Katherine Weymouth

Washington Post Exec Katharine Weymouth: I Wish Our Headlines Were as Good as Huffpo’s

Peter Kafka in D7 on May 28, 2009 at 10:33 am PT

Old media, meet new media, meet old media’s new media. Arianna Huffington’s self-named Web site is one of the most prominent (and fast-growing) examples of the new media aggregation model: Produce a smattering of your own content and spread it across a site filled with stuff everyone else has made. Katharine Weymouth runs the digital arm of the Washington Post Co.–which happens to be the family business. Unlike the rest of the company’s flagship paper, the Post’s online revenue is still growing. But not fast enough to offset the rest of the company’s decline. Can the Post figure out how to survive? Can people like Huffington survive without the Post and its ilk? Time to find out.