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FROM THE PUBLISHER, Page 4
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."
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.
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."
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.
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.
-- Elizabeth P. Valk