Philip Bennett

Philip Bennett, ASU Future Security Fellow, is a journalist, documentary film producer and teacher. He has produced 20 films on American politics and national security for the PBS documentary series FRONTLINE, including America After 9/11 (2021), America’s Great Divide: From Obama to Trump (2020), and the Emmy award-winning The Choice 2016 and The Choice 2020. Bennett is a former managing editor of the Washington Post, and was the Post’s assistant managing editor for foreign news. He was a foreign correspondent for the Boston Globe in Latin America in the 1980s. Until 2020, he was the Patterson Professor of journalism and public policy at Duke University.

Bennett is writing a biography of the journalist Anthony Shadid, who died in Syria in 2012. The book, co-authored with Steve Fainaru for Celadon Books, explores how Shadid’s reporting on civilians during wars and upheaval in the Middle East after 2001 provided an alternative history of the region. Bennett, Fainaru, and Shadid were colleagues at the Washington Post.