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THE MONTHLY NEWSLETTER OF THE OVERSEAS PRESS CLUB OF AMERICA, , NY • January 2015 Junger to Give Keynote at Annual Scholars Luncheon be, a former Wall Street EVENT PREVIEW lawyer who, as acting By Jane Reilly CEO for the Wash- Award-winning , film- ington Post Company, maker and author Sebastian Junger had a special apprecia- will be the keynote speaker at the tion for and annual OPC Foundation Scholarship . (See page 8 Luncheon on Friday, Feb. 20, 2015, for more details.) at the Yale Club. At the event, the “In my 20 years of Foundation will award a combina- serving as president of tion of scholarships and fellowships the Foundation,” said Hetherington Tim to 15 graduate and undergraduate OPC Foundation Presi- Sebastian Junger poses for a photo taken by his college students aspiring to become dent Bill Holstein, “I friend Tim Hetherington, who was killed while on foreign correspondents. have seen the impor- assignment in Libya in 2011. The winning recipients are from tance of our mission be- we have seen in Syria and Yemen.” Columbia University, New York come more critical with each passing Given the perilous climate, Hol- University, Northwestern Univer- year. News media organizations have stein said that Junger’s selection sity, Oxford University (England), pulled back on maintaining their own as keynote speaker is “the perfect Tufts University, University of Cal- networks of seasoned correspondents choice for these troubled times.” ifornia-Berkeley, University of Tul- and are relying more heavily than Besides being among the foremost sa, and . For the first ever on young correspondents like freelance foreign correspondents of time this year, the Foundation will our winners. At the same time, in his time, Junger is also the founder be presenting the Fritz Beebe Fel- zones of conflict, these young, most- of Reporters Instructed in Saving lowship. The award, which supports ly freelance reporters face mounting Colleagues (RISC), an organization business journalism, is endowed by dangers. They have become targets as (Continued on Page 4) Anne and former OPC president Larry Martz and is named for Bee- Cartoonist to Speak on Free Expression Inside. . . Award for best cartoon on interna- EVENT PREVIEW: Feb. 12 Jaime FlorCruz Retires...... 2 tional affairs. The massacre of the Charlie Heb- The evening will include an add- Review: Risen’s ‘Pay Any Price’...... 3 do journalists in has focused the ed bonus: A drawing lesson in which Hands E-book...... 4 world on the challenges Kal will teach the audi- faced by international edi- ence how to draw Barack Holiday Party Photos...... 5 torial cartoonists. Obama. The OPC will One of the best in the provide drawing paper and Recap: 2015 Forecast Breakfast.....5 business, Kevin (Kal) Kal will bring copies of People Column...... 6 Kallaugher, cartoonist his latest book, Daggers for and Drawn: 35 Years of Car- New OPC Foundation Fellowship...8 The Sun, will toons in The Economist. Press Freedom Update...... 9 talk to OPC members The program at Club on Feb. 12 about how Quarters will get under- Q&A: Andrew Meldrum...... 11 he deals with freedom way at 6:30 p.m. on Thurs- of expression challenges. Kal day, Feb. 12. Admission is free and New Books...... 12 won the OPC’s 2013 open to the public. Jaime FlorCruz Bids Farewell to CNN, Offers Wisdom By Chad Bouchard Beijing bureau chief and served until his retirement. OPC member and CNN Beijing bureau chief Jaime He has lived and worked in China since 1971, ex- FlorCruz retired at the end of December after working as cept in 1999, when he spent the year at the council of a correspondent in China for more than three decades. foreign relations in New York as the Edward R. Murrow He arrived in China in 1971 while on tour as a student Press Fellow. from the Philippines, but was stranded when President “Nice to get paid to meet interesting people and ex- Ferdinand Marcos declared martial law. Blacklisted by his plore exotic places,” FlorCruz advises students and young own government and briefly journalists eyeing overseas stateless in China, circum- jobs as correspondents. stances launched him into “But if you’re aspiring to an expat life and journalism become a multi-million- career that spanned upheaval aire, you may be on the and massive transformations wrong career track.” in China’s history. “Learn about other As career highlights, peoples, cultures and FlorCruz cited covering countries. Learn a foreign the Tiananmen square pro- language or two. Go out tests in 1989 and breaking and travel. Get lost, get the news that Jiang Qing, sick, get into (minor) trou- Mao’s widow, committed ble, and extricate yourself suicide a few days before out of them,” he said in state news agency Xinhua. Chan Wifred an email. “Learn the art of He also recalled with fond- interviewing and the sci- Jaime FlorCruz takes a curtain call with friends and ness memorable visits to co-workers at CNN’s Hong Kong newsroom after ence of research. Master Tibet, Xinjiang, Mongolia announcing his retirement. the skills of writing, story- and North Korea, as well as telling and analysis. Most the “charting of ebbs and flows of Deng Xiaoping’s re- important, have fun. You will only succeed when you are forms” while he was leader of China from 1978 to 1992. enjoying it.” After graduating from Peking University in 1981, Flo- FlorCruz is considered by the Beijing press corps to rCruz served as a stringer for , as Time maga- be the longest serving China correspondent to date. He is zine’s Beijing correspondent and later bureau chief for a also co-author of Massacre at Beijing, a book about the total of 18 years. In 2000, he joined the CNN team as crackdown in Tiananmen Square. 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40 West 45 Street, New York, NY 10036 USA • Phone: (212) 626-9220 • Fax: (212) 626-9210 • Website: opcofamerica.org OPC Bulletin • January 2015 • Page 2 James Risen’s New Book Says Freedom Is at Stake By Larry Martz Defense Department’s supervisor of the giant contract tried James Risen, the New York Times reporter, who has to crack down, demanding detailed accounting for the bills become emblematic of the Obama administration’s crack- KBR was submitting, he was replaced and forced to retire. down on leakers and the journalists who report their whis- But the costs of the war go far beyond money. Risen tle-blowing stories, has won his long battle to protect his goes on to document the war’s more serious and lasting sources. The Justice Department has accepted his refusal price. to testify against a former CIA agent accused of leaking, He adds to the all-too-familiar story of the Bush admin- and won’t call on Risen at the trial. istration’s “enhanced interrogation techniques,” inflicting Risen’s fight for journalistic principle has gone on for torture on America’s prisoners. The story of one of the tor- seven years, and its ending sets no precedent and settles turers, now a tormented wreck who relies on marijuana to nothing. But Risen has published a new book, Pay Any keep his demons at bay, illustrates how “torture corrodes Price: Greed, Power and Endless War, that amounts to a the mind of the torturer.” But not all the perpetrators suf- defiant flag nailed to the mast to signal the threat posed to fered. James Mitchell and Bruce Jessen, the psychologists America by the government’s war on terror. who sold their torture tactics to the CIA, walked The title is an ironic play on John F. Ken- away with millions in classified contracts. nedy’s famous promise that America would Risen also deplores the way the war has “pay any price, bear any burden” to preserve eroded ’ freedom in the name of se- liberty. Risen’s book makes a powerful case curity – not just hassling travelers at airports, that the ultimate price of the war on terror but encroaching on everyday life to “transform threatens to be liberty itself. the United States from an open society to a The reckoning begins in dollars – more walled fortress.” In downtown Manhattan, 35 than $4 trillion, Risen says, from the trauma percent of the civic center, around the federal of Sept. 11, 2001, through 2012. That cost buildings and courthouses, is now a security keeps mounting. President ’s zone banned to ordinary citizens, and 23 acres “great achievement – or great sin,” Risen of Los Angeles have been similarly closed off. writes, “was to make the national security The most Orwellian feature so far of the state permanent.” war on terror is the warrantless wiretapping and domestic Any war is messy, wasteful and prone to corruption. spying of the , begun soon after But Risen’s most eye-popping symbol of U.S. profliga- the 9/11 attacks but secret until Risen and cy in Iraq were the “jingle flights,” as their pilots called exposed them in in December, 2005. It was the them – planeloads of shrink-wrapped pallets of $100 leak investigation triggered by that story that led prosecu- bills, flown into Baghdad to be scattered to the wind. tors to demand Risen’s testimony against Jeffrey Sterling, According to the American occupational government, a former CIA agent whose trial began on Jan. 12. the cash was needed to get the Iraqi economy back on Risen’s book isn’t perfect. He has the investigative re- its feet. But the flights continued for years, with virtu- porter’s penchant for emptying his notebook in long, in- ally no records or controls over where the money went. tricate accounts of inconclusive plots, and his accounting In all, Risen says, Washington sent nearly $20 billion in of the war’s damage isn’t complete: For one example, he cash and electronic deposits to Baghdad, and has no ac- doesn’t mention prisoners held for a decade without trial counting for the amazing sum of $11.7 billion. Not all of or even formal charges. And Risen touches only fleetingly that money was stolen, but a great deal of it was. Risen’s on a development that may prove at least as sinister as sources told him of a warehouse in Lebanon that is still the NSA’s excesses, the spreading use of secret laws and stuffed with nearly $2 billion in $100 bills and gold, si- court decrees to justify government intrusions. phoned off by what became the Baghdad kleptocracy. The war on terror is already being supplanted by a new Planeloads of cash were just for starters. “The hot- (Continued on Page 10) test way to make money,” Risen writes, was to tap into the billions being handed out for weapons, intelligence REMINDER: PLEASE RENEW services and the everyday costs of fighting a war. And YOUR OPC MEMBERSHIP the war’s biggest beneficiary was Houston-based KBR, If you haven’t already paid your 2014-15 mem- which held the contract to feed and supply U.S. troops, bership dues, please take a moment to review build their bases and perform all the rear-echelon tasks our payment options. You can renew via Paypal formerly done by the military services themselves. on our website, send a check to our office at 40 The Financial Times has estimated that the KBR con- West 45th Street, or call 212-626-9220 to pay tract produced revenues of $39.5 billion. The company by credit card. was literally too big and influential to be fired. When the

OPC Bulletin • January 2015 • Page 3 China Hands Reunion Spawns E-Book on Media’s Role In September last year, the OPC assembled current our assumptions about how the country will evolve are and former correspondents, editors and experts with ex- being put to the test or else are downright wrong,” Hol- perience in China for a day of panels and dis- stein said. cussions on the country’s trajectory, and whether Even as the Chinese are expanding their Western media are getting the story right. trade, investment, tourism and education links The event drew about 70 China Hands, and around the world, at home President Xi Jinping brought together in one room a staggering range appears to be rejecting Western-style pluralism of experience on the country’s affairs over the and is purging the Communist Party to reinforce last half century. its ideological vigor. Now, there’s a book. OPC Foundation Presi- “Anyone who is involved in U.S.-Chinese re- dent Bill Holstein, a key organizer of the event, lations on any level simply has to read this book, has put together an e-book with full transcriptions of the Holstein said. “And average readers who have been con- day’s panels that will soon be available to download from fused about which direction China was headed in will also Amazon. find this book deeply revealing.” “We have caught one of those moments in the media’s The book, Has the American Media Misjudged Chi- coverage of China in which we recognize that many of na?, is expected to be available before the end of January.

(Continued From Page 1) Club in and other organiza- that the awardees gain valuable expe- that trains freelance journalists in tions to try to create a code of con- rience working with veteran journal- treating life-threatening injuries on duct that governs how organizations ists. In 2014, the Foundation funded the battlefield. Junger started RISC in work with freelancers,” he explained. fellowships in bureaus across Eu- memory of his friend and collabora- To do its part, the OPC Foundation rope, the Middle East and Africa. The tor, Tim Hetherington, who died from is hosting an extra day this year for Foundation picks up the cost of the a shrapnel wound in Libya only days its winners to receive risk assessment airfare and one to two months living before he was to host the OPC An- and situational training from Global expenses for the winners. nual Awards Dinner in 2011. Journalist Security, a hostile environ- Holstein is grateful to Bloomberg As a contributing editor to Van- ment training firm based in -Wash which again hosted the judging in ity Fair and as a contributor to ABC ington, DC. The day is funded by an December and to the dedicated panel News, Junger has covered major in- anonymous grant the Foundation re- of judges who chose the 2015 re- ternational news stories around the ceived in 2014. cipients: Bob Dowling; Allan Dodds world and has been awarded the Na- Events for the 2015 winners will Frank; Christine Glancey, Wall Street tional Magazine Award and an SAIS now extend over two and one-half Journal; Sharon Gamsin; Bill Hol- Novartis Prize for Journalism. Author days starting on Thursday night with stein; Sally Jacobsen, AP; Felice of The Perfect Storm and WAR, he the traditional reception hosts Levin; Larry Martz; Paul Mason; Ro- is also a documentary filmmaker for current and past winners at its salind Massow; Marcy McGinnis, Al whose Restrepo, a feature-length Time Square headquarters. On Friday, Jazeera America; Kate McLeod; El- documentary chronicling the deploy- besides addressing a distinguished len Nimmons, AP; David Rohde, Re- ment of a platoon of U.S. soldiers in audience of more than 200 luncheon uters; Charlie Sennott, GroundTruth ’s Korengal Valley, was guests, the award winners will also Project and GlobalPost; Michael Ser- nominated for an Oscar. Junger’s lat- tour the Associated Press and meet rill; and Karen Toulon, Bloomberg. est film, a documentary from HBO with veteran international journalists Luncheon tickets are $75 for films titled Which Way Is The Front in a pre-luncheon breakfast hosted OPC members and $150 for non- Line From Here?, chronicles Hether- by Holstein. For many, said Holstein, members. The Foundation encour- ington’s life and career. the opportunity to meet and observe ages media and corporate support at Holstein noted that dramatic prominent journalists in action is as its three levels of giving: Benefac- changes in international journalism valuable as any monetary awards. tors, $9,000; Patrons, $6,000; and present new challenges to the Foun- Up to ten of this year’s winners Friends, $3,000. Tables seat 10. The dation and others. “We are cogni- will receive fellowships to work in reception is at 11:30 a.m.; the lun- zant that we have a responsibility the foreign bureaus of the Founda- cheon ends promptly at 2:00 p.m. to make sure our winners engage in tion’s media partners, including All proceeds benefit the OPC Foun- the world’s stories in ways that keep The Associated Press, Reuters, The dation. For further information, con- them safe. We are working with , GlobalPost and tact Jane Reilly at 201-493-9087 or Overseas Press Club, the Frontline Forbes. The fellowships will ensure [email protected].

OPC Bulletin • January 2015 • Page 4 OPC Marks New Year With Celebration and Reflection

During this year’s holiday party on Jan. 7, OPC mem- bers paused for a moment of silence in memory of 12

people, including nine journalists, that were killed by Photos this page: Chad Bouchard masked gunmen in Paris at satirical newspaper Left to right: OPC board member Jacqueline Albert-Simon, earlier in the day. President Marcus Mabry and Executive Director Patricia Kranz.

Left to right: Lisa Barron, Abigail Pesta, Jefferey Cornett, Left to right: Emma Daly of Human Rights Watch, Rod Allan Dodds Frank, Rita Cosby and Tom Bednarek. Nordland and Alissa J. Rubin of The New York Times, and Jamie Tarabay of Al Jazeera America. Risk Experts Forcast Shifting Ground in the New Year Michael Levi, director of the Center for Geoeco- EVENT RECAP nomics at the Council on Foreign Relations, said his- By Chad Bouchard tory shows that OPEC, Saudi Arabia and the Middle The OPC and global risk consultancy Controls East would not likely take steps to stabilize oil prices. Risks hosted a breakfast panel Dec. 17 to provide “Volatility is the normal state of affairs,” he said. an expert view on geopolitical challenges that may “Stability was an abnormal condition.” emerge in 2015. The forum garnered some press coverage. Shane During the panel Jonathan Wood, the head of the Ferro with wrote that speakers at the global issues desk for Control Risks, presented the or- event “seemed skeptical of the idea that Saudi Arabia ganization’s RiskMap, its annual survey of business was refusing to prop up oil prices because it wanted to risk in the coming year. force American producers out of the market.” He said terrorism, international crime and cyber at- In an article for CNN Money, Matt Egan wrote that tacks would continue to threaten fragile states. In much “global investors need to closely monitor what Russian of sub-Saharan Africa, economic growth has outpaced President Vladimir Putin does next.” political reform, which could “threaten if not stymie “‘We have real concern that you’ve got a situation some of Africa’s potential.” Upcoming elections in where there’s a regime that feels cornered,’” Egan Nigeria could provoke instability, he added, and Syria quoted Control Risks’ chief macro risk analyst Mi- would remain an “exporter of insecurity.” chael Moran as saying.

OPC Bulletin • January 2015 • Page 5 PEOPLE... By Susan Kille [email protected]

OPC SCHOLARS ing of Congress by the National UPDATES Frederick Bernas, winner of Press Club. Johnsen now works at SEATTLE: George Bookman, the 2013 Walter and Betsy Cronkite BuzzFeed News’s foreign desk and who joined the OPC in 1958 as a fi- Scholarship, was a producer for is based in Istanbul. nancial reporter for Time magazine, Seizing Solar Power, a December turned 100 on Dec. 22. He celebrat- story for Al Jazeera English’s Wit- WINNERS ed the landmark during the preced- ness series about one woman’s ef- Dennis Redmont, an OPC mem- forts to harness solar energy in ru- ber who is a veteran foreign corre- ral Argentina. Bernas had an OPC spondent and news executive, was Foundation internship in The Asso- awarded a Life Career Achievement ciated Press bureau in Buenos Aires. Argil prize Dec. 12 by the European Union’s office in Rome and the na- In a New Yorker piece in Decem- tional associations of Journalists of ber, Elizabeth Dickinson, who won Italy. Redmont was honored for his the 2007 Harper’s Magazine Schol- four decades of work with the AP, arship honoring the memory of I.F. reporting from 80 countries, fol- Stone, considered whether Oman’s lowed by a teaching career at Grad- institutions are strong enough to uate School of Journalism and Pub- survive Sultan Qaboos bin Sa’id, lic Broadcasting at Perugia Univer- the country’s ailing long-time ruler sity, and also for his development of of Oman. Dickinson, who is based the Young Leaders program in Italy George Bookman flashes a smile in the Arabian Peninsula, is part of and the United States in his capacity during his centennial celebration. He turned 100 on Dec. 22. Deca Stories, a new writers’ cooper- as head of Media and Development ative modeled on photo cooperatives at the Council for the United States ing weekend with family and friends – particularly the member-owned and Italy. The citation read: “he here, where he moved last year to Magnum agency – that changed the trained a generation of profession- be close to his son. The OPC was rules of photojournalism. als during 15 years of teaching, act- among those who sent best wishes and he responded by wishing club Two OPC Foundation scholars members “the very best in the New working with GlobalPost have re- Year.” Bookman had a remarkable ceived special funding for report- career in journalism and public re- ing projects in 2015. Lauren Bohn, lations while generously giving time based in Istanbul and winner of the to the OPC and other organizations 2012 H.L. Stevenson Fellowship, working to improve journalism. He will be reporting a yearlong series headed OPC’s Admissions Commit- on women and minority rights in the tee for many years and served on its post-Arab spring through support Board and its Freedom of the Press from the Ford Foundation. Jacob Dennis Redmont, center, was pre- Committee. He is a former presi- Kushner, who is based in Nairobi sented his award by Gino Falleri, vice dent of the Deadline Club, appeared and won the 2013 Nathan S. Bien- president of the Order of Journalists, as Carlo Felice Corsetti, head of in the Financial Follies of the New stock award, will take on a series of the Press Office Journalists York Financial Writers’ Association, investigative reports with the help of Association looked on. belonged to Sigma Delta Chi and is a small team of local African jour- a long-time member of the Silurians. nalists through the support of the ing as a great mentor and commu- As he was turning 94, he finished his Galloway Family Foundation. nicator, as well as reporter and cor- autobiography, Headlines, Dead- respondent.” Redmont served four lines and Lifelines, which was pub- Greg Johnsen, winner of the times as president of Italy’s Foreign lished in 2009. 2006 David R. Schweisberg Me- Press Association. Other honorees morial Scholarship, and two of his this year included Giuseppe Torna- SANTA FE, N.M.: After a De- colleagues at Buzzfeed were award- tore, the director of Cinema Para- cember item in the New York Post ed the Everett McKinley Dirksen diso, for his role in spreading Italian reported that Time Inc. was cutting Award for Distinguished Report- culture. ties to Richard Stolley by allowing

OPC Bulletin • January 2015 • Page 6 his contract as senior editorial ad- where she coordinates all day-to-day who is a senior international cor- viser to expire, the past president of news coverage, both foreign and do- respondent for Bloomberg News the OPC emailed from his Santa Fe mestic. Her previous posts at CBS and Bloomberg Businessweek, is home that ties are continuing. “My News include foreign editor, senior among the journalists interviewed plans are still a little vague, but one editor for CBS Evening News and se- in Secrets of Prize- thing I will continue doing is writ- nior producer for foreign coverage. Winning Journal- ing stories for the Time Inc. maga- She has also worked for CNN and ism 2014, an e-book zines,” he said. This year he was National Public Radio’s Spanish- from the Poynter published in Real language news program, Enfoque Institute containing Simple and Time Nacional. interviews with the and a third piece is winners of some of Lesley Topping to run in Fortune. VIENNA: Barbara Trionfi on the most prestigious Simpson Stolley was named Jan. 1 became executive director journalism contests of 2014. Simp- senior editorial ad- of the International Press Institute. son discussed his work on Apple’s viser upon his re- Lesley Topping Trionfi, a Milan native who holds supply chain, which won a Gerald tirement in 1993 as Stolley degrees in Chinese studies and inter- Loeb Award and the Joe and Laurie national relations, replaces Time Inc.’s editorial director. Stol- Alison Dine Award from the OPC. Bethel McKenzie, who had been ley joined the company in 1953 as a executive director since 2009. McK- As a Christmas gift to his Twitter reporter and went on to serve as as- enzie worked at followers, , sistant managing editor and manag- Quentin Sommerville and was Washington Bureau chief the BBC’s Middle East correspon- ing editor of Life, founding editor of for The Detroit News, executive dent, posted a link to a YouTube People and director of special proj- editor at Legal Times and manag- video that shows the risk of standing ects for Time Inc. He serves on the ing editor of the Nassau Guardian, near 8½ tons of burning heroin, opi- Medill Board of Advisers at North- in the Bahamas. In 2008, she spent a um and hashish. High on the fumes, western University, his alma mater, year as a Knight International Jour- Sommerville repeatedly dissolves and is on the faculty of the Yale Pub- nalism Ghanaian helping journalists into giggles and is unable to finish lishing Course. “As for Time Inc.,” to improve their reporting skills in the report. The video, entitled “Don’t he wrote in his email, “I had a won- the run-up to the 2008 presidential Inhale,” was recorded four years ago derful career there and wish it only election. but not previously released. the best in these difficult times.” David A. Andelman, a past pres- For almost a century, entries for JERSEY CITY, N.J.: After 97 ident of the OPC, reports the publi- the Pulitzer Prize had one major years in New York, Forbes began a cation of a new Centenary Edition requirement: the project had to be new chapter in December by mov- of his most recent book, A Shattered printed in a newspaper. Since digital- ing about 350 employees to a new Peace: Versailles 1919 and the Price only news websites became eligible glass tower here from the 60 Fifth We Pay Today. Sir in 2008, ProPublica, Politico and Avenue building in Greenwich Vil- Harold Evans, the The Huffington Post have won Pulit- lage it occupied for 49 years. Forbes former editor of zers. In December, the Pulitzer board had sold its former headquarters in , agreed to allow online and print 2010 to New York University and has written a new magazines that meet certain criteria had signed a five-year lease that ex- foreword. Andle- to enter investigative reporting and pired in December. In July, a consor- man, editor-in- feature writing categories. The board tium of Asian investors had the win- chief of World Pol- Andelman also decided to allow news organi- ning bid to buy a majority stake in icy Journal, in his zations when nominating their own Forbes Media. updated introduction writes about employees to include journalists who lessons for today’s world, pointing belong to a news partner that do not LEXINGTON, Va.: “News Eth- to the Middle East fracturing along qualify to compete for the prizes. For ics in a Time of Terror and Violence” lines that should have been seen a example, this would allow a newspa- was the topic of a keynote address by century in the past. “The lessons are per to include a television correspon- Ingrid Ciprian-Matthews, an OPC as vital today to President Obama dent who contributed to a project. member, in November at Washing- as they should have been to his pre- Mike Pride, Pulitzer Prize adminis- ton and Lee University’s 58th In- decessor 100 years ago,” Andleman trator, said the changes acknowledge stitute in Ethics in Journalism. In said. shifts in the news industry. March 2001, Ciprian-Matthews was named vice president of CBS News, Cam Simpson, an OPC member (Continued on Page 8)

OPC Bulletin • January 2015 • Page 7 (Continued From Page 7) “He was one of the true gentleman the correspondent had told friends reporters, a real ‘Murrow boy,’ an about a progressive neurological ill- PEOPLE REMEMBERED elegant combination of reporter and ness that included seizures, blurred Matthew Franjola, a reporter storyteller.” The vision, temporary memory loss, and photographer for the AP who Murrow Boys were was among the last Americans in persistent headaches and a bleak a group of celebrat- Saigon as it fell to the North Viet- prognoses. Di-Natale had been di- ed radio journalists namese in 1975, died Jan. 1 in agnosed with post-traumatic stress working for CBS Hartford, Conn. He was 72 and disorder in October 2012 and began during World War died after a long illness. Franjola, Commons Wikimedia quietly seeking treatment before II under the direc- who spoke Vietnamese and other noticing other ailments. A brain tion of the legend- Hottelet Southeast Asian languages, went scan ordered by a neurologist, Lon- to South Vietnam to work for a war ary Edward R. Murrow. Hottelet, doño said, “indicated that he had supplies company as U.S. military who covered the D-Day invasion brain damage that may have been involvement began escalating. He of Normandy and the Battle of the caused by concussions he suffered met journalists and soon became a Bulge, had a distinguished 40-year following a mortar stringer for the AP. David Hume career covering international news attack in northern for CBS, including 25 years as Kennerly, an OPC member who Iraq in 2009 and United Nations correspondent. Hot- worked for UPI in Vietnam, told a bullet that rico- telet was among the more than two the AP that Franjola’s fluency in cheted off his hel- dozen contributors to As We See Vietnamese saved their lives. Fran- met in Afghanistan Russia by Members of the Over- Undated Facebook Photo jola overheard South Vietnamese in 2011.” Londoño, seas Press Club of America, a book Di-Natale soldiers speaking among them- a former correspon- selves that they would leave the two published in 1948 by E.P. Dutton & Co., with an introduction by Rob- dent in the Middle East for The Americans pinned down as Viet- Washington Post, said Di-Natale cong fighters approached. “That ert Considine, then president of the “was happiest in war zones, and information led us to get out,” said OPC. often restless in the United States.” Kennerly, who later became White Di-Natale reported from Osama bin House photographer for President An aftermath of combat report- Gerald Ford. ing may have contributed to the Laden’s compound after bin Laden death of Dominic Di-Natale, who was killed and from Egypt’s Tahrir Richard C. Hottelet, the last covered international news for Fox Square during the 2011 uprising surviving “Murrow Boy,” died Dec. News and was found dead on Dec. against President Hosni Mubarak. 17 at his home in Wilton, Conn. He 10 in Jefferson County, Colo., af- Over Thanksgiving, he reported was 97. “Richard C. Hottelet was ter an apparent suicide. He was from Ferguson, Mo., where white the ultimate CBS News reporter,” 43. Ernesto Londoño, a member police officer Darren Wilson killed Jeff Fager, CBS News chairman of The New York Times editorial unarmed teenager Michael Brown. and executive producer of 60 Min- board, wrote a column about his He resigned from on utes, said in a statement from CBS. friendship with Di-Natale and what Nov. 30. OPC Foundation to Launch a New Fellowship in 2015 By Jane Reilly bought Newsweek magazine in 1961. As acting CEO, The OPC Foundation will be upping its arsenal of Beebe had, Martz notes, the astonishing idea that edito- funded scholarships and fellowships at the OPC Foun- rial talent was vital to making money in journalism, and dation luncheon in 2015 with the addition of the Fritz he bestowed corporate stock and options on reporters, Beebe Fellowship. Endowed by former OPC president writers and editors as well as the business side. His vi- Larry Martz and his wife Anne and aimed at aspiring sion, according to Martz, made this award possible. business journalists, the fellowship is named for Freder- “Although I have covered some tough spots in the ick S. “Fritz” Beebe who ran Co. world,” said Bill Holstein, president of the OPC Foun- as a regent between the death of Philip Graham in 1963 dation, “my career has been mostly devoted to business and Katharine Graham’s full command in the early ‘70s. and economic coverage. So it is with personal pleasure As Martz explains, Beebe had a special appreciation that I thank Anne and Larry Martz for endowing this fel- for journalism and journalists. A Wall Street lawyer and lowship.” The Beebe award brings the number of OPC adviser to the Grahams, he had served on The Post’s Foundation scholarships/fellowships supporting busi- board for years and played a key role when The Post ness and financial journalism to four.

OPC Bulletin • January 2015 • Page 8 PRESS FREEDOM UPDATE... By Susan Kille Masked gunmen who burst into a Nine journalists, a building The groups agree that the Middle Paris office Jan. 7 killed 12 people in maintenance worker and two police East remains the most dangerous re- a terrorist attack on Charlie Hebdo, officers died. gion for journalists, with Syria being a satirical newspaper, that brought The attack in Paris came shortly the deadliest country. In November, the deadly worldwide attack on free- after the annual end-of-year release the Syrian Journalists Association dom of expression to the heart of of statistics about journalists killed said the toll among journalists and Europe. Condemnation was quick and imprisoned. Although counts media workers in Syria had risen to and forceful from journalists, world 257 since the start of the country’s leaders and ordinary people around civil war in May 2011. the world. Local journalists covering re- While scores of journalists in gional issues and conflicts typically dangerous places or in countries make up the vast majority of deaths that lack support for a free press are but CPJ said 2014 was different with murdered each year, such violence is international journalists accounting rare in Western democracies. This, for nearly a quarter of the deaths, a

however, was the second attack on (flickr) Guillaume Vigier rate double that of the past. Those Charlie Hebdo, which holds no per- Throngs of supporters gathered at deaths included Anja Niedring- son, group or institution as off-limits the Place de la République in Paris haus, a German photographer for from lampoons. The newspaper had to show solidarity against attacks on The Associated Press, who was shot been under police protection since a free expression. dead in April by a police officer in 2011 firebombing followed the pub- Afghanistan while covering elec- lication of a spoof issue, promoted differ due to varying definitions of tions; Camille Lepage, a young as guest edited the Prophet Muham- who is a journalist and how a death French photojournalist who in April mad. is connected to journalism, press became the first Western journalist “This attack against journalists freedom groups say that 2014 was to die covering the conflict in the – not in the Middle East this time, one of the deadliest years on record. Central African Republic; James but in the heart of Paris – targeted ● The Committee to Protect Jour- Foley and Steven Sotloff, kid- not one satirical magazine, but the nalists reported Dec. 23 that at least napped American journalists who very idea of a free press,” said Mar- 60 journalists were killed in 2014 were beheaded last summer by the cus Mabry, president of the OPC. “It in relation to their work, compared Islamic State; and Luke Summers, with 70 who died in 2013. The 2014 a British-born U.S. journalist, who number may rise because CPJ is still was kidnapped and killed by his cap- investigating the cause of another 18 tors during a failed rescue attempt in deaths. December. And, although his death ● Reporters Without Borders on was not the result of a killing, Mi- Dec. 16 said that 66 journalists were chel du Cille of The Washington murdered in 2014, a decrease from Post lost his life in December from 71 in 2013. The group added that an apparent heart attack while cov- Clément Belleudy (flickr) 119 journalists were kidnapped dur- ering the Ebola crisis in West Africa. Supporters craft a makeshift memo- ing the year, with 40 still held hos- Justice is rarely delivered in the rial in Grenoble, to honor tage. those killed in Wednesday’s terror- deaths of journalists. In perhaps the ● The International Press In- most outrageous example, no one ist attacks against Charlie Hebdo stitute on Dec. 31 listed at least 98 journalists. has yet been convicted in the 2009 journalists who lost their lives in deaths of 32 journalists and 26 oth- connection to their work in 2014. In ers in the Philippines during a grisly has already accomplished one of its 2013, the IPI recorded 120 deaths. massacre committed by 100 men goal: it has shocked us. But it will not ● The Press Emblem Campaign with automatic rifles and machetes silence us. We grieve for and with reported Jan. 5 at least 138 journal- who intercepted an election convoy. our confreres in France and with the ists were killed in 32 countries, with Although 108 people face trials, jus- French people, of all faiths, and we 2014 following 2012 as the deadliest tice has been slowed by delays, ac- recommit ourselves to the simple if year in the last 10 years. The 2013 perilous mission of reporting.” tally was 129. (Continued on Page 10)

OPC Bulletin • January 2015 • Page 9 cusations of bribes and the murders ● The 9 dead journalists in the ● A suicide bombing on Dec. 11 of four witnesses. Charlie Hebdo assault included at a French cultural center in Kabul, In its year-end count, CPJ iden- Stéphane Charbonnier, the editor led to the Dec. 20 death of Zubair tified more than 200 journalists im- and cartoonist known as . Hatami, a cameraman for private prisoned in 2014, with China being Four other cartoonists also television station Mitra TV. Hatami the largest jailer. CPJ said it helped died: Philippe Honoré; Georges was filming a dance and music secure the early release of 41 im- Wolinskil; Bernard Verlhac, known performance titled “Heartbeat, prisoned journalists during the year. as ; and Jean Cabut, The Silence After The Explosion” Reporters Without Borders said 178 known as . The others were that criticized suicide attacks in journalists were imprisoned, 853 ar- , a psychoanalyst and Afghanistan. columnist; , an rested and 139 fled their countries. ● Reynaldo Paz Mayes, a Among those behind bars are economist and regular columnist; Mustapha Ourrad, a copy editor; Honduran television station owner Mohamed Fahmy, Baher Mo- and news presenter, was shot dead hamed and Peter Greste, journalists and Michel Renaud, a former journalist visiting the office. Dec. 15 while exercising in an from Al Jazeera’s English-language outdoor sporting complex. During service who have been held by ● In what appeared to be a his television program, Paz often Egyptian authorities since December kidnap-for-ransom case gone bad, touched on sensitive issues such as 2013. Egypt’s highest appeals court the bodies of Jazmin Martinez, impunity. He was also a member of on Jan. 1 ordered a retrial for the a Mexican journalist, and her an opposition party. three in a move that seemed to ac- knowledge flaws in a trial that found ● Five journalists were killed them guilty of aiding the outlawed during December in Syria. Mahran Muslim Brotherhood. The men were Al Deeri, a correspondent working denied bail as they await a new trial. for Al Jazeera Arabic, died Dec. 10 Fahmy, a Canadian, and Greste, an while covering battles in southern Australian, have applied to be de- Syria when his vehicle collided Attorney General’s Office of Nayarit, Mexico Attorney General’s with a rebel vehicle while taking ported under a recent presidential de- Jazmin Martinez and her husband cree that allows for foreign convicts Alejandro Ramirez Topete cover from government fire. Rami or suspects to be transferred to their Asmi, Yousef El-Dous and Salem countries to serve their sentences or husband were found Jan. 3, a Khalil, three journalists from the to be tried there. No precedents exist week after they went missing Syrian opposition channel Orient for how the law might be applied to in the western Mexican state of News, were killed in a missile strike the Al Jazeera case. Mohamed is an Nayarit. Authorities said two of in the same area Dec. 8. Almost a year after he was kidnapped, Abdul Egyptian and his freedom depends the five suspected members of Rahman Abu Batra, who worked on his sentence being overturned by the kidnapping gang involved in for Syrian Al Shaab TV, was killed the Egyptian courts. the killings have been arrested. Kidnappers demanded a ransom by the Islamic State on Dec. 5 in Jason Rezaian, bureau chief in Lattakia, a city in Northwest Syria. Tehran for The Washington Post, of 2 million pesos. Martinez was a former cultural and entertainment also entered the new year in cus- reporter for the Televisa network. ● Two Somali journalists were tody. Rezaian, who was arrested by among 15 victims killed in a double Iranian authorities in July, has been ● Gunman standing outside and bombing Dec. 5 outside a restaurant held longer than any other Western shooting through a kitchen window popular with journalists in the town journalist detained in Iran. Formal killed Marcos de Barros Leopoldo of Baidoa. Three other journalists charges were delayed until Dec. 6, Guerra, a Brazilian journalist and and several other civilians were although even then the charges were lawyer, in his home on Dec. 23. injured. Abdulkadir Ahmed Mayow, not disclosed. Guerra wrote a blog where he a reporter for Somali Channel TV According to news reports, at denounced corruption in Ubatuba, a and Star FM, and Mohamed Isaq least 20 journalists lost their lives in small city on the northern coast of Barre, a cameraman for Kalsan TV, the last month: Sao Paulo state. were both killed.

(Continued From Page 3) ror. “We must be mindful,” he said, “of James Madison’s war against cyberattacks, which is generating its own warning that no nation could preserve its freedom in the gusher of federal spending and its own “cyber-industrial midst of continual warfare.” But this war has no end, and complex” to keep the money flowing. In May of 2013, the powerful forces line up to keep it going. Will we pay any president said that it was time to rethink the war on ter- price for liberty if the price is our liberty?

OPC Bulletin • January 2015 • Page 10 Meet the OPC Members: a Q&A With Andrew Meldrum By Susan Kille Andrew Meldrum reported from Zimbabwe for The Economist and from 1980 to May 2003, when he was illegally expelled after the government objected to his reports exposing state torture. He is the author of Where We Have Hope, a memoir of his 23 years as a journalist in Zimbabwe.

Current job: Assistant Africa Editor for The Associ- ated Press, in Johannesburg – helping to shape AP’s coverage of Africa by commissioning, editing and pub- lishing stories from all of sub-Saharan Africa.

Hometown: Hudson, Ohio Carley Petesch

Age: 63 Andrew Meldrum at his desk in the AP bureau in Johannesburg. Education: Middlebury College, history major; Co- (Thanks to a brilliant defense by my courageous lawyer lumbia University School of Journalism; Nieman Fel- Beatrice Mtetwa, I was acquitted.) lowship at Harvard When traveling, I like to … read up on the economic Languages: English, French and political situation and then be open to observations that contradict what I have learned. First job in journalism: Editor of Hudson Times, my hometown weekly, circulation 3,200. I went into Hardest story: Immediately after my expulsion I wrote journalism with the goal of becoming a foreign cor- a piece for The Guardian about my years in Zimbabwe, respondent so I could go out and see the world and which matched the country’s independence in 1980 un- get away from the small town where I grew up. My til 2003, when I was expelled. It was also one of my first job was in that small town and I learned so much best pieces of work. about reporting, writing and developing contacts. I re- defined myself in that town. People came to know me Journalism heroes: James Foley, the American jour- as a journalist. nalist beheaded by the Islamic State group, and Carlos Cardoso, the Mozambican journalist murdered in 2000 Countries reported from: Angola, Botswana, Britain, following his investigation into corruption. Both were Ethiopia, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Madagascar, Mau- courageous journalists and I am proud to have worked ritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Rwanda, Seychelles, with them. South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe. Advice for journalists who want to work overseas: Learn the craft of journalism and look for a country and Joining the OPC: I joined the OPC in 2003, relatively region that interests you. Develop your knowledge of late in my career. I wish I had joined sooner because its history, culture, literature, everything. If you find a I could have benefited from its activities, information news organization to send you to the country – great! and support for journalists. The OPC’s internship pro- If not, look for freelancing opportunities and go for it. grams impress me; they give great starts to young jour- The best opportunities are those you create for your- nalists. self. My best reporting was done on a shoestring budget where I scrambled to get the news. What did your expulsion from Zimbabwe teach you about the news media: I was put in a position that ev- Dream job: To work as a journalist for another 40 years. ery journalist hates – I became the story. I was surprised at how much international attention was focused on my Place most eager to visit: Lagos, Nigeria – I’ve never case. I learned how important it was to stay on mes- been there and I hear it is teeming with life and stories. sage. I kept saying, “This is not about me, it is about the Zimbabwe government’s attempts to stifle independent Country most want to return to: Zimbabwe. and critical reporting.” Twitter handle: @A_Meldrum Worst experience as a journalist: In Zimbabwe, I was held in jail for two days but worse was being on trial Want to add to the OPC’s collection of Q&As with mem- for two months for allegedly publishing a falsehood. bers? Contact Susan Kille at [email protected].

OPC Bulletin • January 2015 • Page 11 Thomas, a fashion and culture and her home was under surveil- reporter based in Paris, said she lance. She and her family fled into New Books conducted 150 new interviews and exile after a government source told FASHION “mountains of research” and drew her snipers were given her photo. ODS AND KINGS: THE RISE on reporting done during her 15 In The Lonely War: One Wom- Gand Fall of Alexander McQueen years as the culture and an’s Account of the Strug- and John Galliano, a book due in fashion correspondent gle for Modern Iran [Basic February from Penguin Press by for Newsweek in Paris – Books, December 2014] OPC member Dana Thomas, was from 1995 to 2011 – and Fathi draws on more than listed by The Guardian as one of the notably, a 1997 interview two decades of reporting most anticipated non-fiction books with McQueen for a cov- and interviews with ordi- of 2015. Her first book, Deluxe: er story about him just as nary Iranians and high-level How Luxury Lost Its Luster, was a he took over the creative officials before and since bestseller in 2007. helm at Givenchy. The her departure. She recounts “The new book ex- book’s publi- the sudden changes of the plores the conflict be- cation date of 1979 revolution, the turbu- tween art and commerce Feb. 10 is the lent years that followed and in fashion and other cre- fifth anniver- offers some cautious opti- ative businesses – a con- sary of McQueen’s death. mism that moderates are gaining flict that has escalated in Thomas is currently a ground. the age of globalization,” contributing editor for T, The book is a social and political Thomas wrote in a note to The New York Times’ style history but is also about Fathi’s life. the OPC. “In fashion, there magazine, and the Paris Born into a secular upper-middle- were many casualties – the correspondent for Harp- class family in Tehran, she was 9 most famous being Mc- er’s Bazaar Australia. She years old when the shah was forced Queen, who committed served as a contributing from his throne. suicide, and Galliano, who editor for WSJ, The Wall Her father lost his job as an of- imploded in a public drunken rant of Street Journal’s monthly magazine, ficial in a government ministry and anti-Semitic slurs. The book shows from 2011-2012, as the European went to work in an orchard. Mean- how, under the increased demands to editor of Condé Nast Portfolio from while, her parent’s housekeeper was meet relentless corporate deadlines, 2008 to 2009. able to retire and purchase a modern both succumbed to depression and apartment because her family sup- addictions.” MEMOIR ported the new regime. In public, RANIAN AUTHORITIES DID Fathi and her younger sister con- I not want anyone, particularly cit- formed to Islamic dress codes and izens such as Nazila Fathi working professed religious beliefs. At home, for foreign news organizations, to the family dressed and acted as they cover the uprisings after the coun- wished. try’s disputed 2009 presidential Fathi’s journalism career began Upcoming Events election. Fathi, who worked nine when her English studies qualified years as a reporter in Iran for The her to be a translator for foreign Book Night New York Times, defied her -gov journalists. She says “the journalism With Roger Cohen: ernment and reported the violence bug bit me” when she worked with 6:30 p.m. Jan. 14 authorities used against peaceful of The Times in 1992. protesters. Soon, she was followed — By Susan Kille Mixer at The Half King: 6:00 p.m. Jan. 15 WELCOME TO OUR NEW MEMBERS Kathryn Dill Scott Kraft OPC Screening Staff Reporter Deputy Managing Editor Forbes ‘The Rise of ISIS’: Active Resident Active Non-Resident 6:30 p.m. Jan. 22 (Young) Erica Fish Caroline Preston Economist Cartoonist Content Producer Editor, Features/Digital Kevin Kallaugher Asia Society Al Jazeera America 6:30 p.m. Feb. 12 Associate Resident Active Resident (Young) (Young)

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