# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ben-bagdikian
# Generated: 2026-08-13T22:14:22.118Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ben-bagdikian"
name: "Ben Bagdikian"
slug: "ben-bagdikian"
description: "Ben-hur Haig Bagdikian was an American journalist, news media critic and commentator, and university professor. An Armenian genocide survivor, he moved to the United States as an infant and began a journalism career after serving in World War II. He worked as a local reporter, investigative journalist and foreign correspondent for The Providence Journal. During his time there, Bagdikian won a Peabody Award and a Pulitzer Prize. In 1971, he received parts of the Pentagon Papers from Daniel Ellsberg and successfully persuaded The Washington Post to publish them despite objections and threats from the Richard Nixon administration. He later taught at the University of California, Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism and served as its dean from 1985 to 1988."
tagline: "American journalist and academic (1920–2016)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/9f/Ben_Bagdikian.png"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1920-01-26"
deathDate: "2016-03-11"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             3.95778364116095
  historical:           10.59406533333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1769118/"
    handle:    "nm1769118"
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    title: "Ben Bagdikian"
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    title: "Багдикян, Бен"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump