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OPC Welcomes 'Extraordinary' New Board Members THE MONTHLY NEWSLETTER OF THE OVERSEAS PRESS CLUB OF AMERICA, NEW YORK, NY • September 2015 OPC Welcomes ‘Extraordinary’ New Board Members EVENT RECAP Voice of America; Anjali Kamat, correspondent for By Chad Bouchard Fault Lines; Mary Rajku- During the Annual Meeting on mar, international enter- Aug. 25, the OPC announced results of prise editor for The Asso- this year’s election for Board of Gov- ciated Press; and Vivienne ernors. Over the last month, members cast ballots to select 12 Active board Walt, correspondent for members and two Associate board Time and Fortune maga- members. Ninety-two electronic bal- zines. Newly reelected lots were cast along with eight paper are Robert Nickelsberg, former contract photogra- ballots for a tidy total of 100. Chad Bouchard pher for Time magazine; At the meeting, OPC President Left to right: Yvonne Dunleavy, Marcus Mabry, Marcus Mabry said he hopes for the Martin Smith, producer for Patricia Kranz, Jacqueline Albert-Simon club to build on successes of the last WGBH’s Frontline; and and Bill Holstein. year. “I think we have an extraordi- Charles Wallace, financial global head of media outreach for nary Board of Governors that gives us writer and former correspondent for the Google News Lab, was reelected, the connections and the networks and UPI, the Los Angeles Times, Fortune and returning to the board after a one- the brain power and the experience and Time magazine. year hiatus is Minky Worden, direc- and the youthful energy to allow us to Members also elected two Associ- tor of global initiatives for Human move forward and capitalize on all the ate board members. Daniel Sieberg, Rights Watch. strengths from last year,” he said. Twelve Active members were elected. New to the board are: Hannah Panel to Discuss Reverberations in China who spent six years in China, includ- Allam, foreign affairs correspondent EVENT PREVIEW: Sept 10 for McClatchy Newspapers; Deborah ing three researching Chinese com- Amos, international correspondent for By William J. Holstein panies and macroeconomic develop- NPR; Molly Bingham, freelance jour- Shockwaves have been emanating ments for hedge funds; and Elizabeth nalist and filmmaker; Anupreeta Das, from mainland China in a way that Economy, C.V. Starr Senior Fellow reporter for The Wall Street Journal; the world has never seen. The govern- and director of Asia studies at the Scott Gilmore, international columnist ment suddenly devalued the country’s Council on Foreign Relations, and for Maclean’s Magazine; Steve Her- currency, the Shanghai stock market co-author of By All Means Neces- man, Southeast Asia bureau chief for has fallen sharply and the pace of eco- sary: How China’s Resource Quest nomic growth has slowed to levels not Is Changing The World. Former OPC Inside. seen in decades. Plus, a major chemi- president William J. Holstein, editor Preview: Greek Debt Crisis Panel......2 cal disaster in the port city of Tianjin most recently of Has The American Preview: Documentary.Filmmaking...2 has raised questions about the corrup- Media Misjudged China?, a book Scholar Dispatch: Bangkok Bombs....3 tion that has accompanied the Middle Kingdom’s rise to wealth. based on an OPC reunion of current Malaysia’s Crackdown......................4 Panelists include Gady Epstein and former China correspondents, Atish Saha Goes ‘On the Road’.......4 with The Economist, who has just will moderate. People Column..............................6-8 transferred to New York after more Attendance is free, but please make reservations with Executive Press Freedom Update..............9-10 than a decade in Beijing for The Economist and Forbes magazines Director Patricia Kranz by calling Q&A: Dana Thomas.......................11 and The Baltimore Sun; Gwynn Guil- 212-626-9220 or sending an email New Books....................................12 ford, a reporter and editor for Quartz to [email protected]. Making a Winning Documentary EVENT PREVIEW: Sept 30 EVENT PREVIEW: Oct. 1 By Patricia Kranz By Patricia Kranz The Greek debt crisis is a hydra of a story, with tenta- In 2009, Jonathan Jones won the OPC Foundation’s cles circling the globe from Athens to Frankfurt to Wash- I.F. Stone scholarship for an essay he wrote examining ington and beyond. Join the OPC and the CUNY Gradu- how the American company Firestone managed to con- ate School of Journalism on Sept. 30 to get tips from vet- tinue operating in Liberia during the country’s brutal civil eran journalists on how they made a complex economic war. Fast forward six years, and a documentary based story come alive. on his reporting is a nominee for an Emmy award. The Panelists are: Liz Alderman, the chief European busi- film,Firestone and the Warlord, was created by ProPubli- ness correspondent for the Paris-based International New ca, PBS Frontline and Rain Media. Marcela Gaviria of York Times, who has written ex- Rain Media produced the film, tensively on the impact of the debt and won a citation for the OPC’s crisis and austerity policies on the Edward R. Murrow Award this lives of average citizens, as well as spring. The team also took first the societal and political implica- place in the 2014 Investigative tions; Jack Ewing, the European Reporters and Editors award in economics correspondent for In- the Large Multiplatform cat- ternational New York Times, based egory, won an RFK Journalism in Frankfurt, whose primers on Award and were named a finalist the financial sources of the crisis in the International Category for are must-reading for anyone who a 2015 Gerard Loeb Award. The wants to understand what has happened; and Dody Tsian- Emmy winners will be announced Sept. 28. tar, a freelance journalist who has been teaching journalism Fresh from the Emmy ceremony, Jonathan and Mar- at CUNY since 2006. Tsiantar is fluent in Greek and spent cela will come to the Club Quarters on Oct. 1 from 6:30 the summer in Greece reporting stories and blogs for the Los p.m. to 7:30 p.m. to screen clips from the documentary Angeles Times, Al Jazeera America, BuzzFeed, and Quartz. and discuss how they turned a mountain of evidence Marcus Mabry, president of the OPC and Editor at large at into a compelling narrative. The team used diplomatic The New York Times, is the moderator. cables, court documents and accounts from Americans Alderman and Ewing will participate from Europe via who ran a rubber plantation as Liberia descended into Skype. To RSVP, call 212-626-9220 or send an email to chaos. To RSVP, call 212-626-9220 or send an email to [email protected]. [email protected]. OVERSEAS PRESS CLUB OF AMERICA • BOARD OF GOVERNORS PRESIDENT ACTIVE BOARD Scott Gilmore Paul Moakley ASSOCIATE BOARD PAST PRESIDENTS Marcus Mabry Jacqueline Albert- International Columnist Deputy Director MEMBERS EX-OFFICIO Editor at large Simon Maclean’s Magazine Photography and Brian I. Byrd Michael Serrill U.S. Bureau Chief Visual Enterprise The New York Times Time magazine Program Officer David A. Andelman Politique Internationale Peter S. Goodman NYS Health John Corporon Editor-in-Chief FIRST VICE PRESIDENT Hannah Allam Robert Nickelsberg Foundation Allan Dodds Frank Calvin Sims International Freelance Alexis Gelber Foreign Affairs Business Times President and CEO Correspondent Photojournalist Bill Collins William J. Holstein Director, Public & Marshall Loeb International House McClatchy Mary Rajkumar Newspapers Charles Graeber Business Affairs Larry Martz Freelance Journalist International Enterprise SECOND VICE PRESIDENT Editor Ford Motor Company Roy Rowan Deborah Amos and Author The Associated Press Larry Smith Abigail Pesta Correspondent Freelance Journalist Emma Daly Richard B. Stolley NPR Steve Herman Lara Setrakian Communications Bureau Chief Co-Founder & CEO Director Molly Bingham Southest Asia News Deeply EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR THIRD VICE PRESIDENT Human Rights Watch Patricia Kranz Pancho Bernasconi Freelance Journalist Voice of America Vice President/News Martin Smith Rukmini Callimachi President Daniel Sieberg OFFICE MANAGER Getty Images Anjali Kamat Rain Media Foreign Correspondent Global Head Boots R. Duque Correspondent Fault Lines of Media Outreach TREASURER The New York Times Liam Stack Al-Jazeera Breaking News Google EDITOR Tim Ferguson Chad Bouchard Anuptreeta Das Reporter Editor Azmat Khan The New York Times Minky Worden Forbes Asia Reporter Wall Street Journal Investigative Reporter Director of Global Charles Wallace Initiatives OPC BuzzFeed News Financial Writer SECRETARY Chris Dickey Human Rights Watch ISSN-0738-7202 Deidre Depke Foreign Editor Dan Klaidman Vivienne Walt Copyright © 2015 Journalist and The Daily Beast, Deputy Editor Correspondent Over seas Press Club Author Paris Yahoo News Time and Fortune of America 40 West 45 Street, New York, NY 10036 USA • Phone: (212) 626-9220 • Fax: (212) 626-9210 • Website: opcofamerica.org OPC Bulletin • September 2015 • Page 2 OPC Scholar Reports on Bangkok Bombings for AP By Ted Andersen This summer, my final week in Bangkok as an Over- seas Press Club Foundation intern for the Associated Press occurred during the bombing that killed 20 and in- jured 125 in the center of the city. Another blast went off the next day, this time along my daily commute at Sathorn Pier on the Chao Phraya River. I took pictures at the scene of both incidents. AP and other outlets produced multi- ple reports, but amid all the coverage, the attacks remain shrouded in mystery. Between the monarchy, the military government and their detractors, the intricacies of Thai politics are com- plex. My aim as an intern was to research every ques- Andersen Ted tion and talk with as many experienced staff members and Police survey the bombing aftermath in Bangkok. sources as possible. Doing so revealed to me a kingdom in crisis. King Bhumibol Adulyadej, the oldest continu- ously serving monarch in the world, is now an 87-year- old hospital patient who has water on the brain and sits on death’s doorstep without a chosen successor.
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