Ben Bradlee
Vice President at-large, The Washington Post

Benjamin Bradlee, Vice-President at-large of The Washington Post, may be the most influential editor of our time. Bradlee served as its managing editor and then executive editor for more than a quarter of a century. Colorful, charismatic and courageous, his has been a relentless search for the truth. During his turbulent tenure, Bradlee exposed the Watergate Scandal and the Pentagon Papers, a major scandal involving President Nixon in 1972, and coverage of the Vietnam War, securing not only the Washington Post's, but also Bradlee's place in journalistic history. He reinvented modern investigative journalism causing his comments to become "interesting and an important part of history." Under his leadership, The Washington Post reeived 18 Pulizer Prizes.

He has written two books on President John F. Kennedy, That Special Grace and Conversations with Kennedy and a bestseller, A Good Life: Newspapering and Other Adventures.