Washington Post publisher Katharine Graham and executive editor Ben Bradlee leave court after a ruling allowing The Post to continue publishing the Pentagon Papers. (AP)I met Katharine Graham exactly once. Meryl Streep portrays Katharine Graham in a scene from “The Post.” (Niko Tavernise/Twentieth Century Fox /AP)“The movie is about a woman finding her voice,” producer Amy Pascal recently told Post film critic Ann Hornaday. Tom Hanks, in an onstage chat with The Post’s executive editor, Martin Baron, made it simple: “Well, they didn’t have Katharine Graham, in all honesty. She was the first female editor of the San Jose Mercury News, the first female editor of the Cleveland Plain Dealer, the first woman in charge of Bloomberg’s Washington bureau, and the first woman in her current job.

Source: Washington Post December 17, 2017 21:09 UTC