Overheard with Evan Smith

Len Downie

Season 2 Episode 10 | 26m 46s  | Video has closed captioning.

Len Downie spent 44 years as a reporter and editor at The Washington Post, retiring in 2008 as executive editor — the top job at the paper. During his 17 years in charge, the Post won 25 Pulitzer Prizes. Today he's the Weil Family Professor of Journalism at Arizona State University's Walter Cronkite School.