Caroline H. Little

WPNI is the new media subsidiary of The Washington Post Company and includes washingtonpost.com and www.newsweek.com . washingtonpost.com is consistently the number one local news and information site in the country, and one of the top news sites nationally and internationally, with over six million unique users and 200 million page views each month.

Little joined WPNI in 1997 as general counsel. She was promoted to vice president, administration and general counsel, in 1998. She became senior vice president of business affairs and general counsel in 1999. Little assumed the role of chief operating officer in April 2000, and was named president in April 2003. In January 2004, she became CEO and publisher.

Prior to joining Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive, Little was deputy general counsel at U.S. News & World Report, The Atlantic Monthly and Fast Company (May 1993 to July 1997). While there, she was active in negotiating agreements with online service providers, licensing, multimedia syndication agreements and other areas involving circulation and marketing of the magazines. When Little worked at Applied Graphics Technologies and Applied Printing Technologies, she drafted and negotiated various financing and licensing agreements, joint venture agreements, software license agreements, production services agreements, asset purchase agreements, and other agreements for pre-press and printing companies.

Little served as an associate at the law firm of Arnold & Porter, working on telecommunications, corporate and real estate issues.

A graduate of Wesleyan University, Little received a Bachelor of Arts in English in 1981 and received her J.D. from New York University School of Law in 1986 where she graduated with honors. She is a member of Phi Beta Kappa.

Little is an active member of both professional organizations and the charitable community in Washington. She is a dynamic member of the D.C. Bar serving on their Board of Governors. Little also serves as an Advisory Board member for The Posse Foundation, and is a Board member for the Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company and the charitable group WEAVE (Women Empowered Against Violence). In addition, Little is a trustee to Grinnell College in Iowa.