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Ronald Yates

(He/Him)
As seen in: Wiley Online Library, American Free News Network
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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Awards

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