When David Belnap covered the news

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Former Times foreign correspondent David Belnap, who was based in Buenos Aires for the paper from 1967 to 1980 and then worked as an editor on the foreign desk until retiring in 1993, died Sunday in Arcadia at age 87.

Much has changed about the news business since Belnap was at the peak of his career, as this photo illustrates. It was taken in 1969, when Belnap and his wife, Barbara, were in Los Angeles for a visit to the home office. In this photo, which ran in an in-house publication called Among Ourselves, a copy boy named Steve Seiler shows the Belnaps the Teletype machines in the paper’s old wire room.

First of all, I don’t think we call anyone a copy boy anymore. And no more Teletype machines. Those floor tiles look awfully familiar though.

Belnap worked for United Press for 20 years before joining The Times. You can listen to a brief clip of his description of a 1960 natural disaster in Chile here.

-- Claire Noland