He was an original who charted his own course. Ben had an intuitive understanding of the history of our profession, its formative impact on him and all of us. “Ben was a true friend and genius leader in journalism,” they said. “The standard he set – a standard for honest, objective, meticulous reporting – encouraged so many others to enter the profession.”īob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, the Post reporters who led the investigation, issued a joint statement that paid tribute to Bradlee’s “unbending” quest for truth and belief in the “necessity of that pursuit”. “For Benjamin Bradlee, journalism was more than a profession – it was a public good vital to our democracy,” said the president. His stewardship of the Post’s investigation into the Watergate burglary – a scandal that directly led to the resignation of Richard Nixon – dominated responses to his death.īarack Obama called him a “true newspaperman” who “told stories that needed to be told” and “transformed the Washington Post into one of the country’s finest newspapers”.
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