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WASHINGTON — Leonard Downie Jr. said Monday he is retiring as executive editor of The Washington Post after 17 years in that role, ending a storied newsroom career and making way for a new editor to lead the newspaper’s transition into the digital age.
Downie, who is 66, joined the Post as a summer intern in 1964 and worked up the ranks as an investigative reporter, a metro reporter and editor, London correspondent and national editor.
Downie said in an interview that he would stay on as a vice president at large at The Washington Post Co., the same title held by his predecessor, Ben Bradlee.
