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Dangerous and Challenging Reporting Honored By THE MONTHLY NEWSLETTER OF THE OVERSEAS PRESS CLUB OF AMERICA, NEW YORK, NY • May 2016 Dangerous and Challenging Reporting Honored by OPC tion – a tradition embod- EVENT RECAP ied by the giants of our By Trish Anderton profession, who dared to Foreign correspondents gathered challenge the world to to celebrate a year of powerful re- be better.” porting on the world’s most pressing The impacts of ter- issues at the Overseas Press Club’s rorism and the plight of Annual Awards Dinner on April 28. refugees were among The pioneering PBS documen- the biggest stories of the tary series FRONTLINE won two year. awards, and its founder, David Fan- “I would like to ded- Steve Moore ning, was honored with the Presi- icate this award to every dent’s Award for lifetime achieve- OPC President Marcus Mabry presents the single refugee I came President’s Award to David Fanning. ment. The Associated Press, the across last year – people spoke about their struggle to capture International Consortium of Inves- oppressed by wars and social in- the moral complexity of the story’s tigative Journalists, Foreign Policy, justice,” said Mauricio Lima, win- landscape. Reuters and The New York Times ner of the John Faber Award. Lima “I believe that reporting this se- also took home multiple prizes. shared the honor with three New ries was not just about numbers or “This work is more vital every York Times colleagues – Sergey confirming the fear that is so easy day even as it is more dangerous Ponomarev, Daniel Etter and OPC to feel when we write about jihadi and yet we – you – do it every day,” member Tyler Hicks – for their groups,” she said. “For me it was re- said OPC President Marcus Mabry, photographs of Syrian refugees. He ally about the insight we got into the opening the festivities at the Manda- went on to speak with obvious emo- lives of very normal people who get rin Oriental Hotel in Manhattan. tion about the Majid family, who caught up in chaos: a young man so “You confront slaveholders and “accepted for 29 days a stranger desperate to feed his family that he corporations that abandon their own with a camera as part of their fami- would take a job at an ISIS-run gas ideals. You confront governments ly” while they traveled from Greece plant or a courageous aide worker and you confront terrorists in the to Sweden to seek asylum. who keeps fueling his drills with field – and sometimes even in our The Best Investigative Reporting ISIS oil so he can pull victims out of offices,” he added. “In carrying out Award went to Erika Solomon, Sam bombing wreckage.” Solomon said our mission and adapting it for these Jones, Ahmad Mhidi and Guy Cha- she hoped the series succeeded in times, we continue a proud tradi- zan of the Financial Times for the showing “how so many people are series, “ISIS, Inc.” Erika Solomon Inside. (Continued on Page 3) Book Night Preview: ‘Nazi Hunters’...2 OPC Book Night: Garrels’ ‘Putin Country’ Recap: World Press Freedom Day.....2 shall Project and former Moscow Call for OPC Board Nominations........3 EVENT PREVIEW: June 7 bureau chief of The New York Times. Annual Awards Dinner Photos......4-5 The OPC is pleased to host a book Putin Country is based on more OPC Award Winners........................6-7 night for Putin Country: A Journey than two decades of reporting by People Column.............................8-9 into the Real Russia, a conversation Garrels in Russia – in particular her Press Freedom Update.................10 with author Anne Garrels, former frequent and lengthy visits to Che- Q&A: Kim Hjelmgaard....................11 NPR Moscow bureau chief, and Bill lyabinsk, a gritty, military-industrial New Books....................................12 Keller, editor-in-chief of The Mar- (Continued on Page 2) (Continued From Page 1) Book Night: ‘Nazi Hunters’ center a thousand miles east EVENT PREVIEW: June 7 of Moscow. Her stories from Chelyabinsk in the Russian The OPC will celebrate the publication of OPC mem- heartland help illuminate the ber Andrew Nagorski’s latest book, The Nazi Hunters, on aftershocks of the collapse of Wednesday, May 18 at the offices of Marketplace at 747 the Soviet Union and the rise of Vladimir Putin. Third Ave. (47th Street) at 6:00 p.m. OPC Secretary De- The program will be idre Depke, who worked with Nagorski at Newsweek, will held from 6:30 p.m. to 7:30 moderate. Nagorski served as Newsweek’s bureau chief in p.m. at Club Quarters, with Hong Kong, Moscow, Rome, Bonn, Warsaw and Berlin a reception at 6:00 p.m. and is the author of many books. To RSVP, contact Eva Click here to RSVP for the Fryscak at: [email protected]. ‘Putin Country’ Book Night. Panel Reflects on ‘Shifting’ Industry on World Press Freedom Day one-third are killed while pursu- “We live in a time of rising jour- EVENT RECAP ing stories. Ninety percent are local nalistic peril, but also we live in a By Chad Bouchard journalists reporting in their home time of limited resources, when the As part of World Press Freedom countries, and 90 percent are killed business models are challenged and Day on May 3, the OPC joined The with impunity – with no prosecu- when how we’re going to sustain GroundTruth Project and Freedom tion or resolution to the crime. journalism is a big question on the House for a panel discussion on the A report from Freedom House table.” need for safety amid rising risks to released on the same day found that He lauded the Global Safety Prin- journalists around the world. only 13 percent of the world’s popu- ciples and Practices, a movement Charles Sennott, founder lation enjoys a free press. started by GroundTruth, the OPC and and executive director of The Sennott spoke about shifts in the other organizations in 2014 to foster GroundTruth Project, told attendees industry that have caused media to worldwide protection standards for at the International House in New rely more heavily on freelancers. freelancers. York that on average a journalist is He called on news organizations to During a discussion, Sennott killed somewhere in the world ev- shoulder more responsibility for giv- asked veteran ABC News corre- ery two weeks. Two-thirds of those ing the freelancers they depend on spondent Bob Woodruff, who was killed are murdered outright and training, safety and support. (Continued on Page 11) OVERSEAS PRESS CLUB OF AMERICA • BOARD OF GOVERNORS PRESIDENT ACTIVE BOARD Scott Gilmore Paul Moakley ASSOCIATE BOARD PAST PRESIDENTS Marcus Mabry Jacqueline Albert- International Columnist Deputy Director MEMBERS EX-OFFICIO U.S. Lead Simon Maclean’s Magazine Photography and Brian I. Byrd Michael Serrill U.S. Bureau Chief Visual Enterprise Program Officer David A. Andelman Twitter Moments Politique Internationale TIME magazine Peter S. Goodman NYS Health John Corporon FIRST VICE PRESIDENT Hannah Allam European Economic Robert Nickelsberg Foundation Allan Dodds Frank Calvin Sims Foreign Affairs Correspondent Freelance Alexis Gelber The New York Times President and CEO Correspondent Photojournalist Bill Collins William J. Holstein McClatchy Director, Public & Marshall Loeb International House Newspapers Charles Graeber Mary Rajkumar International Enterprise Business Affairs Larry Martz Freelance Journalist Ford Motor Company Roy Rowan SECOND VICE PRESIDENT Deborah Amos and Author Editor Abigail Pesta Correspondent The Associated Press Larry Smith Freelance Journalist NPR Emma Daly Richard B. Stolley Steve Herman Lara Setrakian Communications Molly Bingham Bureau Chief Co-Founder & CEO Director Southest Asia News Deeply EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR THIRD VICE PRESIDENT President & CEO Human Rights Watch Patricia Kranz Pancho Bernasconi Voice of America OrbMedia, Inc. Martin Smith Vice President/News President Daniel Sieberg OFFICE MANAGER Getty Images Rukmini Callimachi Anjali Kamat Rain Media Foreign Correspondent Global Head Boots R. Duque Correspondent of Media Outreach TREASURER Fault Lines Liam Stack The New York Times Al Jazeera English Breaking News Google EDITOR Tim Ferguson Reporter Chad Bouchard Editor Anupreeta Das Azmat Khan The New York Times Minky Worden Forbes Asia Reporter Director of Global Wall Street Journal Investigative Reporter BuzzFeed News Charles Wallace Initiatives OPC Financial Writer SECRETARY Chris Dickey Human Rights Watch ISSN-0738-7202 Deidre Depke Foreign Editor Dan Klaidman Vivienne Walt Copyright © 2015 New York Bureau Chief The Daily Beast, Deputy Editor Correspondent Over seas Press Club Marketplace Paris Yahoo News TIME and FORTUNE of America 40 West 45 Street, New York, NY 10036 USA • Phone: (212) 626-9220 • Fax: (212) 626-9210 • Website: opcofamerica.org OPC Bulletin • May 2016 • Page 2 CALL FOR 2016 BOARD NOMINATIONS The Nominating Committee is now accepting nominations of candidates for the 2016 Board of Governors’ election.This year, the membership will elect nine (9) Active members of the board and three (3) Associate members to begin two- year terms. Candidates are requested to file a statement of candidacy, which should combine an overview of the candidate’s qualifications and a sense of what one might contribute to the OPC Steve Moore board. Jason Rezaian of The Washington Post lights The OPC is only as strong as the board of the Candle of Concern. girectors who guide it, and it is our goal to elect (Continued From Page 1) girectors who reflect the great diversity of experi- ence of the OPC’s membership. not simply criminals or victims: they’re just the real hu- The deadline to file your candidacy is man face of war – people with impossible choices.” Monday, May 23, 2016. Please send nomina- For some winners, that landscape of impossible tions to Brian Byrd at [email protected]. choices is also home. “My country is dying,” said Najibullah Quraishi of attention.
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