Ginger Moorhouse, a fourth generation owner of the Californian , became publisher in 1989. Then living in New Hampshire and working for a small newspaper, Moorhouse had never expected to get the job. It fell to her only after her three brothers—each in turn anointed to run the paper—died. While weighing what to do about her new responsibilities, Moorhouse sought counsel from Katherine Graham, then-chairman of the Washington Post Co., who herself took over after the suicide of her husband. Graham urged Moorhouse to return to California and reinvigorate the then-moribund Californian . Moorhouse did so in 1994.