In a career spanning 35 years, Krimsky is an editor and correspondent, lecturer, trainer, media critic and author. Krimsky served 16 years with the Associated Press, reporting from Los Angeles, New York, the Soviet Union and the Middle East. Following his overseas service, he was appointed head of the Associated Press’s World Services News Department. In 1984, he left the AP to found ICFJ, originally known as the Center for Foreign Journalists.

Currently, Krimsky works with the Republican-American in Waterbury, Conn. and travels the world as a media trainer and consultant. He is the co-author (with ICFJ Board Treasurer John Maxwell Hamilton) of a 1995 book entitled Hold the Press, aimed at explaining the American newspaper industry to a general audience. Krimsky wrote a handbook for American editors on how to increase international coverage entitled Bringing the World Home.