Ben Bradlee, the legendary Washington Post editor who died at age 93 yesterday, is the focus of the front page of the paper he once led today.

From an obituary 15 years in the making written by former managing editor Robert Kaiser, to a colorful remembrance by Style writer Martha Sherrill, the Post has compiled a collection of tributes to a man who’s impact on the paper — and the journalism world — cannot be understated. The tributes are filled with wonderful anecdotes like this one from Sherrill:

Before I knew him better, I heard the Bradlee stories and legends that swirled in the air around him. Some of them inspired fearlessness. Others just inspired fear. As a young reporter, he had climbed onto a ledge 100 feet above Pennsylvania Avenue to watch D.C. police trying to persuade a suicidal man not to jump. As executive editor, he had walked by a messy desk of a Style critic he wasn’t so crazy about and, with one long sweep of his arm, cleared it to the ground. I heard how he’d fired reporters for making up quotes, lying on their résumés and fabricating expense reports. “If someone would lie about where they ate lunch,” he once said, “I think they’d lie about anything.”

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Via Washington Post.