People Remembered: Andrew Jaffe

Andrew Jaffe

Andrew Jaffe, 71, a former Newsweek foreign correspondent, died February 26, after a 10-year battle with cancer of the bone marrow. He and his wife, Eileen Ast, a communications executive who survives, live in New Canaan, Connecticut.

Fresh out of Columbia University School of Journalism, Jaffe was hired by AP, and he covered the 1965 Watts riot before joining Newsweek as a correspondent in Atlanta. The magazine sent him to Africa in 1969, and he later became its African bureau chief based in Nairobi. He covered the Biafran civil war, end of Emperor Haile Selassie’s rule, Idi Amin’s rule in Uganda and the end of Portuguese colonialism in Mozambique and Angola.

Jaffe became Newsweek’s Miami bureau chief in 1975, and he left the magazine two years later to become business editor of the Los Angeles Herald Examiner. In 1984, Jaffe started an advertising career in New York City. He was editorial director of Adweek and a vice president of the magazine before setting up his own consultancy firm in Norwalk, Connecticut in 2003.

In his memory the family suggests charitable contributions to the Andrew Jaffe Scholarship Fund at Brandcenter, Virginia Commonwealth University, or to the Whittingham Cancer Center, Norwalk Hospital.