George Gedda, an Associated Press reporter whose coverage of the State Department and international relations spanned more than four decades, has died.
“You are a first-class professional and a role model for many who will follow you,” Rice said in a handwritten note to Gedda on the occasion of his retirement. Rice said he had had an “exceptional career of service to our nation’s founding principle — a free press.”
“For more than 30 years, George Gedda and I worked harmoniously and effectively together at the State Department covering the world for the AP,” Schweid said when Gedda retired. “He simply knew more than anyone else about the issues. And a lot of what he knew was stored in his mind, a bank of knowledge I found myself calling on regularly, especially in pressure situations.”
A native of Valley Spring, New York, and 1962 graduate of Southern Methodist University, Gedda started with the AP in New York in 1965 after a two-year stint with the Peace Corps in Venezuela. He then moved to the AP statehouse bureau in Richmond, Virginia, where he spent two years wanting to cover sports before being promoted and returning briefly to AP headquarters on the international desk.
Cuba, he recalled in the preface to his book, made the biggest impression of the 87 countries he visited while covering various secretaries of state.
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