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Washington Post

CBS News

"Ed Bradley had cool like a vault has money," says Wil Haygood. The late "60 Minutes" correspondent had a style that everyone tried to emulate, adds NYU prof Deborah Willis. She recently noticed how people watched Bradley at a lecture. "There was the cool pose that wasn't posing. He personified this look. It was a constructed self, constructed from a history of men who knew what it meant to be masculine and cool."
> Wallace, other colleagues didn't know about Bradley's leukemia (NYT)
> Schieffer: "He could preach a better sermon than a Baptist preacher" (PI)
> Safer says Bradley was "a gold standard of television journalism" (LAT)
> As an interviewer, he had the air of an interested and close listener (WP)
> He could go from coddle to crush with just an inflection in his voice (CT)
> "There are tears in newsrooms all over America," says Emily Rooney (BG)
> Wallace talks about Bradley on "All Things Considered" (audio) (NPR)