About the Author

Ron Steinman has worked as a journalist with NBC News for 35 years. He wa a writer and field producer for Chet Huntley Reporting, a writer on the Huntley-Brinkley show and worked on documentaries before going to Saigon as bureau chief for NBC News in 1966. After leaving Saigon, he served as South East Asia bureau chief based in Hong Kong, then moved on to London as bureau chief. There, among many other stories, he covered the Troubles in Northern Ireland from 1969 to1973. On returning to New York, Ron became general manager of special programs during Watergate. He then went to Washington as producer for Today. Returning to New York had senior producer positions on the Today Show where he helped create and produce Early Today. He was a senior producer for specials and a producer for Sunday Today. As ABC News Productions, he produced documentaries for A&E, The History Channel, and the documentary series, The Soldiers' Story for The Learning Channel. He has been a writer and executive editor for the digital magazines, The Digital Journalist and The Digital Filmmaker. He is currently a partner, producer and writer at Douglas/Steinman Productions where he directed the documentaries, Luboml: My Heart Remembers, and My Grandfather's House and The Dance Goodbye. He is the author of A Saigon Journal: Inside Television's First War, The Soldiers' Story, Women in Vietnam, and a novel, Death in Saigon.