Christopher Ma

Vice President, Washington Post Company

Christopher Ma is a Washington Post Company vice president with responsibilities in planning and development of new business ventures, particularly content-driven initiatives. He is also publisher of Express, The Post Company's new commuter tabloid newspaper for the greater Washington area.

Before joining the corporate staff in early 2000, Ma was executive editor of The Post Company's new media subsidiary, WPNI, where he oversaw the editorial development of washingtonpost.com and Newsweek.msnbc.com. He was the originator of the site's Live Online talk programming and played a key role in negotiating the media alliance involving The Post Company, Newsweek, MSNBC, and NBC News.

Ma joined WPNI from U.S. News & World Report, where he served as deputy editor from 1989 to 1996. In that position, he directed the magazine's coverage of business, economics, and foreign affairs, science, technology, education, religion, and popular culture.

Prior to joining U.S. News, Ma worked for The Post Company's Newsweek magazine as a correspondent in the Washington bureau, covering foreign affairs and economics.

In 1995 Ma co-authored The Practical Guide to Practically Everything, with Peter Bernstein. Published by Random House in three successive editions, The Practical Guide covered the most interesting and important consumer developments of the year, from health and money matters to personal tech, travel, and education.

Ma is a graduate of Harvard College, where he received the Michael Clark Rockefeller Traveling Fellowship, and he has a law degree from the University of California at Berkeley.

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