New Inky editor: 'Painful transition'

Thanking Philadelphia Inquirer editor Amanda Bennett for guiding the paper "through all kinds of b.s. that you guys had to put up with" during months of downsizing and sale, Publisher Brian Tierney welcomed her successor yesterday: Bill Marimow, Pulitzer-Prize-winning former Inky reporter and city editor.

"We have been through one helluva ride together, guys!" exclaimed Bennett, whom Tierney said "gave me the best advice every step of the way" during his successful bid to buy the Inquirer and Daily News from the McClatchy Company after the demise of former owner Knight Ridder Inc. Both Bennett, who will leave at year's end to become a fellow at Columbia University's journalism school, and the incoming Marimow received sustained applause from hundreds of Inquirer newsroom staffers. But Marimow, 59, said that "economic reality" is very different today from what it was when he left the Inquirer 13 years ago for editorships at the ...