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U.S. SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
FORM 3
INITIAL STATEMENT OF BENEFICIAL OWNERSHIP OF SECURITIES
Filed pursuant to Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934,
Section 17(a) of the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935 or
Section 30(f) of the Investment Company Act of 1940
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1. Name and Address of Reporting Person*
Rosberg, Gerald M.
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(Last) (First) (Middle)
1150 15th Street, N.W.
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(Street)
Washington, D.C. 20071
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(City) (State) (Zip)
The Washington Post Company, WPO
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2. Date of Event Requiring Statement (Month/Day/Year)
N/A
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3. IRS Identification Number of Reporting Person, if an Entity (Voluntary)
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4. Issuer Name and Ticker or Trading Symbol
The Washington Post Company - WPO
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5. Relationship of Reporting Person(s) to Issuer
(Check all applicable)
[ ] Director [ ] 10% Owner
[X] Officer (give title below) [_] Other (specify below)
Vice President, Planning and Development
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6. If Amendment, Date of Original (Month/Year)
September 19, 2000
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7. Individual or Joint/Group Filing (Check applicable line)
[X] Form filed by One Reporting Person
[_] Form filed by more than One Reporting Person
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Table I -- Non-Derivative Securities Beneficially Owned
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2. 3. 4.
Amount of Ownership Nature of
Securities Form: Direct Indirect
1. Beneficially (D) or Beneficial
Title of Security Owned Indirect (I) Ownership
(Instr. 4) (Instr. 4) (Instr. 5) (Instr. 5)
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Class B Common Stock 225 D
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Reminder: Report on a separate line for each class of securities beneficially
owned directly or indirectly.
* If the form is filed by more than one reporting person, see Instruction
5(b)(v).
(Over)
SEC 1473(7-96)
FORM 3 (continued)
Table II -- DERIVATIVE SECURITIES ACQUIRED, DISPOSED OF, OR BENEFICIALLY OWNED
(e.g., puts, calls, warrants, options, convertible securities)
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5.
3. Owner-
Title and Amount ship 6.
2. of Securities 4. Form of Nature
Date Underlying Conver- Deriv- of
Exercisable and Derivative sion or ative Indirect
Expiration Date Security Exercise Secur- Bene-
1. (Month/Day/Year) (Instr. 4) Price ity: ficial
Title of ---------------- ------------------------- of Direct (D) Owner-
Derivative Date Expira- Title Amount or Number Deri- or ship
Security Exer- tion of vative Indirect (I) (Instr.
(Instr. 4) cisable Date Shares Security (Instr.5) 5)
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Option (right to buy)* 12/11/00 12/11/06 Class B Common Stock 1,000 $343.938 D
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Option (right to buy)* 12/11/00 12/11/08 Class B Common Stock 1,000 $517.25 D
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Option (right to buy)* 03/01/01 03/01/09 Class B Common Stock 500 $548.00 D
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Option (right to buy)* 12/20/00 12/20/09 Class B Common Stock 1,500 $543.00 D
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Explanation of Responses:
*Employee stock option granted pursuant to The Washington
Post Company Stock Option Plan.
s/Gerald M. Rosberg July 29, 2002
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**Signature of Reporting Person Date
Gerald M. Rosberg
** Intentional misstatements or omissions of facts constitute Federal
Criminal Violations. See 18 U.S.C. 1001 and 15 U.S.C. 78ff(a).
Note: File three copies of this Form, one of which must be manually signed.
If space provided is insufficient, see Instruction 6 for procedure.
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Power of Attorney
Reports Under Section 16(a)
of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934
KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS that the undersigned, a director,
executive officer or beneficial owner of more than ten percent
of the equity securities of The Washington Post Company,
a Delaware corporation (hereinafter called the Company),
hereby appoints DIANA M. DANIELS, JOHN F. HOCKENBERRY and
JOHN B. MORSE, JR., and each of them, his or her true
and lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents with full
power to act without the other and with full power of
substitution and resubstitution, to execute, deliver
and file, for him or her and in his or her name, place
and stead, any and all statements, reports and forms,
and any and all amendments and supplements thereto,
required to be filed with the Securities and Exchange
Commission under Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange
Act of 1934 and the rules and regulations adopted thereunder,
in each case as the same may be amended from time to time, with
respect to the ownership and changes in ownership of equity
securities of the Company and derivatives of such equity
securities, hereby granting to said attorneys-in-fact and
agents, and each of them, full power and authority to do
and perform each and every act and thing requisite and
necessary to be done in and about the premises as fully and
to all intents and purposes as he or she might or could do
in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said
attorneys-in-fact or agents or any of them, or their
substitute or substitutes, may lawfully do our cause to
be done by virtue hereof.
Dated: 9/19/00
s/Gerald M. Rosberg
GERALD M. ROSBERG
