David Binder

Who is David Binder?

David Binder is an American journalist and author. He was a reporter for the New York Times from 1961 to 2004 serving as a foreign correspondent in Berlin in 1961 where he reported on the building of the Berlin wall; in the Balkans, based in Belgrade 1963–1966; in Germany based in Bonn and later Berlin, 1967 to 1973. During the latter period he reported on the gradual rapprochement between East and West Germany, and on the Prague Spring of 1968. He was then transferred to Washington, D.C as a diplomatic correspondent, later as serving as the bureau's assistant news editor, and again as a reporter. He was repeatedly sent abroad as a special correspondent for The Times to report on the decline of the Soviet Bloc in 1987, the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, the collapse of the Warsaw Pact and the end of the Communist regimes in the German Democratic Republic, Romania, Albania and Yugoslavia in 1990-1992. He traveled to the Balkans to report on the civil wars that brought about the dissolution of Yugoslavia and the post-Communist regimes in Bulgaria and Romania . He also reported on the unification of West and East Germany.

In 2000-2001 he again went to the Balkans to report on the burgeoning sex trade and drug smuggling in the region for MSNBC. Early in his career he worked briefly as a science reporter for The Times, returning more than three decades later to reporting on wildlife biology. Over the years he also contributed to other publications including The Reporter, The Nation, The New Republic, Foreign Policy, Politika, Vreme, Weltwoche, der Spiegel, Stern,