David S. Broder, Pulitzer Prize winner, Washington Post political reporter and column writer died Wennesday in Arlington of complication from diabetes at 81, the Post reported. He covered presidents and Congress elections for decades.
Broder, joined the Washington Post in 1966 as a political reporter, writing a twice- weekly column in the newspaper. Before his over four-decade long career at the Post, the Illinois native worked as a political reporter for Congressional Quarterly, The Washington Star and The New York Times.
The Post’s publisher, Katharine Weymouth, and its editors put out a statement shortly after his death:
“His arrival in 1966, engineered by Ben Bradlee early in Ben’s tenure as executive editor, in many ways marked the beginning of the Post’s evolution into a great newspaper,” the statement said. “In the decades since, David’s integrity, fairness, wisdom and curiosity served as a model for us all. But in the newsroom, just as on his dogged reporting trips around the country, David always behaved as though he had more to learn than to teach.”
On his death, President Barack Obama issued a statement from the White House:
Like so many here in Washington and across the country, Michelle and I were deeply saddened to hear about the passing of a true giant of journalism, David Broder. David filed his first story from our nation’s capital before starting as a junior political writer on the 1960 presidential election. In the decades that followed, he built a well-deserved reputation as the most respected and incisive political commentator of his generation – winning a Pulitzer Prize for his coverage of Watergate and earning the affectionate title of Dean of the Washington press corps. Through all his success, David remained an eminently kind and gracious person, and someone we will dearly miss. Our thoughts and prayers are with his family and friends in this difficult time.
Broder, joined the Washington Post in 1966 as a political reporter, writing a twice- weekly column in the newspaper. Before his over four-decade long career at the Post, the Illinois native worked as a political reporter for Congressional Quarterly, The Washington Star and The New York Times.The Post’s publisher, Katharine Weymouth, and its editors put out a statement shortly after his death:
“His arrival in 1966, engineered by Ben Bradlee early in Ben’s tenure as executive editor, in many ways marked the beginning of the Post’s evolution into a great newspaper,” the statement said. “In the decades since, David’s integrity, fairness, wisdom and curiosity served as a model for us all. But in the newsroom, just as on his dogged reporting trips around the country, David always behaved as though he had more to learn than to teach.”
On his death, President Barack Obama issued a statement from the White House:
Like so many here in Washington and across the country, Michelle and I were deeply saddened to hear about the passing of a true giant of journalism, David Broder. David filed his first story from our nation’s capital before starting as a junior political writer on the 1960 presidential election. In the decades that followed, he built a well-deserved reputation as the most respected and incisive political commentator of his generation – winning a Pulitzer Prize for his coverage of Watergate and earning the affectionate title of Dean of the Washington press corps. Through all his success, David remained an eminently kind and gracious person, and someone we will dearly miss. Our thoughts and prayers are with his family and friends in this difficult time.
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