Gerald Davis is the producer, writer, and director of Frank Kearns: American Correspondent, a one-hour documentary film developed by Greenbriar Group Films in association with West Virginia Public Broadcasting. A native of Elkins, West Virginia, USA Davis earned undergraduate and graduate degrees from the P. I. Reed School of Journalism at West Virginia University, where he was a student of Frank Kearns.
"A fine book about a fascinating individ- ual doing cutting edge
work in the early years of television war reporting."
-- Tom Herman, former field producer for CNN and correspondent for
NPR
"In an era of journalism now where the model is more attuned to
balderdash based on weak or invalid claims, Kearns's work stands as
an honorable model of what good reporting is."
-- Terry Wimmer, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and editor, and
professor of journalism at the University of Arizona
"All of us who worked as foreign correspondents covering the Cold
War risked being thought of as in cahoots with the CIA. After all,
correspondents in the communist bloc doubled as intelligence
agents. As with Frank Kearns' reporting, any accused journalist's
best defense is honest and insightful reporting without bias as to
who are the bullies and the villains."
--Charles Bierbauer, dean of the College of Information and
Communications at the University of South Carolina, foreign
correspondent from 1968 to 1980 and ABC News bureau chief in Moscow
and Bonn, Germany
"George Esper, the former AP Bureau Chief in Saigon when it fell
during the Vietnam War, told us that journalists write the first
chapters of history, and that's certainly what Frank Kearns was
doing in Algeria."
--Chip Hitchcock, documentary filmmaker
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