Elie Abel
| Elie Abel | |
|---|---|
| Born |
October 17, 1920 Montreal, Quebec, Canada |
| Died | July 22, 2004 (aged 83) Rockville, Maryland, USA |
| Occupation | Journalist, Author, Academic |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Period | 1942–1990 |
| Subject | International Affairs |
Elie Abel (October 17, 1920 – July 22, 2004) was a Canadian-American journalist, author and academic. He lived in Palo Alto, California, United States.
Born in Montreal, Quebec, he received a Bachelor of Arts degree from McGill University in 1941 and a Master of Science in journalism degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 1942. He worked as a newspaperman in Windsor, Ontario for a year, then served in the Royal Canadian Air Force during World War II.
After the war, he returned to work as a reporter, writing successively for the Montreal Gazette, the North American Newspaper Alliance in Berlin, the Los Angeles Times and for the Overseas News Agency as its United Nations correspondent.
In 1949 he joined the staff of the New York Times, serving as a national and foreign correspondent for 11 years. After working in Detroit and Washington, he became the Times bureau chief in Belgrade, where he contributed to the paper's Pulitzer Prize winning coverage of the 1956 Hungarian revolt. In 1958, he went to New Delhi, India as bureau chief and in that capacity covered the Chinese takeover of Tibet. In 1959, he returned to the United States to take over the Washington bureau of the Detroit News as its chief, serving only two years before being recruited in 1961 as State Department correspondent for NBC News. Distinguishing himself as a diplomatic correspondent, he was ultimately promoted to chief of the network's London bureau.
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