Robert Conley (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Robert Conley is an American newspaper, television and radio reporter. Foreign correspondent for The New York Times in the 1950s and 1960s, bureau chief for NBC News, Africa, and foreign correspondent for NBC News' The Huntley-Brinkley Report throughout the 1960s, editor for and contributor to National Geographic magazine in late 1960s to early 1970s, and first host of the groundbreaking and popular National Public Radio (NPR) radio news and cultural program All Things Considered in the 1970s. Before going overseas for The New York Times, Conley was first based in New York City, reporting on national events for the front page. As major news events in Africa began to develop throughout the 1960s, The New York Times made Conley its foreign correspondent for Africa, based in Nairobi, Kenya.