Post Names New Publisher

Well, there’s your big news, folks: Katharine Weymouth — who from the look of this photo, has a sort of hot, sort of gothic thing going on — has been named chief executive of The Washington Post and washingtonpost.com.

Also, as we teased before, some more buy-out news:

In March, the company will offer an undetermined number of early-retirement packages, or “buyouts,” to Post newsroom staffers and other employees. Also, the company will close its College Park printing plant over the next two years, moving two of the four Mitsubishi presses to its Springfield plant, which will handle the paper’s entire press run with six presses.

The Post is pretty honest about why the buyouts (“Buyouts are designed to reduce payroll by offering exit packages to older employees, who tend to have higher salaries”) and why the relocation of its printing press (“Declining print circulation”).

Weymouth succeeds Bo Jones, Jr.,

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