Ben Bradlee, legendary Washington Post editor, dies at 93
Source: Washington Post
Benjamin C. Bradlee, who presided over The Washington Post newsroom for 26 years and guided The Posts transformation into one of the worlds leading newspapers, died Oct. 21 at his home in Washington of natural causes. He was 93.
From the moment he took over The Post newsroom in 1965, Mr. Bradlee sought to create an important newspaper that would go far beyond the traditional model of a metropolitan daily. He achieved that goal by combining compelling news stories based on aggressive reporting with engaging feature pieces of a kind previously associated with the best magazines. His charm and gift for leadership helped him hire and inspire a talented staff and eventually made him the most celebrated newspaper editor of his era.
The most compelling story of Bradlees tenure, almost certainly the one of greatest consequence, was Watergate, a political scandal touched off by The Posts reporting that ended in the only resignation of a president in U.S. history.
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CaliforniaPeggy
(149,611 posts)Now, there was a newspaperman.
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)Robbins
(5,066 posts)A real newsman.He may have been a liberal but he went at news.Today The washington post would bury watergate.
femmocrat
(28,394 posts)RIP Mr. Bradlee.
babylonsister
(171,059 posts)applegrove
(118,642 posts)TBF
(32,056 posts)ballyhoo
(2,060 posts)still running that paper now. RIP