The paper's January 9, 2008 front page
Type	Daily newspaper
Format	Broadsheet
Owner	Washington Post Company
Publisher	Katharine Weymouth
Editor	Leonard Downie, Jr.
Founded	1877
Headquarters	1150 15th Street, N.W. Washington, D.C., United States
Circulation	673,180 Daily 890,163 Sunday[1]
ISSN	0190-8286
Website: washingtonpost.com

The Washington Post is the largest, and most circulated newspaper in Washington, D.C. It is also one of the city's oldest papers, having been founded in 1877. It is widely considered to be one of the most important newspapers in the United States due to its particular emphasis on national politics, and international affairs, and being a newspaper of record. Even so, the Washington Post has always been defined as a local paper and does not print any editions for the outside region beyond that of the DC, Maryland, or Virginia editions for daily circulation.

The newspaper is published as a broadsheet, with photographs printed both in color as well as in black and white. Weekday printings including the Main Section which includes the First Page, national, international news, politics, and editorials and opinions, followed by the sections on local news (Metro), Sports, Business, Style (innovative feature writing on topics as varied as pop culture, politics, fine and performing arts, film, fashion and gossip), and Classifieds. The Sunday edition includes all of the weekday sections as well as the weekly sections of Outlook (opinion and editorials), Style & Arts, Sunday Source, Travel, Bookworld, Comics, TV Week, and the Washington Post Magazine. Beyond the newspaper, the Washington Post under its parent company of The Washington Post Company is involved with the Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive and Washingtonpost.com.

In 1889, John Phillip Sousa composed on behalf of the newspaper "The Washington Post March", which later became one of the most famous march music pieces. Perhaps the most notable incident in the Post's history was when, in the early 1970s, reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein began the media's investigation of Watergate. This contributed greatly to the resignation of President Richard Nixon. In recent years, its investigative reporting has led to increased review of the Walter Reed Army Medical Center. Since Leonard Downie, Jr. was named executive editor in 1991, the Post has won 25 Pulitzer Prizes, more than half of the paper's total collection of 47 Pulitzers awarded. This includes six separate Pulitzers given in 2008, the second-highest record of Pulitzers ever given to a single newspaper in one year.^[2] The Post has also received 18 Nieman Fellowships, and 368 White House News Photographers Association awards, among others. 2008