Bernard Krisher

Bernard Krisher (born 1931) was born in Frankfurt and left Germany in 1937 at the age of six, settling in New York with his parents before the start of World War II. Editor of his own magazine at age 12, Krisher edited his high school and Queens College newspapers and worked for the New York Herald Tribune and the New York World Telegram & Sun. He spent a year doing Japanese area and language studies at Columbia University in 1961 and 1962 as a Ford Foundation Advanced International Reporting Fellow. He joined "Newsweek" 's Tokyo bureau, and became bureau chief until 1980. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

After retiring from Newsweek, Krisher joined Fortune Magazine as its Tokyo correspondent and then moved to Shinchosha, a Japanese publishing company as its chief editorial advisor. In 1993, he founded and became chairman of American Assistance for Cambodia, a non-profit organization aimed at giving hope to the Cambodian people following the extermination of 2 million Cambodians during the Khmer Rouge holocaust. Over the past fifteen years, Krisher launched the charity Sihanouk Hospital Center of HOPE which treats the poor without fee, has build 433 schools with matching funds from the World Bank and Asian Development Bank and publishes the "Cambodia Daily", a non-profit newspaper dedicated to setting up a sound foundation for a free press and training journalists. In 2008, Krisher also founded the "Burma Daily" (www.burmadaily.org) which aims to replicate the ideals of the Cambodia Daily.

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*http://www.time.com/time/asia/2005/heroes/bernard_krisher.html