Ray Anderson (1927 – September 24, 2023) was an American journalist who worked at The New York Times as a foreign correspondent.
After his graduate work in Madison, Anderson received a Fulbright Scholarship and subsequently studied at the Slavic Institute in Denmark.
While working in Moscow, Anderson played a central role in publishing Soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov's essay "Reflections on Progress, Peaceful Coexistence, and Intellectual Freedom."
Of the events that led to the publication, Pavel Litvinov, a peace activist, wrote: Karel gave the essay to Ray Anderson, a young, inexperienced, but also intelligent and honorable correspondent of the New York Times...after some delay, Ray Anderson sent it to the United States, where it was published in full in the New York Times on July 22.
"At one point, President Gamal Abdel Nasser attacked Anderson personally on the air for breaking a story he did not want published.
"[4] Anderson also spent time as a foreign correspondent in Lebanon, Syria and most of Eastern Europe.