KATHARINE GRAHAM
Publisher, New York, USA, 1975
Graham was a first as well as an only. She was the first woman elected to the Associated Press board of directors. In this photograph, Graham sits with the other directors, all pale and male.
A few years earlier, she had become the first female CEO of a Fortune 500 company, The Washington Post, which her father, Eugene Meyer, had bought in 1933. When he quit the job of publisher in 1946, Meyer gave it to his son-in-law (Katharine’s husband), Phil Graham, a lawyer. When Phil died in 1963, she became the boss.
In 1971 Graham gave her paper the go-ahead to publish articles about the Pentagon Papers, which brought to light the scope of
