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Sol Witner Sanders (born 1926 - February 17, 2022 [1] ) was an American journalist specializing in Asia with more than 25 years in the region. He was a former correspondent for Business Week , U.S. News & World Report and United Press International. He traveled extensively in Mexico during the 1950s and was a correspondent in Vietnam in the 1960s. In 1967-1968, Sanders held The Edward R. Murrow Press Fellowship at the Council on Foreign Relations. [2] Before his death, He wrote weekly columns for World Tribune.com and East-Asia-Intel.com. [3] He lived recently in New York City and in Hawaii, where he was a scholar at the East–West Center. [4]

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Sanders was born in Atlanta and attended public schools in North Carolina and the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. He left college to enlist in the American Foreign Service and served as an ambulance driver with the British Central Mediterranean Forces before transferring to the India-Burma theatre. [5] He ultimately earned a bachelor's degree in Journalism from the University of Missouri, [6] attended the Far East Institute at Columbia University and the Sorbornne in Parils. He spoke English, French and Spanish and some German and Japanese. [7]

He was a Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations; held numerous part-time consultancies: The Ford Foundation, The William H. Donner Foundation; senior adviser, Info Plus, Inc., a Tokyo-based Japanese consulting firm; visiting professor, The Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy, Tufts University, adjunct professor of journalism, Hofstra University, Consultant, The East–West Center, Honolulu; adjunct professor of journalism, Florida Atlantic University; contract research/writing, Booz Allen Hamilton, for Office of Net Assessment, Dept of Defense, The Pentagon.

He was Deputy Foreign Editor for Business Week (1953). He was Asian Editor for McGraw-Hill World News (1957–1961) and Editor for U.S. News & World Report (1961–1970) reporting on the Vietnam War. He wrote articles for The Research Institute of America Report (1973–1977), Business Week magazine (1977–1986) and the Washington Times (1987–present) and was a founding member of Vietnam Veterans for Factual History.

He maintained a website where he continued to post articles about world affairs until his retirement in 2019.

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References

  1. ↑ "Sol W. Sanders, 96: Veteran correspondent specialized in Asia". 20 February 2022.
  2. ↑ "Edward R. Murrow Press Fellowship".
  3. ↑ World Tribune Webpage with Sol Sanders columns.
  4. ↑ Mini-biography on Slate.com.
  5. ↑ "Sol W. Sanders (CM 97, IB 59-T)". AFS in Your Country. American Foreign Service. Retrieved 13 August 2022.
  6. ↑ "Sol Sanders, BJ '46". Missouri School of Journalism. University of Missouri. Retrieved 13 August 2022.
  7. ↑ "Sol W. Sanders, 96: Veteran correspondent specialized in Asia". Free Press International News Service. 21 February /2022. Retrieved 13 August 2022.{{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
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