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The Company's publications and television broadcasting and cable operations also compete for readers' and viewers'
time with various other leisure-time activities.
Executive Officers
The executive officers of the Company, each of whom is elected for a one-year term at the meeting of the Board of
Directors immediately following the Annual Meeting of Stockholders held in May of each year, are as follows:
Donald E. Graham, age 60, has been Chairman of the Board of the Company since September 1993 and Chief Executive
Officer of the Company since May 1991. Mr. Graham served as President of the Company from May 1991 until
September 1993 and prior to that had been a Vice President of the Company for more than five years. Mr. Graham also
served as Publisher of
The Washington Post
from 1979 until September 2000.
Diana M. Daniels, age 56, has been Vice President and General Counsel of the Company since November 1988 and
Secretary of the Company since September 1991. Ms. Daniels served as General Counsel of the Company from January
1988 to November 1988 and prior to that had been Vice President and General Counsel of Newsweek, Inc. since 1979.
Ann L. McDaniel, age 50, became Vice PresidentÓHuman Resources of the Company in September 2001. Ms. McDaniel
had previously served as Senior Director of Human Resources of the Company since January 2001 and prior to that held
various editorial positions at
Newsweek
for more than five years, most recently as Managing Editor, a position she
assumed in November 1998.
John B. Morse, Jr., age 59, has been Vice PresidentÓFinance of the Company since November 1989. He joined the
Company as Vice President and Controller in July 1989 and prior to that had been a partner of Price Waterhouse.
Gerald M. Rosberg, age 59, became Vice PresidentÓPlanning and Development of the Company in February 1999. He
had previously served as Vice PresidentÓAffiliates at
The Washington Post,
a position he assumed in November 1997.
Mr. Rosberg joined the Company in January 1996 as
The Post
's Director of Affiliate Relations.
Employees
The Company and its subsidiaries employ approximately 16,400 persons on a full-time basis.
WP Company has approximately 2,720 full-time employees. About 1,525 of that unit's full-time employees and about
510 part-time employees are represented by one or another of five unions. Collective bargaining agreements are currently
in effect with locals of the following unions covering the full-time and part-time employees and expiring on the dates
indicated: 1,312 editorial, newsroom and commercial department employees represented by the Communications
Workers of America (November 7, 2008); 41 machinists represented by the International Association of Machinists
(January 10, 2007); 32 photoengravers-platemakers represented by the Graphic Communications Conference of the
International Brotherhood of Teamsters (February 10, 2007); 29 electricians represented by the International Brother-
hood of Electrical Workers (December 13, 2007); 31 engineers, carpenters and painters represented by the
International Union of Operating Engineers (April 12, 2008); and 61 paper handlers and general workers represented
by the Graphic Communications Conference of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters (November 17, 2008). The
agreement covering 531 mailroom workers represented by the Communications Workers of America expired on May 18,
2003, and no new agreement has been negotiated.
Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive has approximately 240 full-time and 30 part-time employees, none of whom is
represented by a union.
Of the approximately 250 full-time and 100 part-time employees at The Daily Herald Company, about 50 full-time and
15 part-time employees are represented by one or another of three unions. The newspaper's collective bargaining
agreement with the Graphic Communications Conference of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, which represents
press operators, expires on March 15, 2008; its agreement with the Communications Workers of America, which
represents printers and mailers, expires on October 31, 2009; and its agreement with the International Brotherhood of
Teamsters, which represents bundle haulers, expires on September 22, 2007.
The Company's broadcasting operations have approximately 980 full-time employees, of whom about 230 are union-
represented. Of the eight collective bargaining agreements covering union-represented employees, one has expired and is
being renegotiated. Four other collective bargaining agreements will expire in 2006.
The Company's Cable Television Division has approximately 1,800 full-time employees, none of whom is represented by a
union.
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