[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 160 (2014), Part 2]
[Senate]
[Page 2298]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                        TRIBUTE TO MYRON BELKIND

  Mr. PORTMAN. Madam President, I rise today to recognize Cleveland 
native Myron Belkind, who was named president of the National Press 
Club on January 25, 2014. Mr. Belkind grew up in Lyndhurst, OH, where 
he began his career in journalism writing as a student and then for the 
Cleveland Plain Dealer and the Cleveland Press.
  During Mr. Belkind's 42-year career with the Associated Press, he 
covered many world leaders and headed up Associated Press bureaus in 
Kuala Lumpur, New Delhi, London, and Tokyo. He served as president of 
several foreign press associations and as a journalism instructor at 
the George Washington University in Washington, DC. He has received the 
Distinguished Alumni Awards from the Ohio State University School of 
Communications and Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
  As a foreign correspondent in the 1970s, Belkind covered major 
international news stories and was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize for 
his coverage of the breaking news that Prime Minister Gandhi's 
government had declared a state of emergency on June 26, 1975, 
suspending civil liberties, arresting thousands of political opponents, 
and imposing restrictions on the national and international press.
  He is the first National Press Club president with an extensive 
international background in foreign correspondence. In his new role, he 
has vowed to continue his work promoting worldwide freedom of the press 
and will continue to strive for professional development and excellence 
in journalism.
  Mr. President, I would like to congratulate Myron Belkind, a fellow 
Buckeye, as he begins this new chapter in his distinguished career.

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