But Post Co. Chairman Fritz Beebe, who joined the debate at Bradlee's home, found the editor and his staff determined to print their own Pentagon Papers stories in the next day's Post. We asked whether 4-methylumbelliferone (4MU), an oral inhibitor of HA synthesis, could inhibit antigen presentation. I had to try to assure Wall Street that I wasn't some madwoman, interested only in risks and editorial issues, but that I was concerned with how we ran our business. Her grandfather was Marc Eugene Meyer, and her great-grandfather was rabbi Joseph Newmark. Katharine Meyer Graham (June 16, 1917 - July 17, 2001) was an American publisher. He was the publisher (from 1946 until his death) and coowner (from 1948) of The Washington Post. Steve served in the Air Force, and following his service, graduated from the State University of New York, Stony Brook with a degree in History, and received his PhD in . Purposefully, she made friends on both sides of Washington's political divide. Services: Viewing will be on Sunday, March 5th from 4:00 to 7:00 pm at McCrery & Harra Funeral Home, 3710 Kirkwood Hwy, Wilmington. "[30] The Post published the quote, although Bradlee cut the words her tit. Like his father, Phil Graham, he died by suicide. But it is certainly the publisher's responsibility to see that the paper is complete, accurate, fair and as excellent as possible. Simons told her of two strange developments the night before: A car had driven through a house where two people were making love on a sofa -- and five men had been arresting after breaking into Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate office building. ", Former D.C. mayor Marion Barry, who was often strongly criticized by The Post's editorial page, praised Mrs. Graham yesterday as a publisher "who worked hard to try to get the editorial policies and newsroom of The Post to reflect Washington itself and its people." Stephen Meyer Graham: Parent(s) Agnes Ernst Meyer Eugene Meyer: Katharine Meyer Graham (June 16, 1917 - July 17, 2001) was an American publisher. ", With time running out to get a story into The Post's second edition, Graham made the difficult decision: "Go ahead, go ahead, go ahead. On Aug. 3, "quite noticeably much better," according to his wife, Philip Graham was permitted to go to their farmhouse for the weekend. With the new crews running the presses, the mailers' union voted in mid-February to accept a new contract, and other unions soon followed. stephen meyer graham Actualidad. She was a big influence in Washington in part because of that. ", As the head of the company, Mrs. Graham wrote in her autobiography, she was guided by the principle that "journalistic excellence and profitability go hand in hand. Her son Donald was publisher from 1979 until 2000.[29]. After graduating from the Madeira School, she went to Vassar. After much anticpation, Stephen Graham joined the sixth and final season of Peaky Blinders in the . Katharine Meyer Graham (June 16, 1917 - July 17, 2001) . Graham presided over the paper as it reported on the Watergate scandal, which eventually led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon. She gave her executives great autonomy, but it was always clear that she was in charge. In 1987, Graham won the Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism. 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