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  1. Oct 22, 2014 · The real journalists behind "The Post" Played on screen by Tom Hanks and Meryl Streep, the Washington Post's Ben Bradlee and Katharine Graham spoke with 60 Minutes in 1974

  2. 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. As managing editor first and later as ...

  3. Benjamin Crowninshield Bradlee Jr. (born August 7, 1948) is an American journalist and writer. He was a reporter and editor at The Boston Globe for 25 years, including a period when he supervised the Pulitzer Prize –winning investigation into sexual abuse by priests in the Boston archdiocese, and is the author of a comprehensive biography of Ted Williams .

  4. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Ben_BradleeBen Bradlee - Wikipedia

    Ben Bradlee. 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. [1] 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 ...

  5. Update, 6:18PM: President Barack Obama reacts to Ben Bradlee's death with the following statement: “For Benjamin Bradlee, journalism was more than a profession - it was a public good vital to our democracy. A true newspaperman, he transformed the Washington Post into one of the country's finest newspapers, and with him at the helm, a growing army of reporters published the Pentagon Papers ...

  6. Oct 22, 2014 · Ben Bradlee was a giant of his trade and that is why he wasn't only admired, he was loved. Subscribe to the BBC News Magazine's email newsletter to get articles sent to your inbox. Top stories

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  8. [6] Similarly complimentary, The Wall Street Journal ' s Dorothy Rabinowitz said, "As any rational person would expect, the subject of HBO’s The Newspaperman: The Life and Times of Ben Bradlee--the executive editor who presided over the Washington Post’s coverage of the Watergate scandal that drove Richard Nixon from office--quickly emerges as a heroic figure. What’s not so expected ...

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