Washington, D. C., formally the District of Columbia

Media

Main article: Media in Washington, D.C.
See also: List of newspapers in Washington, D.C. and List of television shows set in Washington, D.C.

Washington's Newspaper Row onPennsylvania Avenue in 1874
Washington, D.C. is a prominent center for national and international media. The Washington Post, founded in 1877, is the oldest and most-read local daily newspaper in Washington.^[157] It is probably most notable for its coverage of national and international politics and for exposing the Watergate scandal.^[158] "The Post", as it is popularly called, had the sixth-highest readership of all news dailies in the country in 2011.^[159]
The Washington Post Company has a daily free commuter newspaper called the Express, which summarizes events, sports and entertainment, as well as the Spanish-language paper El Tiempo Latino. Local dailies The Washington Times and The Washington Examiner as well as the alternative weekly Washington City Paper also have substantial readership in the Washington area.^[160][161]
Some community and specialty papers focus on neighborhood and cultural issues, including the weekly Washington Bladeand Metro Weekly, which focus on LGBT issues; the Washington Informer and The Washington Afro American, which highlight topics of interest to the black community; and neighborhood newspapers published by The Current Newspapers. Congressional Quarterly, The Hill, Politico and Roll Call newspapers focus exclusively on issues related to Congress and the federal government. Other publications based in Washington include the National Geographic magazine and political publications such as The New Republic and Washington Monthly.^[162]
The Washington Metropolitan Area is the ninth-largest television media market in the U.S. with two million homes, approximately 2% of the U.S. population.^[163]Several media companies and cable television channels have their headquarters in the area, including C-SPAN; Black Entertainment Television (BET); Radio One; the National Geographic Channel; Smithsonian Networks; National Public Radio (NPR); Travel Channel (in Chevy Chase, Maryland); Discovery Communications (inSilver Spring, Maryland); and the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) (in Arlington, Virginia). The headquarters of Voice of America, the U.S. government's international news service, is near the Capitol in Southwest Washington.^[164]