Former Washington Post editor earns UI journalism award
By Julie Wurth
Tuesday October 28, 2008
URBANA – Benjamin Bradlee, the Washington Post editor who helped break the Watergate scandal and topple the Nixon presidency, has won a lifetime-achievement award from the University of Illinois.
Bradlee, executive editor of the Post for more than two decades, received the Illinois Prize for Lifetime Achievement in Journalism at a reception Friday at the Newseum in Washington, D.C.
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