Ben Bradlee Jr. was a reporter and editor with The Boston Globe for 25 years and is the author of five books.

He is currently working on a biography of Daniel Ellsberg, the father of whistleblowing in America, best known for leaking the Pentagon Papers in 1971, first to the New York Times, and then to other newspapers.

Bradlee spent ten years as a reporter and fifteen years as an editor at  The Boston Globe from 1979 to 2004. As deputy managing editor, he oversaw the  Globe’s Pulitzer Prize–winning coverage of the sexual abuse scandal in the Catholic Church from 2001 to 2002 and also supervised the production of a book on the subject, Betrayal, which Little, Brown published in June 2002. “Spotlight,’’ a major feature film on the Globe’s investigation, was released in the fall of 2015 and won two Academy Awards, one for best original screenplay and one for best picture. Bradlee was portrayed in the film by actor John Slattery.

As a reporter, he served on the Spotlight Team, at the State House bureau, and as the paper’s roving national correspondent from 1982 to 1986. He covered the 1988 presidential campaign of Michael Dukakis and also reported overseas for the Globe from Afghanistan, South Africa, the Middle East, Latin America, and Vietnam.

“Eliminating any media or wishing any media die is wrong. The business models of the mainstream newspapers will change, and have. The more voices we can get at this point, the better.”