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The Ronald E. Yates Web site includes the work I did as a foreign correspondent for the Chicago Tribune from the Vietnam War to the late 1990s, as well as the work I am now doing as a journalism professor and dean of the College of Media (formerly the College of Communications) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. You can find information for classes I teach, articles I've written and photographs I've taken, as well as examples of my current research, books and publications. I hope you find the site interesting and useful.

 

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‘Tell the world . . . they are killing us!’

As China commands the world's attention for its earthquake victims and Beijing's Olympics preparation, Ron Yates reflects on the headline events he witnessed in China 19 years ago this month. As a foreign correspondent for the Chicago Tribune, Yates covered the June 4, 1989, massacre in Tiananmen Square, and he recently recalled that fateful day in a special feature for The News-Gazette (Champaign, Ill.). READ YATES' TIANANMEN SQUARE DIARY, 'THEN WE WILL DIE' . . .

 

NPR interview about Iva Toguri

Iva Toguri is the American woman who was erroneously known as Tokyo Rose during World War II. Ron Yates' 1976 story for the Chicago Tribune helped exonerate her. In Fall 2006, shortly after Toguri's death, Yates talked about her in an NPR interview.
See the transcript and listen to the broadcast.