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Didn't Washington Star Publish Daily from 1850s?

Article states the Post was the first DC paper to publish daily. Didn't the Evening Star publish on a daily basis going back to the Civil War? Walt Whitman commented that he first became aware of the assasination of Lincoln from that source.Tom Cod

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This person does not belong on the list of executive editors of Washington Post: David Swerdlick, editor (2015–present) [86]

Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. —KuyaBriBri^Talk 19:09, 26 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Circulation

Any new figures? The last are from 2013! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.220.50.127 (talk) 23:34, 26 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Since when is the Washington Post fake news?

This sentence is from the Wikipedia article on the Washington Post: "The Washington Post is an American Fake news." WTF Looks like a troll has make at least one change to this article. If I knew how to fix it, I would. 2601:282:202:7D00:9044:2943:1122:4D3A (talk) 20:01, 17 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

It's been fixed. Thanks meamemg (talk) 21:54, 17 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Unable to find reference in Wikipedia to the date of Washington Post Initial Public Offering. This significant media business event is used dramatically in recent Hollywood film , but cannot verify the historicity so far.

Unable to find reference in Wikipedia to the date of Washington Post's (IPO) Initial Public Offering. This significant media business event is used dramatically in recent Hollywood film , but cannot verify the historicity so far. Can some editor help on this score? 2602:30A:C0AB:8410:D9FB:A7B:416D:8801 (talk) 18:54, 24 January 2018 (UTC) Jan 23, 2018 HARFIN[reply]

I took care of this. There's a new graph in the "Meyer–Graham period" section. 98.247.224.9 (talk) 06:30, 13 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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 Unable to find reference in Wikipedia to the date of Washington Post's (IPO) Initial Public Offering.  This significant media business event is used dramatically in recent Hollywood film , but cannot verify the historicity so far.   Can some editor help on this score? [[Special:Contributions/2602:30A:C0AB:8410:D9FB:A7B:416D:8801|2602:30A:C0AB:8410:D9FB:A7B:416D:8801]] ([[User talk:2602:30A:C0AB:8410:D9FB:A7B:416D:8801|talk]]) 18:54, 24 January 2018 (UTC) Jan 23, 2018 HARFIN
 :I took care of this. There's a new graph in the "Meyer–Graham period" section. [[Special:Contributions/98.247.224.9|98.247.224.9]] ([[User talk:98.247.224.9|talk]]) 06:30, 13 February 2018 (UTC)
-== Senate Denies General Officer Promotion ==
-Would Your News Agency be interested in a story about the U.S. Senate denying a general officer a promotion from one star to two stars based on a Department of the Army (DA) Inspector General (IG) investigation in Wiesbaden, Germany, if there is a cover-up?
-Hi—
-I’m contacting your news agency because I’ve tried to provide this story to larger news organizations and I believe their postal mail, email, and text messages are being censored.
-A similar story about a Navy admiral took years to get in the news, so I’m not terribly worried. The basic story will eventually break (basic story: In 2016 the U.S. Senate denied a general officer a promotion based on an IG investigation and, wow, is U.S. Army Europe/USAREUR still doing a lot to cover it up).
-I used to work in Wiesbaden, and I was there when the general had his promotion denied. I sat in a session in which civilian employees were essentially asked if they were being forced to do things they didn’t want to do, and I am fairly certain that’s how the DA IG investigation report will read – once we get our hands on it (I've been trying to break this story for the past two years).
-If you can obtain a copy of the DA IG report, please post a PDF copy of the report online along with the story when you break it. I can expand on the story once it hits AP newswires. I’m sure it will be redacted, but I can fill in a lot of the blanks.
-Feel free to call U.S. Army Europe (USAREUR) Public Affairs Office (PAO) at this number:
-+49-611-143-537-0005 or 0006
-Outside Germany, add your country's International Direct Dialing code plus "49" before the desired number. It’s usually 011, but some telephone carriers have different ones; so, normally dial the whole number like this:
--49-611-143-537-0005 or 0006
-Keep in mind that anything the USAREUR PAO says may be part of a cover-up. For instance, if they don’t confirm the basic story, they are perpetuating a cover-up that’s been ongoing since 2016.
-For some reason they really, really, really do not want the DA IG report to get in the news.
-Don’t know if this is Pulitzer-level stuff, but it might be.
-Current Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request status and how-to:
-If you would like to be the first news agency to break the story:
-* Email the DA IG FOIA Office here: usarmy.pentagon.hqda-otig.mbx.saig-zxl@mail.mil
-* Ask for a copy of the “calendar year 2016 IG investigation report that caused the United States Senate to deny promotion to major general officer rank (O-8) for the Deputy Chief of Staff for U.S. Army Europe, headquartered in Wiesbaden, Germany (DA IG FOIA Records Release Office knows the name of the general officer, because I emailed them the name).
-* An alternate method to obtain the IG report would be to re-initiate the FOIA request by going here and using a Department of Defense (DOD) IG FOIA account to request the report: https://foiaonline.regulations.gov/foia/action/public/home
-* I initially requested the Wiesbaden report through DOD IG FOIA, and they responded by re-directing me to the DA IG FOIA Office. That’s how I know the report is at DA.
-I’ll contact your news agency to talk about the cover-up after the basic story finally gets in the news.
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-The reason I’m asking for assistance in obtaining the IG report is because I believe my FOIA requests have been blocked as part of the cover-up. Whoever you talk to can say whatever they want, but the key to this story is the DA IG report.  <!-- Template:Unsigned IP --><small class="autosigned">—&nbsp;Preceding [[Wikipedia:Signatures|unsigned]] comment added by [[Special:Contributions/2003:DF:9BD8:C141:81E1:A85E:A969:7ECD|2003:DF:9BD8:C141:81E1:A85E:A969:7ECD]] ([[User talk:2003:DF:9BD8:C141:81E1:A85E:A969:7ECD#top|talk]]) 20:08, 4 June 2018 (UTC)</small> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->