Gerald Fraser

C. Gerald Fraser, a veteran of four decades in urban journalism, is currently a senior editor at the Earth Times newspaper, published in New York City in conjunction with the United Nations.

Fraser, a deskman at the New York Daily News for four years, covered metropolitan affairs and the performing and visual arts at The New York Times for 24 years. His work at the Times included columns on books, television and New York places of interest.

He is a founding member of Black Perspective, the 1960s black journalist organization formed in New York. He is also a recipient of the lifetime achievement award given by the New York Association of Black Journalists.

A Bostonian, Fraser earned a bachelor's degree at the University of Wisconsin and a master's at the New School University in New York. He taught at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism and the City University of New York's John Jay College of Criminal Justice.

Read "Getting My Foot in the Door" by Gerald Fraser