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Panelists to Discuss Europe’s Past and Present INSIDE 30 Years After the Fall of the Berlin Wall China’s Tech Theft William J. Holstein 2

EVENT PREVIEW: OCT. 30 OPC Call for Entries 2 by patricia kranz Christopher Dickey n nov. 9, 1989, the world watched in amaze- & Rukmini Callimachi ment as East Germans streamed through and Blast Trump on Syria 3

Oover the Berlin Wall to cross into West Berlin, People Column 5-7 with Berliners from both sides of the city celebrating atop the Wall. The collapse of this iconic symbol of the Fordham’s Upcoming East-West divide was not an isolated incident but the Journalism Events 7 culmination of a series of political upheavals through- Press Freedom out the region that year. Taken together, they marked the Update 8-9 beginning of the end of the Soviet empire and the Cold TURNLEY DAVID War. Journalists who covered those historic events and This photo by David Turnley is from a portfolio of im- New Books 10 their aftermath will share their experiences with OPC ages that won him the Pulitzer Prize for work in 1989 that included the fall of the Berlin Wall. Q&A: members on Oct. 30 and offer insights into the future of Benedetta Europe and global security. Argentieri 11 and immigration issues in the United States. Bogert was The program is open to all. The OPC invites any previously deputy executive director at Human Rights journalists who covered Europe and the Soviet Union to Watch, running its award-winning global media opera- come and reconnect with former colleagues and friends. tions. Before joining Human Rights Watch in 1998, The event gets underway at Club Quarters at 6:00 p.m., Bogert spent twelve years as a foreign correspondent and a reception with light hors d’oeuvres and cash bar for Newsweek in China, Southeast Asia, and the Soviet will follow from 7:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Visit opco- Union. famerica.org to RSVP. ● John Daniszewski became vice president for stan- Panelists include: dards and editor-at-large for The in ● Carroll Bogert, president of The Marshall Project, July 2016 after more than a decade leading its interna- a nonprofit media organization covering criminal justice Continued on Page 4

OPC Member Reports from Front Lines in Hong Kong by chad bouchard over the last five months, “police OPC’s press ID helped her during However, international journalists pc member Suzanne tactics have grown more sudden, a scuffle with Hong Kong police like herself still face intimidation, Sataline has witnessed more violent, and more arbitrary to identify her as an American she said. Oturmoil in Hong Kong against civilian demonstrators and journalist, and that “ultimately, the Sataline recounted escalating from close range while covering the press.” credentials got me released.” police tactics since June when protests, and experienced first Sataline is a freelance writer But as she wrote in The Atlan- protests began, when police at first hand how police are targeting and and editor based in Hong Kong tic, Hong Kong colleagues work- would simply move journalists intimidating journalists. and New York, and has been ing for local press are not faring as away from protesters, using lights She wrote an extensive piece an OPC member since October well as they bear most of the brunt or strobes to disrupt video devices. for The Atlantic recounting how 2016. She said in an email that the of police pressure and violence. Continued on Page 4

1 1 William J. Holstein Urges US to Boost Defenses Christopher Dickey Against China’s Campaign of Tech Theft Calls Trump ‘Delusional’

by chad bouchard on Syria Withdrawal pc past President William J. Holstein wrote an op- by chad bouchard withdrawal and convinced the Kurds not to plan for an American ed piece for The Wall Street Journal warning that the exit. With fair warning, Russia and Syria might have been able to pc second Vice President Christopher Dickey has blasted recent arrest of a California tour guide on espionage head off the campaign of unfettered violence Turkey has waged in O President Donald Trump’s decision to green-light a mas- charges is only a symptom of Beijing’s wider tech espio- the vacuum. sive Turkish incursion, which he wrote would “open the nage campaign. His piece follows news that the U.S. Justice O Dickey and Ackerman wrote another piece on Oct. 14 examin- way to ethnic cleansing,” calling it a betrayal of the Kurds who led Department arrested Peng Xuehua for allegedly funneling ing how the U.S. withdrawal diverted surveillance resources away the fight against ISIS. classified American secrets to China’s Ministry of State from ISIS and onto its own troops near the Iraqi and Jordanian “His bluffing and bullying could not compensate for his igno- Security. He noted that FBI Director Christopher Wray said in border. Lack of monitoring of ISIS movements, and a lack of vi- July that most of the agency’s 1,000 active investigations into rance addressing an extremely delicate situation, which is why he reversed course so many times, and continues to do so,” Dickey intellectual property theft involved China. Continued on Page 5 “Beijing’s tech theft is a danger to every American and said in an emailed newsletter with a roundup of coverage of the every opponent of the Chinese Communist Party,” Holstein topic. JUSTIN SULLIVAN/GETTY IMAGES SULLIVAN/GETTY JUSTIN wrote. “The line between commercial and military technology Dickey is foreign editor for The Daily Beast and a contributor Rukmini Callimachi is often blurry – artificial intelligence, for instance, has many U.S. attorney David L. Anderson displays an SD memory to NBC and MSNBC, based in Paris. card during a news conference on Sept. 30, in San Fran- commercial and military uses. The party has also directly On Oct. 18, he discussed Turkey’s campaign against the Kurds Watches Turkish Invasion cisco, California. The U.S. attorney’s office of the Northern gone after military secrets. The Navy secretary said in March during a remote interview from Paris with Brian Williams on the District of California announced a criminal complaint that his branch and its commercial partners are under ‘cyber MSNBC show The 11th Hour, telling the host that the move would against Xuehua Peng for allegedly delivering classified in Syria with Dismay siege’ by China.” embolden escaped ISIS terrorists to target Europe, which Trump national security information to China. Holstein outlines several tech theft cases that came to light dismissed as a problem for Europeans and not the U.S. Dickey said by chad bouchard Europeans responded to the decision with consternation, regarding in 2019, including fraud charges against Bo Mao, a profes- pc member and former governor Rukmini Callimachi has Companies will have to devote more money and staff to IT, it as “yet another example of what has been seen for a long time as sor in Texas, for allegations that he stole solid-state-drive closely followed escalating conflict in northern Syria after even if this puts pressure on profits.” the insanity of the American president.” technology from CNEX Labs; the conviction of Yi-Chi Shih, President Trump’s decision to withdraw U.S. troops. She an adjunct professor from the University of California, on Holstein said security experts have warned that some Dickey reported that France was trying to negotiate with Iraq to O is a New York Times foreign correspondent covering Al Qaeda and companies are reluctant to ask for help from Washington, take French ISIS prisoners out of Syria and put them in Iraq. He re- charges that he hacked systems of a company that makes ISIS, currently at home on maternity leave. Callimachi warned of possibly because they fear public blowback as a result of acted to Trump’s statement to press that the Kurds were “incredibly circuits that use microwave frequencies; a lawsuit from a growing humanitarian crisis, and expressed dismay that Turkey’s transparency. He said the U.S. has so far been sluggish in its happy with this solution” that it “saved their lives,” and calling it a Tesla Inc. accusing former engineer Guangzhi Cao of copy- invasion of Syria could revive ISIS and reverse hard-fought gains response to China’s espionage campaign, which is “subtle and “tough love approach.” ing 300,000 company files before taking a job at a Chinese against the group. long-term.” He said companies and U.S. security agencies “He’s delusional,” Dickey said, adding that in 2014 when ISIS self-driving car startup, Xiaopeng Motors; and news that On Oct. 6, the White House must work in concert to forge a rigorous strategy on how to was rolling into Iraq, Syria and the FBI and Justice Department busted a four-year hacking announced that U.S. forces would respond. up to the Turkish border “the only operation from the group APT10 out of Tianjin that worked withdraw from the border to make Holstein is author of the recently published book The fighters who stood in its way, with China’s Ministry of State Security, a campaign that used way for a “long-planned” invasion New Art of War: China’s Deep Strategy Inside the United who held their ground against malware to penetrate U.S cloud computing systems and gain from Turkey. Trump warned that he States. He spoke about the book during an OPC discussion all odds, were exactly the same access to IBM and the U.S. Navy. would “totally destroy and obliter- in June with Barbara Demick, who served as Beijing bureau Kurds that Trump just betrayed.” Holstein called for the U.S. to hammer out comprehensive ate” Turkey’s economy if the coun- chief for the Los Angeles Times from 2007 to 2017. Holstein Dickey wrote about several plan to fight tech espionage. He blasted the Trump admin- try did anything “that I, in my great covered China from Hong Kong as deputy Asia editor in 1979 knock-on effects from the U.S. istration for shortcomings on this front, noting that recent and unmatched wisdom, consider and won an OPC award in 1980 for best overseas economic withdrawal in a series of pieces negotiations with Beijing make no mention of China’s hack- to be off limits.” With backing from reporting for stories about China’s modernization drive. He written for The Daily Beast, some ing and spying. Turkey, a loosely organized band has recently spoken about The New Art of War at New York of which were co-authored with “It will require Manhattan Project-like intensity and focus of Syrian rebels linked to extremist University and at Columbia University with Andrew Nathan, colleagues. to harden America’s information-technology systems. It will groups, known as the Free Syrian as well as at a day-long event in September hosted by Silicon He and national security take years and cost billions of dollars,” he said. “U.S. govern- Army, or FSA, launched an assault Dragon. v correspondent Spencer Acker- ment agencies will have to ask Congress for bigger budgets. on northeastern Syria. The group

man wrote about how Kurds IMAGES SMITH/GETTY BYRON executed Kurdish prisoners and were forced to turn to Russia for The OPC will begin accepting applications A convoy of U.S. armored military vehicles leave Syria on killed unarmed civilians as well protection from Turkish forces, as online on November 29, 2019. a road to Iraq on Oct. 19 in Sheikhan, Iraq. Refugees have as Kurdish fighters of the Syrian Bashar al-Assad’s troops returned fled from the Turkish incursion in Syria into Northern Iraq Democratic Forces, or SDF. to northeastern Syria for the first GENERAL DEADLINE: January 31, 2020 since the conflict began, with many saying they paid to be Callimachi noted the next day time in seven years. The piece CORNELIUS RYAN AWARD DEADLINE: January 10, 2020 smuggled through the Syrian border. that the U.S. had recently asked quoted an op-ed in Foreign Policy Kurds to remove fortifications from the Kurdish commander of ELIGIBILITY: Work must be published or broadcast in the they had installed along the Turkish border, calling the move “a the Syrian Democratic Forces, who said they would have to make U.S. or by a U.S.-based company or be accessible to an whole other level of betrayal.” She also pointed out that ISIS had “painful compromises” working with Moscow or Bashar, “but if American audience for the first time during 2019 with launched an attack in Raqqa, saying that “Many of us predicted that we have to choose between compromises and the genocide of our ISIS would be back, but I have to say I didn’t think it would be this reporting primarily outside the US. people, we will surely choose life for our people.” soon.” The writers outlined how Trump had signaled in 2018 that the Callimachi also highlighted commentary from Washington Post ENTER ONLINE www.opcofamerica.org administration opposed open-ended U.S. presence in Syria, but the QUESTIONS? Email [email protected] State Department and Pentagon were unwilling to face up to a final Continued on Page 5 October 2019 October 2019 2 3 ‘Berlin Wall’ ‘Christopher Dickey’ Paris that killed 130 people. Continued From Page 1 Continued From Page 3 “Out of this toxic soup, the US has removed from the Kurd- ish-run jails the ‘Beatles’ who oversaw the captivity of Western tional news department as international editor, able partner on the ground, meant that “the basic prerequisites for prisoners held alongside James Foley. Super. But what about the senior managing editor and vice president mitigating any ISIS revival in Syria are gone. Many observers captors of Rudaw cameraman Massoud Aqeel and thousands of for international news. Prior to that, he spent now expect ISIS to reconstitute itself in some form.” others?” Callimachi wrote. 20 years as a reporter, editor and correspon- Dickey wrote a longform piece on Oct. 18 with the descrip- Two days later on Oct. 13, she reported that an SDF com- dent for both AP and the Los Angeles Times. tive headline “The Kurds Gave Their Lives to Defeat the Islamic mander had confirmed that the camp at Ain Issa had fallen. The BILLY H.C. KWOK/GETTY IMAGES KWOK/GETTY H.C. BILLY He has worked in more than 70 countries State. Trump Just Pissed It All Away.” In the piece, which chroni- facility includes a section that holds hundreds of ISIS supporters in Europe, Africa, the Middle East, Latin America and Asia, Riot police secure an area in Mongkok district in Hong Kong cles many milestones of the Kurdish campaign against ISIS since including their wives and children. “An unbelievable mess,” the including postings to Warsaw, Johannesburg, Cairo, Moscow, on Oct. 20 as anti-government demonstrations in Hong Kong the fall of Mosul in 2014, he calls the recent troop withdrawal commander called it. “the most disastrous foreign-policy debacle of his presidency,” Baghdad and London. stretch into their fifth month. Callimachi published a screenshot from a pro-ISIS channel on adding that Trump’s comments about the situation appear to ● Jonathan Kapstein was assigned to cover the fall of the the app Telegram depicting ISIS members celebrating the libera- spit on the graves of former Kurdish allies, including dismissive Berlin Wall while Brussels regional bureau chief for Business ‘Hong Kong’ tion of their supporters at Ain Issa. Continued From Page 1 playground references. “They’ve got a lot of sand over there. So, Week magazine. In a 2016 news interview with him available “You know that game kids play on the beach? The one where there’s a lot of sand that they can play with. Let them fight their on YouTube, Kapstein highlighted the long-term impact of they spend all day building an elaborate sandcastle only to then But as protesters grew more bold, police ramped up their use own wars,” Trump stated in a press conference. that epochal event. During his 22 years overseas for Business stomp it to the ground? That’s our ISIS strategy,” Callimachi of force. Dickey recounted the president’s conflicting statements about Week he already had been bureau chief in South America, wrote. “While [ISIS] was not defeated, we had made significant In her story, she mentions a harrowing exit during a clash the Kurds, who at some points blamed “those he betrayed as if Canada, Italy, and Africa. Kapstein earned the OPC award for gains. 1000s were detained. Not after today.” between police and protesters in early October as she and her they were servants who failed him,” and at other times claiming best reporting from Latin America for a cover story on Brazil reported later that the Kurdish-led administration in interpreter, Tommy Lau, ran with respirator masks on as they credit for Kurdish successes, such as a statement to congressional and shared other OPC citations ranging from coverage of the northern Syria counted “785 people affiliated with I.S. have es- dodged bricks and Molotov cocktails, only to smash into police leaders on Oct. 16 in which he declared “I captured ISIS.” bloody and now largely forgotten Iran-Iraq Gulf War to the still caped the Ain Issa camp following shelling by Turkey.” shields and get jostled and shoved, “I crashed into a billboard, “Trump didn’t do any capturing in fact,” Dickey wrote. “The relevant issue of how the European Union is transforming the The International Crisis Group said in a recent report that saved by my skateboard helmet,” Sataline wrote. Her helmet Kurds did that.” continent. He was president of the Press Club Brussels Europe Turkish intervention in Syria could spark an ISIS resurgence, and bore a sticker with the word “PRESS” on it, and her OPC press prior to moving home to the US three years ago after 48 years warned that instability in Iraq or “spill-over of U.S.-Iranian ten- credentials hung from her neck. Despite these clear labels, an Christopher Dickey is the foreign editor of The Daily Beast, overseas. sions” could enable its comeback. officer hit her on her hand and the top of her head, and another based in Paris. Previously he was the Paris bureau chief for The ● Andrew Nagorski was born in Scotland to Polish parents, On the same day Callimachi tweeted that a Turkish airstrike pointed a baton inches from her face. Daily Beast and for Newsweek Magazine. He is the author of five moved to the United States as an infant and has rarely stopped hit a convoy of civilians, including journalists, in northeastern The OPC ID helped her to be released, shoved into a scrum nonfiction books and two novels. With the Contras (1986), Sum- moving since. He is an award-winning journalist and author Syria. Several were killed, but their identities had not been con- of journalists separate from arrested protesters. She lost track mer of Deliverance: A Memoir of Father and Son (1998); and who spent more than three decades as a foreign correspondent firmed. She included an image of a message from journalists of Tommy, the interpreter until later. He has now joined the Securing the City (2009) were chosen by as and editor for Newsweek. He served as the magazine’s bureau working with France 2 telling colleagues they were safe. OPC and an ID is on its way to Hong Kong, along with that of notable books of the year when they were published. v chief in Hong Kong, Rome, Bonn, Berlin, Warsaw, and two Callimachi later appeared on Dutch television news show another colleague, student journalist Wong Wai Ling. tours of duty in Moscow, first in the early 1980s and then from Nieuwsuur to talk about the U.S. withdrawal, which she said a Sataline outlined other, more severe cases of violence colleague compared to the fall of Saigon in 1975. “There is no 1995 to 1996. In 1982, the Soviet government, angry about against journalists, including the beating of William Pang, a doubt that what has happened this week is an enormous boon to his enterprising reporting, expelled him from the country. His ‘Rukmini Callimachi’ volunteer offering tech support for Local Press who was wear- ISIS,” she said. most recent book is 1941: The Year Germany Lost the War. Continued From Page 3 ing a clearly marked press uniform, as well as a list of abuses Visit www.andrewnagorski.com tallied by the Hong Kong Journalists Association. That organi- The Moderator will be OPC past president Deidre Depke, columnist and associate editor David Ignatius, who on the eve zation has filed a lawsuit against the city’s police commissioner the executive producer of The Takeaway, a morning radio of the pullout announcement said “Trump is opening [the] way and other officials for violating press freedom protections out- news program co-created and co-produced by Public Radio for Turkish power grab in NE Syria that is a guarantee of future lined in the city’s constitution. v International and WNYC. She joined the show after serving as bloodshed and instability. The Syria mission was a rare success managing editor of Marketplace, the business and finance pub- for US military power in the Mideast – now being squandered to lic radio program. She has been a reporter and editor in New OPC Offers appease Erdogan’s ambitions.” Ignatius lit the Candle of Remem- York for 25 years, working as senior news editor at Business Press IDs With brance this year at the OPC’s Annual Awards dinner to honor Week magazine, as the foreign editor and an assistant managing Chinese Script journalists killed in 2018, including his former colleague Jamal editor for Newsweek magazine and as the editor of Newsweek. Khashoggi. com and The Daily Beast. The OPC is pleased On Oct. 11, Callimachi rolled out a 21-part thread The program will include a presentation of photos of the to be able to that included a video that the SDF sent to reporters, showing a event by David Turnley and his brother Peter Turnley. David is offer OPC press group of ISIS prisoners escaping from the Navkur prison in Qa- Callimachi joined The New York Times in 2014 as a foreign a photographer who won the Pulitzer Prize for his work in 1989 IDs labeled with mishlo near the Syria-Turkey border. The video showed an ex- correspondent, covering Al Qaeda and ISIS. She has garnered covering covering the fall of the Berlin Wall and other revolu- “PRESS” in Chinese plosive detonation and several men running from a building. She three OPC awards including this year’s Lowell Thomas Award tions that year. He has won three OPC awards, including the characters. This new option is in addition to IDs that are cautioned at the time that the video needed further confirmation. for the podcast she hosts called “,” which also won a Robert Capa Gold Medal in 1989 for covering revolutions in available with “PRESS” in Arabic script. Both options In the thread, Callimachi listed some of the most dangerous Peabody award in the radio/podcast category in April. She won Romania and China for Black Start and the Detroit Free Press. are available for the larger government-style badges detainees now at risk of being freed, including Adrien Guihal, two 2013 OPC awards for her series of stories based on a cache Peter’s photos have been on the cover of Newsweek magazine for $40, as well as the credit-card sized press IDs. See who claimed responsibility on behalf of ISIS for the Nice at- of internal Al Qaeda documents she discovered in Mali, and is more than 40 times. He has won numerous awards, including tack which killed 87 people, Canadian Mohammed Khalifa, opcofamercia.org for more details. also a four-time Pulitzer Prize finalist. v the OPC’s Olivier Rebbot Award for best photographic reporting the English-language narrator of ISIS propaganda, and Swiss from abroad in 1989 for the Newsweek story “Ceausescu, the Islamic extremist Damien Grivat, who is linked to attacks in fall of a dictator.” Visit www.peterturnley.com. v

October 2019 October 2019 4 5 PEOPLE by Emily Brown WELCOME N E W OPC SCHOLARS the chief executive of ing Syrian war crimes, especially in as mayor of Maidan Shar in July people with albinism in Southern MEMBERS Following Daphne Psaledakis’s Media, both say Germany, who has 800,000 Syrian 2018 at age 26, but her first day was and Eastern Africa. The book launch OPC Foundation fellowship in the Re- that the deal was not refugees. filled with so much chaos that she took place on Oct. 18 in Lilongwe, Amanda Florian uters bureau in Brussels this summer, done out of financial had to leave and return nine months Malawi. Shanghai Jiao Tong Reuters has offered her a job on the necessity. “We see a OPC Governor and New York Times later. “After she arrived for work that University foreign policy team in its Washington international correspondent-at-large Cara Tallo, winner of the 2003 Waxhaw, NC lot of mergers that are July day, her office was mobbed by Student bureau. Psaledakis is the winner of done for the wrong Rod Nordland wrote a new piece angry men brandishing sticks and Lowell Thomas Award, is the new the 2019 Flora Lewis Fellowship. reason: because one or for the Times on Oct. 24 related to rocks,” writes Nordland. “She had executive producer for All Things Adam Higginbothan She graduated from the University of his recent diagnosis of a brain tumor. Considered, NPR’s flagship news Freelance two companies might to be escorted out by Afghanistan’s Author/Journalist Missouri in May with a dual degree in be desperate, or for He talks about Turkish novelist and intelligence agency, the National program. She has been with NPR for New York journalism and international studies. financial engineering,” journalist Ahmet Altan, who despite Directorate for Security, which sent a 20 years, working her way up from Psaledakis interned with Reuters in Active Resident Wang Naishadham Bankoff said to The serving a life sentence in prison squad of paramilitary officers to her a Washington desk intern in 1999. both Washington and Brussels, Bel- DAMES MICHAEL KANG, SYLVIA SANGSUK Lau Chi Ho New York Times. wrote a book titled “I will Never See rescue.” She still faces death threats, Her Lowell Thomas award was for gium, where she returned for the OPC AWARDS Freelance the World Again” that was smuggled protests, and street harassment. The her work on NPR’s “History of the Interpreter fellowship after graduating. She starts Ginger Thompson of ProPublica, OPC Governor Martin Smith out of the prison and published. latter was Nordland’s first story since Middle East” series. Hong Kong her new Reuters post in the last week winner of the OPC’s 1995 Eric and served on the panel of Colby Col- Nordland interviewed Altan before his Aug. 31 essay about discovering Student of October. OPC member Robyn Dixon, win- Amy Burger Award, won the 2019 lege’s 56th annual Elijah Parish his diagnosis by secreting questions he had a malignant brain tumor while Wong Wai Ling John Chancellor Award for Excel- Lovejoy Award, which honored 66 and answers past jailers. He wrote ner of the 2016 Madeline Dane Ross Freelance Echo Wang, the Reuters Fellowship reporting on the monsoons in India. lence in Journalism. The Columbia journalists and media workers who that while recently editing the inter- Award for her reporting on South Journalist winner in 2019, has been hired full- School of Journalism announced the lost their lives in 2018. As part of view he “recognized an affinity that OPC member Azad Essa and Sudan, has been named the Moscow Hong Kong time by Reuters in their mergers and Student award on Sept. 26. Thompson shared the award ceremony, Smith screened I hadn’t felt initially. We are both photojournalist Sorin Furcoi have bureau chief for The Washington acquisitions area. Wang had an OPC the OPC award with Gary Cohn in his PBS Frontline documentary The terminal cases – his life sentence, my turned their 2017 Al Jazeera project, Post. She had been at the Los An- Foundation fellowship in Reuters’ 1995 for their reporting on “Bat- Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, about brain tumor – and writing brings both “Killed For Their Bones: On The geles Times since 1999, where she New York bureau. talion 3-16,” a Honduran army unit the murder of Jamal Khashoggi. of us solace, for different reasons.” Trail Of The Trade In Human Body served as the bureau chief in Beijing responsible for carrying out political and Johannesburg. She begins her Suman Naishadham, 2018 winner Nordland also filed a story with Fati- Parts,” into a book, titled Out Of The assassinations and torture during the OPC member and former Treasurer work in Moscow in November. v of the H.L. Stevenson Scholarship, is ma Faizi about Zarifa Ghafari, one Shadows. Partnering with Amnesty 1980s. Abigail Pesta wrote an op-ed for now a contributor for Bloomberg Tax, of Afghanistan’s first female mayors, International, the book will be used TIME on Oct. 10 about the USA where she covers Mexican tax policy with photos by OPC member Jim as an advocacy tool in hopes of rais- UPDATES Gymnastics abuse scandal and the and cross-border trade. Previously, Huylebroek. Ghafari was elected ing awareness about the attacks on VICE acquired Refinery29, the #MeToo era. Pesta, who recently she was an intern at The Wall Street female-focused culture and lifestyle released a book about the scandal Journal, where she covered immigra- publisher, in early October. The price called The Girls, talked to 25 of tion and business news. Since joining, was not disclosed, but according to Larry Nassar’s abuse victims about she has filed stories about Mexico’s Fordham to Host Two Journalism Events CNN, sources say the deal is a mix the trauma they faced and the lack of plan to tax digital services. of stock and cash worth less than help they received. “If anyone had EVENT PREVIEW: NOV. 2 EVENT PREVIEW: NOV. 16 $500 million. “This is an expansive Tik Root, 2017 winner of the H.L. listened,” Pesta wrote, “hundreds of moment for independent media. Stevenson Scholarship, wrote a women could have been spared.” he new York State Associated Press Association, ordham university will award the annual VICE Media Group and Refinery29, story for TIME about ghost forests, Fordham University’s Communication and Media Sperber Book Prize on Nov. 16. The award is given two of the strongest independent OPC First Vice President Deborah one of the consequences of climate Studies Department, and WFUV Public Radio are for the best biography, autobiography or memoir in voices in the industry, will continue Amos, who covers the Middle East T hosting a full-day conference for journalism students, work- F change. Ghost forests, Root writes, journalism, and will this year will honor renowned investi- to build a scaled global and diversi- for NPR News, wrote a piece late are “swaths of dead, white, trees are ing reporters, and anyone interested in journalism’s vital role gative reporter Seymour Hersh. fied media company,” said VICE September about Syrian war crime created when salty water moves into in empowering our democracy. Hersh, long-time reporter for the New Yorker and New CEO Nancy Dubuc in a statement. cases in Europe. One of the people forested areas, first slowing, and The event will feature a wide array of presenters from York Times, has won nearly every prize in Journalism, Both outlets have faced financial dif- she profiled was Omar Alshogre, eventually halting, the growth of new some of the nation’s most respected media outlets including, including the OPC’s 2004 Joe and Laurie Dine Award, one ficulties in recent years, resulting in who was tortured as a political trees.” The story was published in National Public Radio, The New York Times, The Associ- Pulitzer, two National Magazine Awards, and five George several rounds of layoffs. prisoner in Syria. Alshogre was ar- partnership with Newsy, who made a ated Press, and ABC News. Sessions cover a wide range Polk Awards. From his exposure of the My Lai massacre rested in December 2012 at age 17 of topics from The Perils of Bothsideism and Covering the short documentary to pair with it. , owner of Vox and tech in Vietnam early in his career to his documenting human for protesting against the regime of 2020 Elections, to How to Spot Fakes and Deep Fakes to website , acquired New rights abuses at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq later on, Hersh Marina Villeneuve, winner of the President Bashar Assad and sent to Freedom of Information Tips and Tricks. The conference York Media, the parent company of has set the standard for reporting information in the public 2013 Irene Corbally Kuhn Scholar- Branch, 215, a military intelligence will be from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. at Fordham Lincoln New York magazine, in an all-stock interest. He is receiving the Sperber Award – named in ship, is now the New York State prison in Damascus notorious for Center campus, 12th floor lounge. Enter at 60th Street at transaction late September. The value honor of the great Murrow biographer A. M. Sperber – for government and politics reporter for “gruesome torture techniques.” Columbus Avenue. There is a small fee that covers lunch. of the acquisition has not been dis- his memoir Reporter. The Associated Press. She was previ- When he was released in June 2015, RSVP via bit.ly/FordhamJ. closed. Earlier this year, New York There will be a reception at 6:00 p.m., followed by an ously their Maine statehouse reporter, he weighed 75 pounds. His mother OPC member Beth Knobel is part of the team that is magazine laid off 16 full-time em- award ceremony and comments by Hersh. The event will a position she held since May 2016. didn’t recognize him. Now, he’s a organizing the journalism conference at Fordham, as well as ployees and 16 part-time employees, be held at Fordham University’s Lincoln Center Campus, Since starting her role in September, Syrian refugee in Sweden who’s out- the Sperber Book Prize event. Knobel worked as a journalist about 5 percent of their staff. Pamela 60th Street and Columbus Avenue, Lowenstein Hall, on the she has filed stories about the state spoken about the torture he endured. for two decades before joining the Fordham faculty in 2007. v Wasserstein, the chief executive of 12th floor lounge. budget, public finances, and Governor In the past few years, Europe has She worked in Moscow for 14 years, and was the Moscow New York Media, and Jim Bankoff, Andrew Cuomo. become the epicenter of prosecut- Bureau Chief for CBS News from 1999 to 2006. v

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The International Women’s did not disclose a reason for the ar- freedom of expression in Tanzania. “The long journey towards greater Media Foundation honored rest. One officer stayed with the staff This year’s Gwen Ifill Press Freedom progress requires confronting ideas winners of the group’s Courage in and warned them against using their Award will go to Zaffar Abbas, that challenge us,” Zuckerberg said. Journalism Awards on Oct. 22 at phones while others took Mustapha the editor of Dawn, Pakistan’s lead- “I’m here today because I believe the Newseum in Washington, DC. to his office to ask him questions. At ing daily. Abbas has led Dawn since we must continue to stand for free Winners include Lucía Pineda of least four other journalists have been 2010 during an era of frequent gov- expression.” arrested while covering nation-wide ernment pressure. This year’s dinner IMAGES) ORSAL/GETTY OSMAN Nicaragua, who was was arrested in Fifteen civilians, including two protests demanding reform, according will be chaired by Laurene Powell Left to right: Jeff Bezos of Amazon, Hatice Cengiz, fiancee of murdered December 2018 for “inciting hate journalists, have died after a Turk- to the CPJ. Jobs and Peter Lattman of the Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi and Washington Post publisher Fred and violence” after her news outlet ish air strike hit a civilian convoy reported on abuses by government Emerson Collective. Ryan attend a memorial in Istanbul on Oct. 2 to honor the one-year an- Many of Australia’s biggest in northern Syria on Oct. 13. The niversary of Khashoggi’s death. forces. She was released in June convoy was being escorted by the 2019, but suffers from medical issues news outlets blacked out their A Palestinian court in the West front pages on Oct. 21 “to highlight Bank blocked access to a total of Syrian Democratic Forces, a security the decision to pull out of Syria and Jeff Bezos and Washington Post pub- resulting from the detainment; Anna force loyal to the Kurdistan Workers’ Nimiriano of South Sudan, the only the constraints on media organiza- 51 online news sources that the allow ISIS to regroup. “What mes- lisher Fred Ryan delivered remarks tions under strict national security Palestinian Authority said it regards Party. The two journalists, Moham- sage are we sending the world?” at the one-year memorial service for female news editor in South Sudan, med Hussein Rasho and Saad Ahmed, who has endured attacks, imprison- legislation,” according to Australia’s as threats. The court released the the authors wrote. “Our U.S. troop Jamal Khashoggi, the Post columnist ABC Network. Over the past 20 list of blocked sites on Oct. 21, with were both Syrian Kurds. Rasho was a withdrawal suggests that it is okay to who was assassinated on Oct. 2, 2018 ment and routine censorship by the reporter and cameraman for Ciro TV government; Nastya Stanko and years, Australia has passed a series prosecutors saying the sites were abandon our allies, to no longer care at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul. The of laws limiting the media’s ability guilty of “attacking and denigrating and Ahmed was a reporter for Hawar about the suffering of innocents, and service was hosted by Amnesty Inter- Anna Babinets of Ukraine, who News. “Journalists have come under report on government corruption to hold the government accountable. the Palestinian Authority’s symbols” to kidnap and kill Americans abroad national, Reporters Without Borders, In June, the Australian Federal Police and “publishing content that threat- attack by the Assad regime and its al- without any accountability.” No Peace Without Justice, Turkish despite threats since the Maidan lies, the Islamic State group, and now Revolution began; and British jour- raided the home of journalist Annika ens national security and civilian Arab Media Association, and AlSharq Smethurst, who was investigating a safety.” The list includes major me- Turkish forces. We call on Turkish On Oct. 8, the retrial in an Istanbul Forum. “For journalists, carrying for- nalist Liz Sly, whose 37-year career authorities to immediately cease their court began for journalists, writers includes recent coverage of war in leaked plan to allow the government dia such as the Gaza-based Shehab ward Jamal’s legacy means not being to spy on Australians. News Agency, which has 7.5 million reckless attacks on journalists and and media workers Ahmet Altan, intimidated into silence,” said Ryan. Syria, a country where nearly 130 other civilians,” said Ignacio Miguel Mehmet Altan, Nazlı Ilıcak, journalists have been killed to date. Facebook followers, and the Quds Bezos kept his remarks short but ex- Joel Simon, executive director of Network, with 6.6 million followers. Delgado, the Middle East and North Yakup Şimşek, Fevzi Yazıcı pressed his sympathy to Khashoggi’s The Courage in Journalism Awards the Committee to Protect Journalists, Africa Representative for the CPJ. and Şükrü Tuğrul Özşengül on honor women journalists who over- The move marks the second time the widow, Hatice Cengiz. “No one should wrote an op-ed for The Washing- Palestinian Authority has blocked a terrorism charges. The country’s come obstacles to report on taboo Oct. 17 marked the two-year anniver- ever have to endure what you have,” ton Post on Oct. 21 about Donald group of websites at the same time. Supreme Court of Appeals ordered topics, work in environments hostile sary of the murder of Maltese jour- he said. Trump’s attacks on press freedom. In 2017, officials blocked 11 sites on the retrial in July. At the time, the to women and share difficult truths. nalist Daphne Caruana Galizia. He writes that Donald Trump’s “rhet- charges that they support Hamas or court ordered the continued deten- MURDERS Galizia, who reported on corruption The Newseum, a museum dedi- oric and actions” are making it more dissident politicians. tion of all defendants, except for Amanj Babany, a presenter for the difficult for the press to do their jobs in the Maltese government, was as- Mehmet Altan, who had previously Kurdish TV channel NRT, his wife, cated to journalism and freedom of sassinated in a car bomb attack in the press, announced that it will be effectively. “All of these behaviors On Oct. 16, Pakistan denied entry been released after the Constitutional Lana Muhammad (herself a Kurd- and actions empower autocratic lead- to Steven Butler, the Asia coor- the small hamlet of Bidnija, where Court decided his rights had been sat journalist), and their young son closing on Dec. 31, citing financial she lived. In July, three men were difficulties. The facility opened in its ers from the around the world who dinator of the Committee to Protect violated. More than 20 press freedom were all killed when gunmen opened are arresting and jailing journalists in Journalists. Butler flew into the La- charged with murder in connection to organizations signed a letter calling fire on the car and then fled on Oct. 16, current location in 2008, and featured the incident, but it may be more than a permanent 9/11 gallery, a Berlin record numbers,” said Simon. hore airport for a human rights con- for all defendants to be released, for according to witnesses. A few hours ference, where he was told he was a year before they faced trail. The the trial to be halted and all charges after they died, Sulaymaniyah police Wall gallery, and a memorial to CPJ’s annual International Press identity of who ordered the killing journalists who have died on the job, on an Interior Ministry “stop list” dropped due to a lack of credible reported their deaths as a suicide result- Freedom Awards and benefit din- and forced to leave the country. Joel remains unknown. Her supporters evidence. ing from an argument between Babany as well as a multitude of temporary ner will honor courageous journalists have created a makeshift memorial exhibits. Their 400,000 square-foot Simon, CPJ’s executive director, is and his wife. Babany hosted “Without from around the world in new York calling for “a full explanation of their to Galizia in Malta, which they say Press Borders,” a program that covered sen- building has been sold to Johns Hop- on Nov. 21. This year’s honorees has been repeatedly torn down. “The Freedom Partnership ran a full- kins University, who will use it for decision to bar Butler from entering sitive subjects such as marriages with include Patrícia Campos Mello, and correct this error,” saying that memorial has become a microcosm page ad highlighting the 10 most minors and violence against women. their graduate programs. When the an award-winning reporter and col- for the whole fight for justice,” said urgent cases of journalists under museum closes, its archives will be their decision is “a slap in the face to umnist at the daily Folha de S. Paulo those concerned about press freedom Rebecca Vincent, the UK bureau di- attack on Oct. 1, as identified by the A journalist was found shot to death moved to a “state-of-the-art support and an international correspondent; rector for Reporters Without Borders. One Free Press Coalition. The list center.” in the country.” in Haiti on Oct. 10 amid the country’s Neha Dixit, a freelance indepen- “It’s become, in a way, the frontier included Afgan Mukhtarli, a diabetic anti-government protests. The body Algerian police have arrested five dent journalist in India, who has Facebook founder and CEO Mark for this battle.” journalist on a hunger strike in an of Néhémie Joseph, a reporter for shed light on important human rights Zuckerberg gave a speech at Azerbaijan prison, Abduljalil al- journalists covering anti-government On Oct. 10 Diane Foley, the Radio Panic FM and Radio Méga, was protests since late September. The issues through her investigative Georgetown University on Oct. 17 Singace, a Bahraini blogger serving a discovered in his car in Mirebalais, journalism; Lucía Pineda Ubau, in which he defended the company mother of journalist James Foley, as life sentence who needs urgent medi- fifth, editor-in-chief of Le Provincial well as Art Sotloff and Shirley about 60 miles from Port-au-Prince. Bendjama Mustapha, was ar- the news director of the Nicaraguan against accusations of allowing “fake cal attention, and Jamal Khashoggi, Prior to his murder, Joseph had been broadcaster 100% Noticias, as well news.” Facebook has found itself un- Sotloff, parents of journalist Steven whose high-profile assassination rested on Oct. 23 at the office of the Joel Sotloff, penned an op-ed in reporting on the protests, speaking out privately-owned French language as Miguel Mora, the outlet’s found- der scrutiny for allowing the spread remains unresolved. against the government, and discussed er and editor; and Maxence Melo of misinformation and hate speech, The Washington Post calling for the daily in Annaba. Witnesses said police Trump administration to reconsider receiving death threats with his friends confiscated Mustapha’s computer and Mubyazi, a champion of online especially within the political sphere. and family. v October 2019 October 2019 8 9 9 Photo taken during the Raqqa operation in Syria, while Argentieri was filming the BOOKS by Emily Brown documentary “I am the Revolution.”

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ournalism has transformed considerably mid the chaos and division of the Cold War, UPCOMING since Peter Copeland started his career in 1980 United States and British intelligence opera- Jafter just four days of training, but the lessons Atives concocted an ambitious idea. Codenamed and values remain the same. In his new memoir, “Operation Gold,” the CIA and the British Secret Intel- Benedetta Argentieri EVENTS Finding the News: Adventures of a Young Reporter, ligence Force planned to build a secret tunnel into East ARGENTIERI BENEDETTA OF COURTESY Copeland takes readers through the growth of his ca- Berlin to intercept Soviet military telecommunications. Hardest story: Reporting on mass graves reer, starting from working as a night police reporter In Betrayal In Berlin: The True Story of the Cold War’s Meet the OPC Members: in Sinjar, Iraq. to becoming the bureau chief of the E.W. Scripps Most Audacious Espionage Operation, journalist Steve Thirty Company. Vogel uncovers the details of this daring mission. Q&A With Benedetta Argentieri Journalism heroes: Rukmini Callimachi, When he embarked on his first assignment, a The tunnel, which spanned almost 1,500 feet and David Foster Wallace, Marie Colvin, Tiziano Terzani. Years After building fire for the City News Bureau of Chi- cost millions of dollars, proved to be a difficult engineer- Benedetta Argentieri is an independent What first drew you to covering cago, Copeland was twenty-two years old and, ing challenge. When recounting the intricacies of the journalist and director based in New York. Iraq and Syria? While studying at Advice for journalists who want the Fall of the by his own admission, clueless. But he quickly plan, Vogel spares no details. The book contains dozens She has covered Iraq and Syria for Italian Columbia University I focused on to work overseas: Study the place, Berlin Wall learned two important tenets: get the facts, and of photos, maps, and interviews with people involved, and American publications, and directs National Security in the Middle East. A understand the culture, and most get them right. The narrative follows him from including a rare interview with George Blake, an infa- full-length documentaries. She began her few months after I graduated the so-called importantly be curious about everything. Club Quarters Chicago to Texas, where he covered the US- mous Soviet double-agent and the main character of this career as a local reporter in Italy, working Islamic State attacked Sinjar, Iraq. More Do not hang out just with colleagues, 6:00 p.m. Mexico border for the El Paso Herald-Post. story. Because of Blake, the KGB knew about the tunnel at Mediaset and then as staff writer at than 7,000 women were kidnapped and meet locals. to 7:30 p.m. He honed his craft across the world, working almost immediately, but to protect him, they allowed the Corriere della Sera. She started as a used as sex slaves. I was one of the first as a correspondent in Latin America, the Middle Allies to continue with construction unbothered. This metro reporter focusing on education and journalists to cover the story because I Favorite quote: “Whatever you want to Oct. 30 East, and Africa. In each new place he reported resulted in a massive trove of discoveries for U.S. and right wing extremism, foreign politics, knew Yazidi people in the U.S. A month do, if you want to be great at it, you have from, he had to learn the ins and outs of the country British intelligence, despite total enemy knowledge of anti-austerity protests in Europe, and later, I started reporting from Syria. to love it and be able to make sacrifices while still reporting the facts. Sometimes, though, the the tunnel. reported from Iran and Cuba. In 2013 she for it.” – Maya Angelou facts didn’t tell the whole story. “There were many more Betrayal in Berlin, with all its drama and excitement, co-directed Capulcu Voices From Gezi, a Major challenge as a journalist: As a than two ways to look at any issue,” Copeland wrote. often reads like a spy novel. Among other antics, Blake documentary on the Istanbul revolt. Later freelance, it is a great challenge getting Place you’re most eager to visit: “And being accurate or even ‘balanced’ wasn’t the same broke out of British prison and fled to the Soviet Union. that year she began studying journalism paid the right amount. Publications try to Mongolia. as being honest and true.” His struggles with journalistic and politics at Columbia University as a pay you less and less for an article, and In this case, truth is much stranger than fiction. Most over-the-top assignment: I had to ethical dilemmas are important and helpful for young Steve Vogel is a journalist who worked at The Sanpaolo fellow. sometimes we risk our lives to cover a story. follow a group of protesters against the journalists to read about. Washington Post for more than two decades. He is the Hometown: Milan, Italy. high-speed train project in the mountains Copeland spends some time comparing journalism author of Through the Perilous Fight and The Pentagon: Best journalism advice received: “Just of Northern Italy. They clashed with of the past to the new era of journalism brought about A History. Education: University of Manchester keep looking for the story. Don’t give up, police in the woods. by the Internet, but he never condescends to young (BA), Columbia University (MA, you will find it.” reporters. “The talent and journalism). A most common mistake you’ve seen: courage necessary to un- Worst experience as a journalist: Believing you are the story or, even cover investigative stories Languages: English, Italian, Spanish. When I covered a group of protesters worse, that you are the only one who are not different because in Northern Italy who clashed with the understands the reality and you never First job in journalism: I started as a of the Internet,” he wrote. police in the woods. It was terrifying doubt yourself. freelance writer for a travel magazine that People have to adapt to the since the police aimed at journalists didn’t have the budget to send me around. new landscape, but good with cameras. On the same note, in Country you most want to return to: Iran. journalism still requires the Countries reported from: All over 2013 I covered the protests at Gezi Park, Istanbul. I was shooting a documentary. I grit and scrappiness it has Europe, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Syria, Twitter handle: @benargentieri v always has. Turkey, Lebanon, Cuba. thought I was at a safe distance from the Peter Copeland is a police, but when they attacked protesters, journalist and coauthor When and why did you join the OPC: within seconds they got very close. I ran of four books, including I joined OPC in 2015. I thought it was into a hotel and they ran after us. In the Living With Our Genes and important to be part of a network of end, we made it out safely, though it was The Science of Desire. v established journalists and freelancers. among the most terrifying experience of my life. Want to add to the OPC’s collection of When traveling, you like to … chat Q&As with members? Please contact with people, visit markets, and watch the [email protected]. sunrise.

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