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Event name

Author Talk with Len Downie on All About the Story

When

Wed 04 / 14 / 2021
5:00 PM to 6:00 PM

Where

Via Zoom

Who can attend

Open to all

Limited Capacity: 30 spots available

Price

FREE

We are so pleased to have our neighbor Len Downie join us and talk about his time at the Washington Post and his book All About the Story.

Leonard Downie Jr.is the former executive editor and vice president of The Washington Post. During his 44 years in the Post newsroom, he was also an investigative reporter, editor on the local and national news staffs, London correspondent, and, from 1984 to 1991, managing editor under then-executive editor Ben Bradlee. As deputy metro editor from 1972 to 1974, Downie helped supervise the Post’s Watergate coverage. He also oversaw the newspaper’s coverage of every national election from 1984 through 2008. During his 17 years as executive editor, The Washington Post won 25 Pulitzer prizes.