WASHINGTON – Boisfeuillet Jones, Jr., has been named associate publisher of The Washington Post, Donald E. Graham, publisher, announced today.

Jones will remain president and general manager of The Post, a position he has held since January 1995. In this capacity he is responsible for the newspaper's business-side departments.

Leonard Downie, executive editor of The Post, will report to Jones. Fred Hiatt, editor of the editorial page, will continue to report to Graham.

"Bo will be in charge of the newspaper on a day-to-day basis," said Graham, who is chairman of The Washington Post Company, as well as publisher of The Post.

Jones joined The Washington Post in 1980 as vice president and counsel. He is a director of several Post affiliates and supervises The Washington Post Writers Group of syndicated columnists and the Los Angeles Times-Washington Post News Service.

He is a director of the Eugene and Agnes E. Meyer Foundation, the Federal City Council, the Council for Court Excellence, and St. Alban's School.

Prior to joining The Post, Jones was an attorney with Hill & Barlow in Boston, Mass., from 1975 to 1980, and was law clerk for the Honorable Levin H. Campbell, U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, from 1974 to 1975.

Jones was born in Atlanta, Ga., and received an A.B. degree in 1968 from Harvard College, where he was president of the Harvard Crimson. He attended Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar and received a D.Ph. in modern history. He received his law degree in 1974 from Harvard Law School, where he was an editor of the Harvard Law Review.

He lives in the District of Columbia with his wife, Barbara. They have two children.

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