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Redmont was Bureau Chief for CBS News and reported on both radio and television from Moscow (1976–1979) and Paris (1980–1981). He received the Columbia University Alumni Award "for the advancement of responsible journalism in all its forms" in 1986 and the City College of New York Townsend Harris Medal “for distinguished contributions in his chosen field of work and to the welfare of his fellow men” in 1991. |
Redmont was Bureau Chief for CBS News and reported on both radio and television from Moscow (1976–1979) and Paris (1980–1981). He received the Columbia University Alumni Award "for the advancement of responsible journalism in all its forms" in 1986 and the City College of New York Townsend Harris Medal “for distinguished contributions in his chosen field of work and to the welfare of his fellow men” in 1991. |
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Redmont was Professor of Journalism and later Dean of the College of Communication at Boston University in the 1980s |
Redmont was Professor of Journalism and later Dean of the College of Communication at Boston University in the 1980s. He is now Dean Emeritus of the College of Communication. He holds an honorary degree (Doctor of Humane Letters) from Florida International University. During his academic career, he lectured widely in the U.S., France, Britain, Italy, Morocco, Russia, and China. |
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Redmont is the author of ''Risks Worth Taking: The Odyssey of a Foreign Correspondent''(University Press of America, 1992). He contributes regularly to ''Television Quarterly''. |
Redmont is the author of ''Risks Worth Taking: The Odyssey of a Foreign Correspondent''(University Press of America, 1992). He contributes regularly to ''Television Quarterly''. |
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Bernard Sidney Redmont received an M.S. from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 1939 and was awarded the school’s highest honor, the Pulitzer Traveling Fellowship. He began his work in the profession of journalism at the old Brooklyn (NY) Daily Eagle at the age of 18. Redmont was a reporter and telegraph editor on the Herkimer (NY) Evening Telegram in 1940 and 1941.
Redmont is a decorated (Purple Heart) veteran of World War II, during which he served as a Combat Correspondent in the U.S Marine Corps in the Marshall Islands. During and immediately after World War II, he served as head of the News Division of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs (CIAA), sometimes known as "the Rockefeller Agency."
Redmont was Bureau Chief for World Report (later U.S. News & World Report) in Buenos Aires in the late 1940s, during the dictatorship of Juan Peron and his wife Evita, and Paris in the early 1950s. Continuing his reporting from Paris, he was head of the English desk of the Agence France-Press for many years. In 1961, Redmont served as President of the Anglo-American Press Association.
Redmont's broadcasting career began with the Canadian Broadcasting Company (CBC) and continued with Westinghouse Broadcasting Corporation (Group W). During his time as Paris correspondent for Group W, he was granted an interview by a leading North Vietnamese diplomat in Paris, breaking the story which led to the Paris peace negotiations. He received the 1973 Overseas Press Club of America (OPC) Award for Best Radio Reporting from Abroad for this story. He had received a previous award from the OPC in 1968 for his coverage of the Six Day War in 1967. Redmont also covered the Prague Spring and Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, the rise and fall of Charles De Gaulle, the Yom Kippur War, the struggles of Andrei Sakharov for human rights, and other major stories in Europe, the Middle East, Latin America, and the former USSR.
Redmont was Bureau Chief for CBS News and reported on both radio and television from Moscow (1976–1979) and Paris (1980–1981). He received the Columbia University Alumni Award "for the advancement of responsible journalism in all its forms" in 1986 and the City College of New York Townsend Harris Medal “for distinguished contributions in his chosen field of work and to the welfare of his fellow men” in 1991.
Redmont was Professor of Journalism and later Dean of the College of Communication at Boston University in the 1980s. He is now Dean Emeritus of the College of Communication. He holds an honorary degree (Doctor of Humane Letters) from Florida International University. During his academic career, he lectured widely in the U.S., France, Britain, Italy, Morocco, Russia, and China.
Redmont is the author of Risks Worth Taking: The Odyssey of a Foreign Correspondent(University Press of America, 1992). He contributes regularly to Television Quarterly.
Redmont has a reading and speaking knowledge of French and Spanish. He was awarded the Legion of Honor in 1973 by French President Georges Pompidou.
Sources
Who's Who in America, 2009 and previous editions
Who's Who in American Education, 2009 and previous editions
American Society of the French Legion of Honor Nedwsletter Vol. 11 #2(2004), p. 2.
Biographies issued by CBS News 1976-81 and by Group W Westinghouse Broadcasting 1960-1976.
News release, Boston University Office of Public Relations, 1982.
Bernard S. Redmont, Risks Worth Taking: The Odyssey of a Foreign Correspondent (University Press of America, 1992)