Author of the first Peace Corps memoir | Arnold Zeitlan (Ghana)
Arnold Zeitlan (Ghana 1961– 63) was a correspondent for more than 30 years, and bureau chief of The Associated Press, assigned to West Africa, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Afghanistan and the Philippines. For UPI, he served as vice president and managing director of the Asia-Pacific division, based in Hong Kong. From 1998 to 2001, he served as director of the Asian Center of The Freedom Forum, a nonprofit foundation devoted to news media issues. In 2001, he founded Editorial Research and Reporting Associates, Inc., which consults news media and journalism educators primarily in Asia in support of the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. He has lectured and taught at Yale, Boston and Northeastern universities. Before this newspaper career, Arnold was a PCV in Ghana! • The Peace Corps was very new when you joined. Why did you join? I have few heroes but one of them was Ed Murrow. In . . .
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Thank you for your article. I was a PCZV in Nigeria 61-63. I wrote a book based on letters I…