The Washington Post might stand alone among American newspapers in being as well known for its leadership as for its daily work.
By then, the newspaper business was struggling under a waning advertising market, and Baron was unsurprised to find Weymouth running out of rope. 'I've been publisher of The Post five years. Every one of those years, I had to cut expenses and lay off people when it was bad for the newspaper,' she told Don Graham, who was then the chair and C.E.O. of the Post Company.
Within a year, Graham told Baron that the family would sell the paper to Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon, for a stunning $250 million.
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