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Boisfeuillet Jones Jr. joined The Washington Post in 1980 as vice president and counsel. In 1995 he became president and general manager assuming responsibility for the business side of the newspaper. In January 2000 he was named associate publisher assuming responsibility of The Post on a day-to-day basis. In September 2000 he succeeded Donald Graham as publisher and chief executive officer. He was named vice chairman of The Washington Post Company and chairman of The Washington Post in February 2008.
Jones is a director of the Associated Press the Federal City Council and several Post affiliates. He previously served as a director of the Newspaper Association of America where he served as chairman during 2006-2007.
Prior to joining The Post Jones was an attorney with Hill & Barlow in Boston MA from 1975 to 1980 and was law clerk for the Honorable Levin H. Campbell U.S. Court of Appeals for First Circuit from 1974 to 1975.
Born in Atlanta GA Jones received an AB in 1968 from Harvard College where he was president of The Harvard Crimson. He attended Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar and received a DPhil in Modern History. He received his law degree in 1974 from Harvard Law School where he was an editor of the Harvard Law Review.
He lives in the District of Columbia with his wife Barbara. They have two adult children. | 