By: E&P Staff Benjamin Bradlee, who as executive editor of The Washington Post for more than two decades and during whose watch the paper won 18 Pulitzer Prizes and broke the Watergate scandal, has been awarded the Illinois Prize for Lifetime Achievement in Journalism.
Bradlee received the prize Friday at the Newseum in Washington, D.C. He is the second person bestowed this honor, which salutes individuals whose public affairs reporting exemplify the best in American journalism. The recipient is selected by the University of Illinois journalism faculty.
?Ben Bradlee is the perfect winner of our lifetime achievement award,? Walt Harrington, head of the journalism department at Illinois, said in a statement. ?Ben embodies the values of scrupulously accurate, fiercely independent, compelling journalism. The Illinois Prize is meant to remind aspiring young journalists and the public that fine reporting, writing and editing is not a thing of the past.?
Bradlee, who turned 87 in August, continues in the position of vice president-at-large at the Post. Since his retirement, he also has taught journalism courses at Georgetown University.
The longtime Washington newsman follows ?60 Minutes? newsman Mike Wallace, who received the inaugural award last year.
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