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MONTHLY NEWSLETTER I January 2018 CBS ‘New Generation’ Anchor to Address OPC Foundation Scholars by jane reilly during its critical launch period. As CBSN continues to grow, Glor will INSIDE eff Glor, the anchor of the maintain a prominent presence on the OPC Holiday Party 2 “CBS Evening News with Jeff digital streaming channel. As a cor- Glor,” the network’s flagship J respondent for “CBS This Morning” Hong Kong Hands evening news broadcast, will be and “60 Minutes Sports,” he filed re- Reunion 3 the keynote speaker at the annual ports from Alaska, Africa, Greenland, Overseas Press Club Foundation Call for Entries 3 Ireland and Newfoundland, among Scholar Awards Luncheon on Fri- others. day, Feb. 23, at the Yale Club. The People Column 5-7 Also at the luncheon, the Foun- event begins with a reception at dation will award a combination of Press Freedom the club’s Rooftop Terrace at 11:30 Update 8-9 scholarships and fellowships to 16 a.m., followed by the luncheon in graduate and undergraduate college New Books 10 the Grand Ballroom. which ends Jeff Glor students aspiring to become foreign promptly at 2:00 p.m. news climate.” correspondents. Holstein is especially Q&A: Bill Holstein, president of the Roopa Gogineni 11 OPC Foundation, said the choice Glor, an Emmy-award winner and pleased to announce the first award in of Glor to headline the Founda- veteran CBS News journalist, has the name of Sally Jacobsen, who died tion’s signature event was espe- reported across the globe for virtually unexpectedly in the spring of 2017. A cially significant for this year’s all CBS News broadcast and digital former vice president of the Founda- scholars, since he represents a new platforms in his 10 years with the tion and a widely experienced As- generation at the helm of network network. He has anchored numerous sociated Press correspondent, she was broadcast news. He noted, “Glor is breaking news stories, most recently the first woman to serve as the news at the heart of the legacy media’s in the field for Hurricane Irma and in service’s international editor, oversee- attempts to transform itself to com- the studio for the Las Vegas shootings. ing coverage of wars, terrorism and a pete with many different forms and Glor was a lead anchor on CBSN, stream of history-making events. Her formats in a changing and volatile CBS’ 24/7 streaming news service, Continued on Page 2 The OPC Remembers Past President Marshall Loeb by chad bouchard The St. Louis Globe-Democrat, he 1988 and had been a member for ast OPC President Mar- joined TIME magazine in 1956 as almost 30 years. After graduating shall Loeb, who helmed the a writer, rising over the years to from the University of Missouri club from 2006 to 2008, business editor and nation editor. School of Journalism, he served as P He retired from Time Inc. at 65, a correspondent for United Press died at age 88 on Dec. 9 after a long battle with Parkinson’s and edited The Columbia Jour- in Frankfurt, Germany. An article disease. nalism Review, regularly aired marking his retirement from For- Loeb was a business journalist financial advice on CBS Radio tune called him “one of the most credited for bolstering the success and served a short stint as host of visible and influential editors in of Money and Fortune magazines. the PBS television program “Wall the magazine industry.” Street Week.” Past OPC President Michael After a year as a city reporter for Marshall Loeb Loeb joined the OPC in August Continued on Page 4 1 1 Holiday Party Launches OPC Events for 2018 Left to right: Colleen Jose, past OPC President Michael Serrilll, and Dave Fondiller. Emma Daly, Robert Sullivan and OPC President Deidre Depke Left to right (at table): Dave Fondiller, Kumiko Makihara, Andy Katell and Clarissa Left to right: Minky Worden, McNair. Albert Goldson and Sonya Fry. ‘OPCFoundation’ the opportunity to meet and observe prominent journalists in action is as Continued From Page 1 valuable as any monetary awards. For the fourth year in a row, on the Saturday after the luncheon, the 39-year career took her from a Washington economics correspondent OPC Foundation will offer a full day of risk assessment and situational to Brussels to the pressure-packed job at AP’s New York headquarters, training for the winners at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism. where she lead scores of international correspondents through the years Frank Smyth, president and founder of Global Journalist Security, a hos- of 9/11 and the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq. tile environment training firm based in Washington DC, will again lead “Sally was part of the very soul of the Foundation board, having the program. Those who participated in the past called the experience in- played an integral role in launching the fellowship program and the valuable. “We have a responsibility to make sure our winners engage in sending of our first young fellow to the Bangkok bureau of the AP and the world’s stories in ways that keep them safe,” Holstein said. “We will then expanding the program to include other news organizations. With continue to do what we can, as fiscal sponsors of the ACOS Alliance, to every fiber of her being, she believed in what we are doing,” Holstein see that journalists throughout the world have the training and support added. they need to do their jobs as well and as securely as possible.” Holstein is concerned with how the current economic model support- Up to 12 of this year’s winners will receive fellowships to work in ing international news will affect this generation of young journalists. the foreign bureaus of the Foundation’s media partners, including the “We think we are witnessing a decline in the number of young Ameri- AP, Reuters, The Wall Street Journal, GroundTruth Project and Forbes. cans who believe that becoming a foreign correspondent is a great and The fellowships ensure that the awardees gain valuable experience and glorious cause. So we are increasingly playing the role of an institution insight working with veteran editors and reporters. In 2017, the Foun- that encourages young people to see the act of covering international dation funded fellowships in bureaus across Europe, Asia, Africa, the stories as something that is valuable to themselves and to our democracy Americas and the Middle East. The Foundation picks up the cost of the as a whole,” he said. airfare and one to two months of living expenses for the winners. The 2018 winning recipients are from Brown University, City Uni- Holstein is grateful to Bloomberg, which again hosted the judging in versity of New York, Columbia University, DePauw University, New December, and to the dedicated panel of judges who chose the 2018 re- York University, University of California-Berkeley, University of Mis- cipients: Allen Alter; Bill Collins; John Daniszewski of the AP; Joe Flint souri, University of Texas at Austin and Yale University. “These young of The Wall Street Journal; Allan Dodds Frank; Sharon Gamsin; Tim people inspire me every year because they want to travel down what I Ferguson of Forbes Asia; Holstein; Adam Horvath of The Wall Street regard as the sacred path of bearing witness. They just want a chance. Journal; Larry Martz; Marcy McGinnis; Maria Mercader of CBS News; Our imperative is to help train them and keep them safe as they explore Kate McLeod; Ellen Nimmons of the AP; Jim Pensiero; Charlie Sennott the world,” said Holstein. of the GroundTruth Project; Michael Serrill; Steve Swanson of the New Events for the 2018 winners will last three days starting on Thursday York Botanical Garden; and Karen Toulon of Bloomberg. afternoon, when the Foundation will host two panels at Reuters for those Lydia Polgreen, HuffPost editor-in-chief, was previously announced award winners interested in either business journalism or television to be the speaker but she had to cancel because of a scheduling conflict. news. That evening, Reuters editor-in-chief Stephen Adler will host the Luncheon tickets are $85 for OPC members and $150 for non-members. traditional reception for current and past winners of OPC Foundation The Foundation encourages media and corporate support at its three lev- awards at the wire service’s Times Square headquarters. On Friday, els of giving: Benefactors, $9,000; Patrons, $6,000; and Friends, $3,000. besides addressing a distinguished audience of more than 200 luncheon Tables seat 10. All proceeds benefit the OPC Foundation. For further guests at the Yale Club, the award winners will meet with Holstein and information, contact Jane Reilly at 201 493-9087 or veteran international journalists in a pre-luncheon breakfast and with [email protected]. v several foreign editors following the luncheon. For many, says Holstein, January 2018 2 Hong Kong Hands Share Memories Spanning Five Decades by chad bouchard coverage, Leung said on the sidelines. Tanzer discussed his newly released orrespondents who Yvonne Dunleavy, who worked for book, Robert Kuok, about a “secretive” covered Hong Kong and China the Hong Kong Standard in the 60s, overseas Chinese tycoon from Malaya gathered on Dec. 12 to swap remembered seeing signs of trouble who made his fortune on the sugar fu- C brewing in the early days of the Cultural tures market in the 1960s and spent 40 stories and reminisce at a special OPC reunion. The evening featured comments Revolution in 1966, as revolutionaries years living in Hong Kong. and storytelling from notable journalists marched in formation in navy blue uni- Tanzer had interviewed Kouk for a as well as representatives from the Hong forms while holding copies of the “Little cover story in Forbes magazine in 1997 Kong Economic and Trade Office, which Red Book” and chanting “down with – a story Tanzer said helped to start the co-sponsored the gathering.