Crocker Snow Jr. (born 1943) is a former director Edward R. Murrow Center for Public Diplomacy at

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's Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. He is a veteran American journalist.

Early life

Snow was born in 1943 to aviator Charles Snow Sr. and Janice Vaughn. He was raised in

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, and spent summers in the family-owned

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off of

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. Snow graduated cum laude from

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in 1961 with an AB in general studies. He continued his education at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy with an MA in international affairs.

Career

Snow has worked at ''

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'',

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public radio as a correspondent in Germany and the ''

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'' as chief foreign correspondent, national and foreign editor and assistant to the publisher. In the three years between 1962 and 1965, Snow served in the U.S. Navy as an officer at sea and ashore in Sasebo, Japan. He received an honorable discharge from the Navy in 1965 when he was a

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. Snow's tenure at ''Newsweek'' was short. In 1965, he was their New England correspondent. That same year he took the post at WGBH where he reported from

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. He stayed with WGBH until 1967. It was following his stint at WGBH that Snow took on with the ''Boston Globe'', there he worked as a political reporter when he started. At the ''Globe'', where he would stay until 1978 he rose through the ranks quickly holding multiple positions. In 1970-71 he was the assistant managing editor, from '72 to '74 the chief foreign correspondent in Japan, Vietnam, and East Asia. From 1976 until 1978 he held two positions at the ''Globe'', assistant to the publisher national and foreign editor, From 1978 to 2001 Snow was president of ''

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'', a publication he founded. The WorldPaper appeared in 27 countries and seven-language editions, including Spanish, Japanese, Chinese, Russian, Korean and Arabic. He founded several organizations as well including The

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(1996) and the Global Horizons Fund (2003).

Honors

*1968: First Edward R. Murrow Fellow at Fletcher School *1968: UPI Tom Phillips Award, executive producer for 8-part radio documentary ''On Crime''. *1974:

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runner-up for radio documentary ''Men Against Hitler''.

References

State Dept. BioDevelopment Gateway timeline

External links

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