LEGENDARY WASHINGTON POST EDITOR PASSES AWAY AT AGE 93
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 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. Read more..
BOB WOODWARD: "NO ONE COMPARES"
“No one compares. He was the editor of the 20th century,” Bob Woodward, the veteran Post journalist, said. “His passing, in a way, marks the end of the 20th century.” Read more..
TOM BROKAW: "WE'LL NOT LIKELY SEE HIS KIND AGAIN"
“In the new forms of journalism we’ll not likely see his kind again — just as there will never be another Babe Ruth, Sinatra or Hemingway,” said Tom Brokaw, the veteran NBC News anchor. Read more..
OP-ED--- DAVID REMNICK IN THE NEW YORKER: REMEMBERING BEN BRADLEE)
Bradlee was, above all, a driven newspaperman, a man of his time and of his institution, and more alive than a major weather system. He was a man of great principle and of great luck, blessed in the ownership that supported him and blessed with a loving wife that cared for him to the very end–an end that was miles from easy. He might not have been professorial but he was a great teacher. Even after Bradlee was on the back nine of his career, he was capable, with a word or a gesture, of pushing a reporter toward better work. Read more..
OP-ED--- JILL ABRAMSON IN TIME: BEN BRADLEE WAS LUMINESCENT
Ben had total joie de journalism. It oozed from every pore. No one had more fun chasing a big story and no editor made the chase more fun. He wrote his first newspaper story at age 15 as a copy boy for theBeverly Evening Times in Massachusetts. But the reporter was a born editor and during his tenure at the Post the paper won 23 Pulitzers, doubled its staff and nearly doubled its circulation. The Bradlee period was truly a golden time. Read more..
OP-ED--- FMR. WASHINGTON POST PUBLISHER DONALD GRAHAM IN THE POST: BRADLEE, A HERO TO THE POST NEWSROOM
Through big stories and small — the Pentagon Papers and Watergate were only the beginning of it — those tough reporters on Ben’s staff came to know they were working for someone great. You could safely call the Post newsroom staff hard-bitten. They were men and women who had no heroes. But he was their hero. It went both ways. In the aftermath of the Supreme Court decision on the Pentagon Papers, here’s what he said to the newsroom: “The guts and energy and responsibility of everyone involved in this fight, and the sense that you were all involved, has impressed me more than anything in my life. You were beautiful.” You too, Benjy. Read more..
WASHINGTON POST EDITORIAL: HOW BEN BRADLEE TRANSFORMED THE WASHINGTON POST
Benjamin C. Bradlee, who died Tuesday at the age of 93, was the architect and builder of the modern Washington Post. His conviction that even the most powerful should be held to a standard of truth-telling inspired journalists well beyond The Post. His exuberance at work and in life served as a model well beyond journalism. ... Donald E. Graham, who did so much to lead the newspaper in the next generation, never forgot Mr. Bradlee’s contribution. As he said at his retirement in 1991, “It’s Bradlee’s paper.” Read more.. |
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