Max Frankel
A new administration settling into Washington is a natural magnet for the news analyst. New York Times Washington Bureau Chief, Max Frankel’s assessment of the Nixon Administration’s foreign policies brought admiration from his colleagues and the OPC’s award for best daily newspaper or wire service interpretation of foreign affairs.
Frankel, a longtime Times veteran, has been in Washington since 1961. He spent two years as White House correspondent and bureau head in late 1968. Before moving to the capital his major assignments were abroad; most notably, coverage of the Hungarian and Polish uprisings in the late fifties, a three-year tour in Moscow which included a wide-ranging trip to Siberia, and duty in the Caribbean which covered, among other things, the Bay of Pigs.
He also covered UN news.
Born in Gera, Germany, in 1930, Frankel came to the United States with his family in 1939 after they had been deported by the Nazis.
He was educated in New York City and graduated from Columbia College. There he had been editor of the student newspaper, The Spectator, and campus correspondent for the Times. He joined the Times as a full-time correspondent after graduation.
In 1964, Frankel was the OPC winner in this same category.
JUDGES: John Luter, Prof. John Hohenberg, Prof. John Tebbel