Ben Bradlee
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Executive editor of The Washington Post from 1968 to 1991
Why Is Ben Bradlee Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Benjamin Crowninshield Bradlee was an American journalist who served as managing editor and later as executive editor of The Washington Post, from 1965 to 1991. He became a public figure when the Post joined The New York Times in publishing the Pentagon Papers and gave the go-ahead for the paper's extensive coverage of the Watergate scandal. He was also criticized for editorial lapses when the Post had to return a Pulitzer Prize in 1981 after it discovered its award-winning story was false.
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