Palo Alto, Calif. - Donald Graham, chairman and CEO of The Washington Post, will join Facebook's board of directors, the online social network announced on Thursday. Graham, who previously served as the Post's publisher for 21 years, joins Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Marc Andreessen of Ning, Jim Breyer of Accel Partners and Peter Thiel of Clarium Capital and Founders Fund.

Washington - The Slate Group, a Web publishing unit of The Washington Post that produces the online magazine Slate, said on Monday that it has launched a new business site called The Big Money. The company said that the site will cover the intersection of business and a variety of areas including technology, green initiatives, media, fashion and food. James Ledbetter Jr., the former deputy managing editor of CNN Money, will serve as the site's editor, with Elinor Shields, former managing editor of The Huffington Post, serving as deputy editor.

Washington - The Washington Post (NYSE: WPO) has named Marcus Brauchli, the former managing editor of The Wall Street Journal (NYSE: NWS), as its new executive editor.

Washington - Leonard Downie Jr., who has served as executive editor of The Washington Post since 1991, said that he plans to retire in September. No successor has been named. Under Downie's leadership, Post reporters and editors have won 25 Pulitzer Prizes, including six in 2008. Downie, 66, joined the paper as a summer intern in 1964. He eventually became a well-known local investigative reporter, and in 1984 was promoted to managing editor. The Post reported that Downie will become a vice president at large for The Washington Post Co., the same position currently held by his predecessor as editor, Ben Bradlee.

Washington - The Washington Post Company said that it has launched The Slate Group, a new online publishing entity that will oversee Slate Magazine, Slate V, TheRoot.com and The Big Money, a business site launching later this year.

Arlington, Va. - Caroline Little has resigned as the publisher and CEO of Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive (WPNI), the online publishing arm of The Washington Post, the Post reported. The news comes two months after Katharine Weymouth was named the CEO of Washington Post Media, a new unit of the company that oversees both the newspaper and washingtonpost.com. WPNI operates washingtonpost.com, newsweek.com, Slate and Budget Travel Online, as well as other sites.

Washington - Katharine Weymouth, a 41-year-old descendent of the family that founded and has since run The Washington Post, on Thursday was named the CEO of Washington Post Media, a new unit of the company that oversees both the newspaper and washingtonpost.com.

Washington - The Washington Post on Monday launched a new daily online magazine called "The Root," which the company hopes to use to "[raise] the profile of black voices in mainstream media." The brainchild of Harvard University professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Post chairman Donald Graham, The Root will focus news and issues important to African-Americans, and also include tools to help readers build their family trees. HBO has signed on as a founding sponsor of The Root, and MSN has signed a deal to regularly feature links to the magazine's articles on its homepage.

Washington - Washingtonpost.com has launched "Washington Post Investigations," a new online section containing stories and additional features produced by the newspaper's investigative reporters. The site includes an archive with information on the status of every major Washington Post investigation in recent years, as well as Bob Woodward's coverage of the Watergate scandal. "Over time, even the most important ongoing investigations sometimes fall out of the public eye," said Jeff Leen, assistant managing editor in charge of the Investigative Unit. "(The site) serves as a destination for readers to easily find the most current information on individual cases."

Washington - The Washington Post is pulling the plug on its Washington Post Radio project with station owner Bonneville International. The Post has provided news and talk programming for two of Bonneville's stations, 107.7 FM and 1500 AM, since March 2006. The stations also have aired syndicated programming and Washington Nationals baseball games. “The station had a strong core of loyal listeners, but it was not showing the pace of growth that we and Bonneville had hoped to see," said Post president Steve Hills.

Washington - Washingtonpost.com said on Tuesday that it has signed a content-sharing deal with CBSNews.com for coverage of the 2008 presidential campaigns. Under the terms of the agreement, the two organizations will share political content, with washingtonpost.com featuring video coverage from CBS News, and CBSNews.com featuring news, analysis and commentary from the Post. Each news organization's reporters and correspondents will also participate in live chats and other online activities.

Washington - Post-Newsweek Stations, the television broadcasting unit of The Washington Post Co., has invested an undisclosed sum in LATV Networks, the Los Angeles-based developer of a bilingual music and entertainment network.