Three years after Jeff Bezos bought The Washington Post for $250 million, the Amazon billionaire made another Washington acquisition that was arguably just as important to Georgetown’s social life: a mansion in the capital’s posh Kalorama Heights neighborhood for 23 million dollars. His 2016 purchase of a former textile museum that would become the city’s … Read more
Washington Post publisher Sir Will Lewis faces a PR crisis, with his own newspaper and rivals investigating his past as a senior executive at Rupert Murdoch’s media empire. It’s the kind of problem Lewis was until recently trying to solve for clients of his communications and consulting firm WJL Partners, named after his initials. Founded … Read more
SEATTLE (AP) — William Anders, the first Apollo 8 astronaut who took the iconic “Earthrise” photo in 1968 that showed the planet as a shadowy blue marble from space was killed Friday when the plane he was piloting alone crashed into the waters off Washington state’s San Juan Islands collapsed. He was 90. His son, … Read more