Phil Bennett

By Joe Strupp
Editor and Publisher
NEW YORK — Washington Post Managing Editor Phil Bennett, who is leaving his job of four years for a non-newsroom position at the paper, said he was not forced out and wanted to do something different.
“That would be wrong,” Bennett, 49, said about any speculation he was pushed out of his job. “It was my decision. The timing was determined as much by my own personal situation as anything, wanting to do something else and having another act.”
Bennett, a former foreign editor at the paper, announced his pending departure in a memo to staff today. The move comes just weeks after Web Editor Jim Brady revealed plans to depart the paper. With both moves occurring just months after Executive Editor Marcus Brauchli’s appointment in September, speculation has already started that the departures are related.
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