Katherine Meyer was born in 1917 to a wealthy and privileged family. Her father was a multimillionaire who gave up business and government service to buy the ailing Washington Post in 1933. Katherine shared his love of journalism, and worked on the paper's editing desk for a few years before getting married.
凱瑟琳·邁耶1917年出生在一個富裕的特權(quán)家庭。她的父親是一位大富豪,他放棄了工作和政府部門的職位,在1933年買下了境況不佳的《華盛頓郵報》。凱瑟琳承襲了父親對新聞的熱愛,婚前在這家報社的編輯部工作了數(shù)年。
(短文節(jié)選,本期開始連載:報業(yè)女巨人的一生)