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A look at the career of Ben Bradlee

{051707} -- Washington, DC Ben Bradlee of Washington Post sits on the porch of his Georgetown home. His son, Quinn, has Velo-Cardio-Facial Syndrome. VCFS is the second most common genetic syndrome after Down syndrome. VCFS advocates, including Bradlee, hope to educate people about the syndrome in order to promote research and early detection. Bradlee, now 25, is an aspiring filmmaker, and heíll debut a documentary he helped make about the syndrome at a benefit gala for the International Center for VCFS on June 13 in Washington, D.C. Photo by Joe Brier, Freelance ORG XMIT: JB 31871 VCFS 5/17/2007 (Via MerlinFTP Drop)
{051707} -- Washington, DC Ben Bradlee of Washington Post sits on the porch of his Georgetown home. His son, Quinn, has Velo-Cardio-Facial Syndrome. VCFS is the second most common genetic syndrome after Down syndrome. VCFS advocates, including Bradlee, hope to educate people about the syndrome in order to promote research and early detection. Bradlee, now 25, is an aspiring filmmaker, and heíll debut a documentary he helped make about the syndrome at a benefit gala for the International Center for VCFS on June 13 in Washington, D.C. Photo by Joe Brier, Freelance ORG XMIT: JB 31871 VCFS 5/17/2007 (Via MerlinFTP Drop)
File Photo By Joe Brier For USA TODAY
President Barack Obama awards former Washington Post executive editor Ben Bradlee with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2013, during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci) ORG XMIT: DCEV127
President Barack Obama awards former Washington Post executive editor Ben Bradlee with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2013, during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci) ORG XMIT: DCEV127
Evan Vucci, AP
ORG XMIT: CACC101 Ben Bradlee, former executive editor of the Washington Post, left, and former reporter Bob Woodward talk during the program "Remembering Watergate: A Conversation" at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum in Yorba Linda, Calif., Monday, April 18, 2011. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)
ORG XMIT: CACC101 Ben Bradlee, former executive editor of the Washington Post, left, and former reporter Bob Woodward talk during the program "Remembering Watergate: A Conversation" at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum in Yorba Linda, Calif., Monday, April 18, 2011. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)
File Photo By Chris Carlson, AP
Dr. Jonathan D. Salk, left, son of Dr. Jonas Salk, Anna Eleanor Roosevelt, granddaughter of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Benjamin C. Bradlee, former editor of the Washington Post and a child polio patient, talk about the polio virus, Monday, April 11, 2005 at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History in Washington. With an exhibit called the "Whatever Happened to Polio?," the museum marked the 50th anniversary of Jonas Salk's introduction of a successful polio vaccination. (AP Photo/Haraz Ghanbari) ORG XMIT: DCHG102
Dr. Jonathan D. Salk, left, son of Dr. Jonas Salk, Anna Eleanor Roosevelt, granddaughter of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Benjamin C. Bradlee, former editor of the Washington Post and a child polio patient, talk about the polio virus, Monday, April 11, 2005 at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History in Washington. With an exhibit called the "Whatever Happened to Polio?," the museum marked the 50th anniversary of Jonas Salk's introduction of a successful polio vaccination. (AP Photo/Haraz Ghanbari) ORG XMIT: DCHG102
File Photo By Haraz Ghanbari, AP
Former Managing Editor, Ben Bradlee, left, congratulates Pulitzer Prize winner Dana Priest on Monday April 7, 2008 in Washington. The Washington Post won 6 Pulitzers Monday including the public service medal for exposing shoddy treatment of America's war wounded at Walter Reed hospital. The Post series on Walter Reed Army Medical Center was done by reporters Dana Priest and Anne Hull and photographer Michel du Cille. (AP Photo/The Washington Post, Jonathan Newton) ** NO SALES NO ARCHIVES NO MAGAZINES MANDATORY CREDIT ** ORG XMIT: DCWAP101 [Via MerlinFTP Drop]
Former Managing Editor, Ben Bradlee, left, congratulates Pulitzer Prize winner Dana Priest on Monday April 7, 2008 in Washington. The Washington Post won 6 Pulitzers Monday including the public service medal for exposing shoddy treatment of America's war wounded at Walter Reed hospital. The Post series on Walter Reed Army Medical Center was done by reporters Dana Priest and Anne Hull and photographer Michel du Cille. (AP Photo/The Washington Post, Jonathan Newton) ** NO SALES NO ARCHIVES NO MAGAZINES MANDATORY CREDIT ** ORG XMIT: DCWAP101 [Via MerlinFTP Drop]
File Photo By Jonathan Newton, The Washington Post, Via AP
Ben Bradlee (R), former executive editor of the Washington Post wipes his eyes as his wife, Post writer Sally Quinn stands by during funeral services 23 July, 2001 for Washington Post publisher and CEO Katharine Graham at the National Cathedral in Washington, DC. Katharine Graham died 17 July from head injuries suffered in a fall outside a condominium in Sun Valley, Idaho. AFP PHOTO/Bill O'LEARY ORG XMIT: DCA09
Ben Bradlee (R), former executive editor of the Washington Post wipes his eyes as his wife, Post writer Sally Quinn stands by during funeral services 23 July, 2001 for Washington Post publisher and CEO Katharine Graham at the National Cathedral in Washington, DC. Katharine Graham died 17 July from head injuries suffered in a fall outside a condominium in Sun Valley, Idaho. AFP PHOTO/Bill O'LEARY ORG XMIT: DCA09
File Photo By Bill O'Leary, AFP
FILE - In this May 22, 2001, file photo, CNN chairman and CEO Tom Johnson, left, joined at right by retired Washington Post Executive Editor Ben Bradlee talk with Katharine Graham, chairman of the Washington Post Company at a Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press dinner in New York. On Monday, Aug. 5, 2013, the Washington Post announced the paper has been sold to Amazon founder Jeff Bezos. One of key dates in the history of The Washington Post was when Graham died at age 84 in 2001. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File) ORG XMIT: WX124 [Via MerlinFTP Drop]
FILE - In this May 22, 2001, file photo, CNN chairman and CEO Tom Johnson, left, joined at right by retired Washington Post Executive Editor Ben Bradlee talk with Katharine Graham, chairman of the Washington Post Company at a Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press dinner in New York. On Monday, Aug. 5, 2013, the Washington Post announced the paper has been sold to Amazon founder Jeff Bezos. One of key dates in the history of The Washington Post was when Graham died at age 84 in 2001. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File) ORG XMIT: WX124 [Via MerlinFTP Drop]
File Photo By J. Scott Applewhite, AP
Ben Bradlee, former executive editor of The Washington Post, delivered the Press-Enterprise Lecture at the University Theater at the University of Riverside Tuesday evening, Jan. 7, 1997, in Riverside,Calif. (AP Photo/The Press-Enterprise, Jimmy Dorantes) ORG XMIT: RIV101
Ben Bradlee, former executive editor of The Washington Post, delivered the Press-Enterprise Lecture at the University Theater at the University of Riverside Tuesday evening, Jan. 7, 1997, in Riverside,Calif. (AP Photo/The Press-Enterprise, Jimmy Dorantes) ORG XMIT: RIV101
File Photo By Jimmy Dorantes, The Press-Enterprise, Via AP
FILE - In this Wednesday, May 8, 1991, file photo, Katharine Graham, Chairman of the Washington Post poses with her son publisher Donald Graham, left, and Ben Bradlee, executive editor of the post, in her office in New York City. Donald Graham, whose grandfather bought the paper at a 1933 bankruptcy sale, announced to staff Monday, Aug. 5, 2013, that the paper had been sold to Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, closing the book on the paper's history as a family dynasty after seven straight years of declining revenue. (AP Photo/Dennis Cook, File) ORG XMIT: NYBZ131 [Via MerlinFTP Drop]
FILE - In this Wednesday, May 8, 1991, file photo, Katharine Graham, Chairman of the Washington Post poses with her son publisher Donald Graham, left, and Ben Bradlee, executive editor of the post, in her office in New York City. Donald Graham, whose grandfather bought the paper at a 1933 bankruptcy sale, announced to staff Monday, Aug. 5, 2013, that the paper had been sold to Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, closing the book on the paper's history as a family dynasty after seven straight years of declining revenue. (AP Photo/Dennis Cook, File) ORG XMIT: NYBZ131 [Via MerlinFTP Drop]
File Photo By Dennis Cook, AP
Katharine Graham, left, publisher of The Washington Post, and Ben Bradlee, executive editor of The Washington Post, leave U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., on June 21, 1971. The newspaper got the go-ahead to print Pentagon papers on Vietnam. Later however, the U.S. Court of Appeals extended for one more day a ban against publishing the secret documents. (AP Photo) ORG XMIT: APHS125 [Via MerlinFTP Drop]
Katharine Graham, left, publisher of The Washington Post, and Ben Bradlee, executive editor of The Washington Post, leave U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., on June 21, 1971. The newspaper got the go-ahead to print Pentagon papers on Vietnam. Later however, the U.S. Court of Appeals extended for one more day a ban against publishing the secret documents. (AP Photo) ORG XMIT: APHS125 [Via MerlinFTP Drop]
AP File Photo
Washington Post Vice President Benjamin C. Bradlee in his office at The Post in the Sept., 1995 photo. Bradlee, the retired executive editor of The Washington Post and one of the best-known journalists of his times, shares confiding moments in his memoirs, A Good Life, out next month. (AP Photo/Washington Post, Bill O'Leary) ORG XMIT: WX133
Washington Post Vice President Benjamin C. Bradlee in his office at The Post in the Sept., 1995 photo. Bradlee, the retired executive editor of The Washington Post and one of the best-known journalists of his times, shares confiding moments in his memoirs, A Good Life, out next month. (AP Photo/Washington Post, Bill O'Leary) ORG XMIT: WX133
File Photo By Bill O'Leary, The Washington Post, Via AP
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