<P> Located in the capital city of the United States, the newspaper has a particular emphasis on national politics . Daily editions are printed for the District of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia . It is published as a broadsheet . </P> <P> The newspaper has won 47 Pulitzer Prizes . This includes six separate Pulitzers awarded in 2008, the second - highest number ever awarded to a single newspaper in one year, second only to The New York Times' seven awards in 2002 . Post journalists have also received 18 Nieman Fellowships and 368 White House News Photographers Association awards . In the early 1970s, in the best - known episode in the newspaper's history, reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein led the American press' investigation into what became known as the Watergate scandal; reporting in the newspaper greatly contributed to the resignation of President Richard Nixon . In years since, its investigations have led to increased review of the Walter Reed Army Medical Center . </P> <P> In 2013, its longtime controlling family, the Graham family, sold the newspaper to billionaire entrepreneur and Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos for $250 million in cash . The newspaper is owned by Nash Holdings LLC, a holding company Bezos created for the acquisition . </P> <P> The Washington Post is generally regarded as one of the leading daily American newspapers, along with The New York Times, The L.A. Times, and The Wall Street Journal . The Post has distinguished itself through its political reporting on the workings of the White House, Congress, and other aspects of the U.S. government . It is one of the two daily broadsheets published in Washington D.C., the other being its smaller rival The Washington Times . </P>

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