Downie Wins Bradlee Editor of the Year Award

The National Press Foundation announced today that it will present the Benjamin C. Bradlee Award for Editor of the Year to Leonard Downie, Jr., former executive editor of The Washington Post.

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    The award will be presented at NPF’s 26th annual awards dinner, February 10, 2009, at the Hilton Washington Hotel.

    The judges noted that during Mr. Downie’s 17-year leadership of the Post’s newsroom, its staff won 25 Pulitzer prizes, including three Pulitzer Gold Medals for Public Service.

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