Winners of the Overseas Press Club Awards 2019 ANNUAL EDITION DATELINE

Eighty Years of Courage and Commitment Giving Voice to the Voiceless DATELINE 2019 1 Letter from the President / PANCHO BERNASCONI

t is my honor and pleasure to welcome you to the 2019 Overseas Press Club of America Awards Dinner. I We are here to honor and give well-deserved recognition to work that helps to illuminate news events around the world. The winning entries are a powerful testament to all of you

who believe in the us research, report and distribute Press Club can continue to support craft of journalism the stories, podcasts, tweets, videos, these journalists and their impor- Imprisoned journalists and are escorted by police as they leave after a court hearing in , , in whichever form gifs, and photographs. At the same tant work. August 20, 2018. REUTERS/Ann Wang you practice it. time, the essential nature of what Many thanks to Sarah Lubman, We are also it means to report the news hasn’t our Dinner Chair, along with Paula here to celebrate much changed, especially our Dwyer. Many of you are here due the 80th anniver- passion for finding the truth. I am to their time and effort. The work sary of the OPC, prouder that I can express to lead of putting together this edition of founded to uphold this celebration of the very best of Dateline was done with grace and the highest ideals our profession. skill by Michael Serrill, Christopher IndependentImprisoned Reuters journalists Kyaw Soe Oo and Wa Lone are journalismescorted by police as they leave after a court hearing in Yangon, is Myanmar, August 20, 2018. REUTERS/Ann Wang of foreign report- We are fortunate to have Martin Dickey, Vera Naughton and OPC Pancho ing and photogra- Baron, the executive editor of The Executive Director Patricia Kranz. Bernasconi GETTY IMAGES GETTY phy. The OPC is Washington Post as our keynote The OPC could not continue its fundamental to an open society. only as successful speaker. Likewise, we are thrilled work without the dedication and as its membership and I am grateful to have Lester Holt, anchor of NBC passion of my fellow Governors as to all OPC members, past and pres- Nightly News and Dateline NBC as well as the leadership and patience Independent journalism is ent, who have ensured that the club our awards presenter. We are grate- of Patricia and the skill of Web Reuters honors the winners of the 2018 Overseas is as relevant and essential today as ful to them both for taking time out Manager Chad Bouchard. it was when it was founded in 1939 of their extremely busy schedules to Most of all, we are grateful to all by a group of foreign correspon- be with us tonight. of you–individuals, companies and Pressfundamental Club Awards, including to an our unjustlyopen imprisonedsociety. dents in City. I am delighted that Maggie institutions–for making the com- When I was elected OPC Presi- Steber is here in person to accept mitment to be here this evening to dent last September, I was told that the President’s Award for lifetime celebrate and honor some of the journalistsReuters honors Wa Lone the and winners Kyaw of Soe the Oo.2018 Overseas I was both the first foreign-born achievement. I have always believed finest journalists working today. and first visuals person to lead the that the very best photographers Thank you and enjoy the evening.  organization. I related a story at have a preternatural ability to get Press Club Awards, including our unjustly imprisoned that Board meeting about how my into a story subject’s life in a way love for journalism came from my that most cannot. This gift allows father and his passion for storytell- Maggie to tell the most thoughtful, Wejournalists are committed Wa Lone to defendingand Kyaw Soe press Oo. freedom and the ing that makes an impact. He was impactful and empathetic stories a journalism professor back home on a range of subjects that have at the University of Concepcion brought her to more than 60 coun- pursuit of truth. in Chile. We came to America in tries in her career. 1973 and settled in Washington The OPC Candle of Remem- D.C. He worked at the Organiza- brance will be lit tonight in honor We are committed to defending press freedom and the tion of American States in their of murdered Washington Post #FreeWaLoneKyawSoeOo Public Information office. I will columnist . His always remember going with him death and the confirmed deaths of pursuit of truth. to the OAS offices on weekends 53 other journalists worldwide in and ripping the news off the old 2018 cannot be forgotten and their AP and UPI teletype machines. So work will be remembered. much has changed since those days, Your generosity and attendance #FreeWaLoneKyawSoeOo Maggie Steber especially the technology that helps tonight ensures that the Overseas

DATELINE 2019 1 Board of Governors / OVERSEAS PRESS CLUB

80th ANNUAL AWARDS DINNER AT THE OVERSEAS PRESS CLUB OF AMERICA

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President’s Letter/President’s Award 1 By Pancho Bernasconi

Our Job: Changing Lives One Story at a Time 6 By Robyn Dixon

On Photography, Cell Phones, and 10 Family Portraits By Adriana Zehbrauskas

In Russia, There is No Way to ‘Stay Safe’ 14 By Anna Nemtsova

A Change in Focus 18 By Amy Yee

When Traditional Reporting Isn’t Enough 20 By Jacob Kushner

Creating a Culture of Safety for Journalists 44 By Elisabet Cantenys

THE OPC ANNUAL AWARDS 22

The Hal Boyle Award 24

The Bob Considine Award 24

The Robert Capa Gold Medal Award 25, 26-27

The Olivier Rebbot Award 25, 30-31

The Feature Photography Award 28, 34-35

The Lowell Thomas Award 28

The David Kaplan Award 29

The Edward R. Murrow Award 29

The Peter Jennings Award 32

The Ed Cunningham Award 32

The Best Cartoon Award 33, 41

The Malcolm Forbes and 33 Morton Frank Award

The Cornelius Ryan Award 36

The Madeline Dane Ross Award 36

The David A. Andelman and 37 Keila Savioli Mejia Pamela Title Award comforts her daughter Camila, 4, who sinks to The Joe and Laurie Dine Award 37 her knees and wails, too The Whitman Bassow Award 38 tired to continue her journey through Mexico The Robert Spiers Benjamin Award 38 to the U.S. border, in an October photo by The Kim Wall Award 39 Carolyn Van Houten. The Roy Rowan Award 40 Carolyn is winner of the Robert Capa Gold The Flora Lewis Award 40 Medal Award.

CAROLYN VAN HOUTEN / THE WASHINGTON POST HOUTEN / THE WASHINGTON VAN CAROLYN Where Members are Welcome 42

ON THE COVER: Nariman El-Mofty’s February 2018 photo of Yemeni Hagar Yahia and her daughter Awsaf, 5, is one of a group of images that won this year’s Olivier Rebbot Award. Awsaf was surviving on no more than 800 calories a day. PHOTO BY NARIMAN EL-MOFTY / THE ASSOCIATED PRESS 4 DATELINE 2019 DATELINE 2019 5 Our Job: Changing Lives One Story at a Time A Los Angeles Times reporter has written about assaults on human rights from a dozen countries. She sees her stories as having a slow-motion impact.

man rights lawyers saw more than that will eventually get the message Peninnah Tombo By Robyn Dixon 300 detained at the campaign’s through. is a lone voice peak in 2015, including Sui. He One of the first stories I covered for equal rights he light was always was disbarred last year. Telling his in , in 2004, focused on an for women in on, with no sense of day story to a foreign journalist would 18-day-old baby in , , her Maasai or night. Two guards not bring back the things that his nestled naked under a blanket at community. were always in the cell conscience had cost him: his living her 15-year-old mother’s side. The Tbut they rarely spoke to the pris- and his marriage. But he believes in community leaders in the refugee oner. The cell’s two security cam- the power of the truth. camp who told her story were clear eras watched constantly. To sleep, Sui’s courage made me think about the implications for an infant the prisoner had to lie on a narrow about what we hope for when we born of rape by the enemy Janja- bed between the guards. He had to journalists seek out the world’s weed militias who had swept in, squat on the open latrine in front of unpalatable truths: to cast light on killing men, raping women and girls them to relieve himself. problems or abuses, to bring ac- and burning houses. “If a girl has In China these conditions are countability or change. Yet report- a baby after this kind of incident, for detained human rights ing in Africa for 15 years until last she has no future and no hope,” said advocates and activists. Lawyer Sui year, I found the power of truth is one. “She can’t study and her mind Muqing knew it. He had taken on not always as grand and sweeping will be destroyed. In the future, many such cases. But then the po- as we would like it to be. Scribbling everybody will blame the baby and lice came for him. He found himself down the stories of survivors of it will always carry the shame.” held in the same kind of cell. He ethnic killings or a food emergency It wasn’t until five years later faced days of questioning and sleep or a war seldom has any immediate that Sudanese president Omar al deprivation that almost broke him. impact. Usually it is an incremental Bashir and others were indicted by “I was just doing my job,” he thing. It creeps up gradually. A story the International Criminal Court said of his lawyering. And I was just might have to be told many times for genocide. But he remains in doing mine. I sat in his apartment, in dozens or hundreds of voices, power and has traveled to dozens with its green Snoopy clock on the over months or even years, before it of countries in Africa, Asia and the wall and cheerful yellow teapot, lands its punch. Middle East without anyone enforc- and listened to his story. It would There are exceptions. A single ing the arrest warrant. The baby not change government policy–and photograph can open the world’s girl, if she is still alive, would now might lead to harmful repercus- eyes to a famine or one story can be almost the age her mother was sions for him. topple a corrupt cabal in a clat- when she was raped. Violence in Conditions have gotten tougher tering collapse of dominoes. But Darfur is still going on. in China for bloggers, activists and writing the news is usually more Mostly the stories I have written, both local and foreign journalists. like sending out a lone pigeon, hop- whether about starvation, war or

ROBYN DIXON / LOS ANGELES TIMES ANGELES / LOS DIXON ROBYN China’s long campaign to cow hu- ing to see it join some great flock rape, had the slow-motion impact

6 DATELINE 2019 DATELINE 2019 7 that journalism brings through hurt them “too much.” ered a big group of men and kid- gradually creating awareness. Yet In another part of Kenya, a napped her. “I cried; I was kicking,” the truth did shine its light. It 59-year-old woman named Penin- she said. “I was angry and scream- whittled away at public attention. nah Tombo rescued teenage girls ing.” He locked her in his house for I met women in Afghanistan who contacted her on her ancient, a week, and then told her he would and Sudan, jailed for running away battered cellphone, seeking her beat her until she stopped “being from violent husbands or for hav- help to escape genital cutting. stubborn.” There was no way to ing lovers. I was there at a govern- “The pain is so much that tears divorce him without re-paying the ment forensic clinic in Kabul, the can’t form,” said Tombo, who price, 20 cows, and that was impos- Afghan capital, when a forensic experienced FGM and dedicated sible. “My family have equated my doctor threatened to poke out the her life to helping others escape life to 20 cows. But I insist my life is eyes of a young unmarried woman the ritual and early marriage so not equal to 20 cows,” she said. accused of having sex, as he horri- they could stay in school. “You are Eleven years later, I found my- fyingly conducted a rough internal fearful. It affects you psychologi- self telling the same story in South examination and declared she was cally, because it’s like a death, like Sudan and nothing much had no virgin. when you lose a person or a loved changed. This time her name was I stood at the grave of an one.” The campaign against female Agnes Keji, age 19. Her prospec- anonymous woman found slain genital mutilation has been going tive husband was 70. His offer was on the streets of Kabul, the sus- on for decades. Many governments 30 cows. This time, her brother pected victim of an honor killing. have outlawed it, without enforc- slashed her neck with a machete I smelled the decay of her body ing the law. But it is slowly declin- when she resisted, leaving an ugly rising through the dry dirt in the ing, thanks to women like Tombo. protruding scar. heat. I wondered about her story Long after stories such as these An email dropped into my and the terror of her last day. Most stopped rippling through the news in-box in February from Oxfam of all I wondered why the doctor cycle, they remained embedded in reported that the rate of forced and other men I interviewed for me, like sharp little rocks. I can- early marriage in has the story hated women like her so not forget Martha Yar, an orphan increased from 45% to 71% since fiercely. I felt compelled to unearth from Rumbek, South Sudan whose the 2013 conflict began. Going on clear, measurable results, perhaps the most solid thing I did in Africa was to pick up a Then as I led him to my car, there had no escape. I knew it when she performed rapid-fire plays in the Dixon wrote the “I felt compelled to unearth stories of dying man who lay bleeding from a were shouts. I did not understand told me her story. She knew it too. townships but kept the motor run- story of Kano, machete wound to his head during the Swahili, but they were - What had I done over the ning to make a swift getaway when ’s Amir powerless, vulnerable people, not in the hope of Kenya’s 2008 post-election violence. ing that I should leave him to die. years? I had channeled people’s the ruling party thugs got wind of Yusuf whose life His attackers, armed with long Don’t bring him here, the nurses outrage, pain or grief and typed it them. A refugee who carried an took a positive changing their lives but because their stories blades hanging from slack arms, at the nearest clinic screamed. As onto a page. In a shrieking hyper- ultrasound machine in a box on his turn when a were young. Women were frantical- we drove on to the main hospital partisan age, the importance of head out of a war-zone, knowing it merchanic took mattered…What had I done over the years? ly loading rocks into sacks to ferry half an hour away he moaned that this job can be lost–just portraying would be of use. An impoverished him on as an to their men, fighting a rival ethnic he was dying. “You’re not going to reality, with no agenda, one story mother to 11 children who picked apprentice. I had channeled people’s outrage, pain or grief.” group a couple of hundred yards die,” I said firmly. Dishon Omondi– at a time. In China, where truth up a plastic bag by the railway line away. They screamed at the young that was his name–still sends me is choked off whenever it fails to and found a discarded baby within, men nearby to show their honor, to thank you messages every year, serve power, Sui reminded me of then took him into her tiny one- get to the front and fight. so I do know that I saved one life. that. If individual stories are quick room home and cared for him. stories of powerless, vulnerable life was altered by an uneducated The wounded man had just ar- I know how that one turned out, to pass into history, their value is And I did my best to do justice people like her, not in any hope of former rebel soldier who watched rived from out of town and taken unlike the stories of so many other in their contribution to a greater to the story of Sui Muqing, with changing their lives but because her every day as she walked to his usual route on foot to see family, people I left behind: one life saved, canvas. his neat linen jacket, his square- their stories mattered. school and back home. He decided not realizing that during that week no harm done. In the end the positive impact rimmed glasses, his passion for the There was Arror Chelagat, 13 , he would have her. He offered her of horrendous violence the neigh- When Dateline magazine’s of my work has been less about rule of law, his belief in the value of one of 23 Kenyan teenage girls from brother 20 cows. Yar had no say, borhood had been divided up by editors outlined the parameters of how people have responded, than words and good sense and his belief Dorcas village who defied their el- but she begged her brother to let tribe. He had wandered into a no-go this article–stories you have writ- how I told the tale, unfurling in the truth, for its own sake.  ders, fled their parents and crossed her go to university so that she zone. Someone demanded his ID. ten that had a positive impact–I stories of the complicated, flawed snake-infested hills in the middle of would get a good job that would His name gave away his ethnicity. admit I felt a twinge of anxiety. To heroism of ordinary people and Robyn Dixon has been Beijing bu- the night to escape female genital eventually bring in more money. They fell on him with iron bars and be sure, other journalists had done portraying them with all the nu- reau chief for The Los Angeles Times mutilation. One Dorcas father sent Her brother needed the cows so he machetes moments before I walked it, but I had toppled no corrupt fig- anced texture I could manage. A since June 2018. Before that she his daughter to be cut. “It’s not could marry, so he threw her down, by on my way back from looking at ures, brought no killers to justice, Nigerian mechanic’s quiet affec- covered Sub-Saharan Africa for 15 painful; it’s nothing,” he said scorn- pulled a knife and threatened to the fighting. freed no slaves or prisoners, saved tion for a young apprentice. An years. From 1993-2003 she reported fully as he hoed a rocky patch of kill her if she did not accept. A chilly hush fell over the scene no children or women. Martha Yar exhilarating “hit-and-run” political from Russia and central Asia, includ-

ground. But the local women said it The former rebel soldier gath- when I stopped to help him up. TIMES ANGELES / LOS DIXON ROBYN would never get her 20 cows. She theater group in that ing , Afghanistan and .

8 DATELINE 2019 DATELINE 2019 9 ADRIANA ZEHBRAUSKAS ADRIANA

Huehuetonoc, Guerrero, Huehuetonoc, Guerrero, Huehuetonoc, Guerrero, Mexico, December Mexico. April 2016: Mexico, December 2015: 2015: Rosalinda and her Monica, Mariana, Celeste Don Gerardo and daughter Samantha. and Yaribet, sisters and his horse El Guero. He This is the first time friends. The Amuzgo asked me if he could they ever posed for people are an indigenous bring his horse to be a photograph. group that lives in photographed with him. the region along the “I want my grandson Guerrero/Oaxaca state to know what a good border. They maintain friend I had.” much of their language and dress and are known for their complicated handwoven textiles. It is a very poor area with an economy mostly dependent on subsistence agriculture and handcraft On photography, production. cell phones

and family portraits 11 Huehuetonoc, Guerrero, Allison, Adán’s daughter, Huehuetonoc, Guerrero, Ayotzinapa, Guerrero, Mexico. April 2016 cries often and calls for her Mexico, December 2015: Mexico, Jan. 22, 2015 Gloria and hergrandchildren, father in her sleep, says her A portrait of the girls Elsi Jakilina Virguen Balthazar, Gabriel and Lisanet. mom Erica. Adán Abraján Meredith, Alma Aleli y Daila grandmother of Jorge Luis de La Cruz went missing Gisel. I set up camp in front and Dorian Gonzalez exactly seven months before of the main church, with Parral, both among the 43 this photograph was taken, the little WiFi direct printer. missing, in her home in after his student group was It was moving to see all Xalpatlahuac, hometown ambushed by the police in the people coming over of four of the missing Iguala, Guerrero. and asking to have their students and one The families are still in the pictures taken. Rubi, the survivor. dark and many questions mom, said it was the first remain unanswered. picture they ever had.

While on assignment working Abraján de la Cruz for six months. When I finished the story, I have never been so many images The photographs were made by Adriana Zehbrauskas with the families of the missing stu- He had left behind a wife, two went back and handed them a produced, photography has never in Huehuetonoc, a little village in dents, I was doing regular reportage children, two sisters, two parents stack of photographs I had taken been so popular, we all have cell the mountains of Guerrero, where dán Abraján de la pictures with my reflex camera, but and two grandparents. I wanted during those six months but their phones, we’re all photographers the population, from an indigenous Cruz was 24 years old the also relying heavily on cell phone them to tell their own story, so I reaction to the portrait I took of and, yet, fewer and fewer images group called Amuzgo, created a night he disappeared. A images for my clients’ and my own started a small multimedia project, them after the first communion of are being printed. These people self-defense group and were able first-year student at the Instagram feed. I would post images using interviews, small video clips Adán’s son, Angel, was what made were disappearing twice, from life to protect their community from AyotzinapaA Teacher’s Rural School as the story developed, portraits and still images, for which I asked me stop and think. itself and from the memory of their the neighboring cartels and their in the impoverished Mexican state of family members, small details for personal photos and footage My idea was to photograph family and friends. Would this be poppy fields. of Guerrero, he went missing along of their lives, their homes, fleeting of their missing loved one. And I families living in communities sur- a generation that would only have The story of the family told by with 42 other students when the moments of joy, more lasting mo- kept hearing: “I don’t have any, I rounded by violence and the real pictures in a cloud somewhere? Are posed portraits is one of change buses they were traveling in were ments of pain. had it my phone, but I lost it,” or, “I threat of forced disappearances. these children growing up without over time; family groups look dif- attacked by a drug cartel in Iguala Instagram was a space where I replaced the phone and didn’t save But I also realized that nobody had a family album where later in life ferent at different times, thus also which handed them over to local had the freedom to edit and publish the photos.” family pictures anymore, so the they can see themselves and their telling a story about where and how police, who, working in complic- my images, and although always fol- After hearing this so many “Family Matters” project would be families and show it to their own we live. ity with city officials, later disap- lowing the same ethical guidelines times, from Adan’s family and a series of posed family portraits, children? Will children remember A person photographed has peared them. of my assignment work, it allowed others, one thing became clear to photographed with the same tool what their parents looked like? Who achieved a moment of redemption, I started covering this story me to be more personal. It also gave me: not only had their relatives responsible for the lack of printed are we without our memories? saved from the fate of those forever from day one, on assignment for a direct line to an audience that been stolen from their future, but a images in the first place–the cell More than 30,000 people forgotten.  various media outlets, and at that was as global and varied as it could memory of who they were also was phone. I would then print them on remain missing or disappeared point, although I knew it was a be. I was very impressed with the doomed to disappear. Apart from the spot, using a small printer con- in Mexico, but the real number is Adriana Zehbrauskas, a documen- big story, probably the biggest in response and interest I got. People a few mugshots and blurry, very nected by wireless to my iPhone, much higher; many cases go un- tary photographer, has worked with Mexico in recent years, I did not cared about the story, about the low-res cell phone images, very few and hand them the portraits. reported for fear of retaliation or The New York Times, BuzzFeed know that it would consume more people of Guerrero. family members had pictures of It struck me as a great paradox because of distrust in the local and and The New Yorker, among other publications. than two years of my life. I followed the family of Adán their disappeared loved ones. ZEHBRAUSKAS ADRIANA of the times we’re living in: there federal authorities.

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learned that our friend and col- being kidnapped!” The Lada drove Mourners By Anna Nemtsova league, Natalya Estemirova, or Na- away from Chechnya to , gather around tasha as we all called her, had been a neighboring Russian republic the coffin IN RUSSIA OSCOW–On a murdered. I jumped on a plane and in the North Caucasus. Natasha’s of Russian sunny morning in flew to Grozny. battered corpse was dumped by the journalist Anna July 2009, I got a Natasha’s neighbors told us that side of the road. Two bullets de- Politkovskaya phone call from several men, whose names we still stroyed half of the top of her head, during the leave- THERE IS NO WAY taking ceremony Ma friend in Grozny, of do not know, grabbed the 51-year-old the others hit her chest. Chechnya: “They abducted Na- human rights defender and journal- Looking at her body, beautiful before her burial tasha right from the courtyard of ist and dragged her into their Lada and seemingly so young there in in Moscow, TO ‘STAY SAFE’ her house.” Shortly after that, we car. She managed to scream: “I’m funereal repose on a table in her October 10, 2006.

DATELINE 2019 15 The murderers would have you It is our duty to carry on investi- working in . But they did none of us believe that. Russian human think hearts just mysteriously stop gating every one of these assassina- not manage to stop independent re- The community of indepen- rights activists beating in women and men who tions. We look at the aftermath–the porters from publishing true stories dent journalists is convinced that attended a rally bear witness to atrocities. crime scene, the grief of the family– about state corruption, Russia’s ag- our friends were set up in Africa. in honor of The work is dangerous no we cry, we hurry to work harder. gressive violence in Ukraine, state Dzhemal, a senior reporter and his slain Russian matter what. In August 2008 I In 2004, was officials working in tandem with colleagues, talented filmmakers, journalist Anna covered the Russian-Georgian poisoned on her way to Beslan to the local criminal world, the rise of traveled to the CAR to focus on Politkovskaya war for and also tried cover the scene of a terrible massa- far-right radical groups, or repeated the role played there by Yevgeniy in Moscow on to help evacuate the bodies of our cre made worse by a botched secu- human rights violations. Prigozhin, also known as “Putin’s October 7, 2009 colleagues Alexander Klimchuk rity operation. The attempt on her Reporters and photographers Chef,” whose name also appears in on the third and Giga Chikhladze, killed in a life did not slow Anna down. Then, often are told by their editors, or one of the Mueller probe indict- anniversary of crossfire on the first day of the war. on Oct. 7, 2006, which happened to tell each other, “Stay safe.” But we ments for election interference her death at They were freelance reporters who be Putin’s birthday, her body was all know that’s not going to happen. in the . Prigozhin is the hands of did their job trying to cover both found in the elevator of her apart- And it cannot happen. If you “stay famous for threatening journalists an unknown sides of the front line. ment building with two bullets in safe” you are not going to be doing in Russia. gunman. Top: Russian family house, I was thinking that Today we continue to publish Six years later we saw col- her chest, one in her shoulder, and your job. In Russia, and in many Novaya Gazeta, a newspaper activists held she would have probably lived a our stories about abductions and leagues die in Ukraine. On May 24, one in the back of her head. She was other countries, telling the truth that has lost five of its writers to portraits of slain long life if she kept her job as a the impunity of murderers in 2014, Andy Rocchelli and Andrei 48 years old. gets more dangerous by the day. assassins, continues to investigate human rights schoolteacher. I quickly brushed Chechnya, especially those who Mironov, a long-time friend of One more of my dear friends, Last summer we had a terrible and reveal crimes and human activist Natalya that thought away. target gay men and women. mine, were killed while covering Pavel Sheremet was assassinated tragedy. Three of our brave friends rights violations by Russian au- Estemirova in Once, in 2005 when I stayed I have lost too many friends to a firefight in Andreyevka village, near Kiev’s opera house in July and colleagues, Orkhan Dzhe- thorities. We say goodbye to our Moscow on July in Natasha’s apartment during the assassinations, to crossfires. They known for almost daily combat 2016. Somebody set off a bomb in mal, Alexander Rastarguyev and colleagues but we never see their 15, 2010 during Second Chechen War, she told me were all journalists who tried to between Kiev’s troops and pro- his car. Why did anybody want to Kirill Rodchenko were murdered workplace empty for too long. That a rally. that she would keep reporting for as give voice to the voiceless in Russia Russian rebel forces. murder 44-year-old big-hearted in the . is what the masterminds behind long as she witnessed injustice. and Eastern Europe. But while it is tragic to lose Sheremet? He was not just a re- They were eager to report one of the contract murders do not get– Bottom: Natasha was a contributor to During ’s rule friends to bullets in war zones, it porter, he was a walking journalistic the most important stories about violence does not stop journalists Hundreds of the Russian independent publica- since January 2000 we’ve seen at is even more painful to see them institution. Sheremet founded a the way the Putin government from producing stories that give mourners shed tion Novaya Gazeta, and she was least 28 reporters assassinated for hunted down and killed by assas- school for investigative reporters in uses mercenaries overseas. The voice to humanity.  tears and laid the first to write about the “abduc- telling the truth in Russia, accord- sins. Journalists know too well that Kiev. At his funeral his colleagues day before they were killed, our flowers at the tion epidemic” in Chechnya. She ing to the Committee to Protect once the order comes for a hit, it from the newspaper Ukrainskaya colleagues tried to film Russian Anna Nemtsova reports from open casket of continued to document and pub- Journalists; nine journalists fell vic- does not matter whether their jour- Pravda told me they were heartbro- contract soldiers at a military base. Moscow for The Daily Beast and Pavel Sheremet, lish her reports in Novaya Gazeta tim to contract murders in Ukraine nalistic assignment is in Chechnya, ken, as if they had lost their father. After their murder, the Rus- Newsweek. In 2015 she received a 44-year-old even after receiving undisguised during the same period of time. in Moscow, or in Kiev. Even body- Whoever ordered the murder sian government tried to convince the prestigious Courage in Journal- columnist for death threats from Chechen leader We rarely find out the truth about guards won’t save you, they say, and of Sheremet managed to hurt the the public that the reporters were ism Award from the International Ukrainska Pravda.

Ramzan Kadyrov. whose bullets kill our colleagues. yet they continue to work. IMAGES / GETTY KOSTYUKOV/AFP DMITRY IMAGES; / GETTY AFP / SUPINSKY SERGEI IMAGES; AFP/GETTY / ONIPKO OXANA CLOCKWISE: entire community of journalists victims of an ordinary robbery, but Women’s Media Foundation (IWMF).

16 DATELINE 2019 DATELINE 2019 17 A Change in Focus Terrorism, war and famine are not the only stories worth covering in Africa and the developing world.

oping countries, some poor, rural lines from Africa and developing By Amy Yee women do not know about birth countries. Of course, those issues control and those who do often and events are hugely important t a prison in Thiès, lack access to it. The program of- and the world must know about Senegal, a group of ficer recalled one female prisoner them. But the world should also women in fine dresses who broke down in tears when she know about other vital stories that cut from the same learned about contraceptives. If she aren’t about bleak living conditions colorfulA fabric enact a scene before had had access to them, “I wouldn’t and violence. an audience. One of them breaks have had to kill my baby,” she cried. The story of Senegal’s progress down sobbing and wailing; another It is tragic that women have to in giving women access to reproduc- woman comforts her. These women resort to infanticide and are jailed tive rights and better health care is are not actors, but female inmates for abortion in Senegal, whose critical for bringing its birth rate to of the prison depicting why many cosmopolitan capital Dakar gives sustainable levels, and in sub-Saha- of them are in jail: infanticide and the impression of a relatively de- ran Africa as a whole for avoiding abortion, which is effectively illegal veloped nation. In fact, nearly half crises of overpopulation, job scarcity, in Senegal. the country lives below the poverty food and water insecurity and more. or web ‘verticals’ that spotlight Sunday Business section of The poacher in Kenya would readily Yee views It was International Women’s line, which can lead to desperate Describing the desperate measures these stories. Instead, media outlets New York Times, but still very much give up that work for a safer, regu- a Christian Day and the women were sharing measures. [https://www.worldbank. taken by women in the Senegal are being forced to shutter pages about people suffering from lack of lar salaried job. A poor woman in religious service their stories in front of dignitar- org/en/country/senegal/overview] prison was just the start. Writing devoted to international news, en- jobs, deep poverty, political instabil- Senegal doesn’t have to kill a baby at the Church ies, diplomats and activists. Later, But Senegal has been making about what can be done to prevent a vironment, education, culture and ity and poor governance. Another she cannot support if she can plan of St. George’s, I spoke with a soft-spoken inmate. progress in expanding women’s terrible problem was just as impor- other important topics. Many of the story, also for the paper’s business her pregnancies. a rock-hewn She was 40 years old and was access to family planning through tant. However, in an era when news pages or publications that I used section, analysed the enormous Those are some of the initia- monolith locked up after the death of her sev- education, outreach in rural areas, churns at a head-spinning pace, this to write for are gone. And sadly, in potential that renewable geothermal tives I’ve been honored to write in Lalibela, enth child. “Mariama,”, as I will call better-equipped clinics and more nuanced story doesn’t check the these tumultuous times, an alarm- energy could have in Kenya and the about. Under ideal circumstances, Ethiopia. She her to protect her privacy, denied health workers. West Africa claims “easy-to-understand” box. I pitched ing number of media outlets are region–and the very real obstacles to spotlighting what can be done to struggles to killing her baby and said he died at some of the world’s highest birth this story many times to multiple shutting down entirely or cutting realizing its potential. remedy myriad problems could garner interest birth. Yet she was serving a seven- rates, but through family planning outlets; it took a year to find a good already-scarce jobs. Of course, the obstacles to alleviate or even prevent the trag- among editors in year prison term for infanticide Senegal brought its rate down from home for it in The Lancet. Developing countries face a alleviating social problems are edies that create headlines. It’s not stories that are after awaiting trial for three years. 6.4 children per woman in 2011 to The articles I’ve written from litany of urgent problems, from enormous and many efforts fail. easy to get editors to understand not about bleak Mariama said coping with family 4.9 in 2014. 11 countries in Africa over the past climate change, deadly diseases, There should be more initiatives and give attention and diminishing living conditions and children she left behind was Advocacy groups in Senegal two years are not about terrorism, environmental destruction, armed and more progress on many fronts. space to these nuanced stories, but and violence. one of the hardest things for her. have been raising awareness with armed conflict and disaster. There conflict and violence against the I know firsthand that newspapers they must be told.  “They don’t understand what you’re policy makers and judges who are many excellent journalists doing vulnerable. These problems usually and magazines are strained and going through,” she told me quietly. mete out harsh sentences without this important reporting. I focus on seem entrenched and hopeless, so I there aren’t enough pages or re- Amy Yee is an award-winning When I interviewed Mariama, I understanding the desperate cir- less covered but no less important am intrigued when I find promising sources for international news. But journalist who writes for The New didn’t want to just write about the cumstances–rape, incest, extreme stories that should be heard. Yes, initiatives that tackle or mitigate promising stories from developing York Times, The Economist and unspeakable tragedy of a mother poverty–that women who have editors are busy (as are reporters them. I go out of my way to write countries about business, science, NPR. She is a former staffer for The killing her child in a poor country. abortions face. Some of that prog- and freelance journalists on the these stories. technology, public health, arts and Financial Times based in New York “What could prevent such a desper- ress is being hampered by a U.S. ground in risky environments), From eastern Congo, one of the culture are fascinating to read and and , where she lived for seven ate act?” I asked a program officer policy to cut funding for women’s but they should be open to stories worst conflict zones in the world, have real impact. years. Amy is a three-time winner of with Tostan, an NGO that works at reproductive health. that don’t fit the mold of conflict I wrote a long feature analysing Children don’t have to die of the United Nations Correspondents that jail and with women prison- My article that featured Mar- and disaster, and that don’t hew to efforts to harness small hydropower careless drowning in Bangladesh. Association award and four-time ers. Her answer was simple: family iama was not about terrorism, archetypes and stereotypes. to create electricity, which will hope- People in Rwanda don’t have to winner of the South Asian Journalists planning. war, deadly epidemics, famine or Another boon to journalism fully create jobs and a better chance decimate forests for cooking fuel; Association award. Her work is at

In Senegal, as in other devel- disaster–topics that dominate head- would be more media outlets, pages, YEE AMY OF COURTESY at stability. This was a story for the there are alternatives. A small-time Amyyeewrites.com

18 DATELINE 2019 DATELINE 2019 19 When ist. If health and law enforcement kill your Congo article. With Trump low-income Africans in Lesotho books don’t work just as well? professionals have found a way to dominating the news right now, control over their own lives, but Too often, international report- bring rape perpetrators to justice it’s really hard to find space in the were proving more effective than ing elevates good intentions or Traditional and help victims recover, it deserves magazine for other topics.” other types of aid. In true solutions catchy ideas without investigating a mention in our stories. International reporters today journalism fashion, she also exam- whether or not there’s evidence to Solutions journalism doesn’t are frustrated that they can’t get ined cash transfers’ limitations– suggest they actually work. It’s a argue against covering abuses of Americans to care about the rest of namely, that most research on cash question we need to ask. We know Reporting power, conflict or corruption. It the world. Part of the reason may transfers has focused on short-term that after a disaster, many people merely asserts that unless we also be that coverage of places like benefits. And she painted a picture feel the urge to donate, and we shed light on potential solutions to or East Africa is either shallow or re- of where cash transfers were head- often encourage them to do so in those problems, we haven’t quite lentlessly negative, often portraying ing: toward government companion our reporting. But research shows finished the job. The Solutions people as passive victims. Solutions programs that might make cash that post-disaster aid is one of the Isn’t Journalism Network, a non-profit stories restore agency to the people transfers a viable long-term solu- least effective ways to save a life. If co-founded by veteran reporter and we cover because they often show tion to several facets of poverty. we don’t report on the many, more Below left: editor Tina Rosenberg, describes it people solving their own problems. Another solutions journalism cost-effective ways to do good, Kushner as “rigorous reporting on responses Solutions stories tend to be surpris- story: Across the globe, 2.4 bil- doesn’t that make us part of the interviews Enough to social problems.” ing and counterintuitive. And they lion people lack proper sanitation, problem? two victims of I say all this as someone who has are by no means some fluffy alterna- which contributes to thousands Incorporating solutions angles discrimination in spent most of the last decade expos- tive to hard-hitting reporting. To the of deaths each year, according to into our reporting might even drive Nairobi: Cynthia, ‘Solutions journalism’ highlights ing problems: corruption in gover- contrary, they seek to replace a type the World Health Organization. more traffic to international stories: a lesbian who nance, violence against immigrants of lackluster international reporting But rather than reporting on the Researchers who examined thou- fled Burundi, viable remedies for the social problems and other minorities, the failures that paints any half-baked idea as problem as intractable, last year sands of New York Times articles and Sulait, a that afflict the developing world. of foreign aid. After Haiti’s 2010 a magic cure to poverty or disease. NPR’s Planet Money told the story found that news framed positively gay man from earthquake, I spent two years track- Solutions journalism leads us to of how scientists managed to break is far more likely to go viral than . Both ing some of the billions of dollars critical questions about the status up Dakar, Senegal’s so-called “poop negatively framed stories. When have resettled the U.S. government and American quo: why, for instance, do interna- cartels” that kept the price of waste done right, solutions reporting of- abroad. charities pledged to help Haiti tional charities continue to spend removal too high for many Dakar fers a refreshing way for the public from a successful program in recover, much of which was spent so much money on disaster relief residents to afford. to reengage in international news at By Jacob Kushner Below: Somalian Manchester–is increasing pros- ineffectively by U.S. agencies and when scientific evidence suggests Solutions journalism demands a time when many news outlets are Mahamood has ecutions for sex crimes that once contractors and little of which ever it’s far more cost-effective to save or that we take a critical look at what’s only looking inward.  made a living or many news consum- went almost entirely unpunished. went through Haitian hands. Some improve lives through preventative truly working, and why. A new “circumsizing” ers the name has In in 2013, the United were importing soap from abroad interventions such as distributing super-medicine? Let’s explain how Jacob Kushner is an international young girls become synonymous with Nations counted 1,700 cases of rape, at great cost–and handing it out for anti-malarial mosquito nets–or even scientists discovered it and why freelance journalist and a member of for 15 years. statelessness, violence, with only two convictions. That free at the expense of Haitian soap just handing out cash? they think it might work where oth- the Solutions Journalism Network. The practice intractability.F Each year Al-Shabab same year in Somaliland, of 326 manufacturers who struggled to A few years ago, Ryan Lenora ers have not. A new push to hand He began covering East Africa for is gradually kills hundreds of civilians and ter- reported cases of sexual violence, compete. So I wrote about a new, Brown reported for the Christian out computer tablets to African The Associated Press in 2013 as an declining under rorizes many more in Mogadishu 171 were prosecuted and 54 resulted public database of Haitian suppli- Science Monitor how unconditional students? Is there any evidence to Overseas Press Club N.S. Bienstock international and beyond. Yet for all the attention in convictions, all thanks to this one ers that aid agencies could use to cash transfers were not only giving suggest that traditional paper text- Memorial Fellow based in Nairobi. pressure. on Somalia’s many problems, news hospital and its affiliates. Learning quickly find Haitian companies that audiences might be surprised to from that success, Somali and inter- could procure the soap and other learn that when it comes to ending national advocates are attempting supplies locally and thus reinvigo- impunity for sexual violence, some to launch a similar program at a rate rather than undermine Haiti’s regions of Somalia have achieved major Mogadishu hospital. local economy. After my article ap- remarkable progress. In Hargeisa, In an article for Participant Me- peared, I noticed that other outlets Somaliland–the self-declared state dia, I explained how the program’s also began to question why so little in northwest Somalia–a hospi- creators managed to overcome aid to Haiti actually went through tal was launched to give women initial resistance by some Somali Haitian hands. immediate medical attention by authorities and doctors. I also ex- Solutions journalism also offers sensitized doctors. Victims also get plained the model’s limitations and a refreshing new approach to com- support from trained psychologists the challenges of trying to replicate bating international news fatigue. and social workers; an in-house it in far more populous Mogadishu. After the 2016 election, several police office at which to report their This style of reporting has come to editors told me they planned to case in private, sometimes to female be known as “solutions journalism,” give less play to foreign news. officers; and a public prosecutor and it’s built around understand- Responses like the following email, with whom they can discuss hopes ing not just what’s failing, but also which I received two months after for justice that transcends the tradi- what is working–and why. Too often President took of- tional, patriarchal clan system. we report singularly on problems fice, became common: This model–which a British without taking the time to explain “Hi Jacob–I’ve got some bad

human rights organization adapted when viable solutions to them ex- news, I’m afraid: We’ve decided to IMAGES / GETTY AFP / NICHOLE SOBECKI

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‘BUSINESS’ REFERS TO THE COCA-COLA CO. USA AND U.S. COCA-COLA INDEPENDENT FRANCHISE BOTTLERS. this year, volunteering hours and days spire our audiences, wherever they find us. By Scott Kraft to sift through more than 500 entries, a “It was an honor and a great experi- opc awards chair near-record total for the OPC, in 21 cat- ence,” said James B. Steele, the two-time egories. The journalism we are honoring Pulitzer winner and former OPC winner he 2018 Overseas Press Club represents remarkable work–from wire who headed up the investigative jury. awards were selected by juries services, newspapers, magazines, online “I saw a lot of great journalism I might composed of many of the publications, television, podcasts and otherwise have missed.” leading lights of international radio. To all the judges, please accept our Tjournalism, among them past winners The entries were of such exceptional heartfelt thanks for helping us identify the of OPC awards, Pulitzer Prizes, Emmys, quality that the judging panels found the best of the best this year. National Magazine Awards and National decision-making difficult. The judges And to the winners and citation award Book Awards. The process began in the invariably remarked on the high quality recipients, we say congratulations for fall, when we recruited nearly two dozen of the work they read, viewed and heard. these richly deserved honors.  head judges who, in turn, recruited a It was a reminder to all of us that inter- handful of thoughtful and fair-minded national reporting is as vibrant today as it Scott Kraft, a former correspondent in current and former journalists to fill out has ever been–and that gifted and often Africa and Europe, is managing editor of their judging panels. courageous storytelling still has the ability the Los Angeles Times. He is also third vice #COCACOLARENEW In all, 87 judges answered the call to surprise, to provoke, to move and to in- president of the OPC.

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THE1 HAL BOYLE AWARD THE2 BOB CONSIDINE AWARD THE3 ROBERT CAPA THE4 OLIVIER REBBOT AWARD GOLD MEDAL AWARD Best newspaper, news service or digital Best newspaper, news service or digital Best photographic news reporting from abroad reporting from abroad interpretation of international affairs Best photographic reporting from abroad published in any medium requiring exceptional courage and enterprise Sudarsan Raghavan Wa Lone, Kyaw Soe Oo and colleagues published in any medium Nariman El-Mofty The Washington Post Reuters The Associated Press, with support from the “Yemen’s War and Humanitarian Crisis” “Myanmar Burning” Carolyn Van Houten Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting The Washington Post “Yemen: On the Edge” “The road to Asylum: Inside the migrant caravans”

In an era where great reporting The courageous reporting Through a year of making The jury saw several strong is often associated with by two Reuters reporters monthly visits to document the portfolios from Yemen–a mobilizing massive teams who were arrested while stories of people at different country that, until last year, had and multi-media packages, investigating a massacre in stages of their trek north been severely neglected by the Sudarsan Raghavan’s Yemen the Myanmar village of Inn Din, through Central America, mainstream media. Nariman package reminded us that and the fierce commitment Carolyn Van Houten brought El-Mofty’s work stood out. Nariman Sudarsan Raghavan sometimes all it takes to Wa Lone of their news organization to Carolyn Van Houten a deep level of humanity El-Mofty We were moved by her clear deliver outstanding work is complete their journalistic and empathy to a story commitment to the subject, one talented reporter with in-depth knowledge mission, led to an outstanding that saturated the news media. Courage in but also by her thoughtful and surprising use of of the subject and the courage to go digging in series of articles exposing and storytelling is not only defined by proximity to light, color and framing to capture a conflict zone the field. The breadth and scope of the stories– explaining the government’s violence and danger, but also by having the guts that has almost always been depicted through a from inside a hospital to interviews with Houthi atrocities against the Rohingya. to go where others are not, and to look beneath darker lens. The variety of scenes that El-Mofty commanders and U.S. and regional allies funding Wa Lone, Kyaw Soe Oo and the surface to understand the true impact of documented–from malnourished children to and weaponizing the war–illustrated a complex their colleagues discovered these crises. Van Houten’s work demonstrates crumbling infrastructure to snippets of daily life– and important conflict. Classic intrepid solo Kyaw Soe Oo a mass grave, obtained this, but more than that, she embodies this convey the complexity of a country and a conflict reporting matched with beautiful writing, human photographs of the victims, ethos as a storyteller and a person. This award is that the world still struggles to understand. faces and big picture analysis. interviewed family members and identified some not just for her talent as a photographer, but for of the perpetrators of the slaughter. They used her compassion and courage in storytelling. Citation: Spencer Platt Citation for Excellence: Maggie Michael, the incident to open a window on the larger Getty Images Maad al-Zikry and Nariman El-Mofty forces that enabled the massacre, including the Citation: Khalil Hamra “Looking for Home” The Associated Press, with support from infantry divisions that spearheaded the attacks, The Associated Press the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting the use of social media to incite hatred, and “Conflict in Gaza” Sponsor: The Coca-Cola Company “Yemen’s Dirty War” government leaders who turned a blind eye. Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo remain in prison. Sponsor: Getty Images Sponsor: in memory This award for “Myanmar Burning” is a tribute of Jerry Flint to their spirit. Judges for the three photography awards: Daniella Zalcman (head), independent; Judges: Farnaz Fassihi (head), The Wall Street Citation: Tamer El-Ghobashy, Louisa Loveluck, Mallory Benedict, National Geographic; Journal; Bobby Ghosh, Bloomberg; Liz Sly and Alice Martins Veronika Chatelain, Open Society Foundations; Ellen Knickmeyer, The Associated Press; The Washington Post Jehan Jillani, ; Jesse Pesta, The New York Times; “: Reflections From a Shattered Land” Teru Kuwayama, independent Shibani Mahatni, The Washington Post Sponsor: William J. Holstein and Rita Sevell

Judges: Robert Friedman (head), Bloomberg; Liam Stack, The New York Times; Mary Rajkumar, The Associated Press; Laurie Hays, Edelman

24 DATELINE 2019 DATELINE 2019 25 THE ROBERT CAPA GOLD MEDAL AWARD CAROLYN VAN HOUTEN The Washington Post “Caravans”

STRIP IN CHOSEN OPTION as per e-mail

Above: In November, heavy Above right, migrants Right: Migrants rains flooded the tent city are bused to a new heading north walk Central American migrants shelter in a new event and ride along a road erected in a Tijuana, space. in Santiago Niltepec

Mexico, stadium. in October. HOUTEN VAN CAROLYN

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THE5 FEATURE PHOTOGRAPHY THE6 LOWELL THOMAS AWARD THE7 DAVID KAPLAN AWARD THE8 EDWARD R. MURROW AWARD AWARD Best radio, audio or podcast coverage of Best TV or video spot news reporting Best TV, video or documentary interpretation Best feature photography on an international international affairs from abroad of international affairs with a run time up to 30 theme published in any medium minutes Rukmini Callimachi, Andy Mills, VICE News Tonight on HBO Shiho Fukada Larissa Anderson and Wendy Dorr “The Killing Rooms of Mosul” Kavitha Chekuru, Adrienne Haspel, Bloomberg Businessweek, with support from The New York Times Laila Al-Arian and Teresa Bo the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting “Caliphate” Fault Lines, Al Jazeera English “For Many of Japan’s Elderly Women, “No Shelter: Family Separation at the Border” Prison Is a Haven”

Shiho Fukada’s quiet, intimate Impressive in scope, depth, Al Jazeera offers a heartbreaking glimpse into the lives of elderly and rigor, Caliphate uses look into lives that have been female Japanese prisoners is an effective mix of access, The VICE team brought us to a place nobody ripped apart by U.S. immigration both striking and surprising. It story arc and analysis to tell else went and found a story we had not heard. policies. With meticulous presents a sweet, empathetic a nuanced and complex story The first international news crew to film inside reporting and careful treatment, portrait of a group of women about ISIS: how it recruits, an apparent Iraqi execution room in the Old the documentary tracks every Shiho Fukada who had to be photographed Rukmini Callimachi how it functions, how and why City of West Mosul, VICE News Tonight on HBO Kavitha Chekuru step of the process, detailing the under challenging it could draw a young middle- presented viewers with horrific video evidence confusion, cruelty and pain, without circumstances to protect their identities. These class Canadian guy to travel of an atrocity that raised serious questions slipping into a tone of outrage or photos are a humanizing point of entry into to Syria to join the effort to about how the battle for Mosul was fought blame. Instead, viewers are drawn any number of broader conversations: about create an Islamic Caliphate, and who should be held accountable for the into the lives of real people faced aging, about loneliness, about society’s role in and what impact it continues killings. Despite intimidation from Iraqi military with impossible choices as they caring for its elderly and the challenges we will to have, including in the hearts intelligence officers and stonewalling by the top try to flee violence. The three increasingly face with growing elder populations. and minds of those who return characters linger in viewers’ minds Iraqi military commander on camera, Vice’s Adrienne Haspel We don’t know these women, but through Andy Mills home. This podcast series commitment and resourcefulness in getting the long after the documentary has Shiho’s photos we understand them and their also demystifies the reporting story led to even more international coverage ended. uncertain future. process, transparently and to international human rights observers showing how reporter Rukmini obtaining access to the site themselves. Citation: VICE News Tonight on Citation: Kadir van Lohuizen and Yuri Kozyrev Callimachi and producer Andy HBO The Washington Post, with support from Mills question how they know Citation: , , “Rebuilding Mosul” Fondation Carmignac what they know, who and what , Waffa Munayyer and “Arctic: New Frontier” they can trust, what more they Salma Abdelaziz Laila Al-Arian Sponsor: CBS News Larissa Anderson need to learn and question, and CNN what can still surprise them. “The War in Yemen” Judges: Vivienne Walt (head), This transparency was not TIME; , CNN; only engaging, it earned the Sponsor: ABC News Beth Loyd, Facebook; listener’s trust. , author; Judges: Marcy McGinnis (head), Elissa Rubin, PBS NewsHour Citation: Amy Martin Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science; (freelance) “Threshold,” with support from Len Apcar, Louisiana State University; Teresa Bo Wendy Dorr the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Karen Curry, Drexel University; Reporting Eason Jordan, Oryx Strategies; “’Threshold’ Season Two: Cold Comfort” Terry McCarthy, American Academy, Berlin

Sponsor: Deborah Amos

Judges: Mary Kay Magistad (head), UC Berkeley; George Lewinski, former Marketplace; Marsha Cooke, VICE News; Laura Lynch, CBC; Jason Motlagh, freelance

28 DATELINE 2019 DATELINE 2019 29 Scenes from Bottom left: a brutal war: This baby died of THE OLIVIER REBBOT AWARD At left, political activist starvation shortly Monir al-Sharqi under after this photo NARIMAN EL-MOFTY treatment at Marib General was taken. Hospital after he says he The Associated Press was kidnapped, tortured Bottom right: “Yemen: On the Edge” and burned with acid by a car accident Houthi rebels. victim at Marib.

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THE9 PETER JENNINGS AWARD THE10 ED CUNNINGHAM AWARD THE11 BEST CARTOON AWARD THE12 MALCOLM FORBES AND MORTON FRANK AWARD Best TV, video or documentary about Best magazine-style, long-form Best print, digital or graphic journalism international affairs with a run time over narrative feature in print or digital on on international affairs Best international business news 30 minutes an international story reporting in any medium

Karen Edwards and Gemma Atwal Anand Gopal Patrick Chappatte , Michael Forsythe HBO The New Yorker The New York Times and NYT staff “Stolen Daughters: Kidnapped by ” “Syria’s Last Bastion of Freedom” The New York Times “The Enablers”

Four years in the making, this “Tell the story of your village,” Patrick Chappatte’s cartoons It’s no secret that unique film tells the exclusive the Italian novelist Andrea for The New York Times were authoritarian regimes such story of two groups of Nigerian Camilleri once said. “If you a model of the form. One, as China, Russia and Saudi girls who are trying to recover tell it well, you will have told in particular, stood out: a Arabia are gaining influence from their kidnapping and years the story of the world.” Anand scene inside a Saudi Arabian around the globe. The of captivity by Boko Haram. Years Gopal is not from the war-torn classroom that highlighted the surprise is who is helping them: American consulting Karen Edwards after the #BringBackOurGirls Anand Gopal Syrian village of Saraquib, Patrick Chappatte changing face of that country Walt Bogdanich campaign, the filmmakers share but he immersed himself in and the dangers inherent in firms, British public relations the young women’s stories with the life and soul of the place during six years one particular profession–journalism. Like so shops and Western political dignity and humanity, giving of brave and brilliant reporting. The result was much of Chappatte’s work, it economically and operatives all looking to make voice to these previously silent a masterpiece. Gopal distilled the scope of the elegantly conveys the idea in a dynamic way– a buck. With its intrepid series survivors. savagery and complexity of the Syrian war into concisely and with nuance, illustrating the kinds “The Enablers,” The New a compelling, coherent narrative. He painted of freedom that democracy needs and autocracy York Times exposed how the Sponsor: The Jennings Family an unforgettable portrait of citizens who clung fears. It manages that feat with humor–no easy brightest minds in the West Michael Forsythe Gemma Atwal to their ideals amid death and devastation. task, considering the seriousness of the topic are linked to some of the Gopal’s elegant writing brought alive characters and the gruesomeness of the event that inspired darkest deeds of strongmen Judges: Abi Wright (head), ; such as the accountant Osama al-Hossein, who it. It is, simply, a remarkable accomplishment. and plutocrats. In exchange for multi-million Adriane Quinlan, VICE News; withstood peril and suffering to lead the first dollar paydays, these fee-seekers have helped Jonathan Jones, freelance; election in Saraquib. This tragic yet heroic saga Sponsor: Daimler Saudi Arabia jail dissidents at home and starve Sara Just, PBS NewsHour told an important story about a place and its civilians in Yemen. They have strengthened people–and a larger story about humanity at its Judges: Bob Mankoff (head), Esquire; China’s military, helped a Russian oligarch best and worst. Drew Dernavich, The New Yorker; evade U.S. sanctions and assisted South Africa’s Matt Diffee, The New Yorker; leaders in gutting the tax agency investigating Sponsor: Michael S. Serrill Paul Noth, The New Yorker; them for tax evasion–just a few examples Ben Schwartz, The New Yorker; uncovered over months of reporting that was Judges: Sebastian Rotella (head), ProPublica; Signe Wilkinson, Philadelphia Daily News powerful, sobering and impressive in its sweep. Richard Boudreaux, ; Chris Kraul, Los Angeles Times; Citation: Cam Simpson, Gavin Finch and Maria Luisa Rossel, Uno Noticias Kit Chellel Bloomberg “The Brexit Short”

Sponsor: Forbes Magazine

Judges: Kim Murphy (head) The New York Times; Marla Dickerson, Reuters; Gordon Fairclough, The Wall Street Journal; Peter Waldman, Bloomberg Businessweek

Judge Kim Murphy recused herself from the final selection.

32 DATELINE 2019 DATELINE 2019 33 THE FEATURE An increasing number of older Japanese women, most of them poor, are PHOTOGRAPHY AWARD being imprisoned for theft and other crimes. The SHIHO FUKADA women’s prisons provide walkers for the lame and Bloomberg Businessweek therapy for women suffering from dementia. Woman “For Many of Japan’s Elderly Women, Prison Is a Haven” at left is 89, and was first locked up for theft at 84. SHIHO FUKADA

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THE13 CORNELIUS RYAN AWARD THE14 MADELINE DANE ROSS THE15 DAVID A. ANDELMAN AND THE16 JOE AND LAURIE DINE AWARD PAMELA TITLE AWARD AWARD Best non-fiction book on international affairs Best international reporting in print or digital Best international reporting in the Best international reporting in any showing a concern for the human condition broadcast media showing a concern for medium dealing with human rights the human condition Jeffrey E. Stern Rania Abouzeid Mansi Choksi VICE News Tonight on HBO The New York Times Magazine, with support W. W. Norton & Company Harper’s Magazine “Year of the Dog: Inside the World’s Largest from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting “No Turning Back: Life, Loss and Hope in “The Newlyweds” Human Migration” “From Arizona to Yemen: The Journey of Wartime Syria” an American Bomb”

In-depth reporting across “No Turning Back” is This superbly written piece continents traced the creation an extraordinary feat of breathes new life into the of a precision missile made reporting–a searing account timeless story of thwarted Through an intimate portrait of one family, we by Raytheon in Tucson, of the lives of Syrians from romance, taking readers experience the impact on 287 million Chinese Arizona, which was bought all sides caught up in a into a daring young couple’s migrant workers who live apart from their by the Saudi government and catastrophic war. A fluent elopement in rural India and families. In a country known for restrictions on ultimately dropped on some speaker, Abouzeid Jeffrey E. Stern Rania Abouzeid Mansi Choksi the myriad obstacles against the media, VICE follows a couple working in a innocent villagers in Yemen draws on her years of often them. The saga unfolds with a coastal city during their 40-hour journey home to who had been outside celebrating a plan to dig a dangerous reporting inside the conflict zone and novel’s pacing and deep character development their rural village for the Lunar New Year. We are new well near their homes. Jeffrey Stern traced the deep ties she has built up with people of all as the newlyweds fight through caste, custom, with them as they sleep upright in a packed train the missile from beginning to end: interviewing political and religious persuasions. This allows violence and exploitation in their quest for the car and during their reunion with their excited Raytheon workers, Human Rights Watch staff, her to describe and explain in detail Syria’s tragic most universal of human yearnings: love. young son and sullen 15-year-old daughter, explaining just how the Department of Defense descent from the optimism of the first peaceful who refuses to embrace them after a year of helps U.S. corporations export deadly weapons democratic uprisings in 2011 to the sectarian Citation: Finlay Young and Kathleen Flynn separation. Through words (translated) and a and describing the business-as-usual tone of slaughter of civilians and brutal and misguided ProPublica and TIME camera (that is often close up and sometimes Raytheon CEO Thomas Kennedy on an earnings foreign interventions. Abouzeid spares nothing “Unprotected” undercover), we recognize the tradeoffs forced call with financial analysts. Stern returns to the in describing the appalling torture and endless on families by economic hardships–the regret Yemeni village where lives, bones and dreams mass killings of civilians by the Assad regime. Sponsor: Linda Fasulo of hardworking young parents missing their were shattered. The forensic, thorough, diligent But her use of personal narratives and her fluid children, the weariness of a grandfather doing his reporting of Stern brought home the human toll writing never let us lose track of the humanity of Judges: Hannah Allam (head), BuzzFeed; best to raise them, and uncomfortable silences of all those actions and gave voice to the Syrians suffering on all sides. Eugenia Harvey, WNET; as the family pinches dough for dumplings for a people who are little-heard. With a calm sense Tim Johnson, McClatchy; once-a-year holiday meal. While many of us knew of moral outrage, Stern shows us how the Citation: Barbie Nadeau Graciela Mochkofsky, CUNY; about this massive migration, we only came to U.S. government and businesses have blood Oneworld Publications Prashant Rao, The Atlantic understand it through this cinematic depiction of on their hands. “Roadmap to Hell: Sex, Drugs and Guns on the one family living a universal story. Mafia Coast” Citation: Associated Press Staff Citation: Adam Ellick, Taylor Adams, Kristin Bye “China Clamps Down” Sponsor: Friends of Richard Threlkeld and Leah Varjacques The New York Times Sponsor: Philip Dine Judges: Dan Hertzberg (head), freelance; “’It’s an Act of Murder’: How Europe John Bussey, The Wall Street Journal; Outsources Suffering as Migrants Drown” Judges: Anya Schiffrin (head), Columbia Neil Hickey, Columbia Journalism Review; University; Alison Bethel-McKenzie, Caribbean Jennifer Siebens, freelance Sponsor: David A. Andelman and Pamela Title Consortium of Investigative Journalists; Rebecca Chao, The WorldPost; Judges: Geraldine Baum (head), CUNY Graduate Mai Lynn Miller Nguyen, Open Society School of Journalism; Ann Cooper, Columbia Foundations; University; Soraya Nelson, NPR; Carlos Rajo, NY1 Matt Schiavenza, Asia Society; Noticias; Suzanne Spector, The New York Times Josephine Schmidt, IRIN News

Judge Suzanne Spector recused herself from the citation selection.

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THE17 WHITMAN BASSOW AWARD THE18 ROBERT SPIERS BENJAMIN THE19 KIM WALL AWARD AWARD Best reporting in any medium on Best story or series of stories on international affairs using international environmental issues Best reporting in any medium creative and dynamic storytelling techniques SPEAKING on Latin America David M. Halbfinger, Yousur Al-Hlou, TRUTH TO POWER Abrahm Lustgarten Caracas Bureau John Woo, Malachy Browne and ABROAD AND ProPublica and The New York Times Magazine Reuters Iyad Abuheweila “Fuel to the Fire” “Venezuela Coverage” The New York Times AT HOME “The Death and Life of a Gaza Medic” At the famous Round Table of the Algonquin Hotel in , where the Overseas Press A profoundly reported work When 20-year-old medic Rouzan al-Najjar was killed on multiple levels, “Fuel to the by an Israeli bullet in Gaza last June, she instantly Club of America was created 80 Fire” dissects a man-made became a symbol of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. years ago this month, the founding ecological disaster: how a U.S. In this 5-month interactive investigation, the New members (seven men, two women) biofuels policy engineered Venezuela is an extremely difficult country York Times not only captured the complex life and were foreign correspondents who death of a charismatic young woman from Gaza, mainly to serve corporate for journalist s right now. News organizations spoke truth to power and, perhaps Abrahm across the Americas produced gutsy, deep and David Halbfinger but also revealed how the shot that killed her was Lustgarten interests combined with more importantly, spoke truth Indonesian political corruption harrowing coverage of Venezuela’s economic potentially a war crime. Collecting and analyzing about power. The year was 1939. to devastate Southeast Asian and social collapse. The Reuters’ Caracas more than 1,000 images from the site of the forests and trigger a surge in carbon emissions. bureau excelled in telling compelling stories killing, Times reporters partnered with the British The names that dominated their Abrahm Lustgarten embraces a complex issue, of the wrenching decision taken by millions research agency Forensic Architecture to create a headlines were Mussolini, Stalin, attacks its many dimensions head on, lucidly of Venezuelans to leave their country in order 3D reconstruction of the fatal shot from six angles. and Hitler. In the war years that enlightens the reader, and offers the public a to survive. Also impressive was the Reuters Reporters made multiple trips to Gaza, visited followed, many OPC members possible roadmap for action. investigation chronicling a Chinese company’s Israeli sniper positions, analyzed ballistic evidence, became famous as voices of reason Yousur Al-Hlou and interviewed legal experts, government officials, collaboration with the Maduro government on and fact in the face of propaganda new, high-tech national ID cards that enable the eyewitnesses, and those who knew al-Najjar best. OVERSEAS PRESS CLUB Citation: Maurice Tamman, Matthew Green, Mari and deception. And some, like regime to track citizens’ receipt of government The resulting evidence challenged the Israel Defense LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT Saito, Sarah Slobin and Maryanne Murray th 75 Anniversary services. Finally, the deep dive on the chaos Forces’ claim about the shot that killed al-Najjar, Edward R. Murrow, returned to the Reuters The OPC Marks Its 75th “Ocean Shock” within the country’s state-run oil company and prompted a criminal investigation. Judge Mansi United States afterward Anniversary to find core provided a road map to the country’s economic Choksi, a friend and reporting partner of Kim Wall, values compromised by hysterical Sponsor: Robert Serio collapse. How a country that holds the world’s said it was exactly “the kind of ambitious story ideologues. The venue had changed, largest reserves of oil could be suffering a Kim would have liked to do,” particularly because it he Overseas Press Club was foundedthe inmission March 1939, had not. OPC dinnersMichael S. Serrill John Woo “challenged gendered cliches about empowerment six months before the outbreak of World War II. Yet Judges: Michael Williams (head), Reuters; drop in oil production is one of the mysteries 75 YEARS Republican losers began. In Asia, Chiang Kai-shek was still bat Europe was already boilingwere with war thenews. Having moment al when the purpose Overseas Press Club of America tling the Japanese in a conflict that started in 1931 with Japan’s and victimization.” ready been handed Sudetenland, on March 15 Ger - Aryn Baker, TIME; that confound outside observers; this Reuters - takeover of Manchuria. man Chancellor ’s army took over the rest of and the achievements- of foreign CzechoslovakiaT without firing a shot. On March 20 Foreign Min All of this meant that swarms of reporters were pouring in and analysis explains why, and makes it clear that Stacy Feldman, Inside Climate News; ister Joachim von Ribbentrop demanded that the Lithuanians out of conflict zones. Yet, when they returned to the U.S. they correspondents- were recognized Jennifer Forsyth, The Wall Street Journal increased military involvement in running the Citation: Michelle Mizner, Katie Worth, Carla Borras,hand over a German-speaking piece of their country. The next had no place to go to relax and tell each other war stories. Wire day Hitler told the Poles to cede to him the city then known byas servicetheir reporter peers, Charlie Ferlin often decided to with take action. First, he Judge Michael Williams recused himself from the citation oil giant ties the armed forces ever closer to the Raney Aronson and Andrew Metz Danzig (now Gdansk)—or else. Their failure to do so was one and a couple of buddies covering Europe met at Rocky’s bar in Greenwich Village, where they agreed to send penny postcards selection. pretext for the furious assault on Poland in September,standing 1939. ovations. The tradition Maduro administration. FRONTLINE and GroundTruth On April 1 the Spanish Civil War came to an end with the victory to other overseas reporters, inviting them to discuss formation of Gen. Francisco Franco—and mass reprisal shootings of the of a new club. On April 2, 1939, nine reporters met at the Al “The Last Generation” gonquincontinues Hotel and formally tolaunched this the Overseas day. Press Club. - They were guests at the famous Round Table, favorite meeting Citation: David Luhnow, Samantha Pearson, – Christopher Dickey Juan Forero and Jose de Cordoba Malachy Browne Sponsor: Molly Bingham The Wall Street Journal “Silent Slaughter” Judges: Azmat Khan (head), New America; VICE News Tonight on HBO Lama Al-Arian, NPR; “Walking to America” Mansi Choksi, freelance; Profound foresight andSuki keen Kim, freelance;observation from Sponsor: Paula Dwyer , The Washington Post; everyIyad angle. Abuheweila Congratulations Melissa Segura, on Your BuzzFeed 75th! Because you seek the best of everything, we understand exactly what you strive for. That’s why Judges: Bill Booth (head), Washington Post; we appreciate — and are proud to support — the commendable work of the Overseas Press Club. Dudley Althaus, freelance; We wish you continued success in realizing your vision. Lizette Alvarez, The New York Times;

Gregory Katz, The Associated Press; www.daimler.com Geri Smith, Inter-American Development Bank 38 DATELINE 2019 2 Overseas Press Club Awards The first annual dinner of the Overseas Press Club was held at the Park Lane Hotel in New York City in February, 1940. The dinner celebrated the th Anniversary Issue 75 publication of “The Inside Story,” which included foreign correspondent “adventures” by Eugene Lyons, the first UP correspondent in Moscow, Irene Kuhn, a correspondent for the Daily News, and Cornelius Vanderbilt IV, who outraged his millionaire parents by becoming a newspaper reporter.

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THE20 ROY ROWAN AWARD THE21 FLORA LEWIS AWARD Best investigative reporting in any Best commentary in any medium medium on an international story on international news

International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, Trudy Rubin NBC News Investigative Unit, The Philadelphia Inquirer The Associated Press and media partners “Stress Test for Democracies: “Implant Files” Populism, Autocrats, China and Trump”

For sheer breadth, depth of research Trudy Rubin had a and astonishing findings, Implant splendid year, the latest Files is in a class by itself. Reported in a run that deserves by 350 journalists around the globe, a lifetime achievement the investigation by the International award. (And the Inquirer Consortium of Investigative should get one for Journalists (ICIJ), the Associated Trudy Rubin keeping a first-rate Press and NBC News Investigative foreign affairs columnist Unit exposed deadly flaws in the on the staff when so many dailies have global regulation of medical that retrenched.) Rubin writes in clear, plain have left thousands disfigured, English informed by a career of travel, disabled or dead. By mining buried deep curiosity and calm analysis. In 2018 U.S. Food and Drug Administration she was an excellent guide to the rising (FDA) records, reporters reached tide of populism and the lurches of the the shocking conclusion that during America-first president. As one juror put the last decade alone defective it, “Anyone who reads her regularly cannot implants have caused 83,000 help but have a clear and thoughtful deaths and 1.7 million injuries understanding of the wider world.” around the world. The investigation also showed how regulators are Sponsor: Marc Lemcke bowing to industry pressure to rush products to market and then covering up reports of injuries and deaths Judges: (head), The Marshall when those devices fail. Anecdotal stories have long Project; John Daniszewski, surfaced about medical devices gone wrong. But the The Associated Press; ICIJ-led probe showed that the failures are a systemic Scott MacLeod, American University in problem that authorities have refused to confront. Cairo; Eleanor Randolph, author; The series sparked immediate pledges for reform from David Shipley, Bloomberg health authorities in North America and Europe.

Citation: Maggie Michael, Maad al-Zikry and Nariman El-Mofty The Associated Press, with support from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting “Yemen’s Dirty War”

Sponsor: Marcus Rowan

Judges: James B. Steele (head), independent; , The New York Times; Maud Beelman, The Associated Press; Joe Stephens, ; David Zucchino, author Judge Maud Beelman recused herself from the final selection.

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this informal movement crystallized lancers has kept us preoccupied into the ACOS Alliance. since Day One. The ACOS Alliance, HONOR THIS YEAR’S ACOS stands for A Culture Of working with our fiscal sponsor, the Safety. We bring together news Overseas Press Club Foundation, is organizations, freelance journal- keen to facilitate access to affordable ist associations and press free- insurance for freelancers and local dom NGOs to champion safe and journalists, regardless of their na- responsible journalistic practices, tionality or location. Ground-break- and ultimately embed a culture of ing insurance options should soon safety in our community. Fueled by be available to all, including fixers, the urgency of our mission, we have stringers, drivers and translators. become a unique strategic coalition. We are also developing prac- Our Principles have been signed tical resources: guidelines for by more than 100 global news wire news organizations to create and services, U.S. TV news networks and improve their own safety protocols, major U.S. and European non-profit freelance contract templates that journalism organizations. emphasize safety, best practice Early on, we realized it wasn’t recommendations for journalism enough for us to just collect signa- grant-makers, and an industry stan- tories for our Principles. We needed dard for safety training. to undertake concrete and practical As an alliance, our drive and initiatives, and engage news organi- stamina is fueled by our commu- zations and editors in our discussions nity. Our December coordination and activities. That’s what’s been meetings in New York have become keeping us so busy. Over the past a must-go-to event. These day-long two years, we have been involved in gatherings result in productive 27 safety training sessions through discussions, collaborative initiatives which we have created new partner- and the exchange of valuable infor- ships between NGOs and news out- mation. We are using our power to Top: lets and have produced cost-effective convene to build trust and forge a By Elisabet Cantenys Participants safety training alternatives. More shared sense of purpose. learning first than 350 local reporters and inter- Although we are proud of our aid techniques ack in September 2014, national freelance journalists have achievements, we are humbled by at a hostile a group of editors met in directly benefited from our train- the challenges ahead of us. Free- environment New York and Chicago to ing activities, not only in the U.S. lance and local journalists are more safety training grapple with the horrify- and Europe but also in Colombia, needed than ever, and yet remain in Thailand, ing Bmurders of James Foley and Mexico, Lebanon, Turkey, Thailand, vulnerable. Safety training continues June 2017. Steven Sotloff in Syria and to devise Philippines, Uganda and Kenya. to be inaccessible to many journal- ways of promoting freelance jour- Because we believe editors are ists worldwide. Much work remains. Bottom: nalists’ safety. No one could have instrumental in working with the We have been funded by the A trainer ever imagined their talks would best-trained freelancers and mak- Open Society Foundations and the in Athens catch fire. During the following ing assignments as safe as possible, MacArthur Foundation and are demonstrates months, they drafted together with we have also organized editor’s deeply grateful to them. And we are how to approach the Overseas Press Club and other safety workshops and 90 assigning grateful to all of you attending the an injury in the journalism organizations the Free- editors have directly benefited from OPC Awards Dinner. Together, we stomach, lance Journalist Safety Principles, these, mostly in the U.S. but also in are making good things happen.  June 2018. a document that outlines a set of France, Colombia, Mexico, Brazil safety standards for news organiza- and the Philippines. Elisabet Cantenys is the executive

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In October and November, sanitary conditions set Spencer Platt of Getty in, the numbers of people Images joined up with the participating in the so-called caravan making march slowly dwindled. its way from Central Still, thousands made America across Mexico their way to the border, to the U.S. border. His only to be greeted by dramatic photos won a 5,000 U.S. troops SPENCER PLATT / GETTY IMAGES / GETTY SPENCER PLATT Citation for excellence dispatched by President in the Olivier Rebbot Donald Trump to keep Award. As fatigue from the them in Mexico. heat, distance and poor 46 DATELINE 2019