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Experts Discuss Current Risks INSIDE and Rewards of Video Journalism Event Recap: Reporting in Russia 2 by chad bouchard Event Preview: ver the last two decades, newspapers and Taiwan’s Future 2 other traditional print media have been under increasing pressure to provide video and mul- Event Preview: O ‘FREELANCERS’ timedia content. But in today’s era of ubiquitous cell Screening & Panel 3 phone cameras, viral distribution, and manipulated content, video storytelling comes with many pitfalls. Event Recap: On Oct. 18, a panel of experts gathered for a panel CHAD BOUCHARD Prix Bayeux 3 to present a “Video 101” seminar on perils and best Left to right: Sara Obeidat, Priscila Neri, Event Recap: practices of using video footage. Erica Anderson and Paula Dwyer. CPJ at the U.N. 4 “Video is an essential part of storytelling, and citizens around the world to challenge oppression, of any news organization’s content mix,” said Event Recap OPC Secretary Paula Dwyer of Bloomberg News, impunity and inequality. Watchdog Reporting4 who moderated the panel. But she added that print “We’re going to have to do some work on media journalists who are expected to shoot video now have literacy, and on making sense of volume, and sorting Press Freedom what’s real and what’s not, but for me in the end, In Bangladesh 5 to learn new skills because “the technology differs, the when I think about our partners who are defying odds way you tell the story is different, ethics involved are People Column 6-7 different, the framing of the story is different.” to tell that stories that we haven’t heard through that One panelist was Priscila Neri, the senior program perspective, that’s something that can only be good in Press Freedom manager for Witness. Her group trains people around the long run.” Update 8-9 She said in many cases Witness advises people the world on how to use video and technology to New Books 10 document human rights violations, with a focus on with sensitive video footage to refrain from posting using footage ethically and thoughtfully without re- it publicly at all, or to delay and use it more Q&A: victimizing people who are involved in the videos. strategically. In one case, someone who witnessed Amy Mackinnon 11 She said despite the risks, video has empowered Continued on Page 9

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1 1 Panelists Say Murders of Journalists Are Simply a ‘Reality’ in Russia EVENT RECAP you could report fairly transpar- ently with some exceptions like by chad bouchard the war in Chechnya,” she said. n sept. 20, several OPC “And that all stopped under Putin. members attended a The crackdown on independent media and voices began immedi- performance of the play CHAD BOUCHARD O ately, and one by one journalists “Intractable Woman, A Theatrical lost their jobs, faced death threats, Left to right: Judith Matloff, Elena Kostyuchenko, Misha Friedman and Memo on Anna Politkovskaya,” Zach Fannin. they were beaten, and like Anna, which covered the interrogation, murdered.” Russia, and is co-owned among the field, and to avoid pressuring trial and assassination of the Rus- Matloff said that to date, 17 staff members. At least three other freelancers to push safety limits. sian journalist and human rights journalists have been assassinated staff members from the paper have Zach Fannin, a freelance jour- activist. Politkovskaya reported under the Putin regime, and 60 been murdered since Anna’s death, nalist who won several awards extensively on the Second Chech- journalists attacked just since she said. for “Inside Putin’s Russia,” a PBS en War for the independent daily 2006. Chillingly, less than a month af- NewsHour series, recounted how Novaya Gazeta and was killed in Elena Kostyuchenko, a special ter the discussion, a funeral wreath he and other members of his team her Moscow apartment building correspondent for Anna’s paper, and a severed goat’s head were were arrested while reporting on in 2006. Novaya Gazeta, said the number of sent to the Novaya Gazeta Moscow Russians joining ISIS in Dagestan. Following the performance, journalists killed in Russia is closer office with written threats against “All [the police] wanted us a panel of journalists discussed to 200, though the numbers are dif- reporter Denis Korotkov, who to do was delete the footage. But Politkovskaya’s legacy, as well as ficult to track. has reported on Russia’s military luckily, they left us in the police their own experiences covering “Murders of journalists is part operations in Syria, among other car alone, and I took one of the conflict and corruption in Russia of Russian reality,” she said, add- stories. two disks out of the camera, gave and elsewhere in the region. ing that the newspaper has shown Misha Friedman, a Russia-born it to Roman [Stepanovych], our The moderator was OPC mem- through tenacity that the assas- photographer based in New York local producer, who hid it some- ber Judith Matloff, an author and sination of journalists is not an who has worked extensively in where, and then convinced the po- journalism professor at Columbia effective way to quash journalism. Russia and Ukraine, said photogra- lice by saying ‘look, I didn’t even University who has specialized “Despite very tough conditions phers are predominantly freelanc- press record yet, this is an empty in writing about conflict. Matloff, for journalism in Russia, many ers, so they are subject to different disk and there is no footage.” who was based in Moscow in the young and aspiring journalists still risks than staffers. He said risks are Fannin co-produced the series late 90s, said the play brought come to Novaya Gazeta and want also increased because photogra- with OPC member Nick Schifrin back memories of the country’s to do good work. And they all read phers have to get physically close in collaboration with the Pulitzer quick slide into authoritarianism Anna’s articles” for inspiration, to their subjects and “report conse- Center on Crisis Reporting. The under Vladimir Putin, who came she added.. quences” in stories. post-show panel was part of Play to power at the very end of 1999. Kostyuchenko’s paper is the Friedman called for editors to Company’s Idea Lab series. v “In the late 90s there was still last independent newspaper in be more considerate about risks in a very robust critical media, and

Panel to Discuss Taiwan’s Future Click here Amid a ‘New Cold War’ Between the US and China to RSVP EVENT PREVIEW: OCT 30 for the Taiwan to force Taiwan to join what it considers the which seeks to improve Taiwan’s panel. motherland? Will Trump’s actions increase the international relations; and Richard hina and the United States appear headed for a new Cold War, in the chances of stability or conflict? Bernstein, formerly based in China for view of some experts. Trade, military On Oct. 30, the OPC will host a panel discus- TIME magazine and a veteran of several for- C sion to explore these and other questions facing eign postings for The New York Times. Bernstein and diplomatic tensions are mounting. Taiwan, the self-governing island of 23 million people, Taiwan. William J. Holstein, past OPC President is also author of numerous books, including The is caught in between. An increasingly aggressive and former Beijing bureau chief for United Press Coming Conflict with China (1997). Beijing is projecting military power in the South International, will moderate. The panel will The event will begin at 6:00 p.m. at Club China Sea and conducting war games near Tai- feature Andrew Nathan, a professor at Colum- Quarters with a reception – beverages and appe- wan. President Donald Trump’s administration bia University and one of America’s foremost tizers will be provided – and the discussion will has increased support for Taiwan above what experts on China and its foreign policy; Russell begin at 6:30 p.m. Reservations are essential. Hsiao, executive director of the nonprofit think Click on the gold button or visit the OPC web- most previous U.S. governments have offered. v Will Beijing resort to actual military action tank Global Taiwan Institute in Washington, site to RSVP. October 2018 2 OPC to Screen ‘FREELANCERS’ Series Pilot and Host Discussion with Director Bill Gentile

EVENT PREVIEW: NOV. 14 Also joining the panel will be Natalie Keyssar, a documentary photographer he opc will host a screening and discussion of a pilot episode based in Brooklyn, New York. Her work for “FREELANCERS with Bill focuses on class inequality, youth culture, T and the personal effects of political tur- Gentile,” a documentary series about the work and personal struggles of a new moil and violence, primarily in the US and generation of journalists searching for Latin America. Keyssar has contributed to truth, purpose and meaning in the most publications such as The New York Times challenging and complex countries in the Magazine, TIME, Bloomberg Business- week and California Sunday Magazine,

world. CIPOLLONE MATT Following the screening, the host of the and has won numerous awards. In 2018 she was named the ICP Infinity Emerging Bill Gentile, left, interviews Ioan Grillo at the US-Mexi- program, veteran foreign correspondent co border outside the Mexican city of Nogales. Grillo is Photographer of the Year. Bill Gentile, will moderate a discussion a regular freelance contributor to The New York Times Rounding out the speaker list is Jason with freelance journalists to discuss how to and the central figure in the FREELANCERS pilot. As- Motlagh, a writer, broadcast journal- cope with hardship and risk in the field – sociate producer Matt Cipollone, shot and edited the ist and filmmaker whose work focuses without the traditional support or security pilot. of staff correspondents. Other panelists on conflict and human rights. He has include Sulome Anderson, a journalist reported from more than fifty countries Reporting on the Human Condition in based in Beirut, Lebanon and New York and a half-dozen conflicts spanning West 2014. Africa to Southeast Asia for National The screening will begin at 6:30 Click here City. Her work has appeared in outlets in- to RSVP Geographic, Rolling Stone, Outside, The cluding The Atlantic, Foreign Policy, NBC p.m. at Club Quarters. Click on the for the screening News, Newsweek, Harper’s and Esquire. Washington Post, The Guardian and The gold button to see a “sizzle reel” on and panel. Her book, The Hostage’s Daughter, was Economist. He won the OPC’s Madeline the OPC website and to RSVP. v published by HarperCollins in 2016. Dane Ross Award for Best International

Sense of ‘Urgency’ Marks 25th Anniversary of the Prix Bayeux-Calvados Festival for War Correspondents by vivienne walt ber Christiane Amanpour, who kicked off our work with a moment’s silence for Jamal or all the talk out of Washington Khashoggi. Sadly, Khashoggi’s name will be about fake news and the press being the added to next year’s plaque in Bayeux’s Gar- Fenemy of the people, there is always den of Remembrance, which bears the names one small corner where foreign correspon- of fallen journalists dating to the 1940s, and dents are revered every October: France’s which is unveiled every year during the Prix medieval jewel of Bayeux. This year, the Prix Bayeux week. That’s just another feature that Bayeux-Calvados, the weeklong festival for astonishes journalists arriving for the first war correspondents, felt more urgent than ever time. “These are the only people in the world th in its 25 edition, a haven of people discussing I know who care about war correspondents,” the best frontline reporting of the past year, and At the end of two days judging, French Click here says Jonathan Randal, now 85, who began veteran war photographer Patrick Chauvel to RSVP showering praise on journalists working in the his career covering the Algerian War in the surprised this year’s jury president Christiane for the Taiwan world’s toughest hotspots. 1950s, and has served on the Prix Bayeux jury panel. Amanpour with a photo from his archives of The jury of 47 journalists included OPC for 10 years. “I still cannot get over it.” A first- her during the Bosnian War with a broken- members Mort Rosenblum and myself, as well timer to Prix Bayeux, Amanpour told a packed down vehicle in the snow. as 2013 John Faber Award winner Jerome De- auditorium of local residents, who had lined up lay, who all spent three days in the northwest early to get a seat at the Saturday night awards It was the first town liberated from the Nazis corner of Normandy viewing a stunning selec- ceremony on October 13, that the event had in 1944, after Allied Forces landed on D-Day tion of photographs, and magazine and TV amazed her. “Where else in the world would on the beaches a short drive away. Nearly 75 pieces. Iraq and Syria dominated the coverage, 1,200 people come listen to a discussion about as they have for the past few years, but there years on, the brutal battle that followed still Yemen?” she told a packed auditorium of lo- defines this corner of France. “We felt we had was also indepth reporting on Mexico’s cartels, cals, who lined up early on a Saturday night to a particular place in history,” Bayeux Mayor the devastating war in Yemen, the Rohingya get a seat at the awards ceremony on Oct. 13. Patrick Gomont said in explaining why the crisis, and conflicts in Ukraine and Sudan. “New York? No. London? I doubt it.” awards are so important to the town. Because This year’s jury president was OPC mem- There’s a good reason for Bayeux’s passion. Continued on Page 5 October 2018 3 OPC Attends Press Freedom Panel at UN by chad bouchard he number of journalists imprisoned around the world has reached record heights. At the end of 2017, the number of jailed Left to right: OPC Governor Brian Byrd, Executive Director Patricia journalists hit 262, the highest number ever recorded by the Com- Kranz, Press Freedom Committee Chairman Bill Collins and Past T President Allan Dodds Frank. mittee to Protect Journalists. On Sept. 28, the CPJ hosted a panel at the United Nations to highlight other officers were lying in wait to arrest them,” he added. “The journalists global press freedom challenges. Human rights lawyer Amal Clooney were then prosecuted in a show trial in which a conviction was guaran- called on Myanmar civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi to pardon two teed.” He called for Suu Kyi to remember her roots as a political prisoner Reuters journalists, Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo, who were convicted on and pardon the journalists, adding that “history will judge her on her Sept. 3 under the colonial-era Official Secrets Act and sentenced to seven response.” years in prison. Clooney is part of the legal team representing them. The OPC was well represented at the event, with Executive Director The panel, titled “Press Behind Bars: Undermining Justice and De- Patricia Kranz, past President Allan Dodds Frank, OPC Governor Brian mocracy” also featured press freedom concerns in Bangladesh, Egypt, and Byrd, and former Governor Bill Collins all in attendance. Kyrgyzstan, where journalists are imprisoned for their work and denied Frank asked the panel what press freedom advocates such as the OPC due process. could do to pressure the current U.S. administration to call for Myanmar to “The jailing of journalists is a brutal form of censorship and is having release the Reuters journalists. a profound impact on the flow of information around the world. The time Clooney said all branches of the U.S. government have been support- has come to speak out and to name names,” the CPJ’s Joel Simon said. ive, including the White House, Congress and the State Department, with The two Reuters reporters had been working on an investigation into the Treasury Department and Department of Defense imposing sanctions. the killing of 10 Rohingya Muslim men and boys by security forces and “But of course all countries in the world could do more,” she added. local Buddhists in western Myanmar’s Rakhine state. “Remember, Myanmar was a success story a few years ago, and the idea Stephen J. Adler, president and editor-in-chief of Reuters, said in a is that releasing these journalists would actually set them back on the right statement that the prosecutors fabricated an implausible story about the track towards a society that respects the rule of law, a society that’s mov- journalists’ arrest, claiming they had been carrying top-secret documents. ing toward becoming a full democracy.” v “So police planted government documents on the journalists while Beth Knobel’s Book Finds that Watchdog Journalism Is ‘Thriving’ OPC member Kim Murphy, who for- founder of Report for America, said that while EVENT RECAP merly worked as national editor and assistant investigative reporting desks may be thriving, by chad bouchard managing editor for national and foreign news a key source of local insight has still been lost. at the Los Angeles Times, said she saw the “With newspapers’ and TV stations’ espite more than two decades of Times navigate an identity crisis as the paper shrinking resources, they do put a descent turbulent times in the news business, struggled to adapt to the digital realm. She chunk of that toward the investigative team. Dinvestigative journalism is thriving. said the paper went through a period of “some But I hear over and over stories of how they That’s a key conclusion outlined in a new of the most inane journalism” that focused used to have three people covering educa- book from OPC member Beth Knobel, who is on click-bait stories and trending topics, but tion, and now they have one person covering an associate professor at Fordham University eventually found that investigative reporting education who is also the health reporter. Beat and a former CBS News producer. On Oct. 17, connects most with readers. reporting may be what’re really getting lost.” Knobel moderated a discussion at the Book “What we realized was that really good Report for America is national service Culture bookstore near Columbia University work, and especially really good accountabil- program that places journalists into local to discuss the state of watchdog reporting, and ity journalism, sells. And it was only a matter newsrooms. celebrate the launch of her book, The Watch- of time before we reinvigorated the investiga- Waldman said the news business must dog Still Barks: How Accountability Report- tive team and hired a new assistant managing get used to the idea that it needs allies in the ing Evolved for the Digital Era. editor for investigations. It’s been a process of non-profit sector to play a bigger role, includ- Knobel studied the front pages of nine realizing that’s what readers want.” ing groups like Report for America and Pro newspapers of varying sizes across the U.S., Murphy now works as deputy national edi- Publica, but also local donors and non-profits to paint a broad portrait of how public service tor for enterprise at The New York Times. to bolster beat reporting. journalism has changed since 1991 as the ad- Knobel said she found that that smaller Report for America has placed 13 reporters vent of the Internet transformed the industry. investigative staffs are actually doing more in newsrooms across the country so far, and “This book points to growth in account- muckraking than larger staffs in the past. “In plans to expand to 28 next year, with a goal ability reporting, and that newspapers are able a way, what I’m seeing doesn’t really make of 1000 reporters over the next five years. He to dig deeper into what’s happening than ever intuitive sense.” said though that number may seem ambitious, before,” Knobel said. “Even though there Steven Waldman, president and co- he thinks it is attainable and would still only have been huge job cuts at these papers.” fulfill a tiny fraction of the need.v October 2018 4 A Bangladeshi policeman covers the mouth of prominent photog- rapher Shahidul Alam during an appearance at a court in Dhaka on Aug. 6. SUVRA KANTI DAS SUVRA by atish saha been in prison for nearly 80 days since he was OPC Award Winner The ruling party turned these protests into a arrested on Aug. 5, and his legal rights have been showdown, and used power politics as a dem- stripped away. When he first appeared in public Speaks Out onstration of their might as the election comes after his arrest, he shouted to onlookers before near. The protests quickly turned bloody, with police covered his mouth to stop him from speak- About Crackdown stick and machete attacks against students, sexual ing and shoved him into a microbus. “I have been assault against female journalists, as well as beaten, and [police] washed my bloody clothes in Bangladesh shutting down the phone networks and reduc- and made me wear them again,” he cried out. ing internet speed to suppress communication. Now, imagine conditions for the 22 students, On Aug. 1, a speeding bus struck and killed The scariest demonstration of power was against who are not known and have no international two students in Dhaka. That incident triggered people recording the government’s violence; support like Alam. widespread outrage, spurring tens of thousands many renowned journalists were violently beaten. Local transport systems have refused to al- of students to pour into the streets in protest, Many of my friends’ cameras were taken either low kids to board busses. Teachers have forced bringing city traffic to a standstill. Demonstra- by police or by student goons working for the children to make political statements against their tors stopped vehicles and demanded to see government, a group known as the Bangladesh will, as instructed by the ruling political parties. drivers’ licenses, a move meant to point out the Chhatra League. Dhaka is a mess. weakness of license enforcement that can lead Three groups attacked the students: police, People want to live peacefully, but the ruling to such accidents. The students kept emergency Chhatra League goons wearing helmets, and a parties are silencing the people and working to lanes that are normally clogged with traffic mob of others hired as muscle. These groups at- make sure people don’t stand up for their rights. open. BBC and other media have reported tacked student protesters only 10 minutes from that more than 4,000 pedestrians were killed On Oct. 10, a new and barbaric law governing on- my home in Dhaka. The streets were shrouded in in traffic accidents last year. Shajahan Khan, line speech, the Digital Security Act, was enacted. tear gas and fear. the country’s minister of shipping who has ties It increases penalties for violators and broadens Intellectuals in Dhaka were nearly silent as to powerful transportation unions, fanned the the government’s power to censor online informa- flames when he questioned why students had Shahidul Alam, acclaimed photographer and ac- tion that “harms the unity of the country or any not protested a recent crash where 33 people tivist, was arrested and tortured in police custody part of it, economic activities, security, defense, were killed in an Indian bus crash the day for talking to journalists about the protests. The religious values or public order or spreads com- before. Many see the crackdown as a show of sense of fear in Dhaka is palpable. Many of my munal hostility and hatred.” force ahead of elections, which are currently friends are asking me not to communicate with Police arrested a university professor Maidul slated for December. them because of the climate of fear the govern- Islam in September for speaking out on social The following is a statement from Atish ment has created. media. He has been in custody since September We have heard reports that Bangladeshi police Saha, a Bangladeshi photojournalist and on charges that he made “defamatory” remarks raided residential areas and universities, searching performer based in New York who won the against the prime minister. students’ cell phones to check for connections to OPC’s 2014 Madeline Dane Ross Award along I am calling for the immediate release of the protests. with Jason Motlagh for coverage of the Rana Shahidul Alam and the others who has been ar- 22 students were taken into police custody. A Plaza building collapse. Saha has been closely rested under this savage law. Voices must not be prominent actor was also detained. Alam is still watching developments in Dhaka. silenced. Dhaka does not want dictatorship. in custody despite support from organizations We will continue to write and speak out around the world. His requests to be released on against this crackdown. v bail have been denied again and again. He has

‘Prix Bayeux-Calvados’ crucial to making the Prix Bayeux an event that goes far beyond journalism. Continued From Page 3 “What is important is to create citizens that are actors of tomorrow, with a global consciousness,” he said. For that reason, too, he is considering mak- of that, Gomont sees one of the main functions of Prix Bayeux as exposing ing permanent an extraordinary exhibition on the history of war reporting, teenagers to the horrors of war – especially since locals who witnessed the which launched during this year’s Prix Bayeux and was curated by French D-Day battle in 1944 are fast dying out. So one category is chosen not by journalist Adrien Jaulmes. professional journalists, but by middle-school children, who review the work There were a few well-known names among the winners. CNN’s Nima and vote. This year, the schools chose a 15-year-old student who herself who Elbagir won the TV news award for her story on migrant slave auctions in had fled Boko Haram in Nigerian, to present the prize; it went to France 2 Libya. But since entries remain anonymous until after the judging, there were Television for its report on child ISIS recruits. And a separate prize is chosen some intensely heart-warming surprises, too. The prize for the young photog- by Bayeux’s adult residents, who voted this year for Paula Bronstein’s rapher of the year (those under 28) turned out to be 22-year-old Bangladeshi work on the Rohinya crisis. freelancer Mushfiqul Alam, whose wrenching black-and-white images of the For the Mayor, involving the public – and especially the children – is Rohingya crisis brought a stunned silence inside the jury room. v October 2018 5 PEOPLE By Farwa Zaidi WELCOME N E W OPC SCHOLARS Miles Sleiman from Syria,” including MEMBERS Elizabeth Miles, the Flora Lewis Fel- Evgeny Afineevsky, Den lowship winner in 2017, has a year-long Tolmor and Aaron I. But- Robert Ahern editorial fellowship with Foreign Policy ler, received nominations in Director of Archive in Washington DC. She had an OPC four categories. Photography Foundation fellowship with the Reuters Getty Images bureau in Brussels. She later went to Carol Williams, who New York Active Resident Bogota on a research fellowship, work- has won multiple awards ing for the United Nations Office of the from the OPC, won The Bill Gentile Journalist in Residence High Commissioner for Human Rights Asian American Journalists American University on transitional justice issues, before Association (AAJA) Trivia Washington, DC freelancing full time there. Bowl along with her team- Active Non-Resident mates from the Los Angeles

Timothy McHugh Jad Sleiman, the David R. Schweis- DAMES MICHAEL Times. The LA chapter Director of Media Relations berg Memorial Scholarship winner in went on to de-radicalize herself in Texas. of the AAJA has been hosting trivia Friends Committee 2013, has landed a full-time job with the bowls for years. The Times team has on National Legislation The story previously won a Clarion Washington, DC NPR show “The Pulse,” where he has Award for magazine feature writing from won the bowl four times now. Williams Associate Non-Resident been working as a freelance producer. The Association of Women in Commu- is a former senior international affairs The multimedia journalist covered con- nications. Former OPC Governor Anjali writer for the publication. Williams has flict as combat correspondent for the US Kamat will also receive a Front Page won five awards from The Overseas Marine Corps, with video work around Award in the magazine category for in- Press Club on her reporting, including a the world, including Iraq, Afghanistan, depth reporting along with The Inves- shared 2014 Bob Considine Award for Syria and more than a dozen other tigative Fund and The New Republic, coverage of Ukraine along with Sergei countries. for the piece “Political Corruption and Loiko. Williams served as Times bureau the Art of the Deal.” The group named chief in Budapest, Vienna, Moscow, 2016 Fritz Beebe Fellowship winner Maggie Haberman of The New York Berlin, and the Caribbean. She has Dake Kang has been covering the ef- Times, as Journalist of the Year, and will reported from over 80 countries and left fects of China’s crackdown on Uighurs honor Martha Teichner of CBS Sun- the Times in 2015. from Xinjiang Province for the Associ- day Morning with an award for Lifetime ated Press. He traveled with colleague Achievement. UPDATES Yanan Wang to report on Uighur chil- OPC Secretary Paula Dwyer has started dren who are separated from their par- OPC award winners Arwa Damon a new position at Bloomberg News. Dwyer ents and stripped of their identities amid and Nick Paton Walsh of CNN won is joining Bloomberg’s editing hub, a team a massive campaign to subdue a restive an Emmy for the reporting that also of senior editors that handles daily, enter- region that has forced one million Mus- won them The David Kaplan Award prise, and long-form stories for Bloom- lims into indoctrination camps. Kang from the OPC earlier this year. Walsh berg’s terminal, the web, and magazines. and Wang have filed several longform and Damon, both senior international Dwyer’s job will also include newsroom stories covering the lives and challenges correspondents, won in the category of mentoring. She was most recently an editor of displaced Uighur children. Empty Outstanding Continuing Coverage of at Blomberg’s QuickTakes. Dwyer wrote places at the table: Uighur children a News Story in a Newscast for their editorials on politics, economics, and fi- missing in China covers life in overrun reporting in “The Fall of ISIS in Iraq nance for Bloomberg View. She was the orphanages where Chinese authorities and Syria.” Walsh had rare access to the London Bureau Chief for Businessweek are placing the children, and China final moments of the push against ISIS and Washington economics editor for The Treats Uighur Kids as “Orphans” in the city of Mosul. He was also one New York Times. She is also a co-author of After Parents Are Seized, explores the of the first journalists allowed to enter the book Take on the Street: How to Fight effects of separation and an education Raqqa, the ISIS capital, after US air- for Your Financial Future. system that bans any use of the Uighur strikes allowed forces into the city. The language. FRONTLINE PBS documentary “Mo- Former OPC Governor – and current sul” won an Emmy in the category of OPC Foundation Governor – Tim WINNERS Outstanding Cinematography, and was Ferguson will step down as editor of OPC member and former Governor nominated for Outstanding Short Docu- Forbes Asia and exit the company at the Abigail Pesta will receive a Front Page mentary. That piece received the OPC’s end of this year as the Asia publication’s Award from The Newswomen’s Club of Edward R. Murrow Award this year. staff is consolidated at its business HQ New York during a ceremony on Nov. 8. That team included Raney Aronson- in Singapore. Ferguson has edited at The organization announced that Pesta Rath, James Jones, Olivier Sarbil, Forbes for 23 years, spending the last will receive the Best Magazine Feature Dan Edge and Andrew Metz. Win- 16 at the helm of its overseas title while for her story “The Convert” in Texas ners of this year’s Peter Jennings Award based in New York. Monthly. The story profiled a young garnered several Emmy nominations. woman who escaped jihad in Syria and The HBO team that produced “Cries

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OPC Governor John Avlon, who relations between the US and Iran The Getty family has joined the board this September, pub- this summer, gaining rare access to regained control of the lished a piece for CNN on Oct. 10 the country and filing videos, photos photo agency six years looking at the possible political after- and a total of nearly 14,000 words. after The Carlyle Group math of Hurricane Michael as it bore Hjelmgaard said this reporting marks acquired it by buying down on the Gulf Coast. In the piece, the first time a USA Today journalist a major stake in the titled The High-Risk Politics of Hur- has been to Iran in nearly 15 years. company. The family’s ricanes, Avlon examined the possible His coverage follows the aftermath newfound control of effect of hurricane response on upcom- of President Trump’s decision in Au- Getty ends ten years of ing elections. According to the article, gust to re-impose sanctions on Iran private equity control hurricane relief efforts in the past have and withdraw from the Iran Nuclear that contributed to the had a major impact on elections they Deal. In the multimedia series, titled US photo agency’s preceded. With midterms only four “Inside Iran,” Hjelmgaard and his growing debt. The deal weeks after Hurricane Michael, he team explored how US sanctions affect leaves Getty’s value FRY SONYA OF COURTESY said politicians in the South who deny businesses and people on the ground at about $3 billion, Former OPC Executive Director Sonya climate change could have their beliefs in Iran. He has been a member of the including debt. The Fry, left, met with Bronagh Towler, a challenged by voters suffering losses OPC since 2015. company was valued manager at the St. Stephen’s Green from the storm. at $3.3 billion when Hibernian Club in Dublin, this summer. acquired by the Carlyle OPC Second Vice President Christo- group six years ago. pher Dickey wrote an article for The The Getty family had Daily Beast in mid-October about the kept a minority stake in the company, fight against Ebola in a war-torn region but now Mark Getty has been named of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Chairman. Craig Peters has been made The city of Beni has been victim to the new CEO. multiple attacks in the past few months. Islamist military groups killed twenty- Newsweek magazine is entangled in one people in seven different attacks a multi-million dollar fraud and money during August and September. After the laundering conspiracy, according to an attacks subsided, the town was hit with indictment brought against the company another lethal force – Ebola. Fifteen that was unsealed on Oct. 10. Two

people were diagnosed with the disease TINAZ REDMONT ZEYNEP publishers, IBT Media and Christian over one week, triggering a city-wide Media Corporation, were charged with “The two Dennises”: Dennis Redmont, lockdown. This is the tenth outbreak of left with his son, also named Dennis. trying to defraud lenders by pretending Ebola in the DRC. Dickey wrote that they were borrowing money for about despite hopes that the virus might even- $10 million in computing services. tually be contained, war is a disease that OPC member Dennis Redmont, cur- IBT Media owned the magazine, while “defies a cure.” rently head of communications, media Christian Media Corporation is an online and development at the Council for the publisher in based in Washington, DC. OPC Governor Vivienne Walt landed US and Italy in Rome, will feature in “3 Newsweek announced in September another cover story for TIME maga- Mulheres,” a 13-part Portuguese public that the magazine has become an zine’s Europe edition. The Oct. 10 edi- TV series that premiered on Oct. 26 independent company. tion features Walt’s profile piece “Kyl- on the channel RTP1. The docudrama ian Mbappé Is the Future of Soccer,” series follows the efforts of three coura- Ben Sherwood is stepping down from which delves into the life of the 19-year geous women, poetess Natália Correia, his position as president of the Disney/ old French pro footballer who plays publisher Snu Abecassis, and journalist ABC Television Group. Sherwood has for Paris Saint-Germain and the France Vera Lagoa (pseudonym of Maria Ar- served as Disney’s president and co- national team. Walt paints a portrait of a manda Falcão), to fight media censor- chair of the Media Networks division. teenager caught in a high-powered adult ship imposed by Premier Antonio Sala- He was rumored to be considering leav- world, having missed out on the trap- zar’s regime. Actor Simão Cayatte plays ing his post for the last two months, with pings of a normal youth. “I did not have Redmont, who was served as Associated Fox’s Peter Rice taking over his duties. the moments of so-called normal people Press correspondent in Lisbon from Sherwood and ABC have been longtime during adolescence,” he told Walt in the 1965 to 1967, and experienced pressure supporters and sponsors of the OPC. interview, “like going out with friends, from police and authorities targeting Sherwood sponsored the David Kaplan enjoying good times.” foreign correspondents who covered Award for many years, and this spring opposition to the government and guer- extended his sponsorship of the award OPC member Kim Hjelmgaard, a rilla activities in Portuguese colonies. for the next ten years in the name of foreign correspondent for USA To- The series may eventually be distributed ABC News. v day, reported extensively on strained internationally.

October 2018 7 PRESS FREEDOM UPDATE... By Farwa Zaidi and Chad Bouchard

On Oct. 22, the OPC and the Soci- dead. The U.S. fell two places in the said the intruders entered as he was ety of Silurians sent a letter inviting RSF’s Press Freedom Index, in part closing his door, forced him to lie on Abdallah Y. Al-Mouallimi, the ambas- because of comments from President the ground, and one of them shot him in sador of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Trump painting the press as the “enemy the leg. The shooter then told him “this to the United Nations, to a public of the people.” is so you keep quiet and stop talking meeting to explain the Saudi govern- garbage on the radio.” Braga founded ment’s treatment of the press, and the French journalist Vincent Prado was Radio Uniao in 2007, and frequently abduction and murder of Washington detained by police and banned by a participates in a daily show hosted by Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi. judge from filming in the Manghystau Inaldo Lima. Lima reads the news while Khashoggi’s death has dominated head- region of Kazakhstan on Sept. 27. Prado Braga provides political commentary. lines since he was tortured and killed at and his interpreter Danara Ismetova Ricardo Romcy, the lead investigator the Saudi Arabian consulate in Istanbul were arrested in the western city of in this case, said the attack was “cold on Oct. 2. The Saudi government has Aktau. They were interviewing locals and calculated,” meant to spook Braga provided conflicting accounts of what who had witnessed deadly protests into silence. He says witnesses saw the happened. The OPC joined other press there in 2011. Prado and Ismetova were attackers drive by the building several freedom advocates in calling for the US held briefly at a nearby police station. Congress to investigate the journalist’s times. Radio Uniao has hired armed se- Prado was later taken to court, where death. Several groups have also called curity guards for their building follow- a judge prohibited him from filming in for the U.N. to establish an international ing the attack. investigation. the region and ordered him to pay a fine of 60,000 Kazakh tenge (about $166). A court in the northern province of Bac The Hong Kong government triggered Prado was reporting for French media Ninh in Vietnam sentenced journal- a press freedom controversy in early outlets Front Line and M6. He had his ist Do Cong Duong to four years in October when it refused to renew the press accreditation with him when he prison for “disturbing public order” work visa of veteran Financial Times was arrested. He was working on a on Sept. 17. Duong was arrested eight journalist Victor Mallet. The move story about authorities’ violent reaction months prior on Jan. 24 while filming came after he moderated a discussion in to oil workers’ protests in 2011. Law and photographing state authorities August with pro-independence activist enforcement had opened fire on demon- forcibly evicting residents of the Tu Son Andy Chan Ho-tin at the Foreign Cor- strators, killing at least a dozen people. commune in Bac Ninh. Duong faces a respondents Club (FCC). The Alliance Multiple prominent activists were jailed separate charge of “abusing democratic of Hong Kong Media created a petition afterward, and many opposition media freedoms.” The charge carries a maxi- demanding an explanation from Hong outlets were banned. mum seven-year sentence and Duong Kong authorities. will face trial for that charge in October. Somali broadcast journalist Mohamed Duong frequently covers land rights and Press freedom watchers are report- Abdiwali Tohow was detained on corruption, including on his own TV ing that 2018 has been an especially Sept. 22 over a broadcast report he program, Tieng Dan TV. He was warned dangerous year for journalists world- had made the previous day for the wide. And those threats have found a by Bac Ninh police in September 2017 Mogadishu-based Radio Kulmiye. On new home in democratic countries, a that his content “distorts the truth” and the morning of the 22nd, Mohamed New York Times piece by Megan Specia “contradicts the directions and policies received a phone call from intelligence explained on Oct. 11. In America and of the Party and the law of the state.” At Western Europe, places where freedom personnel, instructing him to appear least ten journalists remain behind bars of press has traditionally been consid- at a station in the state capital. He was in Vietnam since December 2017. ered an integral component of civil so- told there that his report alleging that cieties, journalists have been murdered militant group Al-Shabaab is regrouping Saudi Arabia’s military coalition fired and anti-press rhetoric has increased. in parts of the state was “false news.” an airstrike at a Yemeni radio sta- So far in 2018, forty-three journalists However, he was not charged for any tion on Sept. 16. The airstrike killed around the world have been killed in crime. Abdiwali Tohow regularly con- three employees, as well as one civilian relation to their work, according to tributes to various stations, including near the building. The Al-Maraweah the CPJ. This number far outpaces last London-based broadcaster Universal Radio Broadcasting Center located year’s and does not include seven- TV. Burhan Dini Farah, station director in Al-Maraweah district was targeted teen deaths in which motives remain for Radio Kulmiye, told CPJ that he had because it is controlled by the Ansar unknown. Reporters Without Borders been notified that the journalist would Allah movement, commonly known as reports that more journalists were killed be released after an investigation was the Houthis. The Saudi-led coalition has in the first nine months of 2018 than completed. recently been targeting Houthi forces in all of 2017. This year, the U.S. has in and around the Red Sea port city of the third-highest number of journalists Brazilian radio owner and commenta- Hodeida. The city is currently under killed worldwide. The attack on The tor Sandoval Braga was shot in the Capital Gazette newsroom in Annapo- Houthi control and is a vital lifeline leg on Sept. 21 after masked attackers lis, Maryland alone left five journalists for the group, who controls most of barged into his studio garage. Braga October 2018 8 9 ‘Video Journalism’ Continued From Page 1

Yemen’s north and west, as well as the MURDERS police violence waited for the official story to capital Sanaa. According to the Yemeni Mexican reporter Mario Leonel come out, and then his video exposed lies in Journalists Syndicate co-chair Nabil Gomez Sanchez was shot and killed the police version of events. If he’d posted it Alosaidi, the victims killed in the attack outside his home on Sept. 21. Gomez first, police might have adjusted their account to were Omar Ezzi Mohammad, Al was a reporter for the local newspaper sidestep the allegations, she said. Aish Mohammed Youssef, Jamaie El Heraldo de Chiapas. He was gunned Witness and the Guardian Project co-created Abdullah Musib, and Abeed Heba down by two unidentified assailants a tool called ProofMode, which adds metadata Ali, who was a nearby farmer. At least riding a motorcycle. The attack was to photos and video to help prevent activists and six journalists have been killed in coali- captured on video, where you can see journalists from having their work discredited as tion airstrikes by Saudi-led forces since the gunmen approaching Gomez and fakes. briefly stopping several meters from March 2015. Erica Anderson, lead for U.S. partnerships with him. One of the men then fires shots at News Lab at Google, is working with journalists him with a handgun, after which they Police raided the home of Italian jour- and organizations like Witness to teach digital flee the scene. Gomez died shortly nalist Salvo Palazzolo on Sept. 13, afterward at a hospital. On Sept. 22, the strategies including how to use metadata and other and seized his mobile phone, tablet state attorney general’s office released a information to verify content. computer, and three hard drives. The statement saying that Gomez’s work as “I’m a former journalist. This is really about search of his home was conducted by a a journalist would be the principal line applying [journalists’] questions. ‘Is this real? prosecutor’s office in Catania, Sicily. It of investigation. Gomez had been a cor- Can I trust it?’ – and using the digital footprint to was carried out as part of an investiga- respondent for El Heraldo de Chiapas understand” the sources, she said. tion of an alleged leak of information for eight years. He covered general She noted that journalists have used tools like after the journalist published a story in news, including crime and violence in Google Street View for image forensics, such March on the Via D’Amelio bombing the region. He had also written about as in an investigation on the website Bellingcat of 1992. Anti-mafia magistrate Paolo political developments following the that verified the location of a photo of the missile Borsellino and five police officers were Mexican general elections. He had pre- launcher in Russia that took down Malaysian killed during that attack. Palazzolo’s viously received threats in connection to Airlines Flight 17. report alleged police misconduct during his work. The panelists said that journalists can use the investigation of the bombing. Ac- a range of information to verify media, like cording to Palazzolo, he and his lawyer Somali reporter and photographer historical weather data, terrain details and hits on have filed a complaint about the search Abdirisak Said Osman was killed in Google Reverse Image Search. and are appealing for his equipment the city of Galkayo on Sept. 19. He was Sara Obeidat, a co-producer at Rain Media to be returned to him. Several Italian attacked the day before and succumbed working on films for FRONTLINE, said she first journalists are currently under police to his injuries a day later. Abdirisak was got into documentary filmmaking because she protection after reporting on mafia-like on his way home from work when a came to distrust printed news as a child growing criminal groups. group of unknown attackers approached up in Jordan. Video offers the opportunity to around 11:00 p.m. He was stabbed with “show, not tell” details about a story that are Democratic Republic of Congo journal- knives and beaten with sticks, and died resonant and true, she said. ist Tharcisse Zongia was jailed from internal bleeding. Abdirisak was a She recounted an example, where she was on Sept. 6 for criminal defamation. reporter for the privately-owned radio filming a story about Syrian refugees in Jordan, Zongia is editor-in-chief of the satirical station Codka Nabada. The director of and was able to capture disruption in the weekly Grognon. Zongia was previ- the station said Abdirisak had recently community as aid workers delivered water in ously arrested almost two years ago, in reported a series of stories on security trucks to only particular households, which fueled November 2016. He had published an in Galkayo and interviewed locals about tensions. article in his weekly in 2015, accusing their fear of criminal gangs and terror- “I just remember telling my colleague ‘just Barthelemy Okito, secretary general of ists. Initial investigations into Abdiri- get your phone out, let’s start filming this, it can the sports ministry, of embezzlement. sak’s murder did consider his work as a translate what we were trying to report on without Zongia remained free pending his ap- factor, but nothing had been confirmed. having to editorialize.’” peal, which was filed in January 2017. Investigations are still ongoing. Soma- “It’s basically just thinking about how to have as He was notified on Sept. 4 that his ap- lia, according to CPJ research, has some much unfold in front of you as possible, and not to peal was set for two days later. He was of the highest levels of impunity for get ahead of yourself and tell people what they’re arrested as soon as he arrived in court murders of journalists in the world. v about to see, but just letting them see it. Usually that and transferred to Kinshasa’s Central means looking for characters who are doing some- Prison the next day. CPJ’s Africa Pro- thing, and looking for events that can explain that, gram Coordinator, Angela Quintal said and listening really well.” v it is “outrageous that 22 months after Zongia’s conviction for defamation, he was arrested even though his appeal before a higher court is still pending.”

October 2018 9 9 NEW BOOKS By Farwa Zaidi

MIDDLE EAST Fighter” won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize in Feature Writ- UPCOMING ing. In 2009 he was part of a team that won a Pulitzer ore than 2.7 million Americans have Prize for International Reporting for coverage from EVENTS fought in Iraq and Afghanistan since Pakistan and Afghanistan. Chivers also served in the September 11, 2001. Journalist and two- United States marine corps as an infantry officer dur- M ing the Persian Gulf War. v time OPC Award winner C.J. Chivers reported on Taiwan’s both wars from their beginnings. His new book, The Fighters, [Simon and Schuster, 2018] is an in-depth SOUTHEAST ASIA Future Amid a look at the physical and emotional realities of soldiers on the ground. outheast Asia’s economy is growing ‘New Cold War’ Between Chivers walks readers through the lives of steadily at an average of at least 5 percent per year, according to the Association of Southeast the US and China six combatants: a fighter pilot, a corpsman, a S scout helicopter pilot, a “grunt,” an infantry Asian Nations. Thanks to an expanding consumer officer, and a Special Forces sergeant. Chivers market, a young and robust workforce, and increas- Club Quarters captures a range of emotional highs and lows: ing regional cooperation, that trend will likely continue. However, as the economy booms, so does Reception 6:00 p.m from courage and duty to the wounds they suffered physically and mentally. The fighters the region’s underground crime. Black markets of Program 6:30 p.m. faced confusion and frustration as new enemies drugs, human trafficking, and animal trafficking have arose and counterinsurgencies grew – challenges increased as rapidly as the economy. Patrick Winn’s Oct. 30 that American forces were not prepared for. new book, Hello Shadowlands: Inside the Meth Chivers examines the wars from the ground level Fiefdoms, Rebel Hideouts and Bomb-Scarred Party instead of from a foreign policy point of view, offer- Towns of Southeast Asia [Icon Books, 2018] is a deep dive into the world of underground organized crime Documentary ing readers an important and often ignored perspec- tive. According to him, the war in Afghanistan in Southeast Asia. Screening: started off sensibly and out of necessity, but Winn has been a correspondent in Asia for a de- cade. He argues in his book that an authoritarian re- ‘FREELANCERS’ ballooned over the years while the purpose became lost. Some of the soldiers inter- gime does not, as people may think, lead to less crime with Bill Gentile viewed by Chivers admitted that they could and squeaky-clean streets. He believes that strongarm no longer see why they were serving. Spe- rule leads to more underground criminal networks. cialist Robert Soto said he joined the Army Winn profiles drug fiefdoms in Myanmar that have Club Quarters in his teens to “protect America.” He was helped fuel the world’s largest methamphetamine 6:30 p.m. unsure how the Korengal Outpost in north- trade, women in the Philippines who are becoming eastern Afghanistan served that end. rich by selling illegal contraceptives, and entertainers Nov. 14 The Fighters is rife with drama, heroism being exported from North Korea to work in restau- and heartbreak. The hospital corpsmen Chivers rants across Southeast Asia. interviewed, Joe Dan Worley and Dustin Kirby, Winn has done extensive research on the region’s were cousins from Georgia. While their families politics and police. Winn writes that police chiefs in believed their positions would keep them safe, Wor- authoritarian governments operate with complete im- ley ended up losing his left leg above the knee, and punity, and use their power to protect criminals who Kirby was shot in the face by an enemy. Chivers pay them off. Essentially, Winn writes, police in these interviewed him a few years after the incident, and regions are selling impunity to drug lords and human found him unemployed, divorced, traffickers. and disfigured. Winn also researched vast amounts of drugs The Fighters has received posi- flowing among between Southeastern countries. He tive reviews from critics. The Wall estimates that seizures of meth tablets have gone up Street Journal called Chivers “an by 80,000 percent in the last ten years in Bangladesh. artist among war correspondents” Winn says the world’s largest meth trade is currently who “fashions a vast mosaic of coming out of Myanmar, near the country’s border bravery and miscalculation from with China. Drug labs there are selling 2 to 6 billion the lives of American combat- methamphetamine tablets per year. ants in Iraq and Afghanistan.” Shadowlands was well received by critics, saying Chivers is a war correspondent for that Winn does a commendable job showing cor- The New York Times. He won the ruption in Southeast Asia without sensationalizing OPC’s 2011 Hal Boyle Award for or moralizing the region. Winn is an award-winning his reporting in Libya and Afghan- American journalist who covers crime in Southeast istan, and the 2014 Best Investiga- Asia. His work has appeared on NBC News, The tive Reporting Award for “Secret Casualties,” which Atlantic and BBC, among others. v covered the U.S. military’s coverup of contamination from chemical munitions. His magazine story “The October 2018 10 bic vigilantes in St Petersburg Russia for a radio documentary co-produced with Reveal and Coda Story. I’d flip back and forth between meeting with homophobic politicians and vigilantes who would just say the most hateful and unfounded things about LGBT+ people – one guy even broke out into a sweat he became so worked up talking about it. Then later on the same day I’d meet with local activists, members of the LGBT community who Amy Mackinnon of course were the antithesis of all the hateful things I’d heard just hours before. Meet the OPC Members: Journalism heroes: Marie Colvin, Khadija Ismayilova, Elena Milashina, Maria Ressa. I love Ellen Barry’s writing. Q&A With Amy Mackinnon Big admirer of Bellingcat – their ability by chad bouchard When and why did you join the OPC? to fact-check a national government and its propaganda using just open-source Feel a bit bad for saying this, but for the data is really incredible. my mackinnon is a reporter for ID card! The more official-looking docu- Foreign Policy magazine, and an ments you have the better when reporting Dream job: As a kid I always loved Aaward-winning multimedia jour- in the former Soviet Union. the idea of becoming a journalist but it nalist from Scotland. In recent years, she seemed very exotic and inaccessible, has reported on eastern Europe. She re- What sparked your interest in report- like aspiring to become a ballerina or an ceived a 2018 Alfred I. duPont-Columbia ing on Russia? A love of great stories, astronaut. Few people end up working in award for her reporting from Russia for I think. In high school we studied the the jobs they dreamt of as kids so I feel the Reveal episode “Russia’s New Scape- Russian revolution and the Cold War and insanely fortunate to be where I am now. goats.” Her work has been published and I was just riveted, so I decided to study Place you’re most eager to visit: broadcast by Coda Story, BBC Radio Russian at university. Hard to imagine Uzbekistan. Scotland, Slate, CNN, Foreign Policy, the now but it was a counter-intuitive choice Sunday Herald, the Sunday Mail and the in 2007. Russian studies were in decline, Most common mistake you’ve seen: Daily Record. Mackinnon speaks Russian departments were being closed every- Haste. and holds an MA in Russian and East where and Arabic and Chinese were the European Studies from the University of languages of the day if you were inter- Favorite quote: “To write adverbs is Glasgow. She is currently based in New ested in global affairs. human, to write he said or she said is di- York while pursuing an MA at the CUNY vine,” from Stephen King’s On Writing. Graduate School of Journalism with a Major challenge as a journalist: focus on documentary filmmaking. Accepting uncertainty, which just seems Place you most want to return to: Geor- gia’s breakaway region of Abkhazia. It’s to be part of the job. I get very anxious in the most fascinating, beautiful, sad and Dingwall, Scotland. Hometown: the early stages of a story, as to whether it complicated place I’ve ever been. On the will pan out. But when it does it makes it drive into the main city, Sukhumi, you Education: University of Glasgow, all worth it. have these dramatic alpine mountains Corvinus University in Budapest, CUNY to your right, sapphire blue ocean on Graduate School of Journalism. Best journalism advice received: the left, and all around you is lush green An old one but a good one, “get the name tropics dotted with abandoned, shot-up Languages you speak: Native English and breed of the dog.” houses. I’m not one for keeping a diary speaker, decent but flawed Russian, some but I did on that trip as I was just such as Czech and French. Worst experience as a journalist: sensory overload. The nail biting wait for sources and edi- Twitter handle: @ak_mack v First job in journalism: Intern at the In- tors to respond to my messages. That and ternational Network of Street Newspapers 4 a.m. trips to Tbilisi airport. in Glasgow, Scotland. When traveling, you like to… I walk Countries reported from: the U.K., Po- as much as I can. It’s a great way to get a Want to add to the OPC’s collection of land, Hungary, Czech Republic, Russia, sense of a new city. Q&As with members? Please contact Georgia, Belarus, the U.S.A. [email protected]. 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