John Vinocur
John Vinocur (born 1940 in New York City ) is an American journalist . He is the senior correspondent of the former International Herald Tribune (now: International New York Times), of which he was Executive Editor and Vice President from 1986 to 1996.
Vinocur graduated from Oberlin College in Ohio . After college, he went to Paris in 1961, where he also played one season in a French basketball team and at the same time started working as a freelance journalist in the Paris office of the Associated Press (AP) news agency . From 1968 he was the foreign correspondent for AP in Paris, where he reported, among other things, from trouble spots and wars in Biafra , Israel and Cambodia .
Vinocur was 1977-1982 correspondent of the New York Times for Germany in Bonn and entered this time, several times in the Sunday International Frühschoppen of Werner Höfer on. He was then correspondent and office manager for the New York Times in Paris until 1985. After retiring from IHT in 1996, he has published articles and essays in Foreign Affairs and the New York Times Magazine, among others .
Prizes and awards
- 1986 Polk Award
Web links
- Text about Vinocur in the New York Times
- Nina Grunenberg: God very close ... in Paris and as editor-in-chief of the International Herald Tribune, article in ZEIT, July 31, 1987 about Vinocur
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| SURNAME | Vinocur, John |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American journalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1940 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | New York City |