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Benjamin Crowninshield Bradlee (August 26, 1921 – October 21, 2014) was an American journalist who served as managing editor and later as executive editor of The Washington Post, from 1965 to 1991. He became a public figure when the Post joined The New York Times in publishing the Pentagon Papers and gave the go-ahead for the paper's ...
Oct 22, 2014 · Benjamin C. Bradlee, who presided over The Washington Post newsroom for 26 years and guided The Post’s transformation into one of the world’s leading newspapers, died Oct. 21 at his home in...
Ben Bradlee (born August 26, 1921, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.—died October 21, 2014, Washington, D.C.) was an American journalist and newspaper editor who set exacting standards and promoted an aggressive newsroom style as the executive editor (1968–91) of The Washington Post.
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Oct 22, 2014 · Ben Bradlee, who presided over The Washington Post’s Watergate reporting that led to the fall of President Richard M. Nixon and that stamped him in American culture as the quintessential...
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Oct 29, 2014 · The legendary editor who helped force out a president and transform American journalism, Mr. Bradlee had passed into icon status long before he died last week at 93, as much...
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Oct 22, 2014 · WASHINGTON (AP) — Ben Bradlee, the hard-charging editor who guided The Washington Post through its Pulitzer Prize-winning coverage of the Watergate scandal and invigorated its newsroom for more than two decades, died Tuesday. He was 93. Bradlee died at his home of natural causes, the Post reported.
Oct 22, 2014 · Ben Bradlee was a journalist who stood up to the U.S. government, pursued the story that brought down a president, and shaped a generation of journalists. He led the Post to publish the Pentagon Papers, expose Watergate, and win 19 Pulitzer Prizes.
