The Washington Post Company, together with its subsidiaries, operates as a diversified media and education company in the United States and internationally. The company primarily provides a range of educational services for children, students, and professionals. It offers test preparation services for college and graduate school entrance exams; continuing education, certification, licensing, exam preparation, and professional development to corporations, as well as to individuals seeking to advance their careers in various disciplines; and classroom-based instruction and distance education services. The company also offers online high school instruction, and online content and curriculum development, as well as various pre-university, undergraduate, post-graduate, and professional programs. In addition, The Washington Post Company engages in the publication of newspapers in the Washington, D.C., area and Everett; newsprint warehousing and recycling facilities; and electronic media publishing business, primarily washingtonpost.com. Further, it publishes a weekly news magazine, Newsweek, which has one domestic and three English-language international editions, as well as Arthur Frommer's Budget Travel magazine. Additionally, the company involves in television broadcasting through six VHF television stations serving the Detroit, Houston, Miami, San Antonio, Orlando, and Jacksonville television markets; and operates cable systems offering basic cable, digital cable, pay television, cable modem, telephony, and other services to subscribers in midwestern, western, and southern states, as well as engages in commercial printing business. The Washington Post Company was founded in 1877 and is based in Washington, District of Columbia. Analysts' Recommendation: Hold 30 Days Ago: Hold Analysts' Target: $818 Analysts' Targets Lehman Brothers $745 Overweight Friday, May 30, 2008 Deutsche Bank Securities $890 Neutral Monday, April 28, 2008
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