I think we disagreed on something once for 20 seconds. She couldn’t go home at night without coming down and saying, “Whaddya got? Whaddya got?” That is a wonderful thing for reporters-to see the superboss down there. She was down two, three, four times a day. What made Katharine Graham a great publisher? That’s why the paper got the Pulitzer Prize for work performed by Woodward and Bernstein. You can’t write hundreds of stories over a prolonged period of time and have two people and one editor claim all the credit. The time to change that will be when they’re wrong.” And maybe some senior reporters wondered why the Bobbsey twins had the story and they didn’t. We reexamined the reporting day after day, and we felt more and more confident. In the whole series, except for one small fact error, nobody stood up and said, “That’s a lie, that’s a lie, that’s a lie”-which is remarkable. HBR: Why did you let Woodward and Bernstein, two cub reporters, run with the Watergate story?īradlee: They were right.
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