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THE MONTHLY NEWSLETTER OF THE OVERSEAS PRESS CLUB OF AMERICA, NEW YORK, NY • June 2016 Anne Garrels Observes Vast Changes in ‘Putin Country’ and gas prices in 2000 EVENT RECAP when he came in, Putin By Chad Bouchard gave people a sense of When Anne Garrels returned to economic prosperity for the Soviet Union in 1992 to work as the first time,” she said. correspondent for NPR, she looked Garrels said as Rus- for a way to cover long-term chang- sia opened to the West es in one particular community af- in the early 90s, people ter the fall of the Soviet Union. She in Chelyabinsk were chose Chelyabinsk, an industrial excited and optimistic. “middle Russia” city about 1,000

But slowly, they started Chad Bouchard miles east of Moscow. to learn about the rest of On June 7, 2016, the OPC hosted the world and grew sus- Bill Keller, left, and Anne Garrels a book night to discuss Putin Coun- picious as NATO closed try is fraught with contradictions try: A Journey into the Real Russia, in on Russia’s borders. People felt surrounding freedom. On one hand, the result of more than 20 years of like “betrayed lovers,” she said, as young people are happy to be able reporting in Russia and frequent vis- disillusionment set in and the West to download whatever media they its to Chelyabinsk. treated Russians like losers. “It was want, while on the other hand more Garrels said during protests after a toxic combination.” people are being arrested for speak- legislative elections in 2011, West- She said Putin capitalized on ing out under vaguely worded ex- ern media focused too much on what those sentiments to build support for tremism laws. was happening in Moscow, to the his nationalist policies, blaming the Bill Keller, editor-in-chief of The exclusion of the rest of the country. flagging economy on the West and Marshall Project and former Mos- “It was distorting. If you were pledging to become stronger and cow bureau chief of The New York reading The New York Times, you more self-sufficient. Times who served as moderator for would think the country was up in “I think we need to explain why the event, asked Garrels about the arms. But out in the provinces, that – it may be distasteful, we may not role of religion and the Russian Or- was not the case,” she said. want to appreciate or understand thodox Church as changes inundated She said reports had missed out why people like Putin, but I think Chelyabinsk. on alternative perspectives from that we need to.” people living outside the capital. She said that currently the coun- (Continued on Page 5) “By the benefit of high oil prices OPC ANNUAL MEETING AUGUST 9th Inside. . . Please watch your mail inboxes for updates about the upcoming Recap: Book Night - ‘Nazi Hunters’....2 OPC Board of Governors election. This year, the membership will choose officers, nine (9) Active members of the board and three (3) Foreign Editors Circle Meeting...... 3 Associate members to begin two-year terms. Next month’s Bulletin IAPC Meeting in Geneva...... 4 will feature bios and messages from candidates. OPC’s West Coast Friends...... 5 The annual meeting, open to all members, will be held on Aug. 9 People Column...... 6-8 at 6:00 p.m. at Club Quarters, when election results will be announced. Press Freedom Update...... 9-10 To cast your vote, you will receive an email from the OPC with a Q&A: Vivienne Walt...... 11 link to Balloteer, our online voting service, or you can call the office New Books...... 12 for a paper ballot at 212-626-9220. Nagorski Traces Nearly-Forgotten History in ‘Nazi Hunters’

EVENT RECAP By Chad Bouchard Following the end of World War II, the U.S. and its European allies pivoted immediately to a new mission: to stop the spread of Soviet Communism. The Cold War had begun, Nazis who would have been tried as war criminals suddenly became key resources in the fight against the communists, and the atrocities of the Holo- caust seemed ready to be forgotten. On May 18, 2016, the OPC hosted a book night to discuss OPC member Andrew Nagorski’s book, The Chad Bouchard Nazi Hunters, which follows government agencies and Andrew Nagorski, left, and Deidre Depke. private counterparts who sought justice despite policies Israelis were scouring the globe to find war criminals, Nagorski called “historical amnesia.” for example, is wrong. The Israeli intelligence service, He said for many of the people who joined the mis- Mossad, did not have the resources to chase Nazis in any sion to track down war criminals, prosecution and jus- meaningful way, he said. tice were secondary to the desire to simply record what But journals from Nazi fugitives like Adolf Eich- had happened – to make sure it would never be repeated. mann and Josef Mengele show that they believed those “If the official position had been left alone, and there myths and lived in paranoia that Nazi hunters were al- hadn’t been individuals in government and outside of ways on their trail. governments who really pushed this and made people Nagorski said prosecutors ran into hurdles early on confront this again, I think our whole understanding of because the courts had differing notions of what consti- what happened in this period would be far more limited tuted guilt. German courts required individual charges and pretty myopic.” for specific murders or other crimes with direct evidence In his book, Nagorski challenged some of Holly- wood’s myths surrounding Nazi hunters. The idea that (Continued on Page 4) OVERSEAS PRESS CLUB OF AMERICA • BOARD OF GOVERNORS PRESIDENT ACTIVE BOARD Scott Gilmore Paul Moakley ASSOCIATE BOARD PAST PRESIDENTS Marcus Mabry Jacqueline Albert- International Columnist Deputy Director MEMBERS EX-OFFICIO U.S. Lead Simon Maclean’s Magazine Photography and Brian I. Byrd Michael Serrill U.S. Bureau Chief Visual Enterprise Program Officer David A. Andelman Twitter Moments Politique Internationale TIME magazine Peter S. Goodman NYS Health John Corporon FIRST VICE PRESIDENT Hannah Allam European Economic Robert Nickelsberg Foundation Allan Dodds Frank Calvin Sims Foreign Affairs Correspondent Freelance Alexis Gelber The New York Times President and CEO Correspondent Photojournalist Bill Collins William J. Holstein McClatchy Director, Public & Marshall Loeb International House Newspapers Charles Graeber Mary Rajkumar International Enterprise Business Affairs Larry Martz Freelance Journalist Ford Motor Company Roy Rowan SECOND VICE PRESIDENT Deborah Amos and Author Editor Abigail Pesta Correspondent The Associated Press Larry Smith Freelance Journalist NPR Emma Daly Richard B. Stolley Steve Herman Lara Setrakian Communications Molly Bingham Bureau Chief Co-Founder & CEO Director Southest Asia News Deeply EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR THIRD VICE PRESIDENT President & CEO Human Rights Watch Patricia Kranz Pancho Bernasconi Voice of America OrbMedia, Inc. Martin Smith Vice President/News President Daniel Sieberg OFFICE MANAGER Getty Images Rukmini Callimachi Anjali Kamat Rain Media Foreign Correspondent Global Head Boots R. Duque Correspondent of Media Outreach TREASURER Fault Lines Liam Stack The New York Times Al Jazeera English Breaking News Google EDITOR Tim Ferguson Reporter Chad Bouchard Editor Anupreeta Das Azmat Khan The New York Times Minky Worden Forbes Asia Reporter Director of Global Wall Street Journal Investigative Reporter BuzzFeed News Charles Wallace Initiatives OPC Financial Writer SECRETARY Chris Dickey Human Rights Watch ISSN-0738-7202 Deidre Depke Foreign Editor Dan Klaidman Vivienne Walt Copyright © 2015 New York Bureau Chief The Daily Beast, Deputy Editor Correspondent Overseas Press Club Marketplace Paris Yahoo News TIME and FORTUNE of America 40 West 45 Street, New York, NY 10036 USA • Phone: (212) 626-9220 • Fax: (212) 626-9210 • Website: opcofamerica.org OPC Bulletin • June 2016 • Page 2 Curbing the Risks as Attacks on Reporters Escalate By Michael S. Serrill It’s dangerous to be an international journalist. That message was delivered emphatically at the fourth annual Foreign Editors Circle meeting in May. More than 20 representatives of news outlets and associations, including me and executive director Patricia Kranz from the OPC, convened at the offices of public radio outlet WGBH and painted a dire portrait of a globe where unbiased reporting

– let’s call that truth-telling – is not just unwelcome, but of- Charles Sennott ten punished with imprisonment and murder. As the partic- David Rohde of Reuters, leads a session at the Foreign ipants noted, Russia and China have reverted to a level of Editors Circle meeting on May 13. media repression not seen since the heyday of communism. before a dangerous assignment. You can get a copy from (President Xi Jinping of China recently told editors there the ACOS website acosalliance.org or from David at that their only function was to support his government’s [email protected]. ideology.) In Europe, reporters are under pressure from Among the checklist’s provisions: that the editor de- Hungary to Greece to Spain. Regimes across the Middle termine the reporter has had conflict reporting experi- East and Central Asia are cracking down harder than ever, ence, plus safety, first aid and other training; that the re- with Turkish President Recep Erdogan going so far as to porter complete a risk assessment before the assignment, demand that a German media mogul rescind his support and have a method for keeping in communication with the for a beleaguered Turkish comedian who mocked Erdogan. news organization and an emergency evacuation plan. Edi- Much of the daylong Boston meeting – co-sponsored tors should make certain reporters are provided with what- by the Vienna-based International Press Institute, the As- ever expense money and equipment – such as helmet and sociated Press and Charles Sennott’s GroundTruth Proj- flak jacket – they will need on the assignment. One crucial ect – focused on the continuing dangers of reporting from requirement: that reporters have the capability to quickly war-torn Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan. The Foreign Editors scrub their phones, tablets or computers so that if he is ar- Circle and the OPC were early backers of the global effort rested or taken captive local reporters and sources he has to train and protect freelancers working in conflict zones. been working with will not be compromised. Some of That initiative has blossomed into the ACOS Alliance – the checklist items are necessarily macabre: what will the ACOS stands for A Culture of Safety – which now has news organization do if the journalist is captured, injured or more than 85 members representing major news organiza- killed? Does the reporter have an up-to-date will? “It’s critical that editors and reporters talk over worst- case scenarios – and each side’s responsibilities – before agreeing on an assignment,” Rohde said in an email. “Both reporters and editors will benefit.” The latest battlefield in the war against independent journalism is on the Internet. At the Boston meeting, IPI’s Javier Luque, speaking from Vienna on Skype, described a rising tide of “harassment of journalists, bloggers and citizen journalists” around the world. To fight the trend, IPI Beth Murphy/GroundTruth has launched a new program called On the Line, designed The fourth annual Foreign Editors Circle meeting was hosted by The GroundTruth Project at WGBH in Boston. to give journalists around the world a secure outlet to report tions. ACOS board member David Rohde of Reuters – a threats and intimidation. (Go to www.ontheline.media.) kidnap victim in Pakistan – used the Boston forum to quiz The program is now being tested in Turkey and Jordan. In editors on the responsibilities of editors before they send the latter nation, Luque said, “traditional media has legal reporters, freelance or otherwise, into zones of conflict. protections that online journalists don’t.” One threat to the After compiling recommendations from freelancers, online crowd: charges of defamation if they criticize gov- ACOS developed the Assignment Safety Checklist – a ernment officials. set of questions that editors and reporters should discuss (Continued on Page 4)

OPC Bulletin • June 2016 • Page 3 Boosting Trans-Atlantic Ties at IAPC Meeting in Geneva By Patricia Kranz OPC Executive Director Patricia Kranz and long- time OPC member Jonathan Kapstein participated in the 2016 General Assembly of the International Association of Press Clubs (IAPC) in Geneva, Switzerland in late May. Kapstein is a founding member of the Brussels Press Club Europe, which is less than six years old, and the club’s current president. OPC members are welcome to visit the Brussels Press Club or any of the more than 40 IAPC member clubs when traveling abroad. Most are in Europe and Asia, but the IAPC has a grant from the European Union to help develop and support press clubs in Africa. Next Patricia Kranz and Jonathan Kapstein of spring the association will hold a conference in Kigali, Press Club Brussels Europe. Rwanda to promote these efforts. At this year’s meeting, Press Club Belarus was approved as a new member. For a complete list of clubs were OPC members are welcome, click here. The OPC is the only club based in North America that is a member of the IAPC. Delegates in Geneva ex- pressed a strong desire to promote trans-Atlantic ties be- tween press clubs, and approved a motion to hold a conference in New York or another American city in 2019 to network with US and Canadian press clubs. Also in the works is the second International Free- dom of the Press Conference to be held in May 2017, hosted by the Jerusalem Press Club under the auspices of the IAPC. From left: Guy Mettan of the Geneva Press Club, Martyn The association also sponsors a Freedom of Speech Bond of the London Press Club and Jonathan Kapstein. award every year, which in 2015 was presented to Al gathering. The highlight was lunch at the United Nations Jazeera journalists Peter Greste, Mohamed Fahmy and Restaurant hosted by Michael Moeller, director general Baher Mohamed, who had been imprisoned in Egypt. of the UN Office in Geneva, followed by a tour of the Guy Mettan of the Geneva Press Club hosted the Palais des Nations. (‘Nazi Hunters’ Continued From Page 2) “If there’s a gang out there kill- deep interest in the era. Nazi Hunt- and witnesses to establish guilt. ing every family that has blue eyes, ers is his fourth book about World Since prisoners avoided eye contact you don’t care who’s the shooter, War II. with guards, survivors often could who’s standing guard, who’s the “I think one of the great lega- not identify the people who commit- driver – they’re all guilty. German cies of this whole period is that the courts refused to accept that.” standard defense of everyone from ted the crimes. Nagorski traveled to France, Eichmann on down was ‘I was just But this began to turn around Germany, Poland and Israel in the following orders.’ What all these tri- when lawyers started arguing that course of his research for the book. als have established is that just fol- guards working at death camps His family escaped from Poland lowing orders is not a defense, and are guilty simply because of their during the war and emigrated to the in fact in some ways it condemns contribution to the operation of the United States. He said hearing sto- you when you know what those or- facility. ries when growing up prompted a ders mean.” (‘Curbing Risks’ Continued From Page 3) ordinate amount of time raising funds from foundations One threat – perhaps the biggest – to international to sponsor his reporting projects. Said Sennott: “New journalism doesn’t come through the barrel of a gun: a revenue models ae needed.” paucity of money. GroundTruth’s Sennott noted that at this juncture few major American news organizations Michael S. Serrill, a former president of the OPC, employ any foreign correspondents simply because it is was a foreign editor for Bloomberg News, Business- too expensive. At GroundTruth, he says he spends an in- Week and TIME. OPC Bulletin • June 2016 • Page 4 Correspondents Discuss West Coast Group of OPC Friends By Markos Kounalakis and Mary Kay Magistad person organizing committee met in May to work on lo- A new group of hacks out in California have been gistics for the larger June event held at San Francisco’s meeting in San Francisco. What started out notionally at Mechanics’ Institute. the end of 2015 has now grown into a real team of in- The June 2 event had 38 people sign up – even though dividuals who share in the mission and principles of the it coincided with the first game of the NBA Finals featur- OPC and are actively meeting, organizing and networking ing the local team (a big screen, streaming solution satis- professionally on a regularly scheduled basis. The group fied all). The next meeting is planned for September and is working with the Overseas Press Club of America to the number of members is growing steadily. A group sur- form a West Coast affiliate and is informally using the vey is underway to uncover what services and activities name OPC West. The OPC board of governors will meet members desire and to see who is willing to help do some in the fall to discuss how to formalize the relationship. of the work of organizing, planning, and hosting future OPC West is off to a great start in 2016. The first three meetings and events. meetings have attracted over 60 participants, mostly for- OPC West has a closed Facebook page that members eign correspondents, overseas bureau chiefs and freelanc- can join, is creating an Instagram presence. Because ers. A few OPC Award winners also attended the early OPC West members are located throughout the San meetings. Francisco Bay Area, future meetings are being planned In April, around 35 former foreign correspondents for both Berkeley and Stanford/Silicon Valley. gathered at Markos’s home in San Francisco. The assem- Please send ideas, suggestions and questions regard- bled group ranged from Vietnam War era correspondents ing OPC West to: [email protected]. and photographers to those more recently out of Afghani- And, of course, spread the word! If you know of cur- stan, China and Europe. rent or former foreign correspondents in the San Fran- At that meeting, a group conversation centered around cisco Bay Area – or who pass through the Bay Area on what OPC West could be and do, on how and how much a regular basis – please put them in touch and we’ll get to organize it, and on what steps to take next. An eight them on the mailing list.

(‘Putin Country’ Continued From Page 1) abinsk residents in her book. She talked about a dissident She said after the Soviet Union fell, foreign missionar- who once worked as a forensic scientist in the Soviet pe- ies from Baptist and Pentecostal churches quickly set up riod, and became a funeral director in the years after the operations in the city and provided much-needed services Soviet Union collapsed. like addiction treatment. The Orthodox church was slower He was frustrated about paying an increasing number of to respond, but after making money from trade in tax-free bribes to city officials, so he eventually refused. His deputy cigarettes and alcohol, the church sharpened its propagan- was shot just as they were shutting the business down. da and grew to become a more active community fixture. The dissident then became the first independent foren- Life for the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender com- sic expert in Russia. Judges began to call on him. He wasn’t munity in Chelyabinsk is surprisingly open, Garrels said. allowed to submit reports on politically sensitive cases, but Though homosexuality was decriminalized in 1993, he was able to make a small difference in the justice sys- under current law there is a ban on distribution of “propa- tem. ganda” to minors that promotes so-called non-traditional sexual relationships. Garrels said that effectively means Garrels said she’s concerned about apathy among you can’t talk about homosexuality publicly. young Russians, with many of them wanting to leave the Garrels added that many people in the gay community country for better opportunities abroad. She said kids she resent liberal Westerners pushing for reforms in Russia, be- interviewed at a school for gifted students in Chelyabinsk cause gay rights are decades behind and should be allowed were surprisingly patriotic. to progress at their own pace. “There was an element of Putin in all of them,” Garrels tracked changes in the lives of several Chely- she said.

OPC Bulletin • June 2016 • Page 5 PEOPLE... By Trish Anderton

OPC SCHOLARS and a story about two women who and Raney Aronson won the In- Alexandra Suich, who won the lost their jobs at a Catholic high ternational Television category with Theo Wilson Scholarship in 2008, is school after marrying each other. the FRONTLINE episode “Escap- now The Economist’s US Technol- ing Isis,” which received this year’s ogy Editor in San Francisco. Previ- OPC member Lynsey Addario David A. Andelman and Pamela ously she served as received an honorable mention for Title Award. The Robert F. Kennedy media editor, based the 2016 Anja Niedringhaus Cour- awards recognize outstanding re- in London and age In Photojournalism Award, as porting on human rights and social New York, where did 2007 John Faber Award win- justice issues. she wrote about ner Paula Bronstein. The winner the television, film, was Adriane Ohanesian, a free- Sarajevo-based reporter Miran- newspaper, music lance photojournalist based in Nai- da Patrucic, who has exposed cor- and marketing busi- Suich robi, Kenya. A.P. photographer Anja ruption throughout the region, and nesses worldwide. She started writ- Niedringhaus was killed by an Af- the investigative team at Mexican ing for The Economist in 2008. Al- ghan policeman on the outskirts of news site Aristegui Noticias have exandra was named Britain’s Young Khost, in eastern Afghanistan, in been honored with the 2016 Knight Financial Journalist of the Year 2012 2014; OPC member Kathy Gannon International Journalism Awards. by the Wincott Foundation. was seriously injured in the attack. Gannon serves on the advisory com- UPDATES 2013 Emanuel R. Freedman mittee for the award. NEW YORK: OPC member Scholarship winner Christopher Santiago Lyon was the subject of Harress has joined the Alabama The Associated Press team that a lengthy profile in The Globe and Media Group in Birmingham AL. received both the Hal Boyle and Mail (London). In it, the veteran Previously he was the defense re- Malcolm Forbes Awards at this photographer talks about dealing porter for International Business year’s OPC gala has also won the with the emotional impacts of war Times, where his four years as logis- English News photography throughout his ca- tics officer in the British Royal Navy & Features reer, starting with the civil war in informed his daily reporting on the Grand Prize El Salvador at age 23 and continu- nexus of business, politics, interna- in the Hong ing through conflicts in more than a tional affairs and defense. As a free- Kong-based dozen countries, including the first lancer, Christopher reported from Human Rights Gulf War and the Balkans. Lyon is Senegal, all across Europe, New Press Awards. now the vice president and director Zealand and Australia. “Seafood from of photography of The Associated Slaves,” a se- Press. WINNERS ries that helped OPC Second Vice President Abi- free more than Mendoza, Mason, Buyouts are on offer in the news- gail Pesta and colleagues at Cos- 2,000 enslaved McDowell & Htusan room and several business depart- mopolitan Magazine accepted the workers in the Southeast Asian fish- ments at The New York Times as the award for Outstanding Magazine ing industry, is the work of Martha paper bids to “continue aggressive Overall Coverage Mendoza, Margie Mason, Robin digital expansion while controlling at the 27th Annual McDowell and Esther Htusan. The costs.” Packets were set to go out GLAAD Media Bob Considine Award-winner Re- to eligible employees at the end of Awards in New uters piece, “The Long Arm of Chi- May, and they will have until mid- York. The maga- na,” won the HRPA’s English Online July to decide whether to accept. zine’s inclusiveness Grand Prize. The company did not reveal how of all sexual and many buyouts it is offering. It has gender orientations Pesta Mendoza, Mason, McDow- set its sights on doubling digital rev- “sent a message of inspiration to ell and Htusan’s “Seafood from enue by the year 2020. its LGBT readers,” GLAAD wrote. Slaves” has also won a 2016 Rob- Among the stories Pesta has pub- ert F. Kennedy Journalism Award Cuts have hit the digital news lished in Cosmo this year: a lengthy in the International Print category. world as well, with VICE announc- interview with Chelsea Manning, Evan Williams, Edward Watts, ing in May that it would eliminate

OPC Bulletin • June 2016 • Page 6 15 jobs in New York and Los Ange- tee to Protect Journalists website. drawings tell the stories – including les, as well as laying off its editorial Masi says she first began chatting one in which a prisoner is exoner- team and foreign correspondents in with an ISIS fighter on Twitter in ated after a 20-year effort, and - an London. The company is reorganiz- September 2014, after he comment- other about the psychological stress ing its operations and plans to open ed about a piece she’d written. She of solitary confinement. offices in Hong Kong and San Fran- says she tries to communicate with cisco, The Guardian reports. Mash- online sources “nearly every day for WASHINGTON, DC: The able cut about two dozen staffers in a month” before setting up a video family of veteran freelancer Ray April, while Buzzfeed missed its chat or phone call to confirm their Thibodeaux is raising money to 2015 revenue goals and downscaled whereabouts – and she uses them help pay for his medical expenses expectations for 2016. Internation- only to understand the group better, after a cancer diagnosis. Thibodeaux al Business Times laid off about 15 and not as primary sources in sto- has reported around the world from employees in March. ries. Masi is the Middle East corre- the conflict in Darfur to Bhutan’s spondent for International Business first democratic elections. He has The New York Times is suing the Times. been a frequent contributor to Voice CIA and the U.S. Army for docu- of America in both Africa and South ments relating to abandoned chemi- OPC member Ilana Ozernoy Asia, reporting from over a dozen cal weapons found by U.S. soldiers is now vice president and deputy countries. He and wife Emily Wax, in Iraq. The suit fol- head of communications at News a former foreign correspondent and lows up on report- Corp. Previously, Ozernoy worked now national reporter for The Wash- ing by C.J. Chivers in the administra- ington Post, live with their two tod- that showed how tion of New York dlers in Washington. The fundrais- exposure to the de- City Mayor Bill de ing page can be found at https:// teriorating arsenal Blasio. A former www.gofundme.com/raymedfund. sickened at least 17 war correspondent, American service Chivers Ozernoy has been a CHICAGO: FRONTLINE re- members. According to Courthouse staff writer for The ceived $4.2 million and the Pulitzer News, The Times argues the official Atlantic, a staff for- Ozernoy Center on Crisis Reporting got $2.5 refusal to release the documents is eign correspondent for U.S. News & million as part of the MacArthur “no longer sustainable” because the World Report, and a correspondent Foundation’s expanded commit- Army has already apologized to the for public radio’s “Marketplace.” ment to journalism. Other awardees servicepeople who were affected. included the Global Press Institute, Chivers won the OPC’s Best Inves- Nick Schifrin, who shared the public radio’s The World, and Round tigative Reporting Award in 2014 for 2014 David Kaplan Award with col- Earth Media. The foundation doled the work. leagues from Al Jazeera America, is now working as a special corre- out nearly $25 million in unrestrict- Valerie Komor, an OPC mem- spondent for PBS NewsHour. Schi- ed funding to support “the core val- ber, is leading the effort to preserve frin was Al Jazeera America’s first ues of accurate, in-depth journalism the vast trove of wire copy, report- foreign correspondent, based in Je- and documentary storytelling while ers’ notes, images and videos at the rusalem; before that he worked for also supporting innovation and ex- Associated Press. As director of the ABC News in London, New Delhi, perimentation and building diversity A.P.’s Corporate Archives project, and Afghanistan/Pakistan. in the field.” she’s working with a cloud storage firm to save the content and make it 2015 Thomas Nast Award winner LOS ANGELES: The Los An- available to reporters and research- Patrick Chappatte went beyond the geles Times is opening seven news ers. The collection goes back as far bounds of typical editorial cartoon- bureaus around in the world in a bid as 1848. Among its treasures: wire ing in a special series for The New to establish itself as a global leader copy on President Kennedy’s assas- York Times. Chap- in entertainment news, Poynter.org sination, complete with an editor’s patte and his wife, reports. The bureaus will be in the notes in pencil. journalist Anne- “entertainment-oriented” cities of Frédérique Wid- Hong Kong, Seoul, Rio de Janiero, OPC member Alessandria Masi mann, worked with Mumbai, Lagos, Moscow and Mex- shared her experiences using social prisoners to docu- ico City. media to connect with ISIS members ment life on Death in a recent blog post on the Commit- Row. Chappatte’s Chappatte (Continued on Page 8)

OPC Bulletin • June 2016 • Page 7 Former OPC Governor Jona- 2009 about life along Israel’s West CNN’s Will King, who helped than Dahl has joined search firm Bank barrier. He had covered nu- launch the cable news channel in Korn Ferry as Vice President, Chief merous conflicts and disasters,- in 1980 and later shaped its internation- Content Officer. His responsibilities cluding the earthquake in Haiti, the al coverage, died at age 64 on May will include oversight of print and Balkans war and He joined NPR in 19. King started as a video journalist digital news content, according to 2007 after a stint with the Detroit just two weeks before CNN broad- the firm. Mr. Dahl previously served Free Press. “As a man and as a pho- cast its first show. He went on to as Editor in Chief at two Wall Street tojournalist, David brought out the open the Frankfurt bureau in 1985. Journal publications – SmartMoney humanity of all those around him,” He returned to the U.S. and worked and WSJMoney – and was a Page said NPR’s vice president of news, his way up the ladder as senior inter- One editor. Michael Oreskes, in an email to national editor, managing editor, and staff. “He let us see the world and vice president of international news DURHAM, N.C.: 2014 OPC each other through his eyes.” gathering. King “was a man of de- Edward R. Murrow Award winner tail, and the bottom line was always Rachel Boynton sat on the Grand 60 Minutes icon Morley Safer about taking care of people in war Jury of this year’s Full Frame Docu- died on May 19 at age 84. As a for- mentary Film Festival. Boynton’s eign correspondent for CBS, Safer zones,” former senior vice president latest film – and the one that won brought the Vietnam war into Amer- of news gathering Parisa Khosravi her the Murrow Award – is Big Men, ican living rooms, changing the pub- recalled. a documentary about an American lic’s opinion of the war. He began company’s pursuit of oil off the his career as a foreign correspondent David Beresford, who was coast of Ghana. with Reuters in London and went known for his reporting on North- on to cover the Middle East, Europe ern Ireland and South Africa, died LONDON: Henry Chu, who and Africa for the Canadian Broad- on April 22. He was 68. Beresford shared the 2015 Madeline Dane Ross casting Corporation. In 1970 Safer was born in South Africa and moved Award with colleagues from the Los joined 60 Minutes, where he worked to Britain in the mid-70s, where he Angeles Times, has been named Eu- until his retirement just a week be- soon found his way to The Guard- ropean Bureau Chief at Variety. Chu, fore his death. “No correspondent ian. The paper sent him to Northern who spent 25 years at the Times, will had more extraordinary range, from Ireland in 1978, where he began the write and edit features for the maga- war reporting to coverage of every work that would lead to his highly- zine and direct daily news coverage aspect of modern culture,” said CBS regarded book about the IRA hunger across Europe for Variety.com. News President David Rhodes in a strike of 1981, Ten Men Dead. In statement. “His writing alone de- 1984 he moved to Johannesburg to fined original reporting.” 2014 Olivier Rebbot Award win- cover the struggle against apartheid. ner Jérôme Sessini’s work was re- In later years, he also chronicled his cently exhibited at Photo London, Any Cabrera, a veteran journal- own battle with Parkinson’s disease. a festival bringing together 84 of ist with the Associated Press in Latin the world’s leading galleries. Ses- America, died at age 60 on May 23. Stanley Burke died on May 28 sini shoots for the Magnum photo Cabrera began working for the A.P. at the age of 93. Burke served as a agency. as a correspondent in El Salvador in 1983. She went on to report from Bra- foreign correspondent for the Cana- PEOPLE REMEMBERED zil before becoming an editor on the dian Broadcasting Corporation, first NPR photographer David Gilkey Spanish-language news desk in Mex- at the UN in 1958, and later in Paris. was killed in Afghanistan on June ico City. “Any was the calm voice of He became deeply concerned about 5, along with interpreter Zabihul- reason on the other end of the line, the the Biafran war in the late 1960s lah Tamanna. Gilkey and Tamanna unflappable editor who always knew and resigned from the CBC in 1969 were traveling with the Afghan army what had to be done next,” said Paul when he was told to curtail his activ- on assignment when their unit came Haven, the agency’s news director for ism on the issue. Burke went on to under attack. Gilkey won an OPC Latin America and the Caribbean.“She become a newspaper publisher and citation for an NPR special series in was loved and admired by everybody.” environmentalist.

OPC Bulletin • June 2016 • Page 8 PRESS FREEDOM UPDATE... v Many journalists killed in the separately from the Reuters news nalists under attack to request help. Philippines have “done something” organization. Authorities in Iran The CPJ worked with the Freedom to deserve it, president-elect Ro- have confiscated the passport of her of the Press Foundation to design drigo Duterte said on May 31. “Just 22-month old baby as well, Reuters the reporting site using SecureDrop, because you’re a journalist you are reports. The Iranian government has an “anonymous submission system not exempted from assassination if not indicated why Zaghari-Ratcliffe engineered to resist even nation- you’re a son of a bitch,” he added. is being held. state surveillance.” The site must The Philippines is one of the most be contacted via the anonymous Tor deadly countries for members of The St. Louis County police de- browser; instructions are available the news media, according to the partment has settled with four jour- in the Journalist Assistance area of Committee to Protect Journalists; nalists who were arrested during the CPJ’s website. 75 journalists have been murdered unrest in Ferguson in 2014. Ryan there since 1992. Devereaux, Lukas Hermsmeier, Ten journalists held by armed Ansgar Graw and Frank Her- groups in Yemen began a hunger Prominent investigative journal- mann brought a federal civil rights strike on May 10 to protest their ist Khadija Ismayilova has been lawsuit against the county alleg- captivity, according to Report- released from prison on probation in ing numerous violations, including ers Without Borders (RSF). Most Azerbaijan. Ismayilova was arrested against the First and Fourth Amend- of the captives have been held for in 2014 on charges of embezzlement, ment. The settlement requires the more than a year; a joint statement illegal business activity, tax evasion county to pay $75,000 and train all released by their families said they and abuse of power. Human rights its police officers on media access had been subjected to torture and advocates have called the charges and the right to record police activ- denied medical care. RSF says 14 baseless. The 40-year-old Radio ity, The St. Louis American reported. journalists and citizen journalists Free Europe/Radio Liberty con- Devereaux writes for The Intercept; are currently being held by militant tributor was convicted in 2015 and Graw is a correspondent for Die groups in Yemen, including Houthi sentenced to seven and a half years Welt; Hermann writes for German rebels and Al-Qaeda in the Arabian in prison – a sentence that has since regional newspapers; and Herms- Peninsula (AQAP). been reduced. “I am strong and full meier is a freelancer. Other journal- of energy. I will continue my work ists arrested during the Ferguson The head of Egypt’s journalists as a journalist,” Ismayilova wrote on protests, including The Washington union and two of its board mem- Facebook shortly after her release. Post’s Wesley Lowery and The Huff- bers are facing trial on charges of ington Post’s Ryan Reilly, still face harboring fugitives and publishing A BBC team was ordered to stop charges. false news. Yehia Qalash, Khaled reporting during President Obama’s el-Balshy and Gamal Abdel Ra- to Vietnam in May, according to one Columbia University is the future heem have been charged in connec- of its members. “Even pointing a home of the Knight First Amend- tion with a police raid on the union’s camera vaguely in the direction of an ment Institute, which will “seek to building. Authorities were seeking election poster was politely blocked preserve and expand First Amend- two journalists suspected of stag- by our minders,” wrote Jonathan ment rights in the digital age through ing anti-government protests; the Head in a story for the BBC web- research and education, and by sup- union resisted, called for sit-ins and site. Head said authorities falsely ac- porting litigation in favor of pro- demanded the interior minister’s cused the team of holding an unau- tecting freedom of expression and thorized meeting with a prominent the press.” Columbia and the John resignation. Amnesty International dissident. S. and James L. Knight Foundation has called the arrests of Qalash, el- announced the $60 million project Balshy and Raheem an “alarming An aid worker has been detained in May. The institute is currently setback for freedom of expression” in Iran and held in solitary confine- searching for an executive director. in Egypt. ment without charges for five weeks. Family members are pleading for The Committee to Protect Three journalists held by Colom- the release of 37-year-old Naza- Journalists has launched what it bia’s Marxist ELN rebels were re- nin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, a program calls a state-of-the-art system for leased in late May after slightly less coordinator with the Thomson Re- reporting press freedom violations than a week in captivity. Spanish uters Foundation, which operates anywhere in the world, and for jour- (Continued on Page 10)

OPC Bulletin • June 2016 • Page 9 columnist Salud Hernandez went ● Mexican reporter Manuel Santi- ● Alex Balcoba, a reporter for missing on May 21 in rural El Tarra ago Torres González was shot dead the weekly crime tabloid People’s municipality. Correspondent Diego in Poza Rica, Veracruz, while walk- Brigada, was shot dead in front of D’Pablos and cameraman Carlos ing home after covering a campaign his family’s watch in Quiapo, Ma- Melo, who work for RCN Colom- event. The 48-year-old was the edi- nila, on May 27. The 56-year-old bian TV, disappeared two days later tor of the NoticiasMT news site, and was shot in the head by a lone gun- in the same area while investigat- man, the Philippine Star reports. had previously worked for national ing Hernandez’s disapperance. Her- Balcoba is the second journalist to nandez told El Tiempo newspaper broadcaster TV Azteca, according to be killed this year in the Philippines, that she had been detained against the CPJ. At least 14 journalists who and the 34th since 2010, according her will by the National Liberation lived or reported in Veracruz have to the National Union of Journalists Army but had been treated well and been killed since 2010, according to of the Philippines. was in good health. the press freedom organization. ● Pakistani journalist and human MURDERS ● Journalist Sagal Salad Osman rights advocate Khurram Zaki was ● Two journalists were killed in was gunned down in Mogadishu, killed in Karachi on May 7. Gunmen less than 24 hours in eastern India Somalia on June 5. The 24-year-old opened fire on him from motorbikes in mid-May. 35-year-old Akhilesh was attacked by three unknown as- while he was dining in a restaurant, Pratap Singh was shot in the Cha- sailants in the capital’s Hodon dis- the BBC reports. Zaki, 40, was an tra district of Jharkhand on May editor of the anti-sectarian web- trict near the University of Moga- 13. Singh worked for a local news site Let us Build Pakistan. A splin- dishu, where she was a student, ac- channel, according to NDTV. The ter group of the Pakistani Taliban next night, veteran journalist Ra- cording to Newsweek. Osman was a has claimed responsibility for the jdev Ranjan, the bureau chief of the host and producer for state-owned shooting, saying it was in retaliation daily Hindustan, was shot dead in Radio Mogadishu. Members of the against Zaki and other activists for Siwan district in neighboring Bihar state-run media are often targeted by filing a court case charging a cleric state. Police have not released a mo- militant groups in the region, such as with inciting violence against mem- tive for either killing. Al-Shabaab. bers of the Shia minority.

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OPC Bulletin • June 2016 • Page 10 Meet the OPC Members: a Q&A With Vivienne Walt By Trish Anderton Vivienne Walt has written for TIME magazine since 2003, and is also a contributor and roving correspondent for Fortune. She has reported from dozens of countries in Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia, though wars, terrorism, revolutions and natural disasters. Recently she covered the Arab Spring revolutions and their aftermath, Europe’s migrant crisis, and the terror attacks in Paris and Brussels. A regular guest on TV and radio, Vivienne has also published in The New York Times, The Washing-

ton Post, The Wall Street Journal, National Geographic, Walt Courtesy of Vivienne and Bloomberg BusinessWeek. Since 2015 she has been Vivienne Walt on the OPC Board of Governors. side Tripoli, when he told me he wanted “Democracy, Hometown: Raised in Cape Town, emigrated to New just like in Holland.” Months later, I was watching him York City, now based in Paris. command a bloody crackdown against democracy pro- testers. And today he’s in custody, sentenced to death. Languages: English, French. A good lesson in how to view interview subjects with a dose of skepticism. Year you joined the OPC: 1997 Journalism heroes: This year’s OPC award winners. What drew you to international reporting: Growing up, I had a front-row seat to world history, watching the Advice for journalists who want to work overseas: unraveling of apartheid in South Africa. After that I had Buy an air ticket to a newsworthy place, and work really this totally misguided idea that my reporting was all go- hard when you get there. The rest will follow. What are ing to be about earth-shattering events. you waiting for?

Major challenge as a journalist: Stop nit-picking over Dream job: Working for editors who say “go for it!” every word and hit the send button already. when I pitch getting on the road to do great stories, and who also have ideas of their own for me. Best journalism advice received: An editor of mine once gave me two sentences to live by: “There’s no Favorite quote: Half of life is showing up. (See above news in the newsroom” and “Go out and come back with under “Advice for journalists who want to work overseas”) something I don’t know.” I also have a sticker on my laptop which says, “Never assume. Always check.” Place you’re most eager to visit: Damascus the day President Assad resigns. Worst experience as a journalist: The worst experiences as a journalist are better than good ones in most Strangest assignment: I’d say little is more surreal than other jobs. being alone with a TIME photographer in a cold-storage room in Misrata, and the near-naked corpse of Moam- When traveling, you like to … Walk the streets with no mar Gaddafi, the morning after he was killed in October, preconceptions. 2011, with a crowd of excited families lined up outside, Hardest story: Almost always the story I’m currently waiting for a glimpse. working on. Nothing seems that hard once it’s done. Most common mistake you see: Anonymous quotes Most memorable interview: Two that come to mind: from people giving standard information that is readily Nelson Mandela, a week after his release from prison, available. in his garden in Soweto to where hundreds of ordinary Twitter handle: @vivwalt. Please follow. citizens traveled from across the country to greet him. And Saif Gaddafi in Libya shortly before the Libyan Want to add to the OPC’s collection of Q&As with mem- Revolution erupted in February 2011, at his farm out- bers? Please contact [email protected].

OPC Bulletin • June 2016 • Page 11 been homeless for more than eight Department employee was crushed. New Books years, after the government illegally “Field wanted a country that was CHINA sold the property out from under better than the one he found, one N STREET OF ETERNAL him. “It doesn’t matter how devel- that would feed and educate its most I Happiness: Big City Dreams oped China is – the system is what’s oppressed,” Marton writes. “He was Along a Shanghai Road [Crown important. If they don’t change the not alone.” Field was recruited to the Publishers, May 2016], system, economic development is Soviet cause by Austrian agent Hede Rob Schmitz chronicles useless.” Massing. contemporary China Kirkus Reviews calls Outed as a spy in 1948, Field through the lives of ordi- Street of Eternal Happi- fled to Czechoslovakia, where he nary people on his street ness “Probing human- was chloroformed and kidnapped in Shanghai. Schmitz, the interest stories that mine by the KGB. Stalin wanted to clear China correspondent for the heart of today’s Chi- out some party functionaries, and public radio’s “Market- na.” The New York Times Field was useful: he could give false place,” lives on “a tiny writes that “Schmitz’s eye testimony tying them to the Ameri- squiggle to the southwest for scenes and ear for dia- can intelligence apparatus. Field of People’s Square” called logue give an immediacy was never required to appear at the Changle Lu, which rough- to his stories that more expository resulting show trials, but his words ly translates to Eternal Happiness. works often lack.” nonetheless helped usher fellow His neighbors include Zhao, who Communists to their deaths. left a “useless” husband and moved Field was held and tortured in to the big city to run a flower shop STALINISM Budapest for five years in solitary in an effort to ensure a better- fu ELIEVER: STALIN’S LAST confinement. His devoted wife ture for her sons; CK, a struggling BAmerican Spy [Simon and Herta came to Czechoslovakia with sandwich-shop entrepreneur who Schuster, September 2016] chroni- his brother in an effort to find him, sells accordions on the side; Wang cles the life of Noel Field, an ideal- was captured, and, in a remarkable Ming, a man whose talent for busi- ist and, in Kati Marton’s portrayal, ness landed him in a forced labor stroke of cruelty, held in solitary a rube, who spied for Stalin in the camp for over a decade; and Auntie confinement just three cells away – U.S. and ended up drag- Fu, who grew up hungry during the while neither of them knew Great Leap Forward and now gam- ging not only himself but it. (Field heard her sneeze bles her savings on get-rich-quick his wife, brother and ad- once and spent the rest of schemes. Throughout the book, their opted daughter through the his stay convincing himself lives clash with the systems that horrors of the Soviet prison it wasn’t her voice). The hold everyone in place – both cul- system. “The mystery at the brother and the Fields’ ad- tural structures and the omnipresent core of Field’s life is how opted daughter were also government. an apparently good man, captured, imprisoned, and “Nobody has rights here,” says who started out with noble tortured. Old Kang, standing in the ruin of his intentions, could sacrifice Remarkably, after this partially-demolished house. He has his own and his family’s freedom, personal tour through hell, Field and a promising career, and his country, his wife remained loyal to the cause. all for a fatal myth,” writes Marton. Following their release in 1956, they “His is the story of the sometimes opted to live out their days in Bu- Upcoming Events terrible consequence of blind faith.” dapest. Noel was accorded a hero’s Field first turned to Communism burial. OPC Mixer in the early 1930s, amid the cruelty Kati Marton leverages her ac- at The Half King of the Depression. He fell in with cess to Field family correspon- 6:00 p.m. June 16 the Bonus Army – destitute World dence, Soviet Secret Police records War I veterans who flocked to and other sources to paint a fuller Annual Meeting Washington to ask for their service picture of Noel Field, a spy she bonuses early. When General Ma- has said “should be as well known Open to all members 6 p.m. Aug. 9 cArthur torched their camp and as Alger Hiss or Kim Philby.” pitilessly drove them across the Anacostia River, the young State — By Trish Anderton

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