Katherine Graham

     Have you ever heard the name “Katherine Graham”? That is the name of a female journalist who was the one brought the Washington Post Times to the top of the globe with the Watergate scandal in 1972.

     

    Despite the ban on posting Pentagon secret documents about the Vietnam War and threats from the Nixon administration, she still decided to publicly disclose this information. She steered the Washington Post to expose the worst of the US government and fought to force President Richard Nixon to resign. With her intelligence and bravery, Katharine Graham became one of the leaders who fought for freedom of press in the 20th century.

“The only way to assert the right to publish is to publish.”

Katharine Graham

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