George A. KRIMSKY (Co-Chair) is the former president and co-founder of the
International Center for Journalists, and is currently an international media consultant
operating from his home state of Connecticut in the United States. In a career
spanning thirty-five years, he has been an editor and correspondent, lecturer, trainer,
media critic and author. Mr. Krimsky served sixteen years with the Associated
Press, reporting from Los Angeles, New York, the (then) Soviet Union and the
Middle East. Following his overseas service, he was appointed head of the Associated
Press’s World Services News Department. In 1985, he left active journalism to
start the non-profit assistance organization originally known as the Center for Foreign
Journalists, outside Washington, DC. In his current occupation, Mr. Krimsky travels
the world as a media trainer and consultant. He is the co-author (with John Maxwell
Hamilton) of a 1995 book entitled Hold the Press, aimed at explaining the American
newspaper industry to a general audience and wrote a handbook for American
editors on how to increase international coverage entitled Bringing the World Home.
Mr. Krimsky served as a faculty member at Session 329, The Impact of the Media
on Politics, Public Policy and World Events, 1995.