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A New Platform for Journalists Brussels MONTHLY NEWSLETTER I June 2018 Brussels Hosts Congress INSIDE of International Press Clubs Event Preview: OPC Theater Night 2 by jonathan kapstein IAPC Welcomes ith 75 delegates representing 21 countries Press Clubs 2 – 22 if OPC readers consider Scotland a separate nation – and representatives of Phnom Penh Post 3 W several international organizations, the biennial con- OPC Condemns gress of the International Association of Press Clubs EPA’s Reporter Ban 4 exchanged best practices and experiences in Brussels from May 31 to June 2. People Column 4-7 The Press Club Brussels Europe hosted the event with club president Maroun Labaki, former foreign Press Freedom Update 8-9 editor of Belgium’s daily LeSoir, Executive Director KAPSTEIN JONATHAN Laurent Brihay, and consultant Gregor Kupper han- Left to right: Peter Kramer of the Netherlands, past New Books 11 dling arrangements. The lone American representative president of the Press Club Brussels Europe; Maroun was Jonathan Kapstein, longtime OPC member and Labaki of Belgium, current PCBE president; Jona- Q&A: Scott Sayare 12 immediate past president of the Brussels club. Kap- than Kapstein of the US, past president; and Laurent stein flew from his new Connecticut home to ensure an Brihay, PCBE executive director. OPC presence. Patricia Kranz, OPC executive director who was present with Kapstein at the 2016 congress in cal pressures felt by journalists not just in emerging Geneva, had a conflict and couldn’t attend. The OPC is economies but worldwide. the only North American press club that is a member A random, alphabetical sampling of attendance of the IAPC. showed journalists from Albania, Australia, Bahamas, The Guardian newspaper won the prestigious Belarus, China, Egypt, India, Israel, Poland, Rwanda, Freedom of Speech award for coverage on breaches of Switzerland Togo, Zambia, and other countries adding personal data. One panel focused on problems of press value to the exchange of ideas. freedom in Africa. Another panel explored the role of Didier Reynders, Belgian foreign minister and the press in fostering national governance. The subtext deputy prime minister, was the main speaker at a gala throughout the discussion and Q&As related to politi- Continued on Page 2 Sieberg to Introduce ‘Civil’ - a New Platform for Journalists EVENT PREVIEW: JULY 11 all over again in the current media development lead at Civil, to The program will be held at climate. What would that look learn more about this new global Club Quarters, and gets underway magine you could take like? And how do blockchain and eco-system that is launching this at 6:30 p.m. on July 11. Click on the everything you don’t like about cryptoeconomics provide a foun- summer and needs help from the gold button below to register. v Ijournalism – from broken dation for a platform that’s driven broader industry to collabora- business models to trolls to bad by journalism, supported by devel- tively create a sustainable future. actors – and put them in a box for opers and owned by the people? In In others words, find out how – Click here a minute. Just for a minute. Now a nutshell, that’s Civil. and why – you can get involved. to RSVP for the imagine building a decentral- Please join Daniel Sieberg, Sieberg previously served as program. ized platform that’s in service of a former OPC Governor who global head of media outreach at journalism – essentially starting is a co-founder and business Google. 1 1 OPC Night at the Theater EVENT PREVIEW: SEPT. 20 journalist who was murdered in day Evans. The production will be Russia for her brave coverage of staged at 122 Community Center he PlayCompany the war in Chechnya. Following (formerly P.S. 122), at 150 1st (PlayCo) is reserving a the performance, there will be a Avenue in New York. Informa- Tblock of tickets for OPC panel discussion about reporting tion on pricing and a link to buy members at discount prices on on conflicts. a ticket will be sent to members Sept. 20 for Intractable Woman, Intractable Woman is written and published on the OPC website A Theatrical Memo on Anna by the Italian playwright Stefano later this summer. v Politkovskaya. Anna was a Russian Massini and directed by Lee Sun- IAPC Welcomes Press Clubs From African, Caribbean and Pacific Countries elegates from the Inter- public they inform.” national Association of Press The group offered the ACP group Clubs welcomed press clubs temporary observer status with the IAPC Dfrom African, Caribbean and Pacific while the parties work out a more perma- countries for the first time during the nent arrangement. IAPC General Assembly on June 2. “In the interim we invite those indi- During the a nnual meeting in Brus- vidual press clubs which are members of sels, the group released a statement the ACP Press Club Federation and wish expressing solidarity with press clubs in to join the IAPC to apply for membership “countries of those regions who face seri- directly to the Secretary General of IAPC ous safety challenges, including killings, Press club representartives and otehr so that their individual applications can arbitrary arrests and other various forms leaders at the founding meeting of the of attacks and offer support for their be considered by the current member ACP Press Club Federation in October pursuit of press freedom.” Press Clubs at forthcoming meeting.” the 2016. The IAPC expresssed support for IAPC wrote in a statement. the creation of an independent African, The ACP Press Clubs Federation was Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) Press Clubs founded in October 2016 at a congress Federation to bolster professional stan- in in Kigali, Rwanda. The IAPC and the dards and ethics in journalism “for the ACP-PCF convened in November 2017 to benefit of media organisations and the discuss membership arrangements. v ‘IAPC’ Continued From Page 1 dinner in the elegant Solvay Library building next to the European Parliament. On the eve of a trip to New York inaugurating Belgium’s two-year seat on the UN Security Council, Reynders, 59, emphasized Belgium’s commitment to press freedom. In that context, he noted that Belgium was a founding member of the United Nations, NATO, and the original, six-nation Common Market which has evolved into the 28-country Euro- pean Union. The IAPC’s next congress is set for London in 2020. Belgian Deputy Prime Minister Didier Reynders ad- In the meantime, the Press Club Brussels Europe wel- dresses journalists at an IAPC dinner. comes all visiting journalists, and especially those from clubs like the OPC with which it has reciprocity. v June 2018 2 A Post Script on the Besieged Phnom Penh Post by james reddick Naturally, the editorial staff wanted to or months, rumors had been cover the sale of the newspaper, and we floating around about the future didn’t want to sugarcoat it. We laid out of The Phnom Penh Post. Almost the potential conflicts of interest involv- F ing the new ownership and put the story every day, it seemed, a new theory was presented as fact – that the newspaper on the front page. would soon be in the hands of a govern- When we sent that Monday edition ment-linked tycoon, or that a sale was off to the printer just before midnight, being brokered by the owner of a rival we weren’t sure exactly what the reac- newspaper. When the news finally came tion would be, but we definitely weren’t out that the paper had indeed been sold, prepared for the chaos that would follow. the reality appeared not much better than First thing in the morning, a representa- the doomsday predictions. tive of the new owner demanded the In early May, it was confirmed that removal of the story from the website. Bill Clough, an Australian with mining The article’s reporters Ananth Baliga and interests who had owned the paper since Brendan O’Byrne immediately resigned, 2008, had sold it to Sivakumar S. Ga- as did Managing Editor Stuart White and napathy, a Malaysian PR man. A simple Web Editor Jenni Reid after they were Reddick Google search immediately turned ordered to take the article down. Next, up clues that the sale might seriously widely respected Editor-in-Chief Kay reporters have told me that they are dis- impact the Post’s editorial freedom. Ga- Kimsong was fired. In all, nearly every couraged by the new management from napathy’s firm listed Cambodian Prime native English-speaking editor and re- getting analysis from sources, including Minister Hun Sen’s government as one porter resigned that day. from respected human rights organizations. of its clients in the 1990s; one of its of- While I can’t speak for all of them, After the sale, outlets around the fered services is “covert PR” on behalf some local staff who stayed have told world decried the “silencing” of the Post of politicians and foreign governments; me they did so because they have few and contended the sale was part of a and Ganapathy had seemingly devoted reporting options in a country where larger crackdown on media. That’s a pre- much of his journalism career to writing nearly every media outlet censors itself mature assessment. There are still talent- a fawning biography of a controversial to remain in the good graces of the gov- ed journalists there working every day Malaysian politician and timber baron ernment. The foreigners like me have the to present the real picture of a country accused of large-scale corruption and privilege of being able to work all over where the message is tightly controlled environmental destruction. the world, a luxury not available to our by the government.
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