He is best known for his contributions to journalism as a newspaper correspondent and editor for the Chicago Daily News and the Minneapolis Tribune.
He helped launch the Minnesota Daily Star, a paper organized by labor unions and non-partisan league farmers.
After several years at the Daily News, he became a foreign correspondent, covering stories in Latin America, Europe and Russia.
He returned to Chicago to work as the editorial assistant to Frank Knox, publisher of the Daily News.
[2] In 1945, Binder left the Chicago Daily News to become an editor at the Minneapolis Tribune, and began his career as a visiting foreign affairs lecturer at universities.