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I COULD NOT BE MORE PROUD OF THE There have always been dictators and Dateline you are holding in your hands. The despots, corrupt governments and criminal OPC’s annual gala is always the work of a cast of syndicates, determined to kill journalists. But thousands. Dozens anyway. From our 79 judges the assassinations of Jim Foley and Steven to our 441 entries, considered with great delib- Sotloff were made even more gruesome because eration by people who have a lot of other work to of their manner and the distribution of videos do, to Bill Holstein and his dinner committee that on social media. And the journalists of Charlie round up the support needed to make this night Hebdo were killed in their offices. happen, to Paul Moakley and Alexis Gelber, who I could not be prouder of the role of the edited this beautiful and deeply alarming maga- OPC has taken in meeting these challenges. The zine, and Victor Williams who designed it. OPC was founded by staff reporters at global I could not be more proud to be president of news behemoths. But increasingly foreign cov- the OPC. This is a time of enormous tumult in erage is brought to us by freelancers working our industry and in our profession. For decades, several “strings,” or on contract for mainly one technology and economics have led to a shrink- news organization. ing of traditional journalism, even as they have Since I became president of the OPC last provided new independent platforms for free- summer, we became one of the leading organi- lance and citizen journalists. zations crafting the first ever industry standards Those threats, as well as the Obama admin- for freelancer safety in conflict zones. As I said istration’s zeal for pursuing journalists and their when we signed the protocols in February, this sources, have been with us for a while. (We is not enough—it is only the first step in play- were grateful that the administration dropped ing our part to equip, inform, and convene news the case against New York Times reporter James organizations and foreign correspondents, what- Risen, though also originally brought it.) But ever their employment status, in the global jour- 2014 and early 2015 saw one the highest death nalism environment of today. tolls for journalists in an entirely different, if not But this is just one area where the OPC has entirely new threat, an existential one: journal- found renewed enthusiasm for our mission of ists targeted for assassination for doing our job. making foreign correspondence and foreign correspondents as strong as they can be. From new lower rates for students, to month- ly meetups, to a soon to be re-launched web- site and expanded Global Parachute reporting resource—the OPC is more dedicated than ever to enshrining, promulgating, and celebrating the very best international coverage.

MABRY IS PRESIDENT OF THE OVERSEAS PRESS CLUB OF AMERICA AND EDITOR AT LARGE AT THE NEW YORK TIMES.

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A MOST VIOLENT YEAR 8 THE CORNELIUS RYAN AWARD 37 OPPOSITE > By Douglas Jehl Sub-Saharan African THE MADELINE DANE ROSS AWARD 37 migrants on a fence THE IMAGE WARS 18 between Morocco and the THE DAVID A ANDELMAN AND By Fred Ritchin Spanish enclave of Melilla. PAMELA TITLE AWARD 46 For more than seven hours, DIGITAL SECURITY CHECKLIST 20 migrants sat atop the 20- By Robert Guerra THE JOE AND LAURIE DINE AWARD 46 foot fence dividing Europe THE WHITMAN BASSO AWARD 46 from Africa, refusing to WEIGHING THE RISKS 22 come down. Buffeted by By Kathy Gannon THE ROBERT SPIERS BENJAMIN AWARD 46 winds whipping along the cliffs of Africa’s BATTLE SCARS 28 BEST MULTIMEDIA NEW PRESENTATION 47 Mediterranean coast, the By Sebastian Junger men nursed their bloody BEST INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING 47 A VICIOUS CYCLE 54 feet and pleaded in broken BEST COMMENTARY 47 French for the Red Cross. Infographic by Heather Jones April 3, 2014. THE OPC ANNUAL AWARDS FOR 2014: ALSO IN THIS ISSUE: PRESIDENT’S LETTER 3 PHOTOGRAPH BY ROBERT FRIEDMAN By Marcus Mabry SANTI PALACIOS— 2014 AWARDS CHAIR 31 ASSOCIATED PRESS DAVID ROHDE THE HAL BOYLE AWARD 32 PRESIDENT’S AWARD WINNER 7 THE BOB CONSIDINE AWARD 32 WHERE OPC MEMBERS ARE WELCOME 51 ON THE COVER: Yazidi refugees in Northern THE ROBERT CAPA AWARD 32 AND 34-35 Iraq stranded in the Sinjar Mountains wait for a rescue THE OLIVIER REBBOT AWARD helicopter, Aug. 12, 2014. 33 AND 38-39 THE JOHN FABER AWARD 33 AND 40-41 While on a helicopter DATELINE 2015: delivering aid to Yazidi civilians, photographer FEATURE PHOTOGRAPHY AWARD PAUL MOAKLEY 33 AND 48-49 Moises Saman survived a EDITOR crash in Northern Iraq that THE LOWELL THOMAS AWARD 33 ALEXIS GELBER killed the pilot and injured several passengers on THE DAVID KAPLAN AWARD 36 EDITOR board, including another VICTOR WILLIAMS photographer, Adam THE EDWARD R MURROW AWARD 36 Ferguson, and The New DESIGN DIRECTOR THE ED CUNNINGHAM AWARD 36 York Times’ Paris bureau NANCY NOVICK chief Alissa J. Rubin. “If we had been another 50 THE THOMAS NAST AWARD ASSISTANT DESIGNER 36 AND 43-44 meters higher we’d all be AND PRODUCTION dead,” Ferguson told the THE MORTON FRANK AWARD 37 PATRICIA KRANZ Times. OPC EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR PHOTOGRAPH BY THE MALCOLM FORBES AWARD 37 MOISES SAMAN—MAGNUM

OVERSEAS PRESS CLUB OF AMERICA BOARD OF GOVERNORS 2014 – 2015

PRESIDENT ACTIVE BOARD PETER S. GOODMAN ROBERT ASSOCIATE PAST PRESIDENTS MARCUS MABRY MEMBERS Editor-in-Chief NICKELSBERG BOARD MEMBERS EX-OFFICIO Editor at Large JACQUELINE International Freelance BRIAN I. BYRD MICHAEL S. SERRILL The New York Times ALBERT-SIMON Business Times Photojournalist Program Officer DAVID A. ANDELMAN U.S. Bureau Chief CHARLES GRAEBER NYS Health FIRST VICE JOHN CORPORON PRESIDENT Politique Freelance Journalist LARA SETRAKIAN Foundation Internationale Co-Founder & CEO CALVIN SIMS and Author BILL COLLINS ALLAN DODDS President and CEO News Deeply Director, Public & FRANK International House RUKMINI AZMAT KHAN Business Affairs ALEXIS GELBER CALLIMACHI Investigative Reporter MARTIN SMITH SECOND VICE Ford Motor Company Foreign BuzzFeed News President WILLIAM J. PRESIDENT Correspondent Rain Media EMMA DALY HOLSTEIN ABIGAIL PESTA Communications The New York Times DAN KLAIDMAN MARSHALL LOEB Freelance Journalist Director Deputy Editor LIAM STACK Human Rights Watch LARRY MARTZ THIRD VICE JANE CIABATTARI Yahoo News Breaking News ROY ROWAN PRESIDENT Columnist Reporter DANIEL SIEBERG PANCHO BBC.com The New York Times Global Head of LEONARD SAFFIR BERNASCONI EVELYN LEOPOLD Independent Media Outreach LARRY SMITH Vice President/News Google Getty Images CHRIS DICKEY Journalist SEYMOUR TOPPING RICHARD B. STOLLEY Foreign Editor United Nations Emeritus Professor ABI WRIGHT TREASURER The Daily Beast, Paris of International Director TIM FERGUSON PAUL MOAKLEY Journalism Alfred I. DuPont Overseas Press Club Editor Deputy Director Columbia University Columbia University of America 40 West Forbes Asia 45th Street—New Photography and Awards York, NY 10036 SECRETARY Visual Enterprise CHARLES WALLACE 212 626-9220 www. DEIDRE DEPKE TIME Magazine Freelance Writer opcofamerica.org Journalist and Author @opcofamerica

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PepsiCo is a proud sponsor of the David Rohde reporting from 76th Annual OPC Awards Dinner Kandahar, Afghanistan 2008. As a company that does business in more than 200 countries and territories, PepsiCo thanks the Overseas Press Club SCOTT KRAFT, THE DEPUTY EDITOR not just journalism. They were a service to of the Los Angeles Times, told Robert history, to humanity, and to memory. of America and its members for everything they to do to Friedman, the head judge of the OPC And they were just the beginning of awards, “It is an honor to serve.” what would be a celebrated career that In addition to No Safe Haven, that would take him from Afghanistan to the bring attention to serious issues. could be the theme of this year’s OPC gala: courts of New York’s outer boroughs. While An Honor to Serve. on book leave from The New York Times, The award winners—in their diversi- Rohde and two colleagues were held cap- www.pepsico.com ty tonight, from The New York Times to tive in Pakistan by the Taliban for sev- www.twitter.com/pepsico Medium, and in the diversity of the topics, en months in 2008 and 2009 before he from Central African Republic to Doha— escaped. all pay a tribute to journalism in the ser- So it should come as no surprise that vice of something larger than headlines David was a leader—some might even say and glory. the leader—in shaping the set of guide- Tonight’s recipient of The President’s lines and protocols that more than 60 news Award is in keeping with that theme: An organizations and journalism groups have Honor to Serve. His life has been spent in signed on to. Others were crucial to get- service to others. ting the effort off the ground and still oth- I have known David Rohde for nearly ers in efforts to take it from a list of goals half my life, meeting him in Zagreb during to industry doctrine. But David drove the the Bosnian war. As a freelancer on con- process that got us to where we are today, tract for The Christian Science Monitor, and he continues to be a linchpin in where he brought back the first seemingly incon- we go next. trovertible evidence that there had been a And that’s not even his day job. As an massacre in Srebrenica. Those stories were investigative reporter for Reuters, and a former columnist, David continues to do the exclusive truth telling, and serving humanity, that have been his stock in trade. I can’t wait to see what he does in the second half of his career. —MARCUS MABRY

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BULENT KILIC AFP/Getty Images An Islamic State militant just after an air strike on Tilsehir hill near the Turkish border at Yumurtalik village, Sanliurfa province, Turkey. Oct. 23, 2014.

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MOST OF US WHO HAVE Post’s Tehran correspondent, had been horribly cursed. detained by the Iranian authorities. In In many ways, 2014 was a year in SPENT OUR CAREERS December, a satellite-phone delivered which the world seemed to ignite. All at AROUND FOREIGN NEWS word that photographer Michel du Cille once, it sometimes seemed, came war HAVE FOUND WAYS TO had fallen unconscious on an arduous in Ukraine and Gaza, renewed chaos in COPE WITH THE DANGERS hike in a remote location while covering Afghanistan, the march of Islamic State Ebola in Liberia. extremists in Iraq, Syria and beyond, OF COVERING CONFLICTS. Michel, a three-time Pulitzer Prize and the awful toll of instability and It will be fine, we tell ourselves. No winner, died before reaching a hospital. disease in West Africa. Not counting one really wants to target a journalist. Jason, as of this writing, remained in Ira- du Cille, more than 60 journalists were But all that can be punctured with the nian custody after eight months without killed in the line of duty, including four ring of a telephone. Your correspondent access to a lawyer and without any pub- from the Associated Press. has been detained, we hear. Your pho- lic indication of the charges against him. Perhaps most indelibly, the dead tographer has collapsed. Your reporter Another reporter, Austin Tice, a freelanc- included American freelance journal- is missing. er whose work appeared in The Post ists James Foley and Steven Sotloff, In the deadly year that was 2014, and McClatchy Newspapers, remains beheaded so brutally by their extremist we at The Washington Post were unaccounted for after being abducted captors in Syria in videotaped produc- among the news organizations that in Syria in August 2012. The blow to their tions broadcast on social media. received those kinds of calls. In July, via families has been unfathomable. Of course, journalists have never a scratchy mobile phone connection, Other journalists and other news been immune from risk—even though came news that Jason Rezaian, The organizations have been even more those of us who have worked as for-

r2_150185opc_CS5.5.indd 10 4/17/15 5:05 PM MICHEL DU CILLE The Washington Post MOISES SAMAN Eva Togbah waits in a van to enter a Doctors Magnum for TIME Without Borders clinic in After surviving a Monrovia, Liberia. Tobgah, helicopter crash, sick and bleeding from Yazidi refugees, along the mouth, came to the with Kurdish and clinic with four relatives Iraqi Army personnel, on Sept. 23, 2014. board a rescue helicopter transporting them from the crash site back to Kurdish- controlled Dohuk Province. Sinjar Mountains, Iraq, Aug. 12, 2014. horribly cursed. eign correspondents sometimes hoped with its detention of Rezaian and doz- In many ways, 2014 was a year in that a press card or a windshield plac- ens of Iranian journalists, do not appear which the world seemed to ignite. All at ard proclaiming “media’’ might spare to have been swayed by the concern once, it sometimes seemed, came war us from a missile strike or from captors about possible blowback. in Ukraine and Gaza, renewed chaos in wielding AK-47s. As The Post’s foreign editor, I see Afghanistan, the march of Islamic State But there was a time, not so long ago, my job as helping readers make sense extremists in Iraq, Syria and beyond, when it did seem possible to believe of what is most consequential around and the awful toll of instability and that the essential role that news orga- the world. The size of our foreign staff disease in West Africa. Not counting nizations played as a messenger might (which now numbers 20 correspon- du Cille, more than 60 journalists were afford at least some protection; even dents in 15 bureaus) attests to our killed in the line of duty, including four the bad guys need us, we would tell commitment to up-close, first-hand from the Associated Press. ourselves. coverage. But the places where the Perhaps most indelibly, the dead It is now undeniable that this old cal- most consequential events were unfold- included American freelance journal- culus does not always apply. Extremist ing—Syria, Ukraine, Iraq, Gaza—have also ists James Foley and Steven Sotloff, groups such as Islamic State clearly see become the most dangerous. beheaded so brutally by their extremist public-relations benefit, not cost, in killing No journalist ever wants to limit cov- captors in Syria in videotaped produc- journalists, not just in Syria but else- erage of a major story. But in practice, tions broadcast on social media. where, as in this year’s attack on the the threats facing journalists in parts of Of course, journalists have never offices of Charlie Hebdo in Paris. Among Iraq and Syria controlled by the Islamic been immune from risk—even though governments, Egypt, with its conviction State mean that a historic narrative those of us who have worked as for- of three Al Jazeera reporters, and Iran, there is unfolding without witnesses. At

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the same time, Iran’s cruel and uncon- by David Rohde of Reuters, who spent scionable detention of Rezaian has so many months held captive by the prevented The Post from covering that Taliban in Pakistan, has devoted par- country at a pivotal time in its history. ticular attention to drawing up proposed As Jason’s boss, I have worked guidelines to ensure that freelance jour- closely with his family and with other nalists are better trained and equipped senior leaders at The Post, including before they venture into conflict zones. Frederick J. Ryan Jr., the publisher, to We at The Post take seriously our explore every possible channel in seek- responsibilities to all of those who work ing Jason’s release. The Post has also for us, and we’re working to sharpen supported similar efforts led by the fam- our own practices for correspondents, ily of Austin Tice. freelancers, and also for the local re- While The Post’s ethical guidelines porters, translators, drivers and others prohibit its journalists from engaging in on whom we often depend. political activities, our executive editor, There are lessons to be drawn from Martin Baron, advised the newsroom the toll of the past year—about training, in February that it would be entirely planning, even cybersecurity. The world appropriate to advocate for journalistic doesn’t show any sign of getting safer, ©2015 Bloomberg L.P. All rights reserved. S577905973 0415 freedom and for the freedom of our and being clear-eyed about weighing colleague. A number of Post employees the risks is the best way to make sure have now joined in signing a petition on that we can keep telling these stories. Change.org calling for Jason’s release. A valuable initiative led, among oth- JEHL IS FOREIGN EDITOR OF THE ers, by press freedom organizations and WASHINGTON POST.

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THE RECENT MURDERS BY aggravates the initial horror to the point for ISIS. But looking at a video of the where there seems to be no escape. last seconds of life of those killed can ISIS OF FOREIGN JOURNAL- But there are crucial differences. In also be seen as an act of empathy with ISTS AND AID WORKERS that kind of digitally enabled bullying, them, as well as with their families and SPARKED ENORMOUS OUT- not only are the attackers at fault, but friends, sharing some of their grief and RAGE AND CONDEMNATION. so are the others in the community who their revulsion. Just because murder- view and pass along the video with an ers want people to look at these videos But what seemed to have provoked expectation of voyeuristic enjoyment. does not mean that one should not, or much of the fury were the videos of the But in the case of the videos produced should, comply—one can view them in beheadings that were produced and by ISIS, viewers are not complicit in the many ways that deny their intended distributed by the murderers themselves. murders and no social bond is being messages. As we have learned from Committing horrific acts and then broken or frayed by watching them literary theory, the reader or viewer, not broadcasting them is an attempt to (looking at something is not endorsing only the author, determines meaning. humiliate the victims and, by extension, it). In fact, carefully watching the videos One way of interpreting these videos to mock those in their home countries may well be a way to understanding (and there are others that were made whose values they represent. No one the mindset of the murderers and the for regional viewing that are just as hor- else, ISIS seems to say, can report upon, threats that they pose. It can also lead rific, showing massacres and behead- interpret, or judge their organization’s to a political will to punish the perpetra- ings of local people) is that ISIS forced actions, other than themselves. tors. their captives into what were essentially In some ways these videos resemble There is more to consider, however, snuff films, presenting them as individu- what has been called “happy slap- as became clear in the debate on social als but denying any sense of agency on ping” among adolescents—someone media and elsewhere about whether their part or any sense of redemption in is beaten up, or sexually attacked, and to post these videos online. One had to the killing. It is not, as in the Bible, Abra- the video of the event that is circulated take into account the horrific character ham being told by God to spare Isaac, afterwards becomes a re-victimization of the videos, their invasion of privacy, but a man, his face concealed, who is that can, at times, lead to the suicide of as well as a desire not to make the announcing that members of his group the victim. Social media, or what might individuals’ deaths a spectacle, poten- can kill with impunity any others unlike in this case be called anti-social media, tially providing a public relations coup themselves. There are no scruples, no

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room for discussion, and no other pos- instead to focus on civilian casualties stepped in with its own macabre form sible ending—due process is not part of on each side. In Syria a military police of cinema verité, and by doing so has their vocabulary. photographer, code-named Caesar, managed to temporarily dominate the The executions are also an assertion had to smuggle out tens of thousands image war. of a media monopoly—not only are the of photographs of prisoners whom What is the best antidote to the im- ISIS video creators the central protago- he asserted had been tortured and age wars assaulting us? Certainly we nists in this image war, but as produc- executed in secret by the Assad regime. have to try to seek a more rational ers and directors they also control the The impact of previous imagery on explanation of why such images are exclusive rights to its representation. world opinion—such as the famous being made. In the case of ISIS, are the Unlike the attacks of September 11, 1972 photograph of a young girl being people making these images powerful, when the production and distribution of napalmed in Vietnam, or the one of the or desperate? Are we being asked to the imagery was left to others, ISIS does summary execution of a captive on a watch holy war, or pornography? And not allow individual interpretations by Saigon street in 1968—continues to play by looking at this excruciating imagery, outsiders. After September 11, photo- a cautionary role. are we being complicit or are we do- graphs by amateurs and professionals In the case of ISIS, which is not inter- ing our duty as citizens in a globalized alike were used as part of a process ested in working within international world? of grieving and remembering, because norms, an image war of concealment This act of resistance may be carried many of those depicting the suffering makes little sense. The creation of hor- out in solidarity with those who have did so out of empathy, unlike those who rors for public consumption is both an been so awfully victimized. One can aim to humiliate and re-victimize. explicit rejection of such conventions recite their names. Contemporary image wars usually as well an appeal to nihilistic youth who May their memory endure. have tried to conceal activities that may are being encouraged to join, sanc- not jibe with international humanitar- tioning their own rage and frustration. RITCHIN IS DEAN OF THE SCHOOL ian laws, rather than flaunt those that In their version of the image war, the AT THE INTERNATIONAL CENTER can be perceived as war crimes. During shooter in the video game actually gets OF PHOTOGRAPHY. HIS LAST the conflict in Gaza neither Hamas nor to kill the target, as brutally as possible; BOOK IS BENDING THE FRAME: Israel wanted the media to accompany the man with the knife gets to mock PHOTOJOURNALISM, DOCUMENTARY, their combatants, for example, but the world’s greatest military. ISIS has AND THE CITIZEN (APERTURE 2013).

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addresses cyber security as part of its Journalism Security Guide. DIGITAL Reporters Without Borders also has published an Online Survival Kit, available in five languages. Digital First Aid Kit is a guide published by a dozen media-related NGOs, including Free Press Unlimited, Freedom House, Global Voices, SECURITY and Internews. SURVEILLANCE SELF-DEFENSE PROVIDES A PRACTICAL FIVE-POINT GUIDE TO PROTECTING YOURSELF AND YOUR INFORMATION: CHECKLIST 1. Develop a data retention and destruction ROBERT GUERRA policy: You should not destroy evidence, but you can maintain a retention policy in which Congratulations to all you routinely purge your files. Make sure the computer, including at least one in addition policy is written and followed by everyone. INVESTIGATIVE REPORTERS to the default administrator account. Making 2. Basics of data protection: Require logins FACE A TWO-FOLD sure the second account has no administrative for accounts and screensavers. Make your CHALLENGE: surveillance privileges, then use that login for your daily passwords strong. Make sure you trust your the winners of the software has become mind- work. If malware tries to install automatically, systems administrator. bogglingly sophisticated; the computer will alert you with a message 3. Proper use of passwords: Don’t use requiring the administrator password. the same password for multiple accounts. and funding is pouring in for And change the passwords regularly. Can’t development of new technologies. MALWARE remember a lengthy password? Consider 2014 OPC Awards These new products are Beware of suspicious attachments, keep an encrypted password manager such as purchased on the gray market your programs updated, and install a good 1Password or Keypass. antivirus program or malware scanner such 4. Data encryption: Governments can get by governments that spy on their as Detekt. around password-protected data. But well- public—and their press. If possible, avoid opening attachments on encrypted data is more difficult. your computer. Instead use online editors 5. Protection from malware: Avoid opening Robert Guerra, a Canadian based digital such as Google Docs to view and edit attachments and PDF documents on your security expert, warns that most reporters documents. computer. aren’t even taking the most basic precautions. Watch for emails from groups or people “If you become known for investigative you might know, but which seem slightly Eva Galperin of the EFF provides this tip sheet reporting, people can use digital tools to come off—small grammar changes or odd for Best Practices. Key points: after you and your data,” says Guerra, who punctuation. 1. Skype isn’t as secure as you might think. for more than a decade has trained NGO Outdated computers without the latest Instead you should use a more secure, peer- staffers and journalists to securely manage security patches will put you on greater risk. to-peer service such as Talky.io or meet.jit.si. relationships and data online. “Start with the 2. SMS messaging is not secure and not principles. Know the risks”. WHEN SOMETHING GOES WRONG encrypted. If you have a smart phone, use Guerra suggests starting here: Make noise if your computer starts acting a secure chat tool such as Redphone, Signal, wacky. Reach out to one of the nonprofit Threema or Silent Circle EMAIL groups dedicated to detecting and tracking 3. Instant message with Pidgin or Adium At home, use “https” so that your web attacks and training users: (Mac OSX) browsing traffic is encrypted. If you don’t, it’s The Committee to Protect Journalists, based as if you were in a busy public place having in New York, advocates on behalf of reporters Steve Doig, a professor at Arizona a conversation with a confidential source, around the world and fields requests for State University, provides these tips in his Guerra explains, “but you’re both screaming.” assistance. presentation Spycraft: Keeping Your Sources Install the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)’s Reporters Without Borders, based in Paris, Private (Powerpoint): HTTPS Everywhere extension in your browser does similar advocacy as CPJ. 1. Search the web with IXQuick, which so that your connection defaults to a secure The Electronic Frontier Foundation, based in doesn’t save your IP address or search terms. connection “https” where possible. San Francisco, advocates for digital rights. 2. Disguise your caller ID with SpoofCard. Don’t assume your employer is The Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto This works for international calls as well. protecting your account. Ask your researches Internet security and human rights. 3. Buy no-contract cell phones with cash. technology desk about what precautions it 4. Encrypt communications: takes, and consider getting a personal account TUTORIALS AND TIPSHEETS Pretty Good Privacy is strong and from Google, Yahoo or RiseUp over which you There’s no shortage of guides to digital security. an industry standard. have control. Many are overly complex and not terribly Spam Mimic encrypts messages in Passwords and the Two-Factor Login useful for working journalists. But there’s help spam-like email It is recommended that you activate an out there, and it’s worth designating someone Clean out deleted files for good using additional layer of protection—the two-factor on your team, in your newsroom, or at your Webroot Window Washer login present in many online services today. nonprofit to take the lead in ensuring that your When obtaining leaked documents from When you activate the two-factor login, you work is protected. a government source, beware of invisible will need to enter your password and a unique Some resources: watermarks. authentication code that can be generated via Security in a Box offers a series of video The London-based Centre for Investigative a mobile app or sent via text message. tutorials on simple ways to maintain a low Journalism has an 80-page handbook, Login Settings online profile. Available in many languages. Information Security for Journalists, full of the Establish multiple user accounts on your The Committee to Protect Journalists latest tips and techniques.

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LEFT: Gannon (center left) and Niedringhaus with Afghan police recruits in Kabul, Afghanistan in October 2012.

RIGHT: An Afghan woman waits in a changing room to try out a new burqa, in Kabul, April 11, 2013.

IN DECEMBER LAST YEAR Doing up the zipper on my coat wasn’t a do I ensure that the shooting doesn’t define I RETURNED TO PAKISTAN. near to impossible chore. I wore shoes with me, that one horrific incident doesn’t over- It was just for two weeks, but laces. I didn’t wake every morning giving shadow a career that has brought me such myself a pep talk or a berating—depending joy and pride? it had the effect of helping me on the day—about coping with the pain and People often ask whether the shooting reconnect with the person I had the value of putting a positive spin on the has changed me. The honest answer is that I been before the April 4, 2014 progress I had made. am really not sure, having focused so much shooting in eastern Afghanistan, So much, it seemed, had changed. of my energy on healing physically. I do when a crazed gunman stole I have been humbled by the outpour- know that I am as impatient as I ever was. I from me one of my dearest ing of kind words, and the talk of courage am still stubborn and opinionated. friends, the award-winning and bravery. Still, most of the time I have felt I also feel incredibly lucky that I always neither brave nor courageous. Instead my loved my life. I was doing what I wanted photojournalist Anja Niedringhaus, time seems to be preoccupied with keeping to do, living in a region that offered glar- and changed my life. fear at bay, not thinking about the next sur- ing examples of the very best and very worst The last time I had been in Pakistan gery, nor dwelling on questions for which I of us. When the gunman stopped firing that was in early March 2014—almost a month have no answers: What will the future hold? horrible day last April and I looked down to before the shooting. I had originally gone What will I be able to do? Will I be able to see all the blood and my near-severed hand, I to Afghanistan to fill in on the AP desk and type with both hands? How do I massage was sure I was dying. The recurring thought then to cover the presidential election. Then the physical and emotional scars so that I as I prepared myself for death was that I had I was strong. I could type with both hands. am not forever a walking wounded? How had an amazing life. I had no regrets.

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Injured U.S.Marine Cpl. Burness Britt reacts after being lifted onto a medevac helicopter from the U.S. Army’s Task Force Lift “Dust Off,” Charlie Company 1-214 Aviation Regiment, Helmand Province of southern Afghanistan, June 4, 2011.

ANJA NIEDRINGHAUS (1965-2014) WAS A GERMAN PHOTOJOURNALIST WHO WORKED FOR THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. SHE WAS THE ONLY WOMAN ON A TEAM OF 11 AP PHOTOGRAPHERS THAT WON THE 2005 PULITZER PRIZE FOR BREAKING NEWS PHOTOGRAPHY FOR COVERAGE OF THE IRAQ WAR.

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I wasn’t going to be engaging with it myself—I thought I could take that affec- tion and take my energy and my time and continue to be involved by starting an organization that might help the journalists who are still working out there. Tim died from a wound that was not necessarily mortal. He bled out. He died of loss of blood. He died in the back of a pickup truck racing to a Misrata hospital. He died minutes from help. And there were journalists around him and other rebel fighters, who conceivably might have been able to help him and slow down his blood loss. But none of them to Libya together on assignment in 2011. I REMEMBER WHEN I WAS were medically trained. None of them And right after we were at the Oscars YOUNGER THINKING, IF I WAS knew what to do. for Restrepo, just about at the last minute, Just a quick lesson in this. If you’ve COVERING A WAR AND I for personal reasons I couldn’t go. Tim got nothing else, you just put your knee WASN’T IN A SITUATION WHERE went on his own. And he was killed in into the person’s wound and bear down PEOPLE WERE SHOOTING the city of Misrata. I got the phone call as hard as you can. Even that kind of in New York, and within about an hour IN MY DIRECTION, I WASN’T pressure into a wound can collapse the of the shock of that terrible phone call, I REALLY COVERING THE WAR. artery and slow down blood loss. So I’ve realized that I was never going to cover started an organization called Reporters A totally silly way to think. What war again. Instructed in Saving Colleagues, RISC. you’re really doing is answering a Not so much that I was worried per- Its mission is to provide free combat personal need for excitement—and not sonally for myself. But I suddenly under- training and combat medicine: frontline necessarily a pure quest for information. stood the effect on other people. I was medicine for experienced freelancers But we’re human. That’s going to married at the time. My wife, Daniela, who cover wars. We unfortunately happen. It’s an important thing to be loved Tim. I was watching the effect on don’t have enough funding to train aware of. I’ve been very lucky as a her, and on Tim’s girlfriend. And in the people who are not reporters yet. We journalist, in the stories that I’ve covered, coming days, I would see the effect on focus on freelancers, because they are and in people’s responses to my work. his family and friends. I realized that it’s the majority of people in war zones. I’ve also been very lucky, two or three absolutely possible to gamble with your Their casualty rate has doubled in times that I can think of, that I didn’t get own life. There are very good reasons the past ten years. They are often very killed or really badly hurt. It’s interest- to do it. What’s ethically way more com- broke, and they can’t afford to invest in ing, though. Looking back, what I find plicated is gambling with other people’s their own training. So we pay for four is that the situations that really disturb happiness. Ultimately that’s what you’re days of lodging for them, a four-day you psychologically aren’t when there’s doing when you go to a war zone. intensive medical training course, and a danger to yourself. It’s the pain of others. I think there’s a point in your life combat medical kit, for 72 freelancers a Damage to other people. It’s incredibly where you do have to put the concerns year. We exist completely from dona- traumatizing. of others before your own concerns tions and people’s generosity. The event in my life as a journalist or ambitions. I don’t think 20 or 30—or We’re going into our fourth year. that fundamentally changed the stories maybe even 40—is that point. Nearing We’re very, very proud of RISC. If you that I would cover was the death of my 50 it certainly is. At least it was for me. have any interest at all in it, please look good friend, the British photojournalist So I stopped war reporting completely. us up online—RISCTraining.org. Tim Hetherington. Incredibly, I have never had even a Tim and I were in Afghanistan together passing regret about that decision. JUNGER IS AN AWARD-WINNING in a small American outpost called Re- But I’m incredibly proud of the people JOURNALIST, FILMMAKER AND AUTHOR. strepo. We made a film together called who are still doing it. It’s a very necessary THIS PIECE WAS EXCERPTED FROM A Restrepo. We were friends, brothers, job. What I wanted to do with my love SPEECH AT THE 2015 OPC FOUNDATION colleagues—we were supposed to go of journalism and foreign reporting—since SCHOLARSHIP LUNCHEON. PHOTOS ANDERSON—MAGNUM CHRISTOPHER

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EACH YEAR, DOZENS OF JOURNALISTS America looked at the exploitation of foreign volunteer their time to sift through hundreds workers employed on U.S. military bases in of entries for 22 Overseas Press Club awards. Afghanistan. And Jason Motlagh in the Virginia It’s a lot of work, for which they get neither Quarterly Review painstakingly reconstructed pay nor much recognition. The judges—there what happened during and after the collapse were 79 this year—include editors, foreign of a factory in Bangladesh in 2013, where correspondents and journalism professors. As more than 1,100 garment workers perished. Scott Kraft, deputy editor of the Los Angeles Three media organizations captured two Times, a former bureau chief in Nairobi, top prizes each this year: The New York Times Johannesburg and Paris and head judge for for coverage of Ebola and the cover-up by the Hal Boyle Award this year, put it: “It’s such the U.S. military of the contamination of its own a rewarding experience for me—it’s an honor soldiers by chemical munitions; the Los Angeles to serve.” Times for reporting on the Ukraine conflict and It’s also rewarding for the winners. They the wave of migrants from Central America; deserve all the recognition they get for putting and Al Jazeeera America for reports on U.S. their lives on the line to bring us their accounts military workers and the war in Gaza. One of wars, epidemics and disasters. This year’s photographer, Marcus Bleasdale, won one winners took us to the front lines of the fight award and one citation for his visceral images against Ebola in West Africa; to eastern from the Central African Republic, where a Ukraine whose fields were littered with the violent conflict has been raging for years as the debris of a passenger jet shot down over this world’s attention was focused elsewhere. His disputed territory; and to Mexico’s border work, and that of all the winning journalists and with the U.S., where an army of children were photographers this year, is testament to why seeking refuge from poverty and violence at we do what we do–those of us who witness home. One theme that caught the attention of and those of us who benefit from their courage judges this year: the horrendous conditions and skill. It is indeed an honor to honor them. in which humans toil. HBO set its sights on the plight of migrant workers building stadiums FRIEDMAN IS EDITOR-AT-LARGE, for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar. Al Jazeera BLOOMBERG NEWS © 2015 Citibank, N.A. Citi and Citi with Arc Design are registered service marks of Citigroup Inc. The World’s Citi is a service mark of Citigroup Inc.

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THE HAL BOYLE AWARD THE BOB CONSIDINE AWARD Best newspaper, news service or Best newspaper, news service or online online reporting from abroad interpretation of international affairs

The New York Times Los Angeles Times EBOLA FROM THE FRONT LINE UKRAINE: A NATION TORN APART The Los Angeles Times coverage of the When the world’s attention focused on Ukrainian conflict stood out from the the devastating spread of Ebola in West rest for its guts, credibility, originality, Africa, reporters for The New York Times depth and sophistication of interpre- delivered, day after day, foreign corre- tation, and its engaging writing style spondence at its best. In a series of power- that made every story a gripping and ful stories, Times correspondents captured compelling read. The intimacy of de- the crisis in all its dimensions – writing tail – the shattered glass of the airport lyrically about the human drama and de- terminal, the magic helmet, the bullet livering smartly analytical pieces about the hole described to the second decimal global effort to stop the disease’s spread point, the minibus from hell – combined ADAM NOSSITER and where that effort went wrong. They SERGEI LOIKO with sophisticated analysis of how the @AdamNossiter also dug beneath the surface of the un- economic effects disrupted everyone’s folding disaster with stories that showed a daily lives. The reporters’ bravery took deep understanding of the continent, writ- us to places we hadn’t seen before. ing sensitively about the toll the disease was taking on African cultural traditions WILLIAM J. HOLSTEIN such as hand-holding in church and kiss- SPONSORS: AND RITA SEVELL ing friends and relatives. In the tradition of Judges: Amanda Bennett, Hal Boyle, for whom this award is named, freelance; Melissa Pozsgay, Times reporters never shied away from Bloomberg News; Carol Rosenberg, the front lines despite the risk. In one Miami Herald; June Thomas, Slate memorable piece, the Times wrote about the death of a star basketball player in Li- CITATION: beria and several generations of a house- ANTHONY FAIOLA, GREG MILLER, hold destroyed. In another, a 4-year-old KEVIN SULLIVAN AND SOUAD NORI ONISHI orphaned by Ebola roams a clinic looking CAROL WILLIAMS MEKHENNET @Onishinyt for someone to take her home, another @cjwilliamslat The Washington Post soul adrift. FOREIGN FIGHTERS

SPONSOR: NORMAN PEARLSTINE IN MEMORY OF JERRY FLINT THE ROBERT CAPA GOLD MEDAL AWARD Judges: Scott Kraft, The Los Angeles Best published photographic reporting from abroad Times; Barry Bearak, formerly of The requiring exceptional courage and enterprise New York Times; Scott MacLeod, American University of Cairo; MARCUS BLEASDALE Elizabeth Mehren, Boston University @marcusbleasdale Instagram: marcusbleasdale JUDGE BEARAK RECUSED HIMSELF FROM FINAL AWARD SELECTION Human Rights Watch, Foreign Policy and National Geographic Magazine CITATION: HELENE COOPER CENTRAL AFRICAN (Judge Kraft recused himself REPUBLIC INFERNO @helenecooper from final citation selection) Marcus Bleasdale viscerally captured RICHARD MAROSI the brutal violence in the Central African AND DON BARTLETTI Republic at a time when the world’s at- Los Angeles Times tention was focused on ISIS, Ukraine and PRODUCT OF MEXICO other crises. His menacing, unnerving images of chaos had a profound impact on the judges. The images place the viewer in the moment in a way that demands and holds attention.

SPONSOR: TIME MAGAZINE

CITATION: SHERI FINK (Judge Pancho Bernasconi of Getty Images recused himself from final citation selection.) @sherifink JOHN MOORE @jbmoore6400 AND THE NEW YORK TIMES STAFF Getty Images THE EBOLA CRISIS IN MONROVIA, LIBERIA

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JEROME SESSINI RODRIGO ABD @itsnotme3 @rodrigoAbd Magnum Photos, Associated Press TIME and De Standaard PERU’S ILLEGAL GOLD MINING CRIME WITHOUT PUNISHMENT Rodrigo Abd shines a light on an under- Jerome Sessini’s photographs reported subject, the threat looming for of the wreckage of a Malay- 20,000 wildcat gold miners in Peru. His sia Airlines jet shot down over photographs are intimate and straight- eastern Ukraine last year cap- forward, documenting the subject with- tured imagery that is profoundly out stylistic trickery, enhancing their elegiac. There is a quiet strength journalistic value. that propels the narrative and shows the horrors in a manner that doesn’t make the viewer CYMA RUBIN, BUSINESS OF ENTERTAINMENT turn away from what is a difficult SPONSOR: JUDGES FOR ALL FOUR PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS: scene to process. Pancho Bernasconi, Getty Images; Jim Collins, NBC News; Lucy Gilmour, The Wall Street Journal, Ed Kashi, photographer; Robert Nickelsberg, photographer; Alan Taylor, Atlantic.com THE JOHN FABER AWARD Best photographic reporting from abroad in newspapers or news services THE LOWELL THOMAS AWARD BULENT KILIC Best radio or audio news or @kilicbil interpretation of international affairs Agence France Presse EUROMAIDAN REVOLUTION PRI’s The World IN KIEV REPERCUSSIONS OF THE ARAB SPRING Bulent Kilic brings viewers right into In a series of stories for PRI, Marine Olivesi Ukraine’s revolution, capturing the describes the ordinary people whose chaos of the moment. His work is lives have been torn apart by extremism inspired visual reporting under dif- around the Middle East, from a young Lib- ficult conditions. Each image can yan freedom fighter desperately search- stand alone, and together they ing for a brother who has joined jihadis in form a strong narrative. Syria to the fellow who regrets bring- ing Chechen fighters into Syria. Olivesi is a brave, enterprising, creative young CITATION: reporter who took on an extremely ambi- OLIVER WEIKEN MARINE OLIVESI tious assignment that goes way beyond European Pressphoto Agency @marineolives the headlines to examine the origins and 2014 WAR BETWEEN ISRAEL AND HAMAS outcomes of extremism.

SPONSOR: FELICE LEVIN Judges: Dorinda Elliott, freelance; Rick Hornik, SUNY Stony Brook; Sarah Lubman, Brunswick Group; Alberto Riva, International Business Times

CITATION: EMILY HARRIS, AHMED ABU HAMDA AND ABU BAKR BASHIR NPR AARON WAR IN GAZA SCHACHTER @worldaaron

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MARCUS BLEASDALE Human Rights Watch, Foreign Policy and National Geographic Magazine CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC INFERNO

Marcus Bleasdale viscerally captured the brutal violence in the Central African Republic at a time when the world’s attention was focused on ISIS, Ukraine and other crises. His menacing, unnerving images of chaos had a profound impact on the judges. The images place the viewer in the moment in a way that demands and holds attention.

In the Central African Republic, a Christian lies dead seconds after being shot by Rwandan soldiers. He had killed a Muslim civilian in revenge for the killing of his cousin minutes earlier, and was dragging the body to the fire when peacekeepers shot him. An example of the hatred boiling over in Bangui, capital of the CAR. Feb. 9, 2014.

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THE DAVID KAPLAN AWARD THE ED CUNNINGHAM AWARD Best TV or video spot news reporting from abroad Best magazine reporting in print or online on an international story Medium/Matter WHOEVER SAVES A LIFE In the best tradition of wartime story- telling, Aikins’s vivid characters offer a truly fresh window into the Syrian conflict. The wisecracking, passionate young men, a volunteer rescue team in Aleppo, remain with us long after read- ing. In an inspirational and even funny story, Aikins captures the friends’ long- ings and doubts with astute empathy. Despite intense risks to himself, Aikins NICK SCHIFRIN PHILIP MARAVILLA BEN MULKEY keeps himself out of his understated @nickschifrin, @phil_maravilla MATTHIEU AIKINS prose, which is enriched by the quiet Instagram: nickschifrin; @mattaikins photographs of Tomada. A reminder Al Jazeera America CONFLICT IN GAZA that the essence of war lies in these intimate moments, far from the halls of The reporting of Nick Shifrin and his crew from Gaza for Al Jazeera diplomatic power. America distinguished itself in a field crowded with excellence. It offered a seamless shifting of perspective from both sides of the SPONSOR: FORD MOTOR COMPANY border; empathy shown by reports from, in some cases, the living Judges: Vivienne Walt, Time; Clay rooms of the ordinary people caught in the crossfire; and brevity Chandler, freelance; James Graff, and wit in writing. The Wall Street Journal; Scott SPONSOR: BEN AND KAREN SHERWOOD Johnson, freelance Judges: Bob Ivry, Bloomberg News; Alison Fitzgerald, Center for Public Integrity; Dean Starkman, Los Angeles Times; Jenny CITATION: Strasburg, The Wall Street Journal PATRICK RADDEN KEEFE The New Yorker THE HUNT FOR EL CHAPO CITATION: HOLLY WILLIAMS, AGNES REAU, ERIN LYALL, SEBASTIANO JUSTINE REDMAN, ABDI CADANI AND ANDY STEVENSON TOMADA The CBS Evening News with Scott Pelley HOLY WAR @sebastianoTP THE EDWARD R. MURROW AWARD Best TV or video interpretation or documentary on international affairs THE THOMAS NAST AWARD Best cartoons on international affairs POV, PBS and American Documentary Inc. BIG MEN SIGNE WILKINSON @signewilk A surprising story that takes the viewer to an Philadelphia Daily News unexpected place and introduces uncon- Wilkinson wades into the big story and ventional characters. ``Big Men’’ unpacks a emerges with fresh ideas, delivering an single oil deal, in the Republic of Ghana, and alternative take on events explored by examines it, Rashomon-like, from the points others. Her original treatment provokes of view of oilmen, venture capitalists, mili- thinking on many of the most important tants, human-rights activists, politicians and issues of the day. The missile targeting citizens of other countries who have endured terrorists also targets people living near RACHEL the same plight. It reveals a farrago of politics, BOYNTON them; the search for the wreckage of corruption and greed that attends the com- Malaysia Airlines flight 370 is made even @bigmenthemovie mercialization of natural resources in devel- more difficult by an ocean full of floating oping nations. Deeply reported and compel- junk. Signe is often irreverent – and funny. lingly told, this is investigative journalism of the highest order. Judges: Robert Sullivan, freelance; SPONSOR: CBS Allen Alter, CBS; Peter Goodman, Judges: Bobby Ghosh, Quartz; Jaime International Business Times; Marcy FlorCruz, former CNN; Micah Garen, McGinnis, Al Jazeera America; Victor freelance; Belinda Luscombe, Time Navasky, Columbia Journalism School

CITATION: MARCELA GAVIRIA @marcellular SIMON KILMURRY PBS Frontline and ProPublica @skilmurry FIRESTONE AND THE WARLORD

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The book is written, diligently researched page-turner, distinguished by Osnos’s ability to pen- Simpson and Westbrook raised the veil on a etrate Chinese society at all levels and series of financial transactions involving the tell revealing stories about the country’s CAM SIMPSON Wall Street hedge fund, bankers and mining breakneck transformation. The writing is elegant, and the first- @CamSimpsonNews companies headquartered in London, shell hand reporting breaks new ground in explaining the trajectory companies and a rich platinum mining claim of today’s China. in Zimbabwe controlled by the government. SPONSOR: FRIENDS OF RICHARD THRELKELD Their account shows how global investments Judges: Dan Hertzberg, former Bloomberg; John Bussey, can end up in treacherous hands with ter- The Wall Street Journal; Joyce Barnathan, International Center rible unintended consequences. Much of the for Journalists; Neil Hickey, Columbia Journalism Review reporting was done from afar after Simpson went to Zimbabwe with a valid visa, only to have government officials there threaten his CITATION: arrest and force him to flee. JACK FAIRWEATHER Basic Books SPONSOR: MARC LEMCKE THE GOOD WAR: WHY WE COULDN’T WIN Judges: Allan Dodds Frank, freelance; Walt THE WAR OR THE PEACE IN AFGHANISTAN Bogdanich, The New York Times; Richard Greenberg, NBC; Consuelo Mack, Consuela Mack Wealth Track JESSE THE MADELINE DANE ROSS AWARD WESTBROOK CITATION: Best international reporting in the print medium or online WILLIAM LANGEWIESCHE showing a concern for the human condition Vanity Fair THE CHAOS COMPANY The Virginia Quarterly Review THE GHOSTS OF RANA PLAZA THE THOMAS NAST AWARD THE MALCOLM FORBES AWARD The Madeline Dane Ross Award goes to Best cartoons on international affairs Best international business news reporting in the best international reporting in the print newspapers, news services or online medium showing a concern for the human SIGNE WILKINSON condition. That requirement is impossible to STEPHEN GREY quantify – it must be felt. Of the nearly 40 @signewilk Philadelphia Daily News AND REUTERS TEAM submissions to this category, “The Ghosts @stephengrey of Rana Plaza” evoked the deepest of feel- Wilkinson wades into the big story and Reuters ings, of sympathy for and outrage over emerges with fresh ideas, delivering an COMRADE CAPITALISM the horrendous death of 1,100 workers in alternative take on events explored by Dhaka as a result of a factory collapse on others. Her original treatment provokes This series of nine stories showed how President Vladimir Putin and his billionaire April 24, 2013. The piece renders in heart- thinking on many of the most important breaking detail the humanity of the victims issues of the day. The missile targeting friends control the Russian economy and JASON MOTLAGH @jasonmotlagh and their would-be rescuers, linking them terrorists also targets people living near siphon off billions of dollars for themselves. Reuters was the first news orga- to all of us through the clothing that Bangla- them; the search for the wreckage of desh produces in vast quantities for the rest Malaysia Airlines flight 370 is made even nization to document how contracts and money moved through offshore tax ha- of the world. Our cheap jeans come at the more difficult by an ocean full of floating cost of their lives. The story was painstak- junk. Signe is often irreverent – and funny. vens because it was able to obtain access to confidential bank and travel databases. The corruption extended ingly reported by Jason Motlagh, movingly even to the supply of a Russian rocket to the U.S. space program. photographed by Motlagh and Atish Saha Judges: Robert Sullivan, freelance; and superbly edited and presented by the Allen Alter, CBS; Peter Goodman, SPONSOR: FORBES MAGAZINE Virginia Quarterly Review. International Business Times; Marcy Judges: William J. Holstein, business journalist/author; Pete SPONSOR: LINDA FASULO McGinnis, Al Jazeera America; Victor Engardio,The Boston Consulting Group; Jo Ling Kent, Fox News; Judges: Howard Chua-Eoan, Bloomberg Navasky, Columbia Journalism School Azmat Khan, Buzzfeed; Leah Nathans Spiro, Riverside Creative Businessweek; Jeff Chu, Fast Company; Management Dorothy Parvaz, Al Jazeera

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JEROME SESSINI Magnum Photos/ TIME/De Standaard CRIME WITHOUT PUNISHMENT

Jerome Sessini’s photographs of the wreckage of a Malaysia Airlines jet shot down over eastern Ukraine last year captured imagery that is profoundly elegiac. There is a quiet strength that propels the narrative and shows the horrors in a manner that doesn’t make the viewer turn away from what is a difficult scene to process.

The remains of a passenger on board Malaysia Airlines flight MH17, shot down over eastern Ukraine, July 17, 2014.

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BULENT KILIC Agence France Presse EUROMAIDAN REVOLUTION IN KIEV

Bulent Kilic brings viewers right into Ukraine’s revolution, capturing the chaos of the moment. His work is inspired visual reporting under difficult conditions. Each image can stand alone, and together they form a strong narrative.

Protesters catch fire as they stand behind barricades during clashes with police in Kiev, Ukraine. Feb. 20, 2014

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THE DAVID A. ANDELMAN THE WHITMAN BASSOW AWARD AND PAMELA TITLE AWARD Best reporting in any medium on international Best international reporting in the broadcast media environmental issues showing a concern for the human condition NICK MIROFF HBO Real Sports with @NickMiroff Bryant Gumbel The Washington Post THE PRICE OF GLORY PUSHING SOUTH “The Price of Glory” is enterprise report- In five lengthy and deeply reported stories, ing at its best from three countries: Josh Nick Miroff explored the latest rush for Fine and team reported from Qatar and resources across South America and the Doha’s labor camps building new facili- complex and often devastating impacts that ties for the 2022 World Cup; from Bulgaria have accompanied the hunt for riches. From where an Olympic weightlifting team was the quest for oil in Ecuador to gold min- purchased wholesale; and followed cof- ing camps in Peru to palm oil plantations in fins of migrant construction workers home Colombia, Miroff landed us in one often-for- to Nepal. A Qatar government official is gotten place after another, and did so using elegant and vivid prose. JOSH FINE visibly shocked the HBO team got access He avoided cliches and offered a contextual depth by framing eth- @realsportsHBO to labor camps, claims hundreds of 2022 nic rivalries against their political and environmental backgrounds, World Cup worker deaths are “normal,” and showed how the pressures brought by industries have not only then walks out of an interview. This fea- caused ecological harm but also exacerbated cultural conflicts. In a ture spotlights abusive conditions, needless contemporary twist on the typical boom story, Miroff demonstrated worker deaths and the immense wealth how drops in commodity prices tend to increase dependance on that covers it up. foreign investment, spur still more development to increase commodity volume, and further environmental degradation. SPONSORS: DAVID A. ANDELMAN and PAMELA TITLE SPONSOR: CITI Judges: Minky Worden, Human Rights Judges: Abrahm Lustgarten, ProPublica; Felicity Barringer, Watch; Abigail Pesta, freelance; Tunku freelance; David Biello, Scientific American; Bettina Boxall, Varadarajan, Daily Beast Los Angeles Times; Bryan Walsh, Time

DAVID SCOTT CITATION: @dwilsonscott TERRY MORAN, @TerryMoran THE ROBERT SPIERS BENJAMIN AWARD ABC News Nightline Best reporting in any medium on Latin America MOSCOW IS BURNING

THE JOE AND LAURIE DINE AWARD Best international reporting in any medium dealing with human rights Al Jazeera America AMERICA’S WAR WORKERS A stunning example of what good journalism can do to expose labor abuses, “Ameri- MOLLY TRACY KATE ca’s War Workers” is beautifully filmed with HENNESSY-FISKE LINTHICUM unforgettable images and interviews. The WILKINSON @mollyhf @TracyKWilkinson @Katelinthicum team traveled to India and the Middle East and interviewed dozens of workers, providing irrefutable evidence about the exploitation of contract workers on U.S. military bases in Afghanistan. They exposed the intermediaries SAMUEL BLACK @potter_black who charge the poor for menial jobs on U.S military bases and described how the checks put in place by the U.S. government do little to halt the systemic violation of its own laws as well as international conventions on human and labor rights. DON BARTLETTI CINDY CARCAMO SPONSOR: PHILIP DINE @dbartletti @theCindyCarcamo Judges: Anya Schiffrin, Columbia School of International and Public Affairs; Jonathan Birchall, Open Society Justice Initiative; Nicole Los Angeles Times A WAVE OF MIGRANTS Pope, freelance; Allison Silver, Thomson Reuters The Los Angeles Times’s intrepid team of reporters and photographers gave a rich and complex picture of the surge of unac- ANJALI KAMAT CITATION: REHAD DESAI, CYNTHIA companied minors traveling from Mexico into south Texas, tracing @anjucomet KANE AND AL JAZEERA AMERICA their journey from Guatemala and Honduras up to the border and PRESENTS STAFF showing efforts in the U.S. and Mexico to stop the flow. Reporting AND FAULT Al Jazeera America AL JAZEERA from four countries, the Times team provided exceptional context, LINES TEAM AMERICA PRESENTS: MINERS SHOT DOWN

r2_150185opc_CS5.5.indd 46 4/17/15 5:07 PM analysis and details of this immigration crisis. The commitment to BEST INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING THE WHITMAN BASSOW AWARD the story showed in the quality of the reporting. The first story by Best reporting in any medium on international Best investigative reporting in any medium on an Molly Hennessy-Fiske set out the coverage at overwhelmed immi- international story environmental issues gration facilities at the beginning of the crisis. Don Bartletti’s riveting NICK MIROFF photographs documented one boy’s journey across the border. C.J. CHIVERS @NickMiroff @cjchivers Cindy Caracamo and Tracy Wilkinson’s strong writing and report- Instagram: cjchivers The Washington Post ing rounded out the coverage. PUSHING SOUTH The New York Times SECRET CASUALTIES In five lengthy and deeply reported stories, SPONSOR: DIDI HUNTER IN HONOR OF Nick Miroff explored the latest rush for Deep reporting, meticulous research, HER FATHER LESTER ZIFFREN strong writing and the overall craft of as- resources across South America and the Judges: Abi Wright, Columbia Journalism School; Andrew Bast, sembling data, graphics and photos made complex and often devastating impacts that CBS; Tim Ferguson, Forbes; Gary Regenstreif, freelance have accompanied the hunt for riches. From The New York Times’s investigative series the quest for oil in Ecuador to gold min- “Secret Casualties” the hands-down win- ing camps in Peru to palm oil plantations in ner for investigative reporting this year. CITATION: TERESA BO AND The series established a pattern of se- Colombia, Miroff landed us in one often-for- SINGELI AGNEW gotten place after another, and did so using elegant and vivid prose. crecy by the U.S. military for hiding from Al Jazeera America its own soldiers dangerous contamination from chemical munitions. He avoided cliches and offered a contextual depth by framing eth- FAULT LINES: MEXICO’S The series peeled away layer after layer of outrage and injustice – nic rivalries against their political and environmental backgrounds, VIGILANTE STATE and showed how the pressures brought by industries have not only from learning that the U.S. actually cooperated closely with Iraqis in caused ecological harm but also exacerbated cultural conflicts. In a producing the weapons to stating flatly that the government was contemporary twist on the typical boom story, Miroff demonstrated hiding from its own soldiers the illegal weapons that were at the how drops in commodity prices tend to increase dependance on BEST MULTIMEDIA NEWS PRESENTATION very heart of the reason the nation went to war. foreign investment, spur still more development to increase com- Best use of video, interactive graphics and slideshows SPONSOR: MICHAEL S. SERRILL modity volume, and further environmental degradation. to report on international news Judges: Charles M. Sennott, GroundTruth Project; Gerald Ryle, International Consortium of Investigative Journalists; Michael SPONSOR: CITI Serrill, Bloomberg Markets; Sarah Stillman, The New Yorker Judges: Abrahm Lustgarten, ProPublica; Felicity Barringer, AND NPR STAFF freelance; David Biello, Scientific American; Bettina Boxall, NPR Los Angeles Times; Bryan Walsh, Time BORDERLAND CITATION: Technically flawless, “Borderland” is a DESMOND BUTLER, ALBERTO ARCE, ANDREA simple idea but brilliant in its approach RODRIGUEZ AND MICHAEL WEISSENSTEIN THE ROBERT SPIERS BENJAMIN AWARD and execution. This thorough report Best reporting in any medium on Latin America The Associated Press documents the world that exists on the AMERICA’S SECRET CUBAN TWITTER 2,248-mile U.S.-Mexico border – and tells the stories of those who live in a world of human smuggling, drugs and poverty – through the combined efforts of NPR radio reporters, web developers, data experts, BEST COMMENTARY STEVE INSKEEP producers and photographers. Best commentary in any medium on international news @NPRinskeep SPONSOR: GOOGLE Judges: Jennifer Bensko Ha, Federated MATTHEW KAMINSKI Media; Scott Klein, ProPublica; Tim @KaminskiMK Smith, Fortune; Jari Lindholm, Suomen The Wall Street Journal Kuvalehti ON UKRAINE Matthew Kaminski moved across Eurasia to view the same events from different points of view and offered beautifully CITATION: written commentary that conveyed the PETER BOUCKAERT AND urgency of unfolding history. His writing MARCUS BLEASDALE was engaging, compelling and informa- Human Rights Watch tive. He weaved personal observations THE UNRAVELING – JOURNEY and detailed reporting to the argument KAINAZ AMARIA THROUGH THE CENTRAL AFRICAN and humanized the stories. He is some- @Kainazamaria REPUBLIC CRISIS one we would all love to read again. Judges: Farnaz Fassihi, The Wall Street Journal; Mohamad Bazzi, NYU; Ellen Barry, The New York Times; Todd Pitman, AP Judge Fassihi recused herself from final award and citation judging.

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RODRIGO ABD The Associated Press “PERU’S ILLEGAL GOLD MINING”

Rodrigo Abd shines a light on an underreported subject, the threat looming for 20,000 wildcat gold miners in Peru. His photographs are intimate and straightforward, documenting the subject without stylistic trickery, enhancing their journalistic value.

Manuel Espinosa holds his four- month-old son Edward, brought to him by his wife as he takes a break from mining gold in La Pampa, Peru in the Madre de Dios region. Madre de Dios state has an estimated 40,000 illegal miners, most centered near the commercially vital Interoceanic Highway linking the Pacific Ocean with Brazil. May 2, 2014.

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1996 26 EUROPE 51 (4.6%) 1997 26 ASIA 351 (31.9%) 1998 24

1999 36 MIDDLE EAST 315 (28.6%) NORTH AMERICA 2000 24 38 (3.4%) 2001 37

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2006 57 DEATHS BY LOCALE REUTERS/PICHI CHUANG Television 274 “Murder is 2007 70 Radio (25.0%) 163 the ultimate Local (14.8%) journalists: DEATHS form of 2008 42 87% BY TYPE OF censorship” MEDIA REUTERS CONGRATULATES Internet 61 – committee Foreign (5.6%) to protect 2009 74 correspondents: journalists 13% THE WINNERS OF THE 2014 Mixed Media 115 2010 44 (10.5%) Print 485 (44.2%) OVERSEAS PRESS CLUB AWARDS 2011 47 We honor and support the Overseas Press Club and the 2014 award winners, END 2012 74 and wish them continued success. ACTION IMPUNITY INFORMATION 2013 70 Graphic by Heather Jones Source: Committee to Reporting by Emily Barone Protect Journalists; CIA and Jack Linshi AWARENESS WORLD Factbook 2014 61

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