Other accomplishments and recognition
Graham had strong links to the Rockefeller family, serving both as a member of the Rockefeller University council and as a close friend of the Museum of Modern Art, where she was honored as a recipient of the David Rockefeller Award for enlightened generosity and advocacy of cultural and civic endeavors.
A dormitory in the Max Palevsky Residential Commons at the University of Chicago is named after Graham. Every year on March 2 they celebrate "Graham Day", in her honor.
Nora Ephron of the New York Times, who was at one point married to Carl Bernstein, raved about Graham's autobiography. She found it an amazing story of how Graham was able to succeed in a male-dominated industry. "Am I making clear how extraordinary this book is?" Ephron said. "She manages to rewrite the story of her life in such a way that no one will ever be able to boil it down to a sentence."
In 1966, Graham was the named honoree of Truman Capote's Black and White Ball.
In 1973, Graham received the Elijah Parish Lovejoy Award as well as an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Colby College.
In 1974, Graham became the first woman elected to the board of directors at the Associated Press.
In 1975, Graham received the S. Roger Horchow Award for Greatest Public Service by a Private Citizen, an award given out annually by Jefferson Awards.
In 1979, the Supersisters trading card set was produced and distributed; one of the cards featured Graham's name and picture.
In 1979, Deborah Davis published an unauthorized biography of Graham entitled Katharine the Great.
In 1987, Graham won the Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism.
In 1988, Graham was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
In 1997, she received the Freedom medal for her commitment to freedom of speech and expression.
In 1997, Graham published her memoirs, Personal History. The book was praised for its honest portrayal of Philip Graham's mental illness and received rave reviews for her depiction of her life, as well as a glimpse into how the roles of women have changed over the course of Graham's life.
In 1998, her memoir, Personal History, won the Pulitzer Prize for Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography.
On January 30, 1998, television station WCPX-TV in Orlando changed its callsign to WKMG-TV in honor of longtime Washington Post publisher, Katharine M. Graham.
In 1999, Graham received the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement. The award was presented by Awards Council member Coretta Scott King.
In 2000, Graham was named one of the International Press Institute's 50 World Press Freedom Heroes of the past 50 years.
In 2002, Graham was presented, posthumously, with the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President George W. Bush.
In 2002, Graham was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame.
In 2010, Graham was profiled in the National Portrait Gallery's One Life: Katharine Graham.
In 2017, Graham was portrayed by Meryl Streep in the Steven Spielberg film The Post. Streep was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress (among other awards) for her work. Graham does not appear in the film adaptation of All The President's Men, but Robert Redford, who plays Woodward, revealed that Graham had a scene written for her in earlier versions where she asks Woodward and Bernstein (played by Dustin Hoffman) about the Watergate story, beginning with, "What are you doing with my paper?"
