Rafael Steinberg, Managing Editor, Newsweek International
Feb. 28 Rafael Steinberg: Managing Editor, Newsweek International Rafael Steinberg, who has been named managing Editor of Newsweek International, first joined Newsweek in 1959 as Tokyo Bureau Chief. He remained in that position until 1963 when he left the magazine to pursue a career as a freelance writer. Previously, he war correspondent in Korea for the International News Service (1951-52) and Time magazine (1952), and a writer and correspondent in Time's London bureau (1953-58). In 1970 he rejoined Newsweek as General Editor for the International Edition, and in 1972 was promoted to Senior Editor. A graduate of Harvard (Class of 50) and a former editor of the Harvard Crimson, Steinberg served in the Navy from 1945 to 1946. He has written a number of books, including Postscript from Hiroshima (Random House, 1966), and Japan (Macmillan, 1969). He has written for The Saturday Evening Post and The Washington Post and in 1967 he won the Playboy award for the best work by a new Playboy author. Mr. Steinberg is a member of the Harvard Club of New York, the Asia Society, the Japan Society and the Authors Guild. He is married, has two children and lives in Teaneck, New Jersey
