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Ronald Yates

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Covers:  Politics, international affairs, social issues, higher education, Asia, Latin America, war, and conflict
Doesn't Cover: Music, entertainment, theater
I am the author of the multi-award-winning Finding Billy Battles trilogy, former foreign correspondent, Prof. & Dean Emeritus of journalism at the U of Illinois

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Ronald E. Yates is a multi-award-winning author of historical fiction and action/adventure novels, including the popular and highly-acclaimed Finding Billy Battles trilogy. His extraordinarily accurate books have captivated fans around the world who applaud his ability to blend fact and fiction. Ron is a former foreign correspondent for the Chicago Tribune and Professor Emeritus of Journalism at the University of Illinois where he was also the Dean of the College of Media.

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The "dumbing down" of college means mediocre education without rigor

The "dumbing down" of college means mediocre education without rigor

The other day a front-page story in the New York Times grabbed my attention like few others. The headline rea…

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Flashman-Victorian England's foremost rotter would have made a great foreign correspondent

Flashman-Victorian England's foremost rotter would have made a great foreign correspondent

At the request of a faithful follower, today I am re-posting a column that appeared a while back in The Econo…

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Two Tales about the Catastrophe called Socialism

Two Tales about the Catastrophe called Socialism

Today, I am reposting a commentary I published a while back about socialism. As we rush toward the 2022 midte…

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Tiananmen Square: A Massacre that Foretold China's Pandemic Treachery

Tiananmen Square: A Massacre that Foretold China's Pandemic Treachery

As our seemingly endless battle against the COVID pandemic, which began in Wuhan, China, in the fall of 2019,…

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Socialist Teachers Using Fake 'History' to Destabilize America

Socialist Teachers Using Fake 'History' to Destabilize America

America is facing one of the most critical and consequential mid-term elections in its history and fully half…

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Is America Becoming a Third World Country?

Is America Becoming a Third World Country?

Crime in our cities is out of control, mothers can't find infant formula for their babies, inflation is at a …

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Which Democrat Harpy Will Rule Los Angeles?

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By Ronald Yates
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As ballots in California’s “jungle primary” continue to dribble in, it appears that incumbent Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass and L.A. City Council member Nithya Raman will be battling it out in November for mayor of the City of Angels. Blame California’s ludicrous jungle primary, in which the two top vote-getters, regardless of party affiliation, move on to the November election. In this case, both Bass and Raman are Democrats.
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Where Have America’s Men Gone?

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By Ronald Yates
| American Free News Network
I read an essay the other day stating that a new Department of Labor report on men found that the American labor force is missing about 7 million men who would otherwise be working. This means close to one-third of all men of working age are not included in the labor force. The report said that the labor force participation rate among “prime age men,” age 25 to 54, in the 1950s, approached 100 percent.
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From Wounded Knee: A Lesson on Gun Control & the Second Amendment

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By Ronald Yates
| American Free News Network
Recently, I received an email from a reader reminding me that while America will celebrate its 250th birthday this July 4, this year is also the 135th anniversary of the murder of 297 Lakota Sioux Indians at Wounded Knee Creek on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. These native Americans, in their winter camp, were murdered on Dec.
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What was your first job as a journalist?

General Assignment & police reporter at the Chicago Tribune

Who's your favorite fictional journalist?

Huntley Haverstock in Hitchcock;s movie "Foreign Correspondent"

What does it mean to be a journalist?

It means curbing your personal biases while you do your best to ferret out the truth by writing/producing stories that are fair & accurate

Awards

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Edward Scott Beck Award

1975 - International Reporting

For coverage of the4 fall of Cambodia and South Vietnam. His exclusive news reports and sensitive human interest stories gave Chicago Tribune readers the clearest possible picture of history in the making.

Inter-American Press Association Tom Wallace Award

1978 - International Reporting

For coverage of Latin America

Edward Scott Beck Award

1987 - International Reporting

For intelligent, sensitive reporting and writing that made scrutable the politics and culture of our ally and competitor, Japan.

Edward Scott Beck Award

1989 - International Reportinig

For superb, sustained, perceptive reporting on the abortive democracy movement in China.

Gerald Loeb Award for Distinguished Business and Financial Journalism

1990 - Business and Financial Journalism

Vanishing Borders: Trade in the 1990s

Peter Lisagor Award, Society of Professional Journalists

1993 - Business Journalism

For distinguished business and financial reporting

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