Boisfeuillet Jones, Jr. has been named publisher and chief executive officer of The Washington Post, Donald E. Graham, chairman and chief executive officer of The Washington Post Company, announced today.

Jones, who had been named associate publisher in January 2000, is responsible for the news and business departments of The Post.

"Bo is the right person for this job," said Graham. "His judgment and leadership have earned the confidence of everyone at The Post."

Graham, who had been publisher since 1979, will become chairman of the newspaper. Fred Hiatt, editor of the editorial page, will continue to report to him.

Jones joined The Washington Post as vice president and counsel in 1980. He is a director of the Newspaper Association of America, the Eugene and Agnes E. Meyer Foundation, the Federal City Council, the Council for Court Excellence and St. Albans School.

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

Jones was born in Atlanta, Georgia, 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.Phil. 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.

In addition to Donald Graham, previous publishers of The Post include Eugene Meyer (1933-46), Philip L. Graham (1946-61), John W. Sweeterman (1961-69), and Katharine Graham (1969-79).

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