• The Wall Street Journal, Thursday, January 5, 2012 12:07 PM

Proving that age is but a number, The Wall Street Journal delves into the budding friendship between Mark Zuckerberg and Washington Post’s 66-year-old CEO Donald Graham. “The two men -- separated by 39 years -- have formed an unlikely relationship bridging two vastly different media worlds,” WSJ writes. “Introduced through a college friend of Mr. Zuckerberg in 2005, each now serves as a mentor to the other.”

As a result, “Mr. Zuckerberg's views on social media and news-sharing have begun to have broad influence inside the Post Co.”  In turn, Zuckerberg has reportedly sought out Graham for insight, even spending several days shadowing the mogul to learn about life as a CEO, as WSJ reports. "Don will have ideas and questions that he'll want to bounce off Mark and similarly Mark takes counsel from Don," a person close to the Graham family tells WSJ. "They have a very close relationship that focuses on business issues and dilemmas."

Since 2009, Graham has served on Facebook's board. As new media continues to cut into old, can Graham learn enough from Zuck to set WaPo on the right path? Perhaps, writes WSJ, as Zuckerberg has already helped Graham think through a number of online initiatives in which the Post Co. has attempted to harness the power of Facebook and other social-media sites.

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