SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, DC 20549
FORM 8-K
Current Report Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d)
of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934
Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported)
August 9, 2002
Commission File Number 1-6714
THE WASHINGTON POST COMPANY
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
| Delaware | 53-0182885 |
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(I.R.S. Employer Identification No.) |
| 1150 15th Street, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20071 (Address of principal executive office and zip Code) |
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Item 9. Regulation FD Disclosure
On August 9, 2002, each of the Principal Executive Officer, Donald E. Graham, and Principal Financial Officer, John B. Morse, Jr., of The Washington Post Company submitted to the SEC sworn statements pursuant to Securities and Exchange Commission Order No. 4-460.
A copy of each of these statements is attached hereto as an Exhibit (99.1 and 99.2).
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| Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned thereunto duly authorized. |
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| THE
WASHINGTON POST COMPANY (Registrant) |
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| Date: | August 9, 2002 | /s/
John B. Morse, Jr. |
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B. Morse, Jr., Vice President-Finance (Principal Financial Officer) |
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Exhibit Index
Exhibit 99.1 Statement Under Oath of Principal Executive Officer dated August 9, 2002
Exhibit 99.2 Statement Under Oath of Principal Financial Officer dated August 9, 2002
Exhibit 99.1
STATEMENT
UNDER OATH OF PRINCIPAL EXECUTIVE
OFFICER
AND PRINCIPAL FINANCIAL OFFICER
REGARDING
FACTS AND CIRCUMSTANCES RELATING
TO
EXCHANGE ACT FILINGS
I, Donald E. Graham, state and attest that:
(1) To the best of my knowledge, based upon a review of the covered reports of The Washington Post Company, and, except as corrected or supplemented in a subsequent covered report:
· no covered report contained an untrue statement of a material fact as of the end of the period covered by such report (or in the case of a report on Form 8-K or definitive proxy materials, as of the date on which it was filed); and
· no covered report omitted to state a material fact necessary to make the statements in the covered report, in light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading as of the end of the period covered by such report (or in the case of a report on Form 8-K or definitive proxy materials, as of the date on which it was filed).
(2) I have reviewed the contents of this statement with the Company's audit committee.
(3) In this statement under oath, each of the following, if filed on or before the date of this statement, is a "covered report":
· Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 30, 2001, filed with the Commission of The Washington Post Company;
· all reports on Form 10-Q, all reports on Form 8-K and all definitive proxy materials of The Washington Post Company filed with the Commission subsequent to the filing of the Form 10-K identified above; and
· any amendments to any of the foregoing.
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August 9, 2002 |
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 9th day of August 2002. /s/ Mary
Dimos
My Commission Expires: 04-14-2007 |
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Exhibit 99.2
STATEMENT
UNDER OATH OF PRINCIPAL EXECUTIVE OFFICER
AND PRINCIPAL
FINANCIAL OFFICER
REGARDING
FACTS AND CIRCUMSTANCES RELATING
TO EXCHANGE
ACT FILINGS
I, John B. Morse, Jr., state and attest that:
(1)To the best of my knowledge, based upon a review of the covered reports of The Washington Post Company, and, except as corrected or supplemented in a subsequent covered report:
· no covered report contained an untrue statement of a material fact as of the end of the period covered by such report (or in the case of a report on Form 8-K or definitive proxy materials, as of the date on which it was filed); and
· no covered report omitted to state a material fact necessary to make the statements in the covered report, in light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading as of the end of the period covered by such report (or in the case of a report on Form 8-K or definitive proxy materials, as of the date on which it was filed).
(2)I have reviewed the contents of this statement with the Company's audit comittee.
(3)In this statement under oath, each of the following, if filed on or before the date of this statement, is a "covered report":
· Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 30, 2001, filed with the Commission of The Washington Post Company;
· all reports on Form 10-Q, all reports on Form 8-K and all definitive proxy materials of The Washington Post Company filed with the Commission subsequent to the filing of the Form 10-K identified above; and
· any amendments to any of the foregoing.
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Subscribed and sworn to before me this 9th day of August 2002. /s/ Mary
Dimos
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