<Li> Media of the United States </Li> <Li> List of newspapers </Li> <P> The Washington Post is an American daily newspaper founded on December 6, 1877 . It is the largest newspaper published in Washington, D.C., the capital city of the United States, and has a particular emphasis on national politics . Its slogan is "Democracy Dies in Darkness ." Daily broadsheet editions are printed for the District of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia . </P> <P> The newspaper has won 47 Pulitzer Prizes . This includes six separate Pulitzers awarded in 2008, second only to The New York Times' seven awards in 2002 for the highest number ever awarded to a single newspaper in one year . 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>

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