THE MONTHLY NEWSLETTER OF THE OVERSEAS PRESS CLUB OF AMERICA, NEW YORK, NY • May 2015 OPC Awards Showcase Ambitious Reporting in 2014 and Atish Saha’s dis- EVENT RECAP section of a factory By Trish Anderton collapse in Bangla- In tones ranging from defiance desh. While heavy to joy and mourning to optimism, hitters like The New foreign correspondents gathered on York Times were April 30 to celebrate the vitality of well represented, their profession. less traditional or- “It’s time for us to take our story ganizations like Hu- back from the handwringers,” Dean man Rights Watch, Baquet, executive editor of The New Medium/Matter and York Times, proclaimed in his keynote HBO Real Sports address at the Overseas Press Club with Bryant Gumbel Michael Dames Annual Awards Dinner. “We need also turned up on the Keynote speaker . to scream about the fact that there is winners’ list. Chivers described the secrecy and huge and ambitious work being done Motlagh started his reportage oppression he faced trying to discov- in the old places like The New York several months after the Rana Plaza er how many U.S. soldiers had been Times, the and disaster, which claimed more than poisoned by abandoned Iraqi chemi- , and in the new 1,100 lives. He said he drew inspira- cal weapons. places like BuzzFeed and Vice.” tion from Saha’s unsparing photos. “We like to think it’s Uzbekistan The same digital technologies that “He had worked the scene of the that acts like that, but you’re in a have turned the industry’s business tragedy for three weeks, every day, country that does too.” model upside down have also given it day in and day out, pouring every- Secrecy and danger were under- new tools and “enormous new audi- thing into his photographs,” Motlagh currents running through the evening. ences,” Baquet added. recalled with Saha at his side. “They Whitman Bassow Award winner Nick “The issues confronting the world were startling and personal and they Miroff recalled being surrounded by are big, and our ambitions should be really challenged me to find the angry gold miners in Peru, and facing at least as big,” he urged. words to match.” (Continued on Page 3) There was no shortage of ambi- tious reporting on display, from C.J. Chivers’s investigation into Ameri- Panel to Discuss Press Freedom in can troops’ exposure to chemical courts, and activists, and EVENT PREVIEW: May 18 weapons in , to Jason Motlagh has even created a special tool called President ’s crackdown the Great Cannon to disrupt foreign Inside. . . on all sources of political diversity websites that host content not con- inside China is reaching new heights sidered favorable to the government. Call for OPC Board Nominations...... 2 and is being compared with some of In so doing, Xi is dashing any hopes Book Night Preview: The Lonely War.2 the ideological campaigns that Mao that the Communist Party would al- Award Dinner Photos...... 4-5, 8 Tse-tung once waged. The number of low a process of “peaceful evolu- OPC Award Winners...... 6-7 dissidents and lawyers fleeing China tion” to develop. Please come to a People Column...... 9-11 has reached levels not seen since the panel discussion that will consider suppression of the Tiananmen dem- these increasingly dramatic devel- Press Freedom Update...... 12-14 onstrations in 1989. Xi’s govern- opments. Q&A: John Moore...... 15 ment has targeted foreign non-profit As the anniversary of the sup- New Books...... 16 groups, journalists, educators, local (Continued on Page 2) (Continued From Page 1) CALL FOR 2015 BOARD NOMINATIONS pression of Tiananmen Square protesters approaches on Members of the OPC are invited to consider June 4, a panel of experts will consider how far Xi will running for the OPC Board of Governors. This go in taking steps against not only corrupt members of year, the membership will elect ten (10) Active the Communist Party, but also against all elements of a members of the board and two (2) Associate civil society. Panel members will also discuss the impli- members. Candidates for the OPC board are cations for U.S.-China relations. invited to submit a statement of candidacy, which William J. Holstein, Overseas Press Club board should combine an overview of the candidate’s member and China correspondent starting in 1979, will qualifications and a sense of what one might moderate. His is also editor of the OPC book, Has the contribute to the OPC board. American Media Misjudged China? [January 2015] Please watch your emails for further details Panelists include Kathleen McLaughlin, who is just and deadlines. Send nominations to Brian Byrd at [email protected]. completing a Knight fellowship at MIT and returning to Beijing as correspondent for Science maga- zine. She previously reported from China for The Econ- Book Night: The Lonely War omist, , and BuzzFeed, and has served as head of the media freedoms committee for the Foreign EVENT PREVIEW: May 20 Correspondents’ Club of China; Sarah Cook, senior re- Join us for an evening with Nazila Fathi to discuss search analyst for East Asia at Freedom House, author her personal account of life before and after ’s 1979 of The Politburo’s Predicament: Confronting the Limi- revolution in The Lonely War: One Woman’s Account tations of Repression [Janu- of the Struggle for Modern Iran, which interweaves her ary 2015]; Ying Zhu, professor of media culture at the personal story with the country’s turbulent struggle be- City University of New York, College of Staten Island, tween hardliners and reformers. and an expert on the Chinese media and cultural insti- Fathi worked for two decades as a correspondent in tutions; and Jerome A. Cohen, professor at New York Iran before she was forced to flee in 2009 during the University School of Law and co-director of its U.S.- Green Revolution. She is a writer for NPR and Foreign Asia Law Institute. Cohen is also a leading expert on the Policy, and a commentator for the Persian Language Chinese legal system. Voice of America television. Attendance is free, but you must make a reservation The event will be moderated by Gary Sick, a senior re- by contacting the OPC office by email or phone. search scholar at ’s In- The program begins at 6:30 p.m at Club Quarters. stitute. The program begins at 6:30 p.m. at Club Quarters. Stop by for a reception at 6:00 p.m. OVERSEAS PRESS CLUB OF AMERICA • BOARD OF GOVERNORS PRESIDENT ACTIVE BOARD Charles Graeber Robert Nickelsberg ASSOCIATE BOARD PAST PRESIDENTS Marcus Mabry Jacqueline Albert- Freelance Journalist Freelance ­MEMBERS EX-OFFICIO Editor at large Simon and Author Photojournalist Brian I. Byrd Michael Serrill U.S. Bureau Chief Lara Setrakian Program Officer David A. Andelman Politique Internationale Co-Founder & CEO NYS Health John Corporon FIRST VICE PRESIDENT Azmat Khan News Deeply Foundation Allan Dodds Frank Calvin Sims Investigative Reporter Alexis Gelber President and CEO Rukmini Callimachi BuzzFeed News Bill Collins William J. Holstein International House Foreign Martin Smith Director, Public & Marshall Loeb Correspondent President Business Affairs Larry Martz SECOND VICE PRESIDENT The New York Times Dan Klaidman Rain Media Ford Motor Comapny Roy Rowan Abigail Pesta Deputy Editor Leonard Saffir Freelance Journalist Yahoo News Emma Daly Larry Smith Jane Ciabattari Liam Stack Communications Richard B. Stolley THIRD VICE PRESIDENT Columnist Breaking News Director Pancho Bernasconi BBC.com Evelyn Leopold Reporter EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Vice President/News Independent Journalist The New York Times Patricia Kranz Daniel Sieberg Chris Dickey Global Head OFFICE MANAGER TREASURER Foreign Editor Seymour Topping of Media Outreach Boots R. Duque Tim Ferguson Beast, Paul Moakley Emeritus Google Editor Deputy Director Professor of EDITOR Forbes Asia Photography and International Journalism Abi Wright Chad Bouchard Visual Enterprise Columbia University Executive Director, SECRETARY Peter S. Goodman Time magazine Prizes OPC Deidre Depke Editor-in-Chief Graduate School ISSN-0738-7202 Journalist and International Charles Wallace of Journalism ­Copyright © 2015 Author Business Times Financial Writer Columbia University Over­seas Press Club Awards 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 2015 • Page 2 (Continued From Page 1) drilling crews in Bolivia who wanted to take his photog- rapher’s camera. He also devoted part of his speech to the plight of fellow Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian, who is imprisoned in Iran. “Jason is in jail for doing his job, the job that all of us do every day,” said Miroff. Acknowledging Post editors in attendance who’ve been working for Rezaian’s release, he asked the crowd to “show them your support and help us free Jason.” He got a passionate round of applause in response. journalist and longtime OPC mem- ber Kathy Gannon lit the traditional Candle of Concern in Michael Dames honor of foreign correspondents killed, injured or miss- President’s Award recipient David Rohde. ing last year. Gannon was gravely injured in a shooting ples, including AFP, the AP, Bloomberg, the BBC and Re- in in 2014. Her colleague Anja Niedringhaus uters. “Together we can stop governments from stealing was killed. our voices. Together we can stop the rich, the corrupt and “I am so honored to have been asked to light this can- the criminal from intimidating us. Together, we can stop dle,” Gannon said. “I do it for my friend Anja, and for all censors from squelching our stories. Together, we will do of those who are no longer with us. I do it as a symbol of the reporting we must. Together, we will meet the chal- how bright your collective legacies shine, and for those of lenge of our times, and together we will not be silenced.” us whose injuries I hope will inspire us to keep working Another highlight of the evening was a presentation and refuse to even entertain the word defeat.” by cartoonist Signe Wilkinson, who provided a little Several trends in the industry have combined to make comic relief. The fourth-time Thomas Nast Award winner life increasingly hazardous for journalists in the field. Tech- tackled the ongoing controversy over religious cartoons nology has made it easier than ever for freelancers to op- with arch humor, noting that many American newspapers erate as one-person crews. Budget cuts have led even the “have made themselves safe from a Charlie Hebdo attack largest media organizations to rely more on those freelanc- by cleverly getting rid of their cartoonists.” ers. And organizations like Islamic State, also known as She went on to share a cartoon she’d drawn in 2006 ISIS, are targeting journalists in kidnappings and killings. showing the Prophet Mohammed, the Buddha, Jesus The memory of James Foley permeated the evening. Christ and other icons of major faiths laughing over “The Foley was abducted in in 2012 while working as a Big Fat Book of Offensive Religious Cartoons.” She said freelancer, and executed by Islamic State in August 2014. the drawing “has gone around the world many times with Foley’s parents lit the Candle of Concern in 2013 and at- no complaints” – because, she theorized, it depicted Mo- tended the dinner this year as well. hammed in a happy context rather than an angry or hu- Veteran journalist David Rohde of Thomson miliating one. received the President’s Award in part for his efforts to A lively crowd of 453 winners and guests turned out address these threats facing freelancers abroad. – one of the largest-ever attendances for the annual event. Working with the Overseas Press Club, Rohde has led They traveled from as far as Bangladesh, Paris and Oslo the effort to develop a code of conduct for organizations to be there. and freelancers embarking on overseas contracts. Deborah Amos, veteran international correspondent “Never has it been so dangerous, or so expensive – to for NPR, deftly hosted the proceedings. “It’s so nice to be blunt – to cover conflict,” Rohde told the audience. “At meet my feed in person,” she laughed, looking out the same time, many news organizations are struggling with over the crowd. shrinking budgets. We as an industry must work together.” Marcus Mabry, OPC president, joked that the evening The code calls on news organizations to show the same was about much more than the rare sight of “international concern for freelancers’ welfare as for that of staffers. It photojournalists in tuxedos.” Instead, it’s a moment to says the organizations should factor in the additional cost pause and acknowledge the extraordinary work being of training, safety equipment and insurance required for done – and the extraordinary people doing it. war zones, and pay for stories and expenses promptly. “There are few things more humbling than being pres- It says freelancers should have first-aid and hostile- ident of the OPC,” he said in his opening remarks. “To be environment training and carry sufficient insurance when president of such a club is to be eternally in awe, for our operating in war zones. It calls on them to evaluate the members are the people who brave risks, often mortal, dangers of every assignment and “measure the journalis- from mortars to disease, to merely report the world to the tic value of an assignment against the risks.” world. Some 60 organizations have signed on to the princi- “It is that simple, and that complicated.”

OPC Bulletin • May 2015 • Page 3 OPC Awards Dinner

Kathy Gannon, left, and OPC Executive Director Patricia Kranz light the Candle of Concern. Guests mingle during a pre-dinner reception.

Left to right: OPC First Vice President Calvin Sims, Pa- Left to right: Ed Cunningham Award winner Matthieu tricia Sims, OPC President Marcus Mabry and Hal Boyle Aikins, Sarah Leonard and head judge Robert Friedman. Award winner . Ashley Revell

Left to right: Brion Tingler, Aedhmar Hynes, Milanka OPC Governors Bill Collins, left, and Brian Byrd Muecke and Aymar de Lencquesaing. with Tamara Boorstein.

Photos by Michael Dames, except where noted.

OPC Bulletin • May 2015 • Page 4 Left to right: Greg Winter, Shreeya Sinha and Hal Ashley Revell Boyle winner . Guests take their seats in the main hall as the program begins.

OPC Governor Liam Stack, left, and Joe and Laurie Dine Award winner Anjali Kamat. Matthew Whitaker, left, and former OPC President Alexis Gelber.

Bob Considine Award winner Sergei Loiko, right, with his winner Marcus Bleasdale, son Stepan Perfilev. left, and Pamela Chen.

Left to Right: Bill Holstein, Rita Sevell, Abby Lee Joe and Laurie Dine Award winner Samuel Black, left, and and Brian Su. Mathieu Skene. (Continued on Page 8) OPC Bulletin • May 2015 • Page 5 2015 OPC2014 Foundation AWARDS Scholarship AND WINNERS Winners

HAL BOYLE AWARD THE LOWELL THOMAS AWARD Best newspaper, news service or online reporting from Best radio or audio news or interpretation of interna- abroad tional affairs Adam Nossiter, Nori Onishi, Helene Cooper, Sheri Marine Olivesi and Aaron Schachter Fink and The New York Times Staff PRI’s “The World” The New York Times “Repercussions of the Arab Spring” “Ebola From the Front Line” CITATION: CITATION: Emily Harris, Ahmed Abu Hamda, Abu Bakr Bashir, Richard Marosi and Don Bartletti Marwah Jbara Tibi, Ellen Krosney, Nuha Musleh, Larry Los Angeles Times Kaplow, Doug Roberts “Product of ” NPR “War in Gaza” BOB CONSIDINE AWARD Best newspaper, news service or online interpretation THE DAVID KAPLAN AWARD Best TV or video spot news reporting from abroad of international affairs Nick Schifrin, Philip Maravilla and Ben Mulkey Sergei Loiko and Carol Williams Al Jazeera America Los Angeles Times “Conflict in Gaza” “Ukraine: A Nation Torn Apart” CITATION: CITATION: Holly Williams, Agnes Reau, Erin Lyall, Justine Red- Anthony Faiola, Greg Miller, man, Abdi Cadani and Andy Stevenson Kevin Sullivan and Souad Mekhennet The CBS Evening News With Scott Pelley The Washington Post “Holy War” “Foreign Fighters” THE EDWARD R. MURROW AWARD ROBERT CAPA GOLD MEDAL AWARD Best TV or video interpretation or documentary on in- Best published photographic reporting from abroad re- ternational affairs quiring exceptional courage, enterprise Rachel Boynton and Simon Kilmurry Marcus Bleasdale POV, PBS and American Documentary Inc. Human Rights Watch, Foreign Policy and National “Big Men” Geographic Magazine CITATION: “ Inferno” Marcela Gaviria CITATION: PBS Frontline and ProPublica John Moore “Firestone and the Warlord” Getty Images “The Ebola Crisis in Monrovia, Liberia” ED CUNNINGHAM AWARD Best magazine reporting in print or online OLIVIER REBBOT AWARD on an international story Best photographic reporting from abroad in magazines Matthieu Aikins or books and Sebastiano Tomada-Piccolomini Medium/Matter Jérôme Sessini “Whoever Saves a Life” , Time and De Standaard CITATION: “Crime Without Punishment” Patrick Radden Keefe JOHN FABER AWARD “The Hunt for El Chapo” Best photographic reporting from abroad in newspa- pers or news services THE THOMAS NAST AWARD Bulent Kilic Best cartoons on international affairs Agence France Presse Signe Wilkinson “Euromaidan Revolution in Kiev” Philadelphia Daily News CITATION: Oliver Weiken MORTON FRANK AWARD European Pressphoto Agency Best magazine international business news “2014 War Between Israel And Hamas” reporting in print or online Cam Simpson and Jesse Westbrook FEATURE PHOTOGRAPHY AWARD Bloomberg Businessweek Best feature photography published in any medium on “The Hedge Fund and the Despot” an international theme CITATION: Rodrigo Abd William Langewiesche The Associated Press Vanity Fair “Peru’s Illegal Gold Mining” “The Chaos Company”

OPC Bulletin • May 2015 • Page 6 2014 AWARDS AND WINNERS

MALCOLM FORBES AWARD WHITMAN BASSOW AWARD Best international business news reporting in newspa- Best reporting in any medium on international pers, news services or online environmental issues

Stephen Grey and Reuters team Nick Miroff Reuters “Comrade Capitalism” The Washington Post CITATION: “Pushing South” Jo Becker, Steven Lee Myers And Jim Yardley ROBERT SPIERS BENJAMIN AWARD The New York Times Best reporting in any medium on Latin America “Putin’s Way” Molly Hennessy-Fiske, Tracy Wilkinson, Kate Lin- THE CORNELIUS RYAN AWARD thicum, Cindy Carcamo and Don Bartletti Best non-fiction book on international affairs Los Angeles Times “A Wave of Migrants” Farrar, Straus & Giroux CITATION: Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth and Faith in Teresa Bo and Singeli Agnew the New China Al Jazeera America CITATION: Jack Fairweather “Fault Lines: Mexico’s Vigilante State” Basic Books The Good War: Why We Couldn’t Win the War or The BEST MULTIMEDIA NEWS PRESENTATION Peace in Afghanistan Best use of video, interactive graphics and slideshows to report on international news MADELINE DANE ROSS AWARD Steve Inskeep, Kainaz Amaria and NPR Staff Best international reporting in the print medium or on- line showing a concern for the human condition National Public Radio Jason Motlagh and Atish Saha “Borderland” The Virginia Quarterly Review CITATION: “The Ghosts of Rana Plaza” Peter Bouckaert And Marcus Bleasdale CITATION: Human Rights Watch Joshua Hersh “The Unraveling – Journey Through the Central African The Virginia Quarterly Review “The Lessons of Atmeh” Republic Crisis” THE DAVID A. ANDELMAN BEST INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING and PAMELA TITLE AWARD Best investigative reporting in any medium on an inter- Best international reporting in the broadcast media national story showing a concern for the human condition C.J. Chivers Josh Fine and David Scott The New York Times HBO Real Sports With Bryant Gumbel “The Price of Glory” “Secret Casualties” CITATION: CITATION: Terry Moran, Melia Patria, Jeanmarie Condon Desmond Butler, Alberto Arce, Andrea Rodriguez and and Almin Karamehmedovic Michael Weissenstein ABC News The Associated Press “Moscow Is Burning” “America’s Secret Cuban Twitter” JOE and LAURIE DINE AWARD Best international reporting in any medium dealing with BEST COMMENTARY human rights Best commentary on international news Samuel Black, Anjali Kamat and Fault Lines Staff in any medium Al Jazeera America Matthew Kaminski, “America’s War Workers” “On Ukraine” CITATION: Rehad Desai, Cynthia Kane CITATION: and Al Jazeera America Presents staff Andrew Browne Al Jazeera America The Wall Street Journal “Al Jazeera America Presents: Miners Shot Down” “China’s World”

OPC Bulletin • May 2015 • Page 7 (Continued From Page 5)

Left to right: Audrey Topping, Arthur Sulzberger and Seymour Topping.

Han Tjan, left, and OPC Executive Director Patricia Kranz.

Sandy Drayton, left, and former OPC President Roy Rowan.

Left to right: 2014 Malcolm Forbes Award winner Stephen Grey, 2014 Edward R. Murrow citation recipient Marcela Gaviria and OPC Governor Martin Smith.

Left to right: OPC Governor Evelyn Leopold, OPC President Marcus Mabry, and OPC members Kathleen Eldon and former OPC President Allan Dodds Frank.

Rita Sevell, left, and OPC Governor Jacqueline Albert-Simon.

OPC Bulletin • May 2015 • Page 8 PEOPLE... By Randy Fung and Chad Bouchard

OPC SCHOLARS school this spring with a B.A./M.A. in scended into chaos. This was the topic 2008 H.L. Stevenson winner Ma- history. “Larry Martz took me out to of Jones’s winning essay in 2009. The yank Bubna has been hired to work lunch, and we discussed the future of IRE Awards, which honor the best in for the Joint Operations Center in the journalism,” Saeedy told Yale News , will be pre- UN Mission in South Sudan, a small in an interview about the fellowship. sented at the 2015 IRE Conference in team that plans military and humani- “The whole event just made me feel Philadelphia on Saturday, June 6. tarian operations across the country, like I was making a big leap into adult- and is the information hub for the hood, being treated as someone who WINNERS mission. Since his OPC Foundation writes and thinks about the world.” OPC Second Vice President Abi- win in 2008, Bubna has worked for Saeedy was a staff writer for the Yale gail Pesta, a freelance journalist, won defense think tanks in New Delhi, the Herald starting in his freshman year. In a National Headliner Award for her advocacy group Enough Project on his winning essay for the fellowship, reporting in Cosmopolitan magazine. his first trip to South Sudan, an aca- he explored the growth of low cost air Her award for “mag- demic appointment in Switzerland, carriers in Europe and explained why azine feature writing and Small Arms Survey, among oth- there hasn’t been a similar growth in by an individual on a ers in Afghanistan. He continues to the . variety of subjects” freelance. recognizes work in Derek Kravitz, 2014 I.F. Stone three of her stories: Jeff Roberts, 2010 Reuters Fel- winner, is one of three co-authors of “Who Are You Call- lowship winner, was named a 2015- the Columbia Journalism Review’s ing a Bully,” “I’m Pesta 2016 Knight-Bagehot Fellow. Now analysis piece critiquing Rolling Still Alive” and covering technology and policy for Stone’s story about “From Grad School to Prison.” The Fortune Magazine, Roberts also has an alleged rape on first is an investigation of a tragedy worked for GigaOm, paidContent and the University of in Florida: A girl leapt from a tower Reuters. He had an OPC Foundation Virginia campus. to her death, and two middle-school fellowship in Paris. Roberts has a law Reporters from other girls were arrested and charged as fel- degree from McGill University and media raised doubts ons for alleged bullying. The second is a master’s from the Columbia Uni- about the plausibil- about a young woman who survived a C-SPAN versity Graduate School of Journal- ity of the story soon Kravitz campus shooting and became a cam- ism. The Knight-Bagehot Fellowship after its publication pus police officer at the same school provides full tuition and a $55,000 and the magazine retracted it. Rolling where she nearly died. The third is stipend for the nine-month program Stone then contacted Columbia about about a young woman who was sent that involves graduate courses at Co- conducting an investigation into to Rikers Island, accused of assaulting lumbia’s schools of business, law and what had gone wrong. Kravitz and an officer at an Occupy protest, when international and public affairs. co-writers Sheila Coronel and Steve she says the officer assaulted her. Coll found that the magazine allowed avoidable “failures of reporting, edit- OPC member Sheila Nevins, ing and supervision.” the president of HBO Documentary Films, won CUNY Graduate School Jonathan Jones, who won the of Journalism’s 2015 Journalistic 2009 I.F. Stone scholarship, along Achievement Award. As an execu- with his colleagues at ProPublica, PBS tive producer or producer, she has re- Frontline and Rain Media, won the ceived 28 primetime Emmy Awards

Michael Dames 2014 Investigative Reporters and Edi- and 32 News and Documentary Em- Alexander Saeedy, left, with Larry tors award in the Large Multiplatform mys. Nevins was part of a team that Martz at the OPC Foundation category for “Firestone and the War- won the 2013 Edward R. Murrow Luncheon in February. lord,” which also received an Edward Award for the documentary “Tales R. Murrow citation this year. The sto- from the Organ Trade.” She has su- Yale University has taken note ry examines how Firestone managed pervised the production of more than that Fritz Beebe Fellowship winner to continue operating during the bru- 1000 documentary films and won the Alexander Saeedy will soon embark tal Liberian civil war. The team used first George Foster Peabody award for Brussels, where he will work as a diplomatic cables, court documents for “She’s Nobody’s Baby,” pro- foreign correspondent for the Reuters and accounts from Americans who duced with Ms. Magazine. bureau after his graduation from the ran a rubber plantation as Liberia de- (Continued on Page 10)

OPC Bulletin • May 2015 • Page 9 (Continued From Page 9) Photography Award, along with Normandie in Bayeux, France. The New York Times colleagues Sergey exhibition will include the letters Ponomarev he wrote home from the First Army and Wissam Press Camp, a chateau in Vouilly. Nassar, for Robert Pledge, also a photo edi- coverage of , who is an OPC member and conflict in an awards judge, will be on hand Gaza. The St. with his colleague to speak and sign Louis Post- books. The recently created Robert Dispatch won Capa Contemporary Photography the award for Center in will host a simi- capturing im- lar exhibition in June, along with the ages of out- traveling exhibition of Robert Capa rage in Fergu- in Color, which opened at the Inter- son, Missouri. national Center of Photography in New York last year. Morris is work- Three OPC ing on a book called My Century,

David Furst Award win- Rukmini Callimachi of The New York Times received a George ners won ac- Polk Award for international reporting in February. colades in the Spot News The Foreign Correspondents’ category in Club of Japan has announced results the 2015 Con- from its inaugural FCCJ Freedom of test. Bulent Kilic landed First Prize the Press Awards. The club released Singles for a photo of a young girl results on May 3 to coincide with who was wounded during clashes in World Press Freedom Day. Awards Istanbul, . He also won Third John Morris honored work in categories includ- Prize in the same category for an ing the Japan Investigative Jour- image of a fiery mushroom cloud nalism Awards, Friend of the Free during a US-led airstrike against Press, Publication of the Year, Fall- Islamic State. Second Prize went en Hero and Lifetime Achievement. to for a photo of the To see winners, watch videos from bloody aftermath of an Israeli mis- the ..and read more details about the sile strike on a beach in Gaza City. awards, check the club’s website at 2014 Olivier Rebbot Award winner fccj.or.jp. Jérôme Sessini won first and sec- Robert Pledge The New York Times staff that aimed to be published in two years won this year’s Hal Boyle Award around his centennial birthday. from the OPC also won the Pulitzer in the International Reporting cat- -winning photog- egory for “vivid human stories” in rapher and OPC Member David its coverage of Ebola in . Ned Hume Kennerly will join Parker of Reuters was a finalist Magazine as a contributing editor along with a team from his agency to cover the 2016 presidential elec- for reports on Iraq and the rise of Bulent Kilic and Tyler Hicks tions. Kennerly, who has been a OPC Islamic State. Feature Photography member since 1992, will also follow honors went to Daniel Berehulak, a ond place in the Spot News Stories the campaign trail for Politico over freelance photographer for The New category for his photos of wreckage the course of the next two years to York Times, for his photographs of of a Malaysia Airlines shot down mark his 50th year of documenting the Ebola epidemic. 2014 John Fa- over Ukraine and his coverage of political campaigns. The May/June ber Award winner Bulent Kilic, of violent clashes in that country. issue of the magazine will highlight Agence France-Presse, was a finalist his work with a 30-page retrospec- for the award for his photographs of PARIS: OPC member John tive of his career, which began dur- Kurds fleeing Islamic State attacks Morris, photo editor, has announced ing the 1966 midterm elections. in Iraq. Tyler Hicks, the 2013 Rob- the May 15 opening of an exhibi- ert Capa Gold Medal Award winner, tion of his 1944 photographs at the BRUSSELS: OPC member was a finalist for the Breaking News Musée Mémorial de la Bataille de Jonathan Kapstein was elected as

OPC Bulletin • May 2015 • Page 10 president of the Press Club Brus- Shihabi. OPC member Marcy Mc- recruiter until launching his epony- sels Europe on March 31. Kapstein Ginnis, senior vice president of mous consultancy in 1977. Rites of previously served as bureau chief outreach, resigned, telling The New Passage, a book about job searches, for Businessweek in Rio de Janeiro, York Times that she “didn’t like the negotiating compensation and ca- Toronto, Milan, Johannesburg, and culture of fear” at the station and reer advice for executives, quickly Brussels. While in Belgium, he that “people are afraid to lose their became a bestseller on the topic covered European affairs and the jobs if they cross Ehab.” The law- nordic region for the magazine. Af- suit from former employee Mat- when it was first published in 1988. ter several years working as Europe thew Luke alleges anti-Semitism The book was frequently updated director of government affairs for and sexism from another high-level in new editions, most recently last two major corporations, he returned executive. Al Shihabi had claimed year. to journalism as an independent. the network would keep him on, but Kapstein won an OPC award for Al Jazeera English founder Al An- Juan Leon, a former Associated Best Reporting from Latin America stey is taking Al Shihabi’s position. Press correspondent and press free- and shared two other OPC citations dom activist, died after a battle with for his work. OPC member David Alpern, pancreatic cancer on April 16 at age longtime writer and editor for 72. The native Bolivian was exiled NEW YORK: After nine years , has taken a new job with durng the country’s dictatorship in t at Bloomberg News, Michael Ser- an OPC connection. After closing rill, former OPC president, has down the For Your Ears Only radio he 1970s, and he was one of many gone freelance. He plans to travel and Internet program that he began journalists arrested and tortured and continue writ- in 1982 as Newsweek on Air, Alp- during a coup led by General Luis ing and editing on ern has launched a podcast at the Garcia Meza in 1980. Leon began international af- urging of former OPC President his journalism career at age 18 for fairs and global fi- the La Paz daily Presencia, where nance, and possibly he worked as news editor. Leon to write a book on then joined the AP as a stringer Cornelius Vander- 1978 and was hired full time in bilt IV, a foreign Serrill 1980 after the government expelled correspondent who was one of the original members of the OPC. Be- AP correspondent Harold Olmos. fore joining Bloomberg in 2006, Leon is survived by his wife, Daysi Serrill was a writer and editor for Vacaflor, and his two children Este- 15 years at Time magazine and six ban and Romina. years at Businessweek. He plans to take the summer off before launch- David Andelman, the editor-in- Sandra Mackey, a journal- ing new projects. chief of the World Policy Journal ist and author based in the Middle at the non-profit World Policy Insti- East, died on April 19 at age 77. Al Jazeera America found itself tute. Alpern interviews authors and Her journalism career began in se- under the spotlight after a wrongful experts on World Policy On Air, cret, reporting undercover for U.S. termination lawsuit, the departure which launched in February. Guests newspapers from un- of top executives, and replacement have included Nina Khrushcheva, of the foundering news station’s the grand-daughter of former Soviet der the pseudonym Michael Col- interim chief executive, Ehab Al leader Nikita Khrushchev and now lins while her husband worked in a Russian expert at the New School a Riyadh hospital. For four years, University in New York. Episodes she concealed her identity and are available on iTunes. smuggled stories out of the country to circumvent the ban on foreign PEOPLE REMEMBERED journalists. Her work appeared in John C. Lucht, a longtime OPC the , Los Ange- member, died April 13 at the age of les Times, Wall Street Journal and 81. He was an author and executive recruiter known for bringing se- Christian Science Monitor. Mackey Lesley Topping nior executives into major corpora- is also the author of two books: The Marcy McGinnis, left, with Porter tions in the U.S. and abroad. After Saudis: Inside the Desert Kingdom, Bibb, media commentator, during a starting his career in general man- and Passion and Politics: The Tur- 2013 OPC panel on challenges facing agement and marketing, he joined bulent World of the Arabs. She is global broadcasters. Heidrick and Struggles in 1970 as a survived by her son, Colin Mackey.

OPC Bulletin • May 2015 • Page 11 PRESS FREEDOM UPDATE... v The U.N. Security Council is and across the Middle East. OPC on March 30, Pruitt said that journal- slated to hold a debate on journalist member , ists are increasingly becoming tar- safety on May 27. The Committee CNN chief international correspon- gets in war zones. He said that in the to Protect Journalists is calling for dent and a member of CPJ’s board past journalists were protected when the Council to include a warning to of directors, wrote a forward for this wearing “Press” or “Media” on ve- states not to use national security as year’s report. “It would be terrible hicles or vests, but “that labeling now an excuse to jail, harass or censor enough if the tragedies that befell is more likely to make them a tar- journalists. The Council held a simi- journalists in 2014 had been isolated get.” He proposed a new protocol to lar debate in 2013 that included par- episodes - if we could write the year the Geneva Conventions that would ticipation from 50 member states. It off as a nightmare and move on,” make assassination of a journalist a marked the first time journalists were she wrote. “But with well over 1,000 specific war crime. invited to address the Council, ac- journalists having been killed since cording to a U.N. press release. 1992, and with the deadly attack on Al Jazeera English journalist Mo- Charlie Hebdo early in 2015, it is hamed Fahmy, who is awaiting re- clear that the threats are not limited to trial in after more than a year bad years, nor are they going away.” behind bars for terrorism-related charges, said at a press conference Malaysian cartoonist Ulkiflee An- in Cairo that he has filed a $100 mil- war Ulhaque, also known as Zunar, lion lawsuit in Canada against the was charged with nine counts of se- Al Jazeera network for “epic negli- dition for tweets he sent in February gence.” Fahmy was acting bureau about a sensitive court decision. The chief in Egypt when he was arrested

Alex Wong/Getty Images Alex Wong/Getty tweets included a cartoon portray- along with two other Al Jazeera col- Barack Obama speaks with Nguyen ing Prime Minister Najib Razak as leagues in December 2013. He ac- Van Hai, better known by his pen the presiding judge in a case against cused the network of endangering the name Dieu Cay, of , and opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim on trio by failing to inform him about his Simegnish ‘Lily’ Mengesha of sodomy charges, and suggesting that legal status in Egypt and airing re- Ethiopia, during a roundtable with the ruling against him was politically ports on its Egyptian channel, which persecuted journalists to mark World motivated. Zunar was held for three was banned for favoring the Muslim Press Day on May 3. days in February during an investiga- Brotherhood. A network spokesman said in a statement that it was “sad” to The United Nations joined coun- see Fahmy and his lawyer repeating tries and advocacy groups around the Egypt’s criticisms of Al Jazeera, and world to mark World Press Freedom urged him to seek compensation from Day on May 3, as journalist and hu- his jailers instead of the network. In man rights organizations noted that February, Fahmy and his colleague, dozens of journalists have already Baher Mohammed, were released been killed in 2015. The Committee on bail and Australian journalist Pe- to Protect Journalists on April 27 re- US Mission Geneva / Eric Bridiers (flickr) ter Greste was deported from Egypt. leased its sweeping annual report on Ulkiflee Anwar Ulhaque displays his Closing arguments in the retrial are press freedom, outlining government work during a U.N. Human Rights slated to begin June 1. crackdowns and rising extremism Council panel on freedom of artistic that has made this “the most deadly expression in March. A court in Cairo on April 11 and dangerous period for journalists sentenced three Egyptian journal- in recent history,” a CPJ press release tion and freed on bail amounting to ists to life in prison. Abdullah al- stated. “Attacks on the Press” is a more than $6,000. Fakharany, executive director of the collection of essays exploring rising Rassd news website, Samhi Mus- challenges that journalists face, in- Gary Pruitt, president and CEO tafa, co-founder of the website, and cluding unprecedented risks in Syria, of the Associated Press called on the Mohamed al-Adly, a presenter for violence from trafficking organiza- international community to make it a Amgad TV, were arrested on Aug. tions in Mexico and Paraguay, and war crime to kill journalists or take 25, 2013, two weeks after wide- increasing censorship and arrests of them hostage. In a speech at the Hong spread protests against the ouster journalists in Eritrea, Ethiopia, Egypt Kong Foreign Correspondents Club of President Mohamed Morsi. The

OPC Bulletin • May 2015 • Page 12 journalists were originally charged the Communist Party in 2013 to an statement. The award will be present- with “disturbing the peace,” but in overseas Chinese language news or- ed at the club’s annual awards dinner February 2014, prosecutors changed ganization, according to her lawyer. on July 29. The club announced in the charges to “spreading chaos” and Gao began her career as a reporter March that it would give its domestic “spreading false information,” as well for the state run Freedom of the Press Award this year as “forming an operations room to di- and in recent years had been writing to Jason Rezaian. rect the Muslim Brotherhood to defy for overseas publications. She was the government.” The journalists had detained after the Tiananmen Square A court in Dhanusha, Nepal con- been on trial since April 2014 along massacre in 1989 and was impris- victed and sentenced Umesh Yadav, with 48 other defendants, includ- oned for six years for allegedly leak- the mastermind behind the 2009 mur- ing prominent leaders of the Muslim der of journalist Uma Singh, to life in Brotherhood. Fourteen defendants, prison. Singh, a reporter for Janakpur including the Muslim Brotherhood Today and Radio Today, was stabbed leader were sentenced to death on to death in her home in Janakpur on March 16. The remaining 37 defen- Jan. 11, 2009. Police arrested Yadav, dants, including three journalists, a former Maoist, for ordering Singh’s were sentenced to life in prison. murder. Two others received life sen- tences in 2001 in connection with her Jason Rezaian, Tehran bureau death. Wikimedia Commons Wikimedia chief for the Washington Post who Gao Yu was detained nine months ago, has MURDERS been charged with crimes includ- ing state secrets in 1993. “We are in ● The body of radio journalist ing espionage for allegedly collect- the midst of one of the most severe Armando Saldaña Morales, who ing confidential information about crackdowns on human rights activ- was based in the Mexican state of the country’s domestic and foreign ists,” said Nicholas Bequelin of Am- Veracruz, was found with fatal gun- policy. Rezaian is also accused of nesty International. “What the state shot wounds near an abandoned “collaborating with hostile govern- used to tolerate, it doesn’t tolerate pickup truck in the neighboring ments” and “spreading propaganda,” anymore.” state of Oaxaca on May 6. Saldaña according to his lawyer. Rezain, who hosted a Saturday news show at the is Iranian-American, has been held Austin Tice, a McClatchy re- radio station La Ke Buena in the in the notorious Evin prison since his porter who has been detained in Syria town of Tierra Blanca in Veracruz. arrest in July, without access to his since 2012, will receive the National Four other Veracruz journalists have lawyer. The Washington Post said his Press Club’s John Aubuchon Press been killed in direct relation to their charges could carry a sentence of up Freedom Award. Tice is a Marine work since 2011, according to the to 20 years in prison. Committee to Protect Journalists. Three others have disappeared and A Turkish court dropped terror- the organization is investigating the ism charges against Dutch journalist deaths of six additional journalists. Frederike Geerdink on April 13. Geerdink was indicted in January for ● Kenyan editor John Kituyi promoting “terrorist propaganda” in was beaten to death by attackers on her reporting on the Kurdistan Work- a motorcycle while he was walking

ers’ Party, or PKK, a group listed as a FBI / Public Domain home on May 1. He was the editor terrorist organization by the U.S. and Austin Tice and publisher of Mirror Weekly, a European Union. Her home in Diyar- newspaper based in Eldoret. He fo- bakir, where she has been based since Corps veteran who disappeared in cused on regional politics in Western August 2012, was raided in January. Syria in August 2012 while covering . the conflict for McClatchy. No orga- A Beijing court convicted free- nization, including the Syrian gov- ● Armed men shot and killed So- lance journalist Gao Yu on April ernment, has admitted detaining him. mali journalist Daud Ali Omar and 17 for charges of revealing state “Austin Tice embodies the best of his wife Hawo Abdi Aden on April secrets and sentenced her to seven our profession, and whoever is jailing 29 after breaking into his home in years in prison. The Chinese gov- him represents the worst of the many the middle of the night. Daud was ernment accused Gao of disclosing threats to journalism,” National Press a produced for a pro-government a confidential document issued by Club President John Hughes said in a (Continued on Page 14)

OPC Bulletin • May 2015 • Page 13 (Continued From Page 13) was killed in a similar attack at his banned websites amid escalating radio station. Police said they sus- home. violence. pected the militant insurgent group Al-Shabaab was responsible for the ● Congolese radio reporter ● Ukrainian photographer Ser- attack. Daud and his wife are sur- and journalist Soleil Balanga was hiy Nikolayev, who worked for the vived by their three children. killed by a lone attacker April 16 newspaper Segodnya in Kiev, was while returning home from work. killed in a mortar explosion while ● Libyan television journalist According to Radio Okapi and covering fighting between Ukrai- Muftah al-Qatrani was shot dead press freedom group Observatory nian troops and pro-Russian sepa- on April 22 in his office at Al-An- for the Freedom of the Press in ratists. Both sides blamed the other war, a privately owned television Africa, the journalist bled to death for the death, according to news re- company in Benghazi. He had been after his throat was cut. He had ports. He died in a hospital from his covering conflict between Islamist been broadcasting news through injuries. Nikolayev joined Segod- militias and government troops in a megaphone in the streets of his nya in 2008, and covered conflict the city. No group has claimed re- town because the transmitter of his and unrest in Iran, Somalia, and sponsibility for al-Qatrani’s kill- radio station stopped working. . ing, but local activist group Libyan Center for Freedom of the Press has ● Abdulkarim al-Khaiwani, a ● Gerardo Ceferino Servían linked his death to reports he wrote well-known dissident journalist in Coronel, a radio journalist for Radio about fighting in Benghazi for sev- Yemen, was shot and killed by two Ciudad Nueva in Zanja Pytã, Para- eral news outlets. men on a motorcycle in Sana’a on guay, was shot and killed by two men March 18. Khaiwani reported on on a motorcycle in the Brazilian bor- der city of Ponta Porã on March 4. ● Two masked gunmen shot and civil rights abuses and corruption, The Paraguayan Union of Journalists killed a Ukrainian journalist known and was beaten and jailed under said in a statement that Servían was for his pro-Russian views on April the former regime. He was a sup- critical of the local government, but 16. Oles Buzina published work in porter of the Houthi rebel move- it was not known if he had received Ukraine’s Sevodnya daily newspa- ment, which took over Sana’a last year and sparked political upheav- threats before the attack. Four other per. Buzina’s murder came one day journalists have been killed near the after a former lawmaker loyal to al. Houthi forces have raided news outlets, detained journalists and country’s northern border since the former President Viktor Yanukovich start of last year.

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OPC Bulletin • May 2015 • Page 14 Meet the OPC Members: a Q&A With John Moore By Chad Bouchard John Moore is a senior staff photographer for Getty Im- ages, based in New York City. He received a citation for this year’s Robert Capa Gold Medal Award, and won the OPC’s 2007 Robert Capa Gold Medal for his work in and the 1997 John Faber Award for coverage of refugee camps in Zaire. He is also a four-time win- ner of World Press Photo awards and was named pho- tographer of the year by two organizations, Pictures of the Year International and National Press Photographers Association. He was part of an Associated Press team that won a Pulitzer Prize for coverage of the .

Moore started working for Getty Images in 2005 while Frank Maduakonam based in , Pakistan. He has lived in the United John Moore States for the last seven years. What surprised you most about what you witnessed Current Job: Senior Staff Photographer/Special Corre- there? People were generous and kind to me and open to spondent for Getty Images. me telling their stories through photos, even during a time of great distress, and I will always be grateful for that. Hometown: Irving, Texas. What has been your most difficult assignment? The Education: Bachelors Degree from the University of Newtown massacre was awful, with the Tucson shooting Texas at Austin, 1990. as a close second. The murder of children is devastating for me to cover. Languages: English, Spanish and small amounts of Ar- abic, Urdu and Hindi. How do you minimize risk when reporting in hostile areas? I do a lot of legwork ahead of time to both un- First Job in Journalism: Photo stringer – Associated derstand the story and find the right people to work with. Press, Managua, Nicaragua, 1991 (although I worked I don’t pursue every photo at any cost. I’d say I prob- for numerous publications while in college). ably miss more photos than I make, for safety concerns. I Countries where you have reported from: Nicaragua, try to stay alert and make eye contact or greet everyone I El Salvador, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Belize, , Pan- can, so that even those who might otherwise do me harm ama, Mexico, Cuba, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Chile, know that I am aware of them and won’t be surprised. I , , Venezuela, Canada, United Kingdom, wear seatbelts, and protective clothing, when needed. Bosnia, Croatia, Ukraine, Israel, Palestinian Territo- Advice for photojournalists who want to work over- ries, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Kuwait, Iraq, Iran, Bah- seas: Do your homework before every trip. With such rain, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, , Nepal, Bangladesh, quick Internet research options and social networking, we Sri Lanka, Afghanistan, South Korea, Thailand, Egypt, should almost always have a good idea what we’re get- Somalia, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Libya, Kenya, Congo, ting into before we get on the plane. Whenever possible, Rwanda, , South Africa, Zimbabwe, Zam- arrange a local fixer/driver ahead of time – someone who bia, Angola, Lesotho, Swaziland, Liberia. United States. knows the story and the terrain – someone who can get to When did you join the OPC: 2013. where you need to be and, just as importantly, get you out of harm’s way if things go wrong. Hostile environment What stories are hardest to photograph: Anything in- training beforehand is good, with the first aid training ele- volving children in extreme pain. ment the most important. You volunteered to cover the Ebola epidemic in West My heroes are: I know a lot of brave Africa and were one of the first photojournalists to and talented people I respect. document conditions there. What drew you to this story? When I read that Doctors Without Borders was Where you most want to return: I’m afraid there are so saying that the spread of the disease in the Liberian cap- many places I’ve had important life experiences in, that’s ital of Monrovia was potentially catastrophic, that got a hard one to answer. Most countries I would return to if my attention. Ebola is usually fatal and the cramped and the story was right, and there are so many places I’ve yet unsanitary conditions in that highly urban environment to see. had horrible potential for catastrophe. I remembered the Twitter handle: @jbmoore6400 last major Ebola outbreak in Congo in the mid 1990’s, which caused great alarm, so I knew international inter- Want to add to the OPC’s collection of Q&As with mem- est in this would be high. bers? Please contact [email protected].

OPC Bulletin • May 2015 • Page 15 most alarming stories of the book, ris, March], Mike Smith, a former New Books she recalls being captured by Qad- AFP correspondent who served as WAR PHOTOGRAPHER dafi’s soldiers while covering the the agency’s West Africa bureau YNSEY ADDARIO, A VET- civil war in Libya in 2011. Her driv- chief from 2010 to 2013, takes a Leran photojournalist and OPC er was executed, and she close look at the powerful member, recounts her career cov- was taken into custody for extremist group and chron- ering hostile areas and explores several days along with fel- icles its rise from a small conflicted feelings and enigmatic low New York Times jour- unknown Islamic sect in motivations for chasing dangerous nalists Tyler Hicks, an OPC Nigeria in the early 2000’s assignments in her book It’s What I member who won the 2013 to its sudden international Do [Penguin Press, February]. Robert Capa Gold Medal infamy after a campaign of The memoir takes readers from Award, Stephen Farrell, suicide bomb attacks, mass who in 2007 won a shared killings and abductions, her childhood in affluent West- OPC award for Best Web including the kidnapping port, , to her first forays Coverage of International of hundreds of schoolgirls abroad in Argentina in 1996, when Affairs, and Anthony Shad- last year. she began to sell photos to the Eng- id, an OPC member and 2003 Hal Since the execution of its found- lish-language Buenos Aires Herald Boyle Award winner who died from er during an uprising in 2009, the and discovered a passion for photo- an asthma attack in Syria in Febru- group has spread its brutality from journalism. ary, 2012. Nigeria to neighboring Niger, Cam- Her big break followed Addario won the OPC’s eroon and Chad. Smith examines the Sept. 11 attacks in Olivier Rebbot Award in how conditions in northern Nigeria, 2001. While based in In- 2010. She also received the including abusive security forces dia working for The As- MacArthur Fellowship in and a corrupt, ineffective govern- sociated Press, she had 2008, and was part of a New ment, laid the foundation for the already photographed Af- York Times team that won group’s accession. ghan refugees in Pakistan a Pulitzer Prize in 2009 for “The problem is nothing less and women in Afghanistan International Reporting for than the current state of Nigeria under rule. When work in Waziristan. and the way it is being robbed daily U.S. forces landed in Af- Warner Bros. won the – certainly of its riches, but more ghanistan, she was poised rights to her book, and importantly, of its dignity,” Smith to become a full-time her story is slated to be di- wrote in the book. stringer for The New York Times. rected by and por- Smith was a correspondent for Addario’s career took her into the trayed by . AFP and was the agency’s bureau heart of conflicts in Sudan, Iraq, the chief in West Africa from 2010 to Democratic , NIGERIA 2013. Pakistan and Libya. In one of the N BOKO HARAM: INSIDE — By Randy Fung I Nigeria’s Unholy War [I.B. Tau- Upcoming Events CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL OPC WINNERS!

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