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Article: Post Managing Editor Robert G. Kaiser to Step Down
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- January 7, 1998
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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,
Kaiser said, he and Downie decided that he would do the job for five
years and "then I would be allowed to ...