《纽约时报》前总编辑西默·托平是美国著名记者。1946年他以国际新闻社记者身份报道中国内战,1948年在南京加盟美联社,是首位报道南京解放的外国记者。1971年他以《纽约时报》副总编辑身份访问中国,是1949年之后采访周恩来的首批美国记者之一。他的回忆录《在新旧中国间穿行》 Somer Torping, former chief editor of the New York Times, is a famous American reporter. In 1946, he covered China’s civil war as an international news agency reporter, joined the Associated Press in Nanjing in 1948, and was the first foreign reporter to report the liberation of Nanjing. In 1971, he visited China as the deputy editor of the New York Times and was one of the first U.S. reporters interviewed by Zhou Enlai after 1949. His memoir “walk between old and new China”