Dana Ripley Bullen II (August 6, 1931 – June 25, 2007) was executive director (1981–1996) and senior advisor (1997-2007) of the
World Press Freedom Committee, a since closed non-profit organization based in
Reston, Virginia
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Founded in 1964, Reston was influenced by the Garden City movem ...
. Prior to that, he had been the foreign editor of ''
The Washington Star'', which closed in 1981.
Bullen attended
Phillips Academy Andover, and earned a
Bachelor of Science in
Journalism at the
University of Florida's
College of Journalism in 1953, followed by a
Juris Doctor
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at that university's
College of Law
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In Argentina, ...
in 1956.
He was hired as a reporter at ''The Washington Star'' in 1960. Over the next 21 years, he became a syndicated columnist, an assistant news editor, and was ''The Star''s foreign editor when it folded in 1981.
Bullen had started volunteering with the World Press Freedom Committee (WPFC) in 1980, concerned about the effort by numerous member nations of
UNESCO to push through a "New World Information and Communication Order", granting them control of news distribution.
When ''The Star'' folded, he became the WPFC's full-time Executive Director. At the time of Bullen's death, then Executive Director Mark Bench praised Bullen's leadership, stating that Bullen "was able to see from a distance, though hidden in code words, restrictions by intergovernmental organizations on press freedom", thus bringing the attention needed "to prevent those restrictions".
[
Bullen, who was married to the former Joyce Cullen, died from cancer on June 25, 2007.][
]
Awards and honors
Bullen received a Nieman Fellowship at Harvard University for 1966-67 and a Research Fellowship at the Harvard University Asia Center for 1971.[
During 1980–81, Bullen was Journalist in Residence at ]The Fletcher School at Tufts University
The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy is the graduate school of international affairs of Tufts University, in Medford, Massachusetts. The School is one of America's oldest graduate schools of international relations and is well-ranked in it ...
.[
In 2000, the Inter American Press Association honored him with their Chapultepec Grand Prize in recognition of his work for press freedom.]University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications
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inducted Bullen into their Hall of Fame.[
]
References
External links
Mywire.com notice of Bullen's death
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1931 births
2007 deaths
American newspaper editors
Writers from Boston
Writers from Alexandria, Virginia
University of Florida alumni
American nonprofit executives
Deaths from cancer in Virginia
Journalists from Virginia
Fredric G. Levin College of Law alumni
20th-century American journalists
American male journalists