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Article: Bennett to Step Down as Managing Editor of Post
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- The Washington Post
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- January 6, 2009
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Philip Bennett, The Washington Post's managing editor, said
yesterday that he will step down this week after four years as the
paper's second-ranking news executive.
Bennett, 49, said that he had "a feeling that I'd been running
for a long time as fast as I could go," and that the appointment of
Marcus W. Brauchli as the paper's executive editor last summer "made
me think this was a good time to do something new."
Bennett was a candidate to be executive editor after Leonard
Downie Jr. announced that he was leaving last spring after 17 years
in the job. But in July, Post Publisher Katharine Weymouth chose
Brauchli, less than three months after Rupert Murdoch had forced him
out as editor of ...