birth_date: 0001-10-10 00:00:00
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name: Mel Laytner
about: Mel Laytner is the author of  What They Didn't Burn, an acclaimed investigative memoir.He was a reporter and editor of hard news for some twenty years, much of it as a foreign correspondent covering the Middle East for NBC News and United Press International.	 	 His first full-time reporting job was with UPI covering all manner of urban mayhem in New York City, his hometown.  After a stint as a one-person suburban bureau chief, he moved to the General Desk and became the “slot man” editor, responsible for selecting and final editing the day’s top stories for UPI’s 400 afternoon newspaper clients. 	His first foreign assignment was London. A year later, UPI moved him to Tel Aviv and a year after that, he was named Jerusalem Correspondent. NBC Mel Laytner is the author of  What They Didn't Burn, an acclaimed investigative memoir.He was a reporter and editor of hard news for some twenty years, much of it as a foreign correspondent covering the Middle East for NBC News and United Press International.	 	 His first full-time reporting job was with UPI covering all manner of urban mayhem in New York City, his hometown.  After a stint as a one-person suburban bureau chief, he moved to the General Desk and became the “slot man” editor, responsible for selecting and final editing the day’s top stories for UPI’s 400 afternoon newspaper clients. 	His first foreign assignment was London. A year later, UPI moved him to Tel Aviv and a year after that, he was named Jerusalem Correspondent. NBC News recruited Mel as its Middle East Radio Correspondent.  After eight grinding years overseas, Mel was awarded a prestigious Knight-Bagehot Fellowship in Business and Economic Journalism, which included a year’s residency at Columbia’s Graduate School of Business.  Mel received his BA in Political Science from the City College of New York, and holds a Masters degree from the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism, and a second Masters from Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs.   He lives in New York City with his wife, an artist and teacher, and is the father of three daughters. ...more