Washington Post Editor Benjamin Bradlee dies at 93

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October 22, 2014
Mariah Timms
News Writer
Wash DC News

Benjamin C. Bradlee, former Washington Post executive editor, died of natural causes in his home at the age of 93, Tuesday. Bradlee took over The Post in 1965, intending to push the paper to become a world leader of journalism. It was under Bradlee’s editorship that the pivotal Watergate scandal was broken and reported. In another landmark decision, Bradlee and The Post’s publishers decided to report on the Pentagon Papers and the Vietnam War. That decision resulted in a U.S. Supreme Court case between The Post, the New York Times and the Nixon administration, which ultimately upheld the right of the papers to publish. President Obama called Bradlee a “true newspaperman,” whose style of journalism was “a public good vital to our democracy,” in a statement Tuesday night. Obama awarded Bradlee the Presidential Medal of Honor in 2013. Under Bradlee, the global reach of The Post grew, circulation and staff doubled and the number of Pulitzer Prizes awarded to the paper more than quadrupled. Colleagues and friends have all come forward to speak highly of the man throughout his career.

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