Koven, Ronald (Personal Name)

Freedom of the press 2003, 2003: t.p. (Ronald Koven)

Washington post WWW site, viewed Nov. 6, 2015 (Ronald Koven, a seasoned foreign correspondent for The Washington Post and other newspapers who became a prominent advocate for the freedom of journalists around the world, died Oct. 30 [2015] in Paris, where he lived; he was 80; ror more than three decades, Mr. Koven was the European representative for the World Press Freedom Committee, which describes itself as a "coordination group" of U.S. and international media organizations; began his journalism career in the 1960s, covering French president Charles de Gaulle for the International Herald Tribune; by the end of that decade, he had joined the staff of The Post, where he reported from Canada and was foreign editor before becoming the newspaper's Paris correspondent in the late 1970s; in 1981, Mr. Koven began a decade of reportage for the Boston Globe.; in 1981, he joined the World Press Freedom Committee, where he remained European representative until his death; Ronald Pierre Emanuel Koven was born in Paris on Aug. 11, 1935; grew up in Paris and in New York; became interested in journalism while studying at Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio, and at Columbia University in New York City, where he had early jobs with Time magazine and the New York Times)