Hasta La Creative!

Benjamin C. Bradlee, the editor who transformed the Washington Post into a leading U.S. newspaper with the pursuit of the Watergate break-in story, which culminated in the resignation of President Richard Nixon in 1974, has died. He was 93.

He died Tuesday at his home in Washington, the Post reported. He was receiving hospice care at home and had Alzheimer’s disease, his wife, longtime Washington Post writer and contributor Sally Quinn, said in a September 2014 C-Span interview.

After stepping down as executive editor in 1991, Mr. Bradlee continued to go to work almost daily as the Post’s vice-president-at-large. His exuberance, blunt speech and passion for news kept him in the public eye into his 80s.

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