myron belkind

Phone: (202) 994-9553
Fax: (202) 994-5806
E-mail: myron.belkind@verizon.net
Office: MPA 425

Expertise
News agencies, news bureau management, foreign correspondents

Courses Taught
SMPA 111.84

Background
Journalist and senior news, business and administrative management executive with 40 years’ multicultural experiences internationally in a wide range of disciplines including serving as editor-in-charge of major news bureaus, ensuring well-written copy; recruiting and supervising staff; coordinating news coverage in regions worldwide; initiating visionary changes in editorial product through the development of new beats to broaden the scope of traditional news agency coverage. Chairman of the International Correspondents’ Committee at the National Press Club (2005), and a member of the World Affairs Council in Washington DC since 2004.

Belkind worked with the Associated Press from 1962 to 2004 as: Editor of the New York National Desk (1962); Pulitzer Traveling Fellow (1963); Editor of the New York International Desk (1964-1966); New Delhi correspondent (1966-1967); Kuala Lumpur correspondent (1967-1968); New Delhi Bureau Chief (1968-1977); London Assistant Bureau Chief (1977-1980); London Bureau Chief and Managing Director of AP Limited (1980-2001); Tokyo Bureau Chief (2001-2004).

Education
M.S., Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, 1962
B.S., Ohio State University, 1961