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THE MONTHLY NEWSLETTER OF THE OVERSEAS PRESS CLUB OF AMERICA, NEW YORK, NY • October 2013 Two Reporting Giants to Recount Chinese Civil War EVENT PREVIEW: OCTOBER 1 The two surviving American cor- respondents who covered ’s civil war from 1946 to 1950 will share their best eyewitness stories with OPC members and their guests on Wednesday Oct 1 at the 3 West Club at the Women’s National Re- publican Club, 3 West 51 Street in the Solarium Room. Reception be- gins at 6 p.m. and program at 7 p.m. Please note the change of location. This event will not be held at Club Quarters. Roy Rowan, a former OPC pres- ident who worked in China for the United Nations and then Time Life, and Seymour Topping, an OPC board member and the distinguished veteran of who Global Broadcasters Vie for American Audience was working for The Associated networks led by moderator Jim Lau- Press during the war, will each tell EVENT PREVIEW: OCTOBER 16 rie. Laurie is an OPC member who three stories that capture the sweep One of the hottest topics in the was an NBC correspondent in Sai- of the war, from meeting Mao Tse- current media environment is inter- gon, an ABC correspondent who tung in remote Yenan province to national broadcasters who seek a established the first American TV observing defeated Nationalist Gen- place and influence in the American network news bureau in China, a eralissimo Chiang Kai-Shek flee the marketplace. Al Jazeera, the most director of the broadcast journalism mainland. aggressive, launched its new Ameri- department at University of Hong The event begins a year of com- can channel, Al Jazeera America Kong and recently a consultant to Al on August 20 in New York. China memorating the 75th anniversary of Jazeera English and CCTV News. Central Television launched CCTV the Overseas Press Club. Moderat- The panel discussion will take ing will be former OPC President America in February 2012 and plan place on Wednesday, October 16 and current OPC Foundation Presi- a further expansion in December. at the East River (Continued on Page 2) Russia Today (RT) took on Larry Room, 320 East 43 Street. Joining King as a prime time host in June us will be Off-the-Record, a branch Inside. . . and have a strong YouTube follow- of the Foreign Policy Association, ing. BBC World News, which ex- People...... 3-6 and the Society of Silurians. Regis- panded its U.S. distribution in 2012, tration begins at 5:30 p.m., reception People Remembered...... 6 NHK of Japan, France 24 and others at 6 p.m. and the panel discussion at are vying for impact in the global 6:45 p.m. Bruce Dunning Remembered...... 6 and American media space. RSVP and a photo ID to enter the The OPC will assemble a panel Barrett Brown Case...... 7 building are essential. Please call the of news executives, reporters and OPC office 212-626-9220 or e-mail New Books...... 12 media commentators from the new [email protected]. (Continued From Page 1) wholesale flight of Nationalist sol- publicly executed. dent William J. Holstein. “I am diers, who were abandoning their Topping, who was present for the absolutely honored to be there with equipment. It was the beginning of fall of Nanjing just before two of my heroes and help them tell the end for Chiang. collapsed, also covered Chiang as he their stories,” he said. “This is a tru- Soon thereafter, Topping covered and his forces evacuated the main- ly historic event.” Holstein also cov- the Battle of Huai-Hai In January land to what was then called For- ered China but arrived 30 years after 1949, which was the decisive battle mosa, today called Taiwan. The war the end of the war. of the war. Some 550,000 of Chi- is widely seen as having ended in The stories that Rowan and Top- ang’s best troops were surrounded 1949, but there was a battle between and eliminated by the People’s Lib- ping will tell start in 1946 when the two sides in 1950 for control of eration Army. Topping was held un- Rowan was organizing convoys of Hainan Island and Topping covered relief supplies to both Nationalist der house arrest after he crossed into that as well. and Communist areas for the United Communist-held territory. Photographs from both men’s Nations. A bullet struck his wind- Rowan, although ill with typhoid collections will be on display. The shield, persuading him to resign and fever, covered the fall of Shanghai evening will be video-taped and go home. In Shanghai he stopped at later that year. Desperate Nationalist the hotel bar and met the Time-Life leaders trying to stop black market- photographed for posterity’s sake. bureau chief and was soon offered a ing and smuggling activities round- For reservations, contact Executive job. ed up suspects and paraded them Director Sonya Fry at 212-626-9229 Topping visited the fiery Com- through the streets. Then they were or email [email protected]. munist leader Mao in at his head- quarters in Yenan in November 1946 to make an assessment of whether No CQ Services Until Further Notice he could prevail against the much better-armed Nationalist forces. In November 1948, Rowan ob- Club Quarters Midtown at 40 West 45 Street, where tained a rare interview with Chiang Kai-Shek in and was as- the OPC is located, closed its food and beverage sured that the Nationalist defenses service during the summer. The restaurant and bar in were holding steady. But when he and photographer will remain closed for the foreseeable future. Jack Birn reached Mukden, today called Shenyang, they witnessed the

OVERSEAS PRESS CLUB OF AMERICA • BOARD OF GOVERNORS PRESIDENT SECRETARY Jane Ciabattari Santiago Lyon Charles Wallace PAST PRESIDENTS Michael Serrill Jonathan Dahl Freelance Writer VP and Director of Financial Writer EX-OFFICIO Assistant Managing Editor in Chief NPR.org, Daily Beast Photography David A. Andelman Editor WSJMoney ASSOCIATE BOARD John Corporon Bloomberg Markets Deidre Depke ­MEMBERS Allan Dodds Frank ACTIVE BOARD Executive Editor Marcus Mabry Brian Byrd Alexis Gelber FIRST VICE PRESIDENT Jacqueline Albert- The Daily Beast Editor at Large Program Officer William J. Holstein Tim Ferguson Simon The New York Times NYS Health Marshall Loeb Editor U.S. Bureau Chief Martin Dickson Foundation Larry Martz Forbes Asia Politique Internationale U.S. Managing Editor Robert Nickelsberg Roy Rowan Financial Times Freelance Sarah Lubman Leonard Saffir SECOND VICE PRESIDENT Amar C. Bakshi Photojournalist Partner Larry Smith Abigail Pesta JD/MBA student Arlene Getz Brunswick Group Richard B. Stolley Freelance Journalist Yale University Editor-in-Charge, Media Romesh Ratnesar Thomson Deputy Editor Daniel Sieberg EXECUTIVE THIRD VICE PRESIDENT Rebecca Bloomberg Head of Media Outreach DIRECTOR Toni Reinhold Blumenstein Azmat Khan Businessweek Google Sonya K. Fry Editor in Charge, Deputy Editor in Chief Senior Digital Producer New York Desk Al Jazeera Martin Smith EDITOR Reuters President Director of Global Aimee Vitrak Paul Brandus Evelyn Leopold Rain Media Initiatives TREASURER West Wing Report Independent Journalist Human Rights Watch Dorinda Elliott United Nations Seymour Topping Global Affairs Editor Howard Chua-Eoan Emeritus Abi Wright OPC Conde Nast Traveler Former News Director Dafna Linzer Professor of Director ISSN-0738-7202 Time Managing Editor International Journalism Alfred I. duPont – ­Copyright © 2002 MSNBC.com Columbia University Over­seas Press Club of Awards America 40 West 45 Street, New York, NY 10036 USA • Phone: (212) 626-9220 • Fax: (212) 626-9210 • Website: opcofamerica.org OPC Bulletin • October 2013 • Page 2 PEOPLE... by Susan Kille [email protected]

OPC SCHOLARS tween their captors and anti-regime chief of Al-Adwaa Nizar Manek, winner of the rebels. Two investigative reporters daily and a col- 2012 Harper’s Magazine Scholar- who have set standards for courage umnist for several ship in memory of I.F. Stone, is in and quality journalism will receive other publications. Egypt studying for a diploma in Knight International Journalism He is also the di- Modern Standard Arabic & Egyptian Awards: Roman Anin of the Rus- rector of programs Salih Colloquial Arabic sian opposition daily Novaya Gazeta at Teeba Press, a at Alexandria Uni- and Umar Cheema of The News, non-government organization that versity. He moved Pakistan’s largest English-language trains journalists in Sudan. The to Egypt after fin- daily. The awards dinner is Novem- award, which is administered by the ishing a Financial ber 7 in Washington and OPC mem- Global Media Forum and Reporters Times fellowship ber Nicholas Kristof will give the Without Borders (RSF), honors the in London and a Manek keynote address. memory of Peter Mackler, a vet- stint in an archi- eran journalist with AFP. The award val research project at Private Eye, a As the oldest international will be presented at the National satirical and investigative magazine awards in journalism marks its 75th Press Club on October 24. It honors in Great Britain. He has contributed year, the Maria Moors Cabot Prizes journalists who fight courageously to Barron’s, Africa Confidential and will honor four journalists and give and ethically to report the news in other publications. He is a graduate an overdue award to a fifth. The priz- countries where freedom of the press of the Columbia University Gradu- es, administered by the Columbia is either not guaranteed or not recog- ate School of Journalism and the University Graduate School of Jour- nized. London School of Economics. nalism, are given for outstanding re- porting about Latin America, often in PRESS FREEDOM WINNERS countries that do not respect freedom BEIJING: As the expansion of Richard Engel, chief foreign of the press. The winners are Bra- microblogs like Sina Weibo make it correspondent of NBC News, will zilian investigative reporter Mauro harder to control information, China be honored with the Excellence in König; Alejandro Rubino Santos, has ordered all journalists at state- International Reporting Award from editor-in-chief of Semana magazine run media — more than 300,000 the International Center for Journal- in Colombia; Jon Lee Anderson of reporters and editors — to attend at ists. Engel cov- and Donna DeC- least two days of Marxism classes. ered the Iraq war esare, a documentary photographer, Journalists and bloggers have been in its entirety and author and freelance writer. Now arrested after posting in microblogs has also reported that Cuba has eased travel restraints, about administrative irregularities on the conflict be- blogger Yoani Sánchez is expected that officials dismissed as rumors. tween and to travel from Havana to New York China has shut various websites in Hezbollah. During to receive the prize she was awarded a bid to control the spread of infor- Engel the Arab Spring, in 2009. Each winner will receive mation. The classes will be held for he also was on the $5000 and a medal. The prizes will the next few months. China ranks ground in Egypt be awarded October 21 at Columbia, 173 out of 179 countries on the Press and Libya. Last during the opening day of a two-day Freedom Index of RSF. December, he and conference titled “Press Freedom, his team were Press Standards and Democracy in Shi Tao, a Chinese journalist kidnapped, blind- Latin America.” who had been imprisoned since 2005 folded and bound Anin after Yahoo! gave government of- while reporting in Faisal Mohammed Salih, a Su- ficials information about his e-mail Syria. They faced danese reporter who was jailed for account, was released from prison in psychological tor- speaking out against human rights early September. Shi was arrested in ture during five abuses committed by the Khartoum 2004 for leaking “state secrets” and days of captivity government, has been named the sentenced to 10 years in prison. He and escaped dur- 2013 winner of the Peter Mackler was released 15 months early for ing a shoot-out be- Cheema Award. Salih is the former editor-in- (Continued on Page 4)

OPC Bulletin • October 2013 • Page 3 (Continued From Page 3) NEW YORK: A year after a IBN 7, died Sep- reasons that are unclear. His offense police officer ar- tember 8 after be- was using his Yahoo! e-mail account rested a freelance photographer in ing shot in the chest to send messages to an online forum, August 2012 working for The New while covering con- based in New York, about a Chinese York Times, investigators said the of- frontations between ficer had lied about the reason for the Hindus and Mus- propaganda directive censoring do- Verma mestic news coverage of the 15th arrest. Officer Michael Ackermann lims in the city of anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen was indicted on three felony counts Muzaffarnagar. On August 23, gun- Square massacre. Shi, who is also and five misdemeanors. Ackerman men killed Rakesh Sharma, a se- a poet, is a member of Independent claimed that while he was making nior reporter for Hindi-language dai- Chinese PEN Center, which advo- an arrest, Robert Stolarik, who has ly Aaj, in Bakewar. Local journalists cates for freedom of speech. Chi- worked for The Times for more than said they believed a local gambling nese dissident Wang Xiaoning was a decade, repeatedly discharged his mafia had targeted Sharma after he released from prison in 2012 after camera’s flash in Ackerman’s face. wrote about illegal gambling. serving a 10-year sentence after be- Stolarik was arrested on charges of ing convicted of state subversion on obstructing government administra- Two journalists in the evidence provided by Yahoo! During tion and resisting arrest. Investiga- were killed within a week. Ver- a heated 2007 Congressional hear- tors, however, established that the gel Bico, a newspaper editor of the ing on Yahoo!’s role in the jailing of camera did not have a flash when Kalahi weekly in Mindoro Oriental Shi and Wang, Jerry Yang, the com- Stolarik was arrested and that no province, was shot twice in the head pany’s chief executive at the time, other officers or bystanders reported September 4 as he was driving his apologized to the families of the seeing a flash. Ackerman faces up to motorcycle. Ronald Bula, publisher men. Later, the company settled law- seven years in jail if convicted of the of a newspaper where Bico had pre- suits brought by the two men. most serious charge, tampering with viously worked as a columnist, said public records. Bico had written recently about il- legal gambling. On August 29, ra- The Syrian Electronic Army dio commentator Fernando Soli- claimed several recent security jon was fatally shot by two men on breaches, including hacks in August a motorcycle in Iligan City. Solijon of The New York Times, The Wash- frequently criticized local politicians ington Post, Time and CNN. Earlier during his radio program and had this year, The Financial Times, The made accusations about officials be- Quirico Guardian, and The Associated Press ing involved in the drug trade. Ear- were hit. Also attacked recently were lier in August, three Filipino journal- ROME: Domenico Quirico, an and the Marine Corps. The ists were murdered within 48 hours Italian war correspondent, was freed Syrian Electronic Army is a collec- in two incidents. The National Union along with Belgian teacher Pierre tive of hackers that supports Presi- of Journalists of the Philippines says Piccinin da Prata in early Septem- dent Bashar al-Assad of Syria. nearly 160 journalists have been ber after both men were held captive killed in the country since 1986. for five months by multiple armed MURDERS groups in Syria. Writing for his pa- Eight journalists lost their lives In a case drawing protests from per, La Stampa, Quirico described in Syria between January and June journalism advocates, a Mexican being subjected to two mock execu- while six died in India, according to judge has absolved Marco Arturo tions and said he was “treated like an the International News Safety Insti- Quiñones Sánchez of charges he animal.” tute’s biannual Killing the Messen- tried to assassinate J. Jesús Blan- He said he and da Prata were ger survey that counted a total of 40 cornelas, a crusad- passed from one armed group that news media casualties. Pakistan, So- ing investigative took them on dangerous journeys malia and Brazil rounded out the top journalist, and killed halfway across Syria as they were five most deadly countries for jour- a bodyguard. Blan- forced to move as battle frontlines nalists in the first half of 2013. cornelas, founder shifted. He arrived home on Septem- and former editor ber 11, after what Italian authorities Two journalists were killed in the of the Tijuana-based Blancornelas said were extensive efforts by the northern state of Uttar Pradesh in weekly magazine Italian foreign ministry and other India. Rajesh Verma, who worked Zeta, was badly wounded in the agencies. part-time for the TV news channel 1997 attack. The editors of Zeta said

OPC Bulletin • October 2013 • Page 4 they were informed of the ruling on to his reports exposing state torture. managing editor at Fortune maga- September 5. Quinones was arrested For the next four years, he reported zine, executive editor at Men’s Jour- in 2003, when authorities described from South Africa and in 2005 he nal, -based reporter for The him as a hit man for the Tijuana published a book, Where We Have Associated Press and Tokyo Bureau Cartel’s Arellano Felix brothers. Hope: A Memoir of Zimbabwe. He chief for U.S. News & World Report. The court didn’t explain why it ab- became a Nieman Fellow at Harvard solved Quinones, but he will remain University in September 2007 and in After seven years as managing in prison on a 12-year sentence for the fall of 2008 went to work as dep- editor of Time magazine, Richard organized crime. uty managing editor of GlobalPost. Stengel is leaving to become under secretary of state for public diplo- The mutilated body of Pakistani NEW YORK: Tina Brown is macy and public affairs at the State journalist Haji Abdul Razzak was leaving The Daily Beast, an online Department. Nancy Gibbs, deputy found August 21 in Karachi, seven news magazine she founded in 2008 managing editor, will step up to months after he with , at the end of the be the first female top editor at the went missing on year to start a business, Tina Brown 90-year-old magazine, which she March 24. Razzak, Live Media, that will focus on con- has run since late July, when Sten- a copy editor for the ferences, including gel joined Martha Nelson, who newspaper Daily the annual Women became editor-in-chief of Time Inc. Tawaar in Baloch, is in the World sum- in January, to prepare for the com- the eighth journalist mit she started at her pany’s separation from parent com- to be killed in Paki- Razzak current job. Shortly pany Time Warner. Gibbs has writ- stan since the beginning of 2013, after announcing her ten more Time cover stories than any according to the International Press departure Septem- other writer. Stengel, who has had a Institute. ber 11, she said she Brown long career as a writer and editor for has a contract with Henry Holt and Time, is among other former jour- UPDATES Company to write Media Beast, a nalists who recently joined the State Egyptian security forces arrested memoir. Beginning at the age of 25 Department. Douglas Frantz, who Gehad el-Haddad, who was the when she became editor-in-chief of worked for The New York Times, the main contact in the Muslim Broth- Tatler, a society magazine in Lon- Times and The Washing- erhood for Western media, on Sep- don, Brown established an impres- ton Post, in September was named tember 17 as part of a round up of sive track record running print mag- assistant secretary for public affairs. senior members of the organization. azines on both sides of the Atlantic Glen Johnson, former political edi- El-Haddad, who formerly worked in before failing to revive Newsweek, tor at The Boston Globe, took a posi- Egypt for the Clinton Foundation, which merged with The Daily Beast tion as a senior advisor in early 2013. is accused of inciting violence and in 2010. She was editor of The New murder. Yorker, Vanity Fair and the short- Robert Allbritton, the publisher lived Talk. Newsweek was sold to of the politics-obsessed Politico in JOHANNESBURG: The Bul- IBT Media in August after ending its Washington, is branching into New letin is playing catch-up with the print edition last December. York with the purchase announced news that OPC member Andrew September 9 of the three-year-old Meldrum has returned to Africa. About a month after Newsweek news website Capi- Since June 2012, Meldrum has been got a new owner, IBT Media an- tal New York. His living here as assistant Africa edi- nounced September 12 that Jim Im- plans include adding tor for The Associ- poco will be editor-in-chief of the more than two doz- ated Press. Begin- online-only publication. Impoco left en people to a staff ning in 1981 he was Thompson Reuters last January, after that had numbered Allbritton based in Zimbabwe spending four years eight. In the fall, a and working for serving as both en- relaunch of the website should unveil overlapping peri- terprise editor and a New York State version of Politico. ods for The Guard- Meldrum executive editor. His Capital New York was founded by ian of London, The past jobs include Josh Benson and Tom McGeveran, Economist and AFP until May 2003 Sunday business ed- who both worked at New York Ob- when he was abducted by Robert itor at The New York Impoco server. Jim VandeHei, a co-founder Mugabe’s agents and illegally ex- Times, deputy editor of Politico who had covered Wash- pelled after the government objected at Condé Nast’s Portfolio, assistant (Continued on Page 6)

OPC Bulletin • October 2013 • Page 5 (Continued From Page 5) People Remembered: Bruce Dunning ington politics for The Washington Bruce Dunning, a longtime CBS News correspondent and OPC mem- Post and The Wall Street Journal, ber, died August 26 at the age of 73 from injuries suffered in a fall. He was will be president of the New York perhaps best known for how his 1975 report on the operation while remaining Politico’s last evacuation flight from Da Nang, which vividly executive editor and living in Wash- captured the frantic end of the . ington. In Washington, Politico con- That five-minute report on a plane sent to res- sists of a free website, paid premium cue women and children, now available on the In- ternet, has lost none of its impact. It shows Viet- products and a free circulation paper namese military members who were supposed to distributed mostly on Capitol Hill. defend Da Nang and other armed men fighting their way to board the plane and even clinging outside WASHINGTON: After a ca- after liftoff. The report won the OPC Best TV Spot reer as a foreign correspondent that News Award and was recently named to the Co- included receiving the Edward R. lumbia University Journalism School’s 100 Great Murrow and George Polk awards Stories list. and a citation for excellence from Dunning, who lived in Union City, New Jersey, spent much of his 35-year career at CBS News reporting from Asia. He the OPC, Jim Sciutto left the news opened the network’s Beijing bureau in 1981 and as Asia bureau chief business in 2011 and settled in Bei- was based in Tokyo where he served as president of the Tokyo Foreign jing as chief of staff to U.S. Ambas- Correspondents’ Club. Stories he covered included the political scandal sador Gary Locke. He has had sec- involving Japanese Prime Minister Tanaka; the attempted assassination ond thoughts. Sciutto was named of South Korean President Park Chung Hee; and the incredible story of CNN’s chief national security corre- the Japanese WWII lieutenant emerging from a Philippine jungle after 30 spondent on September 3 and he will years of hiding. He later reported from Latin America and the Caribbean report and provide analysis on U.S. for CBS and spent two months covering the 1991 Gulf War from Dubai, Tel Aviv, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait. national security, including foreign He began his journalism career at the St. Petersburg Times in Florida policy, the military, and the from 1963 to 1966 and then became features editor for the International intelligence community. He spent 13 Herald Tribune in Paris, where he also studied at the Sorbonne. He joined years with ABC News, mostly in in- CBS in July 1969 as a reporter/assignment editor in New York. He was ternational hotspots. He will now be posted to the Saigon bureau in August 1970 and was named a correspon- based in Washington. dent in July 1972. — by Susan Kille The reporters who broke the Wa- in Connecticut on July 5. He the Ben Grauer Award for tergate scandal are headed back to was 59 and suffered from radio for his reporting on the college. With the new school year, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Carl Bernstein has joined the fac- Tokyo stock market. He also also known as Lou Gehrig’s In 2001, Curran received a ulty of Stony Brook University as a disease. In a career spanning Time Inc. Luce Award for visiting presidential professor. Next more than three decades in commissioning and publish- semester, Bob Woodward is sched- New York, Curran wrote and uled to teach a journalism seminar edited stories on investing, bank- ing a story on the threat of at Yale University, his alma mater. ing and international economics. In global terrorism reaching the U.S. Woodward said he intends to teach 1988, while at Fortune, he received — six months before the September the intensive and immersive report- the OPC Morton Frank Award and 11th terrorist attacks. ing method he has used in his career. Bernstein will co-teach and lecture journalism classes and students ma- OPC Foundation President joring in English, history, political William J. Holstein, pictured science, sociology and writing. Ber- right, served as interlocutor for the discussion on Taiwan’s nstein will also be involved in devel- democracy model with David opment and fundraising. J. Lorenzo, left, an associate professor at National Cheng- PEOPLE REMEMBERED chi University in Taipei. The John J. Curran, a Bloomberg event was held at the Taipei News editor who spent most of his Economic and Cultural Office career at Fortune died at his home in New York on September 11.

OPC Bulletin • October 2013 • Page 6 Brown Case Poses Troubling Implications for Press Freedom in U.S. by Susan Kille wrote Geoffrey King, Internet advocacy With Internet connections now more coordinator for the CPJ. important to media than barrels of ink, In 2010, Brown formed an online new descriptions have emerged in journal- group named Project PM to investigate ism, including netizen, citizen journalist, documents unearthed by Anonymous, a crowdsourcing and words linked to “jour- hacker collective, and others. Through nalist” by a hyphen. Barrett Brown, a Brown in 2011 in New York. crowdsourcing, Project PM would seek to journalist based in Dallas who has written make sense of data dumps unearthed by hackers that are for The Guardian, Vanity Fair and The Huffington Post, too huge for one person to tackle alone. is called a journalism-activist and a journalist-agitator. In December 2011, Anonymous posted on Wikileaks Some people call him a political prisoner. about 5 million e-mails hacked from Stratfor Global In- Brown, 32, has been in jail since September 2012. He telligence, an intelligence contractor. The material re- faces more than 100 years in prison on charges relating vealed ties between government security agencies and to a link he posted online while working where his activ- private contractors, including discussions of opportuni- ism and journalism expertise converge: exposing online ties for renditions and assassinations. It also contained surveillance by private military contractors and cyberse- credit card numbers and security codes. After Brown curity firms. It’s a complicated, troubling case that shows posted a link seeking help analyzing the files, he was risks faced by reporters who report on leaks. Press advocates say the case is outrageous. Brown, charged with 12 counts related to identity theft. He is who continues to write from jail on other topics for The also charged with threatening an FBI officer and two Guardian, cannot comment because a federal judge in counts of obstruction of justice. Dallas issued a gag order against him and his legal team. Brown is a complicated hero for First Amendment “Barrett Brown is not a hacker, he is not a criminal,” rights. He has been open about his struggles with heroin. said Christophe Deloire, general secretary of RSF. “He He has not drawn a line between his journalism and ac- did not infiltrate any systems, nor did he appear to have tivism. He has connections to the shadowy Anonymous. the technical expertise to do so.” He is not charged with hacking, only with providing “The motion represents a troubling turn in an already- access to credit card information contained in a large troubling case for press freedom — a case that could database. While the charges against him could combine criminalize the routine journalistic practice of linking to 105 years in prison, The New York Times reported a to documents publicly available on the Internet, which man who pleaded guilty to participating in the would seem to be protected by the First Amendment,” Stratfor hacking faces a sentence of 10 years.

(Continued From Page 12) ernments are being made go Plan was awarded the Nation, a multi-media e-book [Pu- across the continent. It’s a $5000 grand prize in the litzer Center on Crisis Reporting, business plan that Western Atavist Digital Storymak- August]. Big business is what China countries like the United ers Award, sponsored by sees, Kushner reports. States, which strictly sepa- the Pearson Foundation, The Congo holds nearly half of rate government and pri- for long-form, non-fiction the world’s cobalt reserves and a vate enterprise, can’t dupli- multimedia writing by substantial supply of high-grade cop- cate. graduate students. Kush- per ore. A decade ago, after China’s Kushner examines what ner, who has a master’s in ruling party announced its “Go Out” the Congolese could gain or should political journalism from Columbia policy in 1999, a ton of copper was fear. China could usher the world’s University, this year won the first worth $1,700 on the world market. poorest nation toward modernity and Nathan S. Bienstock scholarship Today, it’s worth $8,000. create a new development model for from the OPC Foundation along Chinese companies are extract- all of Africa. Or, it may take Congo’s with a Foundation internship that ing minerals while investing billions natural wealth as did the Belgians in will soon send him to The Associ- building roads, hospitals and univer- colonial times and leave the masses ated Press bureau in Nairobi. Prior sities in Kinshasa and throughout in poverty. to his work in Africa, he spent two the Democratic Republic of Congo. Kushner earned support for his years reporting from Haiti and the Similar barter arrangements between reporting from the Pulitzer Center Dominican Republic. Chinese companies and African gov- on Crisis Reporting. China’s Con- — by Susan Kille

OPC Bulletin • October 2013 • Page 7 images by distinguished war cor- Vietnam: The Real War contains respondents such as , what readers will never forget: Ad- New Books and Seymour ams’s photo of a prisoner being exe- SOUTH EAST ASIA ITH VIETNAM: THE REAL Topping. The photos are placed in cuted at point blank range, Browne’s W War: A Photographic History context by a chronological text. image of a burning Buddhist monk by The Associated Press [Abrams, “Across the years of the war in and Ut’s picture of a naked girl run- October], the AP provides the visual Vietnam, the AP photographers saw ning from a napalm attack. Compel- proof of what was already known: more combat than any general,” Pete ling and rarely seen photos include no single news source surpassed Hamill, who reported from Vietnam American prisoners of war in Hanoi, AP’s coverage of the Vietnam War. in 1965, wrote in an introductory scenes of the French colonial occu- From 1950 to 1975, AP fielded essay. “This book shows how good pation and images of the abuse of the largest, most expe- they were. As a young Vietcong prisoners. rienced group of war reporter, I had learned Photos originally seen in news- correspondents and much from photogra- print display more detail in this care- photographers. Four of phers about how to see, fully printed book and even more on them died. The superb not merely look. From a gallery wall. An exhibition at the and brave photojour- Vietnam, photographers Steven Kasher Gallery in Manhattan, nalists in its Saigon bu- taught the world how 521 West 23rd Street, will coincide reau created an archive to see the war. Say the with the book’s publication. It will of tens of thousands of word ‘Vietnam’ today open October 24 and run through images. From that pho- to most people of a November 26. More than 60 photo- tographic legacy, 300 photos that de- certain age; the image that rises is graphs will be on view. pict the drama and tragedy of a war usually a photograph. An AP photo- that left a lasting imprint on America graph.” ASIA were selected for this 304-page vol- The book’s contributors are N THE LAST THREE YEARS, ume. names the OPC knows well; Top- I China surpassed the The book presents the work of ping serves on the OPC board and as Africa’s largest trading partner. more than 50 photojournalists, in- Faas, who died last year, Arnett and Africa has become an emerging mar- cluding Eddie Adams, Horst Faas, Hamill were members. On the cover ket for Chinese goods and a place Art Greenspon, Henri Huet, Nick is Greenspon’s painterly image of where China obtains raw materi- Ut and Dang Van Phuoc, and has U.S. soldiers helping comrades after als to fuel its manufacturing-driven an ambush as they wait for a mede- economy. vac helicopter. It retains its searing Jacob Kushner explores China’s power and is among the photos un- particular interest in the Democratic likely to have made it past military Republic of Congo in China’s Congo censors. Unlike World War II or the Plan: What the Economic Super- Seymour Topping , officials did not censor power Sees in the World’s Poorest And Roy Rowan copy or pictures from Vietnam. (Continued on Page 7)

Discuss the Overseas Press Club of America 40 West 45 Street Chinese Civil War New York, NY 10036 USA October 1 3 West Club at the Women’s National Republican Club, 3 West 51 Street Solarium Room, 6 p.m.

Panel: International Media in the U.S. October 16 The Ford Foundation 320 East 43rd Street 6 p.m.

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