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Ben Bradlee

April 2021

  • Hadley Freeman

    Hadley Freeman's Weekend column
    I once became an editor by mistake. It taught me to value the people behind the scenes

    Hadley Freeman
    Actors and pop stars can be hit-and-miss as interviewees, whereas directors and music producers rarely disappoint. The same is true of writers versus editors

January 2018

  • Meryl Streep and Tom Hanks in The Post.

    Mark Kermode's film of the week
    The Post review – all the news they don’t want you to print

    Steven Spielberg’s urgent 70s-set thriller stars Tom Hanks and Meryl Streep in a timely lesson on the need for a vigilant press

December 2017

  • 2017, THE POST<br>TOM HANKS & MERYL STREEP Character(s): Ben Bradlee, Kay Graham Film 'THE POST' (2017) Directed By STEVEN SPIELBERG 22 December 2017 SAV84887 Allstar/DREAMWORKS **WARNING** This Photograph is for editorial use only and is the copyright of DREAMWORKS and/or the Photographer assigned by the Film or Production Company & can only be reproduced by publications in conjunction with the promotion of the above Film. A Mandatory Credit To DREAMWORKS is required. The Photographer should also be credited when known. No commercial use can be granted without written authority from the Film Company.

    The Post review – Streep and Hanks scoop the honours in Spielberg's big-hearted story

  • Ben Bradlee

    Ben Bradlee: the ground-breaking editor who helped bring down Nixon

November 2017

  • Meryl Streep in Steven Spielberg’s Pentagon Papers drama The Post

    The Post: watch the first trailer for Steven Spielberg’s timely Pentagon Papers drama

    Tom Hanks and Meryl Streep star in the director’s latest, which nods to current events in its tale of governmental cover-ups and crusading journalism

October 2014

  • Quinn Bradlee puts he head on the casket of his father and former Washington Post executive editor Ben Bradlee.

    Washington political and journalism elite gather to mourn editor Ben Bradlee

  • Peter Preston

    Peter Preston on press and broadcasting
    Just imagine Ben Bradlee as a ‘director of content’

    Peter Preston
  • Barack Obama awards Ben Bradlee the presidential medal of freedom

    Ben Bradlee – the wit and the wisdom

  • Washington Post executive editor Ben Bradlee - 17 Jul 2001

    The Guardian view on Ben Bradlee: hero of a free press

  • Stamina, bravery, brilliance – the great Ben Bradlee had it all

    Alan Rusbridger

  • Greenslade
    Ben Bradlee revealed his courage, and his moral ethos, in north Belfast

    Roy Greenslade

  • Benjamin Bradlee dies aged 93 – video

August 2013

  • Greenslade
    Ben Bradlee wins America's highest civil honour

    Editor who oversaw Watergate coverage to get presidential medal of freedom

April 2012

  • Ben Bradlee, Carl Bernstein, Bob Woodward, Washington Post, 2005

    Oliver Burkeman column
    Watergate: did Ben Bradlee doubt Woodward and Bernstein?

    Oliver Burkeman: Jeff Himmelman's book suggests the crusading Washington Post editor had a crisis of faith in his reporters. Paging 'Deep Throat'

February 2008

  • Lost in showbiz
    Angelina and Arnie park their tanks on various lawns

    Further evidence that we're throwing our best people behind the Iraqi reconstruction effort: Angelina Jolie has written an op-ed piece for the Washington Post. Isn't that heartening? Let's hope it means Ben Bradlee will be given a starring in Mr & Mrs Smith 2: If We Can Make One Movie That Calamitous We Can Totally Make Two.

May 2007

  • Greenslade
    Ben Bradlee: ass up and flat-out sick

    Here's the grand old man of US journalism, Ben Bradlee, offering advice to the 2007 graduates of Columbia University's school of journalism: "Nose down, ass up, and go." Then the former Washington Post editor - now its vice-president-at-large - turned to the future of newsprint, saying he was "flat-out sick" of hearing threats to journalism's "dire extinction." (Via Columbia Spectator)

June 2006

  • Greenslade
    Ben Bradlee reminds us why we are journalists

    Ben Bradlee, the former Washington Post editor who guided his newspaper through the Watergate scandal and the Pentagon Papers affair, was asked by PBS anchor Jim Lehrer whether papers facing sales decline should re-examine what they're doing.

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