Graham’s first order of business was to ask Ben Bradlee, who was then the bureau chief of Newsweek in Washington, to lunch. Unlike herself, Bradlee knew how to run a newspaper, and he had a vision for the Washington Post. From their conversations, she hired him as Managing Editor — creating the team that would put the Post on the map and change journalism forever. Under his leadership, he “forged a staff of reporters and editors and put out a breezy, gutsy paper that investigated government with gusto,”the New York Times.