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They had one son, Ben Bradlee Jr., [24] who later became first a reporter, then a deputy managing editor at The Boston Globe. [25] Bradlee and his first wife divorced while he was an overseas correspondent for Newsweek. In 1957, he married Antoinette 'Tony' Pinchot Pittman (sister of Mary Pinchot Meyer).
Benjamin Crowninshield Bradlee Jr. (born August 7, 1948) is an American journalist and writer. He was a reporter and editor at The Boston Globe for 25 years, including a period when he supervised the Pulitzer Prize–winning investigation into sexual abuse by priests in the Boston archdiocese, and is the author of a comprehensive biography of Ted Williams.
The Newspaperman: The Life and Times of Ben Bradlee has been met with a positive response from critics. On the review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds a 94% approval rating with an average rating of 7.8 out of 10, based on 16 reviews. [4]
Oct. 5—WILKES-BARRE — Ben Bradlee Jr. came "home" this week, returning to Luzerne County to visit old "forgotten" friends. Bradlee supervised the Pulitzer Prize-winning investigation into ...
She personally appoints the bullish Ben Bradlee as the Post's executive editor as he agrees with her vision, but her male-dominated board still view her as a housewife in over her head. She is also still a prominent D.C. socialite, and Bradlee has to repeatedly assert his editorial independence whenever the paper runs a story critical of her ...
In 1979, the writer Sally Quinn and her husband, Ben Bradlee, of Washington Post fame, came to see the ruins, even though the real estate agent refused to go inside with them. Bradlee was allergic ...
Benjamin Crowninshield Bradlee was the executive editor of The Washington Post during the publication of the Pentagon Papers and played a pivotal role in the newspaper's coverage of the Watergate scandal. He stepped down as executive editor and became a member of the editorial board and vice president at large in 1991.
In this Spielberg-directed true story, the first female publisher of a major U.S. newspaper, The Washington Post’s Katharine Graham (Streep) and editor Ben Bradlee (Hanks), grapple with the ...