Pacific News Service is a nonprofit media organization that was founded in 1969 as an alternative source of news and analysis on the U.S. role in Vietnam. Since then, we have evolved into a highly experimental communications hub for journalists, scholars, filmmakers, artists and young people dedicated to bringing the seldom heard, often most misunderstood or ignored voices and ideas into the public forum. PNS produces a daily news syndicate and sponsors magazine articles, books, TV segments (including Richard Rodriguez's essays for PBS's "News Hour with Jim Lehrer") and films (including the 1997 Oscar-winning documentary "Breathing Lessons"). PNS History
The nonprofit, Pacific News Service was founded in 1969 by Orville Schell (now a noted author, journalist and Dean of the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California-Berkeley) and UC-Berkeley historian and sociologist Franz Schurmann (former head of the Center for Chinese Studies and author of numerous books on China and on foreign affairs). Its original purpose was to provide mainstream newspapers with an independent source of expertise and reportage on the U.S. Role in Indochina during the Vietnam War. Each week it produced and syndicated – and continues to syndicate – six to eight newspaper articles to mainstream newspaper subscribers, weeklies and alternative publications, college newspapers and the ethnic press.
Franz Schurmann
Emeritus professor of history and sociology at UC Berkeley. Founded Pacific News Service.
Richard Rodriguez
Award winning PBS NewsHour essays on American life. Richard is an editor at Pacific News Service.
Andrew Lam
Andrew is an Associate Editor at Pacific News Service, a short story writer, and and a regular commentator on NPR.
Walter Truett Anderson
Associate editor, commentator, political scientist who writes widely on technology and global governance.
Rene Ciria-Cruz
Associate editor at PNS and also a longtime editor for Filipinas Magazine.
Orville Schell was born in New York City in 1940, graduated Magna Cum Laude from Harvard University in Far Eastern History, was an exchange student at National Taiwan University in the 1960s, and did graduate work at the University of California, Berkeley, in Chinese History where he earned a Ph.D (Abd). He has worked for the Ford Foundation in Indonesia, covered the war in Indochina as a journalist, and travelled widely in China.
He is also a contributor to such magazines as The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The New York Times Magazine, The Nation, The Los Angeles Times Magazine, Granta, Wired, Newsweek, Mother Jones, The China Quarterly, and The New York Review of Books.
Schell serves on the boards of Human Rights Watch, the Sundance Documentary
Fund jury, and the Social Science Research Council. He is also a member of the Pacific Council, the Council on Foreign Relations and a regular particpant in the World Economic Forum at Davos.
Schell is currently the Dean of the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley.
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Jonathan Schell is brother of Orville Schell, founder of Pacific News Service in 1969
Jonathan Schell, The Nation's peace and disarmament correspondent, decries war as a political tool
Jonathan Schell now teaches at Wesleyan University and the New School and is the Harold Willens Peace Fellow at The Nation Institute.
Mr. Schell was a writer and editor at the New Yorker between 1967 and 1987 and — and Deputy Editor for 1987-88.
I am not right up to speed on my academic protocol, but I believe this "Abd" may mean "all but dissertation." That seems an appropriate expression to me when you are applying for a job while still working on the dissertion. But it strikes me as pathetically whiney for man, of a certain age, who has gained some fame in the intellectual trades (liberal division) to still be carrying around this bit about the PhD he almost got one time.
Of course, if he is a dean at Berkeley maybe it gets both him and his employer a little tense for him to be undercredentialed. I think I will add some things that I ~almost~ did to my resumé! (Of course, if "Abd" here means something else, then I've made a fool of myself.)
