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DATELINE 2018 1 A person throws colored powder during a Holi festival party organized by Jai Jai Hooray and hosted by the Brooklyn Children’s Museum in Brooklyn, New York, U.S., March 3, 2018. REUTERS/Andrew Kelly

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2 DATELINE 2018 President’s Letter / DEIDRE DEPKE

n the reuters memorial speech delivered at Oxford last February – which I urge I you all to read if you haven’t – Washington Post Editor Marty Baron wondered how we arrived at the point where the public shrugs off demonstrably false statements by

public figures, where instant in touch with people’s lives. That address her injuries continues websites suffer no consequences is why ensuring the accuracy of to report from the frontlines in for spreading lies and conspiracy sources and protecting communi- Afghanistan. theories—and in fact gain atten- cation are real means of promot- Your generosity and presence tion and audiences—and where ing goodness, generating trust, here tonight ensure that the Over- the old rules of journalism appar- and opening the way to commu- seas Press Club will continue to ently no longer have currency. nion and peace.” support these journalists and their However profound the chang- Tonight, we celebrate the colleagues. Thank you for attend- es in our business that Baron work of curious, courageous, and ing. And many thanks to Sarah identified, our mission remains intrepid journalists throughout Lubman, our dinner chair, for ar- the same: to keep the public the world who are doing just that ranging this spectacular event. informed of the reality. even as they are vilified in many This outstanding issue of In a message released by quarters, accused of spreading Dateline was edited by Michael the Vatican a month before the “fake news,” silenced, imprisoned, Serrill, a past president of the Reuters speech, Pope Francis and killed. OPC; Christopher Dickey, an spoke out against the spreading It’s notable how much of this OPC governor; and Patricia of falsehoods. He called journal- work is being done by women. Kranz, the club’s executive ists “protectors of news” and the Long before the empowering mo- director. The incomparable Vera profession a “mission.” “Informing ment of the #MeToo movement, Naughton is the designer. The others,” the pope wrote, “means women were reporting from estimable Pancho Bernasconi is forming others; it means being conflict zones, working as cor- Dateline’s photo editor. respondents and photographers. Of course, the OPC simply But even gathering news in osten- could not continue its work sibly benign places can be fraught without the dedication of my with danger. We celebrate their fellow governors, the leadership work in this issue of Dateline. At of Patricia, and the hard work of the dinner tonight, we honor two Web Manager and Social Media women in particular: Kim Wall, a Editor Chad Bouchard. journalist who was murdered last Finally, we are grateful for the year while reporting in Denmark, support of all of you—individu- and veteran AP foreign corre- als, companies, and institutions. spondent Kathy Gannon, who was Thank you, and please enjoy your grievously injured covering the evening. war in Afghanistan. Wall’s parents, Ingrid and Joachim, are here to Deidre Depke, a former foreign light the OPC Candle of Remem- editor of Newsweek, is the brance. And I’m proud to present Managing Editor of Marketplace, the President’s Award to Gannon, the public radio show produced by Deidre Depke who after multiple surgeries to American Public Media.

DATELINE 2018 1 2 DATELINE 2018 Board of Governors / OVERSEAS PRESS CLUB

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DATELINE 2018 3 OVERSEAS PRESS CLUB ANNUAL AWARDS

A distraught child sits among the ruins of the Old City in West Mosul after Iraqi and U.S. forces recapture the city.

ON THE COVER: Carol Guzy on the front lines of Mosul, July 2017. PHOTO BY LAUREN ROONEY

4 DATELINE 2018 TABLE OF CONTENTS

President’s Letter/President’s Award 1 By Deidre Depke

I Want Justice 6 By Allison Joyce

The Uncounted Dead 10 By Azmat Khan

In the Thick of It 14 By Melinda Liu

Moving to Mogadishu 18 By Christina Goldbaum

THE OPC ANNUAL AWARDS 20

The Hal Boyle Award 22

The Bob Considine Award 22

The Robert Capa Gold Medal Award 23, 24-25

The Olivier Rebbot Award 23, 28-29

The Feature Photography Award 26, 32-33

The Lowell Thomas Award 26

The David Kaplan Award 30

The Edward R. Murrow Award 30

The Peter Jennings Award 31

The Ed Cunningham Award 31

The Thomas Nast Award 34, 38

The Morton Frank Award 34

The Malcolm Forbes Award 35

The Cornelius Ryan Award 35

The Madeline Dane Ross Award 36

The David A. Andelman and Pamela Title Award 36

The Joe and Laurie Dine Award 37

The Whitman Bassow Award 37

The Robert Spiers Benjamin Award 40

The Kim Wall Award 40

The Roy Rowan Award 41

The Best Commentary Award 41

CAROL GUZY CAROL Where OPC Members are Welcome 42

DATELINE 2018 5 “I want Justice” Covering the violence against the Rohingya leads a photojournalist to ponder whether journalism sometimes does more harm than good.

rived in Bangladesh two weeks ago, the community. By Allison Joyce after fleeing across the Myanmar That night, after the reporters border with her children and, at left, the military returned, enraged amalida begum is that point, 87,000 other Rohingya that she had spoken to the media sitting on the dirt floor of refugees. Her husband was killed by about what really happened to her. her bamboo and plastic hut the Myanmar military, whose sol- This time they cut the throat of with her head in her hands. diers then proceeded to gang rape the man who had translated for JIt’s been half an hour since she last her. When she eventually finds the the media and went door-to-door spoke or moved, and she seems to strength to speak to me again, the hunting for Jamalida. Failing to find be in another world. I don’t want 25-year-old says that after the as- her, they placed “Wanted” posters to disturb her. She’s been through sault, a group of foreign journalists with her photograph up around enough. came to her village and interviewed towns across the district. For five It’s Jan. 20, 2017. Jamalida ar- her and other surviving members of days, she and her two children hid

6 DATELINE 2018 in the bush as they made their way permanently in 2013, I made several Bangladeshi mafia, who threatened Top left: to Bangladesh. more trips to the Rohingya camps, my translator and me just for being Jamalida Begum As she recounts her story, it where I covered everything from there. Bangladeshi border guards fled Myanmar makes me wonder if sometimes our daily life to sexual violence to the detained me several times for pho- after her work as journalists does more harm 2015 trafficking crisis, when hun- tographing the refugees who were husband was than good. dreds of refugees were left stranded pouring across the border. At the killed and she The Rohingya crisis is a story at sea by human traffickers. time, I couldn’t imagine the situa- was raped by that I have been documenting since By the time my plane from the tion getting any worse. the military. I first arrived in Bangladesh as a country’s capital touched down in When I returned in Septem- 22-year-old novice photographer Cox’s Bazar in January 2017, every- ber 2017 for Getty Images after Top right: in 2010. Routinely described as the thing was changing, and quickly. a Myanmar military crackdown Rohingya world’s most persecuted people, According to news reports, 87,000 in response to an attack by the refugees are these Muslim residents of a major- people had fled to Bangladesh after Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army, now confined to ity Buddhist nation were denied October 9, 2016, when the Myan- a Rohingya insurgent group, Cox’s vast camps in citizenship and basic rights and mar military launched an offensive Bazar was unrecognizable to me all Bangladesh, like opportunities. Since 1977, over a in response to supposed Rohingya over again. I drove down the main this one in Cox’s million have emigrated to neigh- insurgent attacks. New camps were street and saw thousand-strong Bazar. More boring Bangladesh, where life often sprouting up and thousands of crowds of refugees sleeping out in than 600,000 hasn’t been much better. I can new tents were being pitched in the open, shielded from the relent- Rohingya have remember wandering through the Kutupalong, extending back into less rain only by flimsy pieces of crossed the dusty lanes of Kutupalong refugee what had been forested hills just a plastic. Pregnant women were giv- border since camp in Cox’s Bazar, in southern few weeks prior. Refugees told me ing birth on the roadside, or in the August 2017. Bangladesh, and being over- stories of having their beards lit on middle of the mud. Whenever my whelmed by women begging me to fire; of whole families being burned car stopped, we were swarmed with find their husbands, who had been alive and massacred; of young girls women and children who clawed imprisoned by the local authorities being gang raped in front of their at my arms and clothes and begged for attempting to find work outside mothers. For weeks I played a cat for a bit of food: for anything at all.

ALLISON JOYCE (2) JOYCE ALLISON the camps. When I moved to Dhaka and mouse game with the local There was no coordinated NGO

DATELINE 2018 7 Jamalida Begum effort and ordinary Bangladeshis shell-shocked, the refugees climbed was no different. The Rohingya tends to her had started opening their pockets, out and collapsed on the sand be- culture is deeply conservative, and children in the driving down from Dhaka with fore moving on toward the camps. when the curtain is drawn back on makeshift house trucks full of clothes and food. They’d walked for days through the a village of widows, or I’m invited she shares Unfortunately, their kind-hearted rain and mud without food or water into a child bride’s bedroom, it’s not with six other efforts often added to the disorder, to reach the boats that would take just a matter of being able to tell refugees. She and the distributions would turn them to safety—and yet throughout female-focused stories more power- has no regrets into violent stampedes. On several the day the only aid that arrived fully or empathetically than my about speaking of these occasions, refugees were was from a small group of Bangla- male colleagues: It’s often a matter to the media, killed. The scale of the crisis and deshis who came with bananas and of being able to tell them at all. even though it desperation was unlike anything I a few water bottles. I suddenly felt Of all the stories I’ve listened to, has made her a had ever seen, and the chaos was the full weight of my responsibility the most painful to hear are those fugitive. difficult to put into words—or, in my as a journalist to let the world know of the rape survivors. The assaults case, even into photos. what was happening. on them were coordinated, and As the challenges increased, I As the influx of refugees slowed several of the women described the began to believe in my role again. to a trickle and word began to same scene: a group of five or six of One day I was shooting on Shah spread, NGOs began to establish them gang raped in front of their Powrir Dwip island, one of the their presence and some semblance families, before the military set the primary landing points for the of an infrastructure took shape. house on fire with the women still refugees. The military was still Still, that weight remained heavy inside. My translator and I fought burning villages in Myanmar, and on my back. I began to focus on back tears as one woman called Dil- plumes of dark smoke would drift some of the lesser-told—but no less dar described having to crawl past toward the sky, creating an apoca- important—stories in the camps. the burning bodies of her children lyptic backdrop for the more than While there are many obstacles that to escape. I asked another survivor, two dozen fishing boats crowded come with working as a female pho- Minwara Begum (no relation to with new refugees that arrived on tojournalist, in South Asia I have Jamalida), why she was allowing our little stretch of beach over the been given access to many worlds me to photograph her and tell her course of eight hours. Skinny and that are off limits to men. This story story. “They did these things to

8 DATELINE 2018 us, they raped us, I’m not afraid to tographs that have emerged from spreading lies about their coun- Minwara Begum, talk about it,” she said. “I don’t feel this influx of refugees have resulted try. They interrogated her about 17, fled after ashamed to tell the world. I want in international condemnation from how long she intended to con- the Myanmar justice, but I know the world cannot human rights groups and govern- tinue struggling and starving in the military give me justice. If there’s anyone ments around the world. Hundreds camps before she decided to return attacked her who could give us justice, it would of aid agencies have come together “home.” My stomach flipped. As village and killed have happened a long time ago.” to provide medical services, donate journalists, our work had gotten her her family. Over the course of the eight food, give support, and deal with into trouble again. Her face was so “They shot us years I have spent covering this the logistics of setting up the recognizable by this point that the in the back.” story, I have consistently felt the equivalent of a city overnight. Myanmar officials had even found simultaneous possibilities and limi- A few months after first inter- her in Bangladesh. tations of the change we can affect viewing Jamalida in January, I ran With my heart in my mouth, I as journalists. The story of the bar- into her again in the middle of the asked her whether she regretted baric and inhumane Myanmar op- same camp. There were tears in speaking to the media in Myanmar pression of the Rohingya has been both of our eyes as we embraced, and Bangladesh. “No, not for a min- reported by journalists for decades, and I saw that she looked, well, if ute,” she said. “I want to hold these yet burning villages in Myanmar not happy, then at least healthy. criminals accountable, I will never can still be seen from Bangladesh. A Holding her head high, she told me back down.” Rohingya friend wrote on my Face- that her children were in school, book page the other day: “I don’t that she had found part-time work Allison Joyce is a Boston-born pho- think the world is doing enough for with an NGO and was receiving tojournalist with over a decade of ex- us.” I would have to agree. mental health support. Then she perience working in the United States Still, I remain hopeful about the paused. Recently a delegation from and internationally. She is based in transformative powers of journal- Myanmar had visited the refugee Bangladesh, frequently covering the ism. Maybe our work can’t change camps in Bangladesh and she had terror against the Rohingya people. the world, but I have seen firsthand been recognized in the street, She also covers breaking news and the change that it can make in the she said. Her former tormentors human rights stories with a special

ALLISON JOYCE (2) JOYCE ALLISON lives of some. The stories and pho- confronted her, asking why she was focus on gender issues.

DATELINE 2018 9 The Uncounted Dead

An investigative report finds clear evidence that the U.S. military grossly underestimates the number of civilians killed in its war against ISIS.

on the ground, one out of every five for the intelligence that can By Azmat Khan resulted in civilian deaths—a rate underpin an airstrike. In the case that’s 31 times higher than what the of Basim Razzo, whose wife and n Nov. 16, The New coalition’s own data claims. To put two children were killed, the U.S. York Times magazine this in perspective, it’s helpful to military finally conceded that his published a powerful, know that our sample is very likely and his brother’s houses had been exhaustively researched an undercount of civilian deaths be- misidentified and targeted, and O story by investigative reporter and cause it didn’t include West Mosul, offered a “condolence” payment of Overseas Press Club Governor nor did it include any strikes con- $15,000—whereas he estimates his Azmat Khan and Anand Gopal, ducted after a December 2016 rule material losses at more $500,000. an assistant research professor at change that allowed more ground Arizona State University. Khan and commanders to call in strikes. And WHAT WAS THE TOUGHEST Gopal spent months on the ground while you might think that the PART OF THE STORY? in Iraq, mostly in Mosul and its majority of civilian deaths are due There were many challenging environs, examining the sites of just to proximity to an ISIS target, pieces—for example, navigating air strikes against what the U.S.-led about half of all of the civilian these areas on the ground, melding coalition fighting ISIS alleged were deaths we documented appeared the investigation with the narrative, legitimate military targets. What Khan and Gopal found was, one, that the coalition grossly under- estimated civilian casualties and, The U.S. military repeatedly failed to two, that it often denied targeting civilian houses and other facilities investigate reports of civilian casualties, where Khan and Gopal uncovered clear evidence to the contrary. The and sometimes couldn’t properly locate main character in the story, Basim Razzo, survived an airstrike that the airstrikes it had carried out. killed four of his family members and was then accused of being an ISIS sympathizer. He spent more to be the result of outdated intel- adhering to a method of sampling than a year trying to clear his ligence—for example, after ISIS that would meet the standards of name, to no avail, until Khan and had evacuated an area—or flawed social science. But the most dif- Gopal stepped in as journalists and intelligence that conflated civilians ficult of all was getting information pleaded his case. Khan answered with combatants. We also found from the U.S. military. Reporting questions for Dateline about her that the coalition repeatedly failed this story to the highest editorial massive investigative undertaking, to investigate allegations of civilian standards required that we exhaust which won her this year’s Ed Cun- casualties properly, and sometimes every effort to get and check infor- ningham Award for best magazine couldn’t even properly identify the mation. The challenge wasn’t just story with an international theme. airstrikes it had carried out. Ulti- secrecy; we faced an endless bar- mately, we found that Iraqi civilians rage of bureaucratic hurdles. Even YOU SPENT ALMOST TWO stand little chance of getting any getting permission to visit the U.S. YEARS INVESTIGATING THIS kind of justice or clearing their airbase in Qatar, which coordinates STORY, VISITING THE SITES names. We essentially uncovered a the airstrikes, took months and OF NEARLY 150 AIRSTRIKES system that treats Iraqis as guilty involved a litany of bizarre require- IN IRAQ. WHAT WERE SOME until they are proved innocent, and ments. The coalition repeatedly OF YOUR BIGGEST FINDINGS? the threshold for proving innocence cited security to deny information—

Of the coalition airstrikes we found is much higher than the threshold such as refusing to tell us even the KHAN (2) AZMAT

10 DATELINE 2018 Left: Above: The remains Neighborhood of the houses boys play amid of civilians the wreckage of Salam al-Odeh the home of Ali and Aaz-Aldin Khalaf al-Wardi, Muhammad who was killed Alwan after with three of an airstrike. his children and Salam’s wife two other adults and child died in an August of their wounds 2016 airstrike in weeks later. Qaiyara.

DATELINE 2018 11 kind of aircraft or weapon it used in an individual airstrike. Ultimately, the most critical goal was to get the coalition to confirm whether or not it conducted the airstrikes in the sample. At first, I was told that they would only be able to check four coordinates. I pushed back, repeatedly, even as very senior military officials wrote me lengthy scolding e-mails. Ultimately, the Air Force did check all 103 coordinates and provide re- Rawa, aged 2, sponses, but the process was a long was the only and difficult one. Getting what we survivor among needed required time and relentless the eight people follow-up. I can’t stress that enough. living in the two I’m still pushing for information houses occupied I believe should be disclosed. For by the al-Odeh example, I’ve filed requests for and Alwan records related to nearly 200 air- families. strikes the military concluded likely resulted in civilian casualties. For almost all of them, I was denied ex- of my own that are more rooted in course, digital security pedited processing, which means I local context. For example, before I involves a host of other may not receive responses for years. went out to do the airstrike sample, methods. One thing I But I’ve been working to push back I had already embedded with a key would especially recom- on that through the appeals pro- Shia militia group and had gotten mend, if you can afford cess. Let’s see what happens. an invitation letter from someone it, is to invest in a sec- very senior that I kept with me ond smartphone solely HOW DID YOU KEEP SAFE when I traveled to do the sample, for use in the field, WHILE REPORTING THIS just in case. preferably one you’ve STORY? In addition to developing local bought abroad, and keep A large part of keeping safe is contacts and lines of support, I have it unaffiliated from your knowing local context and plan- live location tracking. In addition to own email, phone num- ning ahead. It’s also about carefully the security team tracking, I’ll set ber, Facebook account, assessing the information others up a separate line of location moni- wifi networks or other might give you about how to keep toring with several people I trust identifying logins. While safe. For insurance purposes, news and assign each of them a monitor- this is by no means a outlets are often required to hire ing schedule. These are personal failsafe measure, it’s one a security contractor to support contacts in different time zones, helpful step in a process reporters’ work in conflict zones. some of them family members, to not only keep yourself I believe it’s important not to leave some of them fellow reporters with safe but your sources my safety solely in the hands of exceptional ground knowledge. I’ll safe as well. for-profit contractors, and so I’m inform them as I approach or pass a always hyper-vigilant about making checkpoint. Additionally, before any YOU RECENTLY sure their methods really do make outing, I spend a lot of time study- RETURNED FROM me safer. Security contractors are ing updated satellite imagery and IRAQ, YOUR FIRST often staffed by ex-military person- memorizing routes I can take or TIME BACK SINCE nel who employ strategies defense places I can hide in case something THE STORY WAS forces might use—armed guards, goes wrong. Ultimately, if there’s PUBLISHED. WHAT bulletproof vehicles, and the like. anything that doesn’t seem right, HAS CHANGED? ARE THERE These are things that make you I’ll re-assess, and possibly bail on UPDATES? stand out. I tend to avoid anything the plan. I know that’s a luxury—it On this trip, I was able to go to that raises my profile and try to requires having time to come back two critical areas I’d been unable blend in as much as reasonably and try again, or a flexible dead- to sample previously: downtown possible. Of course, I’ll work with a line from your editor, or reporting Hawija and Western Mosul. Both security team as required, but I also expenses. All of these things are were surreal. Hawija, which was

employ personal security measures increasingly rare for journalists. Of instrumental in the rise of ISIS and KHAN (3) AZMAT

12 DATELINE 2018 Sam Abdul Gafoor Taboor had the misfortune to be living in a house next to an ISIS bomb factory in Qaiyara. When the factory was blown up in an airstrike, so was his home. ISIS had occupied this Qaiyara railroad station, but by the time the U.S. bombed it, they were long gone.

the strike who had managed to es- cape from Hawija, and they told me that it had leveled an entire neigh- borhood. On this trip, I was able to see it for myself: a vast expanse of rubble. Everything these survivors had described was true. While Hawija was a ghost town, West Mosul still has residents mill- ing about. It’s much more densely packed, and so the rubble fills alleyways several feet high. To get to some homes, I had to climb over rubble for 20 to 30 minutes. Resi- dents showed me makeshift grave- yards where they buried the dead, several to a plot, during the height of the fight. Sometimes, family bore a heavy brunt of airstrikes, is ians, most of them displaced from members would return later to dig a ghost town today. It’s patrolled other areas of the Iraq fighting. up and bury the dead elsewhere, by militias and the Iraqi Army, and They were poor, and lived wherever so you have these empty holes as very few civilians have been allowed they could find space. They were well. One man described it like this: to come back. It’s just in shambles. bombed in an industrial district that “When Mosul was destroyed, ISIS I went to the site of one airstrike ISIS was using to manufacture car was finished. We were the sacrifice. in Hawija that may have resulted bombs and other explosives. I had We paid the price. We paid with in the deaths of dozens of civil- previously interviewed survivors of our bodies.”

DATELINE 2018 13 In the Thick of It

How one individual Chinese-American female journalist survived for three decades on the front lines.

source phoned me suggesting I a short way, then hit the ground. I Melinda Liu in By Melinda Liu Southern Iraq head over to the Presidential Palace. couldn’t see much beyond the foot near Basra “Something might happen there to- of the guy lying in front of me, who covering Desert uch is different now. night.” President Ferdinand Marcos kept twitching as bullets pinged Storm and When I started out in and First Lady Imelda were hun- off the pavement. Slowly, I became its aftermath M journalism in the 1970s, kered down inside, facing what had conscious of a stinging sensation in in 1991. it wasn’t just a different culture. seemed a peaceful revolution, but my right knee. Iraqi troops It was a whole different universe. guarded by combat-hardened sol- Damn, I’d been shot. I made it surrendered Imperious men largely dominated diers. To get over there I grabbed a to the hotel car, then the hospital. to her and her the media field. Just for instance, Manila Hotel driver and we hopped Amazingly, the bullet had missed colleagues after one editor visiting Hong Kong asked into his roomy white Mercedes— hitting any bones and the entry and the U.S.-led me to bring half a dozen shirts to his budgets were very different then— exit holes were clean. I was even onslaught. customary tailor to have new collars and navigated through the dark to able to walk—slowly—back to the and cuffs put on. confront a bizarre street scene. car from the emergency room and But when women put them- Suddenly, firecrackers exploded. through the hotel lobby to my room. selves in the middle of the action, Crack! CRACK! That spooked the Full of painkillers, I fell into bed. By of course, they ran just the same heavily armed troops defending morning, a stream of well-wishers risks as men, as I learned in Manila the palace. More fireworks—then stopped by, including photographers in 1986. Late one night, a Filipino gunfire. Everyone scattered. I ran Jim Nachtwey and Sandro Tucci.

14 DATELINE 2018 “What luck you had!” Sandro told convoy from the Pakistani border avoid war reporting. “What happens me, “A ‘perfect’ injury—not too bad, to the Afghan city of Jalalabad. But when you face death on the front but bad enough to make a good war that wasn’t good enough. Over a lines? ”one male colleague asked. I story.” Then he joked, “Even some of Thuraya satellite phone that night gave the obvious answer, “The same us male photographers are feeling a my foreign editor told me to “get thing that happens to men.” bit jealous of you.” to Kabul any way you can. That’s To be sure, one thing was bound That was flattering, of course. the dateline we want.” to be a little different. “It was always Yet disconcerting, too. Really, I Somehow I found an SUV and the bathroom thing,” declared Tad was just lucky not to have died out driver to hire, as well as a translator; Bartimus, a woman journalist who there, and my survival had nothing both guys looked about 16 years old. covered Vietnam in 1973 and ‘74 for to do with skill or smarts or, for that I pulled out my burqa, putting it The Associated Press. “Women, the matter, gender. I told my editors on before climbing into the back of men said, couldn’t go to war because and colleagues the wound was so the SUV, and off we sped. It was an there was no proper place for them minor I didn’t think it was worth anxious drive, especially when an to relieve themselves discreetly,” she “Shock and mentioning in Newsweek’s coverage Afghan man with an AK-47 popped wrote. “That was The Big Excuse.” Awe” special of Marcos’ fall. “It’s no big deal,” I out right in front of our car. My Nor had this issue disappeared report/cover heard myself telling our legendary driver stopped. The man wanted entirely by the spring of 1991. story of the publisher, Katharine Graham, when a lift. I kept silent and unmoving Though still in much smaller num- outbreak of in the back, comforted only by the bers than men, women were in the she phoned to ask how I was. “Re- the U.S. war to ally,” I said. thought that traditional custom American military, and a number of topple Saddam Some people don’t like the idea would discourage our new com- female correspondents covered the (March 31, of writing specifically about “women panion from speaking with me, an liberation of Kuwait. After the U.S.- 2003), for on the front lines” because to say it unrelated woman. led coalition rolled through southern which Melinda that way focuses too much attention Arriving safely in Kabul, I Iraq with Desert Storm, the land- contributed on us as females, and not enough on chucked the burqa and scrambled scape teemed with surrendering a first-person how well we can do the job. So I’m to find a hotel. Then I headed out Iraqi soldiers, anti-Saddam Iraqi account of just going to tell some stories about to report, almost immediately en- rebels, and coalition troops from the bombing how this one individual Chinese- countering two shy Afghan women various nations. Based in liberated from the American female journalist survived on the street. Upon seeing I was Kuwait, I spent long hours “commut- Palestine Hotel on the front lines. also female, they showed their ing” into Iraq. in Baghdad In some reporting situations, it faces and smiled. One of them Once I was with another female (“Baghdad did matter that I was a woman, or of stuck her hand inside the folds of reporter—let’s call her Carol—and Eyewitness”). Asian descent, or carrying $10,000 her burqa and pulled out a handful we drove deep into Iraq. We ran into This issue was in my money belt for emergencies. of glitter. Soundlessly, she tossed it scattered Iraqi soldiers looking for one of several Sometimes I found that being a in the air, a blizzard of iridescence. someone, anyone, to whom they which helped woman gave me an advantage. While Giggling, we were a sisterhood of could surrender. Previously, one Newsweek win reporting on the Afghan refugee discreet triumph. motley gaggle had scrounged up the National camps in Pakistan during the Soviet My memories of that luminous uniforms worthy of a high school Magazine Award occupation of Afghanistan, for ex- day, lit by the rays of a wintry sun marching band. With a flourish, the for General ample, I was regularly invited in by low in the sky, are forever marred senior Iraqi officer pulled out his toy Excellence. Afghan wives. Normally they would by the grim news that I heard later. sword and presented it to us. It be barred by conservative tradition Not long after I’d travelled down was dark by the time Carol and from conversing with men who the then-deserted Jalalabad-Kabul I began the four-hour drive weren’t their relatives. highway, a convoy of eight trucks back to Kuwait. The rubble- Afghanistan was notable because and taxis carrying several Western strewn concrete highway was you could use the “burqa ploy,” correspondents attempted the same pocked with craters, the risk wearing as a disguise the long flow- journey. They didn’t share my good of mines remained high. One ing outfit that covers pretty much luck. Six turbaned men with weap- elevated off-ramp abruptly everything on a woman from the ons stopped the first two vehicles. ended in mid-air, without top of the head to the ankle, with a “The Taliban is still around,” they warning. We drove slowly, little mesh “window” you could see declared. They shot four western and eventually needed through, kind of. reporters—including Italian cor- a bathroom break. By After 9/11, I was trying desper- respondent Maria Grazia Cutuli, 39, moonlight I saw a roadside ately to get to Kabul from Paki- of Corriere Della Sera—and a local culvert that seemed stan, to report from the Afghan guide. The corpses were left near the the perfect impromptu capital on the fall of the Taliban. roadside. Someone had cut off the pit stop. We slowed to a halt and On the eve of the ground offensive, female reporter’s earlobe, evidently stepped out into the darkness. The I’d joined several other Western in order to steal an earring. place seemed deserted. correspondents who’d tagged Afterwards, some cited Maria’s It wasn’t. As I stood up after uri-

PHOTO COURTESY MELINDA LIU MELINDA COURTESY PHOTO along with a friendly warlord’s death as the reason women should nating, the night exploded with the

DATELINE 2018 15 was nowhere to be found. One of his colleagues said he was last seen in front of an open safe, shoving money into a sack. The Ministry of Information was pan- demonium as Iraqis wheeled out furniture and file cabinets. I never did find the money man, whom I’d dubbed The Gnome. I phoned Rick to tell him I couldn’t get to Jordan safely. With no exit permit, I could have been stranded in the Iraqi desert with bombs falling around. He acqui- Liu in Pakistan’s wolf whistles and laughter of what journalists would be there, too, as esced. Then I asked to be connected Swat Valley, an sounded like a vast army of Ameri- opposed to those “embedding” with to the foreign editor. I was exhaust- area of extremist can men. By the light of the moon I the U.S. military. With so many ed, but the adrenaline would have to activity, just noticed—too late—the silhouettes of Western media in one place, I rea- keep flowing for at least a few more before the fall many U.S. armored vehicles lined up soned, at a minimum the Pentagon days. The coming weeks would be of the Taliban neatly some distance from the road. would avoid bombing our hotel. My the most critical and perhaps the in neighboring Silently, U.S. troops had been watch- editors agreed that I could stay. most dangerous as Saddam’s regime Afghanistan. ing us, using night-vision goggles. As Then everything changed. The crumbled and the American military someone shouted “Hot damn!” Carol Pentagon began calling various advanced toward Baghdad. A power and I got back in the car and sped off. American publications, insisting vacuum could mean looting, chaos, It could have been humiliating. But publishers and editors order their maybe even retribution by venge- after weeks of covering death and de- correspondents out of Baghdad. I got ful pro-Saddam lynch mobs. Would struction, I felt lucky to be alive. We a call from Rick Smith, my top boss there be food, water, electricity? just laughed our way back to Kuwait. at Newsweek. He sternly told me I Amid chaos, would my computer get Today, many women have won a must leave for Jordan. trashed just as I needed to file? place at the front line. But it’s still an Furious, I said I’d depart, but Newsweek’s foreign editor, Jeff uphill battle getting the same titles only if it could be done safely. We Bartholet, got on the phone. “I and the same pay as men. Recently were already perilously close to the guess you know I wasn’t able to Carrie Gracie of the BBC quit her onset of the U.S.-led “shock and leave Baghdad safely,” I blurted job as China editor because she dis- awe” attack on Baghdad. In order out. “Yeah, I heard,” he said. “The covered male colleagues in equiva- to leave, I first had to pay a bunch Pentagon says the bombing will lent assignments were getting paid of fees so I could get an exit permit; start about five hours from now.” way more than she. “Conflicted yet without it, at the Jordan border We both paused for a second. Then empowered” is how she described I would have been stopped and we switched gears to tackle the her feelings, and her comments sent back to Baghdad under armed business at hand. “Now that you’re made me think back on the closest I guard, as happened to a number of staying,” Jeff said, “probably you ever came to resigning in the field. Western reporters. should file at least once a day, in It was the spring of 2003 and I Frustrated, I promised Rick I’d rolling takes; don’t try to do one was in Baghdad. I’d been hunkered get my exit permit the next morn- long piece. Who knows what’ll down in Saddam Hussein’s capital ing, then depart in a convoy headed happen when we’re on deadline.” for weeks, preparing to cover the for Amman. I planned to tender my We discussed a few more techni- coming war. While Saddam re- resignation once I got there. cal issues. I said nothing about my mained in power, there wasn’t much But things didn’t work out that thoughts of resigning. At the end of independent reporting to be done. way. I owed daily fees for bringing our talk, Jeff urged me to take care, So I made contacts, stocked up on in a satphone, whopping bills at then asked one final question before supplies to last through the conflict, the Palestine Hotel, and a per diem the bombing: “When do you think and waited for the bombs to fall. I fee to the Ministry of Information you can send your first file?” knew roughly when the bombing simply for the privilege of being of Baghdad would start, so I agreed in Baghdad. The next morning, Melinda Liu, who served as Beijing with my Newsweek editors to decide when I went to pay the Iraqi man Bureau Chief for Newsweek from on X day whether I should stay, or who took the money and issued 1998 until 2013, is a veteran foreign drive through the desert to Jordan. receipts—a curious guy with no correspondent and the recipient of When X day arrived, I argued fingernails, who used to record the numerous accolades, including the that despite the risks I should stay serial numbers of every U.S. bill 2006 Shorenstein Journalism Award

because a critical mass of Western that passed through his hands—he for her reporting on Asia. LIU MELINDA OF COURTESY PHOTO

16 DATELINE 2018 DATELINE 2018 17 Moving to Mogadishu

The only way to learn what’s really happening in one of America’s most shadowy wars is to be on the ground in Somalia.

Christina Throughout the week, Muna, a with too many conflicts to name. But By Christina Goldbaum Goldbaum former journalist who volunteered to the bombing on October 14, 2017 with Ugandan coordinate the emergency response that left over 500 people dead in soldiers in the y the time Muna Hassan team created after the Al Shabaab one of the largest terrorist attacks in African Union did her last rounds of the blast attack, had been re-connecting some the world since 9/11 was a dramatic Peacekeeping Bsite, the clean up crew was families to their injured love ones reminder that the simmering, uncon- Force at Arabiska removing only scraps of metal and and offering the devastating news to ventional conflict with Al Shabaab Forward wood. The week before, in the af- many others that their missing hus- continues in the country’s shadows. Operating Base, termath of the deadliest bombing in bands, sons, and daughters were not Seven months earlier, I had de- Sector 1, Somalia Mogadishu’s history, the same crew registered at any of the city’s hospi- cided to move to Somalia, yearning in May 2016. had been pulling carbonized remains tals. She had said through tears that to put my finger on the pulse of the and bits of bodies from beneath the this—the devastation, the deaths, the conflicts here. In three years of free- rubble. Those unrecognizable pieces feeling of utter insecurity—was not lancing from Nairobi, every budget were then gingerly placed in white her Mogadishu. Such suffering was cut, every staff job lost, and every trash bags, taken to a cemetery, supposed to be part of the past. older journalist wistfully describ- neatly lined up, prayed for, and Somalia’s capital these days is a ing the long lost days of expense deposited in unmarked graves. city of stark contrasts in a country accounts and bureaus and actual

18 DATELINE 2018 salaries made me wonder whether a soil, the Asian nations trying to make career as a foreign correspondent inroads and actual roads in East really existed anymore. I thought Africa, and, yes, the Americans and this would be the place to find out. their guns and drones and movie- Amid the politics of the past like soldiers and subtle yet powerful year, with foreign policy tweeted political influence. out in rapid and often contradic- In Somalia, as elsewhere on this tory missives, a continent that was continent, the low-level but ever- already difficult to sell to editors present U.S.-backed war takes place fell even further off their radar. Yet mostly in the hard to reach rural ar- it was clear in Somalia and across eas referred to here as “the regions.” Africa that chaos in Washington had There are drone strikes in terrorist- metastasized, infecting U.S. govern- held territory, interrogations con- ment operations all over the world. ducted in U.S. military bases built in In Africa, with the Department of the middle of the desert, nightly ship- State hemorrhaging quality diplo- ments on C-130s landing invisibly at important. And like those who came Christina mats and the Department of Defense the Mogadishu airport, and ground before us, we are drawn also by that Goldbaum operating with more power and less operations conceived, planned, and age-old, addicting sensation that no traveling to oversight, high-stakes U.S. foreign often carried out by U.S. Special decline of the industry can smother: Afgoye, Southern policy mishaps were inevitable, Operations Forces “advising and as- the feeling of chasing down a ground Somalia in an and the damage done potentially sisting” the local military. truth obscured in the edges of our African Union irredeemable. U.S. Africa Command admits world and plugging into something Peacekeeping Listening to people on the ground none of this. Its three- to five-line much bigger than ourselves. Force convoy. is the crux of good journalism. press releases—often filling in When the House Foreign Affairs When I moved to Somalia, I was the the blanks with new locations or Committee held its first congres- only foreign correspondent perma- numbers of terrorists killed—repeat sional hearing on U.S. counter- nently based in this country, and that that U.S. soldiers act in an advisory terrorism in Africa in December, it is still the case. For much of the past capacity, they take action only in was clear that much of what rightly year, most of my stories have begun consultation with and in support of concerned them was the result of with conversations on rooftops or the Somali Federal Government, and high quality on-the-ground foreign in the hotel lobbies of Mogadishu their command takes accusations of reporting. Nearly all the questions drinking a nightly cup of tea and civilian casualties very seriously. posed to the Department of Defense partaking in the ancient tradition Much of this rhetoric is either and Department of State representa- of “fadhi ku dirir,” which literally meant to obscure a clandestine tives centered on the headlines from translates to “fighting while sitting.” war about which the U.S. public Africa this year: the Islamic State’s The gossip of the day is laid bare knows little to nothing or is, simply, slow shift into Libya, Boko Haram’s as people sit around a table or on delusional. That’s not to say every expanding reach in West Africa, cushions sprawled across carpeted action U.S. Special Operators take and the impact of the anti-abortion floors. Northerns and Southerns, in Somalia is a misstep. It’s not, and Global Gag Rule defunding aid to those from large clans and those much of what they’ve done has been women across the continent. from small, from the coast and effective, weakening Al Shabaab. So as tempting as it is for Ameri- from the regions, debate everything But I’ve also seen firsthand the U.S. cans to focus attention inward as from which sub-clans are fighting military acting with an air of entitled American democracy feels like it is in which areas to the whispers of impunity as the intricate workings imploding, it is vital to remember illegal arms shipments making their of this country, the details revealed that the United States is still a power way into the city. For Somalis in by the daily fadhi ku dirir, are all that reaches into lives, and some- Mogadishu, this is the typical chat but lost on the soldiers who need to times deals death, around the world. with friends at the end of a work understand them the most. If Chinua Achebe’s famously wise day. For a journalist, it is a goldmine Freelancers like myself all words were right, if evil really does of potential tips. over the world, often operating on thrive best in “quiet, untidy cor- In recent months, the conversation shoestring budgets and with little to ners,” then foreign correspondents has centered on the ever-changing no institutional support, despite our must persevere there. roster of Somali political appointees empty bank accounts and the utterly that challenge the Trump administra- un-glamorous lives we lead, believe Christina Goldbaum reports for tion’s own rotating cast of characters, as those who came before us believed The Daily Beast. She has worked and also on the presence and influ- that holding those in power to ac- across Sub-Saharan Africa reporting ence of foreign meddlers: the gulf count and breaking down the bound- on U.S. foreign policy, peacekeeping,

PHOTO COURTESY OF CHRISTINA GOLDBAUM (2) GOLDBAUM CHRISTINA OF COURTESY PHOTO states fighting a proxy war on Somali aries that divide people is hugely migration flows, and human rights.

DATELINE 2018 19 ANNUAL AWARDS 2017 OVERSEAS PRESS CLUB OF AMERICA

Civilians, exhausted, hungry and thirsty, line up for food and water in the Mamun neighborhood of Mosul, on March 15, 2017. IVOR PRICKETT PRICKETT IVOR

ences last year. more than a dozen secret prisons in Yemen. By Scott Kraft Among that work was powerful, revela- The variety of media outlets doing this opc awards chair tory reporting from the battlefields of Iraq work at the highest level is heartening and Syria, on a state-directed slaughter to all of us who care deeply about global he goal is ambitious and in the Philippines, on ethnic cleansing in coverage. The AP and Reuters each had straightforward: identify the fin- Myanmar, and from strife-torn Venezuela. three winners, and the final tally of win- T est reporting from abroad. And Also recognized were investigations of a ners and citations included major news- every year, the Overseas Press Club begins tobacco company’s attempts to ward off papers, magazines, networks and digital that process by inviting leading journalists global health concerns and of a housing news organizations. to head up each of our juries. debacle in Mexico. Other winning work Our deepest thanks to the 93 This year our 22 head judges focused on the plight of Palestinians in judges who volunteered to be part of the included five former Pulitzer Prize Israel, the rule of Kim Jong-un in North decision-making process—an effort that winners—as well as past Emmy winners Korea, and a 2010 mass rape in the Demo- many said was made more satisfying, and, of course, past Overseas Press Club cratic Republic of Congo. if so much more difficult, by the high winners. The jurors recruited by those More than 400 entries were considered, quality of entries. And our congratula- head judges included still more award- and the entries per category ranged as high tions to all the winners. winning reporters, editors, authors, as 38, the number for the Joe and Laurie cartoonists and academics. Dine Award for best international report- Scott Kraft, a former foreign correspondent in Their selections were proof, if any was ing dealing with human rights. Maggie Africa and Europe, is Deputy Managing Edi- needed, of the high quality of interna- Michael, of The Associated Press, was hon- tor of the Los Angeles Times. He is also on the tional journalism available to U.S. audi- ored there for her remarkable reporting on Overseas Press Club Board of Governors.

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DATELINE 2018 21 OVERSEAS PRESS CLUB OF AMERICA ANNUAL AWARD WINNERS 2017

THE1 HAL BOYLE AWARD THE2 BOB CONSIDINE AWARD Best newspaper, news service or Best newspaper, news service or digital digital reporting from abroad interpretation of international affairs

Associated Press Staff New York Times Staff “Rohingya Exodus” “North Korea, and the Unthinkable”

In a series of powerful and No story captured unforgettable stories, rich with world attention detail and dogged reporting, in 2017 like North a team of Associated Press Korea’s claim to journalists documented the have developed a horrific crimes unfolding nuclear-armed intercontinental missile capable against the Rohingya minority in of unleashing a once-unthinkable war. Of the Myanmar. The AP brought together an impressive multiple media projects that explored and talent pool with different skills, from investigative analyzed Kim Jong-un’s objectives, The New York reporter to narrative writer and local insight, to Times most effectively harnessed the expertise take readers to the front lines of this conflict. The of its correspondents around the world. Their stories exemplified foreign correspondence at stories explained the failed Western strategies its best: exposing and chronicling human rights for containing Kim, looked beyond the cartoonish violations, putting a human face on conflict and portrayals of the determined young leader and providing a road map for future investigations into detailed his success in circumventing sanctions what world powers are calling genocide. Simply to bankroll “parallel advance”—the loosening put, it was an incredible package that you want to of constraints on private enterprise that both urge everyone to read. improved North Korea’s economy and helped Kim realize his dream of turning his nation into a Citation: Clare Baldwin, Andrew R.C. Marshall, nuclear power. Manuel Mogato and Reuters team Reuters Citation: Borzou Daragahi “Duterte’s War” Buzzfeed “Iran and the U.S. at a Crossroads” Sponsor: Norman Pearlstine in memory of Jerry Flint Sponsor: William J. Holstein and Rita Sevell

Judges: Farnaz Fassihi (head), The Wall Street Judges: Michael Parks (head), University of Journal; Steve Stecklow, Reuters; Southern California; Carol J. Williams, freelance; Somini Sengupta, The New York Times; John Pomfret, author; Philip Taubman, Stanford T. Christian Miller, ProPublica; University; Roy Gutman, freelance; Soraya Sarhadi Nelson, NPR Philip Taubman recused himself from the final selection. Steve Stecklow recused himself from the citation selection.

22 DATELINE 2018 THE3 ROBERT CAPA THE4 OLIVIER REBBOT AWARD GOLD MEDAL AWARD Best photographic reporting from abroad Best published photographic reporting in any medium from abroad requiring exceptional courage and enterprise Carlos Garcia Rawlins and Carol Guzy Carlos Barria Zuma Press Reuters “Scars of Mosul, the Legacy of ISIS” “Venezuela Marred by Violence”

Guzy’s entry offered an Covering one of the biggest intimate and unconventional stories of the year, the perspective of a civilian photojournalists endured population ravaged by war. clouds of tear gas, petrol Carol trained her camera bombs, water cannons and live ammunition while on the most vulnerable Carlos Garcia Carol Guzy inhabitants of Mosul’s civilian Rawlins attempting to portray the Andrea Pritchard Andrea population amid the Iraqi volatile economic and political Army’s fierce battle to tear the city from the turmoil in Venezuela. The grasp of the Islamic State. She stepped outside images show unprecedented the bounds of covering a hostile story and scenes of a once prosperous offered an intimate, sensitive and haunting nation unraveling into chaos. coverage of the innocents we often do not see The entry, condensed to twelve reflected in images from amid the gore dizzying images, showcased of wartime. Carlos Barria one of the most visually hostile stories of the year. The potent Sponsor: Getty Images and strikingly violent images invoked an auditory response from the jury as they rolled across Citation: Ivor Prickett the screen. The New York Times “What ISIS Left Behind” Sponsor: The Coca-Cola Company

Judges for the three photography awards: Citation: Mohammad Ponir Hossain, Adrees Latif (head), Reuters; Yunghi Kim, Danish Siddiqui, Hannah McKay, Freelance Photojournalist; William Snyder, Damir Sagolj and Cathal McNaughton Rochester Institute of Technology; James Collins, Reuters NBCnews.com; Sandy Ciric, Getty Images “Rohingya Flee Violence in Myanmar” Judge William Snyder recused himself from the Robert Capa award selection.

DATELINE 2018 23 THE ROBERT CAPA GOLD MEDAL AWARD CAROL GUZY Zuma Press “Scars of Mosul, the Legacy of ISIS”

24 DATELINE 2018 Scenes from the retaking of Mosul, Iraq in July 1917. Above, refugees rest in the shovel of a bulldozer at the Trauma Stabilization Point in the Old City. Right, a victim after treatment. Above right, soldiers exchange fire with ISIS snipers. CAROL GUZY (3) GUZY CAROL

DATELINE 2018 25 OVERSEAS PRESS CLUB OF AMERICA ANNUAL AWARD WINNERS 2017

THE5 FEATURE PHOTOGRAPHY THE6 LOWELL THOMAS AWARD AWARD Best radio, audio or podcast news or Best feature photography published in any interpretation of international affairs medium on an international theme Gregory Warner, Laura Heaton, Kevin Frayer Marianne McCune, Michael May and Jess Jiang Getty Images NPR “The Harrowing Exodus of Rohingya “The Congo We Listen To,” an episode of the Muslims to Bangladesh” Rough Translation podcast

One of the most At the heart of good journalism comprehensive picture is an honest reckoning with how packages of the year, Kevin we know what we know, and Frayer’s images documented what more we need to know. the Rohingyas’ grueling and Such was the case with the NPR deadly exodus from Myanmar. podcast Rough Translations’ Kevin Frayer Frayer’s images struck the jury Gregory Warner episode: “The Congo We Listen Candace Feit Candace with their haunting beauty, To.” It featured Laura Heaton, a sophistication and breadth. Amid the chaos, his freelance reporter who decided images managed to convey a strong warmth and to revisit the 2010 story of sympathy for his subjects and their struggle. mass rape by militia groups in a Congolese village, wanting to Citation: Meridith Kohut know whether that brief period The New York Times of saturated international media “As Venezuela Collapses, Children are Dying of Laura Heaton attention had a lasting impact Hunger” on the village and its women. What she found was that the Sponsor: Cyma Rubin—Business of Entertainment real story was different from what had been reported, and Judge Sandy Ciric recused herself from the final selection. she worked to find out why village women had chosen to hide the full story. Heaton, with Marianne McCune Rough Translation host Gregory Warner, produced a complex and compelling tale about what stories are told, what stories are hidden, and how journalists with good instincts, time and patience, can find a much richer story by listening for what hasn’t Michael May been said.

Sponsor: Deborah Amos

Citation: Marlon Bishop, Maria Hinojosa, Nadia Reiman and Stephanie Lebow Latino USA Jess Jiang “A Border Drawn in Blood”

Judges: Mary Kay Magistad (head), freelance; Deborah Amos, NPR; Marsha Cooke, Vice; Peter Klein, Global Reporting Centre; Michael Montgomery, Reveal/Center for Investigative Reporting 26 DATELINE 2018 NO MATTER WHERE YOU CALL HOME, CHANCES ARE, SO DO WE.

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CARLOS GARCIA RAWLINS AND CARLOS BARRIA Reuters “Venezuela Marred by Violence”

28 DATELINE 2018 Enveloped in a cloud of tear gas, an activist hurls a tear gas canister back toward security forces who were clashing with demonstrators marching against Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro in Caracas, Venezuela, April 19, 2017.

CARLOS GARCIA RAWLINS GARCIA CARLOS DATELINE 2018 29 OVERSEAS PRESS CLUB OF AMERICA ANNUAL AWARD WINNERS 2017

THE7 DAVID KAPLAN AWARD THE8 EDWARD R. MURROW AWARD Best TV or video spot news reporting Best TV, video or documentary interpretation of from abroad international affairs less than one hour

Nick Paton Walsh and Arwa Damon Raney Aronson-Rath, James Jones, Olivier Sarbil, CNN Dan Edge and Andrew Metz “Fall of ISIS” FRONTLINE PBS in association with Channel 4 “Mosul”

CNN’s Nick Paton Walsh The world has been riveted in horror and Arwa Damon brought by the brutality of ISIS and the viewers directly into the final long, bloody campaign to defeat fight to push the ISIS terrorists it in Syria and Iraq. The climactic out of their strongholds in Iraq showdown was the 9-month-long and Syria while at the same battle of Mosul. In Mosul, filmmaker Raney Nick Paton Walsh time revealing its terrible Aronson-Rath Olivier Sarbil follows a squad of human cost. Paton Walsh Iraqi Special Forces as they fight and his team witnessed the their way house by house through fight for the Al-Nuri mosque Mosul. His documentary stands in Mosul and the closing out for the way it connects viewers hours of the battle when ISIS with the characters of four Iraqi fighters emerged from the soldiers, putting human faces on ruins and gave themselves an inhuman conflict. Sarbil shows James Jones Arwa Damon up. Damon’s reporting and how the mostly Sunni civilians particularly poignant narrative fear the predominantly Shiite Iraqi on the dead and injured is so strong it is hard soldiers, who in turn are wary of to watch. An Arabic speaker, Arwa encouraged ISIS fighters trying to hide among survivors of a U.S. bombing that killed over 100 the civilians they meet - this is the people in Mosul to talk about the agony and fundamental root of the conflict. death that surrounded them. Judges felt the We hear the crunch of broken glass complementary stories by Paton Walsh and Olivier Sarbil under the soldiers’ boots as they Damon were extraordinary examples of approach a doorway, the whispered the psychological cost to the victims of warning not to move a curtain which prolonged ISIS rule and the fighting that could give away their position, the brought it to an end. boom of a car bomb that kills one of their comrades. This is the ugly, Citation: Ian Pannell, Matt McGarry, unpredictable but relentless face Rym Momtaz, Nicky DeBlois of war, seen from up very close and Jenna Millman Dan Edge through Sarbil’s lens—and clearly at ABC News substantial risk to himself. “The War Against ISIS” Citation: Steve Kroft, Draggan Sponsor: ABC News Mihailovich, Laura Dodd and Matthew Lev Judges: Marcy McGinnis (head), freelance career CBS 60 Minutes coach; Eason Jordan, Oryx Strategies; “Isle of Eigg” Karen Curry, Drexel University; Andrew Metz Len Apcar, Louisiana State University; Sponsor: CBS News Bob Sullivan, retired, Worldwide Television News Judges: Terry McCarthy (head), Los Angeles World Affairs Council; Beth Loyd, Facebook; Miguel Marquez, CNN; David Wright, ABC ; Parisa Khosravi, Payam Global Strategies (formerly CNN Worldwide) 30 DATELINE 2018 THE9 PETER JENNINGS AWARD THE10 ED CUNNINGHAM AWARD Best TV, video or documentary about Best magazine reporting in print or digital international affairs one hour or longer on an international story

Evgeny Alfineevsky, Den Tolmor Azmat Khan and Anand Gopal and Aaron I. Butler The New York Times Magazine HBO “The Uncounted” “Cries from Syria”

This remarkable documentary, Azmat Khan and Anand “Cries from Syria”, serves as an Gopal spent almost two years important contribution to the visiting about 150 bomb sites reporting on the Syrian crisis, in northern Iraq, often at one of the most challenging great personal risk, for this conflicts for foreign journalists powerful story that showed Evgeny Alfineevsky to cover. By combining footage Azmat Khan civilian casualties caused by shot by activists and ordinary U.S.-led coalition airstrikes citizens with interviews with were considerably higher than Syrians who have survived previously reported. With a the war, the film masterfully compelling main character in captures a story that is both Bassim Razzo, whose home personal and comprehensive. and family in Mosul were The filmmaker sheds light on the obliterated, indefatigable Den Tolmor human toll of the Syrian conflict Anand Gopal sleuthing by Khan and and highlights the extent of the Gopal that challenged U.S. Syrian government’s war crimes statistics, and an impressive use of photography against its own people. It is a film and videography, “The Uncounted” provided that not only informs and raises a horrifying accounting of the true cost of awareness of the ongoing war but America’s war. also memorializes the Syrians who were on the front lines of Sponsor: Michael S. Serrill Aaron I. Butler the conflict. Citation: Ben Mauk, Laura Kasinof, Sponsor: The Jennings Family George Butler and Diàna Markosian Virginia Quarterly Review/ Citation: Michael Kirk, Mike Wiser, Jim Gilmore, Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting Philip Bennett, David E. Hoffman and “Paths to Refuge” Raney Aronson-Rath PBS FRONTLINE Judges: Robert Friedman (head): Bloomberg “Putin’s Revenge” News; Barbara Demick, Los Angeles Times; Laurie Hayes, Edelman; Romesh Ratnesar, New Judges: Abi Wright (head), Columbia School of America Foundation; Don Guttenplan, The Nation Journalism; Cynthia Lopez, freelance producer; Jonathan Jones, Center for Investigative Reporting; Josh Fine, Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel

DATELINE 2018 31 THE FEATURE PHOTOGRAPHY AWARD KEVIN FRAYER Getty Images “The Harrowing Exodus of Rohingya Muslims to Bangladesh”

32 DATELINE 2018 Left: Rohingya refugees desperate for food throng around a truck delivering humanitarian supplies. Below: An exhausted family rests after escaping to the Bangladeshi side of the Naf River. Bottom: Rohingya pray at the site of a future mosque. KEVIN FRAYER (3) FRAYER KEVIN

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THE11 THOMAS NAST AWARD THE12 MORTON FRANK AWARD Best cartoons on international affairs Best magazine international business news reporting in print or digital Clay Bennett Chattanooga Times Free Press Monte Reel Bloomberg Businessweek “How to Rebuild Puerto Rico”

Clay Bennett’s deceptively Puerto Rico lives in a limbo. simple cartoons, often without As a territory of the United captions, drive home strong, States, its people have perceptive messages on topics American citizenship. But ranging from global warming, lacking statehood, the island immigration, North Korea’s lacks clout in Washington, Clay Bennett nuclear program and Vladimir Monte Reel as became tragically evident Putin, to Donald Trump’s in 2017, when a hurricane handling of complex foreign policy issues. devastated the island-and Puerto Ricans were Clever ideas and an engaging style make for a largely left to their own devices. Monte Reel’s memorable portfolio. engagingly written account of the aftermath, “How to Rebuild Puerto Rico,” is a sweeping, Sponsor: Daimler moving and financially literate account of Puerto Ricans’ struggle to recover. Refusing to bow to Citation: Kevin Kallaugher cynicism and commending the islanders’ grit, The Economist Reel nevertheless realistically examines the obstacles, in Washington and home-grown, to Judges: Mike Keefe (head), freelance; not only recovery but also to a lasting prosperity Greg Dobbs, formerly ABC News; for this perennially troubled land. Mark Fiore, freelance; Steve Sack, Minneapolis Star Tribune Sponsor: Mark Lemcke

Judges: Michael Williams (head), Reuters; Sarah Lubman, Brunswick Group; Jesse Pesta, The New York Times; Aryn Baker, TIME

34 DATELINE 2018 THE13 MALCOLM FORBES AWARD THE14 CORNELIUS RYAN AWARD Best international business news reporting in Best non-fiction book on international affairs newspapers, news services or digital Suzy Hansen Paritosh Bansal, Tom Lasseter, Aditya Kalra, Farrar, Straus and Giroux Duff Wilson and team “Notes on a Foreign Country: An American Reuters Abroad in a Post-American World” “The Philip Morris Files”

In industry after industry, American journalist Suzy companies with big lobbying Hansen moved to Istanbul to budgets have managed to better understand the Muslim control and even dictate world. Her highly insightful and regulations without being engaging book weaves her own seen. In “The Phillip Morris background—white, small-town America, elite college—with an Paritosh Bansal Files”, a team of Reuters’ Suzy Hansen reporters takes us inside awakening on why the U.S. is that world: the behind- often hated overseas amid decades of American the-scenes maneuvering; intervention in the Middle East and elsewhere. the strategic targeting of She takes aim in particular at how the abiding weakest government links; myth of “American exceptionalism” has blinded and the congratulatory high- American policymakers, journalists and citizens fiving when the mission is to an often sordid reality. Hansen has produced Tom Lasseter accomplished. This eye- a sweeping and powerful corrective to the way opening series shows just how most Americans view U.S. foreign policy of the sophisticated and determined past 70 years. the tobacco industry has been in fighting anti-tobacco Sponsor: Friends of Richard Threlkeld forces in government and at international agencies. Citation: Joshua Kurlantzick The team of reporters took Simon & Schuster Aditya Kalra powerful leaked documents, “A Great Place to Have a War: America In Laos followed it up with shoe-leather And the Birth of a Military CIA” reporting, and brought home a series with impact. Judges: Dan Hertzberg (head), freelance; John Bussey, The Wall Street Journal; Sponsor: Forbes Magazine Neil Hickey, Columbia Journalism Review; Jennifer Siebens, freelance

Duff Wilson Citation: Lauren Etter, Benjamin Elgin, Sarah Frier and Michael Riley Bloomberg News “Facebook and the Assault on Democracy”

Judges: Scott Kraft (head), Los Angeles Times; Mary Rajkumar, The Associated Press; Larry Ingrassia, freelance; Rebecca Blumenstein, The New York Times; Peter Spiegel, Financial Times

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THE15 MADELINE DANE ROSS THE16 DAVID A. ANDELMAN AND AWARD PAMELA TITLE AWARD Best international reporting in print or digital Best international reporting in the broadcast showing a concern for the human condition media showing a concern for the human condition Associated Press Staff “Collapse of the Caliphate: Ed Ou and Aurora Almendral Triumph and Tragedy in Mosul” NBC Left Field “The Kill List: The Brutal Drug War in the Philippines”

AP reporters covering the “The Kill List” is a personal and collapse of Islamic State’s riveting behind-the-scenes self-proclaimed caliphate insight into the Philippines struck the right balance drug war as seen through the between aggressive reporting eyes of people involved. The and sensitive writing on the viewer is taken on a journey by horrors endured by Mosul Ed Ou hunters and the hunted. The residents. The result is gripping, timely coverage quest by the police to rid the that evoked ghastly images, but also showed streets of drug users results in the determination of ordinary Iraqis to retain the hunted left lifeless. We are their dignity and humanity in the worst of taken inside a morgue where a circumstances. Overall, a sophisticated package young man is asked to identify of stories that illuminate a human condition the a body. He pulls back the sheet world should not ignore. and sees the corpse of his Aurora Almendral father. The moment is raw and Sponsor: Linda Fasulo emotional. Visible are the bullet wounds and the cuff marks on his wrists. Ed Ou’s Citation: Cynthia Gorney, Amy Toensing spell-binding camerawork is strikingly powerful. and Kathryn Carlson Kudos to the video team for taking a back seat National Geographic and letting the characters and the visuals own “Life After Loss” this powerful story.

Judges: Hannah Allam (head), McClatchy; Sponsor: David A. Andelman and Pamela Title S. Mitra Kalita, CNN; Ann Simmons, Los Angeles Times; Juan Tamayo, freelance; Bill Gentile, Citation: Jordan Kronick, David Scott, Fernando American University Villegas and Daniel Litke HBO Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel “The Strongman—Ramzan Kadyrov”

Judges: Denise Vance (head), The Associated Press; Nigel Baker, Thomson Foundation; David Bruns, The Washington Post; and Robert Reid, Stars & Stripes

36 DATELINE 2018 THE17 JOE AND LAURIE DINE THE18 WHITMAN BASSOW AWARD AWARD Best reporting in any medium on Best international reporting in any medium international environmental issues dealing with human rights Sam Evans-Brown and Hannah McCarthy Maggie Michael Powerline, New Hampshire Public Radio The Associated Press “Outside/In” podcast “In Yemen, Human Rights a Casualty of War”

In a year filled with horrific This illuminating four-part violence in many parts of the radio documentary is the world, the war in Yemen did not result of six months of get the attention it deserved. exhaustive reporting, in which The AP series on the secret Evans-Brown and McCarthy torture taking place fills out explore the consequences Maggie Michael much of what was unknown Sam Evans-Brown of a Massachusetts decision about the war in Yemen led to cut carbon emissions by by U.S. ally Saudi Arabia. Maggie Michael took 25%. Their investigation great personal risks, with her video colleague, takes them into remote native driver and fixers, to tell the story of the 18 secret communities in northern prisons in Yemen where detainees are tortured Quebec, where livelihoods by men from the UAE. Chillingly, eyewitnesses have been devastated by giant reported seeing Americans in U.S. Military hydropower projects. Hours uniform assisting with interrogations. Michael Hannah McCarthy of audio include interviews in also documented other effects of the proxy indigenous languages, decades war waged in Yemen including malnourished of history, dissection of Canadian government children and economic pressures that result documents, and the sounds of rushing rivers that in more childhood marriages as families immerse listeners in a real sense of discovery. seek to offload their daughters. Michael and The judges especially liked the team’s ambition, her team documented all of this and more as well as its conclusion that no energy source, in a chilling package that included charts, no matter how clean, is free of victims—a fact video and compelling graphics. The response that is too often lost in the coverage of climate was immediate and included calls by U.S. change. senators and the government of Yemen for an investigation. Sponsor: Citi

Sponsor: Philip Dine Citation: Douglas Fox, Laurent Ballesta and Camille Seaman Citation: Dionne Searcey and Sarah Topol National Geographic The New York Times “Crisis on the Ice” and “Under Antarctica” “Hell’s Children” Judges: Vivienne Walt, (head) Time; Judges: Anya Schiffrin (head), Columbia James Graff, Wall Street Journal; University; Alison Bethel McKenzie, Society of Stephanie Mehta, Fast Company; Professional Journalists; Rebecca Chao, Foreign Bryan Christy, author Affairs; Natasha Norman, Brut America; Matt Schiavenza, Asia Society

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THE19 ROBERT SPIERS BENJAMIN THE20 KIM WALL AWARD AWARD Best reporting in any medium on Best story or series of stories on international Latin America affairs using digital storytelling techniques Richard Marosi William Booth, Sufian Taha and Los Angeles Times Linda Davidson “Mexico’s Housing Debacle: A Failed Vision” The Washington Post “Occupied” Through rigorous investigation What does it feel like to be and compelling writing, occupied in 2017? To answer Richard Marosi of the Los this question, the Washington Angeles Times exposed Post produced an intimate, the origins of a $100 immersive series that billion scandal that has transports readers into the Richard Marosi littered Mexico with shoddy William Booth worlds of three Palestinians: housing projects and the an everyman construction broken aspirations of millions of would-be worker; a matriarch in the homeowners. Conceived at the turn of the final stages of cancer, and century as a public-private initiative to build an idealistic tycoon striving affordable suburbs across the country, the to build a model city amidst program raised billions from global investors turmoil. Fusing powerful and sparked the largest residential construction writing, photos, maps and raw boom in Latin America. But instead of lifting Sufian Taha footage, “Occupied” captures up working-class families, the Times found, the slow grind of thousands the program set off a “slow-motion social and of men inching through a financial catastrophe.” Drawing on documents, single checkpoint, and what interviews and inspection of 50 developments it means to seek cancer from Tijuana to the Gulf of Mexico, Marosi treatment in an area where chronicled how corruption, poor planning and only 16 oncologists serve a population of more than 4 impunity trapped thousands of Mexicans in Linda Davidson unhealthy, sub-standard housing many could million. In doing so, journalists not afford. The Times series skillfully explored William Booth, Sufian Taha and themes of poverty, inequality, corruption and Linda Davidson bring to life the continued human accountability. It is a powerful example of costs of Israel’s military occupation that has now investigative reporting and lucid writing arrayed lasted 50 years. against a major public issue hiding in plain sight. Sponsor: AT&T Sponsor: JetBlue Citation: Aryn Baker, Lynsey Addario and Citation: Almudena Toral, Maye Primera, Francesca Trianni Oscar Martinez and Carlos Martinez TIME, supported by the Pulitzer Center for Univision News Digital and El Faro Crisis Reporting and Merck for Mothers “From Migrants to Refugees: The New Plight “Finding Home” of Central Americans” Judges: Azmat Khan (head), New America; Judges: Phil Bennett (head), Duke University; Millie Tran, The New York Times; Mosi Secret, Scott Wilson, The Washington Post; freelance; Murtaza Hussain, The Intercept; Marjorie Miller, The Associated Press; Sana Saeed, AJ+; Wesley Lowery, The Carlos Dada, El Faro Washington Post Judge Carlos Dada recused himself from the citation selection. Judge Wesley Lowery recused himself from the final selection.

40 DATELINE 2018 THE21 ROY ROWAN AWARD THE22 BEST COMMENTARY AWARD Best investigative reporting in any medium Best commentary in any medium on on an international story international news

Clare Baldwin, Andrew R.C. Marshall, Gideon Rachman Manuel Mogato and Reuters team Financial Times “Duterte’s War”

Rodrigo Duterte was elected In an outstanding field of president of the Philippines in deeply reported and intelligent 2016 on a promise to eradicate entries, Gideon Rachman’s the scourge of drugs. Since range of subjects, reported then, his police forces have insight and refreshing opinions pursued that aim with a bloody was the most impressive. He

Clare Baldwin vengeance, killing more than Gideon Rachman was particularly forceful on SIDDIQUI/ DANISH REUTERS 9,000 people. The government the rising tide of nationalism has described the raids as facing Europe and the U.S. One reader summed legitimate law enforcement it up this way: “A tour de force on the political operations. In the series challenges of our age by Gideon Rachman, “Duterte’s War,” Reuters reporters possibly the best world affairs writer of the day.” Clare Baldwin and Andrew R.C.

Andrew R.C. Marshall demolish that defense. Sponsor: Robert Serio Marshall Reuters dispatched Baldwin and MOHAMMAD PONIR HOSSAIN/ REUTERS Marshall to train a microscope Judges: Bill Keller (head), The Marshall Project; on the mayhem. Aided by Scott MacLeod, Cairo Review of Global Affairs; Manuel Mogato, they combed John Daniszewski, The Associated Press; through law enforcement’s own Grainne McCarthy, Wall Street Journal; records to pinpoint operations David Shipley, Bloomberg and identify the officers who conducted them. They examined Manuel Mogato video surveillance, interviewed scores of witnesses, debriefed emergency room physicians, reviewed leaked documents and obtained crucial testimony from senior police commanders themselves. Their exhaustive, meticulous reporting exposes the scope of the state’s role in the slaughter of its own citizens, making the unanswerable case that the Philippine police have been acting as death squads and using a variety of ruses to cover their tracks.

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Citation: Iona Craig The Intercept “Death in Al Ghayil: Women and Children in Yemeni Village Recall Horror of Trump’s ‘Highly Successful’ SEAL Raid”

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AP applauds Senior Correspondent for Pakistan and Afghanistan Kathy gannon for her distinguished career as she is honored with the oPc President’s award for lifetime achievement.

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