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THE MONTHLY NEWSLETTER OF THE OVERSEAS PRESS CLUB OF AMERICA, , NY • November 2014 OPC Forges Partnership to Promote ’ Safety By Marcus Mabry compact between Your OPC has been busy! Since organiza- the new officers and board of gov- tions and journal- ernors took office at the end of ists, in particular the summer, we have dedicated freelance, around ourselves to three priorities, all safety and profes- designed to increase the already sionalism. We have impressive contribution that the only just begun, but OPC makes to our members and our partners include our industry. the Committee to We have restructured the board Protect Journalists, to dedicate ourselves to services Reporters Without for members, both existing and po- Borders, the Front- tential, whether those members are line Club, the In- Clockwise from front left: Vaughan Smith, Millicent veteran reporters and editors, free- ternational Press Teasdale, Patricia Kranz, Jika Gonzalez, Michael Luongo, Institute’s Foreign Sawyer Alberi, Judi Alberi, Micah Garen, Marcus Mabry, lancers or students. In addition to Charles Sennott, Emma Daly and Judith Matloff dining services, we have reinvigorated our Editors Circle and after a panel of how to freelance safety. See page 3. social mission, creating a committee the OPC Founda- dedicated to planning regular net- tion. We met in September at The you need and the social events you working opportunities for all mem- New York Times headquarters to want. And, just as important, get bers. So if you are in New York – or try to align efforts that many of our friends and colleagues who are not coming through New York – look us groups had started separately. members of the OPC to join. We are up and come for a drink with mem- We will keep you updated on stronger together. bers and potential members. our efforts. In the meantime, please But I am most proud of the work help us in our drive to bring our Your President, that we are doing in conjunction members the professional services Marcus Mabry with other organiza- tions to create, for the first time, a Club Mixers to Strengthen Networks EVENT PREVIEW: Dec. 10 owned and has served as a regular Inside. . . haunt of writers and correspondents Clubs are meant to be social. So, OPC Board Changes...... 2 since it opened more than a decade as part of an effort to expand our ago, is at 505 West 23rd St. just Muckrakers Book Night Preview...... 2 networking opportunities, the OPC west of 10th Ave. has arranged two evening mixers The club’s newly created com- Freelancing Safely Panel Recap.....3 where members – and prospective mittee for social events has sched- members – can meet up, unwind Useful Sources Panel Recap...... 4 uled a second mixer for Wednes- and swap stories over food and day, Dec. 10, also at The Half King, Book Night Recap: A Path Appears...4 drinks. where members and guests will get On Thursday, Nov. 13, we gath- a 20 percent discount on appetizers, Welcome New Members...... 5 ered in the back garden of The Half entrees and drinks from 6:00 p.m. King Bar and Restaurant, where People & Press Freedom...... 6-10 to 8:30 p.m. members and guests enjoyed half Keep an eye on the OPC web- Q&A: Spencer Platt...... 11 price on all food and drinks from site for more mixer announcements 6:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. ahead as we plan networking events New Books...... 12 The pub, which is - for the 2015 schedule. OPC Board Changes Hope for Muckrakers By Chad Bouchard Members might notice a few changes to our mast- EVENT PREVIEW: DEC. 1 head this month. Former OPC Secretary Jonathan In Global Muckraking: 100 Years of Investigative In Dahl of stepped down to take Journalism From Around the World, OPC awards judge the helm at digital news startup Anya Schiffrin takes a close look at in- Ozy in California. vestigative journalism over the last cen- The board elected Deidre Depke tury that has made a significant impact to take his place as club secretary. on the world. Depke has worked as a reporter and On Monday, Dec. 1 at 6:00 p.m., editor in New York for 25 years. Schiffrin will be on hand to discuss her She currently manages a consul- work during a book night with food and tancy that works with new media drinks. Schiffrin is the director of the me- startups. dia and communications specialization at Award-winning freelance jour- Anya Schiffrin Columbia University’s School of Inter- nalist Charles Graeber stepped in to national Affairs. fill Depke’s vacated spot on the board of governors. The event will be held at Club Quarters at 40 West Graeber was a candidate in this year’s board elec- 45th Street. $20 covers the program from 6:00 p.m. to 7:00 tion and is a contributor to publications including p.m., and beer or wine and hors d’oeuvres from 7:00 p.m. Wired, , New York Magazine, Vogue, to 8:00 p.m. Robert Friedman of Bloomberg News, who is National Geographic, and the head judge for the OPC Awards, will moderate. RSVP . by emailing [email protected] or calling the OPC He won the OPC’s 2011 Ed Cunningham Award at 212 626-9220. for his piece for Bloomberg Businessweek, “After the Tsunami, Nothing to Do but Start Again.” Each year, LOOKING AHEAD TO 2015 the Ed Cunningham Award honors the best interna- Event Preview: Dec. 17 tional reporting in magazines. Join the OPC and Controls Risks, the global risk Read more about this month’s board changes in Susan Kille’s People column on page 7. consultancy, for breakfast at 8:00 a.m. Dec. 17 at Club Quarters for an expert view on geopoliti- cal challenges that may emerge in 2015.

OVERSEAS PRESS CLUB OF AMERICA • BOARD OF GOVERNORS PRESIDENT ACTIVE BOARD Azmat Khan Martin Smith Emma Daly PAST PRESIDENTS Marcus Mabry Jacqueline Albert- Senior Digital Producer President Communications EX-OFFICIO Editor-at-Large Simon Al Jazeera America Rain Media Director Michael Serrill The New York Times U.S. Bureau Chief Human Rights Watch David A. Andelman Politique Internationale Dan Klaidman Liam Stack John Corporon FIRST VICE PRESIDENT Deputy Editor Reporter Daniel Sieberg Allan Dodds Frank Calvin Sims Rukmini Callimachi Yahoo News The New York Times Senior Marketing Alexis Gelber President and CEO Foreign Head of Media Outreach William J. Holstein International House Correspondent Evelyn Leopold Seymour Topping The New York Times Independent Journalist Emeritus Larry Martz SECOND VICE PRESIDENT United Nations Professor of Abi Wright Roy Rowan Abigail Pesta Jane Ciabattari International Journalism Executive Director, Leonard Saffir Freelance Journalist Columnist Paul Moakley Columbia University Prizes Larry Smith BBC.com Deputy Director Graduate School Richard B. Stolley THIRD VICE PRESIDENT Photography and Charles Wallace of Journalism Pancho Bernasconi Chris Dickey Visual Enterprise Financial Writer Columbia University EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Vice President/News Foreign Editor Time magazine Awards Patricia Kranz Getty Images The Daily Beast, ASSOCIATE BOARD Paris Robert Nickelsberg ­MEMBERS OFFICE MANAGER TREASURER Freelance Brian I. Byrd Boots R. Duque Tim Ferguson Peter S. Goodman Photojournalist Program Officer Editor Editor-in-Chief NYS Health EDITOR Forbes International Lara Setrakian Foundation Chad Bouchard Business Times Co-Founder & CEO SECRETARY News Deeply Bill Collins OPC Deidre Depke Charles Graeber Director, Public & ISSN-0738-7202 Journalist and Freelance Journalist Business Affairs ­Copyright © 2014 Author and Author Ford Motor Comapny Over­seas Press Club of America

40 West 45 Street, New York, NY 10036 USA • Phone: (212) 626-9220 • Fax: (212) 626-9210 • Website: opcofamerica.org OPC Bulletin • November 2014 • Page 2 Panel of Experts Shares Tips on How to Freelance Safely to luck, but said avoiding danger depends heavily on EVENT RECAP caution and situational awareness. By Chad Bouchard “The most dangerous times are when you first show As traditional news outlets shrink overseas bureaus, up there, and then when you’re too comfortable,” he said. freelance journalists bear more of the burden for foreign Sawyer Alberi, lead trainer for Reporters Instructed reporting, and they’re doing it with less support and few- in Saving Colleagues, or RISC, who served two tours er resources than their employed counterparts. That puts of duty in Iraq as a flight medic and one as a combat freelancers at greater risk of injury or kidnapping, and medic in , said journalists on any assignment underscores the need for more safety training and more should always prepare for the worst. “You have to know support from strings and press organizations. your medical resources. You have to know where the On Oct. 21, a panel of experts from organizations hospital is, to know what they have and what they don’t dedicated to the welfare of journalists tackled how best have,” she said. to freelance safely for an audience at the Columbia Uni- Alberi added that freelancers should not overlook versity School of In- basic travel medicine to ternational and Public cope with other dangers Affairs. reporting abroad, like Judith Matloff, a car accidents or travel- veteran foreign corre- er’s diarrhea. spondent who teach- “The reality is that es a safety training more people get sick course at the Colum- than they do get blown bia University School up. That’s statistically of Journalism, said just true,” she said. Echo- maintaining a support ing the advice of other network of editors and panelists, she added that colleagues is critical colleagues can help to for staying safe and as- reign in other journalists sessing risk. She said Chad Bouchard when risks are too high. freelancers now face Left to right: Judith Matloff, Micah Garen and Vaughan Smith “You need to do some those risks without the during a panel on how to freelance safely at the Columbia gut checks to say if this is benefit of formal men- School of International and Public Affairs. a stupid idea or not.” tors at big news outlets. RISC trains freelance journalists in combat first aid. “What I find so frightening about the freelance envi- Alberi said their course focuses on four key prevent- ronment is that people are just totally on their own,” she able causes of death on the battlefield: bleeding to death, said. “Freelancers have to accept their own limitations. airway management, trauma due to pressure waves from If you don’t have the money for training, don’t go to a explosives (tension pneumothorax) and hypothermia. place like Syria. Don’t make that your first assignment.” Smith, founder of Frontline Club in London, is one She called on news organizations to offer freelancers of seven journalists who started a freelancers’ collec- training and resources to get in and out of hostile envi- tive called the Frontline Freelance Register, or FFR. The ronments safely. group requires higher training standards among its mem- OPC member Micah Garen, an independent multi- bers, and is seeking better pay for dangerous work, more media journalist and founder Four Corners Media who timely payment and overall better treatment for freelanc- has worked in conflict zones around the world, agreed ers. that safe reporting requires a strong support community “But we’re still too often portrayed as lesser journal- on the ground and in the newsroom. ists by [employed correspondents] when the hand-wring- “[Freelancers] don’t have a major news organization ing about journalism safety starts,” he said. “If we want that’s going to have somebody on payroll who’s doing to help freelancers, we must correct negative assump- threat analysis,” he said. tions about them. In , freelance content has become Garen has faced several threats during the course of indispensable.” his work. He was kidnapped in southern Iraq and held He said that two-thirds of the group’s 400 mem- for 10 days in 2004 while filming a documentary about bers are freelance out of choice, and one-third said they the looting of archaeological sites. He was hit by a road- thought their editors don’t care about their safety at all. side bomb in Afghanistan in 2009, and later was caught The audience included notable voices in the in a massacre in . He attributes his survival mostly (Continued on Page 5)

OPC Bulletin • November 2014 • Page 3 Expert Panelists Discuss Reporter-Embassy Relations questions truthfully, he said, and for timely responses to EVENT RECAP requests. They are not responsible for answering questions By Chad Bouchard that should be directed at other branches of government, Professional relations between diplomats and foreign and can’t comment on intelligence or military operations. correspondents are thorny. The two sides are in some He referred to a set of ground rules published by the State ways dependent on each other, but the relationship is also Department that clearly define differences between terms fraught with suspicion and tension. like “on record” and “on background” interviews. On Nov. 11, the OPC convened experts to address Seymour Topping, former New York Times and Associ- some of the day-to-day challenges of such relationships ated Press correspondent, author and OPC board member, during a panel titled “Useful Sources: What Should Be recounted a story from his reporting in which a Chinese the Relationships of Reporters to Diplomats, Especially diplomat asked him to write a story about ’s willing- in Times of Crisis?” and The Daily Beast con- ness to divide North and South Vietnam. China had no dip- tributor Allan Dodds Frank moderated. lomatic relations with the U.S. at the time, so his article The session was pitched at newly assigned correspon- was used as a back channel, he said. dents who are not yet familiar with embassy protocols. “That’s an example, of course, where you can do your Dale Prince, director of the New York Foreign Press job and make a contribution to the world at large,” he told Center, kicked off the discussion with a primer on the re- attendees. sponsibilities of a State Department press officer. Edith Lederer, a longtime Associated Press correspon- Prince said the “mutually beneficial exchange” be- dent, contrasted her experience as a correspondent during tween press officer and reporter “is only possible with the , when reporters could secure near limit- trust and ground rules.” less jump seats in helicopters to cover the country, with Press liaisons are responsible for answering reporters’ (Continued on Page 10) ‘A Path Appears’ Offers Meditations on Philanthropy EVENT RECAP ficiency of aid groups, and a sense that the problems are so By Chad Bouchard vast that – what can anyone do?” After winning worldwide praise for their book Half the Kristof described important changes over the last de- Sky, which explored opression and opportunity for women cade that have allowed researchers and groups like Charity around the world, Nicholas Navigator and GiveWell to Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn study what kinds of aid work set out to help people make best. significant changes through “For example, it turns out philanthropy and fight hope- that the most cost-effective lessness in the face of over- way to get one more child whelming problems in the in school around the world world. Their new book, A is not what we tend to think Path Appears: Transforming of, which is building a new Lives, Creating Opportunity, school, but is something includes vignettes about peo- much less common – it’s de- ple who have made a differ- worming,” he said. ence by volunteering or mak- He said children who suf- ing small contributions. fer from intestinal parasites in developing countries miss

The husband-and-wife Lesley Topping out on education and their team discussed their work and Sheryl WuDunn, left, greet Seymour during a book night at Club Topping during a book night at Club Quarters. brain development can be Quarters on Friday, Nov. 7. Topping hired Kristof in 1984 durng his tenure hampered by anemia. The “It does feel to us that as editor at The New York Times. problem is easily treatable, at there is this broad yearning on the part of so many Ameri- a cost of 50 cents per year to cans to have an impact, to make a difference in the world,” de-worm a child through organizations like the Deworm the said Kristof, an OPC award winner and longtime member World Initiative. of the club. WuDunn outlined some of the physiological benefits of “And yet there’s concern about corruption, about inef- giving. Research has shown neurological benefits for peo- (Continued on Page 11) OPC Bulletin • November 2014 • Page 4 WELCOME TO OUR NEW MEMBERS Aurora Almendral Sandy Ciric Markos Kounalakis Reporter/ Producer Director of Photography Foreign Policy Columnist Makati City, Getty Images/New York The Sacramento Bee Active Overseas (Young) Active Resident San Francisco, CA Active Non Resident Lea Bouchoucha Lisa de Bode NYU Journalism Reporter, Digital Jonathan Krohn Student Aljazeera America/New York Freelance Active Resident (Young) Ainkawa, Erbil/Iraq Joel Brand Active Overseas (Young) Joel Brand Consulting Margaret Donaldson Santa Monica, CA Institute of Journalism/French Diana Le Associate Non Resident Studies Linguist/Independent Journalist NYU U.S. Marine Corps Thomas Brant Student Wahiawa, HI Institute of Journalism/ Associate Non Resident (Young) French Studies Susan Ellingwood NYU Editor, Room for Debate Anders Melin Student The New York Times Exec. Compensation Reporter Active Resident Bloomberg News Makini Brice New York Institute of Journalism/ Valerie Hopkins Active Resident (Young) French Studies Journalist/Editor NYU Balkan Investigative Reporting Ben Taub Student Network Columbia University/Journalism Kosovo Student Andrea Bucher-McAdams Active Overseas Columnist/Reporter Jack Williams Town & Village Newspaper/NYC James Jeffrey Journalist Active Resident Freelance Caters News Agency/New York Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Active Resident (Young) Andrew Burton (former OPC Scholar) Photojournalist Active Overseas Michael J. Williams Getty Images/New York Global Enterprise Editor Active Resident (Young) Jo Ling Kent /New York Correspondent Active Resident Asthaa Chaturvedi Fox Business News/New York Columbia University/Journalism Active Resident (Young) New York Student

(Continued From Page 3) ment upon us to seize all of this energy and really af- fect change.” movement to improve safety for journalists overseas. OPC Foundation President Bill Holstein told at- Charles Sennott, a co-founder of Global Post who tending students about the foundation’s 15 scholar- was closely involved in the struggle to free James ships and internships to provide training for college Foley, founded The Ground Truth Project, a nonprofit students in the U.S. and Canada who want to become dedicated to “providing mentoring and training for the foreign correspondents. next generation of foreign correspondents.” “This year, for the first time, when we fly all the “This is a time to seize the moment of Jim [Foley]’s winners to New York, we’re going to provide situ- death, and Steve Sotloff’s death,” he said. “There’s a ational awareness training,” by the Washington, DC- point in time here that we need to recognize. It’s a mo- based Global Security firm, Holstein said.

OPC Bulletin • November 2014 • Page 5 PEOPLE... By Susan Kille [email protected]

OPC SCHOLARS at the U.N. spon- in-chief of Le Souverain in the Dem- Anders Melin, who received sored by the fund: ocratic Republic of the Congo; and a Reuters internship in 2013 from Olefumi Akande Brankica Stanković, a reporter for the OPC Foundation, in October from TVC News of RTV in . The IWMF has re- was named executive compensa- Nigeria; Abdel Aziz ceived a $1 million grant from the tion reporter for Bloomberg News. Hali from La Pres- Howard G. Buffett Foundation to A native of Sweden, Melin spent his se of Tunisia; Ana establish an annual award for photo- internship in the Reuters bureau in Maria Macaraig Leopold journalism in honor of AP photogra- Brussels. from Rappler in the Philippines; and pher Anja Niedringhaus, who was Tuan Anh Pham from the online killed in Afghanistan in April. John Ismay, who won the 2013 outlet Dan Tri of Vietnam. Former Jerry Flint Fellowship for International Human Rights Commissioner Navi UPDATES Business Reporting, was listed first Pillay and singer-songwriter An- MILWAUKEE: The Milwaukee among those contrib- gelique Kidjo, a UNICEF goodwill Press Club inducted OPC member uting to an Oct. 14 ambassador, were guests of honor. Dickey Chapelle into its Hall of investigative report Fame on Oct. 24. Chapelle, a pho- by C.J. Chivers in Kenyan journalist Joseph Ma- tojournalist who covered the battles The New York Times thenge in October received African of Iwo Jima and Okinawa, died in about previously un- Journalist of the Year honors, the 1965 while photographing a U.S. told discoveries of top prize at this year’s CNN Mul- mission in Vietnam. A Marine walk- chemical weapons in Ismay tiChoice African Journalist 2014 Iraq during the U.S. of the Awards Ceremony. His work, which country. Ismay, a graduate of the U.S. appears in The Standard in Nairobi, Naval Academy who served in Iraq was chosen from entries from across as an explosive ordnance disposal of- the African continent. ficer, wrote in the At War blog about his personal experience with chemical Two Associated Press journalists weapons in Iraq. Ismay and Chivers working overseas, Dalton Bennett responded online to readers’ questions and Muhammed Muheisen, won about the munitions. the annual Oliver S. Gramling Jour- nalism Awards, the highest AP staff WINNERS honor. Bennett, a video journalist James Foley, who was murdered based in the United Arab Emirates, by ISIS forces in Syria last summer, was described as “one of AP’s go- was named this year’s recipient of to video journalists, specializing in the Nackey S. Loeb First Amend- compelling visual storytelling from ment Award, an annual honor given to the and be- to New Hampshire residents who yond. Muheisen, chief photographer fight to protect the First Amendment. in , was twice part of AP The award is named for the former teams that won the for Commons Wikimedia president and publisher of the Union covering the wars in Iraq and Syria. Dickey Chapelle Leader, New Hampshire’s only statewide newspaper. Since 1990, the International ing in front of Chapelle tripped a Women’s Media Foundation has booby trap and an explosion blew Evelyn Leopold, an OPC board honored some of the world’s brav- shrapnel into her neck, killing her member and a veteran reporter at est — and most embattled — female within minutes. She was one of the the United Nations, chaired the Dag reporters and editors with Courage first American correspondents killed Hammarskjöld Fund for Journalists in Journalism Awards. Awards were in Vietnam, and the first American Annual luncheon. The Oct. 28 lunch presented in October to Arwa Da- woman journalist to be killed in honored four young journalists who mon, a CNN ; combat. She served on OPC’s Free- are finishing one-year fellowships Solange Lusiku Nsimirem, editor- dom of Information Committee and

OPC Bulletin • November 2014 • Page 6 testified before Congress to promote heels and ran. She said she was giv- greater access for journalists and en a bulletproof vest to wear and she Deidre Depke was elected by to loosen official restraints against hid in the canteen used by staff. the OPC board in October to replace them. She won the OPC’s George Jonathan Dahl, who resigned, as Polk Award in 1962 for her coverage SCARSDALE, N.Y.: Seymour club secretary. Depke has been a re- of Vietnam. OPC President Marcus and Audrey Topping celebrated porter and editor in New York for 25 Mabry sent a letter to the Milwau- years, working as senior news editor kee Press Club saluting Chapelle’s at BusinessWeek, as the foreign editor induction. “Dickey was one of us,” and an assistant managing editor for he wrote, “an involved OPC board Newsweek and as the editor of News- member and an outspoken advocate week.com and The Daily Beast. In for reporters trying to tell readers addition, she worked as the general and listeners at home what was go- manager for TheWeek.com, concen- ing on in Hungary, Cuba, Vietnam, trating on business development and and all those other places she trav- technology creation. She currently eled to, wrote about and photo- manages a small consultancy that graphed.” works with new media startups, in- cluding Tina Brown’s Live Media

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif: Sonya Fry company. Jonathan Dahl left The Wall Street Seymour and Audrey Topping Journal, where he cutting their 65th anniversary cake Calvin Sims, OPC’s first vice was editor-in-chief president and president of New of WSJ.Money their 65th wedding anniversary York City’s International House, magazine and ex- on Nov. 8 with a party for family, and Charles Sennott, co-founder ecutive director of friends and colleagues at their home. of GlobalPost and a board member page one, to become The cake served at the party was of the OPC Foundation, worked managing editor of a close replica of their original tiered together for months to plan Gen- Ozy, a digital news Dahl wedding cake. Last month, Top and eration Jobless, a two-day confer- startup named after Shelley’s poem Audrey did an archival interview ence focused on finding solutions Ozymandias. Ozy Media is a year- about their long careers in journal- to youth unemployment that was old online magazine backed by ism which is on the OPC website. co-sponsored by their organizations Laurene Powell Jobs and other Sili- Top is a longtime member of the con Valley luminaries plus German OPC and serves on the club’s board. publisher Axel Springer. Dahl, who resigned as OPC secretary as part NEW YORK: In her first in- of his shift to California, joined the terview since she was severely Journal in 1985, and worked in the wounded in April in an attack in Af- Dallas and bureaus in addi- ghanistan, Kathy Gannon, an OPC tion to starting a travel column and member and a veteran Associated helping create the Weekend Journal. Press correspondent, vowed to re- Sims and Sennott He had also been editor-in-chief and turn to Afghanistan. She said she had executive editor of SmartMoney. re-lived the decisions that led to the and held Oct. 24 and 25 at Interna- The Financial Times reported that death of her friend tional House. Sennott is executive Dahl would oversee about 12 staff Anja Niedring- editor of GroundTruth, a nonprofit members and 20 freelancers. haus, an AP photog- initiative training young foreign cor- rapher, but would respondents that has reported from 11 countries about youth unemploy- OTTAWA, Ontario: Chrys- do nothing differ- ment. “The consequences of not ad- tia Freeland, a former OPC board ent. “We weren’t dressing youth unemployment are member who is now a member of careless or cavalier dire and have the potential to leave the Canadian Parliament, was inside about the security Gannon young people around the world the Centre Block of Parliament on arrangements ...,” Gannon said in an without a future,” Sims said. Oct. 22 when she heard shooting as interview at AP headquarters. Gan- a gunman ran through the building non said her physical recovery has Azmat Khan, an OPC board after killing a soldier outside. She been grueling and is still a work in told MSNBC she took off her high progress. (Continued on Page 8)

OPC Bulletin • November 2014 • Page 7 (Continued From Page 7) mar, who had been a senior edi- Bradlee, who was 93, led the tor, was named South Asia Bureau Post’s newsroom for 26 years member, will be become an inves- chief, based in New Delhi. Aryn and transformed it into one of the tigative reporter for . In Baker leaves her post as Middle world’s leading newspapers. December she will join an inves- East Bureau chief, based in Bei- tigative unit of 10 rut, to become Bureau chief, reporters led by based in Cape Town. , a former senior edi- Get the Picture, a documenta- tor at ProPublica ry based on the book of the same who was part of a name by OPC member John Mor- team at The Wall ris, was shown at the Time-Life Street Journal that Kahn building on Oct. 17 for an audi- won a Pulitzer for coverage of the ence of Time-Life alumni and OPC Sept. 11 attacks. Khan currently members. leads the digital team at Al Jazeera The documentary, directed by America’s flagship show “America Cathy Pearson, follows the remark- Tonight” and had been a digital re- able and long career that Morris has

porter and producer for the PBS se- had in photography. He was photo Commons Wikimedia ries “Frontline.” Her work earned editor of Life magazine during Ben Bradlee an Online News Association award World War II and a founder of Mag- in 2012, the Foundation num Photo Agency who worked Under his tenure, the Post won Award for Innovative Investigative with many of the greatest names in a Pulitzer Prize for its coverage of Journalism in 2013 and an Emmy photojournalism. The features the Watergate scandal, which forced nomination in 2014. stories from prominent photojour- President Richard Nixon to leave nalists such as James Nachtwey office under threat of impeachment Charles Graeber, an award- and Peter Turnley, who attended in 1974. Two years earlier, the Post winning freelance joined The New York Times in defy- journalist, has ing pressure from the government joined the OPC not to publish stories based on the board. He won Pentagon Papers, a secret govern- the OPC’s 2011 ment account of the Vietnam War. Ed Cunningham David Hoffman, an OPC Award for “After member who served as assistant the Tsunami, Noth- Graeber managing editor for foreign news ing to Do but Start Again” written at the Post, was among the thou- for Bloomberg Businessweek and sands who gathered Oct. 29 at the is the author of The Good Nurse, Washington National Cathedral to a 2013 best-selling book about say farewell to Bradlee. Hoffman America’s most prolific serial kill- tweeted: “Magnificent farewell to er, Charles Cullen, whose 16-year a remarkable man today. Ben Bra- long nursing career left as many dlee loved the lines ‘I am the cap- as 300 dead. He has contributed Norman Pearlstine and John Morris tain of my soul.’ And so he was. to publications that include Wired, Goodbye, captain.” GQ, The New Yorker, New York the event. OPC member Norman Magazine, Vogue, National Geo- Pearlstine generously sponsored The OPC was saddened to learn graphic, Men’s Journal and The the screening and a luncheon. This that Sonya K. Fry, who retired last New York Times. private screening was the first time spring as our executive director, that the film was shown in New suffered the loss of her sister, Linda Time magazine promoted Brian York City. A. Paranko, who died Oct. 30 after Walsh from senior editor to for- battling multiple sclerosis for more eign editor in October and filled PEOPLE REMEMBERED than 20 years. Paranko, who lived two top posts at international bu- Ben Bradlee, the legendary ex- in East Lyme, Conn., had worked reaus. Walsh served as Bu- ecutive editor of The Washington as a dental assistant and was an reau chief from 2006 to 2007 and Post, died Oct. 21 at his home in avid bowler and dancer before MS joined Time in 2001. Nikhil Ku- Washington. took its toll.

OPC Bulletin • November 2014 • Page 8 PRESS FREEDOM UPDATE... By Susan Kille In the first public show of dis- freedom issue arises in China. USA ganizations vary in their counts of sent within the Egyptian news me- Today has become the latest news- the work-related deaths of journal- dia since the country’s July 2013 paper to come under pressure from ists, depending on how media work- military takeover, more than 350 Chinese authorities seeking to con- ers are defined or whether journal- journalists signed a statement posted trol the flow of information into the ists were targeted for their work or Nov. 3 on networks country. died for another reason while work- protesting an Oct. 26 pledge by top The state-run China National ing. The U.N. reports that in the past editors from 17 state and private Publications Import & Export Cor- 10 years, more than 700 journalists newspapers that they would refrain poration, which controls distribution have been killed for doing their job from publishing reports critical of of imported newspapers, on Oct. 15 but agrees with CPJ that nine out of the government. requested that USA Today submit an 10 murders go unpunished. Asserting that that the Egyptian electronic version of its internation- press had been “the people’s shield” al print product for review prior to against corruption and tyranny un- its shipment from . The der the two previous presidents, paper quoted a spokesman for the Hosni Mubarak and Mohamed Mor- government-controlled distributor si, the journalists attacked the “vol- saying that the International New untary surrender” of press freedom York Times, Financial Times and by the editors as a curb on freedom Wall Street Journal Asia participate of expression and “a victory for ter- in the practice, which was intro- rorism.” Sacrificing freedom of ex- duced in 2013. pression, they said, meant that the “We will comply with local law was surrendering to the and supply a PDF, but under pro- goals of militant extremists. test,” David Callaway, an OPC Recent deaths include: Elsewhere in the Middle East, member and the paper’s editor-in- Jason Rezaian of The Washing- chief, said in a statement. “The sup- ● Aung Kyaw Naing, a free- ton Post at press time was still be- pression of information in China lance journalist who was once a ing held without will not change our editorial selec- bodyguard for charge in Iran al- tion of news stories under any cir- winner Aung San Suu Kyi, died though the Post had cumstances.” Oct. 4 while in the custody of the reported his release One of the biggest threats to army. His body was or- could come soon. press freedom is the lack of justice dered exhumed and an investigation Rezaian was ar- for the hundreds journalists mur- is continuing. Naing, also known rested on July 22. dered around the world. A report as Par Gyi, was detained Sept. 30 His family marked Rezaian released in late October by the Com- while covering clashes between his 100th day of mittee to Protect Journalists found the army and ethnic rebels. Three captivity with an open letter calling there is rarely a penalty for killing a weeks after his death, the army re- for Rezaian’s release. The family journalist. leased a statement saying that dur- said he is being held in solitary con- In the past 10 years, 370 journal- ing interrogation Naing said he was finement in Evin prison, considered ists have been murdered in direct an information officer for a rebel one of the world’s most brutal and retaliation for their work and in 90 group. The Army said Naing was notorious jails. Three others arrested percent of those cases, no perpetra- shot while reaching for a soldier’s with Rezaian have been released. tor was convicted, CPJ said. Most gun during an escape attempt. The “It is inexplicable and utterly of those killed were local journal- rebel group denied affiliation with unacceptable that Jason Rezaian, ists reporting on corruption, crime, Naing, who contributed to a number the Post’s Tehran correspondent, human rights, politics or war. A cli- of publications. remains in Iranian custody,” said mate of impunity emboldens kill- Douglas Jehl, an OPC member and ers and leaves journalists with little ● Serena Shim, a Lebanese- the Post’s foreign editor. “After 100 choice but to censor themselves or American journalist, was killed Oct. days, the time is long overdue for to flee into exile. 19 in an auto crash in Turkey that the Iranian authorities to release Ja- The report was released in ad- her employer called suspicious. Two son and to allow him to be reunited vance of the first International Day days earlier, she claimed the Turkish with his family.” to End Impunity for Crimes Against intelligence services had threatened It seems each month, if not more Journalists on Nov. 2, a date selected her over her reporting of the siege of frequently, another major press last year by the United Nations. Or- (Continued on Page 10)

OPC Bulletin • November 2014 • Page 9 (Continued From Page 9) the chest and the assailants fled. Association, who died Oct. 12 from Kobani. Turkish media reported that a gunshot while investigating illegal the driver of a cement mixer had ● Pablo Medina Velázquez, a logging. The three men arrested are been arrested and the local governor Paraguayan journalist who wrote suspected of trafficking in illegal pledged a detailed investigation. about the country’s illegal drug timber. trade, and his assistant, Antonia ● A woman who worked with her Maribel Almada Chamorro, were ● Two news cameramen died husband at a radio station in Peru shot dead on Oct. 16. Police had within two days in Iraq. The Islamic died Oct. 17 while trying to defend provided Medina a bodyguard fol- State publically executed Raad al- her son and husband. Gerson Fa- lowing numerous threats in connec- Azzawi, who worked for Salahud- bián Cuba was hosting his program tion with his investigations, but he din , in Tikrit on Oct. 10. on Radio Rumba when the gunmen was not protected at the time of the Reporters without Borders said that entered the station and began insult- murders. the Islamic State earlier had threat- ing and beating him. Local news re- ened to execute Azzawi because he ports said when the journalist’s son ● Police in Cambodia arrested a refused to work for the group. On protested, Fabián Cuba’s wife, Glo- police chief, a military police officer Oct. 12, Imad Amer Lattufi was ria Limas Calle, used a broomstick and a soldier as suspects in the mur- killed by a roadside bomb while to try to drive away the gunmen. Li- der of Taing Try, a freelance report- traveling with the police force in mas Calle, who wrote ad copy and er and a member of the independent Anbar province. He was a member often cleaned the studio, was shot in Khmer Journalists for Democracy of the police’s media department.

(Continued From Page 4) they couldn’t go. “There was certain trust on the part of U.S. diplomats that of the First Gulf War in Kuwait, when interviews that the information that they gave the journalists who with soldiers were not allowed, information was tightly visited them, and on the other side there was certain re- controlled and reports censored. straint and self- on the side of journalists to “What we have seen in my lifetime as a war corre- maintain the diplomat’s trust in terms of not publishing spondent and a foreign correspondent, have been much all that they witnessed,” until the information became greater attempts to control the message that the U.S. gov- less sensitive she said. ernment wants to send out.” Andrew Nagorski, author and former Newsweek She recalled sneak- correspondent, recalled ing into Afghanistan examples from his per- in 1979 and contact- sonal experience cover- ing the U.S. Embassy ing Southeast Asia and to make sure someone working as bureau chief knew she was in the for Newsweek in , country. She added where he was expelled in that non-U.S. embas- 1982. sies can also become Nagorski remembered key resources. Later meeting a CIA agent who when civil war had gave him battlefield in- broken out in Af- telligence on deep back- ghanistan, the Turkish ground in exchange for embassy kept track Chad Bouchard a pair of jogging shoes. of the whereabouts of He said it was clear that Left to right: Andrew Nagorski, Lindsay Krasnoff, Edith Le- all foreign journalists derer, Seymour Topping and Dale Prince during a panel on the U.S. embassy wanted and became “a kind of reporter-embassy relations. to get the story released protector.” without implicating “If you didn’t show up or call to say you were de- Washington, and as a reporter he found the level of detail layed, they would go and look for you,” she said. irresistible. His story, and the other stories from the eve- Lindsay Krasnoff, historian of the State Department, ning, illustrated the push and pull felt by every reporter spoke about the development of relations between re- depending on diplomatic sources. porters and embassies during . The two sides “We’ve seen a range here, starting with the issue of grew close because of journalists’ reliance on diplomatic trust, and then the issue of tension, and both are inherent transportation to get to the front, and the embassy’s reli- in any relationship between journalists and diplomats,” ance on reports from journalists who went to locations Nagorski said.

OPC Bulletin • November 2014 • Page 10 Meet the OPC Members: a Q&A With Spencer Platt By Susan Kille Spencer Platt has received many honors as a photojournalist, including the World Press Photo of the Year award in 2006 for an image showing a group of young Lebanese in a convertible driv- ing through a South Beirut neighborhood devas- tated by Israeli bombings. Platt, an OPC member since 2013, is based in New York.

Current assignment: Senior staff photographer for Getty Images

Hometown: Brooklyn Age: 44 Education: Clark University, English major Languages: Spanish (poor) First job in journalism: Star-Gazette, Elmira, N.Y. Michael Goldfarb Countries where I’ve reported from: Afghani- stan, Liberia, Iraq, Ukraine, Congo, Lebanon, Spencer Platt at a refugee camp in Romania, Albania, Italy and . northern Lebanon last summer.

Best advice about photojournalism I’ve received: Advice for photojournalists who want to work overseas: Any hotel room above $150 per night will only make Choose an uncomfortable and difficult location others you want to stay in bed. Always stay at a place you can’t have ignored. Work it to death. wait to leave in the morning. This is from Carolyn Cole of the L.A. Times. Place most eager to visit: Algeria. Reading Camus be- gan a desire to see, smell and taste this land. Worst experience as a journalist: Covering the hyste- ria surrounding Ebola ranks among the worst. The most over-the-top assignment: Waiting for a shark attack along a Florida beach; it didn’t happen but the When traveling, I … always bring a kettle and French beach was great. press. Good coffee is a necessity. Also a corkscrew. The most common mistake I’ve seen: Not being well Hardest stories to photograph: The 2002 invasion of informed over a story. Iraq and the Tour de France. My pet peeve about editors is: I have fantastic editors. My journalism heroes are: Don McCullin, Larry Bur- rows, Henri Cartier-Bresson and Robert Capa. The country I’d return to: Lebanon, always. Dream job: I have it! handle: @spencerplatt1

Favorite quote: From Ryszard Kapuscinski: “A journey, Want to add to the OPC’s collection of Q&As with mem- after all, neither begins in the instant we set out, nor ends bers? Contact Susan Kille at [email protected]. when we have reached our door step once again.”

the discussion, asked whether the authors thought the world (Continued From Page 4) needed a central charismatic figure like Nelson Mandela to ple who give, she said, and more than half of the people in galvanize global movements for change. one study reported a higher degree of pleasure than those “There is a deep human yearning for transformational who received gifts. figures or in the world of policy, for silver bullets,” Kristof “It turns out that being compassionate and volunteering said. “Change more often happens not from silver bullets, actually elevates your health outcomes,” WuDunn said. but from silver buckshot...from modest changes that collec- OPC board member Seymour Topping, who moderated tively add up,” Kristof said.

OPC Bulletin • November 2014 • Page 11 Other bylines include Jean Coc- Greenway acknowledges he New Books teau, Robert Benchley, T.S. Eliot, worked in a golden age of inter- Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Ford Mad- national reporting, a time when ANTHOLOGY dox Ford, John Maynard Keynes, newspapers were “making more ANITY FAIR BILLED ITSELF D.H. Lawrence, , Vas the “modern magazine” of the profit than most of their Edna St. Vincent Millay, advertisers, and there was Jazz Age and that justification is P. G. Wodehouse, Thom- seen in Bohemians, Bootleggers, enough money around to as Wolfe and Alexander fuel dreams of expansion.” , and Swells: The Best of Woollcott. Early Vanity Fair [Penquin Press, When he was hired by Time Friend, the editor of magazine in 1962, Henry November]. OPC member David creative development Friend worked with his boss, Van- Luce told him to always at Vanity Fair, was Life travel first class. Those days ity Fair editor Graydon Carter, to magazine’s director of are gone, as are deadlines edit the anthology of 72 essays, po- photography during the ems and profiles published 1990s. He es- that fall only once a day. Bu- from the magazine’s debut tablished the reaus have closed and fewer in 1913 to 1936, when dur- site colleagues gather around ing the Great Depression, for both Life and Van- distant watering holes. it was folded into Vogue. ity Fair. He is the author Greenway worked in London Clarence Darrow writes of Watching the World and Washington before Time sent about equality, Noël Cow- Change: The Stories Be- him to Vietnam in 1967. He joined ard has a parody called hind the Images of 9/11 in 1972 and “Memoirs of Court Fa- [Farrar, Straus, Giroux, continued reporting from Vietnam, vorites,” e.e. cummings 2006]. His awards include where he was wounded and received presents “When Cal- an Emmy and a Peabody. a Bronze Star for rescuing a Marine. vin Coolidge Laughed,” As a correspondent, he He left Saigon by helicopter from F. Scott Fitzgerald explains covered conflicts in Af- the American embassy as the city what a magazine should be, Dorothy ghanistan, Lebanon and elsewhere. was falling. His career took him to Parker tackles topics from why she Friend has worked with Carter to 96 countries and he tells the stories hated actresses to why she stayed sin- edit seven other anthologies from of the leaders, civilians and fellow gle, Carl Sandburg writes about Char- Vanity Fair, which was revived by correspondents he met. lie Chaplin while Condé Nast in 1983. In 1978, he became national and gives a “Primer on Broadway Slang.” foreign editor of The Boston Globe, MEMOIR where he established bureaus in OR NEARLY A HALF CENTU- London, Tokyo, Canada, Moscow, Fry H.D.S. Greenway was a byline and Jerusalem. He on news reports from events and was a “writing foreign editor” and conflicts around the world. David filed articles while overseas hiring Upcoming Events Greenway’s account of his experi- stringers and making contacts. ences in Foreign Correspondent: After his retirement in 2000, he A Memoir [Simon & Schuster, has written columns for the Globe, Book Night/Reception August] is both a memoir and a the International Herald-Tribune With Anya Schiffrin: modern history of America trying and . 6:00 p.m. Dec. 1 to impose its will in places and on — By Susan Kille people it does not understand.

Overseas Press Club Mixer at The Half King: 6:00 p.m. Dec. 10

Control Risks Breakfast 8:00 a.m. Dec. 17

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