Subsequent Events	6 Months Ended
Jun. 30, 2013
Subsequent Events [Abstract]
Subsequent Events [Text Block]	14. SUBSEQUENT EVENTS On August 5, 2013, after approval by the Company's Board of Directors on the same day, the Company entered into a binding letter agreement (the Letter Agreement) with Nash Holdings LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (the Purchaser), and Explore Holdings LLC, a Washington limited liability company, as guarantor (the Guarantor), pursuant to which the Purchaser will acquire all the issued and outstanding equity securities of each of WP Company LLC, Express Publications Company, LLC, El Tiempo Latino, LLC, Robinson Terminal Warehouse, LLC, Greater Washington Publishing, LLC and Post-Newsweek Media, LLC (the Publishing Subsidiaries). The Publishing Subsidiaries together conduct most of the Company's publishing businesses, including publishing The Washington Post, Express, The Gazette Newspapers, Southern Maryland Newspapers, Fairfax County Times and El Tiempo Latino and related websites, and operating Washington Post Live and Washington Post News Media Services and the Company's commercial printing and distribution business and paper handling and storage business (collectively, the Publishing Business). The Purchaser will also acquire all other assets of the Company primarily related to the Publishing Business, including all of the Company's rights in the name “The Washington Post”. The Company will change its corporate name within 60 days following the closing. The Purchaser will not acquire the Company's interests in the Classified Ventures, LLC businesses, The Slate Group LLC, The FP Group, WaPo Labs and certain excluded real estate, including the Company headquarters building in downtown Washington, DC and certain land and property in Alexandria, VA. The liabilities under the Retirement Plan for The Washington Post Companies relating to the active employees of the Publishing Business will be transferred to the Purchaser, along with pension assets that have a value equal to the projected benefit obligation in respect of these active employees plus an additional $50 million. The Purchaser will pay an aggregate purchase price of $250 million in cash, subject to customary adjustments for working capital, target cash of $8.5 million and any outstanding debt of the Publishing Business. The Guarantor has agreed to guarantee the purchase price payment obligations of the Purchaser. Within 60 days of the date of the Letter Agreement, the Company and the Purchaser will prepare and execute a definitive Securities Purchase Agreement (the Purchase Agreement) providing for the transactions contemplated by the Letter Agreement on terms consistent with the Letter Agreement and containing other customary terms. If the parties cannot agree on the terms of the Purchase Agreement, an arbitrator selected by the parties will decide any disputed terms. The closing of the transactions is subject to customary closing conditions, including the expiration or termination of the required waiting period under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976.

Subsequent Events

6 Months Ended

Jun. 30, 2013

14. SUBSEQUENT EVENTS

On August 5, 2013, after approval by the Company's Board of Directors on the same day, the Company entered into a binding letter agreement (the Letter Agreement) with Nash Holdings LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (the Purchaser), and Explore Holdings LLC, a Washington limited liability company, as guarantor (the Guarantor), pursuant to which the Purchaser will acquire all the issued and outstanding equity securities of each of WP Company LLC, Express Publications Company, LLC, El Tiempo Latino, LLC, Robinson Terminal Warehouse, LLC, Greater Washington Publishing, LLC and Post-Newsweek Media, LLC (the Publishing Subsidiaries). The Publishing Subsidiaries together conduct most of the Company's publishing businesses, including publishing The Washington Post, Express, The Gazette Newspapers, Southern Maryland Newspapers, Fairfax County Times and El Tiempo Latino and related websites, and operating Washington Post Live and Washington Post News Media Services and the Company's commercial printing and distribution business and paper handling and storage business (collectively, the Publishing Business). The Purchaser will also acquire all other assets of the Company primarily related to the Publishing Business, including all of the Company's rights in the name “The Washington Post”. The Company will change its corporate name within 60 days following the closing. The Purchaser will not acquire the Company's interests in the Classified Ventures, LLC businesses, The Slate Group LLC, The FP Group, WaPo Labs and certain excluded real estate, including the Company headquarters building in downtown Washington, DC and certain land and property in Alexandria, VA. The liabilities under the Retirement Plan for The Washington Post Companies relating to the active employees of the Publishing Business will be transferred to the Purchaser, along with pension assets that have a value equal to the projected benefit obligation in respect of these active employees plus an additional $50 million.

The Purchaser will pay an aggregate purchase price of $250 million in cash, subject to customary adjustments for working capital, target cash of $8.5 million and any outstanding debt of the Publishing Business. The Guarantor has agreed to guarantee the purchase price payment obligations of the Purchaser.

Within 60 days of the date of the Letter Agreement, the Company and the Purchaser will prepare and execute a definitive Securities Purchase Agreement (the Purchase Agreement) providing for the transactions contemplated by the Letter Agreement on terms consistent with the Letter Agreement and containing other customary terms. If the parties cannot agree on the terms of the Purchase Agreement, an arbitrator selected by the parties will decide any disputed terms.

The closing of the transactions is subject to customary closing conditions, including the expiration or termination of the required waiting period under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976.