THE MONTHLY NEWSLETTER OF THE OVERSEAS PRESS CLUB OF AMERICA, NEW YORK, NY • June 2012 Panel to Discuss Egyptian Election, Its Future EVENT PREVIEW: JUNE 19 candidates was held on May ’s revolution isn’t over, not 23 and 24 with by a long shot. Egypt continues to be two candidates a story that inspires, confounds and who emerged: intrigues. The heady days of protests Mohamed in Tahrir Square that toppled Hosni Morsi of the Mubarak last year were spell-bind- Muslim Broth- ing. Veteran foreign correspondents, erhood and such as Tom Friedman of The New Ahmed Shafik, York Times described those 18 days a former prime Mohamad Bazzi Charles M. Sennott Calvin Sims as one of the most thrilling stories minister under Mubarak. The run- lead Egypt and the . he’s ever covered. off election is set for June 16 and Panelists include Mohamad Ba- “Arab Spring” had such a roman- 17. As Egyptians brace for a run-off zzi who is a senior fellow for Mid- tic ring to it, but now a new reality election the choices are bleak for the dle Eastern studies at the Council has set in. The smoke is clearing and young and predominantly secular on Foreign Relations. From 2003 what is left behind in Egypt and the protesters who instigated the revolu- to 2007 Bazzi was the Middle East region is a confusing reality and an tion. bureau chief for Newsday. As a long uncertain future. Democracy, elec- Panelists will have a dialogue time observer of the Middle East, he tions, Muslim Brotherhood, disqual- about these historic elections and ex- will bring an historical perspective ified candidates, Mubarak sentenced plain the forces at work in the Arab on Egypt and regional analysis. to life in prison, more demonstra- Spring, the election and give projec- Charles M. Sennott is executive tions. The news in Egypt continues tions about where the election will (Continued on Page 4) to be a dizzying ride. A panel to discuss these issues will convene on Tuesday, June 19 AP Apologizes to Fired WWII Reporter at the Ford Foundation at 6:30 p.m. EVENT RECAP: MAY 8 For the first time in Egypt’s 7000 year history, the country will choose by Susan Kille its leader through a free election. The Tom Curley, the top executive of first round of elections with multiple The and an OPC member, reached into the archives of the AP and realized he needed to Inside. . . apologize for action a predecessor took 67 years earlier: the firing of Ed Opinion: French Election...... 3 Kennedy, the chief of the AP’s West- Gettleman Recap...... 4 ern Front staff, who on May 7, 1945 reported the unconditional surrender New Members...... 4 of Germany a day ahead of his com- petition. People...... 5-9 Curley apologized May 4 and

New Books...... 9 four days later, he spoke at AP’s Chuck AP Zoeller, headquarters during a panel discus- Tribute to ...... 10 sion of Kennedy and his memoirs. Julia Kennedy Cochran, daughter of Ed Kennedy and author of the book Q&A With Kristen Gillespie...... 12 (Continued on Page 2) speaks as Tom Curley looks on. AP Event: Continued From Page 1 Kennedy defied military censors to report the German surrender. “His conduct was absolutely the right thing to do and beyond reproach,” Curley said. The apology was spurred by AP’s own research and the publication of Ed Kennedy’s War: V-E Day, Censorship, and The Associated Press, a book edited by Kennedy’s daughter, Julia Kennedy Cochran. Cur- ley, president and CEO of the AP, wrote the introduc- tion to the book with John Maxwell Hamilton, provost at Louisiana State University who headed the panel discussion. Chuck AP Zoeller, Kennedy was one of 17 reporters allowed to wit- From left: moderator Jack Hamilton, , George ness the formal surrender of German troops on the Bria, Richard Fine and Sally Buzbee. condition that they would keep it secret for a few But former AP foreign correspondent George Bria hours -- but then the embargo was extended to 36 hours. cited the “rat race” competition of wire services and said The United States and the United Kingdom had agreed Kennedy made the right decision once the embargo was to suppress the news to allow Russia to stage a second broken. “He had to have it first and right, and he did the ceremony in Berlin. But when Kennedy heard that Ger- right thing as far as I’m concerned,” Bria said. man radio had announced the 12-hour-old surrender, he In his memoirs, Kennedy wrote: “My deliberations considered the embargo broken and he alone among the hinged mainly on the moral aspects of the question: 16 reporters sent his story an hour later – producing what Which course did my duty as a reporter dictate – subser- is considered the biggest scoop in AP history. He did not vience to political censorship which was contrary to the tell his superiors about the embargo. He was rebuked and principle of a free press and in violation of the word of then fired. the government and the Army or action which I believed Panelists at the discussion, attended by many OPC right and which I knew would bring plenty of trouble members, disagreed over whether Kennedy had acted upon my head?” properly. Others on the panel were Richard Fine, a professor at John Darnton, a former foreign correspondent and Virginia Commonwealth University, and AP Washington editor for , said Kennedy was treated Bureau Chief Sally Buzbee. shabbily but because “AP management was wrong, does Julia Kennedy Cochran, who had worked as a jour- not mean Kennedy was right.” He said Kennedy should nalist for the AP, and Business Week, said her have told AP about the embargo and also could have family appreciated the apology from Curley and it would talked to other reporters to create a “united front” to the have meant a lot to her father, who died in a traffic ac- military to lift the secrecy. cident in 1963. OVERSEAS PRESS CLUB OF AMERICA • BOARD OF GOVERNORS PRESIDENT SECRETARY Tim Ferguson Toni Reinhold ASSOCIATE BOARD PAST PRESIDENTS David A. Andelman Jane Ciabattari Editor Editor in Charge, ­MEMBERS EX-OFFICIO Editor Author/Journalist Forbes Asia New York Desk Bill Collins John Corporon World Policy Journal Reuters Director, Public & Allan Dodds Frank ACTIVE BOARD Chrystia Freeland Business Affairs Alexis Gelber FIRST VICE PRESIDENT Ron Allen Global Editor-at-Large Tom Squitieri Ford Motor Company William J. Holstein Marcus Mabry Correspondent Thomson Reuters Freelance Journalist Marshall Loeb Editor at Large NBC News Emma Daly Larry Martz International Herald Tribune Evelyn Leopold Gillian Tett Communications Roy Rowan Rebecca Independent Journalist U.S. Managing Editor Director Leonard Saffir SECOND VICE PRESIDENT Blumenstein United Nations Financial Times Human Rights Watch Larry Smith Michael Serrill Page One Editor Richard B. Stolley Assistant Managing Editor Santiago Lyon Seymour Topping Sarah Lubman Bloomberg Markets Director of Emeritus Partner EXECUTIVE Paul Brandus Photography Professor of Brunswick Group DIRECTOR THIRD VICE PRESIDENT West Wing Report Associated Pess International Sonya K. Fry Arlene Getz Abi Wright Editor-in-Charge, Media Jonathan Dahl John Martin Director EDITOR Thomson Reuters Editor-in-Chief Writer/Editor Alfred I. duPont- Aimee Vitrak Smart Money Joel Whitney Columbia University TREASURER Abigail Pesta Editor Awards OPC Jacqueline Albert- Adam B. Ellick Editorial Director Guernica ISSN-0738-7202 Simon Video and Print Journalist Women in the World ­Copyright © 2002 U. S. Bureau Chief The New York Times Over­seas Press Club of Politique Internationale America

40 West 45 Street, New York, NY 10036 USA • Phone: (212) 626-9220 • Fax: (212) 626-9210 • Website: opcofamerica.org OPC Bulletin • June 2012 • Page 2 A Somber Mood Strikes in France After Its Election OPINION by Jacqueline Albert-Simon and Natalie Binn It’s not those glory days in 1981when the French elected Fran- çois Mitterrand the first socialist president since the founding of the Fifth Republic in 1958. For his sup- porters there was ardent hope and wild enthusiasm, while in the hearts and minds of many on the right they cowered at home fearing the rumble of tumbrils before dawn. Not so after Hollande’s election in May. The old saying that when- ever de Gaulle sneezed the republic Francois Hollande in Perigueux, southwestern France in early May. got pneumonia translates today into Hollande’s headache is the nation’s complicated by the initial Sarkozy- to be 4.2 percent in 2013 and well migraine. True, the Socialist Party’s Merkel accord on the hated auster- over the 3 percent E.U. countries exuberance and the gloom of the ity he promised to re-negotiate. pledged, and a deficit nearly 90 losers were classic, but short lived. On that score he’s already scoring percent of the nation’s GDP augur Parliamentary elections scheduled points particularly since a number skepticism for promises made. Hol- for late June are being bitterly of European Union nations and lande’s pre-election rhetoric “the fought, and stakes are high, includ- many economists are in agreement Change is Now” morphs into presi- ing the number of seats Marine that austerity without investment dential plans to increase back-to- le Pen’s disturbing far right party in growth is ineffective. In effect, school allowances, reduce right-to- might garner. it was Hollande who dominated retire age from 62 to 60, a 150,000 Domestic problems are over- the discourse at the recent Brussels whelming and not all created by summit, marking France’s place as “jobs for the future” program for the Sarkozy’s center right government. an independent force in the debate young, hire 60,000 extra teachers Less than six months in office, as opposed to the “Merkozy” alli- and 5,000 more police, and then to Sarkozy was faced with the global ance in which France was the junior vastly increase taxes on corpora- economic meltdown of 2008 and partner. The euro bonds he spon- tions and especially the wealthy the resulting eurozone crisis in a sored, however, are still in question among others, to pay for all that. country and continent ill prepared as we go to press. Cuts in the name of austerity have to accept the destructive realities Domestically the problems are not yet been mentioned. This time, of a post-bubble world. Not much his alone. Unemployment is close to rational irrationalism dominates improved, unfortunately. 10 percent and the rate for the 18- Hollande’s decent and honorable As always, French reaction was to 25-year-olds appallingly higher. scenario, but France’s migraine and is irrationally rational, insisting Think of frustration, even despair, seriously hurts. Prescriptions will be that social benefits must remain and which can mean crime and disrup- hard to fill, harder to swallow and expand during recovery and since tive behavior especially in already only increase the pain before it can as always it was the government’s troubled immigrant communities. get better. We wish Hollande the fault, then a new government on Sharing the burden is not endemic luck he needs. the left would fix things. At least to the French middle and upper Hollande made promises it would. classes, so higher taxes will be He must now take on recession, fought as, of course, so will any cuts Jacqueline Albert-Simon is the OPC unemployment, the deficit, the debt, in social services not only by the treasurer. Natalie Binn received a the burdens imposed by the best needy but in fact by all French citi- joint MA degree from the New York and highest social welfare benefits zens who care about social justice. University school of journalism and in all of Europe, and the weighty Wider issues, like France’s the Institute of French Studies in problems of the Eurozone, further budget deficit, predicted in Brussels May 2012.

OPC Bulletin • June 2012 • Page 3 Gettleman Relays Experience Covering by Nicole Schilit, CPJ tleman said colleagues often contact him for advice in , the Pulitzer Prize-winning New planning a reporting trip to the region. In one case, he York Times correspondent, says he travels with “a small recalled, an international journalist was held captive for militia” whenever he reports from , a country more than a month in Somalia, in part because a local afflicted by armed insurgency, poverty, and hunger. As support worker was insufficiently vetted. intrusive as the security detail might be, he feels far more Yet the risks facing international journalists pale in fortunate than the local reporters who face sustained and comparison to those that local journalists endure every often deadly risks, or the freelance journalists who don’t day. CPJ research shows that six journalists have been have the extensive support system the Times can provide. killed in Somalia in 2012 alone, and 42 have been killed Gettleman spoke to a crowd of about 100 at the Half in the last two decades, one of the highest tolls in the King pub in Manhattan on May 22 in the first event in the world. Gettleman said he’s impressed by the solidarity new CPJ discussion series, “CPJ Debrief.” Gettleman, of the Somali press corps, and inspired by the way these the East Africa bureau chief for the Times, has worked local reporters share information and look out for each in the region for six years. With East Africa’s needs so other. They work in a country without a long tradition of acute, and the volume of international reporting on the a free press, often among forces hostile to the free flow decline, the assignment has given him a chance to have a of information. profound impact. The stories affect him as well. On Tuesday, Gettle- WELCOME TO OUR NEW MEMBERS man read from a November 2011 Times piece in which Amar C. Bakshi Ilana Ozernoy he tells the story of a Somali man whose daughter died at World Producer and Assistant Professor Managing Editor Stony Brook School age 3. “Somalis are not somehow wired differently from Global Public Square – CNN of Journalism the rest of us. They are not numb to suffering. They are Washington, DC Associate Resident not grief-proof. I’ll never forget the expression on Mr. Active Non-Resident, Young Kufow’s face as he stumbled out of Benadir Hospital Gary Regenstreif into the penetrating sunshine with his lifeless little girl in Douglas Burton Editor, Special Projects Public Affairs Director Thomson Reuters his arms. He may not have been weeping openly. But he Unification Church Active Resident looked as if he could barely breathe.” Associate Resident As important as the story is, though, it is intensely Richard Roth dangerous. On Tuesday, when an aspiring freelance jour- Carmen Gentile CBS News (freelance) nalist sought advice on going to work in a place like So- Correspondent-at-Large Palm Beach Gardens, FL USA Today / ABC News Active Non-Resident malia, Gettleman was blunt: “Don’t go.” Radio Even for experienced international journalists, both / Chana Schoenberger freelance and staff, security issues are significant. Get- Active Overseas Reporter, Dow Jones and The Wall Street Journal Egypt Event: Continued From Page 1 Susan Glasser Active Resident Editor-in-Chief editor and co-founder of GlobalPost. Sennott covered the Foreign Policy Geraldine Sealey Egyptian revolts and the Muslim Brotherhood. His work Washington, DC Editor at Large Marie Claire for Frontline/WGBH titled “Revolution in Cairo” won Active Non-Resident, Reinstatement Active Resident an OPC citation for best online coverage of breaking news. Portions of his interviews with the Brotherhood Steve Govoni Stephen Segaller will be shown. Senior Financial Writer/ VP, Programming Calvin Sims, Program Officer, Freedom of Expres- Market Analyst WNET Active Resident sion Unit of the Ford Foundation will moderate. Sims Lord Abbett Associate Resident Reinstatement spent two decades as a reporter for The New York Times; he was based in Buenos Aires, Tokyo, Seoul and Jakarta. Douglas Jehl The Ford Foundation will host the program at its Foreign Editor headquarters. Use the 320 East 43 Street entrance. Bring The Washington Post a photo ID for security check. Registration will begin at Washington, DC Active Non Resident ADMISSIONS COMMITTEE 5:45pm; Reception from 6 to 6:30 p.m. and the Talk in George Bookman, Chair the East River Room on the 11th floor at 6:30 p.m. This Ariana Park Moon Felice Levin program is co-sponsored by the Ford Foundation, the Deputy Public Affairs Dir. Linda Goetz Holmes Overseas Press Club of America and Off-the-Record of Unification Church Robert Nickelsberg the Foreign Policy Association. Associate Resident, Young Charles Wallace

OPC Bulletin • June 2012 • Page 4 PEOPLE... by Susan Kille, [email protected]

PRESS FREEDOM : During Thailand’s throughout Nepal were targets JERUSALEM: Uri Blau, an 2008 state of emergency, during the period leading up to the investigative reporter for Haaretz, thousands of comments were constitutional deadline of May 27, posted on the Prachatai discussion which the country’s constituent will be tried for possession of board as webmaster Chiranuch assembly failed to meet. The classified military documents, Premchaiporn and her staff Federation of Nepali Journalists Israel’s attorney general said May moderated the most intemperate reported 24 acts of violence against 30. In 2008, Blau used leaked remarks. A court on May 30 found journalists or media vehicles on May documents to reveal that the Israeli 10 comments insulted the monarchy 20 alone. Reporters Without Borders military planned in advance to under Thailand’s Commuter Crime (RSF) said on May 22 that more assassinate Palestinian political Act and Chiranuch received an eight- than 50 journalists had been attacked leaders and fighters, but then passed month suspended sentence. The in the preceding two weeks. CPJ their deaths off as mishaps during court, which could have imposed urged stronger guarantees of media attempts to arrest them. The OPC and a 50-year sentence, was under freedom in the constitution to reverse other members of the international international scrutiny and showed this trend. press community had argued against leniency but press freedom groups ISTANBUL: Bianet, a newsite the indictment. Blau faces a possible reiterated protests that the law leaves Thai news sites vulnerable to in Turkey that publishes in English, sentence of seven years. unjustified and politically motivated reported on May 23 that a court prosecutions. banned Demokratik Vatan, a pro- Kurdish weekly newspaper, from NEW YORK: In a May 28 report publishing for one month. The to the OPC Board, Abi Wright said court reportedly based its decision the Freedom of the Press Committee on an issue that included articles it had written 10 letters since the com- considered “announcements” of the mittee’s last report in March. The banned Kurdistan Workers’ Party and letters argued against plans to pros- all copies were ordered seized. The ecute Uri Blau in Israel, protested court also opened an investigation French journalist Romeo Langlois legal proceedings against journalists into Chief Editor Arafat Dayan. after being released. in Bolivia and , condemned attacks on press freedoms in NEW YORK: Seventeen and Turkey, and urged country of- members of the United Nations Roméo Langlois, a BOGOTA: ficials to conduct prompt and thor- submitted recommendations to the freelance correspondent for France ough investigations of the murder of U.N. Human Rights Council on May 24 TV and Le Figaro, was released journalists in Brazil, Mexico, Nepal, 21 to improve freedom of expression March 30 by the Revolutionary the Philippines, with two letters go- in Ecuador. While Ecuador said the Armed Forces of Colombia, or ing to Mexico. criticism resulted from ignorance, FARC, after being held since April the actions made clear that the global 28. Langlois, who had accompanied DHAKA: On May 28, at least community is aware of President Colombian Army soldiers on a 15 men carrying machetes and Rafael Correa’s repressive tactics mission, said he was treated well other sharp weapons attacked the against the local media. and received medical attention for Bangladesh capital newsroom of STOCKHOLM: In a case that a wound received when he was bdnews24.com, which presents news in Bangla and English. News reports RSF said could change Sweden’s caught in crossfire and captured. The position in its press freedom index, a Committee to Protect Journalists said nine journalists and an office administrator were wounded, with court in Malmö on May 18 convicted (CPJ) reports that in the past four three undergoing surgery. AFP that three journalists with the tabloid months, three journalists have fled the staff did not know the reason for newspaper Expressen because one their homes after threats by alleged the attack. of them bought an illegal revolver members of the FARC and criminal while investigating how easy it is to groups. KATHMANDU: Journalists (Continued on Page 6)

OPC Bulletin • June 2012 • Page 5 (Continued From Page 5) attack of his car, but his driver and on bail. He faces prosecution on a acquire a gun illegally in Sweden. bodyguard were killed and 39 others charge of refusing to cooperate with Reporter Diamant Salihu took were injured when the blast occurred authorities. He was arrested May just five hours to buy a revolver on a busy downtown street. Londoño, 9 after being made to report to the and a cartridge clip, after which he a strong supporter of a military office of the National Intelligence immediately handed in the gun to solution to the FARC’s continuing and Security Services (NISS) daily police. Salihu was sentenced to a insurgency, is program director for since April 25 and spend six to seven fine of $2,000; Expressen editor-in- Radio Súper and a columnist for hours there each time without being chief Thomas Mattsson was fined several newspapers. interrogated. The harassment began after he criticized President Omar $41,000 for inciting Salihu to break DAMASCUS: President Bashar Hassan al-Bashir in an interview for the law, and former news editor al-Assad’s regime has banned Al-Jazeera on April 19. Also, NISS Andreas Johansson was fined foreign reporters and Syrians who confiscated the entire print run of the $1,900 for complicity. communicate with foreign news Al Midan and Al Jarida newspapers media run the risk of being threatened, for six days in May. JENIN, West Bank: On May detained, tortured, or even killed. 17, Israeli troops arrested Baha In May, a Syrian court sentenced ISLAMABAD: The Pakistani Khairi Attalah Mousa, the direc- citizen journalist Mohammed government blocked access to tor of the Palestinian Prisoner Chan- Abdel Mawla al-Hariri to death Twitter for much of May 20, after nel, a satellite television station that for the crime of “high treason and holding Twitter responsible for launched April 1. contacts with foreign parties.” He promoting what it described as a Broadcasting equipment, com- was arrested April 16 just after blasphemous cartoon contest to post puters, video cameras and documents giving an interview with Al-Jazeera images on Facebook of the Prophet were seized. The station, which is about conditions in his hometown of Muhammad. Facebook was banned privately funded and not affiliated Daraa. for two weeks in 2010 after protests with any political group, broadcasts erupted over a similar contest. The news about Palestinian prisoners and NUEVO LAREDO, Mexico: New York Times reported that critics their families and cultural programs. Shortly after it was attacked by of the government said that blocking RSF issued a statement: “We call for gunmen on May 11, El Mañana, a Twitter seemed to fit with a long-term the immediate release of Baha Mou- newspaper in this border town, ran government plan to muzzle media an editorial stating it would no longer sa and the return of all confiscated freedom, and could be related to the publish stories about organized crime. equipment, especially since the raid, vociferous opposition and criticism The gunmen set off an explosion carried out in territory under Pales- to the country’s security apparatus outside, then shot up the building’s on Twitter. tinian administration, is illegal under façade and parking lot. The damage international law.” was small, but the staff told CPJ the NEW YORK: CPJ has updated message was clear. In 2006, gunmen its list of the world’s 10 most shot a reporter five times and censored countries. Eritrea, where threw a hand grenade into the government expelled the last the newsroom. The reporter accredited foreign correspondent in is in a wheelchair and the 2007, topped the list followed by case is unsolved. The day the North Korea, which had been No. 1 editorial ran, 49 mutilated when the last list was published in bodies were left along a 2006. The other countries, in order, highway near Monterrey, less are Syria, Iran, Equatorial Guinea, than 120 miles from Nuevo Uzbekistan, Burma, Saudi Arabia, Laredo. CPJ reported there Cuba and Belarus. was nothing in El Mañana about the bodies. MURDERS Car Bombing in Bogotá, Colombia targeting Bassel Al Shahade, a Syr- Fernando Londoño Hoyos. KHARTOUM: Faisal ian filmmaker and Fulbright scholar Mohammed Salih, a who took a leave of absence from BOGOTA: Fernando Londoño freelance journalist and former Syracuse University to cover the car- Hoyos, a former interior minister editor of the newspaper Al-Adwa, nage in his native country, was killed for Colombia who has become a was held by Sudanese security forces May 28 while filming in the war-rav- journalist, survived a May 15 bomb for six days before being released aged city of Homs. The university

OPC Bulletin • June 2012 • Page 6 program coordinator and presenter at the radio station HRN, was shot twice in the head. Also, two����������� televi- sion journalists survived attacks in late April. On April 26, gunmen shot at the house of Selvin Hércu- les Martínez at least 20 times and the next night, gunmen with AK-47s Bassel Al Shahade repeatedly shot at Elder Joel Agui- A Mexican police handout showing reported that Shahade, who was pur- lar’s car on a highway. Marcio Antonio Ávila García who suing a Master of Fine Arts degree in was found dead and the car wash Three journalists from Baluch- where he was abducted. film, died “while working as a citi- istan, a restive province in Pakistan, 9 in Indonesia when a Russian-built zen journalist and filming the attacks were murdered in May. On May 28, jetliner slammed into Mount Salak, against the Syrian people by the gov- Abdul Qadir Hajizai, a school prin- a volcano south of Jakarta, during a ernment security forces there.” cipal who worked part-time for a demonstration flight. The English- A key witness to a 2009 massacre Baluchi-language TV channel, was language daily Jakarta Post reported of 31 journalists in the Philippines gunned down by men on a motor- that the journalists were Femi Adi was killed in what appears to be an cycle. On the same day, the home of Bloomberg Market; Dody Avi- attempt to eliminate or intimidate of Irshad Akhtar, president of the antara and Didik Nur Yusuf, who prosecution witnesses. Esmail Amil Turbat Press Club, was attacked by both worked for the monthly Ang- Enog, the third witness to be killed, gunfire. The body of Tariq Kamal, kasa magazine; and Ismiyati Suna- testified last year that he had driven 35, a crime reporter for a Sindhi- rto and Aditya Sukardi, who both gunmen to the site of the massacre, language paper, was found on May worked for Trans TV. where 57 people were killed in an 9 with multiple gunshot wounds and Aurangzeb Tunio, a reporter in ambush of vehicles en route to reg- what local papers said were signs Pakistan for the Sindhi-language ister an opposition candidate for pro- of torture. News reports said Raz- Kawaish Television Network, his vincial governor. News reports said zaq Gul a 10-year correspondent for brother and a family friend were Enog was mutilated and dismem- Express News TV whose body was killed by gunmen who entered the bered before being killed. He died found May 19, had been shot in the Kawaish bureau in the Sindh prov- in March, but prosecutors said they head and chest at least 15 times. ince. News reports said the gunmen learned of his death in late May. Ahmed Addow Anshur, who were angry about a story Aurangzeb worked for Shabelle Media Network, had aired about a failed marriage at- became the ninth Somali journalist tempt between a man from the Tunio killed in the last eight months when tribal group and a woman from the he was gunned down in Mogadishu rival Mughairi clan. on May 24 on his way home, the In- ternational Press Institute said. He is UPDATES the third journalist for Shabelle, the BOSTON: Adam B. Ellick, leading independent broadcaster in a correspondent for The New York Erick Martínez Ávila carries a Somalia, to be killed in 2012 while Times, will be moving to Boston rainbow pride flag. two others sustained serious injuries. this summer to attend a 10-month The tortured body of Marco master’s degree program at the Two Honduran journalists were Antonio Ávila García, a Mexican Kennedy School of Government at killed in May. The body of Erick reporter who wrote about organized . Elick is an OPC Martínez Ávila, an opposition jour- crime for the sister newspapers Dia- Board member and an OPC award nalist and gay rights activist, was rio Sonora de la Tarde and El Re- winner. found May 7 at the side of the road gional de Sonora, was found May between Tegucigalpa and Olancho, 19 on the side of a road in Sonora. GREENWICH, : two days after his family reported He had been kidnapped by gunmen OPC Past President Roy Rowan and him missing. Officials said Martínez the day before while waiting at a his wife, Helen, celebrated their 60th appeared to have been strangled. Af- car wash. Since 2006, more than 45 wedding anniversary in style May 12 ter being kidnapped on his way to journalists have been killed or disap- at the Greenwich Yacht Club. Guests work, Alfredo Villatoro was found peared in Mexico, according to CPJ included people from all parts of dead a week later on May 15 on the research. their lives from neighbors, Time, outskirts of Tegucigalpa. Villatoro, a Five journalists were killed May (Continued on Page 8)

OPC Bulletin • June 2012 • Page 7 (Continued From Page 7) : Leading politicians and journalists gathered May 16 at a packed memorial service at St. Mar- tin-in-the-Fields church to pay trib- ute to Marie Colvin, an American reporter who worked for the Sunday Times of London. She died Febru- ary 22 during a rocket attack on a

Sonya K. Fry makeshift media center in the Syr- From left: Toni Reinhold and OPC ian city of Homs. Her editor John Executive Director Sonya Fry at the Roy and Helen Rowan Witherow described Colvin as the Newswomen’s Club celebration. Life and Fortune magazine staffers, “greatest of her friends and of course, their four boys generation.” BBC journalist Lyse u and one grandson. Doucet spoke of how “the bravest Roy said that he has written many of the brave was also the kindest of Paul E. Steiger will step down at books and most of them were mem- the kind.” the end of the year as editor in chief oirs of his life as a journalist; as a and chief executive of ProPublica, the nonprofit investigative news present to Helen on this momentous NEW YORK: The Newswom- organization that he started nearly anniversary he wrote and prepared a en’s Club, led by OPC board mem- five years ago and led to two Pulitzer booklet about Helen, complete with ber Toni Reinhold, celebrated its Prizes. Steiger, the former longtime photos of their lives together from 90th Anniversary on May 16 at the managing editor of The Wall Street their wedding in Frankfurt, Germa- Taipei Economic & Cultural Office Journal, will become executive ny to postings in Hong Kong, trips on 42nd Street. The soiree included chairman, a position he described to Machu Piccu, the Trans-Siberian food, drinks and a silent auction of as part-time and focusing on railroad, Afghanistan to cruising world-class photography. In com- fundraising and strategic decisions. on the Queen Mary. Each guest re- parison, the OPC is a mere 73 years Stephen Engelberg will step up ceived the booklet, a beautiful trib- old; the Newswomen’s Club began from managing editor to editor in ute to a beautiful couple. on March 8, 1922. chief and Richard Tofel will move from general manager to president. Visa Denied in China, Chan Pays a Visit to the OPC The two, who have been with Melissa Chan was a ProPublica since the beginning, will Yale undergrad when she share the position of chief executive. won the Alexander Kend- rick Scholarship from the u OPC Foundation in 2001. She went on to study at the Abigail Pesta, an OPC board London School of Econom- member and editorial director of ics; became a producer/re- porter for Al Jazeera Eng- Women in the World for Newsweek lish in Beijing and was the and The Daily Beast, won first place bureau’s main correspon- for magazine feature writing in June dent last month when her From left: Michael Serrill, Tim Ferguson, from the New York Press Club for expulsion from China re- “The Accidental Sex Offender,” a ceived worldwide attention. David Andelman, Melissa Chan, The Chinese government Jackie Albert-Simon and Allan Dodds Frank. Marie Claire article about a man refused to allow another listed as a sex offender in Texas correspondent to replace her, effectively closing the Al Jazeera English for having sex with his high-school bureau. Al Jazeera’s original channel remains open in China. girlfriend. The piece previously won Chan, who is an OPC member, was passing through New York en third-place for magazine reporting in route to her 10th college reunion in New Haven, when OPC Executive Di- rector Sonya K. Fry invited her to stop by after the May board meeting to the National Headliner Awards and meet members of the board. Chan said the reason for her expulsion re- a PASS Award from the National mains unclear. The government started sending signals by cutting the time Council on Crime and Delinquency. between visa applications from every 6 months to every few months. Chan said she hopes to return to China because she has gained knowledge OKLAHOMA CITY: Anthony about the country that it would be a shame to waste. Chan will spend the Shadid, a longtime correspondent summer at the headquarters of Al Jazeera in Doha and then in September, she starts a Knight Fellowship at Stanford. in the Middle East for The New York Times, The Washington Post, The

OPC Bulletin • April 2012 • Page 8 New Books GLOBAL liams, leading activists, top policymakers and victims of OMEN’S RIGHTS HAVE MADE IMPORTANT human rights abuses. W advances in recent decades, particularly in the Unit- Worden is also the editor of China’s Great Leap: The ed States, but there’s still a long way to go as detailed in Beijing Games and Olympian Human Rights Challenges a new book edited by Minky Worden, an OPC member and co-editor of Torture: Does It Make Us Safer? Is It and the director of Global Initia- Ever OK?: A Human Rights Perspective. tives for Human Rights Watch. De- spite changes to international hu- NORTH AMERICA man rights laws, major challenges ALTER CRONKITE AND MIKE WALLACE, remain to end inequality faced by W who were both OPC members, are the subjects of women and girls. new biographies. Worden’s book, The Unfinished In Cronkite [Harper, May], Douglas Brinkley, a his- Revolution: Voices From the Glob- torian who has written biographies of Gerald Ford, Teddy al Fight for Women’s Rights [Seven Roosevelt and Hunter S. Thompson, traces Cronkite’s Stories Press, May], draws on the life from his roots and the beginning of his career in Mis- insight and personal experiences souri and Texas, through his work for United Press dur- of more than 30 writers to address ing World War II, his recruitment by Edward R. Murrow hard facts, offer new approaches and suggest that women in 1950 and beyond as he became the CBS anchorman must unite to bring lasting global change. known as “the most trusted man in America” , an OPC member and Global Publication of Mike Wallace: A Life by Peter Rader Affairs anchor for ABC News, writes in the foreward: [Thomas Dunne, April] was accelerated after Wallace “It’s a time of change in the world, with dictators top- died in April. Rader, a filmmaker and screenwriter, ex- pling and new opportunities rising, but any revolution plores Wallace’s 60-year career and his courage over- that doesn’t create equality for women will be incom- coming personal adversity as he redefines the landscape plete. The time has come to realize the full potential of of television news as one of the original correspondents half the world’s population.” Other contributors include for CBS’ “60 Minutes.” Nobel Prize laureates Tawakkyl Karmen and Jody Wil- — by Susan Kille

(Continued From Page 8) May 29, was known for was committed to helping Boston Globe and The Associated guiding the coverage of its underprivileged. Yet in Press and an OPC member, was hon- New York stories like the our frequent talks his pri- ored posthumously May 10 in his “Son of Sam” serial kill- mary concern often was hometown, when Nada Bakri, his er, the 1977 blackout and foreign news coverage,” widow, accepted the Oklahoma City the city’s fiscal crisis, but said Seymour Topping, an National Memorial and Museum’s shared with OPC mem- OPC board member. “He Reflection of Hope Award on his be- bers a background and re- was an intense public ad- spect for foreign news. half. Shadid, who died Feb. 16 while vocate of what he termed O’Neill, who was 89, on assignment in Syria, is the eighth preventive journalism. He began his career after leav- recipient of the award, which was O’Neill in 1982. believed the United States given for his work as a foreign cor- ing the University of De- can escape stumbling into respondent, his understanding of the troit to serve as an Army foreign policy pitfalls if probing re- Middle East and his role in giving journalist in Europe in World War II, porters factually raise warning flags people affected by terrorism and vio- earning a bronze star for battlefield lence a voice through his storytell- reporting. He returned to the univer- early enough. He lived by that vi- ing. The memorial is on the former sity and graduated in 1946. Moving tal credo as a reporter and editor.” site of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal to New York, he worked for a small After joining the Daily News Building, which was destroyed in by wire service and then the United Washington bureau in 1956, O’Neill a terrorist bomb in 1995. Press, advancing to Washington cor- became the newspaper’s managing respondent specializing in foreign editor in 1968, executive editor in PEOPLE REMEMBERED affairs. 1974 and executive vice president in Michael J. O’Neill, a former “Mike O’Neill, my close friend 1979. He resigned in 1982 to “renew editor of the Daily News who died and neighbor, loved New York and an old love affair with writing.”

OPC Bulletin • June 2012 • Page 9 Legendary War Photographer Horst Faas Dies at 79 by Edith M. Lederer I tasted my first bowl of “pho” sitting on a bench with When I first met Horst Faas in San Francisco in the him near the AP office. Late in the day, if things were spring of 1971, he and were just starting quiet, he would take me with him when he went to prowl a trip across the United States to give Associated Press Saigon’s antique shops. After several trips, I bought a readers a view of America through the eyes of two for- blue and white plate, for about $1.50. “You’re hooked!” eigners, a German and a New Zealander. Horst said as I paid for it. He was right. I, too, became a For a young AP reporter, it was collector of Asian antiques. an incredible opportunity to show Horst transferred to London as two Pulitzer Prize winners some of AP’s photo editor for Europe and the sights of a city that was in the Africa in 1976 and was a dynamo, forefront of the anti- organizing coverage of coups, wars, movement, with a strong hippie the Olympics and the British royals, culture, a burgeoning black power to name just a few events he was movement and great nightlife. I re- responsible for until his retirement call going to a few clubs in North in 2004. Every morning, he would Beach and ending up at the Buena cycle to work and he’d return home Vista for their famous Irish coffee at to his art-killed apartment in Kens- 2 a.m. ington the same way. I moved to Horst’s talent as a combat pho- London in 1982 and worked in the tographer was legendary. He won AP bureau and helped cover wars his first Pulitzer in Vietnam in 1965, and disasters around the globe until and a second Pulitzer, with AP’s 1998. Michel Laurent, for their photo- There were a number of old graphs of Bengali soldiers bayonet- Vietnam and Asia hands in London, ing rebel Pakistani militia accused including Dick Blystone and Bill of rape during Bangladesh’s war for Tuohy, and I started a Chinese Eat- independence later in 1971. ing Club. Horst and his wife, Ur- In the summer of 1971, I went sula, were members and the club Top photo: Horst Faas in Vietnam, 1967. to Vietnam on an around-the-world South Vietnamese troops with U.S. advis- began the eternal search for the best trip and stopped in Saigon as a “war ers rested after waiting for a Viet Cong at- Asian restaurants in the city. Horst tourist” without telling my parents. tack that didn’t come, taken by Faas, 1965. also knew all the good pubs and Little did I know that a year later, wine bars near the AP and was a in October 1972, I would return to Saigon as the first good lunchtime and after-work customer. woman assigned full time to cover the war by AP. Short- Though he was sometimes gruff and didn’t tolerate ly before I arrived, Horst gave the green light to pub- fools lightly, Horst was incredibly generous with both lish Huynh Cong “Nick” Ut’s photo of a badly burned advice and financial help if needed. Vietnamese girl fleeing an aerial napalm attack that had When my former AP colleague Jeannine Yeomans left her naked which won the Pulitzer the following year visited London, I introduced her to Horst and she asked and remains the most iconic image of the war. But Horst him about taking photos. He drew a diagram for her was much more than a photographer and photo editor. about how to shoot in Vietnam in sun, rain, “fast run- Above all, he was a Renaissance man. He was a wonder- ning,” and “for the rest, we save you in the darkroom.” It ful writer, able to capture in words the images that he hangs on a wall in her San Francisco apartment. saw through the lens of his camera, and some AP sto- As a birthday present to myself in 1993, I returned ries from the field carried his byline. He loved art, music, to Vietnam for the first time since 1973, and Horst and a books, good food and good wine. He had an impressive few others joined me. Horst had not taken pictures since library and was an avid collector of Asian antiques, es- he had been in London in his demanding photo editing pecially Chinese Ming porcelain. But his taste was wide- job but he went out and bought a Canon for that trip. ranging and after he moved to London in 1976 he started We started in Cambodia, spent several days in Angkor collecting modern prints. He also had an impressive col- Wat and then drove from Phnom Penh to the Vietnamese lection of oriental carpets. border where met us with a van. We drove to Ho When I arrived in Saigon, Horst took me under his Chi Minh City, and then up Highway One, the wartime wing, as he did all the Vietnamese photographers and highway of death, past spectacular beaches and beautiful darkroom staff. (Continued on Page 11)

OPC Bulletin • June 2012 • Page 10 Q&A: Continued From Page 12 This is why I don’t bother to read opinion pieces speculating about the future in the Arab world. It’s un- A: An editorial committee decides which videos are known, and we continue to see that anything is possible. the most relevant and trustworthy. The Arabic channel I arrived in Damascus in the fall of 1999 with two has been on the air for nearly a year, so they have a sys- suitcases and Arabic so bad that I couldn’t get from the tem in place and trusted sources who provide material airport to the institute where I was to study. (The driver that is aired. The channel is a low-budget operation com- left me on the roadside nearby and somehow I found pared to the propaganda machine Assad’s regime per- the place on foot). From that point to now, I spent these fected over decades, and we understand that all we have years traveling around the Middle East, studying Arabic, is our credibility. Without it, we would not have the con- listening to people and doing my best to speak their lan- fidence of the Syrian people, dozens of whom have been guage. I know the back story and what peoples’ griev- tortured and shot to death while in the act of filming and ances are, and I lived them too. I have seen that life under transporting footage to Syria al-Shaab. varying degrees of tyranny (depending on the country) Q: How many journalists work on the website? can be terrifying for Arab citizens. A: I’m working with about 20 Arabic-speaking jour- Q: Is your site funded and if so, how/whom is it fund- nalists and we use information transmitted from Syria. ed? What is the time frame of operation under your cur- Q: No one could have predicted the political domino rent funding situation? effect in the Middle East since the spring of 2011. What A: A secular, pro-democracy Jordanian-American has prepared you the most to cover these events? media entrepreneur who saw one of Assad’s speeches A: Indeed, I think Arabs are the most surprised by the early after the revolution began decided he wanted to uprisings. They are demanding freedom and democracy take action to help the Syrian people. He has funded the and they are not backing down, despite being arrested, channel Syria al-Shaab, which began airing in July 2011 tortured, fired upon and denounced by their own leaders. from his own pocket simply because of this conviction It is just this type of totalitarianism in which extrem- that the people’s version of the story is not being told due ism flourishes. With democracy and freedom – real, to a language barrier and lack of media access. The revo- grassroots efforts toward this end – extremist elements lution has dragged on and the budget is tight. will no longer have the space to grow. It is a story that must now be told to English-speaking No one knows how far the revolutions will go – re- audiences in order for them to make sense of what is hap- cently, the most powerful figures under Egyptian Presi- pening inside Syria. The recent massacres in Houla and dent Hosni Mubarak’s regime, including Mubarak him- Hama made it into the English-language media, but we self and his omnipotent former Interior Minister Habib see deadly incidents that do not. It is all part of a larger Adly, sat in a dock in a packed courtroom outside Cairo. picture of what the Syrian regime really is. While Assad They were dressed down by the judge in their collec- has plenty of supporters, the regime also has plenty of tive trial in the harshest of terms. It’s not a sight I ever people in the Arabic-speaking world who understand full thought I would see. well how murderous it really is.

Horst Faas: Continued From Page 10 normal a life as possible. He got a motorized wheelchair and had his antique-filled apartment adapted to deal with scenery that had been obscured by the fighting. his disability. He traveled to the U.S. twice, to Paris and Two years later, we organized the first reunion of re- London, and remained an ambassador for photojournal- porters, photographers and TV crew members who cov- ism and contributor to books and exhibitions. ered the Vietnam War. It was held in Saigon on April 30, I visited Horst several times in Germany and was 1995, 20 years after the city fell and the war ended. There amazed at his fortitude and positive outlook. He accepted were lots of reunions and war stories, antique shopping, his disability and never wanted anyone to feel sorry for a boat ride on the Saigon River and a memorable and hi- him. He wanted to return to Vietnam for the 35th anni- larious post-dinner cyclo race back to the hotel. In 2000, versary reunion in 2010 but his doctor said no. Nonethe- Horst and I organized a reunion on the 25th anniversary less, he still had great plans and photo projects, including of the war’s end. And in 2005, we organized another on hoping that his health would improve enough to return the 30th anniversary. again to Vietnam. Alas it was not to be. Days later, Horst was in to give a photo work- At the final dinner at all our reunions, we raise a toast shop when he suddenly had terrible back pain. He ended to absent friends.At the next one in 2015, I’m sure, there up in a clinic and then in a hospital in Bangkok, para- will be a special toast to Horst, a man who was larger lyzed from the chest down as a result of what turned out than life in every way and is irreplaceable. to be a spinal hemorrhage. He returned to Germany, ini- Horst died May 10 in Munich. He was 79 and was an tially to a rehabilitation hospital, determined to live as OPC member.

OPC Bulletin • June 2012 • Page 11 OPC Scholar Launches Opposition News Channel Still, there is Q&A WITH KRISTEN GILLESPIE plenty to be done to Kristen Gillespie is a reporter determine whether based in Jordan and Syria. She grad- the regime is tell- uated from Columbia University’s ing the truth. Why Graduate School of Journalism in haven’t journalists 2005 and was a 2005 OPC Founda- asked Ban how tion scholar. She is working on the he concluded the launch of the English-language news bombings were the website for the Arabic-language work of Al-Qaeda? news channel Syria al-Shaab, which The U.N. doesn’t have an intelli- means “Syria of the People.” Kristen Gillespie with Mohamed Jazar, who is from Syria Q: You said the reality in Syria gence agency and and is wanted by the intelligence for anchoring the is different from what American see. did not conduct an news. Recently, journalists working for the opposition What is happening? inquiry. Yet no one were given the death setence if caught. A: see Ban Ki-Moon asked where they blind. Ideally, I’d be inside Syria announce that a recent double got their information. Can the U.N. covering events myself but I believe bombing in Damascus that killed thus be considered an honest broker? the Syrian government has already more than 50 people was the work Why does the CNN reporter who killed several journalists, including of Al-Qaeda. They see the Assad interviewed Asma al-Assad a few Marie Colvin. In addition, any Syri- months ago allow her to denounce regime deny any responsibility for ans I talked to could be subject to ar- the atrocities in Homs but does not massacres, and they see uneven and rest or worse. This is why journalists ask why her husband committed confusing coverage due to the in- are not inside Syria - the government them? Why are we not reading more ability of the Western media to ade- won’t allow it. Why not? Because about how the Syrian regime trained quately cover the Syrian story. Even they are killing citizens and by bar- and sent fighters into Iraq to kill ring reporters, it allows them to cast my own friends who are knowledge- Americans? able about the region noted how dif- doubt on accounts of the crimes be- Q: Is this activism or journalism? cause journalists are not there them- ficult it is to unravel what is really A: We use journalistic practices happening. selves. What I can say for sure is that to tell an untold story to the best of credibility is our priority. our ability given the circumstances. Q: Who is vetting the videos that As a journalist, I’m not particularly your 10,000 volunteers are sending? comfortable relying on second-hand What is the criteria for them to be information. It’s not the activism vs. posted on your website? journalism question that concerns Coming up... me, but the fact that I’m working (Continued on Page 11)

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