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THE MONTHLY NEWSLETTER OF THE OVERSEAS PRESS CLUB OF AMERICA, NEW YORK, NY • April/May 2013 Brokaw Receives Standing Ovation at Awards Dinner mie Doran arrived EVENT RECAP: APRIL 24 wearing a tartan kilt by Aimee Vitrak and Fabio Bucci- The past year was just as daunt- arelli wore aviator ing in terms of press freedom and sunglasses, but they its toll on journalists and journalism were award winners as in years past, but the mood in the so shaking up the room managed to be festive. Per- status quo seemed a haps journalists have grown numb part of their job and to the bad news, or at least decided gave a rebel quality to honor those journalists who were to the room.

tenacious and even lucky enough The candle that is Michael Dames lit at the beginning to walk away from scenes in Syria, accepts the OPC President’s Award , Southern , Nigeria, of the dinner hon- launched an internet campaign free- Honduras, and many ors those journalists other dangerous and difficult places who are killed or missing in action. jamesfoley.org to raise awareness to tell the story, when so many of This year’s tribute was again a mov- for their son’s situation and to urge their compatriots have not. ing one with Diane and John Foley the Syrian government to release The 74th OPC Annual Awards lighting the candle for all journal- him. The Foleys are all-too familiar Dinner started on the thirty-fifth ists and in particular, for their son to concerns of journalist safety and floor of the Mandarin Oriental James Foley who has been missing press freedom as James was also where guests mingled around two in action in Syria since Thanksgiv- taken for a month by the Libyan well-stocked bars, rounds of hors ing Day 2012. The Foley family has (Continued on Page 3) d’oeuvres and celebratory image panels that honored this year’s recip- ients, all courtesy of party sponsor, War Portrayed Beyond the Camera Lenovo. The room became loud and EVENT PREVIEW: MAY 15 elbow-to-elbow with people dressed in tuxedos and cocktail dresses. Ja- Photojournalists on War, the much anticipated, ground breaking visual and oral history of America’s nine-year conflict in the will publish on May 15 with a book Inside. . . launch event at 25CPW Gallery in Awards Dinner Photos...... 2, 6 New York presented by author Mi- chael Kamber, The University of Awards and Winners...... 4-5 Texas Press and the OPC. accounts by the world’s top news photographers, Kamber, a writer People...... 7-12 A reception and book signing will take place at 6:30 p.m. followed by a and photojournalist for more than 25 People Remembered...... 12-13 discussion at 7:30 p.m. with Kamber, years, interviewed 39 colleagues for Dexter Filkins, and photojournalists the book, many from leading news New Members...... 13 featured in the book at 25CPW Gal- organizations like Agence - Presse, The Associated Press, the Mikhail Beketov Remembered...... 14 lery in New York. With visceral, previously unpub- Guardian, the Times, New Books...... 16 lished photographs and eyewitness (Continued on Page 15) OPC Awards Dinner Photos by Michael Dames

NBC colleagues , left, and Tom Brokaw.

Fabio Bucciarelli tests his for authenticity.

After-party revelers from left: OPC board member Toni Reinhold, OPC members Andrew Lluberes and Edie Lederer and OPC Executive Director Sonya K. Fry.

OVERSEAS PRESS CLUB OF AMERICA • BOARD OF GOVERNORS PRESIDENT SECRETARY Deidre Depke Santiago Lyon ASSOCIATE BOARD PAST PRESIDENTS Michael Serrill Jonathan Dahl Executive Editor VP and Director of ­MEMBERS EX-OFFICIO Assistant Managing Former Editor-in-Chief The Daily Beast Photography Brian Byrd David A. Andelman Editor Smart Money Associated Press Program Officer John Corporon Bloomberg Markets Adam B. Ellick NYS Health Allan Dodds Frank ACTIVE BOARD *Video and Print Marcus Mabry Foundation Alexis Gelber FIRST VICE PRESIDENT Jacqueline Albert- Journalist Editor at Large William J. Holstein Tim Ferguson Simon International Herald Emma Daly Editor U.S. Bureau Chief * on leave attending Tribune Communications Larry Martz Forbes Politique Internationale Harvard Kennedy School Director Roy Rowan John Martin Leonard Saffir SECOND VICE PRESIDENT Amar C. Bakshi Arlene Getz Writer/Editor Larry Smith Abigail Pesta JD/MBA student Editor-in-Charge, Media Sarah Lubman Richard B. Stolley Freelance Journalist Yale University Thomson Romesh Ratnesar Partner Deputy Editor Brunswick Group EXECUTIVE THIRD VICE PRESIDENT Rebecca Azmat Khan Bloomberg DIRECTOR Toni Reinhold Blumenstein Digital Producer Businessweek Minky Worden Sonya K. Fry Editor in Charge, Deputy Editor in Chief PBS - Frontline Director of Global New York Desk Tom Squitieri Initiatives EDITOR Reuters Evelyn Leopold Freelance Journalist Human Rights Watch Aimee Vitrak Paul Brandus Independent Journalist TREASURER West Wing Report United Nations Seymour Topping Abi Wright OPC Dorinda Elliott Emeritus Director ISSN-0738-7202 Global Affairs Editor Howard Chua-Eoan Dafna Linzer Professor of Alfred I. duPont – ­Copyright © 2002 Conde Nast Traveler News Director Managing Editor International Over­seas Press Club of Time MSNBC.com Journalism Awards America Columbia University 40 West 45 Street, New York, NY 10036 USA • Phone: (212) 626-9220 • Fax: (212) 626-9210 • Website: opcofamerica.org OPC Bulletin • April/May 2013 • Page 2 (Continued From Page 1: Awards Dinner Recap) government in April/May 2011. The Hal Boyle Award winner submit- ted her work to the judges anonymously, one of two winners of the night to do so. (The other was CNN for the David Kaplan Award, which remains “anony- mous.”) Upon winning, the Los Ange- les Times identified the journalist of the winning entries to be Raja Abdulrahim. Judge coordinator Arlene Getz wrote in the introduction to this year’s winners, “Not since the Cold War have there been ‘Anonymous’ entries to the OPC awards. In 1969, the Robert Capa Gold Medal Michael Dames went to an anonymous Czech photogra- Diane and John Foley lit the candle to honor those journalists who were killed or went missing in action in 2012. pher who covered his country’s upheav- over a decade. If you would have asked me do you be- als. Only after the collapse of the was lieve you’ll be in New York getting an award for wed- the name of the photographer revealed.” Abdulrahim ding pictures, I would have said it would never happen,” took the award and went off stage without giving an acceptance speech. It was unclear if her leaving with- he said as the audience laughed. “This is the first time out speaking was intentional for her safety or a shyness I’ve won something for work that is happy and it’s very that gave way last minute, but it turned out that it was important for me that we can show from the same office only a misunderstanding at the podium and she was the conflict, but also the other side of life in Israel.” called back up to accept her award and address the audi- Another astonishing winner was Alberto Arce for ence. “I’d rather sneak into Syria than talk in front of a the Robert Spiers Benjamin Award for reporting from crowd,” Abdulrahim said. Latin America. Arce is a one-man reporting team for the She relayed an experience she had a year before Associated Press in Honduras, one of the most violent when she spent the night in a Jordanian jail trying to countries in the world. “Everybody says I’m brave, but get into Syria and was caught by a Jordanian soldier. I think my editors are brave because they invest in hav- “Aside from having a rifle shoved in my face, it was a ing a person in a place where nobody cares,” he said. pretty easy experience,” she said. She shared a cell that “The challenge for me is to put a small village on the night with a brothel madam who said that if she was mosquito coast on your map.” taken to jail, don’t go to cell block 3, those women are Tom Brokaw, intrepid NBC News anchor from 1982 dangerous, they will cut you. “Luckily the next day I to 2004, received the President’s Award with a standing was released thanks to help from the U.S. Consulate,” ovation. “These are evenings of renewal for our pro- she said. “But [my experience is] one of the most minor fession,” he said. “I was struck tonight of the sense of of hazards that journalists face when reporting on Syria. nobility, honor, courage and importance that these win- The challenges that we face in Syria underscore what ners represent.” He said that the winners, hailing from the activists that we rely on face daily. The activists a varied background, men and women, reflect a chang- sometimes look at us and say, ‘we know why we’re here ing tide in a type of reporter that was not on the ground but why are you here?’ And I think for any journalist twenty years ago. Technology and “borderless” states who’s inside Syria and sees the situation and desperate have excelerated the news cycle and what it means to be need for coverage on the ground knows that answer.” a foreign correspondent. “We were reminded last week Thomas Nast Award winner Rob Rogers from the in Boston that it is a world without borders. Where is Pittsburgh Post-Gazette put together a slideshow of his overseas? We are caught up in wars that are stateless. work and wanted to illustrate how at odds cartoonists we are also dealing with other profound changes in the can be with editors and so he drew different brains. On economic make up of this world — smaller planet with the first illustration, Rogers showed that the largest part many more people. I find people have an enormous ap- of the cartoonist’s brain is “toilet humor,” whereas the petite for wanting to know not only what happened but smallest part of the editor’s brain is “sense of humor.” what it means.” The Feature Photography Award was won by Oded Lenovo gave all winners a laptop that turns into a Balilty of the Associated Press for his photos of an ul- tablet. William J. Holstein served as dinner chair and tra orthodox wedding outside of Tel Aviv. “I’ve been filled the room to capacity selling tables and Arlene covering the Israeli-Palestinian conflict for the AP for Getz of Thomson Reuters served as Head Judge.

OPC Bulletin • April/May 2013 • Page 3 2012 AWARDS AND WINNERS HAL BOYLE AWARD FEATURE PHOTOGRAPHY CITATION: Best newspaper, news service or AWARD Pamela Yates, Peter Kinoy, Paco online reporting from abroad Best feature photography pub- deOnis Raja Abdulrahim lished in any medium on an inter- Skylight Pictures / PBS–POV Series national theme “Granito: How to Nail a Dictator” “Inside Syria” Oded Balilty CITATIONS: Associated Press ED CUNNINGHAM AWARD Staff of the Associated Press “An Ultra Orthodox Wedding” Best magazine reporting from “Inside the Syrian Resistance” abroad LOWELL THOMAS AWARD Russ Rymer with photographer Best radio news or interpretation Lynn Johnson The New York Times of international affairs National Geographic Magazine “Wal-Mart Abroad” Brian Reed, Habiba Nosheen, “Vanishing Languages” Sebastian Rotella, Ana Arana CITATIONS: BOB CONSIDINE AWARD WBEZ’s This American Life with Jon Lee Anderson Best newspaper, news service or ProPublica and Fundacion MEPI online interpretation of interna- “The Syrian Tragedy” “What Happened at Dos Erres” tional affairs CITATION: Evan Osnos Jeremy Page Kelly McEvers, Deborah Amos, The New Yorker The Wall Street Journal Douglas Roberts “Boss Rail” “A Murder Shakes China” National Public Radio CITATION: “Syria” Liz Sly THOMAS NAST AWARD Best cartoons on international DAVID KAPLAN AWARD “” Best TV spot news reporting from affairs abroad Rob Rogers ROBERT CAPA GOLD MEDAL Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Anonymous CNN Correspon- AWARD CITATION: dent and Photojournalist, Best published photographic re- Signe Wilkinson porting from abroad requiring ex- Tamara Hunt, Tony Maddox, Philadelphia Daily News and ceptional courage and enterprise Parisa Khosravi, Deborah The Philadelphia Inquirer Rayner and CNN International Fabio Bucciarelli Agence France-Presse Newsgathering Staff MORTON FRANK AWARD “Battle to Death” CNN Best international business news CITATION: “Damascus Undercover” reporting in magazines Manu Brabo CITATION: Michael Riley, Ashlee Vance Associated Press , Patricia Shevlin, Eliza- beth Palmer, Heather Abbott, Justine with Zoe Schneeweiss “Syria’s Civil War” Redman, Andy Stevenson Bloomberg Businessweek CBS Evening News “It’s Not Paranoia If They’re OLIVIER REBBOT AWARD “Shot by the , Malala’s Stealing Your Secrets: Inside the Best photographic reporting from School” Chinese Boom in Corporate Es- abroad in magazines or books pionage” Samuel James EDWARD R. MURROW AWARD CITATION: Freelance for Harper’s Magazine Best TV interpretation or docu- Brett Forrest “The Water of My Land” mentary on international affairs Bloomberg Businessweek Scott Pelley, Jeff Fager, “Empire at the End of the Earth” THE JOHN FABER AWARD Bill Owens, Henry Schuster Best photographic reporting from CBS News – 60 Minutes abroad in newspapers or news “Killing Bin Laden” services Bernat Armangue Associated Press “Conflict in Gaza”

OPC Bulletin • April/May 2013 • Page 4 2012 AWARDS AND WINNERS MALCOLM FORBES AWARD JOE and LAURIE DINE AWARD BEST MULTIMEDIA NEWS Best international business news Best international reporting in PRESENTATION reporting in newspapers, news any medium dealing with human Best use of video, interactive services or online rights. graphics and slideshows to re- Sebastian Rotella, Ana Arana, port on international news The New York Times Brian Reed, Habiba Nosheen Thomas Jennings, Sabrina “China’s Secret Fortunes” ProPublica, Fundacion MEPI and Shankman, Travis Fox, James CITATION: WBEZ’s This American Life Milward, Pietro Gagliano, Ryan Liam Vaughan, Gavin Finch, Andrea “Massacre, Memory and Justice Andal, Ashlee Lougheed, Sam Tan, Katie Linsell, Jesse Westbrook, in Guatemala” Bailey, Andrew Golis Lindsay Fortado, Joshua Gallu CITATION: Based on reporting by Sebastian Bloomberg News Alissa J. Rubin Rotella of ProPublica “Libor: The Biggest Bank Scandal” The New York Times WGBH/Frontline & Secret Loca- “Afghanistan’s Vulnerable Women” tion CORNELIUS RYAN AWARD “A Perfect Terrorist: David Cole- Best non-fiction book on interna- WHITMAN BASSOW AWARD man Headley’s Web of Betrayal” tional affairs Best reporting in any medium CITATION: Peter Bergen on international environmental Rick Loomis, Kenneth R, Weiss and Crown Publishing Group issues Staff of the Los Angeles Times Manhunt: The Ten-Year Search Peter Gwin with photographer Los Angeles Times for Bin Laden from 9/11 to Brent Stirton “Beyond 7 Billion” Abbottabad National Geographic Magazine “Rhino Wars” BEST INVESTIGATIVE MADELINE DANE ROSS CITATION: REPORTING AWARD International Consortium of Investi- Best investigative reporting in Best international reporting in the gative Journalists any medium on an international print medium or online showing a The Center for Public Integrity story “Plunder in the Pacific” concern for the human condition Michael Forsythe, Shai Os- Mark Jenkins with photographer ter, Natasha Khan, Dune Law- ROBERT SPIERS BENJAMIN Lynn Johnson rence, Ben Richardson, Henry AWARD National Geographic Magazine Sanderson Best reporting in any medium on “The Healing Fields” Bloomberg News Latin America CITATION: “Revolution to Riches” Alan Katz and Alberto Arce Associated Press Michelle Wiese Bockmann BEST COMMENTARY Bloomberg News “Honduras” Best commentary on “High Seas Injustice” CITATION: Nick Miroff and William Booth international news in any medium DAVID A. ANDELMAN and The Washington Post David Ignatius The Washington Post PAMELA TITLE AWARD “’s Middle Class” Best international reporting in the “Foreign Affairs” CITATION: broadcast media showing a con- Nicholas D. Kristof cern for the human condition The New York Times Najibullah Quraishi and Jamie Columns on Human Rights Doran WGBH Frontline and Clover Films “Opium Brides” CITATION: Tim Sandler, Chris Hansen, Kristen Powers, Allan Maraynes NBC News – Dateline “The Hansen Files: Trial and Error”

OPC Bulletin • April/May 2013 • Page 5 OPC Awards Dinner Photos by Michael Dames

Former OPC Presidents Allan Dodds Frank, left, and Bill Holstein, flank current OPC President Michael Serrill at the pre-party sponsored by Lenovo.

At the pre-party from left: Tom Gjelten, Emma Daly and Rick MacArthur

Right: OPC Foundation board member Kate McLeod, far right, with three Jerry Flint foundation scholarship winners from left: Rachel Will, Natalie Bailey and Valerie Hopkins, with Tom Brokaw.

From left: Larry Martz, Bob Sullivan and Evelyn Leopold share a toast.

Former OPC President Roy Rowan, left, speaks to Tom Brokaw. After-party from left: OPC Foundation Executive Director Jane Reilly, OPC Foundation President and Dinner Chairman Bill Holstein, wife Rita Sevell and OPC Executive Director Sonya Fry.

OPC Bulletin • April/May 2013 • Page 6 PEOPLE... by Susan Kille [email protected]

OPC SCHOLARS He was originally a Russian major their reports on how Wal-Mart used Ben Hubbard, who won the at Columbia University and has had widespread bribery to dominate 2007 Stan Swinton scholarship from two Moscow internships, one as an the market in Mexico; The Times the OPC Foundation, wrote the lead OPC Foundation intern with the AP received a staff award in the Ex- story in The New York Times on and the other with The New York planatory Reporting category for its April 28. The story established that Times. penetrating look into business prac- the armed opposition in Syria to the tices by Apple and other technology government of President Bashar al- James Matthews, who received companies that illustrated the darker Assad has been radicalized with the OPC Foundation’s 2010 Em- side of a changing global economy. many fighting brigades led by manuel R. Freedman scholarship, he Both photo awards were for overseas extremists and Islamic law being won the Best First Book prize from coverage: the Feature Photography applied in rebel-held areas. Without the Association for Spanish and Por- award went to Javier Manzano, a tuguese Historical Studies. His book, moderate or secular rebel forces, the freelancer, for an image distributed Reluctant Warriors: Republican finds itself with tough by Agence France-Presse of two Popular Army and policy choices and few natural allies. Syrian rebel soldiers tensely guard- Nationalist Army Hubbard recently began reporting ing their position as beams of light Conscripts in the from the Middle East for The Times, stream through bullet holes in a near- , after having worked in the area for by metal wall and Breaking News The Associated Press. 1936-1939, was previewed in the Photography honors went to a team September 2012 from The AP – Rodrigo Abd, Manu Bulletin. Brabo, Narciso Contreras, Khalil A translation Hamra and Muhammed Muheisen in Spanish will be — for their compelling coverage of out soon. Judges the civil war in Syria. wrote: “Matthews’ work is meticu- lously researched and engagingly written with verve and wit.” Paul Sonne, center, and WSJ col- leagues at the 2012 Awards Dinner. WINNERS Paul Sonne, winner of the Stellar foreign reporting had its 2008 Swinton scholarship, was the usual showcase in this year’s Pulitzer lead writer of a front-page story Prizes. Three of the four awards won Manzano’s award-winning shot. in The Wall Street Journal in late by The New York Times were for for- March about major beer companies eign news: David Barboza earned selling cheap, potent beer to the International Award for his ex- OPC member and CNN chief Africans. He won the Malcolm posure of corruption at high levels international correspondent Chris- Forbes award for best international of the Chinese government, includ- tiane Amanpour was honored business reporting in newspapers ing billions in se- in April with the Arab American in 2012 for “Censorship, Inc.,” a cret wealth owned Institute Foundation’s first Anthony front-page series that described by relatives of Shadid Award for Excellence in how , , Libya and Syria the prime minis- Journalism, named for The New used technology from Western ter. Barboza won York Times correspondent and OPC and Chinese companies to spy on the triple crown member who lost his life last year dissidents, conduct surveillance of journalism while on assignment in Syria. The and track mobile phone use. During awards this year: University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Center for Journalism Ethics also a visit to New York, where he the OPC Mal- Barboza attended OPC’s Tchotchke Party on com Forbes, the named an award for Shadid and March 8, he said he is moving from Polk and the Pulitzer. it was awarded in April to the London to the Journal’s Moscow David Barstow and Alejan- Milwaukee Journal Sentinel’s Mark bureau, which will put him in his dra Xanic von Bertrab won In- Johnson, a -winning academic and linguistic sweet spot. vestigative Reporting honors for science reporter.

OPC Bulletin • April/May 2013 • Page 7 A journalist in Marathi, India, group hacked into accounts at The the groups said the administration in March returned an investigative Guardian in London and sent bogus should “publicly disclose key journalism award, citing the failure Tweets that included anti-Israeli targeted killing standards and of his story to change government sentiments, “Long Live Syria” and criteria; ensure that U.S. lethal policy. The journalist, Kishor the “Syrian Electronic Army Was force operations abroad comply Naik Gaonkar, chief reporter for Here.” In both cases, experts said with international law; enable the daily Goa Doot, received the hackers gained entry in “phishing” meaningful Congressional oversight Lambert Mascarenhas Award for his attempts that sent employees e-mails and judicial review; and ensure investigative series on “A plot to sell with malicious links or attachments effective investigations, tracking Tiracol village.” In a move opposed that, once clicked, allowed access to and response to civilian harm. by local residents, almost the entire corporate systems. village had been purchased to be the Domenico Quirico, an experi- site of a golf course. “A failed story Anonymous, the controversial enced for Italy’s is not worthy of an award,” Gaonkar hacking collective, has raised nearly la Stampa newspaper, has not been said. $55,000 to fund the development heard from since April 9, three days of its crowdsourced news platform, after he entered Syria from Leba- Hungary’s right-wing govern– Your Anon News. According to non. After a search was unable to ment reversed itself in March after the group, the site will include locate Quirico the paper announced it faced fierce criticism for giving its feeds for livestream events “as the disappearance top state journalism award to Ferenc they are taking place instead of the on April 29 in the Szaniszlo, a presenter for the pro- 10-second sound bites provided by hope that public- government Echo TV channel who the corporate media.” Money to be ity would turn up is notorious for spreading Jewish used for development and hosting leads, said Ma- conspiracy theories and describing fees was collected on the fundraising rio Calabresi, the the country’s Roma minority as site Indiegogo. Contributors were paper’s editor-in- “human monkeys.” After wide awarded Anonymous memorabilia chief. Four Italian protests, Szaniszlo agreed to the including mugs, t-shirts and hoodies. journalists were Quirico government’s request that he return With the court-martial of Pfc. kidnapped in Syria in early April the award. Bradley Manning expected to begin and released after a little more than a week in captivity. PRESS FREEDOM in June, journalists are concerned about the lack of public access to A group called the Syrian French photographer Pierre Electronic Army hacked into court documents, such as transcripts and court orders. The U.S. military’s Borghi returned to on April accounts of major news 14 after being kidnapped and held organizations. Newsrooms and Wall highest court ruled 2-3 on April 16 that it had no power to consider captive for four months in Afghani- Street were shaken April 23 when stan. Borghi had hackers using The AP account sent media challenges to military judges’ rulings on access to courts martial. been working in a false report that President Barack Afghanistan from Obama was injured in an explosion The New York-based Center for 2011 to 2012 for at the . In minutes, Constitutional Rights, which had the French charity the Dow Jones Industrial Average sued seeking access to documents group Solidarités dropped 143 points. A prompt in the ongoing case, said it was International and correction was made, the market considering an appeal to civilian had moved to Ka- rebounded and the AP account courts. Manning is charged with bul last year with Borghi was suspended until security violating the Espionage Act by hopes of establish- was increased. A week later, the releasing secret government files to WikiLeaks. ing himself as a photographer. He was released in Wardak province, Leading human rights organ- just outside the capital. izations, including Human Rights Watch, the American Civil Liberties The Mexican federal government Union and , must do more to fully implement re- wrote President cent institutional measures designed in April calling for an end to the to improve journalist safety, accord- The supposed Syrian Electronic secrecy surrounding the use of ing to a report released April 11 by Army logo from its Facebook page. military drones. In a nine-page letter, the International Press Institute (IPI)

OPC Bulletin • April 2012 • Page 8 and the World Association of News- said that the assailants papers and News Publishers (WAN- — some wearing mili- IFRA). The report also reveals that tary uniforms — also Mexican state governments are a damaged computers and major obstacle to press freedom in office furniture. They Mexico through their failure to pros- used batons and knives, ecute crimes against journalists and but not their pistols. CPJ the efforts of some state govern- ranks Iraq among the ments to control information through most dangerous places the harassment and intimidation of in the world for journal- journalists. ists. Mexican journalists hold a protest for justice in Regina Martinez’s case in Veracruz, April 28. The Committee to Protect Jour- his confession coerced. They say nalists (CPJ) is demanding that Mex- Martínez’s critical reporting on state ico investigate the disappearance of officials was the likely motive. On Sergio Landa Rosado, a crime re- April 14, a report by Jorge Carrasco porter in the Gulf coast state of Vera- in Proceso seriously questioned cruz, where 12 journalists have been the state’s case against Hernández. slain or gone missing since 2010. Two days later, Proseco reported it Landa has been missing since Janu- had learned of a plot by Veracruz ary 23, his first day back at work at A man cleans the offices of the news- officials to harm Carrasco. CPJ, Diario Cardel after being away for paper the Constitution in Baghdad. IPI and WAN-IFRA have called on more than a month following an ear- the Mexican central government to lier kidnapping. Journalists at Diario The president of the Palestinian investigate the threat to Carrasco Cardel told CPJ that the day after Authority, Mahmoud Abbas, par- and to safeguard his well-being. Landa reported on the murder of a doned Mamdouh Hamamreh, a taxi driver early in December, two Palestinian journalist, after a one- A Maoist group has claimed SUVs and a car with men carrying year prison sentence for insulting responsibility for the April 27 killing assault rifles came to the newspaper Abbas on Facebook was upheld by a of Jitendra Singh, a journalist who office and took Landa away. Author- West Bank appeals court March 28. worked part-time for the Hindi ities gave pursuit and Landa some- The president’s legal adviser said daily Prabhat Khabhar in Khunti, a how escaped. Landa’s colleagues that Abbas respected freedom of western district of India. Singh also and his wife, Isabel, said that while opinion and expression and that he ran a construction business and the he was held, Landa’s kidnappers told had not personally filed a complaint motive for the murder was unclear. him that he was going to be killed for against the journalist. writing about the cab driver. Paraguay’s celebration of its MURDERS Day of the Journalist on April 26 Private daily newspapers re- A conviction for the murder was observed by mourning Carlos turned to Myanmar in April for the of Regina Martínez Pérez, a Manuel Artaza, who was murdered first time in almost 50 years. Pri- correspondent for the Mexican news the day before near the capital of vate dailies in Burmese, English and magazine Proceso, has brought Asunción. Artaza other languages had been common- outrage, not closure. About 400 worked in the place in the former British colony people protested April 28 in the press department — then called Burma — but were center of Veracruz’s state capital, in the Amambay forced to close under military rule Xalapa, carrying signs that said the governor’s office in 1964. Although still far from per- government was an accomplice in and was driving fect, media controls have been re- the death of Martínez, who more his car when he laxed as part of reforms launched by than a year ago was found beaten was shot five the government of President Thein and strangled to death in her home times by two men Artaza Sein, who took office in 2011. in Xalapa. On April 9, Jorge Antonio on a motorcycle. Hernández Silva was sentenced to Reporters Without Borders (RSF) Gunmen broke into the offices 38 years in prison for the murder. said Artaza is the second journalist of four independent newspapers in Authorities said the motive was to be killed in Amambay this Baghdad on April 2 and stabbed and robbery. Martínez’s colleagues year with the February murder of beat five employees. Iraqi officials say Hernández was set up and (Continued on Page 10)

OPC Bulletin • April/May 2013 • Page 9 (Continued From Page 9) who trailed him home on April 21, reported the incident to police. radio station owner and manager according to RSF. He was the fourth Marcelino Vázquez yet to be journalist in 2013 killed in Somalia. Several news organizations and solved. The Day of the Journalist journalists group reported that that marks the unsolved 1991 death of Rahmo Abdulkadir was shot dead by two gunmen in Mogadishu on Santiago Leguizamón, a radio March 24. She was described as station manager. the second female journalist to die The hacked bodies of Daniel in Somalia in eight years. A month Martínez Balzaldúa and another later, however, Tom Rhodes, man were found early on April East Africa consultant for CPJ, 24 in the northern Mexico city of questioned if there was a murder. Saltillo next to a message similar In a blog on the CPJ website, to others found at killings by drug Rhodes wrote that despite a close- cartels. Martínez, a photographer, The site of a suicide bombing in Pe- knit society in Somalia that no shawar where more than 20 people, journalist there “had been able to had recently been hired by the daily including a journalist, were killed. newspaper Vanguardía to cover confirm further information about social events. Colleagues said he left A suicide bombing April 16 at the reported victim, track down any the office around 3 p.m. April 23 to an election rally in killed family member, or substantiate any cover an event. He never arrived. Aslam Durrani, news editor of the other journalism credentials.” Vanguardía criticized statements Urdu language Daily Pakistan, and from authorities that the men were injured other journalists: Durrani’s involved in illegal colleague Azhar Ali Shah and activities. While Express News reporter Ihtesham it is unclear if his Khan. More than 20 people were death was related reported to have died in the attack. to his job, even Political violence has increased in society news can the run-up to May 11 elections. be dangerous in some areas of Less than five weeks after one Mexico. Cartel murder, a second journalist for the The website lawyerherald.com ran a Balzaldúa leaders at social daily Vale do Aço has been killed in photo of what was reported to be the events can get angry if they are Brazil’s southeastern state of Minas body of Rahmo Abulkadir. included in photos, or if they want Gerais. Walgney Assis Carvalho, UPDATES attention, become incensed if they a photojournalist who worked as a are left out. freelancer, died April 14 after a man Charles and David Koch, the walked up behind him in a restaurant combatively conservative billionaire Mario Vendiola Baylosis, a and fired three shots at close range. industrialists, have emerged as likely Filipino radio journalist, was riding Crime reporter Rodrigo Neto de bidders for the Tribune Company’s his motorcycle Faria was shot and killed by two eight regional newspapers. The home from work men on a motorcycle on March 8. papers include five of the country’s on April 22 when Four journalists have died this year largest 50 newspapers: the Chicago he was shot three in Brazil. Tribune, the Los Angeles Times, The times and killed Baltimore Sun, the Orlando Sentinel, by two motor- Fausto Valdiviezo, a well-known the South Florida Sun Sentinel and cycle gunmen in Ecuadorian television reporter and the Hartford Courant. The papers, Kabasalan, in the anchor, was fatally shot April 11 in valued at roughly $623 million, southern province Baylosis his car after leaving his mother’s would be a relatively small deal for of Zamboanga Sibugay. Police home in the coastal Koch Industries, which has annual believe the gunmen followed him. city of Guayaquil. revenue of about $115 billion. According to news Several Tribune staffers have been Mohamed Ibrahim Rageh, reports, Valdiviezo quoted, both on and off the record, who worked for Somali National had been attacked saying that the Libertarian leanings Television and Radio Mogadishu, the day before while and lack of journalism experience of was shot dead by two gunmen driving but had not Valdiviezo the Koch brothers have made them

OPC Bulletin • April/May 2013 • Page 10 re-evaluate and look favorably at port to two editors at David Fondiller, another possible contender: Rupert The New York Times, a former OPC board Murdoch. Foreign Editor Joe member and past Kahn and Assistant editor of the Bulletin, While an active member of Managing Editor has a new title in rec- several organizations, Allan Dodds Larry Ingrassia. ognition of larger re- Frank also finds time to be an award- Also, Serge Schme- sponsibilities at The winning investigative reporter. mann, the IHT edito- Boston Consulting Frank, a past president of the OPC and rial page editor since Stevenson Group, a global man- Fondiller founder of OPC’s Global Parachute May 2003, has agreed to take on a agement consulting firm and one website opcglobalparachute.org, new writing role within the editorial of the largest private companies in has won the 2013 Guardian Award department. A search is under way the United States. In March, he was from the Association of Certified for an international opinion editor named director of Public Relations Fraud Examiners, the world’s largest to replace Schmemann, who will re- and Communications. He joined anti-fraud organization. The award, main based in Paris. BCG six and a half years ago as di- which will be presented during the And, another Ingrassia also has rector of Media Relations for the group’s June conference in Las Americas region. Vegas, is bestowed annually on a been given an international portfolio. , Larry’s brother and journalist whose “determination, , a former managing perseverance, and commitment to the the recently named managing editor of Reuters Thomson, is moving editor of The Washington Post, in truth have contributed significantly March was named the next dean of to the fight against from New York to London, where he will oversee global editorial Columbia University’s journalism fraud.” Frank was school. He will begin the job July 1, recognized for management. Ingrassia, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and the replacing , who is a broadcast and leaving after 10 years. Like Lemann, print career where former President of Dow Jones Newswires, joined Reuters in April Coll writes regularly for The New he has specialized Yorker. In 1990, Coll and David A. in complex fraud 2011 and previously held the title deputy editor-in-chief, Reuters. Vise won a Pulitzer for a series of cases, including Post articles about the Securities and Bernard Madoff, Frank George Bookman, a longtime Exchange Commission. One of his Martha Stewart OPC member, was the subject of a books, , won a Pulitzer and Tyco’s Dennis Kozlowski, lengthy profile in the March news- for nonfiction in insider trader Raja Rajaratnam and letter of the Society of Silurians, 2005 and also won savings and loan kingpin Charles one of the many journalistic groups one of Coll’s two Keating. that has benefitted from his mem- OPC awards. In bership. Bookman, who turned 98 April, Coll told the The top news and editorial edi- in December, had a career that can university’s daily tors of the International Herald Tri- best be described in a lengthy pro- student newspaper bune are moving to new jobs as part file. He has worked for the New York that he’s interested Coll of a reorganization that will see the World-Telegram, McClure’s Syndi- in expanding the paper rebranded this fall as the In- cate, U.S. News, graduate journalism school’s pro- ternational New York Times. Alison The Wash-ington gram from one year to two. Smale, who became executive edi- Post, the Office of tor of the IHT in 2009, will become War Information, Sylvia Nasar, the John S. and Bureau Time, Fortune, the James L. Knight professor of busi- chief while Dick Wall Street Stock ness journalism at Columbia Uni- Stevenson, who Exchange, the New versity and the author of the book most recently was York Botanic Gar- A Beautiful Mind, filed a lawsuit in chief Washington den and his own March accusing the university of correspondent, consulting busi- Bookman misdirecting $4.5 million in funds will become the ness. After many over the past decade. Nasar, who is top editor in Paris. years as head of OPC’s Admission seeking $923,000, claims Columbia Stevenson’s title Smale was one Committee, Bookman stepped down of the presenters breached a contract by failing to pay will be ed- at the 2011 OPC last summer as chairman but contin- itor and he will re- Awards Dinner. ues to serve on the panel. (Continued on Page 12)

OPC Bulletin • April/May 2013 • Page 11 (Continued From Page 11) at National graduating from the University of research fees as- Journal, U.S. Arkansas in 1939, he served in the signed to her by News & World Army in Europe during World War the Knight Foun- Report, USA II, receiving a Bronze Star. For 33 dation and by cre- Today, The Wall years, until his retirement in 1985, ating “phantom Street Journal he was an editor at Popular Science and The New magazine. He and his wife, Evelyn, I.T.” expenses Pound that she says she York Times. who died in 2006, were recognized never incurred. among the most influential leaders Despite the dis- Nasar TORONTO: The Lionel Gelber of the revival of the Brooklyn pute, in April the Columbia Jour- Prize for the best non-fiction book neighborhood of Park Slope and of nalism School’s Twitter feed sent in English on foreign affairs was older urban areas across the country. congratulations to Nasar, who is a awarded in March to Chrystia Free- After buying an 1886 brownstone, land, a former OPC board member, tenured professor but on leave, af- the Ortners became pioneers fighting for Plutocrats: The Rise of the New ter she was named a Guggenheim bank redlining, city slum clearance Global Super-Rich and the Fall of Fellow in the field of creative non- and the flight to the suburbs. They Everyone Else. fiction. inspired a that followed The Munk School of Global Af- them to renovate homes, plant trees, fairs at the As recipient of OPC’s 2013 fight crime and turn around urban in cooperation with Foreign Policy President’s Award, Tom Brokaw neighborhoods. was, of course, in attendance sponsors the prize, which brings at our annual awards dinner on $15,000. As part of the award, Free- April 24. But three nights later, land, managing director and edi- he stayed away from the White tor of Consumer News at Thomson Reuters, delivered the annual Lionel House Correspondents’ Association Gelber Prize free public lecture on Dinner. Brokaw, whose storied April 15 in Toronto. career included being a White House correspondent during the Watergate The era, had skipped the correspondents’ WASHINGTON, D.C.: trial for the August 2011 murder of dinner for a number of years but Viola Drath, an OPC member, was his public criticism made news in Ortner postponed in March until December 2012. He said the final straw was after Albrecht Muth, who was mar- Murrey Marder, a Washington seeing Lindsay Lohan as a guest. ried to Drath and who is accused of Post reporter remembered for his te- “What kind of image do we present killing her, was hospitalized during a nacious coverage of Joseph R. Mc- to the rest of the country?” he asked hunger strike. Carthy’s anti-communist crusade, on “” in 2012. “Are Muth, 48, has denied any role in died March 11 in Washington from we doing their business, or are we the death of his 91-year-old wife. the complications of a stroke. He just a group of narcissists who are News reports have described a bi- mostly interested in elevating our was 93. He began his career at 17 zarre, difficult and sometimes vio- own profiles?” In April of this year as a copy boy at the Evening Pub- lent marriage. Drath worked for he told Politico his criticism stands, lic Ledger in Philadelphia. During Handelsblatt, a German business saying the dinner has “gone down World War II, newspaper, and The Washington market...in too many ways.” Marder served Times. She wrote Willy Brandt: Pris- in the South Pa- Al Jazeera has hired veteran oner of His Past, a 1975 biography cific as a Marine investigative journalist Ed Pound of the former German chancellor Corps combat to lead the 16-person investigative and The Reemergence of the German correspondent. unit at its new American cable Question, a 1988 proposal for Ger- He joined The channel, . Pound man unification. Post in 1946 and joins Al Jazeera from his current in 1957, opened the paper’s first job as communications director at PEOPLE REMEMBERED foreign bureau, in London, and trav- Recovery.gov, a federal government Everett Ortner, an OPC eled the world as chief diplomatic website that tracks stimulus spending. member for almost 30 years, died correspondent. As a widower with Before entering government, he in May 2012 at the age of 92 from no immediate survivors, he started a worked as an investigative reporter complications from a fall. After public watchdog program affiliated

OPC Bulletin • April/May 2013 • Page 12 with ’s Nieman Saigon, serving as AP bureau chief motto was “free press, free speech Foundation for Journalism by using at the latter three posts. and free spirit for all people.” a large portion of his retirement sav- ings – $1.3 million of Post stock. Sam Jameson, who was long A.B.C. “Cal” Whipple, who regarded as one of the deans of the as a 25-year-old correspondent Western press corps in Tokyo, died for Life magazine helped save an April 19 in Tokyo after a stroke. After iconic photograph from World graduating from Northwestern Uni- War II censors, died March 17 in versity’s School of Journalism with a Greenwich, Conn., of pneumonia. master’s degree in 1959, he worked He was 94. In 1943, Whipple was for the for one year assigned to the newly completed Pentagon when photographer Neuharth before being drafted by the Army and sent to Japan, where he worked George Strock sent film from the OPC member , one for Pacific Stars and Stripes. Jame- South Pacific that included a photo of the most influential and contro- of three American soldiers who died versial figures in modern newspa- son spent a year on a landing beach in New Guinea. pers, died April 19 from complica- studying Japanese The men were not recognizable but tions of a fall. Neuharth, who was 80, after his 1962 the image was censored under a rule grew up in humble circumstances in discharge and in prohibiting publication of photos of and built into 1963, became the American troops killed in combat. a huge chain by buying newspapers Tribune’s Tokyo Whipple and his colleagues at Life with monopolies in small to medium bureau chief. In believed the photo showed the reality markets and then raising ad prices 1971, he moved of war and he pushed his request all and cutting costs. He was an inno- to the Los Angeles the way to the President Franklin D. vator who used satellite technology, Jameson in 1989. Times and headed Roosevelt. After polling data and a new definition of the paper’s Tokyo bureau until 1996. Life published news to create USA Today. When the photo on a the paper launched in 1982, critics While other reporters in Japan often full page next called it “McPaper” for its short, used Western diplomats as sources, to an editorial, easy-to-read articles, color-coded “Western diplomats in Japan used War Bond sales sections and bright graphics that in- Sam as a source,” said Bob Gibson, skyrocketed and cluded a full-page weather map. But a former Times foreign editor. the censorship rule was abolished. Neuharth had the Whipple retired from Life in 1975 last laugh as other WELCOME TO OUR NEW MEMBERS after a series of jobs that ended publications copied with executive editor of Time-Life its design and when John Daniszewski Books. Roxana Saberi USA Today had the Senior Managing Editor Freelance Reporter George McArthur, who highest circulation Associated Press Active Resident – Young Active Resident reported all over the world and in the country. The served as Saigon bureau chief for Freedom Forum is Gil Shefler William M. Dermody, Jr. Staff Writer The Associated Press and the Los a foundation estab- Editor, World News/ JTA News Agency Angeles Times, died April 12 in lished by Neuharth Military Affairs Active Resident – Young Fairfax County, Va. He was 88 and backed by Gannett USA Today Active Non-Resident died from complications of a stroke. money. Freedom He covered until the war’s Forum sponsored Patrick Hyndman end in 1975 and remained with the programs at its me- Director, Communications ADMISSIONS Times until 1979, continuing to dia centers around Quebec Government COMMITTEE report from Asia. Born in Valdosta, the world and at the Associate Resident Linda Goetz Holmes, Chair Georgia, McArthur was one of , which at Stefania Rousselle its foundings was George Bookman several youthful AP staffers first Freelance Video Journalist Felice Levin dispatched to Seoul after communist based in Arlington, Paris, France Robert Nickelsberg North Korea’s invasion of South Virginia, before it Active Overseas Charles Wallace Korea in 1950. He later reported was built in Wash- from Paris, Cairo, Manila and ington, D.C. Its

OPC Bulletin • April/May 2013 • Page 13 Beaten Russian Journalist Dies After Four Silent Years by Larry Martz More than four years ago, the merciless beating of Russian journalist Mikhail Beketov provided vivid ev- idence of the Russian government’s refusal to tolerate dissent or permit any real degree of freedom of expres- sion. Beketov’s death on April 8, after years of suffering as a brain-damaged invalid unable to speak and confined to a wheelchair, has spurred new protests from defenders of press freedom. The OPC’s Freedom of the Press Committee, which has written more than 60 letters protesting such cases since 2003, wrote the following letter to President Putin:

H.E. President The Kremlin Moscow Russian Federation

Your Excellency: Beketov in 2010. He had one leg and three fingers amputated after the 2008 attack, among other injuries. Ever since his savage beating four years ago, no case — not even the notorious killing of Anna Politkovskaya Mikhail Beketov, the Russian journalist who — has better exposed your government’s ruthless crack- suffered a brutal beating that made him a symbol of down on dissent better than that of Mikhail Beketov. impunity and the oppression of the free press, died Now his death releases him from the suffering inflicted of heart failure on April 8. He was 55. on him, and reminds the world again of your pillaging As the editor of Khimkinskaya Pravda, a newspa- of the environment, the Russian economy, press freedom per based in Khimki, a small town outside Moscow, and human rights. he published a series of exposés about the planned There is no need to rehearse the details of Beketov’s destruction of the Khimki Forest to make way for efforts to expose and prevent the destruction of part of a toll road between Moscow and Saint Petersburg. the Khimki forest to build a highway, the repeated acts of He was threatened repeatedly, his car was set on violence directed at him, or the beating in 2008 that cost him a leg and a finger and damaged his brain. To stop fire and his dog left dead on his doorstep. He did not his writing, his assailants took special pains to mangle stop his investigations. his hands. The perfunctory “investigation” that followed In November 2008, two assailants wielding soon wound down, and Beketov since then has been an metal rods savagely beat him. He was left using a invalid, unable to speak and confined to a wheelchair. As wheelchair and unable to speak because shards of one of his environmentalist colleagues has put it, “In es- his skull had lodged in his brain. Three fingers and sence, they killed him back then. He was just dying all one of his legs had to be amputated. His attackers, these years. That’s all.” who some now consider his murderers, have not Your Excellency, there seems little hope that you will been arrested. ever understand or repent the damage you are doing to Two days after Beketov’s death, the OPC’s your country. Perhaps one day, even the long-suffering Freedom of the Press committee sent a powerful Russian people, accustomed as they are to being abused, letter to Russian President Vladimir Putin harshly will have had enough and demand an end to it. The critical of Putin, the unsolved case and the lack of Overseas Press Club of America, an independent orga- press freedom and human rights in Russia. nization of journalists that has defended press freedom — by Susan Kille around the world for more than 70 years, hopes that day will soon arrive. Respectfully yours, All Freedom of the Press Committee letters dating to Larry Martz John Martin 2004 are archived online at opcofamerica.org.

OPC Bulletin • April/May 2013 • Page 14 (Continued From Page 1 Book Night) book also includes accounts by pho- Documentary Center, bronxdoc.org, Magnum, , The New York tographers who photographed the and is the recipient of a World Press Times, Paris Match, Reuters, Time, war at home, documenting the con- Photo and many other awards. The Times of London, VII Photo flict from the perspective of families Filkins covered the wars in Iraq Agency and The Washington Post. of servicemen and women. and Afghanistan for The New York Kamber covered the Iraq War for The in-depth interviews pre- Times. He has been referred to as the The New York Times between 2003 sented in Photojournalists on War premier combat journalist of his gen- and 2012, and was the Times’ prin- offer first-person, frontline reports eration and currently writes for The cipal photographer in Baghdad in New Yorker. of the war as it unfolded, including 2007, the bloodiest year of the war. The event takes place on Wednes- key moments such as the battle for He has covered a dozen conflicts Fallujah, the toppling of Saddam’s for the Times over the past decade, day, May 15, at 25CPW Gallery, statue and the Haditha massacre. The including Somalia, Afghanistan, the 25 Central Park West at West 62nd photographers vividly describe the Congo, and Liberia. Kamber is an Street. Reception and book sign- shocking and heroic actions they and adjunct professor at Columbia Uni- ing begin at 6:30 p.m. followed by other journalists undertook in trying versity and also teaches at the Corco- a discussion at 7:30 p.m. with Kam- to cover the war, and the role of the ran College of Art and Design, and ber, Filkins and some of the photo- media and issues of censorship that the International Center of Photogra- journalists featured in the book. No changed as the war intensified. The phy. He is the founder of the Bronx RSVP required.

(Continued From Page 16) both the Legatum Institute and the coming” in and “that was the world. Caryl handles the com- Center for International Studies at one of the reasons why after the Nazi plex interactions and results well by the Massachusetts Institute of Tech- revolution he virtually never wrote weaving reporting on Western, So- nology; a contributing editor at For- anything on the subject. ‘I have writ- viet, Chinese, and Islamic political eign Policy and a regular contributor ten about it all years ago,’ he said to traditions and events. To simplify his to The New York Review of Books friends ‘There is nothing for me to points is difficult but for better and that won the 2010 OPC Award for add.’” for worse, religion and market forces Best Online Commentary. Tucholsky has not been forgotten. grew stronger with these leaders. For On May 15, Berlinica Publishing is example, the religious revivals in WESTERN EUROPE releasing Berlin! Berlin! Dispatches Poland and Afghanistan hastened the URT TUCHOLSKY WAS from the Weimar Republic, the first collapse of the Soviet Union. In Eng- K one of the most important jour- collection of Tucholsky’s political land, Thatcher dismantled national- nalists of the Weimar Republic and and cultural essays to appear in the ized industries and disciplined labor one of the first to warn United States. Anne Nel- unions while Deng used pro-market against the threat of the son, author of Red Orches- reforms to turn his country from Nazis. He was a prolific tra: the Story of the Berlin the Cultural Revolution into today’s journalist, satirist, poet and Underground and the Cir- economic powerhouse. cabaret writer whose ver- cle of Friends Who Resist- Caryl’s ability to produce a read- satility caused him to use ed Hitler, wrote the fore- able, detailed and gripping narrative several pseudonyms. Po- word. The introduction is undoubtedly grew from his exten- litically, he was a socialist by Ian King, the chairman sive foreign reporting experience. and pacifist. of the Kurt Tucholsky So- From 2004 to March 2009 he Tucholsky was born in ciety. headed the Tokyo Bureau of News- Germany in 1890 and was Berlinica is owned week. Previously, he served four the son of a Jewish mer- and operated by Dr. Eva years as Newsweek’s Moscow Bu- chant. He was financially C. Schweitzer, an OPC reau chief, a post he had held earlier independent and had a sharp wit. The member and author who divides her for U.S News & World Report. Be- Nazis hated him, and drove him out time between Berlin and New York, fore moving to Moscow, Caryl spent of Germany. In 1933, his books were where she works as a cultural cor- 13 years as a freelance journalist in banned and burned. In 1936 he com- respondent. Berlinica brings books, Germany. After 9/11 he reported mitted suicide in exile in Sweden. ebooks, movies on DVD, and CD in Iraq and Afghanistan as part of The New York Times obituary for music from Berlin to America. The Newsweek’s coverage of the war on Tucholsky said that “more than any work is in English or subtitled. terror. He is now a senior fellow at other person, he foresaw what was — by Susan Kille

OPC Bulletin • April/May 2013 • Page 15 more secular, more moderate Mus- erates will,” he writes, “by slowly lims. The winner will influence cul- weakening, marginalizing, and dis- New Books ture and politics and define Islam for crediting radicalism in the long MIDDLE EAST AVID ROHDE’S CAREER AS decades. While condemning radi- term.” D a war correspondent ended, as calization and terrorism and saying he told the recent OPC Foundation that change won’t come overnight, GLOBAL Scholarship Luncheon, with a prom- Rohde says the U.S. needs to use COLLECTION OF HISTORY ise to his family after he escaped diplomacy, education, trade and in- A -changing leaders from around kidnappers who held him for more vestment to find and keep allies in the world and across the political seven months in Afghani- the region. spectrum made 1979 a year to re- stan. After decades as a He argues that the U.S. member, Christian Caryl writes In foreign correspondent for should rebuild its diplomat- Strange Rebels: 1979 and the Birth The Christian Science ic ranks and foreign policy of the 21st Century [Basic Books, Monitor and The New institutions, make realistic May]. York Times, the two-time goals and keep long-term This was the year conservative Pulitzer winning corre- commitments while re- Margaret Thatcher became Brit- spondent is now a for- ducing its reliance on the ain’s first woman prime minister and eign affairs columnist for military. He is also criti- stayed in the job for 11 years; newly Thomson Reuters. cal of profit-driven con- rehabilitated Deng Xiaoping began In Beyond War: Rei- tractors working with the to liberalize the Chinese economy; magining American Influ- military who have gained Ayatollah Khomeini established an ence in a New Middle East [Viking, power as the country’s overseas ci- Islamic republic in Iran; Pope John April], Rohde argues the United vilian institutions crumble. President Paul II, the first Slavic pope, chal- States is mishandling its foreign af- Barack Obama’s 2009 lenged Communism when fairs. Cairo speech on Islam and he traveled to Poland and He looks back on the past de- the Middle East, captured the mujahideen in Afghan- cade in Afghanistan, Egypt, Iraq, the region’s imagination istan rose up against the Pakistan, Tunisia and Turkey and the in what seemed a water- Soviets with the tacit sup- struggle across the Middle East be- shed moment, but Rohde port of the U.S. tween conservative Muslims, some describes a follow-up that Caryl, a veteran for- of whom are violent jihadists, and has been more than disap- eign correspondent now pointing. based in Washington, tells The U.S. has a history the stories of these revival- of backing dictators that ist, reactionary and radical hasn’t brought stability, he leaders and how their very says noting that American different counter revolu- military force alone will not defeat tions combined in ways that changed militants and terrorism. “Local mod- Upcoming Event (Continued on Page 15)

Book Night: Overseas Press Club of America 40 West 45 Street New York, NY 10036 USA Michael Kamber’s Photojournalists On War With Dexter Filkins

May 15 Reception at 6:30 p.m. Talk at 7:30 p.m. 25CPW Gallery

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