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
Duke Box: 90241
Email Address: phil.bennett@duke.edu

Areas of Expertise

  • Media and Communications, Public Affairs Journalism

Education:
B.A., Harvard University, 1981

Teaching (Spring 2012):

  • Pubpol 143s.01, Narrative journalism & the web Synopsis
    Sanford 102, Tu 04:25 PM-06:55 PM
  • Pubpol 195s.12, Journalism of economic crisis Synopsis
    Sanford 150, M 04:25 PM-06:55 PM

Recent Publications

  1. P.F. Bennett. ""Retrato de un pais en crisis" (Portrait of a Country in Crisis)." El Pais newspaper (June 13, 2010). [Tes]  [abs]
  2. P.F. Bennett. "Covering Islam." Faith, Politics and Press in Our Perilous Times. Ed. Stephen Burgard Kendall Hunt, 2010

Bio/Profile

Philip Bennett is the Eugene C. Patterson Professor of the Practice of Journalism and Public Policy at Duke University. He is also the managing editor of FRONTLINE, the public affairs television series broadcast on PBS.

Between 2005-2009 Bennett 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. He was the foreign editor of The Post for six years in which the paper's international staff won many awards, including two Pulitzer prizes. As The Post’s managing editor, the paper’s second-ranking editor, Bennett helped supervise 800 journalists. The Post won ten Pulitzer Prizes during his tenure.

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 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 2009. He teaches about journalism ethics and national security secrecy, the news media and Islam and narrative journalism in the digital age. He was named managing editor of FRONTLINE in April 2011.


Philip F Bennett