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3 unusual facts about Franz Schurmann


Franz Schurmann

The service created New America Media in 1996, a multimedia ethnic news agency and a coalition of ethnic media.

He died at age 84 on August 20, 2010, at his home in San Francisco due to complications of Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease.

Sandy Close

She was married to the historian and Asian affairs scholar Franz Schurmann from 1968 until his death in 2010.


Pacific News Service

Pacific News Service (PNS) is an American nonprofit media organization founded in 1969 by historian and sociologist Franz Schurmann and Orville Schell, author, journalist and former Dean of the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley, located in Berkeley, California.


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