Katharine Weymouth

Katharine Bouchage Weymouth (born May 28, 1966) 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.

Early life and education Weymouth is the daughter of Lally Weymouth and Yann Weymouth. Weymouth grew up on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, New York City, where she attended the Dalton School and the Brearley School.

Private dinner salon initiative In July 2009, in the midst of intense debate over health care reform, Politico reported that a health care lobbyist had received an "astonishing" offer of access to the Post's "health care reporting and editorial staff." Weymouth had planned a series of exclusive dinner parties or "salons" at her private residence, to which she had invited prominent lobbyists, trade group members, politicians and business people. The cost of attendance to the parties was up to $250,000 per individual, with the events being closed to the press and the public. Politico'''s revelation sparked controversy in Washington, as it gave the impression the parties' sole purpose was to allow a select group of Washington insiders and business people to purchase face time with Post reporters.

Almost immediately, Weymouth canceled the salons and blamed the entire incident on the marketing department at The Post. The backlash also prompted David G. Bradley, publisher of The Atlantic, to admit that he hosts similar off-the-record discussions at his home and office at the Watergate complex, and in 2012, looking back on the incident, the Times said that "magazines host similar conferences all the time".

After the Post In 2015, tech startup FiscalNote announced that Weymouth would serve as an adviser to the company. She is now CEO of dineXpert, a company that calls itself a community for independent restaurant owners. In December 2024, Weymouth joined Blu Ventures as a venture partner on its Cyber Seed Fund Investment Committee.

Weymouth endorsed Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton in the run-up to the 2016 U.S. presidential election.

On September 27, 2019, Katharine Weymouth stepped into the role of board chair of the Greater Washington Community Foundation. Her grandmother Katharine Graham had also served on the foundation's board.

Family Weymouth is a daughter of columnist and publishing heiress Lally Weymouth and the architect Yann R. Weymouth. She is a granddaughter and namesake of long-time Washington Post chairwoman and publisher Katharine Graham. Her mother's family owned the Post'' from 1933, when the bankrupt paper was bought by Weymouth's great-grandfather (Fed chairman Eugene Meyer), until it was sold to Jeff Bezos in 2013. Weymouth is the fifth member of her family to have held the publisher position. Her paternal grandfather is Admiral Ralph Weymouth. One of her paternal ancestors is the Breton writer Anatole Le Braz.

Weymouth married lawyer Richard Alan Scully on July 25, 1998. The couple later divorced. They have three children.