by Allan Lengel
Peter Bhatia Peter Bhatia has been named the 2020 Benjamin C. Bradlee Editor of the Year Award from the National Press Foundation in Washington, D.C. Bhatia led the Detroit Free Press in superb coverage of the tumultuous events of 2020 and has been a longstanding and committed advocate for diversity, both in the newsroom and in the practice of community journalism, a National Press Foundation announcement says. The award is named after the late Ben Bradlee, the legendary editor of the Washington Post, who oversaw the paper s Watergate coverage that led to the resignation of President Richard M. Nixon. Bradlee died in 2014 at age 93.