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Jeff Glor Tells OPC Foundation Scholars INSIDE to ‘Stay Focused’ Amid Threats to News Biz Event Preview: Book Night With Steve Coll 2 EVENT RECAP The list of recipients included 16 graduate and undergraduate stu- by chad bouchard Marshall Loeb dents aspiring to become foreign Memorial 3 BS Evening News an- correspondents, with six scholars chor Jeff Glor told a packed from Columbia University, two from Symposium Preview: Peace, Conflict room at the OPC Founda- City University of New York, one C from New York University, two from and The Media 3 tion Scholar Awards Luncheon that journalists at the start of their Brown University, and one each from Scholar Profiles 4-5 careers should remember that this the University of Missouri, DePauw is not the first time that the industry University, University of California- People Column 6-8 Berkeley, University of Texas at Aus- has faced challenges. Remembering “This is not a completely tin and Yale. George Bookman 7 unique moment in our history,” he Each of the scholars spoke about Jeff Glor said during a keynote address at DAMES MICHAEL their own paths to journalism, many Press Freedom Update 8-9 the Feb. 23 event at the Yale Club. as shrinking overseas bureaus and sharing anecdotes from the field. Among them was Jack Brook, “If the reporting is extraordinary, faltering public trust in news. “Good New Books 10 people will find it.” journalists make other journalists the David R Schweisberg Memorial The Emmy-award winner called better. We can and must inspire each Scholarship winner, who opened the Q&A: for optimism despite obstacles such other. Stay focused,” Glor said. Continued on Page 2 Christopher Dickey 11 PEN America to Share Report on Censorship in China are cut down to size. sive interviews with writers, poets, Cognitive Surplus; James Tager, EVENT PREVIEW: MARCH 13 PEN America’s report includes artists, and others whose lives senior manager of free expression an examination of how such have personally been impacted by programs at PEN America; and he OPCand PEN America censorship impacts the lives of this system of censorship, as well Edward Wong, an international are co-sponsoring a pro- Chinese writers and artists, for as interviews with anonymous correspondent for The New York gram to discuss PEN’s new T whom social media is often a employees at Chinese social media Times and a Nieman Fellow at report on social media censorship creative and financial lifeline. For companies. Harvard University. Wong served within China. The report will writers and other creatives, the The panel will include: Kaiser as Beijing Bureau Chief and China help demonstrate how, under the censorship of their social media Kuo, co-founder of Sinica podcast, correspondent from 2008 to 2017. tenure of President Xi Jinping, presence is an erasure not just of a current affairs podcast in Bei- The moderator will be Minky the Chinese government’s control their opinions, but of their work jing, and former director of Worden, director of global over the social media space in the and their creative expression. communications at Baidu. initiatives at Human country has both tightened and At a time when the line be- com – prior to that he Rights Watch. expanded. The Chinese govern- Click here tween a writer’s official work and was a journalist with The program will be- ment is wielding its ability to to RSVP for the his or her social media presence is Red Herring and China panel. gin at 6:30 in the Priestly surveil and censor as a way to increasingly blurred, censorship Now; Clay Shirky, fac- Room at Club Quarters. control civic discussion online, to and surveillance of social media ulty in Interactive Media Visit the OPC website to prevent dissatisfaction and dissent, means that there is no safe outlet Arts at NYU Shanghai and read more, or click on the and to protect the reputations of its for uncensored expression. author of two books on social me- gold button to RSVP. highest members while ensuring The report includes comprehen- dia: Here Comes Everybody and that influential social media users 1 1 Steve Coll to Discuss Book on Covert U.S. Wars

United States to apprehend the motivations The moderator will be Robert Nickelsberg, EVENT PREVIEW: MARCH 22 and intentions of the Pakistan intelligence author of the prize-winning book, Afghanistan agency’s “Directorate S.” This highly secretive – A Distant War. He has worked as a contract teve Coll, author of the Pulitzer organization had its own views on the Taliban photographer for TIME magazine for over 25 Prize-winning Ghost Wars and the dean and Afghanistan’s place in a wider competi- years. His new book of photographs, Afghani- of the Graduate School of Journalism at S tion for influence between Pakistan, India stan’s Heritage: Restoring Spirit and Columbia University, will talk to OPC mem- and China, and which assumed that bers about his new book, Directorate S: The C. Stone, done in conjunction with the the U.S. and its allies would soon be I. A. and America’s Secret Wars in Afghanistan Click here U.S. Department of State, will be leaving. and Pakistan, 2001-2016. His book explains to RSVP for the published in May, 2018. Coll is also a staff writer forThe book night. how America came to be so badly ensnared in The program will get underway New Yorker, and previously worked an elaborate, factional, and seemingly intermi- at 7:00 p.m. in the Priestly Room at for twenty years at The Washington nable conflict in South Asia. Club Quarters. Click on the gold button Post, where he received a Pulitzer Prize for As Coll makes clear, the war in Afghani- to make a reservation. v explanatory journalism in 1990. stan was doomed because of the failure of the

‘Scholars’ ence pitching big political stories in Beirut Continued From Page 1 only to have editors reject them one by one. MANY THANKS She recalled nearly falling into a big hole in acceptance speeches with a story about his the street one day, and pitched road conditions The OPC Foundation is especially first assignment covering protests in Chile as a story. “That actually turned into my first grateful for its Patrons and last summer while working for the Santiago feature on how unsafe walking conditions in Friends who supported the Times, showing up in jeans and a tee shirt Beirut were quite literally killing people.” 2018 Scholar Awards Luncheon. amid riot police in armored vehicles and pro- She also wrote about anti-sectarian university Their contributions ensure testers wearing gas masks. clubs and chased down a sexual health hotline “And that’s how I ended my first day in the continued success of the number she found on a restroom wall at a foundation’s scholarship/ Santiago, soaking wet from water cannons, club. She said those kinds of stories “taught my face stinging from tear gas, alone in a me a value that I will always strive to carry fellowship program. metropolis where I knew no one,” he said, with me: Fresh eyes. Not necessarily those Patrons adding that the while the adventure of such of a young foreign naïve reporter, but those experiences is exciting, he cares more about of someone who takes notice and takes every Bloomberg “holding conversations with people quite conversation experience as an opportunity to CBS News different than myself and listening deeply to indulge curiosity and follow it.” DeBré will Daimler those stories and engaging their perspectives head to Jerusalem on an OPC Foundation fel- General Motors without judgement.” Brook plans to work as a lowship with The Associated Press. Reuters freelancer in Hong Kong this summer. This year marked the launch of the Sally Marcus Roy Rowan Other comments from scholars included Jacobsen Fellowship, named after the veteran Toyota Motor North America those of Harper’s Magazine Scholarship win- Associated Press correspondent based in Friends ner Adriana Carranca Corrêa, a Brazilian Mexico City and Brussels who died suddenly The Associated Press multimedia journalist with several years of last May. Bill Holstein, OPC Foundation BlackRock foreign reporting experience. She said at the president, said Jacobsen was the AP’s first Boies Schiller Flexner LLP beginning of her career many editors warned female international editor who “smashed the Hong Kong Economic her that the profession of journalism was un- glass ceiling.” and Trade Office in New York stable and dying. The first recipient was Hiba Dlewati, who “I refused to believe that. I think it’s a talked about her experience reporting on the Pamela Howard Family Foundation great time to be a journalist. It has become U.S. coalition defeat of ISIS forces in June International House even more relevant, and the good news is 2015 near the Syria-Turkey border, where thou- Knight-Bagehot Fellowship, Columbia that people are realizing that.” As evidence sands of people were displaced from the fight- University of the profession’s importance, she recalled ing. She said she discovered many different and Leibner/Cooper Family Foundation recently that her copy of The New York Times conflicting perspectives among survivors. “We Quest Diagnostics was stolen from her doorstep in the Bronx. are living in increasingly polarized times, and William S. Rukeyser “We are back in the game!” she joked, since it’s easy to just hear what you want to hear,” S&P Global it means someone still thinks the news is she said. “One of the most humbling and eye The Wall Street Journal valuable enough to steal. Corrêa will serve opening lessons journalism has taught me is as an OPC Foundation fellow with Reuters in that there are many truths to any story.” v Brussels. The Stan Swinton Scholarship went to Isabel DeBré, who talked about her experi-

February-March 2018 2 Marshall Loeb: Journalism is God’s Work by patricia kranz he wit, wisdom and extraor- April Symposium dinary work ethic of past OPC to Explore Peace, TPresident Marshall Loeb were remembered by his family and friends during a memorial service at Temple Conflict and Emanu-El on Fifth Avenue in midtown Manhattan on Jan. 18. The Media His children, Michael and Margaret Loeb, described what it was like to grow up with a father who lived and breathed EVENT PREVIEW: APRIL 11 journalism. They called him Marshall, He innovated. He had bandwidth before not father. Dinner time was devoted to bandwidth was even a word. He was the he group War Stories Peace discussions of news of the day, so much first, and the ultimate, multi-platform Stories is inviting journalists, so that their friends declined invita- journalist.” Tpeacebuilders and NGO commu- tions to the Loeb home to avoid “being Mathisen drew chuckles from the nity members to participate in a one-day interrogated.” No summer vacations crowd when he said he was grateful he symposium on peace, conflict and the at the beach for the Loebs: They went worked for Marshall before there were media at The Times Center, 242 West with their father on working trips to the cellphones. “The idea of working for 41st Street. The event organizers write Soviet Union or to Cuba on the eve of Marshall, weaponized, with a hand-held that good reporting “can change hearts the revolution. device that he could use to reach me, or and minds. They can spark astonishing Marshall loved working for TIME, text me, any time of the day or night, responses to crises. We’ve seen it hap- Fortune and Money magazine, retir- anywhere in the world he was or I was, pen – stories can end wars, bring about ing from Time Inc. only because the sends shivers through my body.” peace and save lives. A good story can company had mandatory retirement at Marshall’s outlook never changed. change the world. Let’s discuss.” 65, said Michael. After that, Marshall “When asked at the end of his life what Check the event website for a list edited The Columbia Journalism Review, advice he would give an aspiring jour- of speakers. Regularly priced tickets aired financial advice on CBS Radio and nalist,” his daughter Margaret said, “he are $225 and include lunch and a served a short stint as host of the PBS said, ‘Never give up, never give up.’” reception, but WSPS is offering Click here television program “Wall Street Week.” Representing the OPC at the service a special discount for up to 20 OPC members to purchase a to read more “He believed that at the highest levels, were Michael Serrill and Allan Dodds about the journalism is God’s work,” said Michael. Frank, past OPC presidents; Patricia ticket for $99 using the promo symposium. Tyler Mathisen, who was hired by Kranz, OPC executive director; Sonya code: FP-WSPS. v Loeb at Money, said he never knew any- Fry, retired OPC executive director; and one who worked harder than Marshall. members David Fondiller and Jeremy “He engaged. He was full of enterprise. Main. v FCCJ in Tokyo Faces Possible Demise by william j holstein the FCCJ.” He estimated that those penalties would cost the club about he Foreign Correspondents Club of Japan, where OPC mem- $2.6 million. “Even if we could have negotiated this amount down by bers enjoy reciprocal relations, is facing a deep crisis and possibly one half, it would still have resulted in the immediate insolvency of the a threat to its continued existence. President Khaldon Azhari, in Club,” Azhari said. T Azhari called on members for help in figuring out how to generate an email to members, said a 2015 decision to move into a new building in Tokyo in October 2018 had placed the club in a difficult situation. If more revenue. “We are carefully watching our expenses but there is only the FCCJ decides not to move in order to save money, the new landlord, so much that we can do to save money – and most certainly not enough Mitsubishi Estate, will impose steep penalties because that would violate to cover the increase in rental cost that the pre-lease agreement autho- a pre-lease agreement the club signed with it. If the club goes ahead and rized by the General Manager and signed by then then Board of Direc- makes the move to the Fuji Building, it will face an annual rate increase tors in 2015 commits us to,” he said. of about $2 million, which the club cannot afford. The FCCJ, conveniently located in the Yurakacho Denki Building, “Many members have asked whether we can avoid moving if it will has been devastated in recent years by the decisions of major Western cause us so much financial distress,” Azhari wrote. “The simple answer news organizations to shift correspondents from Tokyo to Hong Kong is that cancelling the pre-lease agreement that the current Board inherited or mainland China because China was considered a bigger story. As a would have resulted, as of Nov. 30, 2017, in substantial claims from result, tables at the club reserved for Western correspondents, which used to be packed with scribes imbibing their favorite beverages, are often Mitsubishi Estate for damages in respect of work already done by that v date to prepare the 5th and 6th floors of the Fuji Building for use by empty while tables used by business members of the club are filled.

February-March 2018 3 age. An NYU grad, she wrote about Chikur Balaji, the so-called visa temple, where young Indians pray for H-1B visa approval, the program that allows highly skilled foreign professionals to work in the U.S. Bilingual in Spanish and English with some proficiency in Urdu and Italian, she has an OPC Foundation fellowship in the Re- MICHAEL DAMES MICHAEL uters bureau in Mexico City. Left to right: Isabel DeBré, Elizabeth Whitman, Adriana Carranca Corrêa, Congcong Daphne Zhang, Cecilie Kallestrup, Madison Dudley, Yifan Yu, Scott Squires, Olivia Carville, Micah Danney, Claire Molloy, Amelia ISABEL DEBRÉ Nierenberg, Suman Naishadham, Hiba Dlewati, JoeBill Muñoz and Jack Brook. Brown University Stan Swinton Fellowship Endowed by the Swinton 2018 OPC Foundation Scholarship Winners Family; presented by John Daniszewki, VP and Editor at Following is a list of the sixteen 2018 scholarship and fellowship Large for Standards, The recipients, their affiliations, the prize they won, the presenter, and a brief ELIZABETH WHITMAN Associated Press description of their winning applications. Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism Isabel described how the president Irene Corbally Kuhn of the influential Secular Club at JACK BROOK Having covered the Arab Spring Scholarship the American University of Beirut for Gulf News in the United Arab Brown University Endowed by the Scripps made the group a formidable po- Emirates, she is fascinated by the David R. Schweisberg Me- Howard Foundation; presented litical force in Lebanon, a country infinite diversity of Muslim culture, morial Scholarship by Jack-Howard Potter of the grappling with the uncomfortable as typified by the female matriarchy Sponsored by the Schweisberg Pamela Howard Family Foun- reality that governing by sectarian of the Minangkabau of the West Family; presented by David’s dation quotas split among 11 of the 18 brother, Matthew Schweisberg Sumantran highlands of Indonesia, official sects has been a failure. the subject of her essay. Cecilie has As a reporter for nearly two years A senior at Brown University, an OPC Foundation fellowship in Only a college junior, Jack has in Jordon, Elizabeth witnessed she also studied Arabic in Jordan the Reuters bureau in Nairobi. already worked for the Santiago increasing levels of sexual harass- and now has an OPC Foundation Times and the Jerusalem Post. In fellowship in the Associated Press ADRIANA CARRANCA ment as women there gained more his essay, he wrote about how a bureau in Jerusalem. CORRÊA access to public spaces, the subject dispute over the construction of of her essay. With a B.A. in Mid- Columbia University Graduate Latin America’s largest dam split dle East history from Columbia, SCOTT SQUIRES School of Journalism the residents of the Chilean vil- she intends to return to the region University of Texas at Austin Harper’s Magazine Scholar- lage of Caimanes. Some opted for with a greater expertise in science, Emanuel R. Freedman ship in memory of I.F. Stone a cash settlement from a major health and environment. Proficient Scholarship Endowed by John R. MacArthur copper mining company while in Arabic and spoken Mandarin, Endowed by family; presented and the Pierre F. Simon Chari- others held out for the promise of she is also a classical violist. She by Alix Freedman, Manny’s table Trust; presented by Rick clean water. Proficient in Spanish, has an OPC Foundation fellowship daughter and Ethics Editor, MacArthur, publisher, Harper’s Jack is a senior staff writer for the with the GroundTruth Project in Reuters Magazine Brown Daily Herald. Jerusalem. Born in Cyprus and raised in the CECILIE KALLESTRUP Having already reported from more Philippines and Saudi Arabia, Columbia University Graduate SUMAN NAISHADHAM than a dozen countries on four con- Scott renewed his interest in School of Journalism University of Missouri tinents in three languages, Adriana, Mexico where he once worked at Reuters Fellowship H.L. Stevenson Fellowship a native of Brazil, is now acquir- the Oaxaca Times. In his essay, he Sponsored by Reuters and Funded by the Gamsin family ing multimedia skills. In her essay, wrote about the changing migra- funded by the Scripps Howard and sponsored by family and she wrote about the complications tion patterns in Mexico for Central Foundation; friends; presented by OPC posed by the reintegration of former American migrants trying to reach presented by Mike Williams, Foundation treasurer Steve boy soldiers kidnapped as children the U.S. border. With a B.A. in Global Enterprise Editor, Reuters Swanson, NY Botanical Garden by the LGA in Uganda. Fluent in photojournalism from UT, he is English, Portuguese and Spanish, Having spent a year as a freelancer now pursuing a double masters Before arriving in the U.S. as a she has a master’s degree from the and staff reporter in India, Suman in global policy and journalism. Fulbright Scholar, Cecilie worked London School of Economics and is fascinated by the differences in Fluent in Spanish, he has an OPC in radio, TV, web and print in her an OPC Foundation fellowship with local and foreign coverage and Foundation fellowship with Re- native Denmark and elsewhere. Reuters bureau in Brussels. how that plays out in the digital uters in Buenos Aires. February-March 2018 4 MICAH DANNEY rural Pennsylvania, a story she JOEBILL MUÑOZ CONGCONG DAPHNE CUNY Graduate School covered for the Pittsburgh Post- UC-Berkeley Graduate School ZHANG of Journalism Gazette. Graduating this year with of Journalism Columbia Graduate School Theo Wilson Scholarship both a B.A. and M.A. in modern The Walter & Betsy Cronkite of Journalism Sponsored by donations from history, she is the opinion editor of Scholarship The Fritz Beebe Fellowship family and friends; presented the Yale Daily News. She is fluent Funded by Daimler and Sup- Endowed by Anne and Larry by Allen Alter, OPC Foundation in French and has an OPC Foun- ported by CBS News and Martz; presented by Anne and dation fellowship at the Associated friends; presented by Jeff Glor, Larry Martz A multimedia journalist, Micah’s Press bureau in Dakar. Anchor, CBS Evening News main focus is the Middle East. A with Jeff Glor Having already worked for The journalism major and graduate of MADISON DUDLEY Washington Post and Reuters Stonybrook University, he spent DePauw University As an undergrad at Texas A&M, in China, CongCong now has last summer at the Times of Israel S&P Global Award for Eco- JoeBill directed live sports an OPC Foundation fellowship where he met Issa Amro, the sub- nomic and Business broadcasts, a path that led him to with The Wall Street Journal ject of his essay. A controversial Reporting documentary filmmaking. Named in London. A graduate of the figure in the city of Hebron, Amro Endowed by S&P Global; pre- for the two men credited with University of Washington, she preaches a non-violent solution sented by David Guarino, Head securing his family’s U.S. citizen- told the story of Li Wei, one of a to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, of External Communications, ship (his father’s first employer hundred thousand or more Chinese but is still threatened by legal S&P Global and Bill Clinton), JoeBill wrote children who had gone missing in challenges from both sides. Micah about migrants who perished the previous four decades, and his has an OPC Foundation fellowship Madison is the editor-in-chief crossing the Yuma Desert and the unlikely 20-year reunion with his with the GroundTruth Project in of The DePauw, the university’s physical and imaginary borders mother who never gave up search- Jerusalem. student-run newspaper. A college that harsh environments pose. ing for her son. senior, she traveled to Jerusalem Fluent in Spanish, he has an OPC OLIVIA CARVILLE last summer to intern at The Media Foundation fellowship with The HIBA DLEWATI Columbia University Graduate Line, an independent Middle East Associated Press in Mexico City. Columbia Graduate School School of Journalism news organization. In her essay, of Journalism Roy Rowan Scholarship she wrote about Hanna Bohman, CLAIRE MOLLOY Sally Jacobsen Fellowship Endowed by family, friends and a former Canadian model who CUNY Graduate School Endowed by family and friends; admirers; presented by Roy’s joined the Kurdish Women’s of Journalism presented by Sally’s husband, son, Marc Rowan Defense Unit that was fighting Nathan S. Bienstock Memo- Patrick Oster ISIS in northern Syria. She also rial Scholarship A New Zealand native, Olivia covered homicides in the nation’s Endowed by the Richard Born in Michigan but raised was a junior reporter when the capital as an intern for DC Wit- Leibner and Carole Cooper in Syria, Hiba had her medical Christchurch earthquake struck ness. Family Foundation; presented education in Damascus cut short in 2011. As part of the follow-up by Steve Sadicario, United Tal- by the Syrian war and finished her to her award-winning coverage, YIFAN YU ent Agency B.A. degree at the University of she went to China to interview New York University Michigan in Flint. As a fixer and the Chinese parents who lost their Jerry Flint Fellowship for A video journalist, Claire began reporter in the Middle East, she only children that day, the subject International Business her career in the film industry focused most often on the Syrian of her essay. Now focused on Reporting learning all aspects of production diaspora and wrote in her essay business and economic reporting, Endowed by family and friends; before moving on to create, when- about shady brokers who booked she is a graduate of the University presented by Kate McLeod, ever possible, her own documen- refugees on rickety ships for travel of Canterbury and has a diploma Jerry’s wife and Joe Flint, his taries. Her focus now is Southeast from Turkey to Greece. A dual in journalism from the Auckland son Asia, where she interned last sum- Syrian-American citizen, she has University of Technology. mer in Jakarta for VICE Indone- an OPC Foundation fellowship Yifan had already traveled to or sia. While there she met Bahadori, in the Associated Press bureau in AMELIA NIERENBERG worked in 20 different countries the subject of her essay and one Beirut. v Yale University before entering the business and of 14,000 refugees waiting for Flora Lewis Fellowship economic reporting program at resettlement somewhere else in Endowed by the Pierre F. NYU to pursue her goal of cover- the world. Claire is a graduate of Simon Charitable Trust; pre- ing international business. In her Skidmore College. sented by Jackie Albert-Simon, essay, she described how Chinese Flora’s friend start-ups claim to be engaged in the sharing economy for the sole Although Amelia has experi- purpose of attracting new capital. A ence as a reporter in Israel and Chinese national, she has a degree Lebanon, she chose to write about in journalism from Nanjing Univer- a domestic topic - a support group sity. Yifan’s next stop is Debtwire for mothers of opioid addicts in where she will cover lending. February-March 2018 5 WELCOME N E W PEOPLE By Chad Bouchard MEMBERS

Lenora Chu OPC SCHOLARS Miller Hogan digital ad revenue. Freelance 2015 Emanuel R. Freedman Scholar- Zucker made his Shanghai comments during a Active Overseas ship winner Ben Taub of The New Yorker won the George Polk Award keynote address at the Jim Huylebroek for Magazine Reporting for his Mobile World Con- Freelance Kabul report on the humanitarian devasta- gress in Barcelona, Active Overseas, Young tion caused by the shrinkage of Lake Spain. He said control (29 and under) Chad in Africa and linking the eco- and monetization of Anne-Elisabeth Moutet logical disaster to famine and armed digital content is the Columnist conflict. Among the other recipients “biggest issue facing The Telegraph was Iona Craig of The Intercept, who the growth of jour- Paris won the Foreign Reporting Award nalism in the years Active Overseas for documenting the destruction and ahead” and that doing Lois Parshley civilian casualties of a covert U.S. nothing could mean Freelance Ann Arbor, MI Navy SEAL raid on a remote village is currently a longform writer and “good journalism will Active Non-Resident, Young in Yemen. investigative reporter for the Times, go away, and that will be bad for the (29 and under) and has reported extensively in United States, and that will be bad Michael Miller, the 2009 Stan Minerva O. Salles conflict zones such as Afghanistan for those that are trying to tell the Columbia University Swinton Fellowship winner, and his and Iraq. In a release, James’ mother world about what is happening in Student colleagues Justin Jouvenal and Dan Diane Foley said that Chivers “has Syria today.” Business research firm Madeleine Schwartz Morse at The Washington Post have risked his life many times to bring eMarketer shows that Google and Freelance won the National Press Foundation’s us authentic stories from conflict Facebook account for 63.1 percent of Berlin 2017 Feddie Reporting Award for zones,” adding that he had often digital media ad spending in the U.S. Active Overseas, Young their reporting on MS-13. The NPF this year (29 and under) helped fellow journalists in harm’s judges said that the Post report- way abroad. Following the murder Nicole Tung ers “revealed lapses in the federal of her son in Syria in 2014, Diane Digital media company Vox Media Freelance refugee resettlement program that Foley launched the James W. Foley is laying off about 50 employees, ac- Istanbul cording to a memo Variety magazine Active Overseas, Young allowed MS-13 gang members to Legacy Foundation the same year. (30-34) slip through the cracks and regroup The other two recipients this year are obtained, as the company cuts back online video operations and other Ceylan Yeginsu in the United States. In the Washing- former National Security Council UK Correspondent ton area alone, more than 40 young counterterrorism official Jennifer programs including Racked, Curbed The New York Times immigrants have been involved in Easterly and Pakistani activist Ma- and SB Nation. The layoffs represent London MS-13 violence including murder. lala Yousafzai, the youngest Nobel about 5 percent of the company’s Active Overseas, Young In a deeply reported and beautifully workforce. Other digital media out- (30-34) Prize laureate. presented project, the Post reporters lets have struggled recently, with illuminated the resurgence of gang UPDATES BuzzFeed, Mashable and Refinery29 violence, which later became a cen- OPC President Deidre Depke will all making significant cuts late last tral issue in the Virginia governor’s serve as Marketplace’s next manag- year. race.” Michael had an OPC Founda- ing editor. Depke joined the Ameri- tion fellowship at the AP bureau in can Public Media program three The International Reporting Mexico City. years ago, first as a freelance editor Project has announced it will close for digital, then as New York bureau up shop after supporting journalism Caelainn Hogan, winner of the chief. In a welcome email, Mar- projects and fellowships around the 2014 H.L. Stevenson Fellowship, ketplace’s executive editor, Evelyn world for two decades. The IRP was has continued deep coverage of war- Larrubia, said she “couldn’t ask for founded in 1998 to fill a gap in inter- devastated Syria with two stories a better partner than Deidre to help national coverage as mainstream me- in National Geographic. An earlier strengthen our journalism and beef dia began to close overseas bureaus story about Syrians risking their lives up beat reporting.” Depke started her and shrink foreign desks. The organi- to visit a children’s hospital on the journalism career at BusinessWeek, zation says it supported 651 writers front lines appeared on the cover of serving as reporter and senior edi- in more than 115 countries during its The New York Times Sunday Maga- tor for a total of 12 years. She later years of operation. In a note obtained zine. In an email to the OPC Founda- worked at Newsweek, The Week.com by the Columbia Journalism Review, tion, she said she was “ever grateful and The Daily Beast before joining John Schidlovsky, IRP’s founder and for the support of the OPC over the Marketplace. Her first day at the new director, told alumni that “after 20 years.” post will be March 19. years, the year-to-year battle to raise sufficient operating funds finally WINNERS CNN President Jeff Zucker is call- caught up with us.” New York Times journalist Chris ing for U.S. regulators to investigate Chivers is one of three recipients of whether Google and Facebook have Vanity Fair reported in February that this year’s James W. Foley American become digital monopolies over CNN is preparing to reduce staff Hostage Freedom Awards. Chivers by as many as 50 positions as par- February-March 2018 6 7 ent company Time Warner looks for cuts. CNN’s vice president of com- People Remembered: munications, Matt Dornic, told USA Today that the organization had add- George Bookman by charles bookman ed 200 jobs over the last 18 months Bookman and that “not every new project has eorge B. Bookman, one of paid off.” The network has been ex- the OPC’s most senior mem- panding digital programs. AT&T bid bers, passed away recently in $85.4 billion to acquire Time Warner G Seattle, Washington the age of 103. A in October 2016, a merger the US noted journalist, he covered the White Justice Department sued to block. A House for The Washington Post during federal court is slated to hear AT&T’s Franklin Roosevelt’s Presidency. He case in March. broadcast in French over shortwave Upheaval at Newsweek has led to a radio in the Second World War from spate of layoffs of veteran journalists, Brazzaville, Congo, which flew the free top sales executive Ed Hannigan, ed- French flag. Later, he was responsible itor-in-chief Bob Roe and executive for news and propaganda in Cairo, Baghdad, Italy and Austria. editor Ken Li. The firings come as He reported national business and economic news for TIME magazine the publisher of Newsweek and The and Fortune during the 1950s. He covered Presidential campaigns from Adlai Internatonal Business Times grapples Stevenson to Nelson Rockefeller. At the dawn of television news, he served as with accusations that the company a panelist on “Meet the Press” and “Face the Nation.” He earned the respect bought and manipulated traffic from of financial reporters as director of public affairs for the New York Stock Ex- pirated video sites and engaged in change. When he directed public affairs for the New York Botanical Garden, ad fraud. The company, Newsweek he delivered weekly on-air gardening broadcasts on CBS News Radio. Born Media Group, has denied the fraud without a green thumb, the “Garden World” broadcasts got him into trouble allegations. The Manhattan district occasionally, when well-meaning gardeners would ask him for advice. attorney’s office raided the company Bookman chaired the OPC’s admissions committee for over a decade. and has launched an investigation. He remained active in club affairs until 2014. When asked once why he Adding to the list of troubles, in late devoted so much time to club affairs, he replied, “I guess I like the company February the company narrowly of journalists.” avoided eviction due to a long run- ning legal dispute with Guardian Life Charles Bookman wrote this remembrance of his father for the OPC. You Insurance over a sublease. can read more about George Bookman’s life in his memoir, titled Headlines, Deadlines and Lifelines, which was published in 2009. v Meanhile, OPC Governor Christo- pher Dickey voiced concern about the fate of Newsweek’s archives if the to executive vice president. She will security clearance due to the abuse current owners collapse. He said the continue to oversee daily operations allegations raised questions about archives “contain more than a quarter and work directly with CBS News White House handling of classified century of my stories: hundreds of president David Rhodes. Ciprian- material. A Washington Post article thousands of words, some of which Matthews has worked for the net- tracked the development of the story I risked my life to write, and many work for 25 years, serving in a range in a piece called “How Two Publica- of which I poured blood into on the of posts including foreign editor, tions Broke the Rob Porter Scandal.” keyboard.” senior producer and vice president of news. She started her television Ian Williams, a longtime OPC Joining an apparent wave of news- career at CNN’s New York bureau, member, has released his book room unionizations, a majority of where she served for 9 years. UNTold: The Real Story of the UN. Slate employees in late January Williams draws on his personal voted to join the Writers Guild of OPC member Louise Boyle made experience covering the UN since America East. More than 1,000 digi- waves when she broke the story of 1989 and serving as president of the tal news staff members have joined domestic abuse allegations against UN Correspondents Association. the union over the last two and a half key U.S. presidential aide Rob Porter The book, published by Just World years at media companies including for The Daly Mail on Feb. 6. The Books, includes illustrations from Vice, HuffPost, The Intercept, Giz- story included an interview with Jen- cartoonist Krishna, who has won two modo Media, ThinkProgress, MTV nifer Willoughby, Porter’s second Emmy awards for his writing on Ses- News, Thrillist and Salon. wife, who spoke on record about al- ame Street. A book launch was held leged abuses. A reporter at The Inter- at the Taszo restaurant in Washington NEW YORK: OPC member and cept, Ryan Grim, added details a day Heights. Williams is an associate CBS News executive Ingrid Cipri- later, spurring other media to follow. professor at Bard Center for Global- an-Matthews has been promoted Concerns about Porter failing to gain Continued on Page 8 February-March 2018 7 7 PEOPLE

Continued From Page 7 down as CNN’s Beijing bureau chief PEOPLE REMEMBERED in December 2014 and was the net- ization and International Affairs. work’s longest serving correspondent Former Associated Press photogra- in China. pher Max Desfor died on Feb. 19 BENTIU, SOUTH SUDAN: OPC at the age of 104. Desfor covered the member Cassandra Vinograd KABUL: OPC members Ruchi World War II and the Korean War wrote about survivors of mass rape Kumar and Ivan Flores teamed up from the front lines and took one of in South Sudan for the Pacific Stan- for a piece on Vox Media’s style and the most iconic photographs of the dard, a piece that garnered mentions news website Racked in February 20th Century when he climbed a dam- on the Pulitzer Center website and about how barber shops are flourish- aged bridge and captured an image of in the New York Times “What We’re ing in Afghanistan as men who lived hundreds of refugees crawling across Reading” column that curates excel- under strict Taliban rules for groom- an icy river to safety in 1950. Desfor lent journalism. Vinograd reported ing explore hair styles as an expres- was born in the Bronx in 1913 and from one of the areas hit hardest by sion of freedom. Kumar wrote the graduated from Brooklyn College. conflict, Bentiu, where sexual vio- story, and Flores provided photos. He worked as staff photographer for lence is so common that stigma and the AP in Baltimore and Washington, silence of previous generations has PARIS: Anna Pujol-Mazzini in DC before covering World War II slowly started to lift. January wrote a piece for the Thomp- and working from the Philippines son Reuters Foundation about the and India. He retired from the AP in BEIJING: OPC member Jaime rise of homelessness in Paris since 1978 and later joined U.S. News & Florcruz has been named one of 10 the financial crisis in 2007, and the World Report as photo director. elected vice chairs of the Peking Uni- proliferation of anti-homeless de- versity Alumni Association. He will vices such as cold water sprayers and Elizabeth Hawley, a reporter who serve a four-year term along with spikes to repel sleepers from shel- closely followed expeditions to Hi- board chairman Lin Jinhua, who also tered spots. She also tracked the rise malayan peaks in Nepal, died on Jan. serves as the university’s president. of laws that push homeless people 26 at the age of 94. The U.S.-born Florcruz posted on Facebook that he out of public view. Pujol-Mazzini is a journalist lived in Nepal since 1960 was particularly honored “because freelance journalist based in Gambia and became a fixture in the climbing I just learned that I am the first ever and covers West Africa for Reuters, community. Hawley began reporting overseas alumnus elected to such top Agence France-Presse and The Times for Reuters in 1962, nine years after position.” Florcruz worked for four of London, among others. the seminal expedition by Sir Edmund decades covering China for TIME Hillary and Tenzing Norgay to climb magazine and CNN. He stepped the summit of Mount Everest. v

PRESS FREEDOM UPDATE...

By Farwa Zaidi A Turkish court condemned four the people to hatred and animosity,” was covering an anti-government journalists to life in prison without which could carry a combined sen- demonstration when police grabbed parole on Feb. 16 for charges con- tence of up to 18 years. him, punched him, and dragged him nected to their reporting. Ahmet a few hundred feet. He has filed Altan, Mehmet Altan, Nazli Ili- Chadian police have threatened a complaint against the country’s cak and Fevzi Yazıcı received the and attacked Djimet Wiche, the National Security Agency and local most severe sentences possible on publisher of the Alwihda Info news police with support from national charges that include “trying to over- website in Chad several times on late media unions. throw constitutional order,” with no January and early February, accord- possibility of a pardon. All four have ing to Reporters Without Borders. A criminal court in Saudi Arabia been in jail since 2016 as part of a Wiche was arrested and detained sentenced a journalist to five years in spate of arrests following a failed for several hours while covering a prison in early February for criticiz- coup in July that year. Separately, a peaceful protest organized by civil ing the government and “insulting Turkey correspondent for the Ger- society groups on Feb. 8. Wiche the royal court.” Saleh al-Shehi, a man newspaper Die Welt, Deniz told local media that police confis- columnist for Arabic-language daily Yücel, was released after a year in cated his camera and mobile phone Al Watan, was arrested on Jan. 3 for jail while awaiting the conclusion and told him that if he posted any comments made in articles and dur- of an investigation and indicted on pictures of the protest, they would ing several broadcast media appear- charges of “propagandizing for a ter- “know it was you and we’ll come ances, in which he alleged that the rorist organization” and “provoking looking for you.” On Jan. 25, Wiche royal court was corrupt in the way it

February-March 2018 8 9 grants special permits for strategical- Guinee news website, said about ten YouTube page, was active on social ly located real estate that is otherwise bullets penetrated his living room in media sites, and was responsible for not publicly available. In an appear- a northern suburb of Conakry on Jan. a print and online news magazine ance on the talk show Yahalla, he 31. He told Reporters Without Bor- called El Sillon. She was also the said much of the country’s corruption ders that the shots were in retaliation editor of La Nana Pelucas. stems from the royal court. The CPJ for recent coverage of allegations reports that at least seven journal- that heads of the national police were Two Guatemalan journalists were ists have been jailed in Saudi Arabia involved in the murder of the coun- found dead in a sugar field on Feb. 1. since the beginning of 2012. try’s treasury department in 2012. Local farmers discovered the bodies He said a senior official recently of Laurent Castillo and Luis Al- A radio journalist in Burundi, Jean- contacted him to “negotiate,” but he fredo de Leon with hands tied and Claude Nshimirimana, received refused the offer. gunshot wounds in their heads. Both threats from a provincial governor were reporters based in Coatepeque; in early February to stop reporting A Guatemalan lawmaker with the Castillo was a reporter for the news- on local affairs or face one year in country’s ruling party was arrested paper Nuestro Diario, and De Leon prison on a charge of disturbing on Jan. 16 and charged for plotting worked for Radio Coatepeque. Ac- public order. Nshimirimana, who the murders of two journalists in cording to Castillo’s family, he had works for the privately-owned radio 2015. Julio Juarez Ramirez faces recently changed his telephone num- station Insanganiro, was summoned murder and conspiracy charges ber due to numerous calls attempting to appear by the governor a day after for his role in the shooting deaths to extort money. At least 7 journalists he reported on a story about teachers of Danilo Lopez and Federico have been killed over the last decade and local school officials objecting to Salazar. In March 2015, two un- in Suchitepequez, where the bodies recently imposed taxes to help fund identified gunmen shot and killed were found, and the Association of general elections in 2020. Nshimiri- the two while they were walking in a mana says the governor and head park in the city of Mazatenango. In- Journalists of Guatemala reports a of the National Intelligence Service vestigators suspect Lopez, a reporter total of 36 across the country have also asked him for the names of the for the Guatemala City newspaper been killed since 2000. teachers who opposed paying the tax. Prensa Libre, was targeted for his In response to other journalists about investigation into government cor- Two Brazilian journalists were the threats, the governor accused ruption during the time Juarez served killed over a two-day period in mid- Nshimirimana of lying and attempt- as mayor in Santo Tomás La Unión. January. Reporter Ueliton Bayer ing to “destabilize the country.” Salazar reported for Radio Nuevo Brizon was shot and killed by an Mundo, also in Guatemala City. In unidentified attacker on Jan. 16 while Several journalists were arrested December 2017, Juarez was sanc- riding his motorcycle with his wife. in Sudan in January while covering tioned by the U.S. Treasury Depart- His wife fell off the vehicle but sur- protests after the government’s deci- ment for his alleged involvement vived her injuries. Brizon owned and sion to devalue its currency. Police in the crime. He has maintained his worked as the sole reporter for Jornal with the country’s National Intel- innocence. de Rondônia, a website that focused ligence and Security Service (NISS) on political corruption in Cacoal, a arrested journalists from local and MURDERS city of around 80,000 people. On international news outlets including The body of Slovak investigative Jan. 17, masked gunmen broke into AFP, Reuters, and BBC. NISS arrest- reporter Jan Kuciak was found the home of radio show host Jef- ed seven journalists in Jan. 16 while with multiple gunshot wounds along ferson Puerza Lopes and shot and covering protests in in Khartoum with the body of his partner in Vel’ka killed him. Lopes was critical of lo- state, including freelance journalist Maca over the weekend of Feb. 23. cal politicians and faced threats more Amal Habbani who was her for at Kuciak’s reporting focused on large than a year before the attack. The least 17 days without explanation. scale tax fraud for the news website station where his show was recorded, Another reporter working for the Aktuality.sk. His last article focused Beira Rio FM, was the target of an local newspaper al-Jarida paper, on the activities of Marian Kocner, a arson attack in November 2017. Re- Ahmed Jadein, was arrested while Slovak businessman with controver- porters Without Borders reports that reporting on protests and has been in sial links to several politicians. at least 26 Brazilian journalists have custody without charge. Police also been killed in connection with their confiscated print copies of six lo- Pamika Montenegro, a Mexican work since 2010. v cal newspapers after they published journalist, satirist, and social media critical reports on rising food costs. commentator, was shot and killed on Attackers shot at the home of a Feb. 5 by two unidentified men who Guinean website editor days after stormed the restaurant she owned he received death threats. Abdoul in Acapulco. Montenegro had been Latif Diallo, the editor of Depeche receiving threats for months before her murder. She ran her own satirical February-March 2018 9 9 NEW BOOKS By Farwa Zaidi

MIDDLE EAST PALESTINE

fter covering the Middle East for amzy Baroud’s new book, The Last decades and winning a Pulitzer Prize for Earth [Pluto Press, 2018] takes readers Ahis book on the CIA’s role in Afghanistan, through generations of war and survival veteran journalist Steve Coll has returned to the R in a collection of interviews from Palestine. The subject for a kind of sequel, titled Directorate S: journalist, media consultant and author, has been The CIA and America’s Secret Wars in Afghanistan writing about the Middle East for more than tewo and Pakistan, [Penguin Press, 2018]. In the book, decades and has a PhD in Palestine studies from Coll attempts to make sense of why America’s war the University of Exeter. in Afghanistan failed to stamp out Al-Qaeda for Baroud draws on dozens of interviews to paint UPCOMING good. a portrait of people’s lives across several decades Coll won the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for General as they struggle for independence and security. EVENTS Non-Fiction for his book Ghost Wars: The Secret Baroud, who serves as editor of the daily History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and bin Laden, newspaper The Palestine Chronicle, challenges from the Soviet Invasion popular and academic to September 10, 2001. perceptions of history, Directorate S is a fol- and finds common lowup to that book. threads in the stories In 1989, he moved Palestinians share to Delhi to become the despite a population PEN America Report South Asia news cor- fractured by political respondent for The Wash- division, geographic on Social Media in China borders, physical walls, ington Post, during which occupation and exile. Club Quarters, Priestly Room he traveled frequently Baroud explores these 6:30 p.m. between India, Pakistan complexities with and Afghanistan. Coll March 13 empathy, using firsthand covered the Afghan War accounts and depicting from both sides of the the vivid memories of his subjects. front. He broke stories about the CIA’s program to Baroud’s book challenges the outsider’s arm rebels and how the CIA and ISI, the Pakistani monolithic view of the region, gives voice to Intelligence Agency, had contributed to the defeat the people of Palestine and explores new angles of the Soviets occupation, and how ISI empowered Book Night: through personal narratives. Palestinians have radicals during the rebellion. many things in common, including a long history ‘Directorate S’ The ISI, Coll writes, was home to a covert wing of struggle, but this does not mean all Palestinians of the agency called Directorate S, which was Club Quarters, Priestly Room are exactly the same. Baroud takes a deep look at responsible for training and arming the Taliban at how individuals deal with love, heartbreak, exile, 7:00 p.m. the same time the United States was attempting to and loss in different ways.The Last Earth seeks to March 22 stifle the same extremists. ISI’s intention was to le- reclaim Palestinians’ story after decades of being gitimize the Taliban and broaden Pakistan’s global erased by outsiders. influence. After 9/11, fifty-nine different countries, Baronesse Jenny Tonge wrote that the book led by the United States, deployed troops and aid “provides a unique way of tackling the problem of to Afghanistan in an effort to eradicate the Taliban writing history. Reading it is like walking around a and Al-Qaeda. gallery of old master paintings, each telling its own In the book, Coll proposes that while there are harrowing and often beautiful story about the same OPC Annual numerous reasons that the war in Afghanistan was episode in human history.” Receiving unanimously a failure, the US failure to thwart the operations of great reviews, The Palestine Chronicle says that Awards Dinner Directorate S was a major factor that prolongued the book “predicates compelling moral action to Cipriani 25 Broadway the conflict for more than a decade, plagued two end the monstrous injustice.” American presidencies, and entangled some of the Baroud is also author of the book My Father 6:00 p.m. country’s most prominent military and political was a Freedom Fighter: Gaza’s Untold Story, April 26 figures. published in 2009. v Coll now serves as dean of the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University. Publisher’s Weekly called Directorate S “the most comprehensive work to date on the U.S. war in Afghanistan. Coll’s vital work provides a factual and analytical foundation for all future work on the Afghan War and U.S. policy in Central Asia.” v February-March 2018 10 Christopher Dickey PETER TURNLEY

East was like going from high school to Meet the OPC Members: graduate school.

Q&A With Christopher Dickey Major challenge as a journalist: To understand causes and effects – inde- by chad bouchard have been overseas ever since. pendent of ideology, prejudice, disinfor- mation and the desire for approbation. hristopher dickey is the Countries reported from: Mexico, Paris-based world news edi- Guatemala, Honduras, Belize, El Salvador, Best journalism advice received: tor for The Daily Beast. He has Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Cuba, C For a foreign correspondent covering worked as a foreign correspondent since Dominican Republic, Kenya, Zaire (Demo- wars and disasters, basic priorities: get 1980, with postings in the Middle East cratic Republic of the Congo), Sudan, to the story, make sure you have a way and Central America for The Wash- Egypt, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, to get the story out, and then be sure you ington Post and Egypt and France for Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Turkey, Iraq, know how to get yourself out. Newsweek. He is also the author of Iran, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Vietnam, Great seven books and has written for Foreign Britain, Sweden, Denmark, France, Spain, Hardest story: Covering the deaths of Affairs, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, Portugal, Italy, Switzerland, Belgium, the children. Wired, Rolling Stone, The New York Netherlands, Austria, Germany, Croatia, Review of Books, The New York Times Serbia and Kosovo. Advice for journalists who want to Book Review and The New Republic, work overseas: Learn languages, but, among others. In 1983 he won the OPC’s When and why did you join the OPC? more importantly, learn cultures. The two Mary Hemingway Award, and was part I’ve been a member so long, I honestly are inseparable. of a Newsweek team that won the 2001 don’t remember when I joined. I origi- Ed Cunningham Award for reporting nally thought of it as a way to keep track Favorite quote: Ezra Pound – “Literature connected to 9/11. of some of my far-flung colleagues, not is news that stays news.” least through the newsletter, and a place Hometown: Paris, France / New York to get together with them when we were Most common mistake you’ve seen: City / Pawleys Island, S.C. in New York. Believing exaggerated accounts of atroci- ties. Horrible things happen in this world, Education: Loudoun County High How did you become interested in the and we should spare no effort to report School, University of Virginia (BA), Middle East? them, but partisans of various causes Boston University (MS, Documentary The Washington Post had planned to often think that even real atrocities are Film); Hamilton College, Honorary PhD. send me to Nairobi after Mexico City, not enough; that they need to be further but I had a fellowship at the Council dramatized, or that important relevant Languages you speak: English, Spanish, on Foreign Relations and then had facts, like the presence of combatants in French. to finish writing my first book in the the midst of civilians, can or should be States. The next assignment that came overlooked. In the end, the exaggerations First job in journalism: Working in 1974 up was Cairo. And, at first, it was just and the presence of combatants are ex- as a researcher and writer on The Washing- an assignment. I had covered terrorism posed and exploited by the authors of the ton Post Guide to Washington D.C. Subse- and the wars in Central America for four atrocities, discrediting the true story as quently an assistant editor at Washington years, so I was sent to cover the wars in well as the false. Post Book World, managing editor of the Middle East, and certainly for the The Washington Post Magazine, and then first year I was there, 1985, that is what Twitter handle: @csdickey switched to hard news, reporting on im- I did. There seemed to be a terrorist migration from Washington D.C. Became incident every day: airplane hijackings, a foreign correspondent, based in Mexico airplane bombings, a cruise ship hijack- Want to add to the OPC’s collection of City, in 1980, and apart from a year at the ing, and many more minor events. Com- Q&As with members? Please contact Council on Foreign Relations in New York, ing from Central America to the Middle [email protected]. February-March 2018 11 40 West 45 Street New York, NY 10036 USA Phone 212.626.9220 Fax 212.626.9210 opcofamerica.org

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