THE MONTHLY NEWSLETTER OF THE OVERSEAS PRESS CLUB OF AMERICA, , NY • January 2013 Rohde to Speak at Foundation Scholars Luncheon applicants came from a winners go to EVENT PREVIEW: FEBRUARY 22 wide range of academic Times Square headquarters by Jane Reilly institutions and from every for the traditional recep- David Rohde, foreign affairs region of the country, dem- tion with current and past columnist for Reuters and two-time onstrating the program’s winners the night before winner of the , will be broad appeal. William J. the luncheon. A breakfast the keynote speaker at the annual Holstein, OPC Foundation will be hosted by Holstein OPC Foundation Scholarship Lun- president, noted, “No one and after lunch, the group cheon on Friday, February 22 at the else is doing what we are tours the Yale Club. At the event, the Foun- doing.” headquarters and meets dation will award a combination of The OPC Foundation David Rohde with veteran . scholarships and funded internships awards are given in the For many, says Holstein, to 14 graduate and undergraduate names of eminent journalists and me- the opportunity to meet and observe college students aspiring to become dia organizations. New this year will prominent journalists is as valuable foreign correspondents. The scholar- be the awarding of the first Nathan as any monetary award. ship recipients who emerged from S. Bienstock Memorial Scholarship, Media organizations have con- an incredibly competitive field of endowed by the Richard Leibner and tinued to cut back their international more than 160 applications from 70 Carole Cooper Family Foundation. operations and, to the extent they do colleges and universities are from Bienstock was the founder of the cover global stories, their coverage American University in Cairo, Cam- N.S. Bienstock Inc. Talent Agency tends to be sporadic. Holstein read- bridge University (England), Co- which has been recognized as the ily acknowledges there is little the lumbia University, CUNY Graduate leading agency in electronic journal- Foundation can do to reverse that School of Journalism, Dartmouth ism. Leibner is an OPC member. trend, but adds, “What we can do, College, New York University, Tem- Besides addressing a distin- and what we have been doing with ple University, University of Califor- guished audience of more than 200 great success, is identify bright stu- nia-Berkeley and the University of luncheon guests, the scholarship (Continued on Page 2) Minnesota. The OPC Foundation scholarship program has grown dramatically in New Book Captures Calcutta in Photos the past two decades and is now con- sidered the most prominent scholar- EVENT PREVIEW: FEBRUARY 20 ship program in the country for as- by Sonya K. Fry piring correspondents. This year’s OPC member Steven Raymer’s five-year photographic project de- Inside. . . picts Calcutta, a city of 15 million people, as a cultural, literary and Holiday Party Recap and Photos.....3 intellectual center. His new book Joe Breen When the News Cycle Paused...... 4 Redeeming Calcutta: A Portrait of India’s Imperial Capital [Oxford Steven Raymer in Calcutta. People...... 5-9 University Press] features such sto- on the history of Calcutta. ries as migrant workers in the jute His photos also present the de- People Remembered...... 9 industry, 6,000 licensed rickshaw crepit Victorian-era buildings left Lincoln and the Press...... 10 drivers and tasters of the largest tea auctioneer in the world. In addition over from the time when Calcutta New Books...... 12 to the photography, there is an essay (Continued on Page 3) (OPC Foundation Scholars Luncheon Continued From Page 1) Rohde began his career at ABC News in 1990 and dents who wish to become foreign correspondents, sup- then headed overseas as a freelance reporter based in port their efforts, and help them launch careers in inter- the Baltic republics, Cuba and Syria. He served as a national journalism.” In providing them a network of county and municipal reporter for The Philadelphia In- support, he says, “We are upholding the notion that it is quirer from July 1993 to June 1994 before joining The a noble calling to take the first rough cut at history by Christian Science Monitor. He initially covered national being present to witness the often tumultuous changes news, before becoming the newspaper’s Eastern Euro- occurring in the world and then explaining those events.” pean correspondent. He joined in It is precisely to help these students launch overseas April 1996 and worked for them through mid-2011 when careers that the Foundation began and has now expand- he joined Reuters. He reported from Afghanistan for the ed its internship program. Begun in 2006 with one AP first three months of the U.S.-led war against the Tali- intern, the program in 2012 funded eight scholars, who ban and served as co-chief of the Times’s South Asia bu- are chosen from among the scholarship winners, for in- reau from 2002 to 2005. He is also the author of End- ternships at AP bureaus in Bangkok, Jerusalem, Johan- game: The Betrayal and Fall of Srebrenica, Europe’s nesburg and Moscow, and to Reuters bureaus in Beijing, Worst Massacre Since World War II (1997) and Beyond Shanghai and Kuala Lumpur. The Foundation also sent War: Reimagining American Influence in a New Middle its first Forbes intern to the Forbes Asia bureau in Mum- East, which will be published in April. bai, India. The Foundation picks up the cost of the airfare Holstein is grateful to Bloomberg for hosting the and one month’s living expenses for the winners. Interns judging and to the panel of judges who chose the 2013 usually use their own funds to extend their stays. recipients: Jacqueline Albert-Simon, Politique Interna- Holstein is especially pleased that someone of Ro- tionale; John Daniszewski, AP; Bob Dowling; Eddie Ev- hde’s stature in the industry is addressing this year’s ans, Reuters; Allan Dodds Frank; Jonathan Gage, Boston winners. Rohde won his first Pulitzer Prize in 1996 and Consulting Group; Sharon Gamsin; Sally Jacobsen, AP; the OPC Hal Boyle Award for a series of stories in The Felice Levin; Jeremy Main; Larry Martz; Rosalind Mas- Christian Science Monitor that helped uncover the mas- sow; Kate McLeod; Steve Swanson, The New York Bo- sacre of 8,000 Muslims in the town of Srebrenica in Bos- tanical Garden; and Karen Toulon, Bloomberg. nia. He won his second Pulitzer in 2009 as part of an Luncheon tickets are $75 for OPC members and $125 eight-reporter team from The New York Times for their for non-members. The Foundation encourages media and coverage of Afghanistan and Pakistan. While in Afghani- corporate support at its three levels of giving: Benefac- stan in November 2008, he was kidnapped by members tors, $9,000; Patrons, $6,000; and Friends, $3,000. Ta- of the Taliban and spent seven months in captivity before bles seat 10. The reception is at 11:30 a.m.; the luncheon managing to escape in June 2009. A Rope and a Prayer: ends promptly at 2 p.m. All proceeds benefit the OPC A Kidnapping from Two Sides, the book he co-wrote with Foundation. For more information, contact Jane Reilly at his wife Kristen Mulvihill in 2010. 201-493-9087 or [email protected].

OVERSEAS PRESS CLUB OF AMERICA • BOARD OF GOVERNORS PRESIDENT SECRETARY Deidre Depke Santiago Lyon ASSOCIATE BOARD PAST PRESIDENTS Michael Serrill Jonathan Dahl Executive Editor VP and Director of ­MEMBERS EX-OFFICIO Assistant Managing Former Editor-in-Chief The Daily Beast Photography Brian Byrd David A. Andelman Editor Smart Money Associated Press Program Officer John Corporon Bloomberg Markets Adam B. Ellick NYS Health Allan Dodds Frank ACTIVE BOARD *Video and Print Marcus Mabry Foundation Alexis Gelber FIRST VICE PRESIDENT Jacqueline Albert- Editor at Large William J. Holstein Tim Ferguson Simon The New York Times International Herald Emma Daly Marshall Loeb Editor U.S. Bureau Chief * on leave attending Tribune Communications Larry Martz Forbes Asia Politique Internationale Harvard Kennedy School Director Roy Rowan John Martin Human Rights Watch Leonard Saffir SECOND VICE PRESIDENT Amar C. Bakshi Arlene Getz Writer/Editor Larry Smith Abigail Pesta JD/MBA student Editor-in-Charge, Media Sarah Lubman Richard B. Stolley Editorial Director Yale University Thomson Reuters Romesh Ratnesar Partner Women in the World Deputy Editor Brunswick Group EXECUTIVE Rebecca Azmat Khan Bloomberg DIRECTOR THIRD VICE PRESIDENT Blumenstein Digital Producer Businessweek Minky Worden Sonya K. Fry Toni Reinhold Page One Editor PBS - Frontline Director of Global Editor in Charge, Tom Squitieri Initiatives EDITOR New York Desk Evelyn Leopold Freelance Journalist Human Rights Watch Aimee Vitrak Reuters Paul Brandus Independent Journalist West Wing Report United Nations Seymour Topping Abi Wright OPC TREASURER Emeritus Director ISSN-0738-7202 Dorinda Elliott Howard Chua-Eoan Daphna Linzer Professor of Alfred I. duPont – ­Copyright © 2002 Global Affairs Editor News Director Senior Reporter International Columbia University Over­seas Press Club of Conde Nast Traveler Time Pro Publica Journalism Awards America Columbia University 40 West 45 Street, New York, NY 10036 USA • Phone: (212) 626-9220 • Fax: (212) 626-9210 • Website: opcofamerica.org OPC Bulletin • January 2013 • Page 2 Holiday Party Kicks Off OPC’s 2013 Event Calendar EVENT RECAP: JANUARY 3 by Susan Kille Was it that the maddening last weeks of December were over? Or perhaps it was the flattering rosy light of overhead heat lamps? Whatever it was, the OPC members at the Holiday Party on January 3 looked both relaxed and animated. They were relaxed among friends while animated by those friends. Shifting small groups kept up a buzz of con- versations at the tables and in the open spaces of the Ter- From left: Robert Nickelsberg, Allan Dodds Frank, Jane race Club at the Rockefeller Center Club Quarters. Mem- Reilly, Sonya Fry, Jim Brooke, Michael Serrill bers home from an overseas posting for a holiday visit, and Bill Holstein such as Jim Brooke, Moscow bureau chief for Voice of America, added their faces, voices and flavor. An open bar, antipasti, spreads, dim sum and dessert also added to the festive mood. Minky Worden of Human Rights Watch made a late arrival after getting her three children into bed but yet, she still walked off as the winner of the evening’s raffle. Vivienne Walt, who lives in Paris, reached in and drew out the winning ticket. The night air was in the 30s as members ventured onto an outdoor 7th floor deck to see Rockefeller Center’s Christ- Photos: Sonya K. Fry mas tree. Sparkling lights on the tree and silvery flags waving Vivienne Walt who came from her home in Paris, around the ice rink were worth a brief, bracing reporting trip to Board member Sarah Lubman, Brunswick Group be an eyewitness. and Michael Serrill, OPC President. The OPC, which skipped a party during the 2012 holiday season, returned to the site of parties in 2010 and 2011. With 45 attendees checked in by Jane Reilly, executive director of the OPC Foundation, and Boots Duque, OPC office assistant, the evening was From left: Bill Holstein, called a success by Sonya Fry, OPC ex- OPC Foundation Presi- ecutive director. And, after the bartend- dent; James Brooke, Voice of America in er gave the “last call,” a sizable group Moscow and continued the animated conversation at Brion Tingler of Lenovo the hotel’s adjacent bar.

(Book Night Continued From Page 1) Geographic maga- in the Fall of 2007 at was capital of British India. He con- zine staff photogra- the Asia Society on trasts them with sprawling modern pher working in some his book Images of a high-rises in Satellite Town and with 90 countries. He Journey: India in Di- the Howrah Bridge that carries more received the “Maga- aspora. than 100,000 vehicles and a half- zine Photographer of The Book Night million pedestrians daily. Raymer, a the Year” by the Na- at Club Quarters, 40 consummate storyteller, will project tional Press Photog- West 45 Street, will his images onto a screen at the book raphers Association begin at 6 p.m. with night. in 1976 and a citation a Reception and the Raymer is currently a profes- for excellence from Talk at 6:30 p.m. sor at Indiana University School of the OPC in 1981 for Books will be avail- Journalism. Previously he directed his work on the worldwide trade in able at a discounted price. To RSVP, the National Geographic Society endangered animals. Raymer and call the OPC at 212-626-9220 or e- News Service and was a National the OPC collaborated on a program mail [email protected].

OPC Bulletin • January 2013 • Page 3 Getting the Story When the News Cycle Once Paused by Jim Michaels Delhi’s Imperial Hotel with the In 1963 foreign correspon- news. My dad raced to the gar- dents were facing a changing den of Birla House. world: a rising tide of nation- He arrived before the police alism and the emerging impor- had cordoned off the garden, tance of economic news. where only moments earlier a On top of that, technology Hindu fanatic had, as his UP was changing the way news dispatch said, “pumped three was covered. “Jet travel” was bullets from a revolver into capable of whisking reporters Gandhi’s frail body.” He filed to any point of the globe. quickly and returned again, It was fitting that the 1963 flashing a credential at a be- issue of Dateline, the OPC wildered officer who let him awards journal, was dedicated The senior Jim Michaels on horse, probably through, according to an ac- to the next generation of cor- on his way to interview separatist leaders count by Subrata N. Chakra- respondents. Searching a box in the mountains of Kashmir. varty. Those critical moments filled with old family photos at the scene gave him eyewit- and high school report cards, my ness details that few others had. daughter stumbled across the musty He cabled his world-exclusive 1963 edition. I was about to toss it back to New York in time for the af- aside when I noticed my dad’s name ternoon papers. on the first page as guest editor. It’s hard to imagine how big a “The rules of the foreign report- deal that is today when news video ing game have changed,” my dad and words flow instantly over the wrote in the introduction. Internet. In the pre-Internet days a At the time, he was the editor of scoop like that could last hours, as Forbes magazine, where he would competitors scrambled to catch up. earn legendary status for overhauling The senior Jim Michaels and his wife The days of the trench coat clad the way Americans consumed and Fran in New Delhi in the late 1940s. foreign correspondent are nearing an covered business news. But it wasn’t end. The idea of a handful of men surprising he maintained a close connection to the OPC — there were few women among the ranks — interpret- where he could drink and socialize with men who had a ing and describing world events for the American public shared experience. seems anachronistic in the world of the Internet, social World War II had given Americans a taste for global media and satellite technology. World news from foreign news and at the same time spawned a generation of for- correspondents is being replaced by a flood of raw video, eign correspondents who would learn their trade cover- twitter feeds and blogs. Some of that reporting is com- ing combat, tribal wars and revolutions and telexing tales pelling; others crude propaganda. back to an American public hungry for world news. Are we better informed? The correspondents of yes- My dad, who died in 2007, stumbled into journalism teryear brought context. A short video from Syria brings after the war, joining the United Press (later UPI) in In- immediacy and might evoke strong emotions. It doesn’t dia. His boss at the Office of War Information, recom- tell you who is winning the war and why. Back then, for- mended him for the UP job, with a warning. “I would eign correspondents filed stories that summarized and generally be over my head, outnumbered two or three to prioritized, fitting the news into a hole on the front page one by AP, and would either learn fast or sink,” my dad or inside a newspaper. The process demanded context. once recalled. In other words, it was the perfect job. Even back in 1963, a Dateline contributor, Don Even in later years his office walls at Forbes held few Cook, the New York Herald-Tribune’s London bureau photos of him with heads of state or corporate bigwigs; chief, sensed that the news business was changing. The no awards or accolades. But a framed copy of a yellow- “breathless quality” brought on by the jet age is “bad for ing newspaper went with him everywhere. It was the writing, bad for reporting and bad for an informed public front page of the New York World-Telegram announcing opinion,” Cook wrote. Mahatma Gandhi’s assassination in a bold headline. His recommendation? Slow down and take the train. It was a late Friday afternoon and he was shaving when UP’s stringer, P.D. Sharma, burst into his room at Jim Michaels is a mlitary writer at USA TODAY.

OPC Bulletin • January 2013 • Page 4 PEOPLE... by Susan Kille [email protected]

OPC SCHOLARS König and others to Ajay Makan, who won the OPC a May report that Foundation’s 2011 Standard & Poors revealed that lo- Award for Economic and Business cal police officers Reporting, is now the oil and gas made personal use correspondent in London for the Fi- of official vehicles, König accepting nancial Times after covering markets including visits to his award. and financial services in the paper’s beach and brothels. Speaking with Foley New York bureau. He had an intern- CPJ from an undisclosed location, point clash between their captors and ship with The Economist in London König said threats began in May but a rebel group. Austin Tice, an Amer- and worked as a producer on BBC’s calls in December were more seri- ican freelance journalist, has been Newsnight. ous. He has reported extensively on missing in Syria since August 13. human rights and corruption and was

Kristina Shevory, recipient of once beaten and left for dead while NEW DELHI: Naveen Soorinje, the 1998 Reuters scholarship, won reporting on human trafficking. a reporter for Kasturi TV, has been the Arthur F. Burns Fellowship this in jail since November 7 after re- fall. Every year, the Burns Founda- Abigail Pesta, OPC second vealing in July that a group of Hindu tion awards 10 fellowships to young vice president and editorial director extremists were responsible for an American journalists to travel and re- of Women in the World for News- attack on young women at a house port in Germany for their home pub- week and The Daily Beast, won an party in Mangalore. He was charged lications. Shevory, an Army veteran Exceptional Merit in Media Award with failing to alert and a longtime freelance reporter for from the National Women’s Political police when the in- The New York Times, spent several Caucus in November for her Daily cident took place. months in Germany covering the Beast story “How a Blogger Blocked Journalists’ groups American military’s role overseas. Sex Slavery,” an account of a North say he was carry- Dakota blogger and a Manhattan ing out his job as a WINNERS woman who saved two young Rus- reporter after being John Lewis Gaddis has won sian women from a human traffick- tipped to the attack. Soorinje the Arthur Ross Book Award and its ing threat. A bail application $15,000 prize from the Council on was rejected December 26 on the Foreign Relations for the best book PRESS FREEDOM grounds that Soorinje’s video of the published on inter- NEW YORK: After holding attack indicated his complicity. Po- national affairs for their silence for six weeks, the fam- lice have used that video to identify George F. Kennan: ily of American freelance reporter and arrest individuals responsible for An American Life. James Foley, who was kidnapped the violence. The biography of on Thanksgiving in the northern the globe-trotting Syria province of Idlib, lifted a news ATHENS: An anarchist group diplomat and po- Gaddis blackout, hoping that publicity may claimed responsibility for home- litical scientist also persuade his captors to release him. made bombs detonated January 11 received a 2012 Pulitzer. Foley, who worked for Global Post, at the homes of five journalists. AFP and others, was held also cap- The group, calling itself “Lovers In November, Mauri König, a tive for six weeks in 2011 by Liby- of Lawlessness,” denounced press Brazilian investigative journalist, an forces. Foley’s abduction came coverage of the financial crisis as was at the Waldorf-Astoria in New a month before Richard Engel, sympathetic to the austerity pro- York accepting a 2012 International NBC’s chief foreign correspondent, grams being imposed by the Greek Press Freedom Award from the Com- was seized along with his four-man government and foreign lenders. The mittee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). camera crew and a British security day before, groups of men entered a On December 17, death threats sent guard in Idlib. Engel and his col- private radio station in Athens and a him into hiding. Earlier that day the leagues, who were held for five days public radio station in Salonika and Curitiba daily Gazeta do Povo where by forces loyal to the Syrian govern- demanded that a recording be played he works published a follow-up by ment, were freed during a check- (Continued on Page 6)

OPC Bulletin • January 2013 • Page 5 (Continued From Page 5) NEW DELHI: In a case of a country said the magazine was only expressing solidarity with hundreds brutal gang rape that stirred protests licensed to publish fashion. of squatters evicted from a building across India, a magistrate January in central Athens that is a gathering 7 issued a blanket ban on reporting WHITE PLAINS, New York: point for far-left groups and students. the trial of five adult men accused Staff members of The Journal News of beating and raping a 23-year old were harassed and threatened after HANOI: Fourteen bloggers, writ- woman with an iron rod. She died the suburban New York daily pub- ers and political and social activists of her injuries two weeks later. The lished an interactive map on Decem- were convicted January 9 of national magistrate invoked a statute that pre- ber 22 identifying handgun permit security violations including “activi- vents anyone unconnected to a case holders in Westchester and Rockland ties aimed at overthrowing the peo- to be in the courtroom during trial counties. Critics called the map an ples’ administration” and “undermin- and makes it “unlawful for any per- invasion of privacy. Gun permits are ing of national unity.” They received son to print or publish any matter in public record in New York state, but prison terms ranging from 3 to 13 relation to any such proceedings, ex- Putnam County refused the paper’s years in what human rights groups cept with the previous permission of request for the information. Sub- said was the largest subversion case the court.” sequently, staff members received to be brought in years. A few days threatening phone calls and emails; after the conviction, BBC reported BEIJING: Chris Buckley, an envelopes containing white pow- that Vietnamese propaganda officials Australian working for The New der that later tested non-toxic were operate a network of nearly 1,000 York Times, was forced to leave sent to the newspaper offices at least “public opinion shapers” as bloggers China on December 31 after authori- twice; and a blogger published the and to post comments online. ties declined to issue him a visa for names, addresses and information 2013. Four days later, the country’s about hobbies and children of the Foreign Ministry said Buckley was paper’s editors. Armed guards were not expelled but that his visa ap- hired to protect the paper’s offices. plication had been filed incorrectly. Buckley has been a correspondent in NEW YORK: CPJ reported in China since 2000 and rejoined The December a record of number of Times in September after working 232 journalists were imprisoned for Reuters. Meanwhile, The Times worldwide in 2012, an increase of A free speech advocate outside of has waited since March for Philip 53 since 2011. Turkey topped the list Southern Weekend newspaper. P. Pan, its new Beijing bureau chief, with 49 journalists behind bars, fol- to be issued a visa. The English- and lowed by Iran (45) and China (32). BEIJING: Media organizations Chinese-language websites of The CPJ said countries made “made ex- and party leaders often disagree, but Times have been blocked in China tensive use of vague anti-state laws conflicts rarely become public like since October, after an investigative to silence dissenting political views, the weeklong censorship dispute in article was published about the fi- including those expressed by ethnic January at Southern Weekend, an in- nances of the family of Prime Minis- minorities.” The next countries were fluential and relatively liberal news- ter Wen Jiabao. Eritrea (28) and Syria (15); CPJ said paper in Guangzhou. that none of the journalists behind Hundreds of supporters rallied NAYPYIDAW, Myanmar: The bars in either country have been pub- for three days outside the newspa- government said in December that licly charged with a crime or brought per’s headquarters as striking jour- privately owned newspapers could before a court. “We are living in an nalists received support on the Inter- begin publishing in April for the first age when anti-state charges and ‘ter- net from celebrities, business leaders time in almost 50 years. Application rorist’ labels have become the pre- and commentators. The journalists for licenses can be made in February. ferred means that governments use accused the provincial propaganda In August, the government said jour- to intimidate, detain, and imprison chief of censoring the paper’s New nalists would no longer have to sub- journalists,” said CPJ Executive Di- Year’s letter to readers by chang- mit their work to state censors before rector Joel Simon. ing an editorial calling for political publication. In January, however, the reforms into a tribute to one-party monthly magazine Hnyo was ordered OPC’s Freedom of the Press rule. Protesting journalists accepted to stop publication after it printed Committee sent two letters in De- a compromise in which officials photos of scantily clad women and cember. One went to Juan Manuel promised to loosen some of the more articles on sexual themes. Govern- Santos, president of Colombia, to intrusive censorship controls. ment officials in the conservative urge a full investigation into the

OPC Bulletin • January 2013 • Page 6 death of Guillermo Quiroz Delga- other journalist of Central Africa issued a statement do, a television reporter who died on and two other me- saying that community radio stations November 27 after being hospital- dia workers were are apolitical and that “journalists do ized for injuries sustained while in injured. On Janu- not have anything to do with the on- police custody. The other letter was ary 11, journalists going conflict.” to Enrique Peña Nieto, as he started across Baluchistan his term as president of Mexico, ask- protested the kill- Sheikh The body of Issa Ngumba, a ing him to affirm to the world that he ing of their col- Tanzanian radio reporter who had intends to remove Mexico from the leagues by hoisting black flags at been missing for three days, was list of the most deadly countries for press clubs and wearing black arm- found on January 8 hanging in a for- journalists by ensuring that the in- bands. The Quetta Press Club presi- est with a gunshot wound in his left quiry into the death of Regina Mar- dent said violence had claimed lives arm. Press reports said that local ob- tínez Pérez, an investigative reporter of about 30 journalists in the prov- servers thought his death might be in Veracruz, is not compromised by ince in the past four years. connected to a report he filed about the local authorities she wrote about. a cattle keeper who is said to have eaten parts of a shepherd’s body. MURDERS Clearly 2012 was one of the Suhail Mahmud Ali, who bloodiest years that journalists have worked for Syria’s Dunya TV, was experienced, but press groups differ shot in Aleppo on January 4. His sta- on the toll because of varying crite- tion, which is pro-government, said ria for defining journalism work and the death was “by terrorist bullets.” for counting deaths while on assign- ment. The groups found common Protest at the Quetta Press Club. Bwizamani Singh, a cameraman ground in reporting growing tolls who worked for the satellite-distrib- among freelancers and Internet jour- uted Prime News channel that covers nalists and that Syria is the deadliest Renato Machado Gonçalves, northeast India, was killed December country. The Swiss-based Press Em- the manager and joint owner of a 23 in Imphal after police opened fire blem Campaign and the Internation- Brazilian radio station, was gunned to disperse demonstrators protesting al Press Institute, based in Vienna, down January 9 in front of the build- the sexual assault on a local actress reported their highest numbers ever, ing that houses and other recent violence against with 141 deaths and 133, respec- his home and women in India. Police described the tively. The International Federation the radio sta- shooting as an accident. Five police of Journalists, based in Brussels, said tion in São João officers were suspended. 121 media personnel died in targeted da Barra, a city attacks, bomb attacks and crossfire in the state of Al-Hosseiny Abou Deif, an incidents while another 30 died from Rio de Janeiro. Gonçalves Egyptian reporter for the private accidents or illness while at work. Reporters With- weekly El-Fagr, never came out of a CPJ said 70 journalists were killed in out Borders said robbery was ruled coma and died December 12 a week direct relation to their work but other out as a motive and “the manner in after he was struck deaths are still being investigated. which the crime was carried out in the head at close clearly indicates that it was a target- range by a rubber Three newsmen – Samaa TV ed murder.” bullet while cover- reporter Saifur Rehman Baloch, ing protests near cameraman Imran Sheikh and NNI Elisabeth Blanche Olofio, who the presidential worked for Radio Be Oko in the news agency pho- palace in Cairo. He Central African Deif tographer Muham- had filmed Mus- Republic, was mad Iqbal – were lim Brotherhood supporters beating killed on January among the more up protesters and using live ammu- 8 when rebels from than 100 people nition. Local journalists and news the Seleka coalition killed January 10 reports identified the assailant as a stormed and looted when bombs ex- Muslim Brotherhood supporter. Baloch the station. The ploded 10 minutes Association of the apart in Quetta, capital of Pakistan’s Six years after the murder of Rus- Community Radios restive Baluchistan province. An- Olofio (Continued on Page 8)

OPC Bulletin • January 2013 • Page 7 (Continued From Page 7) sian investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya, a fierce critic of the Kremlin, Dmitry Pavlyuchenkov, a former police colonel, was sentenced December 14 to 11 years in a penal colony. Pavlyuchenkov, who at the time of the murder was head of an elite police surveillance unit, admit- ted keeping track of Politkovskaya’s movements and providing the assas- sin with a gun. Politkovskaya’s for- mer colleagues say they fear that a plea bargain deal in the case means Bob Benjamin was the that the name of the person who or- inspriation behind his dered the killing will not be known. daughter’s cartoons. She was killed October 7, 2006. Bob Benjamin, a co-founder of the Overseas Press Club, was the only father that Victoria Roberts, a cartoonist for The New Yorker, knew. Five Maoist former rebels were The character “Pops” in her first novel, After The Fall [W.W. Norton, No- arrested January 4 and accused of vember 2012] was inspired by Benjamin and he’s also the model she uses the 2004 abduction and murder of for men in her cartoons. Dekendra Thapa, a journalist with In a January 3 blog on The New Yorker website, Roberts writes about Benjamin, who was her stepfather, and the special presents he would state-run Radio Nepal. AFP reported bring home when they lived in Mexico: “He was a self-made man who that one of the accused confessed to read everything and traveled extensively, always returning with a suitcase burying Thapa alive. Nepalese Prime full of curious food items, like Jiffy popcorn (this was before NAFTA, and Minister Baburam we had not seen this aluminum-foil magic) and crystallized violets.” Bhattarai criticized After the Fall is about an eccentric family who after a turn in fortune moves with the contents of their penthouse to Central Park -- not near the the arrest of his park but in it. The book is not about homelessness. Pops is an inventor party members but and makes the family comfortable. Benjamin, Roberts said, had a fond- refuted reports that ness for gadgets. he pressured of- The fashionable and moody “Mother” is drawn on Roberts’ mother, ficials to drop the Inés. The young drama queen “Sis,” Roberts concedes, is close to her. case. The Federa- The earnest narrator is Alan, after Benjamin’s youngest son from a previ- ous marriage. Alan Benjamin is four years older than Roberts, who had tion of Nepali Jour- Thapa been an only child; the two were raised together during the time her moth- nalists led a January er and Benjamin remained married. 10 protest at Bhattarai’s residence Roberts, who never met her birth father, said after she finished the and said protests would continue un- book she realized “I had tried to repair real life in fiction. My mother di- less the culprits of Thapa’s murder vorced Bob when I was eleven and Alan was fourteen. … I have missed the family ever since. They are alive and together in After the Fall, with all were punished. More than 16,000 of their eccentricity, and all of their faults, intact.” people died in Nepal’s decade-long Benjamin, who died in 2008, founded OPC’s Robert Spiers Benjamin civil war, which ended in 2006, and Award in 1998 for best reporting in any medium on Latin America. He and more than 1,000 are still missing but 12 other correspondents founded the OPC in 1939. In 1940, he chaired rights groups say little has been done the club’s first dinner and edited The Inside Story, a book written by OPC members on world affairs and their personal experiences. As Roberts to bring justice to victims and their said, Benjamin was self-made and he started early. At 15, he sailed to families. Europe on a tramp ship and sent stories to United Press on events that led to the Spanish Civil War. He sailed to South America when he was 16. UPDATES He was an intelligence officer during World War II, assigned to Chile NEW YORK: Newsweek, a and Argentina. He was a staff writer for the Panama Star & Herald, assis- source of many paychecks for OPC tant editor at Dodd, Meade and Co., Time-Life bureau chief in Chile, di- rector of Latin American operations for Vision magazine, New York Times members and a recipient of many of correspondent in Mexico and founder of his own press agency, Inter- our awards, published its last print American Press Service, and a public relations firm. His books included edition in December. Tina Brown, Call to Adventure (1934), The Vacation Guide (1940) and I’m an American the editor in chief of Newsweek/The (1941). Benjamin married four times. His first wife, Dorothy Calhoun, who Daily Beast, announced last Octo- died in 1961, was a Red Cross correspondent and editor in Europe during WWII and a member of the editorial staff of Curtis Publishing. ber that the 80-year-old Newsweek

OPC Bulletin • April 2012 • Page 8 would cease print publication and makeover, among documentary “Restrepo” about their transition to an all-digital format, them to distinguish year-long tour with a platoon in the to be called Newsweek Global. The successive issues Korengal Valley in Afghanistan. first digital-only issue was published from one another, They shared a 2007 OPC award for January 4. In a poetic farewell to to work effectively work done during that tour. Hether- print, the magazine ran a Twitter across multiple Rose ington died eight days before he was hashtag — #LastPrintIssue — on its digital platforms, to serve as co-presenter at OPC’s cover with a vintage black and white and to attract an even larger general- 2011 awards ceremony and receive photo of its namesake Manhattan of- interest readership,” Gideon Rose, a citation for his own photography fice building. the editor, wrote in a memo to read- under fire in Afghanistan. Rebecca Blumenstein, an OPC ers. board member, was promoted to BEL AIR, : With the deputy editor-in-chief of The Wall William McGurn, a conserva- birth of Ava Noelle Kaff in January, Street Journal in December as Ge- tive columnist for The Wall Street Diana Kaff, the widow of longtime rard Baker, the Journal and former foreign corre- Bulletin columnist and OPC stalwart Journal’s new top spondent, began work in January as Al Kaff, became a grandmother for editor, announced editorial-page editor at the New York the sixth time. Alban Kaff, the fa- his senior editorial Post. McGurn was stationed in Brus- ther of Ava and son of Diana and team. In a memo sels and Hong Kong for the Journal, Al, reports that his mother is doing to staff members, and visited war zones in Lebanon, well and has moved to be close to his Baker described Northern Ireland, Sri Lanka and brother, Arthur. Congratulations on Blumenstein’s du- Afghanistan. McGurn has been a the birth of her new granddaughter ties: “She will Blumenstein speechwriter for President George or greetings of any kind can be sent deploy her con- W. Bush and Rupert Murdoch, to Diana Kaff, Brightview Avondell summate leadership skills and edito- president and CEO of News Corpo- Senior Residence, 128 West Ring rial and managerial talents to oversee ration, which owns both the Journal Factory Rd, Apt 1246 , Bel Air, MD Dow Jones/WSJ newsgathering, our and the Post. He replaced Bob Mc- 21014-5589. integrated bureaux and news centers Manus, who retired after 12 years in around the globe.” She joined the the job. SACRAMENTO: The Sacra- Journal in 1995 and most recently mento Bee announced in Novem- had been deputy managing editor ber that Jack Ohman will be their and Page One editor. She served as editorial cartoonist. Ohman won the the China bureau chief from 2005 to OPC’s Thomas Nast Award for car- 2008 and with her bureau colleagues toons on an international theme in shared in a 2007 Pulitzer Prize for 1995 when he was on staff at The International Reporting. Oregonian in Portland, Oregon. The Bee hired Ohman after the death of Rex Babin, their longtime cartoonist. Foreign Affairs published the A still from the documentary on first photographic cover in its 90- Tim Hetherington, pictured center. year history as part of a redesign PEOPLE REMEMBERED introduced in its January/February PARK CITY, Utah: “Which Eugene C. Patterson, the Pu- edition. The re- Way Is the Front Line From litzer Prize-winning editor of The design follows a Here? The Life and Time of Atlanta Constitution known for his year of digital fo- Tim Hetherington,” a docu- courage supporting civil rights and cus that includes mentary by Sebastian Jung- opposing segregation while lead- the release of an er about Tim Hetherington, ing a Deep South iPad app, two a photojournalist who was newspaper during eBooks, full digi- killed by a mortar attack in the civil rights con- tal archives and Libya in April 2011, pre- flicts of the 1960s, increased online miered at the Sundance Film died January 12 at editorial content, Festival in January and will age 89. After leav- including mul- air on HBO in the spring. ing Atlanta, he was timedia. “There Hetherington and Junger, a the managing edi- were several writer and journalist, made tor of The Washington Post, editor of the 2010 Oscar-nominated reasons for the (Continued on Page 10)

OPC Bulletin • January 2013 • Page 9 A Hypothesized Presidential Quashing of the Press by Bob Dowling “Encroachments on liberties enumerated in the Bill of Dear Mr. President: Rights were more widespread during Lincoln’s adminis- The Overseas Press Club of America is outraged and tration than at any time since the Alien and Sedition Acts deeply dismayed by your unrelenting attack on a free were in force [under President John Adams] at the turn of press. In no previous time in history has the right of free the 19th century.” speech been so violated and degraded. You, sir, are run- It’s a very different view of Lincoln than seen in the ning a dictatorship as you dismantle our most basic hu- movie, which depicted the president as a realpolitik lead- man rights. We urge you to stop these vile and er willing to connive, buy votes, dangle patron- illegal actions immediately. age appointments and mislead opponents in a Guess which president that letter would way that might be today be called Lincolngate, have gone to? The answer is Abraham Lincoln. but all for the noble cause of winning approv- Despite the enormous praise for the current hit al of the 13th amendment to the constitution, movie “Lincoln” and for Lincoln himself, he which abolished slavery. Crushing free speech was one of the most repressive presidents of the was not part of this Steven Spielberg flick. First Amendment in history, says author John As Cooke notes, after Lincoln’s assassina- Byrne Cooke. A second, almost as surprisingly, tion the U.S. Supreme Court delivered a “sting- was Woodrow Wilson, Cooke writes. ing rebuke” to his policies, ruling in Milligan I called up Cooke after reading his book, Re- vs. the U.S. that constitutional protections can- porting the War: Freedom of the Press from the not be suspended under martial law far from American Revolution to the War on Terrorism. While tol- field of battle, the basis for Lincoln’s actions. erance for critical reporting has varied widely, he writes, Lincoln’s record was by far the worst of any wartime Woodrow Wilson tried unsuccessfully to gag the press president. Given the evidence in your book, I asked him, with the Espionage Act in World War I, but was able to did it strike you as odd that nothing about Lincoln’s war prosecute pacifists, labor leaders, newsletter writers and with free speech was in the movie? others who spoke out against his government’s involve- “Yes it did,” said Cooke. But the movie was about ment in World War I. Lincoln and the emancipation amendment, not about “Woodrow Wilson, like Abraham Licoln and Wil- Lincoln’s full presidency. Lincoln was acting in the con- liam McKinley before him, lacked the impulse for tyr- text of the times, but in doing so, he employed his full anny, but like Lincoln he was willing to encroach on First power to crush dissent. Amendment freedoms for what he considered the greater In Reporting the War, first published in 2007, Cooke good,” Cooke concludes. writes: “Under his Administration, opposition newspa- The son of broadcaster Alistair Cooke, the author pers were denied the use of the mail, seized by federal covers in his book all U.S. wars from the Revolution to marshals, intimidated and shut down (New York Day the War on Terrorism. It's both a good read and a handy Book, suppressed at the same time as the Daily News, book to have nearby when the next debate on Presidents never resumed publication.) and press freedoms erupts. “Citizens who spoke against the administration were arrested by the thousands and imprisoned without OPC member Bob Dowling is editorial adviser to charge, with no recourse to the courts," Cooke writes. websites in China and India.

(Continued From Page 9) world affairs, died January 7 from and his 1986 article for Esquire titled The St. Petersburg Times and chair- complications of lung cancer. He was “What Do You Think of Ted Wil- man of Poynter Institute. He was a 62. He won the 1979 Pulitzer Prize liams Now?” is a hallmark of sports tank commander in George Patton’s for international reporting from the journalism. In 2005, he published Third Army during World War II Middle East while working for The How Israel Lost: The Four Ques- and after the war went to work for a Philadelphia Inquirer but was best tions. small Texas newspaper. He was also known for What It Takes: The Way a reporter and bureau chief for Unit- to the White House, a 1,047-page be- Jacqueline Duhau, the longtime ed Press in New York and London. hind-the-scenes account of the 1988 photo editor and office manager at U.S. presidential race. He wrote a bi- Newsweek’s Paris Bureau, died De- Richard Ben Cramer, who ography, Joe DiMaggio: The Hero’s cember 23. In a remembrance, OPC wrote about politics, baseball and Life, that was a best-seller in 2000 (Continued on Page 11)

OPC Bulletin • January 2013 • Page 10 (New Books Continued From Page 12) patches, and walked it over to San- In Les Bleus, a reference to the American newspapers in the 1950s, dy’s desk. ‘I can’t get it right,’ I said. nickname of the French national soc- long before carpets, air-conditioning, “He scanned it quickly, then read cer team, Krasnoff examines how and computers replaced the stale air through more slowly. ‘Good lead,’ France set out after the onset of the and cigarette-scarred linoleum of the he said. ‘The trouble is, you just sort Cold War to cultivate elite athletes in City Room. of drift after that,’ Bell tells his re- two global team sports, soccer and Young Morgan’s efforts to cover porter. basketball. The effort, made primar- a mayoral campaign morph into a Morgan listens carefully. “What ily at the youth level, led Teamsters’ corruption scandal and I needed, he said, was a to success in international a murder investigation, which leads billboard: ‘Put up a sign to contests but also eased do- the reader into the sordid world of tell people what this story mestic issues and tensions Detroit’s politics before the auto in- is about, why they’re read- while teaching young play- dustry’s collapse. ing it. You need a second ers ideals of democracy and In some of his best writing, Martz paragraph that says some- fair play. It helped create weaves a series of endearing vi- thing like, ‘This was part a modern, post-colonial gnettes into the narrative describing of a day’s campaigning that French identity in a global- took in four stops, reached a reporter’s education at the hands of izing world. from rich folks to poor folks a middle-aged assistant city editor, Through her research and proved Lander is the Sandy Bell. and insight, Krasnoff pro- candidate to beat.’ In your “Some things Sandy just pound- vides perspective on the larger his- ed into us: get the story; always own better language, of course.” Bell’s advice gives Morgan a way tory of France, societal changes, the ask the next question; forget fancy media revolution and public health. writing; make your deadline. Some to organize the rest of the story. The She weaves the stories of individual things we seemed to pick up from effect is magical. “He handed the athletes to her analysis of how the the city room air, thick with dust and pile of manuscript back to me, and Cold War forced countries to re- cigarette smoke: the kinds of stories suddenly the whole thing was clear. think their relevancy and ability to there were and the jargon that went It was like a rabbit from a hat. How influence others through the cultural with each one; the prissy prurience did he do that?” of journalism in the late ’50s; the Lodged in a textbook, these sphere. Sport, the French govern- blatant racism that nearly everybody words would feel didactic. In Mar- ment concluded, was one way to took for granted.” tz’s hands, they become revelatory. have influence and the French effort Morgan and Bell collaborate on — by John Martin, who serves was unprecedented in West Europe- Morgan’s stories in a way that tells with the author on the OPC an nations. the reader in practical terms how re- Freedom of the Press Committee. Krasnoff, an OPC member, is a porters and editors conspire in their historian in the State Department’s most creative moments. EUROPE Office of the Historian, where she “I had the lead all right,” Martz PORTS ARE A GREAT works on the history of U.S.-Eu- writes in Morgan’s voice: “But the S common denominator, linking in- ropean relations and contributes to rest of the piece was giving me a lot dividuals who otherwise might have the office’s digital and oral history of trouble. I couldn’t get the structure little in common. Sports history, as initiatives. She is a member of the right, the tone was veering between Lindsay Sarah Krasnoff demon- North American Society for Sports worshipful and snotty, and I didn’t strates in The Making of Les Bleus: History and an affiliated scholar of know how I was going to end it.” Sport in France, 1958-2010, [Lex- the Center for the Study of Sport and Finally, young Morgan “bundled ington Books, December 2012] can Leisure in Society at George Mason up the whole raggedy mess of paper, tell us a great deal about society and University. with its scribbles and crossed-out ourselves. — by Susan Kille

(Continued From Page 10) journalist, in fact, with phenomenal reau chief and Middle East editor for member Christopher Dickey said instincts and an extraordinary ability Newsweek. “Sure she drove us crazy Dahau had already worked at the to handle the logistics that got pho- sometimes, but I think it’s fair to say tographers and reporters to the place bureau for decades when he arrived the news was happening wherever that all of us who worked with her in 1985. “Jacqueline was a larger it was happening while it was hap- loved her, and it is certainly true that than life character – an indefatigable pening,” wrote Dickey, the Paris Bu- her like will not be seen again.”

OPC Bulletin • January 2013 • Page 11 ies or buses. National fealty is alien the repercussions of the first Gilded when you have multiple addresses Age. New Books and can live wherever money can ad- Freeland joined Reuters in 2010 GLOBAL HRYSTIA FREELAND SAID vance your agenda. Her argument is from the Financial Times, where C she decided to write Plutocrats: that the rise in income of people at she had been U.S. managing editor The Rise of the New Global Super- the very top of the wealth scale and of and previously worked in Lon- Rich and the Fall the way they are pulling apart from don as a deputy editor, editor of the of Everyone Else everybody else is Weekend edition, editor of FT.com [Penguin Books, the most important and U.K. News editor. She was also October 2012] economic fact in Moscow bureau chief and Eastern because she saw America and the in- Europe correspondent for the Finan- a political taboo dustrialized western cial Times. developing with world. She backs — by Susan Kille people who speak that up with his- about income torical parallels by NORTH AMERICA inequality be- thoroughly report- ARRY MARTZ, A VETERAN Freeland ing branded class ing economic driv- L newspaperman and Newsweek warriors. Rising disparity, she said, ers and reporter, writer and editor, is how capitalism is working today consequences. She may has written a reporter’s and we need to talk about it. not have the solution for novel, a clear-eyed look Freeland, editor of Thomson Re- overcoming disparity but at the ethical perils, per- uters Digital and an OPC member, she knows how to fuel the sonal entanglements, and interviews, researches and writes conversation. reporting pitfalls faced about the wealthiest of the wealthy, The Gilded Age of the by Billy Morgan, a young the top 0.01 percent who look down late nineteenth century man beginning his ca- on mere millionaires. These are the and “robber barons” like reer on the fictional De- super rich who can spend $3 mil- Andrew Carnegie and troit Journal in To Know lion for a birthday party. As their in- John D. Rockefeller may the Truth [AuthorHouse, comes soar, they grow increasingly be the closest parallel to November 2012]. Martz detached from the rest of us; they what’s going on now as is an OPC member and don’t need public schools, librar- new markets and technologies pro- former long-serving chairman of the duce unprecedented wealth for those Freedom of the Press Committee. He at the top. Today’s robber barons got his start in daily journalism at are global and growing in turbulent The Pontiac Press in Michigan and world economies. Plutocrats shows The Detroit News. that as global wealth is concentrated The Journal depicted in the in fewer and fewer hands, the social novel bears the scars familiar to Upcoming Events upheavals ahead may be greater than (Continued on Page 11)

Book Night with Overseas Press Club of America 40 West 45 Street Steven Raymer New York, NY 10036 USA February 20 Redeeming Calcutta: A Portrait of India’s Imperial Capital

OPC Foundation Scholarship Luncheon February 22 David Rohde, Keynote Speaker

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