Robin Knight worked for US News & World Report magazine and for TIME magazine from 1968 to 2003, reporting from more than 60 countries in Europe, the Middle East, Africa and North America. Highlights include covering the dissident era in the Soviet Union, the collapse of Communism and the end of the Cold War in Eastern Europe, famine in Africa in the 1980s, the apartheid era in South Africa and war and conflict in Northern Ireland, Southern Africa, the Middle East and the Balkans.