Emanuel Ralph Freedman (December 2, 1910 – January 27, 1971) was an American journalist. He was the foreign editor of ''

The New York Times ''The New York Times'' (''the Times'', ''NYT'', or the Gray Lady) is a daily newspaper based in New York City with a worldwide readership reported in 2020 to comprise a declining 840,000 paid print subscribers, and a growing 6 million paid ...

'' for 16 years and then an assistant managing editor. He was known for his fieldwork in the 1950s on the

Korean War , date = {{Ubl, 25 June 1950 – 27 July 1953 (''de facto'')({{Age in years, months, weeks and days, month1=6, day1=25, year1=1950, month2=7, day2=27, year2=1953), 25 June 1950 – present (''de jure'')({{Age in years, months, weeks a ...

, the

Hungarian Uprising of 1956 The Hungarian Revolution of 1956 (23 October – 10 November 1956; hu, 1956-os forradalom), also known as the Hungarian Uprising, was a countrywide revolution against the government of the Hungarian People's Republic (1949–1989) and the Hunga ...

, the 1954 Geneva conference on Indochina, and the

Suez crisis The Suez Crisis, or the Second Arab–Israeli war, also called the Tripartite Aggression ( ar, العدوان الثلاثي, Al-ʿUdwān aṯ-Ṯulāṯiyy) in the Arab world and the Sinai War in Israel,Also known as the Suez War or 1956 Wa ...

Education

Freedman graduated from William Penn High School in 1927. He obtained his degree from

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Career

Freedman began his career at The New York Times as a copy editor. He eventually worked his way up to become a deskman for the

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bureau, then to assistant foreign editor, foreign editor, and finally as one of four assistant managing editors. During his time as an assistant managing editor, he was responsible for hiring foreign correspondents.

Family

Freedman was married to Eva Bermant. After Freedman's death, Eva and her second husband Tobias Bermant, endowed a scholarship under Freedman's name. His daughter,

Alix M. Freedman Alix Marian Freedman (born November 25, 1957 in New York City) is an American journalist, and ethics editor at Thomson Reuters. Freedman was raised in New York City, where she attended the Chapin School before graduating from Phillips Exeter A ...

, is also a journalist.

References

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