Article: Post Managing Editor Robert G. Kaiser to Step Down

Robert G. Kaiser, managing editor of The Washington Post since 1991, announced yesterday that he will leave the position on June 30 to return to writing.

No one was named to follow Kaiser as the second-ranking newsroom official, but Executive Editor Leonard Downie Jr. said he wanted "to select Bob's successor soon."

In a statement read to the newspaper's assembled staff, Kaiser, 54, said returning to writing -- a prospect he called exciting -- fulfills an agreement he had made when he took the managing editor's job. In a pact known to a small number of people at the time,

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