Ben Bradlee: Everything a Great Editor Should Be
The legendary Washington Post chief, who died on Tuesday at 93, enlivened the newspaper and the nation's capital alike.
Peter Osnos
Peter Osnos is the founder and editor at large of PublicAffairs books and a media fellow at the Century Foundation.
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