Philip Shabecoff was a reporter for The New York Times from 1959 to 1991, who has since specialized in writing about environmental issues. New York Times career He was posted as a foreign correspondent in West Germany from 1964 to 1968, with responsibilities for covering East and West Germany, Scandinavia, and Czechoslovakia; then posted to Tokyo, from 1968 to 1970, with responsibilities for covering Japan, Korea, Vietnam, Indonesia, the Philippines, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Singapore and Thailand. Returning to the U.S., he then covered economics and labor for the New York Timess Washington Bureau. He was White House correspondent during the Nixon and Ford administrations. Shabecoff served as The New York Timess environmental correspondent from 1977 to 1991. He has been described as "a pioneer" for breaking new ground in defining environmental news and setting a standard for coverage that earned him the sobriquet of "dean of environmental journalism." He left the New York Times in 1991. He then founded and, for five years, served as publisher of Greenwire, the daily online digest of worldwide environmental news coverage, which remains today a leading source of environmental news. It was bought in 2000 by Environment & Energy Publishing. He was one of the founding members of the Society of Environmental Journalists. He has been a contributing author to American Government, by Charles Hamilton, and The Presidency Reappraised, Thomas Cronin and Rexford Tugwell, editors. Shabecoff has appeared on Meet the Press, Face the Nation, Washington Week in Review, CNN News, The Diane Rehm Show, C-SPAN, National Public Radio, and the BBC. Books A Fierce Green Fire, published by Hill & Wang, in 1993 (and published as paperback by Island Press, 2003) was his first full-length book. It is the definitive history and analysis of American environmentalism, from its early seeds in efforts to preserve wilderness through its maturity as a social, political and cultural movement; it offers the hope that “we will be able to save ourselves from the grave dangers we have created by our destructive use of the natural world.” That was followed by A New Name for Peace: International Environmentalism, Sustainable Development and Democracy, published by the University Press of New England in 1996, which provides a history of international environmentalism from its beginnings, and uses the 1992 Rio Earth Summit to analyze the successes and failures of environmental actions worldwide; concluding that peace must be based on mutual care