Leonard Downie, Jr.

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Leonard Downie, Jr. (born May 1, 1942) is the executive editor of The Washington Post. Before this, he served as managing editor for seven years.

Downie grew up in Cleveland, Ohio, though his father, Leonard Sr., had worked for the Federal Housing Administration in Washington in the late 1930s. He received his BA and MA degrees in journalism and political science from Ohio State University. He received an Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from Ohio State in June 1993.

In 1971 he was awarded a two-year Alicia Patterson Foundation fellowship, studying urban problems in the United States and Europe[1].

Downie is the author of four books:

• Justice Denied, (1971)
• Mortgage on America, (1974)
• The New Muckrakers, (1976) a study of investigative reporting; and
• The News About the News: American Journalism in Peril, (2002), with Robert G. Kaiser

[edit] External links

• Washington Post editor bio
• The Urban Order of the North a 1972 report by Downie on the urban problems in Vällingby, Sweden and Nordweststadt, Frankfurt, Germany.