Boisfeuillet "Bo" Jones Jr. ( ; born 1946) was president and chief executive officer of MacNeil/Lehrer Productions in

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.Boisfeuillet 'Bo' Jones to Leave Washington Post Company for MacNeil/Lehrer Productions, Inc.
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board from 2008 until December 31, 2011. From 2000 to 2008 he was publisher and chief executive officer of ''

''.

Early life

Jones was born in

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in 1946 to Boisfeuillet Jones Sr., a philanthropist, and Laura Coit Jones. Anne Baynon Register Jones became his step-mother following the death of his mother and the marriage of his father to Anne Register. Jones went to high school at St. Albans School in Washington, D.C., and later received an A.B. in 1968 from

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, where he was president of

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and a member of the

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. At both St. Albans and Harvard he was two years behind Donald E. Graham, his future employer. He attended Exeter College,

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as a

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and received a D.Phil. in modern history. He received his J.D. in 1974 from

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, where he was an

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of the ''

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.''

Early career

Prior to joining ''The Post'', Jones was an attorney with

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from 1975 to 1980, and was law clerk for judge

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of the

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, from 1974 to 1975.

''The Washington Post''

Jones joined the ''Post'' in 1980 as vice president and counsel. In 1995, he became president and general manager of the ''Post'', assuming responsibility for the business side of the

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. In January 2000, he was named associate publisher, assuming responsibility of the ''Post'' on a day-to-day basis. In September 2000 he became publisher and CEO. He is a director of the

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, the Newspaper Association of America, the Eugene and Agnes E. Meyer Foundation, and the Federal City Council.

References

External links

Biography of Jones
on Washington Post Company website * {{DEFAULTSORT:Jones, Boisfeuillet Jr. American newspaper executives The Washington Post publishers Businesspeople from Atlanta American Rhodes Scholars American Episcopalians The Harvard Crimson people Harvard Law School alumni 1946 births Living people St. Albans School (Washington, D.C.) alumni Alumni of Exeter College, Oxford Harvard College alumni