NATION
United Press International today will name four new managing editors to run its news operation and announced that its newly appointed president will assume the title of editor.
Barry Sussman, 52, who founded the Washington Post-ABC News Poll and was the editor in charge of the Washington Post’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Watergate coverage, will become managing editor for national news. Ben Cason, 44, assistant managing editor for news projects at the Post, will handle general news. Kim Willenson, 49, congressional correspondent for Newsweek, will handle international news. Bill Ferguson, 60, currently acting managing editor at UPI, will handle broadcasting.
The four will report to Milton Benjamin, a management consultant and former Washington Post reporter, who is assuming the title of editor. Benjamin said he expects one of the four managing editors named will eventually be named editor of UPI “for the 1990s.” Benjamin also said UPI will name a new business-side executive later this week.
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