Top 19 Quotes & Sayings by Katharine Weymouth

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American publisher Katharine Weymouth.
Last updated on April 15, 2025.
Katharine Weymouth

Katharine Bouchage Weymouth is an American lawyer and businesswoman who from 2008 to 2014 was publisher of The Washington Post and chief executive officer of Washington Post Media.

I think I felt like a regular kid. Growing up in New York, I never felt I was a big deal.
Moderate to conservative Democrat. But I'm not going to impose my views on the editorial page.
I don't feel like my job is to be beloved. — © Katharine Weymouth
I don't feel like my job is to be beloved.
I don't personally feel that I have to save democracy and journalism.
Hillary Clinton famously talked about how raising a child takes a village. Except our society isn't set up that way. We're organized in nuclear units, and a single mom can ask her friends only so many times for help picking up the kids.
People assume that I came back to Washington because of the 'Post', but the truth is less romantic. I came back for a job.
We're no longer a newspaper in the morning, we're a 24/7 newspaper organization.
The way I live is really me.
It's not like I pretend the past doesn't exist or that I'm not proud to be a part of it.
I certainly hope to be a great publisher, and if people want to love me, too, that's even better.
I care deeply about journalism, but we need to be a business.
Women are often meeker in meetings and afraid to ask for raises and promotions. I've told countless female colleagues to stop apologizing when they ask for more. It's not personal, it's business.
Part of my job is to make the tough calls.
My grandmother knew J.F.K. and L.B.J. That was her world. I enjoy meeting interesting people. But that's not my world.
My mother doesn't cook; my grandmother didn't cook. Her kids were raised by servants. They would joke about Sunday night dinner. It was the only night she would cook, and apparently it was just horrendous, like scrambled eggs and Campbell's soup.
I dont feel like my job is to be beloved.
I dont personally feel that I have to save democracy and journalism.
I think smart aggregation is a service to readers. And we do it, too ... . Whether it's a politics page and you want Dan Balz to tell you what is he reading, what does he think are the smartest articles today on the elections or the primaries. So, I think aggregation is great ... . So I'm all for aggregation. And the more eyeballs we can get to our content, the better. We do want readers to be educated and to understand the difference between, what is a source that you can trust as opposed to just rumors out there. And the difference between just repurposing content and not crediting it.
People assume that I came back to Washington because of the Post, but the truth is less romantic. I came back for a job. — © Katharine Weymouth
People assume that I came back to Washington because of the Post, but the truth is less romantic. I came back for a job.
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