1976
After working at The Post in various editorial, production and executive capacities, Donald E. Graham, Katharine Graham's son, was appointed executive vice president and general manager of the newspaper.

1977
In November, The Washington Post Company announced the sale of its one remaining radio station, WTOP-AM to the Outlet Company of Providence, RI.

1978
The Washington Post Company purchased The Herald in Everett, WA, a daily newspaper north of Seattle.

The company entered into a limited partnership with Dow Jones & Company and the Bato Company, Inc., to construct and operate a newsprint mill near Richmond, VA.

In July, The Washington Post Company exchanged television station WTOP-TV in Washington, D.C., for WDIV-TV in Detroit.

1979
Donald Graham became publisher of The Post, succeeding his mother, who retained her corporate positions of chairman of the board and chief executive officer of The Washington Post Company.

1983
To accommodate The Post's growing circulation and conversion to cold type the $60 million Springfield (VA) satellite printing plant was formally opened on November 12, 1983.

The Washington Post National Weekly Edition was launched in November. It provides readers nationwide with access to The Post's daily coverage of government, politics, the economy and diplomatic affairs. The daily Post has been specially edited and redesigned in a weekly tabloid format for a national audience.

1984
The Washington Post Company purchased Kaplan Educational Centers. Headquartered in New York City with locations throughout the U.S. and abroad, Kaplan is now a premier provider of educational and career services for individuals, schools, and businesses. Kaplan's six operating divisions include Test Preparation and Admissions; Score! Educational Centers, offering K-8 after-school programs; Kaplan Learning Services, providing customized education services and professional development at schools and universities; Publishing, which produces books and software; Kaplan Professional, providing recruitment, assessment, training, and certification services; and Kaplan University, offering distance learning programs including Concord University School of Law, the nation's first online law school.

1986
In January, The Washington Post Company purchased cable systems serving 350,000 subscribers from Capital Cities/ABC, Inc. Headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona, Post-Newsweek Cable, renamed Cable One, now serves over 700,000 subscribers in 18 western, midwestern and southern states.

Newsweek launched Newsweek Nihon Ban (Newsweek Japan) in Japanese, the first foreign-language edition of a newsweekly. Newsweek now also publishes Newsweek Hankuk Pan in Korean, ITOGI (a Russian-language edition), Newsweek en Espanol and three international editions in English.

1990
In February, The Post launched Post-Haste, a free telephone service that provides a wide variety of information to callers. The phone number is (202) 334-9000 and is toll-free in the local metropolitan Washington, D.C., area.

1991
Donald Graham was named chief executive officer of The Washington Post Company, while retaining his position as publisher of The Washington Post newspaper.

1992
In March, The Washington Post Company acquired The Gazette Newspapers, which now publishes 30 controlled-circulation community weekly newspapers in Montgomery, Frederick, Carroll, and Prince George's Counties, Maryland. It also publishes monthly Maryland business and technology publications, 10 military newspapers for local military bases and operates one of the largest commercial printing sites in the Washington area.

1993
In May, Donald Graham became chairman of the board of The Washington Post Company, while retaining his responsibilities as chief executive officer and publisher of The Washington Post newspaper. Katharine Graham became chairman of the executive committee of The Washington Post Company.

In November, The Washington Post Company created a new subsidiary, Digital Ink Co. now known as Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive, to develop the company's editorial products and businesses on the World Wide Web. WPNI's services, available principally on the Internet, include washingtonpost.com, and Newsweek.com.

1994
In April, The Washington Post Company acquired KPRC-TV, the NBC affiliate in Houston, and KSAT-TV, the ABC affiliate in San Antonio, TX, from H & C Communications, Inc.

1995
In May, The Washington Post announced plans to purchase eight new offset presses from Mitsubishi Lithographic Presses, U.S.A. The results of the $230 million upgrade included a complete redesign of the paper and the newspaper's printing operations, including constuction of a new plant in College Park, Maryland and the expansion and modernization of its plant in Springfield, Virginia.

1996
In June, The Washington Post's website, washingtonpost.com was launched.

1997
"Healthweek", a production of The Washington Post Company in association with Maryland Public Television, premiered on PBS.

In September, The Washington Post Company acquired WCPX-TX in Orlando, Florida in exchange for WFSB-TV in Hartford, Connecticut.

In October, The Washington Post announced an alliance with NewsChannel 8 to broadcast directly from The Post's newsroom.

In December, The Washington Post Company acquired several leading computer trade publications and two trade shows from Reed Elsevier. The properties, Government Computer News, FOSE were merged with the company's TechNews subsidiary to form Post-Newsweek Business Information. PNBI now publishes Government Computer News, Washington Technology, TechCapital, The Technology Almanac, GCN Contracts Sourcing Guide, GCN State & Local, and Government Widows NT. They have two trade shows, FOSE and FedImaging, as well as Newsbytes News Network, an independent news service focusing on information technology.

The Washington Post Company's investments in Bear Island Paper Company and Bear Island Timberlands were sold to its partner, Brant-Allan Industries.

1998
In January, WCPX-TX in Orlando, Florida changed its call letters to WKMG-TV in honor of Katharine Meyer Graham.

Also in January, washingtonpost.com put 11 years of The Washington Post's archives online.

Katharine Meyer Graham, former publisher of The Washington Post and Chairman of the Board of The Washington Post Company, and now Chairman of the Executive Committee of the company, won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography for her memoir, "Personal History."

1999
On January 28, The Washington Post began printing color in photos, art and advertisements on its new presses in the renovated Springfield Plant and the new College Park Plant. The Post ceased printing at its two downtown locations however the news and business offices remain headquartered in Washington, DC.