The Washington Post

Fabled news organization, now owned privately, disruptive times for print - Anonymous employee The Washington Post Employee Review

4.0

Mar 12, 2014

Anonymous employee

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Pros

There is a well-funded pension plan here. The history of the company is interesting. Watergate, Pentagon Papers, Unibomber papers, all the news about NSA and CIA, anything to do with elections. The projects can be very exciting and unusual. There is a good discount on newspaper subscriptions for employees. A strange new Guaranteed Savings contribution type of thing instead of a large 401(k) match.

Cons

The news industry has been hurt by the free news available on TV and the Internet. Many cuts have left morale in the dumps, but our new owner (Amazon's founder: Jeff Bezos) is inspiring some hope here. The new owner is NOT Amazon itself, but taken private from the Graham family's publicly traded company (now known as Graham Holdings Inc.). The 401(k) match (not counting the Guaranteed Savings contribution piece) is only against the first 1% of the employee's contribution.

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