THE WASHINGTON POST EPAPER USA NEWSPAPER

The Washington Post is an American daily newspaper. It is the most widely circulated newspaper 

published in Washington, D.C., and was founded in 1877, making it the area's oldest extant newspaper.

Located in the capital city of the United States, the newspaper has a particular emphasis on national politics. Daily editions are printed for the District of Columbia, Maryland and Virginia. The newspaper is published as abroadsheet, with photographs printed both in color and in black and white.

The newspaper has won 47 Pulitzer Prizes. This includes six separate Pulitzers awarded in 2008, the second-highest number ever given to a single newspaper in one year. Post journalists have also received 18 Nieman Fellowships and 368 White House News Photographers Association awards. In the early 1970s, in the best-known episode in Post history, reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein led the American press's investigation into what became known as the Watergate scandal; reporting in the newspaper greatly contributed to the resignation of President Richard Nixon. In years since, its investigations have led to increased review of the Walter Reed Army Medical Center.

Type	Daily newspaper
Format	Broadsheet
Owner(s)	Nash Holdings LLC
Publisher	Fred Ryan
Editor	Martin Baron
Staff writers	about 740 journalists
Founded	1877
Language	English
Headquarters	1150 15th Street, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20071 United States
Circulation	474,767 Daily 838,014 Sunday (as of March 2013)
Website	www.washingtonpost.com