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Election Slate Features Diverse Group of Journalists Calling All China THE MONTHLY NEWSLETTER OF THE OVERSEAS PRESS CLUB OF AMERICA, NEW YORK, NY • July/August 2014 Election Slate Features Diverse Group of Journalists by Jane Ciabattari board members, we’re anticipating at Club Quarters, 40 West 45th St. This year the nominating com- a phase of expansion and innovation Election results will be announced mittee’s mission was to nominate as the OPC continues to evolve. at this meeting. To cast your ballot, a slate of candidates, including of- All votes must be entered or you will receive an e-mail from the ficers, with the energy, talent, and received by noon, Tuesday, Aug. journalistic chops to provide the 19. The annual meeting, which is OPC with a link to Balloteer, the on- next generation of leadership for the open to all members, will be held line voting ballot, or call the office OPC. The club’s central challenge is on Wednesday, Aug. 20 at 6 p.m. for a paper ballot at 212-626-9220. to continue to make itself relevant to international journalism. In selecting nominees for presi- Calling All China Hands to Reunion dent and other officers, Active and done as journalists over this sweep Associate board members, we drew EVENT PREVIEW: SEPT. 12 from a range of demographics, ages, of time and what is on the horizon.” and media organizations. We in- The Overseas Press Club, in The Foreign Correspondents cluded candidates who are pioneer- cooperation with the Foreign Cor- Club of China will be represented by ing new digital forms, recent OPC respondents Club of China and the Jocelyn Ford, who is currently based award winners working in the field, Asia Society’s ChinaFile, is orga- in China. The FCCC has become a and many who have led awards com- nizing a China Hands reunion on leading voice arguing that the Chi- mittees. After a robust discussion, Friday, Sept. 12 at Club Quarters, nese government is engaging in a the board approved the following followed by a Chinese dinner at the comprehensive crackdown against slate. We’re grateful to the nominat- nearby Taipei Economic and Cultur- the Western media. ChinaFile.com is ing committee (Alexis Gelber, Bill al Office in New York (TECO-NY). an organization of former correspon- Holstein, Larry Martz, Michael Ser- Any journalist who has covered dents who track Chinese issues and rill and Abi Wright), to all the OPC Greater China or who still covers it is seek to connect China Hands, both members who suggested candidates, eligible to attend with a companion. current and former. and to the nominees who will devote Members of the organizing commit- Beginning at 2 p.m. on Sept. 12, time in the two years ahead. tee are Marcus Brauchli; Dinda El- the organizers plan a series of small As we elect officers, 10 Active liott and Adi Ignatius; Pete Engar- reunions and workshops dedicated to board members and three Associate dio; Jocelyn Ford; Peter Goodman; Tiananmen, Chinese government’s William J. Holstein; Norman Pearl- treatment of the media, coverage of Inside. stine; Roy Rowan; Robert Thomson; China’s economic power and simi- Seymour and Audrey Topping; and lar topics. There will be an open bar Election Slate...............................2-6 Minky Worden and Gordon Crovitz. in the Living Room of CQ at 5:30 People........................................7-10 All have served in Hong Kong or the p.m., followed by a Chinese dinner mainland. sponsored by the TECO-NY, located OPC Responds to Egypt Ruling....11 “We think it’s a great time to do a few blocks away at 1 East 42nd this because it’s 25 years after the Street. The proceedings, both formal Press Club Tours Recap..........12-13 Tiananmen massacre and we have and informal, will be videotaped for Seminar Recap.............................14 several people who were there,” says possible use in a documentary or e- Committee Chair Holstein. “It’s also book. Prison Privatization........................15 35 years after China’s opening to If you have covered China and TruthDig.........................................15 the world. Aside from renewing old wish to attend, contact the OPC of- friendships, we would like to cre- fice at 212-626-9220. The fee for at- New Books....................................16 ate discussions about how we have tendance is $50 per person. 2014 Election Slate PRESIDENT mission at the highest levels. My work MARCUS MABRY with the Eddie Adams Workshop, the I am editor-at-large of The New York Times and a vet- Hondros Fund, and the CPJ helps ensure eran foreign correspondent and editor who has made the the next generation of photojournalists move to digital. At Newsweek, I was Paris correspondent, have the skills, freedom and access to Africa bureau chief and chief of corre- inform and challenge. spondents. I moved to the Times in 2007 The OPC website says one of the as international business editor and spent the club’s aims is “…to work toward better communi- 2011-2013 based in London and Paris, de- cation and understanding among people.” These words vising and editing the blog of the Interna- clearly articulate its goal, echoing mine, of encouraging tional Herald Tribune, IHT Rendezvous. the highest standards of integrity and skills in the re- I have been the Times’s video anchor and porting of news. I welcome this opportunity to advance parachuted into South Africa last year to these principles more broadly through service on the cover Mandela. I edit the homepage of The Times and the OPC Board. Watching aggregation portal. I was the 1999 Edward R. Murrow Press Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations ABIGAIL PESTA and I serve on CFR’s membership committee. I have won I am an award-winning journalist who has lived and OPC awards and been OPC’s first and second vice presi- worked around the world, from London to Hong Kong. dent. If elected, I will spend the next two years seeking to My investigative and feature reporting has been pub- modernize your OPC and fortify our numbers. lished in global publications including The Wall Street Journal, Cosmopolitan, VICE PRESIDENTS NBC News, The New York Times, Ma- PANCHO BERNASCONI rie Claire, New York Magazine, Glam- After 30 years (I started young!) in photojournalism, our, The Atlantic and Newsweek. I I strongly believe that at our very core as journalists is have served as the editorial director a fundamental desire to inform and challenge the world of women’s news at Newsweek and The around us. I have dedicated my career to ensuring pho- Daily Beast, the editor-at-large of Marie tojournalists witness and document the news. I’ve luck- Claire and a news and features editor at The Wall Street ily worked for the Chicago Tribune, The New York Times Journal Asia in Hong Kong. While based in Hong Kong, and Getty Images, where there is a shared belief in that OVERSEAS PRESS CLUB OF AMERICA • BOARD OF GOVERNORS PRESIDENT ACTIVE BOARD Arlene Getz Romesh Ratnesar Daniel Sieberg PAST PRESIDENTS Michael Serrill Jacqueline Albert- Editor-in-Charge Deputy Editor Head of Media Outreach EX-OFFICIO Assistant Managing Simon Digital News Bloomberg Google David A. Andelman Editor U.S. Bureau Chief Thomson Reuters Businessweek John Corporon Bloomberg Markets Politique Internationale Minky Worden Allan Dodds Frank Azmat Khan Martin Smith Director of Global Alexis Gelber FIRST VICE PRESIDENT Amar C. Bakshi Senior Digital Producer President Initiatives William J. Holstein Tim Ferguson JD/MBA student Al Jazeera Rain Media Human Rights Watch Marshall Loeb Editor Yale University Larry Martz Forbes Asia Evelyn Leopold Seymour Topping Abi Wright Roy Rowan Rebecca Independent Journalist Emeritus Director Leonard Saffir SECOND VICE PRESIDENT Blumenstein United Nations Professor of Alfred I. duPont – Larry Smith Abigail Pesta Deputy Editor in Chief International Journalism Columbia University Richard B. Stolley Freelance Journalist The Wall Street Journal Santiago Lyon Columbia University Awards VP and Director of EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR THIRD VICE PRESIDENT Paul Brandus Photography Charles Wallace Patricia Kranz Toni Reinhold West Wing Report Associated Press Financial Writer Editor in Charge, OFFICE MANAGER New York Desk Howard Chua-Eoan Marcus Mabry ASSOCIATE BOARD Boots R. Duque Reuters Former News Director Editor at Large MEMBERS Time The New York Times Brian Byrd TREASURER Program Officer Dorinda Elliott Jane Ciabattari NYS Health Freelance Journalist Freelance Writer Foundation NPR.org, Daily Beast Robert Nickelsberg OPC SECRETARY Freelance Sarah Lubman ISSN-0738-7202 Jonathan Dahl Deidre Depke Photojournalist Partner Copyright © 2014 Editor in Chief Journalist and Brunswick Group Over seas Press Club of WSJMoney Author America 40 West 45 Street, New York, NY 10036 USA • Phone: (212) 626-9220 • Fax: (212) 626-9210 • Website: opcofamerica.org OPC Bulletin • July/August 2014 • Page 2 I ran a team of reporters covering business, technology to help the club to hold more events and to reach out to and culture. I also helped launch the first Asian news bu- the next generation of journalism leaders. reau for WSJ.com. Before that, I was based in London, (Electing 10) running an editing desk for Dow Jones Newswires. I ACTIVE NOMINEES have also worked as an articles editor at Glamour, where JACQUELINE ALBERT-SIMON I am US Bureau Chief and Associate Editor of Poli- I launched Mariane Pearl’s popular column about wom- tique Internationale, and have spent three decades re- en who change the world. porting, analyzing (and agonizing over) US foreign policy for French and other CALVIN SIMS I am currently a foreign affairs columnist for Glo- European readers of PI. I have been a balPost and serve as president and CEO of International frequent guest commentator on French House, which has a mission to train leaders for the global and Canadian TV and radio, and a con- community.
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