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- Covering the new world order is a challenge for any news
- organization, but we at TIME, with the largest foreign-bureau
- network of any global newsmagazine, meet it eagerly each week.
- As old empires crumble and new nations emerge, we have expanded
- our coverage accordingly, opening two new bureaus in the past
- four months alone. "The pace of change is so dramatic," says
- deputy chief of correspondents Paul A. Witteman, "that it is
- more important than ever to have people strategically placed to
- observe and report on major developments."
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- From his new vantage point in Berlin, correspondent Daniel
- Benjamin lives at the nexus of the most dramatic changes in
- postwar Europe. "The tensions between East and West swirl around
- you here with a power that one has difficulty imagining anywhere
- else," he says. James Wilde, who opened our Istanbul bureau in
- January, is positioned to monitor Turkey's increasingly vital
- strategic role in Europe and the Persian Gulf, as well as its
- relationships with the emerging Islamic republics.
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- Some changes call for bolstering existing bureau strength,
- especially in Moscow, where journalist Yuri Zarakhovich, a
- Russian citizen, has just joined our reportorial team on a
- full-time basis. "Yuri brings us much closer to the news," says
- Moscow bureau chief John Kohan, "and consistently provides TIME
- with an invaluable insider's view of life here."
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- The news will also change for Jef Penberthy, who for
- nearly six years has served as editor of TIME Australia. Next
- month Penberthy leaves Melbourne to become our bureau chief in
- New Delhi, assuming responsibility for the coverage of an
- extraordinarily dynamic and diverse region. "This vast sweep of
- south Asia is an enormously challenging story," says Penberthy.
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- Witteman oversees our peripatetic foreign correspondents
- from New York City, staying in daily contact by phone and
- computerized messages. No slouch at travel himself, Witteman has
- logged 30,000 miles since assuming his position last August,
- even finding time to run our coverage and report on the Winter
- Olympics in Albertville. "The resilience of my colleagues abroad
- is a trait I admire," says the former Detroit and San Francisco
- bureau chief. "In the U.S. you rarely have to worry about phones
- not working or planes being grounded because of chronic fuel
- shortages. For many foreign correspondents, that's merely part
- of daily life." And so is the exciting pace of global change,
- which our journalists, here and abroad, chronicle each week.
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- -- Elizabeth P. Valk
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