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IRVING R LEVINE
The Pioneer In Television Economics Reporting
Irving R. Levine, an NBC correspondent for more than 35 years, was one of the most renowned and respected journalists in broadcasting.
Levine reported and interpreted fast-breaking news and major economic, political and social trends on TV and radio on four continents.
In 1971, Irving R. Levine, was referred to by Time magazine as "the pioneer' of economics reporting on television, became the first network correspondent to cover economics fulltime. He reported on recession, and recovery, taxation and tariffs, and money and markets. Levine has accompanied Presidents Ford, Carter, Reagan, and Bush to the annual summit meetings in Puerto Rico, Tokyo, Bonn, Paris, Ottawa, Toronto, Versailles, Venice, Williamsburg, and London. Levine traveled to Peking and Shanghai with Secretary of the Treasury Michael Blumenthal to cover the start of United States-China trade negotiations.
Prior to his last assignment in the nation's capital, Irving R. Levine was an NBC News correspondent for four years in Moscow, ten years in Rome, two years in Tokyo, and a year in London.
As a war correspondent, Irving R. Levine covered the Korean conflict and the truce talks at Panmunjom for NBC News. In Rome, he reported on the Vatican's Ecumenical Council, and he accompanied Pope Paul VI on his historic flights to Jerusalem, Bombay and elsewhere. In Moscow, Levine broadcasted reports on the events of the Khrushchev era following Stalin's rule. He was the first network correspondent accredited in the Soviet Union.
Irving R. Levine's work as a foreign correspondent induded coverage of the Berlin airlift; the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, which crushed the regime of Alexander Dubcek; the Eisenhower-Khrushchev summit meeting in Paris, which was aborted by the Soviet downing of the American U2 spy plane piloted by Gary Powers; and the Kennedy-Khrushchev summit meeting in Vienna.
Irving R. Levine is the author of four books: Main Street, U.S.S.R., which was on the national non-fiction best-seller lists and has been used as a university textbook; Travel Guide to Russia, described by Life magazine as the one essential book for anyone traveling to the Soviet Union; The New Worker in Soviet Russia and Main Street, Italy.
Irving R. Levine also contributed to such national magazines as Atlantic and Readers Digest, and he is a frequent lecturer.
Irving R. Levine graduated from Brown University with a Phi Beta Kappa key. He received his masters degree from Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism and has been awarded honorary degrees of Humane Letters from Brown University, Bryant College, Roger Williams College, and the University of Rhode Island. In 1988, he received Brown University's highest alumni honor, the William Rogers Award for "outstanding professional achievement and extraordinary service to humanity."
Irving R. Levine is listed in Who's Who in America, and there is an "Irving R. Levine Manuscript Collection" at the University of Syracuse. In 1955, he was named one of the Ten Outstanding Young Men of the Year by the U.S. Jr. Chamber of Commerce.
Irving R. Levine's journalism awards include an Overseas Press Club honor for the "most outstanding radio and TV reporting from abroad," a Headliners Award and an Emmy citation. He was the first to receive the Martin R. Gainsborough Award for Economic Reporting. Levine was named to the Columbia School of Journalism's list of the most outstanding graduates on the occasion of the school's 50th anniversary. He received a years fellowship for study and research from the Council on Foreign Relations in New York in 1952.
Irving R. Levine began his journalism career with the Providence (RI) Journal-Bulletin. He started his career as a foreign correspondent in Vienna, Austria, as bureau chief for the International News Service. Later he was special correspondent for the Times of London.
Irving R. Levine's insightful reports and commentaries were regular features on "NBC Nightly News," 'Today" and NBC News special broadcasts. A native of Pawtucket, RI, he served as an officer in the Signal Corps in World War II in the Philippines and Japan.
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