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Ben Bradlee, Jr. (born 1948) is an American journalist and writer. He was a reporter and editor at ''The Boston Globe'' for 25 years, including a period when he supervised the Pulitzer Prize-winning investigation into sexual abuse by priests in the Boston archdiocese, and is the author of a comprehensive biography of Ted Williams. ==Biography== Bradlee was born August 7, 1948 in Manchester, New Hampshire, during the early newspaper career of his father, future ''Washington Post'' editor Ben Bradlee. His mother was Bradlee Sr.'s first wife, Jean Saltonstall; his parents divorced when he was seven. After spending five years in Paris, from the ages of two to seven while his father worked for ''Newsweek'', Bradlee grew up in Cambridge, Massachusetts. As a teenager, he got a taste of journalism as a copy boy at the ''Boston Globe''. He graduated from Colby College and then served in the Peace Corps in Afghanistan from 1970-1972. Bradlee worked for several years at the Riverside ''Press-Enterprise'' in California but then spent most of his career at the ''Boston Globe'', where he was successively State House reporter, investigative reporter, national correspondent, political editor, and metropolitan editor. In 1993, he was promoted to be Assistant Managing Editor responsible for investigations and projects. In that role, he edited the ''Globe's'' reporting that uncovered the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston's repeated cover-ups of sexual abuse of children by priests, a painstaking investigation that began in 2001 and continued for two years. The paper's investigation was awarded the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 url=http://www.pulitzer.org/citation/2003-Public-Service )〕 In the 2015 film ''Spotlight'', which dramatizes that investigation, Bradlee is portrayed by John Slattery. He left the ''Globe'' in 2004 to work on a biography of Boston Red Sox icon Ted Williams, which ultimately took ten years of in-depth research to finish. ''The Kid: The Immortal Life of Ted Williams'' was released in 2013. It received favorable reviews, highlighting the author's research into Williams' concealed Mexican–American identity and troubled family relationships (which culminated in the disputed cryonic preservation of Williams' head and torso). The book, which was a New York Times best-seller, has been optioned for a TV miniseries. Bradlee's first book ''The Ambush Murders'', an account of the brutal killings of two California policemen, was the basis for a TV movie which aired on CBS in 1982. A later book on Oliver North and the Iran–Contra affair was made into a miniseries by CBS in 1989. Bradlee's marriage to broadcast journalist Martha Raddatz ended in divorce. His subsequent 25-year marriage to Janice Saragoni ended in 2015. He has three children. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ben Bradlee Jr.」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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