Overview

• Lally Weymouth died Monday at her home in Manhattan, with the cause identified as pancreatic cancer, her daughter Katharine Weymouth confirmed.
• Weymouth built an independent career interviewing world figures such as Saddam Hussein and Muammar Gaddafi and spoke with every Israeli prime minister since 1981.
• Her most recent published work was a May 2025 Q&A with Qatari Emir Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani ahead of President Trump’s visit.
• She served as a senior associate editor at The Washington Post, previously contributed to Newsweek and the Los Angeles Times, and wrote and edited books in the 1970s.
• Coverage notes the Graham family’s stewardship of the Post until its 2013 sale to Jeff Bezos and corrects that her grandfather who bought the paper in 1933 was Eugene Meyer.