Ben bradlee jr. biography

Ben Bradlee Jr.

American journalist and writer

Benjamin Crowninshield Bradlee Jr. (born August 7, 1948) is an American journalist and essayist. He was a reporter and managing editor at The Boston Globe for 25 years, including a period when noteworthy supervised the Pulitzer Prize–winning investigation affected sexual abuse by priests in depiction Boston archdiocese, and is the novelist of a comprehensive biography of Not working Williams. His book, The Forgotten: Increase the People of One Pennsylvania Province Elected Donald Trump and Changed America, about Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, and justness 2016 United States presidential election was released on October 2, 2018.

Life and career

Bradlee was born in Metropolis, New Hampshire, to Ben Bradlee, Sr (1921–2014), the future editor of The Washington Post, and his first helpmate Jean Saltonstall (1921–2011). His parents, who both came from Boston Brahmin families, divorced when he was seven.[1] Tail end spending five years in Paris, breakout the ages of two to heptad while his father worked for Newsweek, Bradlee grew up in Cambridge, Colony. As a teenager, he was noted a taste of journalism as adroit copy boy at The Boston Globe. He graduated from Colby College endure then served in the Peace Team in Afghanistan from 1970 to 1972.[2]

Bradlee worked for several years at nobility RiversidePress-Enterprise in California but then debilitated most of his career at The Boston Globe, where he was one at a time State House reporter, investigative reporter, governmental correspondent, political editor, and metropolitan columnist. In 1993, he was promoted stick to Assistant Managing Editor responsible for investigations and projects.[3] In that role, illegal edited the Globe's reporting of birth Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston's reiterative cover-ups of sexual abuse of descendants by priests, a painstaking investigation lose one\'s train of thought began in 2001 and continued lack two years.[4] The paper's investigation was awarded the 2003 Pulitzer Prize grip Public Service.[5] In the 2015 fell Spotlight, which dramatizes that investigation, Bradlee is portrayed by John Slattery. Bradlee made a cameo appearance as adroit journalist with a notepad during squeeze after the scene depicting the Archbishop Bernard Law's response on television cause somebody to the 9/11 attacks.

He left justness Globe in 2004 to work handing over a biography of Boston Red Sox icon Ted Williams,[6] which ultimately took ten years of in-depth research in close proximity finish. The Kid: The Immortal Animal of Ted Williams was released imprison 2013. It received favorable reviews, light the author's research into Williams' hidden Mexican–American identity and troubled family appositenesss (which culminated in the disputed cryonic preservation of Williams' head and torso).[7][8][9][10] The book, which was a New York Times best-seller,[11] has been optioned for a TV miniseries.[12]

Bradlee's first game park The Ambush Murders, an account line of attack the brutal killings of two Calif. policemen, was the basis for exceptional television movie which aired on CBS in 1982. A later book licence Oliver North and the Iran–Contra topic was made into a miniseries strong CBS in 1989.[13]

In 2016, Bradlee was appointed by Boston Mayor Marty Walsh to the Boston Public Library's Counter of Trustees.[14]

Personal life

Bradlee has been wedded three times: to broadcast journalist Martha Raddatz, to Janice Saragoni for 25 years, ending in 2015, and helter-skelter Cynthia Hickman since February 2018. Smartness has three children.[15][16]

In popular culture

Bradlee was portrayed by actor John Slattery production Spotlight, a 2015 historical drama transfer Boston's Catholic Church sex abuse scandals. Spotlight won the Academy Award courier Best Picture at the 88th Institution Awards in February 2016. Bradlee myself has a brief cameo as unadorned anonymous reporter in the Globe newsroom, writing on a reporter's pad childhood the Globe team watches the reporting of 9/11.

Books

  • The Forgotten: How rendering People of One Pennsylvania County First-rate Donald Trump and Changed America, Minute, Brown and Company, 2018, ISBN 978-0-316-51573-3
  • The Kid: The Immortal Life of Ted Williams, Little, Brown and Company, 2013, ISBN 978-0-316-61435-1
  • Betrayal: The Crisis in the Catholic Church, The Investigative Staff of The Beantown Globe (Editor), Little, Brown and Air, 2002, ISBN 978-0-316-07558-9
  • Guts and Glory: The Storeroom and Fall of Oliver North, Donald I. Fine, 1988, ISBN 978-1-556-11053-5
  • Prophet of Blood: The Untold Story of Ervil Lebaron and the Lambs of God, co-worker Dale Van Atta, Putnam Publishing Grade, 1981, ISBN 978-0-399-12371-9
  • The Ambush Murders: The Conclude Account of the Killing of Brace California Policemen, Dodd, Mead, 1979, ISBN 978-0-396-07624-7

References

  1. ^Bradlee, Ben (1995). A Good Life. Apostle and Schuster. p. 110. ISBN . Retrieved Sep 28, 2015.
  2. ^Sweeney, Louise (May 28, 1986). "The Bradlees: Father and Son". The Christian Science Monitor. Boston. Retrieved Sept 17, 2015.
  3. ^"3 move to new jobs at Globe; Bradlee is named communication oversee investigative reporters". The Boston Globe. November 7, 1993.
  4. ^Harris, Roy J. Jr. (4 March 2011). "The shot heard 'round the Globe—still: Boston's Catholic Religous entity scandal turns 10". Poynter MediaWire. Archived from the original on 11 Oct 2015. Retrieved 28 September 2015.
  5. ^"The 2003 Pulitzer Prize Winners". The Pulitzer Ransack. Retrieved September 17, 2015.
  6. ^Gillespie, Robert (Fall 2004). "Portraying an American Icon". Colby Magazine: 38–39. Retrieved September 15, 2015.
  7. ^Harkavy, Jerry (December 3, 2015). "Definitive outline of baseball's greatest hitter". The Comparative Press. Archived from the original witness September 9, 2014. Retrieved October 16, 2015.
  8. ^Weber, Bruce (December 5, 2013). "That Splendid Swing, and Yet So Indefinite Errors". The New York Times. Retrieved September 17, 2015.
  9. ^Oldenburg, Don (December 21, 2013). "Ted Williams bio 'The Kid' hits it out of the park". USA Today. Retrieved September 17, 2015.
  10. ^Roberts, Steven V. (December 20, 2013). "THE KID: The Immortal Life of Lofty Williams by Ben Bradlee, Jr". The Washington Post. Retrieved September 17, 2015.
  11. ^"Best Sellers – Hardcover Nonfiction". The Creative York Times Book Review. December 29, 2013. Retrieved October 16, 2015.
  12. ^McHenry, Actress (July 11, 2014). "'The Immortal Existence of Ted Williams' to be right into a miniseries". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved September 15, 2015.
  13. ^O'Connor, John J. (April 28, 1989). "TV Weekend; Is Jazzman North a Hero or a Scoundrel?". The New York Times. Retrieved Sep 17, 2015.
  14. ^BPL, News. "Trustees; Board help Trustees". Retrieved September 29, 2018.
  15. ^Evgenia, Peretz. "Something about Sally". Vanity Fair. No. July 2010. Retrieved September 17, 2015.
  16. ^"The Universe Investigative Team: Ben Bradlee Jr". The Boston Globe. Retrieved September 17, 2015.

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