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Beverly Deepe Keever (born June 1, 1935) is an American journalist, Vietnam War correspondent, author and professor emerita of journalism and communications. In 1969 Beverly Deepe married Charles J. Keever. Beverly Deepe Keever has had a varied career that spanned the journalistic profession and professorate. Her career ranged from public opinion polling for an author-syndicated columnist in New York, to war correspondent, to covering Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. and then to teaching and researching journalism and communications for 29 years at the University of Hawai’i. As a professor emerita and 40-some years after departing Saigon, she wrote her memoirs of covering the Vietnam War for seven years—longer than any other American correspondent as of that time. Titled ''(Death Zones and Darling Spies )'', the book chronicles her dispatches as a freelancer and then successively for ''Newsweek'', the ''New York Herald Tribune'', the ''Christian Science Monitor'' and the ''London Daily Express'' and ''Sunday Express''. Her 1968 coverage of the embattled Khe Sanh combat base was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in International Reporting by the ''Christian Science Monitor''. Another of her 1968 dispatches was selected by the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in its centennial year as one of the 50 great stories by its alumni. In 2001 she was one of some four dozen combat correspondents whose work was selected for an exhibit at the Newseum in Washington, D.C. designed to trace 148 years of war reporting starting with the Crimean conflict of 1853. Fourteen years later, her artifacts and journalistic career were displayed and discussed in the “Reporting Vietnam” exhibit featured at the Newseum through September 2015. She also researched and wrote ''(News Zero: The New York Times and The Bomb )''.〔Common Courage Press, 2004.〕 Excerpts from and adaptations of this book have been published in two award-winning cover articles in Honolulu's alternative weekly and on global web sites. She is also a co-editor of ''(U.S. News Coverage of Racial Minorities: A Sourcebook, 1934-1996 )'',〔Greenwood Press, 1997.〕 for which she conceptualized with others the prospectus of the volume; made arrangements with the publisher; served, in effect, as the managing editor coordinating the writing of 11 other scholars; contributed two chapters and co-authored two others. == Early life and education == Beverly Deepe was born during the worst of the dust-bowl days in 1935 〔Timothy Egan, ''The Worst Hard Times: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dustbowl'' (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2006), 190.〕 to Doris Widler Deepe and Martin Deepe as they struggled on his father’s heavily mortgaged farm. At the Coon Ridge country school that her father had attended a generation earlier, the youngster was mesmerized upon reading Pearl Buck’s ''Good Earth'', which sparked her childhood dream of visiting China.〔Death Zones, pps. 3-5.〕 She then entered the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, double majoring in journalism and political science, graduating in 1957 as Phi Beta Kappa for scholarship and Mortar Board for leadership. She went on to attend Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, graduating in 1958 with honors. Then, working for two years in New York as an assistant to acclaimed public-opinion pollster and syndicated columnist, Samuel Lubell,〔Charles Poore, “Books of The Times: White and Black: Test of a Nation,” New York Times, 13 August 1964, page unavailable〕 Beverly hoarded a modest nest egg while learning to travel light and fast, ring doorbells of voters in barometer precincts, analyze election data and develop systematic record-keeping. She carried these skills with her as she traveled to Asia.〔Death Zones, pps. 5-7.〕 To fulfill her childhood fantasy, in 1961—a dozen years after Mao Tse-tung’s army transformed the world’s most populous country and a decade before the United States established diplomatic relations with it, she wrote a (''Ship-side View of Drab Shanghai'' ) from a Polish passenger-carrying steamer. 52 years later, she again visited Shanghai and described the dazzling changes that had transformed it with the world’s tallest sky-huggers being constructed on marshland where she had seen cows grazing a half century earlier and she noted its determined push toward a “de—Americanized” world economy.〔''(The Future in a Dazzling Shanghai )'', November 8, 2013.〕 She later was awarded from the University of Hawaii at Manoa a Master’s degree in Library and Information Studies and a doctorate in American Studies. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Beverly Deepe Keever」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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