Sign up for The Media Today, CJR’s daily newsletter. Ben Bradlee had, by all accounts, an eventful life at the helm of The Washington Post, and as a result he was a ...

Benjamin Crowninshield Bradlee (August 26, 1921 – October 21, 2014) was an American journalist who served as managing editor, then as executive editor of The Washington Post, from 1965 to 1991. He ...

WASHINGTON (AP) - In a charmed life of newspapering, Ben Bradlee seemed always to be in just the right place. The raspy-voiced, hard-charging editor who invigorated The Washington Post got an early ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Ben Bradlee, the hard-driving editor who reigned over the Washington Post with the style of a well-dressed swashbuckler and the profane vocabulary of a dockworker as the ...

Benjamin C. Bradlee, who presided over The Washington Post newsroom for 26 years, died Tuesday at his home in Washington of natural causes, the Post reported. He was 93. The most compelling story of ...

“Sitting in the back of the room with me and few others, Ben would ask us to look over everyone in front of us, asking “Who do you think won’t be here next year?” Ben’s guesses were always right.” —JB ...

“His rakish persona was the real thing, seemed sprung from his marrow, as though somebody in his noble ancestral line had bedded (one of his favorite words) a pirate or gunslinger.” —JB ...

What a way to go! Lunch with Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson. Bridge with Warren Buffett and Bill Gates the day before. Dinner the night before that, with admiring moguls galore, plus the new president of ...

On the C-SPAN Networks: Benjamin Bradlee Jr. is a Son with one video in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 2014 Ceremony. A funeral service was held for former Washington Post editor ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — Former Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee, who oversaw the newspaper’s coverage of the Watergate scandal that toppled President Richard Nixon, died on Tuesday at age 93, the ...

Ben Bradlee, born in 1921, vice president and executive editor of the *Washington Post* when that newspaper published the Pulitzer Prize-winning articles that initially exposed the Watergate scandal.