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 ...

WASHINGTON -- Ben Bradlee had a good life -- and a great funeral. It was, for one thing, almost certainly the first time the word "dickhead" was invoked in a service at Washington National Cathedral. ...

WASHINGTON -- 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 break ...

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 ...

Ben Bradlee, the legendary Washington Post editor who died recently, has been widely praised for his work building up The Washington Post and bringing down Richard Nixon. His guidance of the paper's ...

Did the First Amendment ever have a more stylish defender — and one who made more effective use of it — than Ben Bradlee? The legendary managing editor of The Washington Post who died Tuesday at 93, ...

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 ...

FILE - In this June 11, 2012 file photo, Ben Bradlee, former executive editor of The Washington Post, listens during an event sponsored by The Washington Post to commemorate the 40th anniversary of ...