Philip Bennett

Philip Bennett is the Eugene C. Patterson Professor of the Practice of Public Policy Studies and Journalism at Duke University. He served as the managing editor of The Washington Post from 2005 to 2009, overseeing a staff of 800 journalists and contributing to the paper's collection of ten Pulitzer Prizes during his tenure. Previously, he was the foreign editor for six years, during which the international reporting team won multiple awards, including two Pulitzer Prizes. Bennett's journalism career began in 1982 at The Lima Times in Peru before moving to The Boston Globe, where he covered significant events in Latin America, including wars in Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Guatemala. He later became the Globe’s foreign editor. Between 2011 and 2013, while on the Duke faculty, he was also the managing editor of FRONTLINE, a public affairs television series on PBS. At Duke, Bennett teaches courses on journalism related to national security secrecy, media coverage of Islam, narrative journalism, and war reporting. He is also the director of the Rutherfurd Living History Program and has lectured on the future of journalism and new media projects.