Philip F Bennett, Eugene C. Patterson Professor of the Practice of Journalism and Public Policy  

Office Location: 139 Sanford Building
Office Phone: (919) 613-7342
Email Address: phil.bennett@duke.edu

Areas of Expertise

    Education:
    B.A., Harvard University, 1981

    Teaching (Fall 2009):

    • Pubpol 125.01, News/moral battleground Synopsis
      Rubenstein 153, M 04:25 PM-06:55 PM

    Bio/Profile

    Philip Bennett is the Eugene C. Patterson Professor of the Practice of Journalism and Public Policy at Duke University. Between 2005-2009 he was the managing editor of The Washington Post, and has been an editor of international and national security coverage, a local news reporter and a foreign correspondent.

    Bennett’s journalism career started in 1982 at The Lima Times in Peru, where he became the paper’s editor. He was hired as a metropolitan reporter by The Boston Globe in 1984 and was named the newspaper’s Latin American correspondent, based in Mexico City. He covered wars in Nicaragua, El Salvador and Guatemala, the U.S. invasion of Panama, and wrote about Mexico, Cuba and Brazil. Bennett was later the Globe’s foreign editor.

    Bennett joined The Post as a deputy national editor for coverage of national security, defense and foreign policy. In 1999, he was appointed assistant managing editor for foreign news, overseeing The Post’s 20 international bureaus. Under his direction, The Post’s international staff won many awards, including two Pulitzer prizes. As The Post’s managing editor, the paper’s second-ranking editor, Bennett supervised 800 journalists. The Post won ten Pulitzer Prizes during his tenure, including six in 2008, the most in the paper’s history.

    Since leaving the Post newsroom, Bennett has worked on new media projects for The Washington Post Co. and has lectured on the future of journalism. He joined the Duke University faculty in July 2009. He is teaching about journalism ethics and national security secrecy, the news media and Islam, and subjects relating to the future of journalism.

    Bennett graduated from Harvard College in 1981 with a BA in history.

    Philip F Bennett