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Elie Abel was born on October 17, 1920, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He was the son of Jacob and Rose (Savetsky) Abel.
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Elie Abel was born on October 17, 1920, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He was the son of Jacob and Rose (Savetsky) Abel.
Elie Abel received a Bachelor of Arts degree from McGill University in 1941 and a Master of Science in journalism degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 1942.
Elie Abel worked as a reporter for the Windsor Star in Windsor, Ontario, for a year, then served in the Royal Canadian Air Force during World War II.
After the war, Elie Abel returned to work as a reporter, writing successively for the Montreal Gazette, the North American Newspaper Alliance in Berlin, the Los Angeles Times, and for the Overseas News Agency as its United Nations correspondent.
In 1949 Elie Abel joined the staff of The New York Times, serving as a national and foreign correspondent for 11 years.
After working in Detroit and Washington, he became the Times bureau chief in Belgrade, where he contributed to the paper's Pulitzer Prize-winning coverage of the 1956 Hungarian revolt.
In 1958, Elie Abel went to New Delhi, India as bureau chief and in that capacity covered the Chinese takeover of Tibet. In 1959, he returned to the United States to take over the Washington bureau of the Detroit News as its chief, serving only two years before being recruited in 1961 as State Department correspondent for NBC News. Distinguishing himself as a diplomatic correspondent, he was ultimately promoted to chief of the network's London bureau. During his years as a journalist, both in print and broadcasting, Elie Abel was recognized for incisive in-depth reports on international affairs, and particularly on the subject of communism.
Leaving broadcast journalism for academia in 1970, Elie Abel was appointed dean of Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism and Godfrey Lowell Cabot Professor of Journalism. He left Columbia for Stanford University in 1979 as the first Harry and Norman Chandler Professor of Communication.
From 1977 to 1980 Abel served as the representative from the United States to the United Nation's International Commission for the Study of Communication Problems, which published the "MacBride Report" in 1980.
From 1983 to 1986, Elie Abel headed Stanford's Department of Communication and also served as Faculty Senate chair in 1985-1986. He directed Stanford's program in Washington, D.C., in 1993-1994.
Elie Abel died on July 22, 2004, at the Casey House hospice in Rockville, Maryland, at age 83, from the effects of Alzheimer's disease.
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1990Abel's first wife, Corinne, died in 1991 after 45 years of marriage. When Elie Abel died, he had been married to Charlotte Hammond Page Dunn for nine years.