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Thursday, January 08, 2004
Ben Bradlee departs
Globe. Veteran Boston Globe staff member Ben
Bradlee Jr. - on leave to write a book about Ted Williams - has
decided not to return. Globe editor Marty Baron's
memo
to the staff has been posted on Romenesko. A copy was sent to Media
Log as well. It reads:
To the staff:
I am sorry to report that we are
saying farewell to a colleague whose 25 years of dedicated service
to The Boston Globe has brought some of its finest journalistic
achievements.
Ben Bradlee Jr. has served this
paper in a wide range of capacities - as investigative reporter,
state government reporter, national correspondent, foreign
correspondent, the editor overseeing State House and City Hall
bureaus, the Assistant Managing Editor for local news, and Deputy
Managing Editor for Projects and Investigations.
To each of those jobs, he
brought passion, fierce competitiveness, and a drive to get at the
truth. Ben has held us to high standards and high ambitions, and
he has become a dear friend to so many here.
Over the past year and a half,
Ben has been on a leave of absence while researching and writing a
book on Ted Williams. He will continue to work on that book, his
fourth. A few weeks ago, Ben said he had concluded that now would
be a good time to move on to another phase of his life, and in
that I know he has our best wishes.
He also has our thanks for his
many contributions to the Globe's success. I am particularly
grateful for his invaluable leadership on the investigation of the
priest sex-abuse scandal, where he always pressed forward and
never settled for less than the full story. The book that emerged
from that investigation, "Betrayal: The Crisis in the Catholic
Church," would never have been published without Ben, who
conceived the project, oversaw the reporting, and personally
edited it.
Ben won't be far away, and I'm
sure he'll be available for good advice, journalistic inspiration,
or maybe just a drink among friends.
Marty
Bradlee, 55, had been at the
Globe for 25 years. Among his books is Guts and Glory: The
Rise and Fall of Oliver North, published in 1988, in the midst of
the Iran-contra scandal.
And yes, his father is the retired
executive editor of the Washington Post, the legendary
Benjamin Crowninshield Bradlee.
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