Ben Bradlee Jr.
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 United States journalist and author Ben Bradlee Jr. by Bill Brett
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August 7, 1948 Manchester, New Hampshire |
| Alma mater | Colby College |
| Occupation | Journalist, author |
| Parent(s) | Ben Bradlee, Jean Saltonstall |
| Awards | Pulitzer Prize for Public Service |
Ben 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.
Bradlee was born in Manchester, New Hampshire, during the early newspaper career of his father, future Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee. His mother was Bradlee Sr.'s first wife, Jean Saltonstall; his parents divorced when he was seven. After spending five years in Paris, from the ages of two to seven while his father worked for Newsweek, Bradlee grew up in Cambridge, Massachusetts. As a teenager, he got a taste of journalism as a copy boy at the Boston Globe. He graduated from Colby College and then served in the Peace Corps in Afghanistan from 1970-1972.
Bradlee worked for several years at the Riverside Press-Enterprise in California but then spent most of his career at the Boston Globe, where he was successively State House reporter, investigative reporter, national correspondent, political editor, and metropolitan editor. In 1993, he was promoted to be Assistant Managing Editor responsible for investigations and projects. In that role, he edited the Globe's reporting that uncovered the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston's repeated cover-ups of sexual abuse of children by priests, a painstaking investigation that began in 2001 and continued for two years. The paper's investigation was awarded the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service. In the 2015 film Spotlight, which dramatizes that investigation, Bradlee is portrayed by John Slattery. Bradlee makes a cameo appearance as a journalist with a notepad listening to the fictional version of himself just after the scene depicting the Church's response on television to the 9/11 attacks.
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