Phil Bennett

In a Q&A on The Washington Post's Web site today, political reporter Anne Kornblut addresses the "lie" that Clinton campaign spokesman Phil Singer was spreading about her saying that she wound up at The Washington Post because she was fired by The New York Times. We all learned about this tiny bit of gossip from the Joshua Green's story in the September issue of The Atlantic that featured all those Hillary '08 internal emails, including one from Post managing editor Phil Bennett complaining that Mr. Singer was making this one up.

Ms. Kornblut says, "It was a very unfortunate incident involving a lie one of the press folks told to undermine a story I had written. I didn't get an apology from the original source, but the campaign manager, Maggie Williams, offered a very kind one. And my bosses here at The Post were beyond wonderful in backing me up."  read more »

At 10 a.m. on July 29, three top editors of The Washington Post arrived at the Times Tower on Eighth Avenue.

The Post, which is currently combining its digital and newspaper newsrooms, had come to one of its great rival news organizations for something unimaginable just a few years ago: advice.

"We're visiting a couple places to talk about the integration of our online and print news operations," said Phil Bennett, the managing editor of The Post, who joined Jim Brady and Liz Spayd, top online editors at washingtonpost.com. "The Times went through this three years ago and they were generous enough to open up that process and tell us what they discovered.  read more »

Charles Kaiser at Radar is reporting that ex-Journal editor Marcus Brauchli and current WaPo managing editor Phil Bennett are the top two finalists to repace Len Downie as executive editor of the Washington Post. Jon Meacham, editor of Newsweek who was on a short-list of candidates, said that he took himself out of the running a few weeks ago. Jonathan Landman, deputy managing editor of the Times, apparently is no longer in a field with the top candidates.