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THE MONTHLY NEWSLETTER OF THE OVERSEAS PRESS CLUB OF AMERICA, NEW YORK, NY • February 2015 OPC, Coalition Sign Pact to Boost Freelancer Safety By Emma Daly and the freelancers who Diane Foley, mother of the late are assuming an ever- freelance reporter James Foley, was greater burden in cover- guest of honor at a panel discussion ing dangerous stories, to launch “A Call for Global Safety the panelists see these Principles and Practices,” the first principles as a first step industry code of conduct to include toward greater responsi- media companies and freelancers bility and accountability in an attempt to reduce the risks to by both reporters on the those covering hazardous stories. ground and their editors. The guidelines were presented to an “I am deeply proud Rhon G. Flatts audience of journalists and students of the OPC and the OPC David Rohde of , left, and Marcus Mabry during two panel discussions held at Foundation’s part in this speak to students and media about a the School of long overdue effort,” new industry code of conduct. Journalism’s Stabile Student Center Mabry said. Shehda Abu Afash in Gaza. on Feb. 12 and introduced by Dean Sennott flagged the horrific mur- By the launch on Thursday al- Steve Coll. der of Jim Foley as a crucial moment most 30 news and journalism orga- The first panel – David Rohde in focusing all our minds on the need nizations had signed on to the prin- of Reuters, OPC President Marcus to improve safety standards, despite ciples, including the OPC and OPC Mabry, Vaughan Smith of the Front- efforts over the past couple of de- Foundation, AFP, the AP, the BBC, line Freelance Register, John Dan- cades to introduce hostile environ- Global Post Guardian News and Me- iszewiski from the AP and Charlie ment and medical training, as well dia, PBS FRONTLINE and Thom- Sennott of the Ground Truth Project as protective equipment and more af- son Reuters. New signers since then – introduced the guidelines and the fordable insurance cover. 2014 was include the National Union of Jour- thinking behind why they’re need- particularly grim for the Associated nalists of the , notorious ed. In a world of increasing risk for Press, which had the deadliest year in for its entrenched culture of impu- journalists, including local reporters its 169-year history, with the deaths nity for the murder of journalists. of photographer Anja Niedringhaus While the document is long on Inside. . . in , and videojournal- “should” rather than “will” or “must” Mabry: Praise for New Standards...2 ist Simone Camili and translator Ali (Continued on Page 2) Remembering ...... 3 Serrill: Two Media Giants...... 3 Panel to Share Work From Women Activists EVENT PREVIEW: March 16 Rana Allam; Pakistani activist Mos- Rosenblum: ‘The Williams Age’...... 3 sarat Qadeem; acclaimed filmmaker Recap: Satire Panel...... 4 When reporting on an interna- Gini Reticker; and ICAN co-founder Recap: ‘Covering Ebola’ Panel...... 4 tional crisis, it’s important for jour- Sanam Anderlini. Prior to the panel, nalists to seek out the voices of clips will be shown from the upcom- Recap: ‘The Rise of ISIS’...... 5 women. In partnership with Peace is ing multimedia project The Trials of Video Memoir Project Update...... 5 Loud, the Norwegian Foreign Min- Spring, featuring women activists in People Column...... 6 istry and International Civil Action the and North , Network (ICAN), the OPC will host Press Freedom Update...... 9 as well as clips of interviews con- a forum March 16 highlighting the ducted with women activists in the Recap: Book Night, Roger Cohen..10 work of women activists in North region on how to combat extremism Q&A: Kristina Shevory...... 11 Africa and the Middle East. and militarism. The program will New Books...... 12 Panelists are: Egyptian journalist run about 75 minutes. (Continued From Page 1) – “Editors and news organizations should show the same MARCUS MABRY PRAISES concern for the welfare of local journalists and freelanc- NEW SAFETY STANDARDS ers that they do for staffers,” for example, the panelists The OPC’s participation in the process of for- agreed that doesn’t diminish its value. By signing on to mulating and now promulgating the first-ever news these principles, the media companies and freelancers are industry standards for safety goes to the core of making a moral commitment to ensure that freelancers on our mission: promoting and building excellence in foreign correspondence. assignment are properly trained, equipped and compen- The protocols also align with the OPC in an- sated. other aspect: our reorganization to tackle the chal- Payment for freelancers was raised several times as a lenges of today’s foreign correspondents, who are critical issue – Smith urged editors to pay freelancers at increasingly freelancers and local journalists. an acceptable level and on time, rather than two or three I could not be happier that the OPC is a part of months late. And on the second panel, freelance photog- such a broad and storied group of news organiza- tions, journalist groups and press-freedom watch- rapher Nicole Tung pointed out that better pay translates dogs. We are all stronger in one another’s compa- into safer assignments – the ability to hire a dedicated ny. And most importantly, as momentous as these driver, for example, rather than rely on a local taxi. guidelines are, they are only the beginning. This The second panel, chaired by host Bruce Shapiro of is just the first step in a process that will include the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma, brought to- conferences and possibly a formal consortium to gether Tung, Steven Adler of Thomson Reuters, Rob Ma- deal with these issues and others as foreign news coverage expands. honey of the Committee to Protect Journalists and Judith It is about time. Indeed, it is past time. And I am Matloff of Columbia. deeply proud of the OPC and the OPC Founda- Clearly journalist safety is in the air: Rohde said the tion’s part in this long overdue effort. Like I said, it guidelines came out of several meetings of news execu- is just the beginning. tives and press freedom advocates in the , - Marcus Mabry, OPC President noting that there are similar ongoing initiatives. governance mechanism to give teeth to the principles and Questions from the audience flagged some skepticism ensure that media outlets and journalist organizations live that the guidelines would make a real difference to those up to the spirit and letter of the guidelines. most at risk in the field. Ron Haviv of VII Photo Agency, “This is just the beginning, but we think it is a good which declined to sign, argued that the wording was tan- start to a process of making sure freelancers are provided tamount to saying “we should wear seat belts in the car, the respect, the dignity, the protections and ultimately not that we must wear seat belts.” the fair pay they deserve,” said Smith, founder of the The organizers are working now on a compliance and 500-member Frontline Freelance Register. OVERSEAS PRESS CLUB OF AMERICA • BOARD OF GOVERNORS PRESIDENT ACTIVE BOARD Azmat Khan Martin Smith Emma Daly PAST PRESIDENTS Marcus Mabry Jacqueline Albert- Investigative Reporter President Communications EX-OFFICIO Editor-at-Large Simon BuzzFeed News Rain Media Director Michael Serrill U.S. Bureau Chief Human Rights Watch David A. Andelman Politique Internationale Dan Klaidman Liam Stack John Corporon FIRST VICE PRESIDENT Deputy Editor Reporter Daniel Sieberg Allan Dodds Frank Calvin Sims Rukmini Callimachi Yahoo News The New York Times Senior Marketing Alexis Gelber President and CEO Foreign Head of Media Outreach William J. Holstein International House Correspondent Evelyn Leopold Seymour Topping Google Marshall Loeb The New York Times Independent Journalist Emeritus Larry Martz SECOND VICE PRESIDENT United Nations Professor of Abi Wright Roy Rowan Abigail Pesta Jane Ciabattari International Journalism Executive Director, Leonard Saffir Freelance Journalist Columnist Paul Moakley Columbia University Prizes Larry Smith BBC.com Deputy Director Graduate School Richard B. Stolley THIRD VICE PRESIDENT Photography and Charles Wallace of Journalism Pancho Bernasconi Chris Dickey Visual Enterprise Financial Writer Columbia University EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Vice President/News Foreign Editor Time magazine Awards Patricia Kranz The Daily Beast, ASSOCIATE BOARD Robert Nickelsberg ­MEMBERS OFFICE MANAGER TREASURER Freelance Brian I. Byrd Boots R. Duque Tim Ferguson Peter S. Goodman Photojournalist Program Officer Editor Editor-in-Chief NYS Health EDITOR Forbes Asia International Lara Setrakian Foundation Chad Bouchard Business Times Co-Founder & CEO SECRETARY News Deeply Bill Collins OPC Deidre Depke Charles Graeber Director, Public & ISSN-0738-7202 Journalist and Freelance Journalist Business Affairs ­Copyright © 2015 Author and Author Ford Motor Comapny Over­seas Press Club of America

40 West 45 Street, New York, NY 10036 USA • Phone: (212) 626-9220 • Fax: (212) 626-9210 • Website: opcofamerica.org OPC Bulletin • February 2015 • Page 2 Simon: War Changes You Measuring Two Media Giants By Susan Kille Commentary by Michael Serrill Bob Simon, senior foreign correspondent for “60 Min- I have seven or eight episodes of “” utes,” died Feb. 11 in a car accident in . backed up in my DVR – too often I am doing something Simon, who was 73, received OPC’s President’s Award else at 7:00 p.m. on Sunday night. I will now watch them last April. solely to savor my last taste of the reporting and writing “It’s a terrible loss for all of us at CBS News,” “60 Min- of CBS’s Bob Simon, killed in the tragic crash of a livery utes” Executive Producer Jeff Fager said in a statement. “It cab in New York. is such a tragedy made worse because we lost him in a car When I was president of the OPC I chose Bob for my accident, a man who has escaped more difficult situations second President’s Award, a tribute to his 40-odd years than almost any journalist in modern times.” of international journalism. There was something about Simon died after the livery cab he was riding col- Bob that set him apart from other broadcast journalists. lided with another vehicle and then ran into a median You sensed a vivid intelligence behind the stories he told. barrier on the West Side Highway. The other people in There was the wry humor, the always interesting choice the accident survived. of topics and, most of all, the fine writing. The latter is best displayed in Bob’s book, Forty Days, a gripping tale Simon spent almost five decades as a correspondent about his captivity by Iraqi forces at the start of the first for CBS, joining the network in 1967. He covered more Persian . Bob’s knowledge of the world beyond than 30 overseas conflicts and was aboard one of the our shores was encyclopedic – from Vietnam to Sarajevo last helicopters out of Saigon in 1975. He reported from to to . He was one of the few reporters to Tel Aviv, Northern Ireland, Portugal, , the Falk- give us a view of Africa that didn’t focus on poverty and land Islands, the Persian Gulf, Yugoslavia and Ameri- violence. His piece on the Congolese orchestra whose in- can military actions in Grenada, and . In struments were fashioned from junk is a classic, along January 1991, Simon and his CBS News team were with his series of stories on the journeys of the Lost Boys captured by Iraqi forces and were imprisoned for 40 of Somalia. days; he wrote about the experience in the book Forty Most importantly, you never questioned whether Bob Days. He won 27 Emmys, four and six Simon was telling you the truth. He emanated integrity Overseas Press Club awards. and credibility, in the same way as did another journalist “War is an intense experience and it changes you,” Si- who died last week, New York Times media critic Da- mon said, when he accepted the President’s Award from vid Carr. Which brings us to , who was Michael Serrill last April at the Overseas Press Club’s suspended by NBC for six months after the veracity of 75th Anniversary Awards Dinner. He said he believes stories he told – mostly on talk shows – about his adven- (Continued on Page 5 (Continued on Page 5) The Brian Williams Age: And That’s the Way It Isn’t Commentary by Mort Rosenblum reporter with no need to weave myths about himself. But Brian Williams’ silky smooth – and slimy – apology the problem is beyond individuals. We no longer have a for inserting himself into action in which he did not take common reliable source. Most of us graze from an end- part focused hard light on a troubling reality: America has less smorgasbord of tasty tidbits of little food value. lost a vital connection to the world, its shared daily reli- The irony is bitter out here in Arizona. Cronkite’s able briefing. name is affixed to a journalism school in Phoenix, which When I recently ragged on Williams, a wise graybeard has mountains of money and some very good faculty. Its colleague noted that few people pay serious attention to journalism curriculum is solid. But, it declares, it teaches network evening newscasts. True, and that’s a tragedy. “the skills necessary to pursue careers in today’s chang- This is not nostalgia for the old days – they weren’t ing newsrooms and public relations agencies and with the all that great, in fact – but a simple truth. Nations cannot deal with crises without common definition of threat and core values of integrity and accuracy exemplified by the potential remedy. In early days, that came from grunts and school’s namesake.” gestures while gnawing on mammoth bones by the fire My guess is the school namesake’s would suffer a in front of a cave. That, skipping some stuff in between, stroke reading that. His whole life, and the culture he evolved into a glowing screen in the living room. championed, was about telling the truth. Public relations was the most trusted man in Ameri- agencies do the polar opposite. Their goal is to rack up ca. Each night, he concluded, “And that’s the way it is.” numbers, to figure out what most people want to hear and When he finally went to Vietnam and reported what he to shape the message for higher sales – or ratings. saw, Lyndon Johnson threw in the towel. It’s a Brian Williams age, and it’s not just him. Alas, Today, that legacy is gone. We have Scott Pelley, a real poor Walter – and the rest of us.

OPC Bulletin • February 2015 • Page 3 Panel Probes French and American Bounds of Satire Wilkinson said her name had appeared on lists of EVENT RECAP journalists considered to be most anti-Semetic, most anti- By Chad Bouchard Catholic and most anti-Muslim all in a single year. “Car- Responses to last month’s attacks on journalists at toonists don’t kill people, humorless fundamentalists do,” the French magazine Charlie Heb- she added. do brought to light key differences Guénola Pellen, editor-in-chief between French and American atti- of France-Amérique, said France tudes about satire and free expres- has a long tradition of offensive sion. Many American media de- humor with roots that stretch back fended freedom of expression, but before the French revolution. “It’s also declined to publish cartoons difficult maybe for some -Ameri

depicting the prophet Mohammed. Chad Bouchard cans to grasp this humor because In France, newsstands sold out of Left to Right: Signe Wilkinson, Guénola it’s particularly mean and heavy, a special printing of the magazine, Pellen, Felipe Galindo, Asra Nomani and anarchist, in a way,” she said. which depicted the prophet’s im- and Jacqueline Albert-Simon. Felipe Galindo, widely known age on its cover. as Feggo, a Mexican cartoonist working in the U.S. who A range of views about deliberately offensive humor has been published in The New Yorker and The New York was reflected among panelists in an OPC panel discussion Times, was a close friend of Georges Wolinski, one of the on Feb. 12 titled “Toujours la Différence: Why French cartoonists killed in the Charlie Hebdo attack. and American Satirical Cartoonists Are Different. Are “When I saw his name among the people assassinated, I Pictures Multilingual?” was really shocked, and I was very angry,” he said. Galindo Signe Wilkinson of the Philadelphia Daily News, a is currently looking for a space for an exhibition of car- three-time winner of the OPC’s Thomas Nast award for toons in New York, partly as a way to cope with the grief. best cartoons on international affairs, told attendees that Asra Nomani, a Muslim feminist author and former her readers had shown “selective” outrage about religious Wall Street Journal reporter, urged people to speak more symbolism in cartoons. honestly about intolerance. “This culture of censorship, “To me, the whole issue of what’s sacred and what’s this culture of checking yourself, has made it so that in not depends on whether it is favorable to the group whose 2015 it’s very difficult for us to talk in America about symbol it is,” she said. issues regarding Islamic extremism,” she said. Moakley Shares Unique Challenges in Covering Ebola tography, began following the story lance photographer. EVENT RECAP over the summer and talking to pho- “If you hire somebody you also By Chad Bouchard tographers on the ground. have to do a 21-day quarantine, and Journalists face a host of increas- Insurance companies would not besides paying for an assignment ing dangers when reporting these days when resources are in hostile zones or unfamiliar pretty limited, how can we cov- territory. But the deadly Ebola er a 21-day quarantine? Could epidemic in West Africa, one we guarantee that the person of the biggest stories of 2014, would do the quarantine and be posed unusual challenges for safe?” Moakley said. newsrooms and journalists. Editors began to mull the On Feb. 3, the OPC and the idea of naming Ebola Fighters New York University Center as Person of the Year weeks for Global Affairs held a fo- before the final decision was rum about how to tackle such Chad Bouchard Paul Moakley and Alexis Gelber talk to audience made on the famously secretive stories, which demand unique members during a forum on Covering Ebola at annual issue. considerations like gear, quar- the NYU Center for Global Affairs on Feb. 3. They hired Jackie Nicker- antines, special health insur- son, a U.K. citizen with an eye ance and meticulous contingency cover journalists on assignment in for intimate portraits who was also planning. Liberia during the ourtbreak. World fully covered by nationalized health Paul Moakley, a member of the Health Organization guidelines, not care, to take photos of the Ebola fight- OPC Board of Governors and Time to mention sticky ethical dilemmas, ers. She shot four of the five covers magazine’s deputy director of pho- made it hard for them to hire a free- (Continued on Page 10)

OPC Bulletin • February 2015 • Page 4 Martin Smith Traces Roots of Terror in ‘The Rise of ISIS’ Smith spoke to attendees after a special screening of EVENT RECAP the film at Club Quarters on Jan. 22. He said many Sun- By Chad Bouchard nis took up arms after witnessing atrocities in Syria and The group once known as ISIS, now called the Is- brutality against protesters in . lamic State, was taking root in Syria and Iraq long be- “There is still a network of people who feel this is fore it began its campaign of terror a righteous cause,” Smith said dur- and brutality. ing a Q&A session. “There is a call- Before Islamic State seized a ing throughout the Sunni world that string of cities along the Tigris River, says ‘this is a just cause and we must before its members killed thousands support it.’” of people and drove hundreds of A member of the audience asked

thousands more from their homes, Chad Bouchard what Smith made of the lack of cov- and before the organization started Martin Smith speaks to attendees erage in Western media of precipitat- claiming responsibility for the brutal during a Q&A session after ing events in Iraq and ISIS’s momen- murders of journalists and other cap- a special screening of tum before it gained a foothold and tives, a quiet civil war was fueling ‘The Rise of ISIS.’ began seizing cities. anger from radicalized Sunni Muslims against the Iraqi “It was a surprise. And it really was instructive about government. how little we know about what’s going on in the world In the hourlong Frontline documentary The Rise of when we’re not paying attention,” he said. “It just shows ISIS, OPC Board of Governors member Martin Smith, how much can fit on the front page of The New York who wrote and produced the film, traced the group’s Times. There’s a big world.” evolution from a dwindling band of extremists in 2011 Smith is currently working on a follow-up documen- to the international movement it has grown into today. tary that will focus on conditions inside Syria.

(Continued From Page 3, Kille) that “humor more than anything else,” keeps foreign cor- OPC Video Memoir Series respondents “somewhat sane.” Capturing Member Histories “Normal people think we are insane and they are right. The only question is whether covering all those wars OPC members might have noticed the new makes us crazy or whether we are bonkers to begin with “Video” tab on the top-right side of our web- – which is what made us do it,” he said, adding that he site, where we’ve been posting interviews and believes his generation of correspondents was inspired by personal stories from veteran members. This an “overdose of Hemingway, when we were too young to oral history project is managed by former OPC digest it.” Executive Director Sonya Fry, funded by a Ford Simon displayed his sense of humor at the dinner but Foundation grant and launched as part of the he also criticized journalism for not doing a better job de- club’s 75th anniversary year. bunking allegations of weapons of mass destruction that Check out our archive for interviews with Roy President George W. Bush used to justify the Iraq War. “I Rowan, Jim Bittermann, Mort Rosenblum, Alan think we, correspondents, bear some responsibility,” he Riding, John Morris, Robert Pledge, Seymour said. “With all our resources we didn’t call Bush’s bluff in Topping, Audrey Topping, Edith Lederer and time, before it was too late.” Richard Stolley. Simon is survived by his wife, Françoise, and their daughter, Tanya, who is a producer for “60 Minutes” in New York. (Continued From Page 3, Serrill) tures in Middle East war zones was called into question. What was he thinking? That’s one’s first reaction when you see clips of Williams making assertions that could easily be checked with the soldiers with whom he pur- portedly faced danger. He has apparently accepted his punishment without protest. Brian is a friend of the OPC – he did a marvelous job presenting our awards a few years ago. I don’t think the death sentence is warranted here. I for one am looking forward to seeing a chastened Left to right: Lesley Topping, Edith Lederer, John Dan- newsman named Williams back on the air this summer. iszewski and Sonya Fry pause during an interview.

OPC Bulletin • February 2015 • Page 5 PEOPLE... By Susan Kille

OPC SCHOLARS men and the four-year anniversary Frontline for “Syria’s Second Front” Frederick Bernas, winner of of the Arab Spring. Johnsen is the and Netflix for Virunga, a documen- the 2013 Walter and Betsy Cronkite author of The Last Refuge: Yemen, tary about rangers in the Congo who Scholarship, belongs to a collective al-Qaeda, and America’s War in protect endangered mountain goril- of 30 photographers who produced Arabia. las. Abi Wright, an associate mem- The Warld Cup, an exhibit shown in ber of the OPC board, administers WINNERS Brazil and documenting the awards, which are regarded as OPC Board member Rukmini poverty and hardship in Brazil while the broadcasting equivalent of the Callimachi was a winner of the Pulitzer Prizes. the country’s government spent vast George Polk Awards in Journalism sums to stage the World Cup. The for 2014. Callimachi, who writes for Buzzfeed News in January collective is seeking partners to pro- The New York Times, won the award named Joshua Hersh, who was the duce a book and take the exhibition for international reporting for expos- Middle East correspondent for the around the world. ing how European nations funded Huffington Post, as the site’s second the Islamic State by secretly paying Michael Hastings National Security Olivia Crellin, who won the millions of dollars in ransom for kid- Reporting Fellow, a one-year ap- Theo Wilson Scholarship in 2014, napped citizens. Six Times report- pointment given in honor of Hast- has a five-month fellowship with ers won the health reporting award ings, an award-winning journalist BBC News in Washington. Last for providing the earliest and most killed in a car accident in 2013. summer, Crellin had an OPC Foun- reliable coverage of the Ebola out- dation fellowship with The Wall break in West Africa: Helene Coo- UPDATES Street Journal in Madrid. per, Daniel Berehulak, Sheri Fink, : Being called “an Adam Nossiter, Norimitsu Oni- absolute prick” and a “piece of shit” shi and Ben Solomon. A three-year by a former public investigation into international tax relations executive dodges won business reporting hon- elicited a classy re- ors for The International Consortium sponse from Keith of Investigative Journalists, work- Bradsher, an OPC ing as part of The Center for Public member who is Hong Kong bureau Michael Dames Integrity. Rania Abouzeid won the Bradsher chief for The New

Michael Dames foreign reporting award for “The Ji- had Next Door,” published online by York Times. In the February issue Olivia Crellin speaking at the 2014 Politico Magazine. James Verini won of Car and Driver, Jason Vine, who OPC Foundation Scholar- worked for Chrysler, Ford and Nis- ship Luncheon. the magazine award for a National Geographic piece on the seeming san, said he became friends with Gregory Johnsen, who received futility of U.N. intervention in the most journalists covering the auto the 2006 David R. Schweisberg Me- Democratic . industry. “The only ones I didn’t morial Scholarship, was a guest on become friends with were assholes the “” show in January With six of 14 awards, public – like Keith Bradsher of The New for a panel discussion on Libya, Ye- broadcasters were again the big win- York Times,” Vine said, going on to ners Jan. 20 when the Alfred I. du- add the descriptions above. Bradsher Pont-Columbia University Awards responded on the website of media were presented. Perhaps more nota- blogger Jim Romenesko that he has ble is that Netflix won its first award been “quietly grateful” to Vine for ac- while broadcast networks received knowledging his reporting by telling no honors. Two duPont awards went other journalists, although not him, to projects that won OPC honors last that Ford engineers referred to a safe- year: NPR’s “Planet Money Makes ty feature as “Bradsher bars.” Brad- a T-Shirt” and “Sea Change: The sher said: “If Jason comes through New America Foundation (flickr) New Gregory Johnsen speaking at the Pacific’s Perilous Turn” by The Se- Hong Kong, I’ll certainly invite him New America Foundation attle Times. Other duPont awards to the Foreign Correspondents’ Club in December 2012. for international coverage included and try to buy him a beer.”

OPC Bulletin • February 2015 • Page 6 PALM BEACH, Fla.: On Jan. Four OPC members are among pursuing a law degree at Yale Uni- 21, Robert Nickelsberg, an OPC 150 photographers and 75 editors, versity, worked with collaborators in Board of Governors member, talked curators, gallerists and book publish- Iran to have his Shared Studios col- about his nearly 30 years of pho- ers offering young photographers lective stage “Portals,” an art project tographing Afghanistan for Time two days of free private critiques in to foster conversation by providing magazine and other publications at April during the third annual New a “portal” between New York and FOTOfusion, an annual conference York Portfolio Review. The event is Tehran. For two weeks in December, at the Palm Beach Photographic sponsored by The New York Times’ people in New York could step in- Centre. Afghanistan: A Distant War, Lens Blog and the City University side a customized shipping contain- his book about his work in Afghani- of New York’s Graduate School of er at Lu Magnus Gallery and con- stan, won the 2013 OPC Olivier Reb- Journalism. Santiago Lyon, director verse with someone in Tehran, while bot Award. On Jan. 28, Nickelsberg of photography for The Associated images of each party were projected was a panelist at Boston University Press and a former OPC Board of onto a wall. Text translation was during a discussion of the Future of Governors member; Paul Moakley, provided. Bakshi, a former journal- Long-Form Visual Journalism. an OPC Board of Governors member ist who served on the OPC board, and deputy director of photography said he wants to create a network of MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif: In at Time; Vaughn Wallace, deputy these shipping containers around the an interview with Capital New York photo editor at ; world. posted Jan. 30, Jonathan Dahl ex- and Jonathan Woods, senior mul- plains why he left The Wall Street timedia editor at Time, have agreed PEOPLE REMEMBERED Journal, where he was editor-in- to do critiques. Lyon will also speak Peggy Polk Sullivan, an OPC chief of WSJ.Money magazine and about building an editorial portfolio. member who spent 32 years with executive director of page one, in United Press International, died Jan. October to become managing edi- Lynsey Addario, an OPC mem- 13 at her home in New Orleans. She tor of Ozy, a digital news startup. ber, is a photojournalist known for was 79. Sullivan, known profession- “I couldn’t resist the challenge,” her work covering conflicts and ally as Peggy Polk, reported on poli- he said. “No question, The Journal human rights issues but she is now tics, religion and the arts and made was great to me – it was home for drawing attention for her writing. headlines herself. While a junior at three decades. But from the first, An excerpt from Radcliffe College, she became the Ozy struck me as utterly new and It’s What I Do: A first woman to complete 10- para original. We’re a digital magazine Photographer’s Life chute jumps and earn a license from that focuses on fresh trends and of Love and War, a the U.S. Parachute Association. Sul- people who aren’t getting covered book published in livan joined UPI in Albany, N.Y., anywhere else. We’re not afraid to early February by and went on to work in Boston, New go long, to go global. And we’re Penguin Press, was Commons Wikimedia York, Washington, Moscow, Madrid also not afraid to staff up and build published Feb. 1 in Addario and Rome, where she spent 18 years resources, which, sadly, is a huge The New York Times Sunday Maga- as bureau manager and covered Ital- struggle in my industry these days.” zine. In the excerpt, entitled “What ian politics including the wave of Can a Pregnant Photojournalist Cov- terrorism in the 1980s, wrote about NEW YORK: Sheila Nevins, an er? Everything,” Addario writes that Italian fashion and closely covered OPC member and president of HBO while pregnant with a son born in the papacies of Paul VI and John Documentary Films, was one of 2011, she accepted all assignments Paul II. After leaving UPI in the mid three women honored in early Feb- except military embeds and hid her 1990s, she worked for a year on pub- ruary at the fifth annual Athena Film pregnancy as long as she could: “I lications for the U.N. Food and Agri- Festival presented adamantly didn’t want any of my culture Organization and then joined by Barnard Col- editors or colleagues to know that I Religion News Service, where she lege’s Athena Cen- was pregnant until I could no longer worked exclusively on the Vatican ter for Leadership hide it. I worried about being denied until 2005. In 2006, she married Studies and Women work or treated differently.” Addario Scott Sullivan, a former and Hollywood. received a MacArthur fellowship in correspondent who won an OPC

Nevins’ productions Astrid Stawiarz/Getty Images 2009 and in 2010 won the OPC’s award in 1984. have won 47 Em- Nevins Olivier Rebbot Award for “Veiled mys, 21 Oscars, and Rebellion: Afghan Women” in Na- Stuart Loory, a and 31 Peabody Awards. Also, she won a tional Geographic. Moscow correspondent who was an personal Peabody for excellence in early hire at CNN, died Jan. 16 at his broadcasting. Amar Bakshi, an OPC member (Continued on Page 8)

OPC Bulletin • February 2015 • Page 7 (Continued From Page 7) England. Webb, who was 79, spent he supervised all hard news; but home in . He was 82 and most of his career as a reporter, edi- perhaps his biggest role was as li- suffered from lung cancer. Loory tor and bureau chief for UPI. His aison to the network’s biggest star. worked in Washington and Moscow death was attributed to complications It was a role he continued to play in the early 1960s for the New York of pneumonia and diabetes. Webb, until Cronkite died in 2009, with Herald Tribune, served briefly as Charles Mohr of The New York the two teaming on various proj- a science writer for The New York Times and David Greenway of Time ects after Cronkite’s retirement. Times and became White House received the Bronze Star for help- When Socolow was honored in correspondent for the ing to evacuate a gravely wounded December with the 2014 Lifetime Times during the Johnson and Nixon Marine during the Tet Offensive in Achievement Award of the Soci- administrations, earning a place on 1968. He covered many major sto- ety of the Silurians, his former col- Nixon’s “Enemies List.” After leav- ries, including the civil rights move- leagues spoke of his brilliance and ing the , he taught ment in the United States, the early described him as the conscience of journalism at NASA space missions, the 1978 CBS News. and was managing editor of the Chi- cago Tribune. He joined CNN as Arnaud de Borchgrave, a for- head of the Washington bureau in eign correspondent who became late 1980, shortly after the 24-hour the confidant of world leaders, died news channel went on the air. His Feb. 15 in Washington after a battle credibility and contacts were seen as with cancer. He was 88. Born a Bel- crucial in getting CNN, which many gium count, he volunteered during at the time saw as a dubious under- World War II to serve in the Brit- taking, off the ground. He opened ish . He later gave up

CNN’s Moscow bureau in 1983 and Michael Dames his aristocratic title to become a four years later was tapped to lead Left to right: Richard Leibner, David U.S. citizen in 1957. After the war, “World Report,” which gave Ameri- Andelman and Sandy Socolow at he was hired by United Press and can viewers a sampling of overseas the OPC Awards Dinner in 2011. became bureau chief in , news broadcasts. He finished his succeeding Walter Cronkite. He broadcasting career in 1997 as ex- Massacre in Guyana. His joined Newsweek in 1950 and spent ecutive vice president of Turner In- overseas postings for UPI included decades as a correspondent and ternational Broadcasting in Russia , Brussels, Hong Kong and editor who parachuted into global and then taught journalism at the Beirut. In the early 80s, Webb moved hotspots, including, by his count, , where he to U.S. News and World Report and 17 wars. De Borchgrave’s exclu- edited the magazine Global Journal- returned to London, where he met his sive reports, personal daring and ist. His books included 1968’s The wife and settled. He became a British expense accounts were legendary. Secret Search for Peace in Vietnam, citizen and, according to friends, be- His back-to-back interviews with with David Kraslow, a Los Angeles came a rare American to embrace the Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir Times colleague. game of cricket. and Egyptian President Anwar Sa- dat in 1971 brought one of his five Jacques Lhuillery, who had Sandy Socolow, a longtime ex- OPC awards. He left Newsweek in served since July 2012 as Tokyo bu- ecutive at CBS News, died on Jan. 1980 after a disagreement over his reau chief of Agence France-Presse, 31 in New York City. He was 86. coverage of the Soviet invasion of died Jan. 18 at age 61 in France after His sons said the cause was compli- Afghanistan. Although he never a battle with cancer. Lhuillery began cations of cancer. Socolow, a New had worked at a newspaper, in 1985 his tenure with AFP in 1979. Before York native, began a 30-year career he became editor of The Washing- arriving in Japan, he had postings in at CBS in 1956 as a writer for the ton Times, which had been recently Tehran, Madrid, The Hague, Beirut, morning news. He soon found him- launched by the Rev. Sun Myung Lagos and Abidjan. He was celebrat- self writing for a midday news pro- Moon’s . He ed by his colleagues for his passion gram and forming a lifelong bond retired from the paper in 1991 and for journalism and for his excellent with its host, Walter Cronkite. became the top executive at the imitations of French presidents. Socolow held powerful positions at much-diminished United Press In- CBS including co-producer and ex- ternational. Subsequently, he be- Al Webb, an American reporter ecutive producer of the “CBS Eve- came editor at large at the Times awarded a military medal for battle- ning News with Walter Cronkite,” and UPI, which was purchased in field heroism while covering the war Washington bureau chief and vice 2000 by the Unification Church’s in Vietnam, died Jan. 25 in Banbury, president of CBS News, in which news affiliate.

OPC Bulletin • February 2015 • Page 8 PRESS FREEDOM UPDATE... By Susan Kille The freeing of three Al Jazeera captors during a failed Dec. 6 was published Jan. 14 by the German English journalists who had been rescue attempt in Yemen by U.S. newspaper Die Ziet. Köckritz details imprisoned in since December commandos. the October arrest and continued de- 2013 is good news at a time when On Feb 5., the parents of Austin tention of her Chinese research assis- journalism has little to celebrate. Tice, an American journalist who has tant, and her own repeated Kafkaesque Peter Greste, a former BBC been missing in Syria since August interrogations, including one session reporter, was deported to his native lasting more than 4½ hours. Köckritz Australia Feb. 1 under a recent decree said she chose to leave after she that allows President Abdel-Fattah was accused of being a spy and help- el-Sissi to deport convicted prisoners ing to organize pro-Democracy pro- who are citizens of other nations. tests in Hong Kong. Greste’s two colleagues, Mohamed Zhang Miao, Köckritz’s as- Fadel Fahmy and Baher Mohamed, sistant, was arrested in October in were freed Feb. 13 pending a retrial Images Alex Wong/Getty Beijing while trying to attend a po- on charges that they supported USA Director of Reporters Without etry reading in support of Hong Kong the banned . Borders Delphine Halgand, left, demonstrations. Köckritz describes Fahmy, who had dual Egyptian and with Marc and Deborah Tice, her attempts to contact Zhang, who Canadian citizenship, has renounced parents of journalist Austin she was told had testified against her. his Egyptian citizenship in hopes Tice, during a news con- Köckritz said she was encouraged to that he will be deported to Canada. ference at the National plead guilty to charges she did not Mohammed is an Egyptian citizen Press Club on Feb. 5. understand. Authorities repeatedly unable to benefit from the deportation threatened that she would lose her decree. 2012, along with Reporters Without visa and other unspecified conse- A day before Greste left Egypt, the Borders unveiled a #FreeAustinTice quences, Köckritz said. Die Ziet said homicidal zealots of the Islamic State campaign that will include banners it held off publishing the piece until it released a video in which it claimed on hundreds of websites of major was clear that diplomatic efforts were to have beheaded Kenji Goto, a media groups. Marc and Debra Tice not leading to Zhang’s release. Japanese journalist who spent more criticized the Obama administra- The Foreign Correspondents’ than two decades covering conflict tion’s current hostage policy and said Club of China in Beijing issued a zones as a freelance television they are taking part in meetings for a statement in support of Köckritz. White House policy review on how “The FCCC condemns, in the stron- to handle hostage cases. gest terms, the intimidation of one Supporters of Jason Rezaian, of its members in this outrageous ’s Tehran corre- way,” the statement said. “We hope spondent who has been held for more that our members will continue to than six months, are concerned that report on Zhang Miao’s detention a hard-line judge with Iran’s Revolu- and treatment.” tionary Court has been assigned to the Once again, Congress is consid- Rezaian’s trial. Iran’s state news agen- ering what would be first major re- Glenn Hunt/Getty Images cy reported in January that Rezaian form of the Freedom of Information Al Jazeera journalist Peter Greste, was indicted but did not describe the Act since 2007 with legislation that right, and his family speak to charges. The judge, Abolghassem was introduced Feb. 2 in the House reporters in Brisbane, Salavati, has been under sanction by and Senate. Separate but similar bills Australia, on Feb. 5. the European Union since 2011 for unanimously passed both chambers cameraman and author. As when human rights violations. The Interna- last year but the Senate vote came the extremist group released images tional Campaign for Human Rights in just before Congress adjourned and last year of decapitated American Iran said Rezaian had not had access the House did not vote on changes journalists James Foley and Steven to legal counsel since his arrest. in the bill. Sotloff, the video appeared after A harrowing 6,500-word account In addition to the execution of demands set by the group were not by Angela Köckritz, who was a corre- Goto by the Islamic State, at least met. A third American journalist, spondent for four years in China, about eight other journalists were killed in Luke Somers, was killed by his the lack of press freedom in China (Continued on Page 10)

OPC Bulletin • February 2015 • Page 9 (Continued From Page 9) threats from the mayor and others. Sudan. They were among 11 killed in recent weeks. ● The International Federation a government convoy, which was on of Journalists reported the deaths of its way back from a visit with fami- ● The decapitated body of Mexi- two Iraqi journalists in January. Ad- lies of individuals killed by gunmen can journalist José Moisés Sánchez nan Abdul-Razza, a photojournalist in a Jan. 22 attack. According to CPJ, Cerezo was found Jan. 24, three for the Sama Mosul television chan- killed were Musa Mohamed, direc- weeks after he was abducted from nel, was reportedly murdered Jan. 25 tor of the state-run radio station Raja his home in Veracruz state by nine by the Islamic State in Mosul while FM; Adam Juma, Dalia Marko and armed men. Sánchez founded and Ali Al-Ansari, a cameraman for Al- Randa George, reporters for Raja edited La Unión, a weekly print and Ghadeer satellite television, was fa- FM; and Boutros Martin, camera- online newspaper that often criti- tally injured in crossfire on Jan. 23 man for the Western Bahr el Ghazal cized city authorities and decried while covering the battles between branch of South Sudan Television. local crime and the poor quality of the Iraqi army and the Islamic State ● Khalid Mohammed al-Wash- municipal services. His body was in Mekdadyah, north of . ali, a Yemeni TV correspondent, was discovered after a gang member ● According to the Committee one of the six people killed Jan. 4 by a and former police officer reportedly to Protect Journalists, five broadcast roadside bomb that injured 25 others. confessed to his role in the crime. journalists were killed Jan. 25 when The attack was reportedly carried out Relatives said Sánchez had received gunmen ambushed a convoy in South by Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. Roger Cohen Chases Ghosts in ‘The Girl From Human Street’ Cohen saw a connection between the constant dis- EVENT RECAP placement of his family and the mental pain that afflicted By Chad Bouchard her, and set out to tell what he called “a Jewish Oddysey New York Times columnist Roger Cohen chased a lot of the 20th Century.” of ghosts while writing his memoir, The Girl From Hu- The book night took place only a week after the Char- man Street. The book follows his lie Hebdo shootings and attacks family’s emigration from Lithua- at a Kosher supermarket in Paris. nia to South Africa, England, the Cohen said he is alarmed by rising United States and . It also anti-Semitism across Europe and follows the story of his mother, increasng fear among Jews. He the titular “girl,” who suffered said reports that Jews in the Neth- from deep depression. erlands had removed Mezuzahs “Behind that family story from their doorways “made me feel so sick.”

there was a broader story of dis- Chad Bouchard placement, of upheaval, of leav- “I think Europe’s pretty com- Roger Cohen, right, reads from his memoir bustible right now. It’s dangerous. ing home behind in every genera- as former OPC President Allan tion,” he told attendees at a book Dodds Frank looks on. I’m troubled,” he said. night Jan. 14 at Club Quarters. Former OPC President Allan Inspiration for the book started with the discovery Dodds Frank, who moderated the discussion, asked Co- of a box in his parents’ attic in Wales, U.K., which con- hen what he hoped his children would gain from reading tained two suicide notes that she had written before un- the book. successful attempts to end her life. The box also included “I think it’s important to know where you come notes from his father, a physician, as he monitored her from. And it’s important for things to be open. It may be ups and downs. tempting to hide things, painful things, and there have Cohen wrote that his mother had been institutional- been many painful things in my family, but I think in the ized and subjected to insulin shock therapy and electro- end, I don’t think silence is good. My hope is that it will shock therapy, after which she seemed “hollowed out, be a foundation for my children to build their lives and like a tree struck by lightning.” their happiness.”

(Continued From Page 4) rovia. He said workers there were constantly exposed to for the issue, and along with photographer Bryan Schut- bodies, many of them abandoned, and Ebola patients in maat profiled 23 Ebola fighters featured in the magazine. excruciating pain. “Ebola basically prevents you from acting like a nor- Moakley traveled with them to Liberia in November mal human being and reacting the way that you want to,” as photography director for the project. He secured a visa he said. “You can’t be human. You can’t touch people. at the last minute and hopped on a charter flight to Mon- You are constantly in a state of fear.”

OPC Bulletin • February 2015 • Page 10 Meet the OPC Members: a Q&A With Kristina Shevory By Susan Kille Kristina Shevory is a longtime freelance reporter who writes regularly for The New York Times about business and the military. She is an Army veteran and a former staff reporter for the AP, The Seattle Times and TheS- treet.com. She has written for The Atlantic, Newsweek, Wired, Businessweek, Fox News, Foreign Policy and the , among others. Hometown: Austin, Texas. Education: University of Texas at Austin, a geology de- gree with journalism minor. Erin Trieb Languages: Russian, Spanish. Kristina Shevory First job in journalism: I was a paid editor at The Daily Tell us about your Alicia Patterson Foundation fel- Texan, the University of Texas’ student newspaper that lowship: Every year, the foundation funds a handful of had a $2 million budget and a six-day-a-week publish- journalists nationwide who propose in-depth projects on ing schedule. We routinely went head-to-head with the international and national affairs. I pitched my dream local newspaper on the news of the day. project: Let me write about special operations troops and freelance soldiers. They agreed and I’ve been working Countries where you have reported from: I lived in on stories, like the one with Erik Prince, about the role Russia for several years running an English-language of military contractors and special operations forces, like newspaper and writing for Businessweek, Dow Jones Green Berets and Navy Seals, in the wake of the U.S.-led and the AP on politics and business. I’ve also reported wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. out of the Caucuses, and Brazil. Reporting on the world has become far more dan- When did you join the OPC? I won an OPC schol- gerous, in part because more major news outlets de- arship and have remained a member because of all the pend on freelancers. How can risks be reduced for wonderful mentors I’ve met through the group. Thanks freelancers working overseas? Pay freelancers a living to them, I found a book agent and started writing for wage. Get rid of the no-questions-asked policy of news Businessweek and The New York Times. assignments. When a freelancer receives $100-$300 per Why did you join the Army? One of the best decisions story for an overseas assignment, they can’t afford a hos- I’ve made was enlisting in the Army straight out of high tile environments course or conflict medical insurance school. I would do it again and would urge anyone to do and will do everything on the cheap. They won’t hire a the same. Military service exposes you to a wide cast security team or driver in dicey places and will rely on public transportation. Editors should take on as much re- of characters and personalities you normally wouldn’t sponsibility as the freelancer does in dangerous locales. meet in a newsroom and gives you confidence to at- tempt what may otherwise seem undoable. Best advice about journalism you have received: Nev- er work for free. How did your eight years in the Army shape your reporting? Every time I meet a service member or vet- Favorite quote: “No matter how slow you go, you are eran, whether I’m on the job or off, I tell them straight still lapping everybody on the couch.” Translation: Even away that I served in the Army. It immediately engen- when it seems like you’re getting nowhere, whether ders a sense of camaraderie that I’m one of them and that’s with a story or race training, you’re so much fur- understand what’s going on. Many in the military, I’ve ther along than all those people who do nothing but talk found, are suspicious of reporters and assume we’re about going overseas, pitching that big project or ap- clueless, particularly if you’re a woman. But tell a vet proaching that reluctant source. or a service member that you, too, served and their faces brighten, their tone lightens and you’re now part of the Where you most want to return: Pakistan. I traveled club. You’re told things other reporters don’t hear and widely across Pakistan last year while on assignment for offered opportunities that others are not. To wit, I con- Foreign Policy and found the country absolutely engross- vinced Erik Prince, the Navy Seal who founded Black- ing with loads of characters and under-reported stories. water, to work with me on a recent long-term project for handle: @shevoryr Newsweek because of my veteran status. He knew he could trust me to approach the story with an open mind Want to add to the OPC’s collection of Q&As with mem- and that I understood his business. bers? Please contact [email protected].

OPC Bulletin • February 2015 • Page 11 als. He writes that working with the first applied to Vietnam veterans in New Books fixed lens in a smartphone camera 1970. PHOTOGRAPHY has sharpened his eye, making him PTSD is now the top health con- AVID HUME KENNERLY, get closer and be more observant. cern of American military veterans, Da long-time OPC member who He donated 53 photo- no matter when they served, has won most major photojournal- graphs from the book to but affects victims of rape, ism honors, challenged himself support the creation of natural disasters and other in 2013 to make at least one good the David Hume Kenne- terrible events. And, as Mor- iPhone photo every day. His success rly Scholarship in Art at ris frankly describes about can be enjoyed in David Hume Ken- Youngstown State Uni- himself, it affects journal- nerly On the iPhone: Secrets and versity, the alma mater ists. After reading the book, Tips from a Pulitzer-Prize Winning of Ed O’Neill, a frequent Tom Ricks, a longtime Photographer [Goff Books, October photo subject who wrote Washington Post war corre- 2014]. the book’s foreword. spondent, revealed his own With striking photos, Kennerly O’Neill, Kennerly’s struggles with PTSD in a tells and shows how the iPhone cam- neighbor in Santa Moni- piece for The New Yorker. era works and how he uses it to max- ca, is an actor best known for his Al “A species of pain that imum advantage, but his approach Bundy character in the television se- went unnamed for most of human takes the book beyond smartphones. ries “Married … with Children.” history, PTSD is now the fourth His tips and insights on light, por- Kennerly, who was 25 most common psychiatric disorder traits, color, texture, com- when he won a Pulitzer in the United States,” Morris writes. position, details, overcom- Prize for a 1971 portfo- Experts say PTSD will affect near- ing familiarity, patience, lio that included images ly 8 percent of Americans at some persistence and editing from Vietnam and Cam- point in their lives. make the book a general bodia, has covered eight Morris, whose writing has ap- guide to all-around better wars, was President Gerald peared in The New Yorker, Slate, photography. Ford’s personal photogra- The Daily Beast, and The Los An- Creating great photos pher and is a television di- geles Times, ended his third report- is about the eye, not the rector and producer. Amer- ing trip to Iraq in October 2007 after equipment, Kennerly says. The prin- ican Photo Magazine included him almost being killed by a roadside ciples he outlines apply to any cam- in “One of the 100 Most Important bomb. He returned to the U.S. “with era and to amateurs or profession- People in Photography.” a powerful feeling of alienation from my countrymen,” who had no concept of what it is like to be in a WAR TRAUMA war and didn’t want to know. An ex- WELCOME TO OUR N “THE EVIL HOURS: A BIO- NEW MEMBERS I graphy of Post-Traumatic Stress plosion in a movie caused him to run out of a theater. Frightening dreams Nick Barnets Disorder,” [Houghton Mifflin Har- Freelance court, January 2015], David J. Mor- and other symptoms followed. He Active Overseas ris, a and a for- realized he was “on the other side of mer Marine lieutenant, draws on something.” He began working his Donald Frazier personal experience but “” way through academic literature on Freelance PTSD and then launched research Active Non-Resident in the title does not refer to him. The book is an examination of a condi- of his own. He says “the journalism Alessandria Massi tion described in historical writing, bug bit me” when he worked with Middle East Reporter previously known in the modern era Judith Miller of The Times in 1992. International Business Times as shell shock but now with a name — By Susan Kille Active Resident MP Nunan ‘HAS THE AMERICAN MEDIA MISJUDGED CHINA?’ Freelance NOW AVAILABLE IN PAPERBACK & E-BOOK Active Resident A record of the OPC’s historic gathering of China corre- Anya Schiffrin spondents last fall is now available in book form. The book Professor and Director includes an introduction from Bill Holstein and transcriptions International Media, Advocacy of the day’s insightful panel discussions. Search for the book & Communication on Amazon.com to order a paperback copy or to download an Columbia University electronic version to your Kindle. Proceeds benefit the OPC. Associate Resident

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