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Panel Reflects on Uncertain Special Screening Future of ‘The Journey Is by chad bouchard The Destination’ INSIDE fghanistan has been EVENT PREVIEW: OCT. 30 the staging ground for Kim Wall Memorial 2 proxy wars among world A n oct. 30, the OPC will GroundTruth’s superpowers and its neighbors for co-sponsor a special screen- Report for America 2 centuries, with several conflicts ing of The Journey is the grinding on since the late 1970s. OPC Press ID CHAD BOUCHARD O Destination, which depicts the true Despite these foreign influences, ‘A Lifesafver’ 3 story of Dan Eldon, the youngest Afghans have benefited little and Left to right: Jere Van Dyk, Bill Holstein, Kathy Gannon and David Rohde. photojournalist ever to work on International Press the country remains poorly un- the frontlines for . The film Institute 3 derstood, particularly in the West, follows Dan’s personal struggle to panelists told attendees at Club was kidnapped by the Taliban and Jim Foley’s held for ransom for 45 days in 2008. create positive change in an increas- Public Service 4 Quarters on Oct. 10. As the second American journalist ingly violent and dangerous world. During a discussion the OPC captured by the Taliban after Daniel OPC members can use a Comp Abductions co-sponsored with Ford Motor Co., in Dhaka 5 Pearl, he said surviving his ordeal Code on Eventbrite to attend for participants representing decades of sparked a deep conviction to investi- free. Check email in- People Column 6-8 experience in the country expressed gate what really happened. boxes for the code. The frustration with relentless violence, Click here “I feel a tremendous obligation event costs $50 for Press Freedom lack of democratic progress, and to RSVP for the Update 8-9 to those who did not survive. I feel non-members. screening. dim prospects for peace in the near a need to seek redemption for all the A red carpet and New Books 10 future. trouble we’ve put people through and reception begins at 6:30 “Afghanistan is very easy to all that has happened. In a way to try p.m. at the SVA Theatre, Q&A: enter, but it’s very hard to leave,” and resolve problems, make it better,” 333 West 23rd Street in New York, Tanya Bindra 11 said Jere Van Dyk, quoting an old he said. and the showing begins at 7:30 p.m. Afghan adage. Van Dyk covered The FBI closed the investigation OPC member John Daniszewski will the Afghan-Soviet war for The New of his kidnapping in 2012, a move moderate.v York Times in the early 1980s and Continued on Page 5 OPC Launches New Membership Fund for Freelancers have little institutional support and issues relevant to international according to need by the member- by patricia kranz from news organization. journalism; and training programs ship committee. A donation of $375 lease consider support- The OPC has stepped into the that offer tips on how to protect will pay annual OPC dues for a ing the work of interna- breach by providing services to yourself and sources in crisis freelance journalist whose home P tional freelance journalists independent journalists including zones. base is New York. $175 will pay by donating to the Membership photo press IDs that help them get Now, the OPC is setting up a annual dues for a journalist based Fund of the Overseas Press Club visas and access to sources; OPC fund that will be used exclusively outside the U.S. Contributions of of America. Accurate, unbiased Connect, a closed Facebook group to subsidize dues for freelanc- any amount are appreciated. They reporting is more important now open only to OPC members that ers who have trouble financing are not tax-deductible. Please text than ever. But much of the work allows reporters and editors to membership. Freelancers can apply 646-891-4672 to make your pledge is being done by freelancers who network and discuss assignments and the funds will be distributed or send a check to the OPC. v 1 1 Remembering Kim Wall

EVENT RECAP by patricia kranz riends, family, and teachers remembered Kim Wall at a memorial service at the Columbia Journalism School on Fthe evening of Oct. 11. Those giving tribute to Kim, who graduated from the journalism school in 2013, focused on her love of journalism and her eclectic body of work rather than on GILBERT BRUCE her horrific death. Tom Wall, the brother of Kim Wall, speaking at a memorial service at the “Kim was inventive and persistent as a child,” said her mother, Columbia Journalism School. Ingrid Wall. “For Kim there were no boundaries.” Ingrid explained that both she and her husband are journalists in , and said At the memorial, seven of Kim’s friends read excerpts from her work. Kim went on reporting trips with them when she was young. Ingrid re- Kim disappeared after meeting Peter Madson, a submarine builder, membered how Kim, while still an adolescent, wrote an article for a lo- for an interview and a trip on his homemade submarine on Aug. 10. Her cal newspaper, saying: “I want to know how the world works.” torso was later found on a beach near Copenhagen. Madsen has been That curiosity and hunger for experience took her to from Sweden charged with manslaughter, which in Danish law is the equivalent of to several countries including Sri Lanka, , Uganda, Haiti and the murder. . “She was a magical presence,” said Nina Berman, a pho- Kim’s brother Tom said she loved Muji , using them to take tojournalism professor at Columbia. “She was fiercely smart, but had a notes and write stories. “Armed with nothing but her wits, a notepad and childlike curiosity and sense of wonder.” a Japanese gel ballpoint , she gave a voice to those who had some- Lonnie Isabel, a senior lecturer at the journalism school, said he met thing to say,” said Tom. with Kim in late June when she told him she had decided to move to Columbia is accepting gifts to establish a scholarship named for China this fall. “She told me how Donald Trump had ruined the lives of Kim. Gifts may be made online at journalism.givenow.columbia.edu or freelancers because editors don’t want stories about anything else.” by mailing a check to Brandon Glosser, Columbia University Graduate Wall was a member of the OPC and reported from the Marshall Is- School of Journalism, 2950 Broadway, New York, NY 10027 and putting lands in 2015 with fellow OPC members Hendrik Hinzel and Coleen “Kim Wall Scholarship” in the memo field. v Jose on the leaking Runit Dome that houses radioactive waste.

On a Mission to Listen and Report in Appalachia by charles sennott grit and resiliency that has always pulled the Virginia. The following is an excerpt from a generations through hard times. And they’ve We’re opening a call for applications effec- piece written for the GroundTruth definitely known hard times. tive today for three, 12-month-long reporting For the last two weeks, we’ve had our positions at the Lexington Herald-Leader, Project website, used with permission. ‘Crossing the Divide’ team of five report- the Charleston Gazette and Mail, and West To read more about Report for Ameri- ers, from a mix of red states and blue, on the Virginia Public Broadcasting. This is part of ca, visit thegroundtruthproject.org. ground here in the mountains of Appalachia GroundTruth’s new initiative called “Report listening to people talk about the future of for America,” a call to public service for local isten to people who live here in the work, about a determination to create new journalism that will serve communities in un- heart of rural Appalachia and it doesn’t industries, and about an urgent need to rei- der-covered parts of the country where more Ltake long to hear just how tired they are magine healthcare in a way that will address reporting resources are needed to unearth big of reporters coming from outside to tell their a surging crisis of opioid addiction. We’ve challenges that lie ahead. story. listened to a great diversity of views, but one Backed by the Google News Lab and a Sure, they’ll tell you, this town is strug- feeling that courses through just about every host of others who are providing early-stage gling as it transitions out of an economy that conversation is that people here do not feel funding, including the Knight Foundation, the revolved around a coal industry now in steep heard by the rest of the country, especially by Solutions Journalism Network, the Center for decline. Jobs are scarce. The opioid crisis is the national news media. Investigative Reporting and several regional real. People worry about the future. Young Today we are proud to announce that we funders, our hope is that Report for America people who are proud to be from here too of- are going to stick around in rural Appalachia will become a movement with up to 1,000 ten end up moving away for work even as the and do some more listening. journalists deployed into local news organiza- mountains pull their hearts to stay. With support from the Galloway Fam- tions over the next five years. But, if you give the conversation a bit ily Foundation, The GroundTruth Project is And the movement starts here. more time, those same people will hasten to partnering with three prominent regional news In Kentucky, the Report for America add that the reality of this place is that it is organizations to deepen coverage on issues “corps member,” as we are calling the re- also finding a voice for innovation, develop- that impact the communities here in the coal- porters, will be assigned to Pikeville, with a ing an eye for new ideas, and relying on a fields of eastern Kentucky and southern West Continued on Page 9

2 OPC Press ID: ‘A Lifesaver’ Defending Truth in a Post-truth World by anand gopal by patricia kranz n the winter of 2013, I heard a story he Vienna-based International Press Institute about U.S.-backed forces burying has sent representatives to meet with government a child alive in a remote village in Tofficials in countries like , Myanmar and I Egypt to promote press freedom and defend journalists Kandahar, Afghanistan. While investigat- ing, I was arrested by forces loyal to the since its founding in 1950. brutal police chief Abdul Raziq, America’s Next January, in response to the Trump Administra- man in Kandahar. I was expelled from tions’s attacks on the media here at home, IPI will join a Kandahar and barred from ever returning. press mission to the United States, headed by the Com- But the report haunted me, and I figured mittee to Protect Journalists. that the same phenomenon that allowed In advance of that meeting, the ICI’s North Ameri- insurgents and drug lords to slip in – gross can Committee held an informal discussion with a small group of journalists and free press advocates in incompetence – might enable an indepen- Washington on Oct. 6. The purpose was to “brainstorm dent journalist to return unnoticed. I spent ways to mount a concerted effort to counteract the re- months making calls, charting locations cent attempts to mount public opinion against the press, of every police checkpoint, and mapped limit access to public data or broadly interfere with the a route avoiding them, all the way to the Anand Gopal journalists’ ability to perform the duties of bringing truth village. to light.” When I returned, on assignment that I was a journalist, not a spy or ISIS John Daniszewski, an OPC member who is vice for Harper’s, I travelled with my Afghan president at The and editor-at-large for operative, when he finally asked to see the colleague through back alleys, judiciously standards, gave a detailed and frightening analysis on last article I’d written. This happened to avoiding checkpoints. We emerged onto “The state of truth in a post-truth world.” a bridge heading out of the city when be the Harper’s piece on Kandahar’s mur- suddenly a hulking man in a bandolier derous U.S.-backed forces – not exactly Here some excerpts from his remarks: stepped onto the road and stopped our the type of story I wanted these murderous “Aside from the assault on truth by some politicians, car. I told him I was a journalist, but he U.S.-backed forces to associate me with. we are also living through an era of intense and sophisti- demanded to see identification. This is I tried to dissuade him but he found Harp- cated propaganda. As we have seen in recent days, there always a moment of panic for freelancers ers.com and located my article – and is evidence that hackers from Russia were buying politi- the world over; we don’t have press cards, realized that it could not be accessed. I’d cal messages and feeding them directly into people’s or any type of identification that can pass never been so grateful for a paywall. social media feeds – into their heads in other words, be- muster with officious local authorities. Not long after, I became an member cause so much of life now is lived in virtual space. Sometimes, we get a letter of assignment, of the Overseas Press Club. There’s a lot “Russian troll farms are creating posts using false identities specifically targeted to geographic areas. It is but those impress few people in places to commend the OPC, such as its dedica- orchestrated by Russia and ISIS. like Afghanistan, where they expect a tion to international news at a time when “Because it’s new, our brains haven’t really adjusted well-laminated, official looking ID. Al- foreign coverage is eroding, and the to it. We don’t know we’re being propagandized. They most no freelancers I knew possessed such community of foreign correspondents it fosters. But the OPC’s Press ID has be- look like any other social media posts but they are cre- a card; in desperation, some even tried to ated perhaps by a robot just for you. The technology make their own. come a lifesaver. With the word PRESS brandished across the top (in English and makes it cheap to create and disseminate. Google and I knew that if I tried to explain the piti- Facebook haven’t created tools to vet this propaganda. ful plight of the freelancer to the gunman, Arabic), the ID is something I wish I had earlier in my career. It allows me to cross “On one side, the pursuit of facts is being ques- I’d likely not get very far. So I fished out tioned. On the other side is insidious propaganda. checkpoints, enter government offices, the only substitute I could think of: my “As journalists, we need to be on the front line of the even obtain journalist visas. But most library card. The gunman studied it, im- defense against propaganda. We need to counter it with pressed by the heavy lamination, the New important, the OPC Press Card gives me a factual information. This is why fact-checking has be- York University torch logo, the passport- sense of security. In a world that’s grow- come such an important role for our profession. The AP sized photo, the fine print on the back. It ing ever more dangerous for journalists, is one of many news organizations that are amping up was clear he could not read English. He and especially freelancers, nothing could their fact-check operations. And those stories are among flashed a giant grin and said, “I love jour- be more valuable. the stories that are most popular and engaged in by our nalists.” He waved us on. audiences. As any freelancer can attest, we are of- OPC member Anand Gopal is a jour- “We need to up our game with debunking stories in ten not so lucky. In Iraq, I was detained by nalist and author of No Good Men Among real time, both for the politicians who would try to con- militiamen for investigating abuses U.S.- the Living: America, the Taliban and the fuse the public about facts for their political ends, and backed Iraqi forces had committed against War Through Afghan Eyes. He won the the sophisticated propagandists from Russia, the ISIS group and other despotic countries and extreme actors civilians in the name of fighting ISIS. I OPC Best Magazine Reporting Award this who now have the ability to target us one by one through spent hours trying to convince a gunman year for his piece “The Hell After ISIS,” published in The Atlantic. v the open door of social media.” v

3 Jim Foley’s Legacy of Journalism and Public Service by charles sennott in 2012 to the darkest day when contrast to the pleasant campuses of he was executed by the so-called the five colleges that surround it. hese days, many people Islamic State in 2014, Jim’s parents, And during his studies for a don’t think of journalism as John and Diane Foley, and their four master’s degree in journalism at Ta defense of liberty, not with surviving children have consistently the Medill School at Northwestern President Trump labeling us “the been a source of light. They have University, he once again found a enemy of the people.” They aren’t focused on Jim’s sense of a calling to path to service by volunteering in the thinking of the media as courageous bear witness as a journalist. Jumpstart program in Chicago which in bearing witness, when they are Their extraordinary faith has led helped convicted felons transition served cat stories on BuzzFeed. And them to never question Jim’s belief back into society. they aren’t likely to think of what that what he was doing as a reporter Jim’s family is centered on we do as a public service with polls covering a war zone mattered, that service, although they don’t really indicating that trust in the media is as bearing witness was an act of moral seem very comfortable calling it that. low as it has ever been. courage and ultimately, public ser- His father is a doctor, his mother is a But then again most people never vice. GroundTruth is honored to be nurse and three of his siblings served had a chance to meet Jim Foley. partnering with the James W. Foley in the military. James W. Foley was one of Legacy Foundation with a new fel- “He just found meaning in helping the most passionately committed lowship in Jim’s name for freelance others,” said Jim’s father. journalists I’ve worked with through reporters working in the Middle East. “He wanted to be a part of some- more than 30 years in this craft, and Please check out our call for applica- thing bigger,” said Jim’s younger he was definitely driven by a sense of tions to the fellowship here. brother, John. “He wanted to know he public service, and a moral courage Jim’s life was all about service. was doing what’s right and giving a fueled by the belief that journalism in He went to college at Marquette voice to those who didn’t have one.” its heart is about bearing witness and University, where the message of And the way all of them have about giving a voice to the voiceless. service is woven into the teaching of shouldered the grief and the loss of On Oct. 14, Jim was remembered the Jesuit tradition. And right out of Jim has served as an inspiration to all during the 2017 James W. Foley college, he joined Teach for America of us in the tribe of journalism who Freedom Run/Walk 5K, a charity run and offered four years of service knew Jim, and who miss him. in his hometown in New Hampshire to students in a troubled, inner-city They as a family seem to be living intended to mark his birthday and to school where his fluency in Spanish out a shared commitment to service, honor his memory. The money raised allowed him to get close to a group by being there to continue supporting through this third annual “Foley of kids who, at the time of his death, the best kind of journalism that is not 5k” will help support the James W. shared with unbearable poignancy opinionated or loud, that is not trite or Foley Legacy Foundation which is how they have never forgotten the about click bait, but that is all about dedicated to advocacy for freelance lessons Jim taught them. He went being there on the ground and bear- journalists and for the families of to the University of Massachusetts ing witness to people suffering from those held hostage. Please consider where he entered a master’s program injustice and violence. giving. in writing, but spent much of his Journalism has been struggling From that terrible moment when time in the Pioneer Valley at a center financially for well over a decade Jim was taken hostage while report- for unwed mothers in Holyoke which as Jim knew all too well. In Jim’s ing in Syria on Thanksgiving Day has a poverty rate that stands in stark Continued on Page 5

4 ‘Jim Foley’ ‘Afghanistan’ She said regular Afghans consider Continued From Page 4 Continued From Page 1 foreigners, including Americans and Western partners, as part of the problem. work for us at GlobalPost and at The that also helped spur him to examine the David Rohde, online news director GroundTruth Project, he was often case on his own. for The New Yorker and former reporter struggling to get by. He was among Van Dyk said a key problem with at Reuters and , said a legion of freelancers who set out to American policy in Afghanistan is that with the Pentagon committing more diplomats, FBI and other US officials are cover the Arab Spring at a time when troops and a spike in US attacks in Af- only in the country for a 90-day rotation. staff jobs, particularly on the foreign ghanistan, the death toll on civilians will Under British rule in the early 20th cen- desk, are hard to find at newspapers continue climbing. tury, he pointed out, officials remained in and networks which are increasingly “What upset me about the Trump the country for 16 years. hollowed out by a collapsing business strategy was that it was not a solution. Van Dyk’s new book, THE TRADE: model. What’s constantly driven the American My Journey into the Labyrinth of Politi- We’ve all heard about the failures approach to Afghanistan, and it’s logical, cal Kidnapping, was released on the day of traditional media as a business, but is domestic American politics.” of the panel. something we are thinking about a lot He cited George W. Bush’s aborted Kathy Gannon, senior correspondent more these days is the deeper failing of revenge operation after 9-11, a limited for Pakistan and Afghanistan for The As- journalism to remember that in the end surge under the Obama administration, sociated Press, covered the region since of the day it is all about public service. and now Trump’s increased attacks and 1987 and was the only western journalist In the end of the day, it’s about bearing use of the “Mother of All Bombs” as ex- in Taliban-ruled Afghanistan during the witness not only in conflict zones in amples of strategies rooted in the desire U.S.-led invasion that followed the 9-11 foreign countries but also right here in to satisfy constituents in the US. attacks. American cities and towns where the “Last year I believe maybe 15 Ameri- She said foreign influence makes the ravages of a fading industrial economy can soldiers died in Afghanistan, and I country extremely complicated, with and failing schools and corrupt politi- think at least 5000 Afghan police and Russia’s increasing anxiety about a cians are leaving huge swaths of the soldiers died. So this is a holding pattern, growing ISIS presence in former Soviet country fearful for their future and what Trump is doing will not lead states and Iran possibly supporting the distrusting of a media that too often to a resolution.” Taliban while recruiting both Pakistanis Click here just isn’t there to listen to what they Rohde was kidnapped by and Afghans to fight in Syria. to see video have to say. the Taliban in 2008, escaping “The danger always to me seems clips from after 7 months. the program. This year, GroundTruth fielded a to be this desire to oversimplify a very Willam J. Holstein, who team of 25 participants in the Foley 5k complicated situation,” she said. “Every covered the Soviet invasion of in New Hampshire and from remote nation has their own agendas in Afghani- Afghanistan in late 1979 and moderated locations around the world from stan, and it’s getting more so.” the panel, asked Rohde what a viable Boston to Istanbul. I will be running Gannon was shot and wounded while strategy would be. in Ireland where I’ll be on assignment covering an election in Afghanistan in “I think you are either all in, which with my brother, a photographer who 2014. Her friend and colleague Anja we’re not going to do, or you leave. This also worked in Iraq and Afghanistan. Niedringhaus was mortally wounded in kind of middle of the road thing is just Every step of the way, we will be the attack. thinking of Jim and, yes, when we are costing Afghans their lives.” v pulled into the comforting shadows of a pub for a velvety Guinness we will Abductions Rise in Bangladesh also be thinking of Jim. We think of miles away in a tea garden. him all the time. And we like to think by hasan mahmud that Jim would have really liked this On Aug. 22, Syed Sadat Ahmed, a idea of Report for America. Cheers, he Bangladeshi capital of businessman and leader of the Bangla- Jim, and happy birthday. Dhaka has seen a rash of kidnap- desh Nationalist Party was forced out Tpings over the last few months, a of his car and into a microbus with an This piece was used with permis- trend that has been climbing steadily over unknown driver. There has been no trace sion from the GroundTruth Project. To the last few years. of him so far. Also still missing is the read the entire story, visit Among the missing are politicians, Belarus Honorary Consul in Bangladesh, thegroundtruthproject.org. v businessmen, journalists, poets and stu- Anirudda Kumar Roy, who was last seen dents. on Aug. 27. On Sept. 25, Rokonuzzaman Rokon, the On April 21, Hemonto Costa, also mayor of the northern city of Sharishabari, a businessman, was abducted while on was abducted from Uttara, a suburb of his way to his office in the city of Savar. Dhaka. Rukon, a leader in the Awami Costa is the younger sibling of Proshanto League political party, went missing for Costa, the high school principal in My- two days and was found more than 100 Continued on Page 10

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By Amy Russo OPC SCHOLARS cently with Ford Motor Co. Bill has book Holocaust Heroes: Fierce The OPC Foundation’s 2014 Stan been an active OPC supporter since Females, by Linda Stein. A tapestry Swinton Fellowship winner, Sam joining the Board in 2002, publiciz- made by Stein was displayed at the Kimball, is working on a podcasting ing the OPC Awards and contributing project dedicated to telling the per- to the Freedom of the Press Com- sonal stories of everyday Iraqis titled mittee. He’s recently joined the OPC UNHEARD: The Voices of Iraq. Foundation Board. “In the next chap- Through a Kickstarter campaign that ter, I’ll continue working on press met its $6,000 goal, Kimball will be- freedom projects and PR consulting,” gin training in storytelling and radio said Collins, a former journalist. He production and pass those skills on was honored in a farewell event at to local journalists who will help him God’s Love We Deliver in New York

to carry out his vision for the project. on Oct. 12. KRANZ PATRICIA Kimball arrived in Iraq in January A memorial tapestry by Linda Stein 2017 with an eye to reporting stories displays a collage of photos from that go deeper than typical narratives Ruth Gruber’s life. about ISIS and jihad to reveal a more complete picture of how ordinary event, showing photos and scenes Iraqis are grappling with terrorism from Ruth’s life. Kenner closed the and government corruption. He will program with a quote from Gruber: enroll in Transom’s Storytelling “If something has to be done, just go Workshop in Woods Hole, Massa- ahead and do it. Don’t let obstacles chusetts, where he’ll learn about au- get in your way.” dio equipment, editing, writing and This year’s OPC Feature Photog- other aspects of production. raphy Award winner, Meridith Kohut, was recently interviewed by Image Republiq on her experi- UPDATES Left to right: David Ludwigson, ence working in Venezuela over the NEW YORK: OPC Treasurer God’s Love vice presisent and chief last decade. Recounting how her Abigail Pesta received two awards development officer; Jim Vella, from The Newswomen’s Club of president of the Ford Fund, Karen work there began, she recalled a New York, one for her magazine fea- Pearl, president and CEO of God’s 2006 phone call with David Furst, ture “First Do No Harm” in Women’s Love; and OPC Governor Bill Collins international picture editor at The Health Magazine and another for her of Ford Motor Company. New York Times and newly elected Mother Jones essay, “My Daughter OPC Governor, who proposed that Was Murdered in a Mass Shoot- she travel to Venezuela to document ing. Then I Was Ordered to Pay Her A small group of friends and family the everyday lives of its citizens. She Killer’s Gun Dealer.” “First Do No gathered Oct. 15 at the apartment of told Image Republiq that when she Harm” is an investigative report ex- Patti Kenner to celebrate the spirit arrived she discovered a population posing sexual abuse by physicians. and accomplishments of longtime in a downward spiral of starvation The article explores the aftermath of OPC member Ruth Gruber, who and inflation under authoritarian op- sexual assault and outlines resources died Nov. 17 at 105. Kenner was a pression from then-President Nicolás to seek help. Pesta reported that in close friend of Ruth’s and the pro- Maduro. Kohut recently presented a 500-person survey, 27 percent of ducer of the documentary “Ahead her work at a panel co-sponsored by participants had been violated dur- of Time: the Extraordinary Journey the OPC, the Columbia Graduate ing a doctor’s visit. Pesta’s piece of Ruth Gruber.” Gruber joined the School of Journalism and the Profes- for Mother Jones recounts a story OPC in 1959 and remained a mem- sional Prizes department. A video of told to her by Sandy Phillips, whose ber until her death. A photojournalist her interview can be found on Image daughter Jessi was killed during the and author, she also worked as a Republiq’s Facebook page. 2012 movie theater shooting in Au- human rights advocate. “Acting for rora, Colorado. Phillips attempted to President Franklin D. Roosevelt, she NYU journalism professor Moha- sue the person who sold thousands escorted nearly 1,000 refugees from mad Bazzi was featured in The of rounds of ammunition to the gun- 19 Nazi-occupied nations to a safe New York Times last month for his man, but lost the suit and was forced haven in the United States on a peril- op-ed on his experience with the uni- to pay the defendant’s legal fees, ous trans-Atlantic crossing in 1944. versity’s Abu Dhabi campus. Bazzi rendering her bankrupt. They included the only large contin- was scheduled to teach a course at gent of allowed into America the site when he was denied entry OPC Governor Bill Collins accept- during World War II,” according into by the ed a buyout offer and wrapped up a to the memorial program. Gruber government. The university made an 28-year communications career re- is one of ten women profiled in the unsuccessful appeal. Bazzi suspects 6 7 WELCOME N E W MEMBERS

Dario Bosio Freelance Torino, Active Overseas, Young that the school made only a half- survive and his 5-year-old daughter, (29 or under) hearted attempt to solve the issue. He Amara, was at school at the time and Antoine Goldet believes the root of the issue to be his survived. But Bocxe’s wife, Eliza- Freelance background, being a Lebanese-born beth Esguerra Rosas, was with him Shiite Muslim. Bazzi’s op-ed alleged and did not survive the collapse. A Active Overseas, Young discrimination and said NYU failed Gofundme page has been set up to (29 or under) to adhere to principles of academic assist Bocxe and his family. The page Wudan Yan freedom upon which its New York has generated more than $110,000 Freelance Seattle, Wash. campus was built. Bazzi spoke at an in funds, and around $30,000 of the Active Non-Resident, Young OPC panel at International House $150,000 goal remains. (29 or under) earlier this year about the crisis in Elaine Díaz Rodriguez Syria. ROME: In September, former OPC Landrey Editor-in-chief

Governor Yvonne Dunleavy LEE TOWNDROW Periodismo de Barrio Kate Webb, a former correspondent received a tour of the Rome press Havana, Cuba for Agence- Presse, has been club, Stampa Estera, by active officer Active Overseas, Young worked for nearly 20 years. He is sur- (30-34) featured on an Australian stamp. Chris Warde-Jones. Occupying a vived by his wife, Beverly Landrey. Webb, who died at the age of 64 in spacious, multi-story building in the Congcong Zhang 2007, reported in Asia and is known heart of the city, the club has com- Columbia University Legendary Associated Press reporter New York for her coverage of the War. prehensive facilities for journalists, Richard Pyle died in a hospital Student In 1971, it had been mistakenly re- a bar and extensive exhibition space on Sept. 28 from lung fibrosis and ported that she was killed following and an auditorium for conferences obstructive lung disease, according her capture in by North with newsworthy people “from the to his wife, actress-writer Brenda Vietnamese troops who detained her Pope on down,” Dunleavy said. She Smiley. He was 83. Pyle’s 49-year for 23 days, prompting an obituary to noted an irony: the premises were an career included top stories on the be published on the front page of The inadvertent gift from dictator Benito presidency of John F. Kennedy, the New York Times. The honorary stamp Mussolini during his fascist regime in , the resignation of th is one of five in a set unveiled last the early 20 century, as the govern- President Richard M. Nixon, revolu- month to recognize the roles played ment dismantled democratic institu- tion in the and the 9-11 by women in conflict zones. The set tions and created a law to consolidate terrorist attacks. He covered Vietnam was issued on Oct. 6. and monitor the press from a single from 1968 to 1973, serving as Saigon location. “Victim of his own megalo- bureau chief for the last few years SAN FRANCISCO: Elizabeth mania and failed swaggering vows to of his tenure there. AP’s executive Dwoskin, who was part of a team return Italy to its ancient glory, Mus- editor, Sally Buzbee, told the wire that won this year’s Bob Considine solini was executed in 1945 toward agency that Pyle maintained “his Award, has continued ongoing work the end of the Second World War,” passion for great stories and never with The Washington Post about the Dunleavy wrote to the Bulletin. lost his insistence on strong, probing presence of Russian ads on Facebook journalism.” He authored the 1991 and other online platforms. Her re- PEOPLE REMEMBERED book, Schwarzkopf, on the 1991 Gulf porting, part of a group project shared Former OPC member and longtime War commander H. Norman Schwar- with colleagues, exposes that Rus- foreign correspondent Wilbur zkopf, and co-authored Breaking sians have spent tens of thousands Landrey died on Sept. 29 in Largo, News: How the Associated Press Has of dollars in advertising to spread Forida from pneumonia complica- Covered War, Peace, and Everything disinformation on social media and tions. He was 93. Landrey joined the Else, which was published in 2007. across Google’s platforms, includ- OPC in 1959, continuing a career He retired in 2009. ing Gmail and YouTube. The stories shared by three family generations outline ways that disinformation fo- of newspapermen before him. Born Diana Kaff, journalist and wife of cused on key voting states during the in Kansas City on Nov. 16, 1923, past OPC member Albert Kaff, died 2016 presidential election. Dwoskin’s Landrey embarked on his reporting on Sept. 22. She was 85. Diana had byline also appeared in a Washington career while in high school, writing written for Chinese language newspa- Post story last month detailing how for the Kansas City Kansan. During pers and married Albert in 1960. Two some of the Russian-linked Facebook his time at the University of Kansas, years later, Albert, a longtime UPI ads were directly intended to drive a he began working for the Kansas City correspondent, joined the OPC and wedge between racial and religious Star, eventually joining the United was given honorary status in 1998 for groups. Press International news service the writing the Bulletin’s People column. year he graduated. Landrey spent the He passed away in 2011. Diana is MEXICO CITY: Photographer bulk of his career with UPI, traveling remembered for her travel writing Wesley Bocxe suffered serious in- throughout the world in regions in- and human interest stories in Hong juries during last month’s earthquake cluding Europe, Africa, Asia and the Kong’s Sing Tao Daily News and in Mexico City when his apartment Middle East. Finally, he joined the New York’s World Journal. v building collapsed. He is expected to Tampa Bay Times in 1975 where he

7 7 PRESS FREEDOM UPDATE... On Oct. 10, Wall Street Journal and blogger, is still be- protest against police brutality. The reporter Ayla Albayrak was con- ing detained in Equatorial Guinea demonstration closed Highway 40 victed on terrorism charges in Turkey without charges following his Sept. as marchers presented an obstacle to and sentenced to two years and one 16 arrest. He was taken into custody traffic. The event was a reaction to month in prison. Albayrak, who has along with two of his friends, both of the murder of Anthony Lamar Smith, both Turkish and Finnish citizenship, whom were released and are Spanish an African-American man who was was arrested in connection with a nationals. Ebalé, whose material has shot and killed by local police officer 2015 article she wrote on the struggle been blocked on the internet by au- Jason Stockley. Ziegler was report- between the government forces and thorities, is a critic of President Teo- ing on the protest when authorities the Kurds. She was accused of sup- doro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo and approached, arresting participants porting the Kurdish rebels through his government. Ebalé’s friends said and Ziegler himself, along with other her work. In a letter condemning the police had been searching for him journalists. conviction, the OPC quoted a state- and wanted him to explain his work ment from Gerard Baker, the ’s and political commentary. He was Three reporters in received editor-in-chief, who called on news accused of counterfeiting and money death threats via WhatsApp that di- organizations and others to denounce laundering. He denies both charges. rectly referenced the Sept. 4 murder the conviction. “This ruling against a of journalist Gauri Lankesh who professional and respected journalist After disappearing in Uzbekistan was shot in Bangalore. The mes- is an affront to all who are committed on Sept. 27, reporter Bobomurod sages, sent to Deeksha Sharma, to furthering a free and robust press,” Abdullaev has been placed on trial Mohammed Ali and Sonal Baker said. More than 100 reporters in a Tashkent criminal court. A lo- Mehrotra Kapoor, all reporters have been persecuted in Turkey and cal news site reported that he has for local media, warned that anyone 200 media organizations closed since been charged with “attacking” the criticizing the Bharatiya Janata Party the government’s crackdown began. county’s “constitutional order” and is currently ruling the country would be currently being detained. If convict- “finished off.” The journalists were ed, Abdullaev could spend 20 years told that Lankesh’s murder occurred in prison. He had worked as a free- because she raised issues with Prime lancer for the local branch of Radio Minister Narendra Modi’s govern- Free Europe/Radio Liberty and the ment. The messages were received Institute for War & Peace Reporting from mid to late September. based in . The news website he founded, Ozod Ovoz, or ‘free Amid ’s growing effort to voice’, was shut down by Uzbek au- hamper press freedom, British re- thorities. Abdullaev has been critical porter Saeed Kamali Dehghan of the government in his work. was arrested and deported while on assignment covering Marrakesh’s Ayla Albayrak A journalist is facing charges in Paki- Women in Africa summit. Dehghan stan after writing a column critical of entered the country on Sept. 25 and the regional legislative assembly in was arrested two days later while the country’s north. A Gilgit-Baltis- interviewing activists in the northern tan anti-terrorism court summoned region of Rif. He was then taken to Edgar Daniel Esqueda Castro, Shabbir Siham on Oct. 7 and Casablanca and expelled to the U.K. a photographer working in Mexico, accused him of extortion and fabrica- It is unclear what reasons were given was found dead with gunshot tion following a 2016 article alleging for Dehghan’s deportation; however, wounds on Oct. 6 in San Luis Potosí. some of the assembly members were his fate was similar to that of José He had been abducted by men wear- connected with gang activity involv- Luis Navazo, a reporter who faced ing police uniforms the day before, ing prostitution and human traffick- the same treatment while in Rif in according to his wife. She reported ing. Government officials urged him July. that armed assailants took Esqueda to stop writing, and gang members Castro captive, removing him from tried to bribe him, threatening to The Committee to Protect Journal- their home at gunpoint and stealing kill him after he refused. Islamabad ists (CPJ) has publicly urged Jordan their cellphones. Local prosecutors police have raided Siham’s home. He to drop charges against the Center said they are looking into the case, has written for the English-language for Defending Freedom of but rejected claims of police involve- Daily Times and the Urdu-language Journalists (CDFJ), a regional ment. Esqueda Castro had been Daily Jinnah. watchdog group advocating for press working as a freelancer, shooting freedom. CDFJ was accused of fail- photos for several local news sites. Police arrested U.S. journalist Jon ing to register for nonprofit status on Ziegler on Oct. 3 in St. Louis Sept. 10 by Jordan’s trade regulation Ramón Nsé Esono Ebalé, a after he filmed and livestreamed a body. The organization’s funding and

8 9 legal status were both threatened and ‘On a Mission’ ganizations. The formula combines the case was brought to the Attorney Continued From Page 2 national and regional philanthropies General’s office. CDFJ has widely with buy-in from the participating population of about 6,000, reestab- reported on increasing censorship by newsrooms as well. RFA will pro- lishing a bureau for the Lexington the Jordanian government, leading vide 50 percent of a full year salary Herald-Leader in Pike County for and local funders will provide 25 CPJ to recognize the charges as re- the first time since 2011. percent and the newsroom 25 per- taliation for calls for press freedom. “Appalachia is a place with cent. We hope to have a mix of local amazing and important stories to reporters serving their own commu- Bram Ebus, a Dutch freelance tell, and we’re thrilled to be in- nities, and reporters from afar com- reporter, was detained in Venezuela volved in a project to get more jour- ing in to learn about and serve in a for 18 hours with his driver and two nalists on the ground to tell them,” part of the country they don’t know. human rights workers with whom said Peter Baniak, editor of the A training and mentoring program he’d been traveling while on assign- Herald-Leader. will be key to the program’s success ment in Bolívar, according to Espa- There are existing local newspa- and RFA will call on veteran report- cio Público, a free speech advocacy pers like the Appalachian News-Ex- ers to serve as mentors to a new group. The country’s National Guard press here in Pikeville which cover generation. held all four individuals, interrogat- the community now with a fair and We plan to begin small with a ing them before releasing them the steady hand, and which will be of- total of 12 RFA corps members de- following day without charges. Ebus fered a content sharing agreement ployed in 2018, with an emphasis on had been investigating mining and as part of this initiative. There are the public service role that journal- land use, which is impacting indig- also digital news organizations like ism can and should play in a local enous groups. the Daily Yonder out of the Cen- community. ter for Rural Strategies in nearby That means at least 9 more year- NewsDay reporter Kenneth Nyan- Whitesburg which provides in-depth long RFA corps member positions gani was arrested and detained on coverage of rural issues. The hope is will be announced in other regions Oct. 2 for 18 hours in Zimbabwe that the increased coverage of East- in the coming weeks and months. after his story appeared stating that ern Kentucky through Report for Our host newsrooms on this initia- First Lady Grace Mugabe made a America will find a place here and tive will include traditional newspa- clothing donation including used help to enlighten and inform local pers, digital startups, radio stations, underwear to supporters of Zanu-PF, audiences as well as readers state- community access channels, and the country’s ruling party. Nyangani wide about life in Appalachia. non-profit news collaborations of all was scheduled to appear in court In West Virginia, the Charleston shapes and sizes. Gazette-Mail and West Virginia on Oct. 4 after being charged with The project will begin with a one Public Broadcasting both plan to criminal nuisance. year reporting position for an RFA have their RFA reporters in the corps member, and a second year southern coalfields and will be Nina Ognianova, coordinator for will be possible if the newsroom working with the communities to the Committee to Protect Journalists’ and the reporter both want to keep assess the best place to base the Europe and Central Asia Program, re- working together. If there is a sec- coverage. ported this month that declining press ond year, the funding formula will “West Virginia Public Broad- freedom in the U.S. and Europe has shift with the newsroom taking on casting is proud to partner with encouraged Russia to further restrict half the costs and RFA and a region- newsrooms with such outstanding its own media. Former Soviet na- al funding providing the other half. track records in covering Appala- tions including Ukraine, Kyrgyzstan So if you’re thinking about serv- chia. Southern West Virginia is an and Azerbaijan have followed suit, ing as a reporter in a local commu- amazing place, with a rich culture attempting to silence journalists for nity; or if you represent a newsroom and history. It’s also a place that their reporting. Ognianova called for that would like to participate; or if has valuable lessons to teach the the U.S. to embrace its position as you’d like to contribute in any way, rest of the country when it comes a symbol of press freedom and sup- please go to our website and sign to resilience and finding a path for- port persecuted journalists around the up a www.reportforamerica.org. We ward through adversity. I’m eager world with solidarity at a time when hope you’ll answer this call for pub- to share our passion for telling these the media remains under fire. v lic service and join the movement to kinds of stories with a new genera- help us ‘Report for America.’ tion of journalists,” WVPB News OPC member Charles Sennott Director Jesse Wright said. is the founder and CEO of The This partnership in Appalachia is GroundTruth Project and the co- a project for Report for Amer- founder of GlobalPost and Report ica, which has established a unique for America. v funding formula to embed reporters for up to two years in local news or-

9 9 NEW BOOKS By Amy Russo ‘Dhaka’ RUSSIA SYRIA Continued From Page 5 mensingh. His cell phone is turned off and there is ussian president Vladimir anadian correspondent Debo- no news of his whereabouts. Putin has maintained a grip on pow- rah Campbell arrived in Syria several “We’re looking for him and praying for him,” er unprecedented since the time of years before it plummeted into civil C Proshanto Costa said. “He knew many creditors Joseph Stalin, serving as the country’s leader war, when Iraqis were still fleeing into the R because of his job, but we cannot imagine who it for 17 years and counting. With no indication country amid a spike in violence that started was.” he’ll be stepping down in the near future, his in 2007. In A Disappearance in Damascus The number of cases of kidnapping for ransom rise to power has become a point of fascina- [Picador, September 2016] she details her in Bangladesh is steadily increasing. An inves- tion for politicos, policymakers and reporters work following the plight of Iraqi refugees tigation from the English-language newspaper seeking to explain the Putin phenomenon. while posing undercover as a university pro- The Daily Star found more than 330 people were OPC award winner Masha Gessen’s new fessor in Syria. But the book soon shifts focus kidnapped in Bangladesh between January 2013 book, The Future Is History: How Totalitari- to a personal crisis – the kidnapping of her and March 2014. Kidnappers demand ransom of anism Reclaimed Russia [Riverhead Books, Iraqi friend and fixer. between 40 thousand and 10 million taka (between October 2017], provides a thorough analysis After arriving in $585 and $121,000). that explores power dynamics and the decline Damascus, Campbell Many do not survive. of freedom in her native country. began to establish local contacts. She The body of Abdul Gafur, mayor of the Nouha- “Budushego net,” Russian for “there is eventually met Ahlam, ta municipality, was found in March at a graveyard no future,” serves as the book’s unofficial a 40-something Iraqi in Dhaka. tagline, a phrase that captures the sentiment of refugee. The two soon According to his son, Faisal Ahmed Runu, Ga- hopelessness under Putin’s oppressive regime. become friends, and fur went to Dhaka on Dec. 31 and stopped answer- Gessen surveys four decades of history to Ahlam began to serve ing his phone Jan. 3 onward. shed light on the former Soviet nation’s as Campbell’s fixer and “Afterwards, text messages saying he was well transformation over time. She carefully guide to Sayeda Zainab, a were sent to us. My mother filed an abduction case selects a cross section of seven personalities suburb where hundreds of thousands of Iraqis with Poba police station on Jan. 19,” Runu said. to illustrate these changes. Four are from had fled. Ahlam, educated and unusually Police tracked the mobile phone and on Jan. younger generations that have spent nearly independent among her peers, had not 23 detained a woman claiming to be his wife. The their entire lives under Putin’s reign, while married until age 29 and was the only person woman and two of her sisters later confessed to the other three are old enough to recall the in her hometown in Iraq to earn a university the murder. Soviet era. degree. After the U.S. invasion in 2003, Meanwhile, police are still investigating the Through each of Ahlam escaped an abduction by paying a abduction of journalist, writer and poet Farhad these characters, Gessen costly ransom and fled for Syria. Mazhar, who went missing from an area of Dhaka explores the rise of old Although neither realized it at the time, in July, and was rescued from a bus 125 miles Soviet attitudes and the Ahlam’s work with Campbell and other away in Jessore later that day. country’s modern-day foreign journalists drew attention from the mafia state which wields government. She was soon arrested and In July this year, Human Rights Watch released thuggish authority. It is disappeared into the country’s prison system. a report indicating law enforcement illegally from these social and Campbell began to investigate, applying her skills as a journalist to track down her friend. detained at least 90 people in 2016, with hundreds political conditions The story portrays the harsh reality of life in more cases of secret detention since 2013. In 21 that the concept of a police state and the lives of refugees who cases, the detainees were later killed. Nine others “budushego net” is born. Gessen reveals are rendered stateless in Damascus while still remain missing. In the first five months of 2017, 48 that the so-called Homo Sovieticus, a term providing a few lighter anecdotes and vivid disappearances were reported, according to the for people shaped by the experience of detail. group. HRW called for the Bangladesh govern- Stalinist terror, has not become extinct, but Campbell has written for Harper’s, the ment to immediately end the practice of unlaw- has become an integrated component of the Economist and the Guardian, and is a three- ful detention and invite the Office of the United fabric of society, a characteristic that Gessen time winner of the National Magazine Award. Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to said enables people to surrender to the abuses Last year, A Disappearance in Damascus won investigate. v and control of their president. While Gessen the Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for paints a grim portrait of today’s Russia and Non-Fiction, which honors the best nonfiction its prospects for the future, the book provides book published in .v an honest perspective at a crucial moment in history. The Future Is History has been shortlisted for the 2017 National Book Award in Nonfiction. Gessen was a panelist in January this year at the OPC’s Russia Hands Reunion and in April received the OPC’s Best Commentary Award for work in 2016. v

10 Tanya Bindra

at small airports. More seriously, losing colleagues to the job, finding myself after a job.

Hardest story: Covering Ebola in Sierra Leone and Liberia. I think it’s important for journalists to be mindful of the ste- reotypes that exist about the region when covering conflict or emergencies here, and to not perpetuate them. It was necessary to cover the scale of human suffering during Ebola but it was also important to find narratives that dug a bit deeper. I was most proud of a little story done for The Wash- ington Post on clubbing in a small town in Liberia during the peak of the outbreak. There was a curfew at 11:00 p.m., patrons had to disinfect their hands with chlorine Meet the OPC Members: before entering the club, but an 18-year old girl still celebrated her birthday with Q&A With Tanya Bindra friends. by amy russo Congo, Burkina Faso, Uganda, Ethiopia, Journalism heroes: There are many Mauritania, a few more… journalists I admire but I will mention anya Bindra is a freelance photographers who work in the documen- photographer and filmmaker Year you joined the OPC: 2017. tary/photojournalist vein. Carolyn Drake, Tbased in Brooklyn. For the last Raghubir Singh, Glenna Gordon, Harry five years, she has reported on conflict, How did you become interested in Gruyaert, Emilie Regnier, Guy Tillim, postcolonial politics, and migration in reporting from West Africa? and Stephen Shore are a few that come to over 20 countries across West Africa, My father’s family is part of the South mind, whose photos I keep coming back to South Asia, and Europe. Her work has Asian diaspora in East Africa, so in school and who make me want to go out and find been published Newsweek, The Washing- I was always interested in learning about my own. ton Post, The Associated Press, UNI- the continent. I started gravitating towards CEF and others. In 2016 she won the West Africa though through music and Advice for journalists who want to work inaugural Ali Mustafa Memorial Award film. I loved films by Abderrahmane Sis- overseas: Question why you really want for People’s Journalism. sako, Djibril Diop Mambéty, Ousmane to go where you want to go, make peace Sembène, and I loved music from Mali and with it, then decide. If you go, become an Hometown: A bit complicated – Chur, Guinea Bissau, so I went. I didn’t plan on expert. (place of birth), Oakville, becoming a journalist or a photographer. I Canada (growing up) and Randolph, NJ would also say that my interest in reporting Dream job: Making experimental docu- (where I went to high school), and a few from West Africa, and other regions more mentary art films... other countries in between. generally, is also a function of not having a particularly rooted idea of where I am Favorite quote: “Death would not be Education: I studied international de- from or who I am culturally. My parents called bad, O people, if one knew how to velopment and gender studies at McGill are from two very different cultures. They truly die.” – Guru Nanak University in Montreal, Canada. grew up in different countries than me. They have lived abroad all of their adult Most common mistake you’ve seen: Languages you speak: I speak French lives and now so have I. Reportage guided by ego. and German (though it’s more Swiss- German than German). Major challenge as a journalist: Staying Country you most want to return to: in a place long enough to start understand- Now? And to report from? Since elections First job in journalism: Filing photos ing the nuances of everyday life while last year, the United States. for the AP during election protests and maintaining fresh eyes. riots in Senegal. Twitter handle: @tanyabindra but more Worst experience as a journalist: Falling active on Instagram: @tanyakbindra v Countries reported from: The Philip- into a river of sewage while filming, eating pines, Mali, India, Nigeria, Central fish in the desert (my fault) and getting African Republic, the U.S., Italy, Greece, sick while on a military patrol, routinely Want to add to the OPC’s collection of , Sierra Leone, Liberia, Canada, having to unpack my big bag of equipment Q&As with members? Please contact Senegal, Democratic Republic of the and dirty socks in front of security agents [email protected].

11 UPCOMING EVENTS

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