Talk:Bernard Redmont

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The subject has submitted the following information via the OTRS system and has given me permission to republish the request on wiki. Please take a look and see what you can verify and use. otrs:732935 NonvocalScream (talk) 17:41, 27 December 2008 (UTC)

Concerns

1) You state that the subject speaks German and Latin . I have a
good working and speaking knowledge of French and Spanish.
2) You state my past connection with a so-called "Rockefeller
commission." Your reference should have noted, if used, that the
Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs was unofficially sometimes known
as "the Rockefeller agency," not commission.
3.) You state I was head of the "Foreign News Bureau" of the CIAA.
There is, to my knowledge, no such bureau, but I was head of the News  
Division of this agency.
4). You state that I was named as a Soviet spy. This is an outrageous
and defamatory charge. The so-called Verona papers are controversial as
to their meaning and authenticity, as your own pages note, in the
judgment of author and editor Victor Navasky I  request that you delete
all such assertions.
5) You note an interview with Mai Van Bo. The news report is
incorrect. The interview identified only a high North Vietnamese
diplomat in Paris, but not by name, under the ground rules.
6) The pages mention my journalistic coverage of the 1973  Yom Kippur
War, but fail to note the coverage of the 1967 Six Day War from Cairo.
7) You should delete your misleading sources and external
links, and list as sources Who's Who in America and Who's Who in
American Education, as well as the book, "Risks Worth Taking,"
,(University Press of America),. which I authored.

I herewith submit to you an authentic and accurate biography of
myself, which can be corroborated by the material in the two Who's Who
publications.




Bernard S. Redmont was born in New York City on
Nov. 8, 1918. He earned his B.A. at City College,  M.S. at Columbia
University Graduate School of Journalism and an honorary doctorate from
Florida International University. Now Dean Emeritus of Boston
University’s College of Communication, he has had three successful
careers: He was an award-winning journalist and foreign correspondent
who reported in 55 countries, including France, Russia and Argentina.
He was later a professor and dean. And finally, because he never
believed in retirement, he serves as a Lead Consultant for the
Executive Service Corps of New England, contributing his talents to
help non-profit organizations. He
is also a regular contributor of essay-reviews to Television Quarterly
magazine.
As an 18-year-old student, Redmont broke into the profession as a
reporter and book reviewer for the old Brooklyn
(NY) Daily Eagle. He went on to be  a reporter and telegraph editor on
the Herkimer (NY) Evening Telegram. Since then, he covered more events
in more places than most reporters dream of doing, working for news
agencies, newspapers, magazines, radio and television.
Based in Paris for 27 years, Moscow for three and Buenos Aires for
three, Redmont worked for such news organizations as U.S. News & World
Report, Agence France-Presse, Westinghouse Broadcasting Company and CBS
News.
Redmont covered the rise and fall of Charles de Gaulle,
the Vietnam peace talks, the dictatorship of Argentine General Juan
Peron and his wife Evita, the struggles of Andrei Sakharov for  human
rights, wars in the Pacific and the Middle East, and the
French-Algerian war.
During World War II, he was a U.S. Marine Combat Correspondent in the
Pacific, was wounded during the fighting in the Marshall Islands and
was awarded the Purple Heart. He also served on the staff of Nelson A.
Rockefeller, wartime Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs, directing
news broadcasts to Latin America.   He covered the 1967 Six Day War
from Egypt, and was interned with other American correspondents for
three days in Cairo. He covered the 1973 Yom Kippur War in Israel,
entering Syria with Israeli troops.
Redmont first covered Russia in 1939 in the Stalin era, later under
Khrushchev, then Brezhnev, and finally Gorbachev.
From 1982-89 he was Professor of Journalism and Dean at Boston
University.  As an academic, he lectured widely in the U.S., France,
Britain, Italy, Morocco, Russia and China.
His book, “Risks Worth Taking: The Odyssey of a Foreign Correspondent”
was published in 1992.
Among his honors and awards were Pulitzer Fellow, 1939-40;  winner of
the Overseas Press Club Award for best radio reporting from abroad, in
1969 and 1974; Columbia University Alumni Award “ for the advancement
of responsible journalism in all its forms,” 1986; Townsend Harris
Medal “for distinguished contributions in his chosen field of work and
to the welfare of his fellow men,” 1991;  Yankee Quill Award for
“distinguished contributions to journalism,” 1995; and Communications
Hall of Fame, 2001. While in France, he was President and
Secretary-Treasurer of the Anglo-American Press Association of Paris.
Redmont began consulting work for the International Executive Service  
Corps with assignments in liberated Albania, helping with programming
on Albanian Television in Tirana, and in Bulgaria for the first
independent radio station in Sofia. Later, he joined the domestic
Executive Service Corps, and has been working  with diverse
organizations such as the New England Aquarium, the Boston Public
School Principals Program and groups in the fields of human services,
drug abuse, music and the arts, community development, ecology and
health care.
He was awarded the Legion of Honor in 1973 by French President Georges
Pompidou.
Redmont resides with his wife Joan in Canton, MA. They have two
children, Dennis, journalist and media specialist in Rome, and Jane, a
professor of religion and women’s studies at Guilford College, and two
grandsons and two great grandchildren.

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That is about it. Best, NonvocalScream (talk) 17:41, 27 December 2008 (UTC)