AWARD DATE: 1968
AWARD NAME: Best Radio Reporting From Abroad
AWARD RECIPIENT: Bernard Redmont
AWARD RECIPIENT AFFILIATION: Westinghouse Broadcasting Company
As Paris correspondent for Group W (Westinghouse Broadcasting Company), Bernard Redmont relies upon a background of two decades as newsman in Europe, Latin America, the South Pacific and the United States.
His coverage from the French capital is free-wheeling in the sense that it extends to other European countries as well, occasionally including reports from Yugoslavia, Bulgaria and the Soviet Union.
While based in Paris for the past 15 years, reporting on news developments in France and on the continent, Redmont has become a regular at the ski meets held annually in various countries by an international group of news correspondents.
He is a past president of the Anglo-American Press Association of Paris, and has been chief correspondent for the English-language world news service of Agence France Press. He is an “alumnus” of the old Brooklyn Eagle; a New Yorker by birth and a Vermonter by adoption. During his post-graduate work at Columbia University School of Journalism he won a Pulitzer traveling scholarship. Redmont has been correspondent and bureau chief in Buenos Aires for the magazine U.S. News and World Report, as he was later in Paris. In the second world war he directed the news division of the Office of Inter-American Affairs, supervising short· wave broadcasts throughout South America. He also served as a Marine combat correspondent in the Pacific, acquiring a Purple Heart at Kwajalein in the Marshall Islands.
Citation for Excellence: Saigon News Bureau, ABC News, for “Viet Nam Update #116.”