Robert Conley (reporter)

Robert Conley (May 8, 1928 – November 16, 2013) was an American newspaper, television and radio reporter.

Conley was a foreign correspondent for The New York Times in the 1950s and 1960s,bureau chief for NBC News, Africa, as well as foreign correspondent for NBC News' The Huntley-Brinkley Report throughout the 1960s,editor for and contributor to National Geographic magazine in late 1960s to early 1970s, and first host of the groundbreaking and popular Peabody Award winning National Public Radio (NPR) radio news and cultural program All Things Considered in the 1970s.

Before going overseas for The New York Times, Conley was first based in New York City, reporting on national events, often for the front page. As major news events in Africa began to develop throughout the 1960s, The New York Times made Conley its foreign correspondent for Africa, based in Nairobi, Kenya.

In the mid 1960s, NBC News asked Conley on as bureau chief of its Africa bureau. From its base in Nairobi, Kenya, Conley travelled across the African continent covering events and filing stories for NBC News and its affiliated programs such as The Huntley-Brinkley Report. Conley's news beat took him from Angola to Zanzibar, a time when overseas news bureaus for the United States were not so ubiquitous as in later times.

National Public Radio (NPR) was incorporated on February 26, 1970, following the passage of the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967 (47 U.S.C. § 396) that established the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and also led to the creation of the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS).

...
Wikipedia