David Binder was affiliated with the New York Times from 1961 to 2004, with expertise in Germany, Eastern Europe, and the Balkan countries, particularly the former Yugoslavia. He worked in Washington as a diplomatic correspondent and in Berlin covering the building of the Berlin Wall in 1961; as Eastern Europe correspondent (based in Belgrade) from 1963 to 1967; as Germany correspondent from 1967 to 1873; and as member of the Washington Bureau from June 1973 until his retirement in 1996. In 1989 and 1990 he reported on the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of Communist systems in East Germany, Romania, Bulgaria, Albania, and Yugoslavia. He reported on the civil wars in Croatia, Bosnia, and on the Kosovo conflict. After graduating from Harvard, he was a Fulbright scholar in Cologne, Germany, from 1953 to 1954; from 1957 to 1959, he was a Fellow of the Institute of Current World Affairs in Germany. He also lectured and published articles in various European countries and in the United States. He is the author of Berlin East and West (1962) and The Other German: The Life and Times of Willy Brandt (1976), and a co-author of New York Times books on Project Apollo, the fall of Communism and Scientists at Work. Binder passed away in 2019.