Diplomatic Correspondent
TIME Magazine
Washington, D.C.
Dean Fischer first joined the Time-Life News service in 1964 and was assigned to its Washington bureau. After a year's stint there he became the Time-Life News Service bureau chief in Nairobi. He returned to the U.S. in 1967 as a correspondent in the Chicago bureau where he served until 1969. Fischer then rejoined the Washington bureau, and was assigned first to cover the Justice Department, and later the White House.
After the 1976 presidential election, Fischer spent a year as a correspondent in the London bureau. In 1978, he became Jerusalem Bureau Chief. In 1980, he returned to Washington as News Editor.
From 1981-82, Fischer served as spokesman and Assistant Secretary of Public Affairs at the U.S. Department of State. He returned to TIME in New York in 1983 to become Deputy Chief of Correspondents. In 1985 Fischer was named Middle East Bureau Chief. In this position, he won the Overseas Press Club award for distinguished international reporting in 1989 and covered the Gulf crisis from Saudi Arabia in 1990-91. In 1995, he returned to Washington to cover American foreign policy for the magazine as a diplomatic correspondent.
Born in Kewanee, Illinois, Fischer is a graduate of Monmouth College. He attended the University of Calcutta and received a Master's degree in history from the University of Chicago. He entered journalism in 1960 as a reporter on the Des Moines Register.