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4PM Thursday, October 27, 2005
Sheldon Hall Ballroom, State University of New York – Oswego
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Panelist:
BEN BRADLEE
put the Washington Post on the map as a worthy competitor to the New
York Times and the Wall Street Journal. As editor of the Washington
Postfrom 1965 to 1991, he challenged the federal government over the
right to publish the Pentagon papers. He became famous for overseeing
the publication of Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein’s stories
documenting the Watergate Scandal. Bradlee was born in Boston, Mass.
He attended Harvard University, graduating in 1942. He served in the
US Naval Reserve during World War II. He first worked for the Washington
Post in 1948 as a reporter, and then for Newsweek, where he became
Washington bureau chief. He returned to the Post in 1961 as a senior
editor, and in 1965 he was promoted to managing editor. If Watergate
was his high point, he says his lowest professional moment came in
1981. Janet Cooke, a Washington Post reporter, won a Pulitzer Prize
for “Jimmy’s World,” a profile of an eight-year-old
heroin addict. It turned out to be complete fiction. In the long stretch
of history, this blotch is a mere footnote, for Bradlee’s tenure
is widely revered. He published a bestselling autobiography in 1995,
A Good Life: Newspapering and Other Adventures. |
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