It was on Dec. 6, 1877, that The Washington Post published its first issue — four pages that cost three cents — bringing politics, world affairs and local intrigue to the nation’s capital. But he sold the paper in 1889 to a bipartisan pair, a Republican postmaster general and a former Democratic congressman. From the Spanish-American War to World Wars I and II, the Korean War, Vietnam War, Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria, hundreds of Washington Post reporters have been risking their lives to bring home the news. And when we get it wrong — it would be impossible to write so much, every day, flawlessly — we correct it. In 1915, The Washington Post printed what still holds the record for one of the worst newspaper typos.

Source: Washington Post December 06, 2017 20:34 UTC