Post Discusses Circulation, Diversity By Frank Ahrens Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, November 19, 2004; Page C03 Washington Post Executive Editor Leonard Downie Jr. met with hundreds of newsroom staffers yesterday to outline management's latest attempts to combat declining circulation. However, the more intense discussion at the meeting involved diversity at the newspaper, as several minority staff members lamented that a white man recently was chosen over a woman and a black man as the paper's new managing editor. Philip Bennett, assistant managing editor for foreign news, who is white, was selected by Downie to be the paper's No. 2...