Contact:   Rima Calderon   For Immediate Release
           (202) 334-6617  January 20, 2006


CHRISTOPHER C. DAVIS ELECTED A DIRECTOR OF
THE WASHINGTON POST COMPANY

WASHINGTON  The Washington Post Company (NYSE: WPO) announced
today that Christopher C. Davis has been elected to the Board
of Directors.  His election increases the Companys Board to
11 members.

Davis is chairman of Davis Selected Advisers, LP, an investment
counseling firm that oversees approximately $70 billion of
client assets, including mutual funds and institutional
separate accounts.  The firm employs a research-driven,
long-term approach to investing, and its employees and their
families are the largest individual investors in the funds
they manage.

He joined the firm in 1989 as a financial analyst and became
a portfolio manager of its flagship funds, Davis New York
Venture Fund and Selected American Shares, in 1995, succeeding
his father, Shelby M.C. Davis.

Davis also served as an assistant to his grandfather,
Shelby Cullom Davis.  Prior to joining Davis Selected Advisers,
he worked as a research analyst at Tanaka Capital Management.
He began his career as an accountant at State Street Bank and
Trust Company.

Davis received a masters degree from the University of
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