Jerrold L. Schecter (1932–2023)

Early in his journalism career, Schecter worked briefly for The Wall Street Journal as a staff correspondent before joining Time magazine in 1958. There, he served as contributing editor and then a staff correspondent covering China, Southeast Asia and Hong Kong. After his Nieman Fellowship at Harvard University in 1963-64, he served as the Time-Life bureau chief in Tokyo, before becoming Time's bureau chief in Moscow and later Time's White House correspondent and diplomatic editor. He also worked as Washington editor and foreign affairs columnist for Esquire in the 1980s.