Episode
Katharine Graham: The Woman Who Took Down a President [Outliers]
The Knowledge Project · Jul 29, 2025 · 58 min
When Katharine Graham took over the Washington Post in 1963, she was a shy socialite who'd never run anything. By retirement, she'd taken down a president, ended the most violent strike in a generation, and built one of the best-performing companies in American history. Graham had no training, no experience, not even confidence. Just a newspaper bleeding money and a government that expected her…