THE MONTHLY NEWSLETTER OF THE OVERSEAS PRESS CLUB OF AMERICA, NEW YORK, NY • April 2014 Dinner Highlights Foreign Correspondents and OPC Jubilee

EVENT PREVIEW: APRIL 24 by Sonya K. Fry All OPC Awards Dinners are special to the Club. Still, in the past few years, hearts and minds have been focused on making the OPC’s 75th Anniversary Awards Dinner on Thursday, April 24 at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel an extra special occa- From left: Samantha Power, Bob Simon and David Muir sion. Early in the day, OPC represen- for Time. She became a scholar of CBS News. He has also reported tatives will participate in a special U.S. foreign policy and an advisor from the CBS and ceremony to flick the switch that to then-Senator Barack Obama and bureaus and in 1987 was named the lights up the Empire State Build- subsequently President Obama. CBS News Chief Middle East Cor- ing. Throughout the dinner, the New OPC President Michael Serrill respondent. He has won several OPC York landmark will be bathed in blue has selected veteran foreign corre- awards, most notably for coverage of — the official color of the OPC — in spondent Bob Simon as this year’s Vietnam, and the Rabin assas- honor of the Club’s anniversary and recipient of the OPC President’s sination in . He is currently a gala. Award. Simon began his reporting full-time correspondent for “CBS-60 The keynote speaker is former career 42 years ago in Vietnam for (Continued on Page 2) foreign correspondent and current U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations Samantha Pow- OPC Board Appoints New Executive Director er. She began her career The Board of Gov- investment bank Mor- covering the Yugoslav Wars from ernors of the OPC gan Stanley and, most 1993 to 1996. In 2003, her second has appointed Patri- recently, as an editor for book, A Problem from Hell: America cia Kranz, a longtime . and the Age of Genocide won the overseas correspondent Kranz has a bach- Pulitzer Prize. In 2004, Time maga- and editor, as its new elor’s degree in Euro- zine named her one of the 100 most Executive Director. pean history and French influential people in the world and Kranz will assume her from the University of new post upon the re- in 2007 she wrote a regular column Patricia Kranz Michigan and a mas- tirement of Executive ter’s in international af- Director Sonya Fry in fairs from . She May. Inside. . . also studied French language and Kranz lived and worked in Mos- civilization at the Sorbonne. Book Night Preview...... 3 cow for almost a decade, first as a Kranz brings a rich background Bloomberg Breakfast Recap...... 3 freelancer, then for BusinessWeek, covering the collapse of the Soviet in overseas journalism to the OPC,” People...... 5-9 Union and the creation of a new says OPC President Michael S. Ser- democratic Russia. She subsequent- rill. “During her time at Business- People Remembered...... 9-10 ly worked as European editor and Week, The Times and Reuters she demonstrated an ability to manage Club History Reflections...... 11 national editor for BusinessWeek, as a top business editor for The New big projects with skill. The Board New Books...... 12 York Times, as a vice president for (Continued on Page 10) (Continued From Page 1) Minutes,” a show he has contributed to for 18 years. The Awards Presenter is David Muir, Weekend An- chor of ABC News. Muir is also co-anchor of 20/20, ABC news magazine. Muir joined ABC News in 2003 and in 2012 was the first American journalist to report from Mogadishu on the Somali famine. He also reported on the Israeli war with Hezbollah and was in Gaza in 2007 to cover the Hamas coup. The nuclear accident at Chernobyl in the Ukraine, the earthquake in Haiti and the uprisings in Tahir Square were covered by Muir for ABC World News. OPC Foundation President William J. Holstein is A scene from the first OPC Dinner in 1940, which the Awards Dinner Chairman who is responsible for cor- is on the invitation mailed to OPC members. porate dinner support of the event. Robert Friedman of first President Wythe Williams, London correspondent Bloomberg News served as head judge for the 22 award for who covered WWI. That first categories. A special edition of Dateline magazine is be- ing produced under the editorship of OPC Board mem- awards dinner had an ambitious international menu and bers Charles Wallace and photo editor Robert Nickels- the Mandarin Oriental will do a modern adapation of the berg, designer Nancy Novick and OPC intern Mariam original menu for the Jubilee Dinner. Haris. The magazine will feature writers and photogra- Pricing for this year’s dinner is $250 for OPC mem- phers who covered some of the biggest events through bers and one guest; $750 for non-members. Table prices decades of OPC history. are $7,500 (Friend), $9,000 (Sponsor), $12,000 (Patron), The OPC’s first dinner was held in February 1940 and $15,000 (Fellow). With the Lenovo-sponsored pre-party celebrated the publication of The Inside Story, a book and Daimler-sponsored after-party, the event promises to of behind-the-scenes stories by foreign correspondents, be a jubuliant celebration of the OPC. edited by Robert Spiers Benjamin. Guests included dignitaries such as former President Herbert Hoover, The 75th Anniversary OPC Awards Dinner takes Alexander Kerensky, a major political leader of the Tru- place on Thursday, April 24 at the Mandarin Oriental doviks, a moderate socialist party that was swept away Hotel, 80 Columbus Circle at 60th Street. Reception be- during the Russian Revolution, OPC founding members gins at 6 p.m., Dinner starts at 7 p.m., and the Meet the Irene Corbally Kuhn and Robert Benjamin and OPC’s Winners After Party ends the evening.

OVERSEAS PRESS CLUB OF AMERICA • BOARD OF GOVERNORS PRESIDENT ACTIVE BOARD Martin Dickson Robert Nickelsberg ASSOCIATE BOARD PAST PRESIDENTS Michael Serrill Jacqueline Albert- U.S. Managing Editor Freelance ­MEMBERS EX-OFFICIO Assistant Managing Simon Financial Times Photojournalist Brian Byrd David A. Andelman Editor U.S. Bureau Chief Program Officer John Corporon Bloomberg Markets Politique Internationale Arlene Getz Romesh Ratnesar NYS Health Allan Dodds Frank Editor-in-Charge Deputy Editor Foundation Alexis Gelber FIRST VICE PRESIDENT Amar C. Bakshi Digital News Bloomberg William J. Holstein Tim Ferguson JD/MBA student Thomson Reuters Businessweek Sarah Lubman Marshall Loeb Editor Yale University Partner Larry Martz Forbes Asia Azmat Khan Martin Smith Brunswick Group Roy Rowan Rebecca Senior Digital Producer President Leonard Saffir SECOND VICE PRESIDENT Blumenstein Rain Media Daniel Sieberg Larry Smith Abigail Pesta Deputy Editor in Chief Head of Media Outreach Richard B. Stolley Freelance Journalist Evelyn Leopold Seymour Topping Google Independent Journalist Emeritus Executive Director THIRD VICE PRESIDENT Paul Brandus United Nations Professor of Minky Worden Sonya K. Fry Toni Reinhold West Wing Report International Journalism Director of Global Editor in Charge, Dafna Linzer Columbia University Initiatives Executive Director- New York Desk Howard Chua-Eoan Managing Editor Human Rights Watch Designate Reuters Former News Director MSNBC.com Charles Wallace Patricia Kranz Time Santiago Lyon Financial Writer Abi Wright TREASURER VP and Director of Director EDITOR Dorinda Elliott Jane Ciabattari Photography Alfred I. duPont – Aimee Vitrak Freelance Journalist Freelance Writer Columbia University NPR.org, Daily Beast Awards OPC SECRETARY Marcus Mabry ISSN-0738-7202 Jonathan Dahl Deidre Depke Editor at Large ­Copyright © 2014 Editor in Chief Executive Editor The New York Times Over­seas Press Club of WSJMoney America 40 West 45 Street, New York, NY 10036 USA • Phone: (212) 626-9220 • Fax: (212) 626-9210 • Website: opcofamerica.org OPC Bulletin • April 2014 • Page 2 Feifer’s Book Looks at Russia From the Inside EVENT PREVIEW: MARCH 31 people. In August 1991, Feifer was an under- by Patricia Kranz graduate spending a summer in Gregory Feifer’s timing could not have when a group of hard-liners tried to carry out been better. Following the Olympics an ill-fated coup to extend Soviet rule. He and ’s aggressive actions in returned in 1999 as a journalist and stayed Ukraine, people around the world are more for eight years. In 2008, he covered the Rus- interested in Russia than they have been sia- war from the breakaway Geor- since the ’s collapse more than gian region of South Ossetia and traveled two decades ago. to Siberia, Belgrade and Berlin to report on Feifer’s new book, : The People Gregory Feifer the Kremlin’s use of Gazprom, the Russian Behind the Power, explores the seeming gas monopoly, as an instrument of foreign paradoxes of life in Russia by unraveling policy. the nature of its people: what is it in their In a blurb Stephen Sestanovich says history and their conception of themselves “This is one of the best-ever books written that makes them baffling to the West? Feifer by an American journalist trying to make corrects pervasive misconceptions by show- sense of Russia. Full of wonderfully poi- ing that much of what appears inexplicable gnant family reminiscences, acute cultural about the country is logical when seen from insight, and off-color Russian .” the inside. Joshua Rubenstein, who reviewed the The former NPR Moscow correspondent book for The New York Times, will be the draws on his family history and his decade interlocutor. Rubenstein is a longtime Asso- of experience as a journalist there to create ciate at Harvard University’s Davis Center a portrait of today’s Russia from the bottom for Russian and Eurasian Studies and the au- up. From wealthy oligarchs to the destitute thor of biographies of Leon Trotsky and the elderly babushki who beg on Moscow’s writer Ilya Ehrenburg. streets, he tells the story of a society bursting with vital- The Book Night reception at Club Quarters, 40 West ity despite living under authoritarian rule. And he makes 45 Street, begins at 6 p.m. and the Talk at 6:30 p.m. clear why Putin remains popular at home even as the gap Books will be available for sale. To RSVP, call the OPC widens between the super-rich and the great majority of at 212-626-9220 or e-mail [email protected]. Bloomberg Honors OPC’s 75th, OPC Toasts Lederer EVENT RECAP: MARCH 11 more than 150 bureaus, which gives the organi- by Mariam Harris and Aimee Vitrak zation daily reminders It was an early morning for those of the precariousness of who attended the 7:30 breakfast on reporting the news and March 11 at Bloomberg’s midtown the varying limits of headquarters on the 28th floor. Fu- press freedom around the eled by coffee, breakfast staples and world. plenty of good cheer, 90 people sa- The OPC celebrates luted the OPC’s 75th Anniversary its 75th anniversary this and Fay Gillis Wells Award recipi- year with special events ent, Edith Lederer. to highlight the achieve- Matt Winkler, Editor-in-Chief of ments of the Club and Peter Foley Bloomberg News and an OPC mem- its members. The break- Edith Lederer accepts the Fay Gillis Wells Award ber, began the event by talking about fast was sponsored by from OPC President Michael Serrill. how organizations like the OPC pro- Bloomberg News and Fay Gillis Wells Award, which is vide vital support to journalists and also allowed the Club to pay tribute journalism. He noted that Bloom- to long-time member and Associated given to a woman journalist of ex- berg News’s editorial operations in- Press reporter Edith “Edie” Lederer. ceptional achievement. The award clude 1,900 editors and reporters in Edie accepted the second OPC (Continued on Page 4)

OPC Bulletin • April 2014 • Page 3 (Continued From Page 3) Excerpt of Lederer’s speech: When I look back was established in 2009 to honor founding OPC mem- at this life, I realize how lucky I was to come of age at ber Fay Gillis Wells. The first recipient was Ruth Gruber the dawn of the women’s liberation movement, and to who accepted the honor at the 2009 OPC Awards Dinner. have a mother who was a teacher and encouraged OPC President Michael Serrill presented Edie with me to live my dream.... the certificate and a check for $3,000. During her accep- At a time when it was very easy to count the num- tance speech, Edie paid tribute to Fay Gillis Wells. She ber of women reporting “hard news,” I was hired by said she honestly did not know who Wells was until she AP in New York in learned she was to receive the award. “Now that I have 1966 as a tempo- investigated her amazing career I am especially honored rary fill-in to cover to be receiving this award,” she said. “She had a life- local news. My tem- long love affair with flying and was a founding member porary assignment of the Ninety-Nines, the first organization of women pi- has lasted 48 years lots, along with Amelia Earhart.” — and it has taken When a friend asked when Edie was going to take me to every conti- flying lessons, she replied, “In my next life.” nent except Antarc- Like Wells, Edie has covered news all over the globe. tica covering wars, Edie has worked for the Associated Press for 48 years famines, nuclear Lederer researched Fay Gillis issues and politi- and has visited all but one continent covering wars, fam- Wells and realized they had many cal upheavals. I’m things in common, except piloting ines and political upheavals. She is currently AP’s Chief still hoping to get to an airplane. “Next life,” Edie said. Correspondent for the United Nations. She said, “I have Antarctica! It’s quite had a privileged seat in that front row of history.” incredible to look back and see how much the news After the speech, Edie sat down to talk with OPC business has changed in my lifetime. Board member and 75th Anniversary Committee Chair When I joined AP, reporters wrote on typewriters. Brian Byrd. He asked three questions and let Edie do And in my early years overseas I often filed by tel- what she does best: tell stories. She told the audience ex....There was pressure to file quickly — but not the about how she snuck into while posing as intense pressure of today’s highly competitive media a carpet seller. The customs agents scrutinized her while world.... And I often ask myself, in this race to be first holding a 45-caliber pistol pointed at her temple. She — and with the plethora of competing media platforms later shared a laugh with a colleague who had also used — have we made progress in providing a real under- the carpet sales alibi. standing of events, both domestic and international? Bloomberg News provided a buffet breakfast menu I have had a privileged seat in that front row of his- of scrambled , potatoes, sausage, fruit cup, orange tory. I have reported on wars from Vietnam and Af- juice and coffee. Karen Toulon, OPC Foundation Board ghanistan to the Mideast, Bosnia and Northern Ire- member and New York Bureau Chief for Bloomberg land. I have watched innocent civilians collapse and News, organized the breakfast. die of starvation in Ethiopia and Somalia. And I have Edie ended the program with advice to aspiring for- seen the butchery of the genocide. eign correspondents: learn more languages; get a good I have written about the growing disparities in a background in economics and business and learn about world where over 1 billion people go to bed hungry technology and how to use it. every night while another 1.5 billion are overweight or obese — and a tiny percentage enjoy unimaginable riches. When I look back at all the death, despair and dis- sension that I have seen in my life, I have often asked myself what would make a difference? My best an- swer is just one word — tolerance. And I ask you all, wouldn’t it be wonderful if every child in the world was required to be taught, from a very young age, to be tol- erant of other people’s race, religion, ethnicity, gender and political beliefs? That’s my dream for the future — because it would almost certainly lead to a more Photos: Peter Foley peaceful world. And on that note, I would like to thank From left: OPC Executive Director Sonya K. Fry, Serrill, the OPC for this wonderful award which I will treasure. Lederer and interlocutor OPC Board member Brian Byrd.

OPC Bulletin • April 2014 • Page 4 PEOPLE... by Susan Kille [email protected]

OPC SCHOLARS Foundation Scholarship in mem- the 2014 Anthony ory of Fred Wiegold in 2009, was Shadid Award for a finalist in two divisions of the Journalism Ethics SABEW contest, for his work at for a report in De- American Banker. Horvitz is now a cember on the disap- Knight-Bagehot Fellow at Columbia pearance of Robert University. Levinson, a former Apuzzo FBI agent who went Lauren Rosenfeld, who won missing while work- the 2012 Walter & Betsy Cronkite ing in Iran in 2007. An advertisement for GlobalPost’s “Generation TBD” project. Scholarship, shared a Alfred I. du- The award given by Pont-Columbia University Awards the University of Lauren Bohn, who won the 2012 prize for “Rape in the Fields/Vio- Wisconsin’s Center H.L. Stevenson Fellowship, and her lación de un Sueño,” a collabora- for Journalism Eth- Bridis reporting partner, Chika Oduah, tive project led by the Investigative ics, is named for , were among 21 journalists who won Reporting Program at U.C. Berkeley an OPC member who died in 2012 GroundTruth reporting fellowships Journalism School with the Center while reporting in Syria for The New to create “Generation TBD,” a year- for Investigative Reporting, Front- York Times. Apuzzo now works for long GlobalPost Special Report on line and Univision. Rosenfeld was The Times and Goldman works for youth employment. GlobalPost Ex- associate producer. Abi Wright, an The Washington Post. ecutive Editor Charles Sennott, an OPC associate board member, is di- OPC Foundation board member, is rector of the awards. The Chris Hondros Fund gave overseeing the project. Bohn and its third annual grant to Report- Oduah will report and produce a WINNERS ers Instructed in Saving Colleagues multimedia look at how ’s Azhmat Khan, an OPC board (RISC), an organization that was millennials are combating woeful member, is one of formed in response to the deaths of inequities in an increasingly vital, 10 journalists who Hondros and Tim Hetherington, though tenuous, oil-rich country. received a fellow- photojournalists mortally wounded The projects will culminate in Octo- ship from the Inter- during a mortar attack in Libya in ber with a conference hosted in New national Reporting April 2011. The $5,000 award to York by International House, which Project to travel to RISC was announced March 14, is under the directorship of former Brazil in April on which would have been Hondros’ Khan OPC member Calvin Sims. a two-week report- 44th birthday. Sebastian Junger, an ing trip. The fellows will examine author, journalist and close friend of A project that Jonathan Jones, the progress Brazil has made with Hetherington, established RISC to who won Harper’s Magazine Schol- several of the Millennium Develop- train and equip journalists to treat arship in memory of I.F. Stone in ment Goals adopted by the United life-threatening injuries on the bat- 2009, and A.C. Thompson reported Nations, including reducing pov- tlefield. for ProPublica won the Digital Fea- erty and hunger and improving the ture division in the annual Best in health of its citizens. Kahn is a se- Al-Monitor, a news and opin- Business Awards of the Society of nior digital producer and reporter ion website based in Washington Business Editors and Writers (SA- who heads the digital team at Al D.C. that covers the Middle East, BEW). The award honored “Life Jazeera America’s flagship show, has been awarded the Free Media and Death in Assisted Living,” America Tonight. Pioneer Award for 2014 from the which chronicled the last months International Press Institute (IPI). of an elderly woman’s life in an Reporters Adam Al-Monitor was founded in 2012 by assisted-living facility, and neglect, Goldman and Matt Jamal Daniel, a Syrian-Lebanese- cover-up, and incompetence behind Apuzzo along with American businessman. Its editorial the scenes. editor Ted Bridis board includes academics, notable and The Associ- journalists and leading business Jeff Horvitz, who won the OPC ated Press have won Goldman (Continued on Page 6)

OPC Bulletin • April 2014 • Page 5 (Continued From Page 5) out Borders’ 2013 dence to tie the attack to Lau’s work people and it partners with 17 news international list of as a journalist, an assertion that was organizations in Israel, Iran, Turkey, imprisoned journal- protested by Lau, his family, col- the Emirates and other Middle East- ists. He still faces a leagues and international press ad- ern countries. possible maximum vocates. sentence of 70 years, but an ad- Brown In its annual survey of members ditional 35 years have been removed released in March, the Foreign Cor- through the dismissed counts. The respondents’ Club of China in Bei- dropped charges include the most jing reports in 2013 “it became more controversial: that he transferred obvious than ever that the Chinese stolen property by posting a hyper- authorities abuse the press card and link to a website containing hacked visa renewal process in a political A screenshot of a video that material. Lawyers and press advo- manner, treating journalistic ac- recaps the website’s first year. cates criticized the government for creditation as a privilege rather than http://al-monitor.com/pulse/about seeking to prosecute Brown for pub- a professional right, and punishing lishing of a hyperlink and said the reporters and media organizations PRESS FREEDOM case could put a chill on the culture for the content of their previous cov- The European Court of Human of linking across the Web. erage if it has displeased the govern- Rights ruled March 4 that Turkey ment.” breached the right to a fair hearing While more than 80 percent of and freedom of expression of two correspondents who responded said journalists, Hasan Karakaya and they received new press cards with- Abdurrahman Dil- in seven working days and new resi- ipak. The case con- dence visas within the 15 working cerned a judgment days, the club said it was clear that against Karakaya foreign employees of The New York and Dilipak, who in Times and Bloomberg, which had 2000 wrote sepa- published articles about the finances rate articles for the of relatives of leading government Karakaya Lau recovering in a hospital after Islamist daily Akit the attack in February. officials, were treated differently. criticizing a high- The cases of three staff members ranking military of- Kevin Lau, who in January was of The New York Times were cited: ficial. The official’s removed as editor of the Ming Pao Beijing bureau chief Philip Pan has family sued and the daily in Hong Kong, was slashed spent 22 months waiting for a jour- two were fined. Ap- three times February 26 by an at- nalist’s visa; reporter Chris Buck- peals were denied. Dilipak tacker who fled with an accomplice ley has waited 17 months for a visa; The court found on a motorbike. Lau’s ouster stirred reporter Austin Ramzy had to leave “that Dilipak and Karakaya had not protests about press freedom in the China at the end of January because been given the opportunity to partic- Chinese territory. More than 90 the visa application he filed last June ipate in the civil proceedings against percent of Ming Pao’s staff signed had not been processed. them or to defend their interests.” a petition demanding management explain Lau’s replacement by a jour- March 16 marked the 1,000th A U.S. attorney for the North- nalist from Malaysia. Lau is recov- day of imprisonment for Reeyot Al- ern District of filed a motion ering from life-threatening wounds emu, an Ethiopian March 5 to dismiss 11 of 17 charges to his lungs. Nerves in his legs were journalist serving a against Barrett Brown, a journalist also damaged. Two suspected hit- five-year sentence based in who has written for men arrested in mainland China after she was found , Vanity Fair and The were returned to Hong Kong and guilty on terrorism Huffington Post. Brown, whose case charged March 18 with the attack. charges in Janu- was the subject of a report in the Oc- Nine Hong Kong residents were ary 2012. Reeyot, Alemu tober 2013 Bulletin, has been jailed also arrested in connection with the an English teacher, is the recipi- since September 2012 and is the attack. The Hong Kong police com- ent of the UNESCO-Guillermo only American in Reporter’s With- missioner said there was no evi- Cano World Press Freedom Prize,

OPC Bulletin • April 2014 • Page 6 the Hellman/Hammett award and ports said he was shot in the neck by her young son. He was recently re- the International Women’s Media a sniper. Ali Moustafa, a freelance leased from prison after serving 12 Foundation Courage in Journalism photographer from Canada, was years for drug trafficking. Guerin, Award. According to the Commit- among seven people killed March 9 who received the 1995 International tee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), the in a bomb blast in a rebel-held sec- Press Freedom Award from CPJ, be- Ethiopian government has convicted tion of Aleppo. came a global icon for journalistic 11 independent journalists and blog- freedom and investigative reporting gers including Reeyot and Eskinder Muthanna Abdel Hussein and after her death and the subject of the Nega, the winner of Pen America’s Khaled Abdel Thamer, Iraqi cam- 2003 eponymous film starring Cate PEN/Barbara Goldsmith Freedom to eramen for the state-run Al-Iraqiya Blanchett, which the OPC offered to Write Award, under a sweeping anti- TV station, died March 10 in a sui- members in preview. terrorism law since 2011. cide bombing at a police checkpoint in Babylon province. Dozens of UPDATES MURDERS Iraqis waiting to pass through the BARCELONA: Marc Mar- In an assassination-style killing, checkpoint were killed. The ginedas, a journalist for El Peri- Nils Horner, a longtime foreign Journalists Syndicate reported that odico who was kidnapped by Is- lamist rebels and held for almost six correspondent for Swedish Radio, the two men were covering prepara- tions for next month’s parliamentary months inside Syria, was shot March 11 elections. was released March on a crowded street 1. He made his way in Kabul. The Fi- A court in Pakistan convicted six into Turkey the next dai Mahaz group, a men March 1 in connection with the day and was flown breakaway Taliban 2011 murder of Wail Babar, a re- home by the Span- group, claimed re- Horner porter for Geo who covered drugs, ish Air Force. Mar- Marginedas sponsibility and ac- crime and deadly turf struggles in ginedas, a veteran cused Horner of being a spy for the Karachi. Two men, tried in absentia, who had made . The Fidai Mahaz were given death sentences and four two other reporting trips to Syria, group has been linked to the 2008 were given life sentences. CPJ says was kidnapped near Hama on Sep- kidnapping of David Rohde, an in- 46 journalists and media workers tember 4, three days after he arrived vestigative reporter for Reuters who have been killed in Pakistan for their in the country. At least 30 journalists at the time was working for The New work since 2007. Babar’s is the first are thought to remain kidnapped in- York Times. case successfully prosecuted. side Syria, including two American freelancers: James Foley, who was John Gilligan, the chief suspect kidnapped on Thanksgiving Day in behind the notorious 1996 murder 2012, and Austin Tice, who disap- of Irish journalist Veronica Guerin, peared in August 2012. was shot twice March 1 when two MARTINBOROUGH, New masked men broke Zealand: As the centerpiece of its into his brother’s 40th anniversary year, the National house near Dublin. Press Club presented its Lifetime Afghan police monitor the site of the Police described the Achievement Award to Bernard deadly attack on Horner. attack as an attempt- Gilligan Diederich, an ex-pat considered the ed murder. Before longest practicing journalist in the her murder, Guerin nation’s history. Diederich, a former Two journalists were killed had been investi- Time magazine Central America bu- within two days in Syria. Omar gating Gilligan’s reau chief who lives in San Antonio, Abdul Qader, a cameraman work- criminal empire for Texas, has found new fame as an ing for the Beirut-based TV station Ireland’s Sunday eyewitness chronicler of British au- Al-Mayadeen, died March 8 while Independent. Gilli- Guerin thor Graham Greene, whose heyday covering clashes between govern- gan was never convicted in connec- was on Diederich’s Caribbean turf. ment and rebel forces in the eastern tion with Guerin’s death, but he had Diederich was in New Zealand to province of Deir Al-Zour. New re- made threats to the journalist and (Continued on Page 8)

OPC Bulletin • April 2014 • Page 7 (Continued From Page 7) chief of The International Business covered the Iraq War for CBS News Times, the flagship digital publica- from 2003 to May 2006, when she tion of IBT Media, the company was seriously injured in a car bomb- that bought Newsweek last year. ing that killed two colleagues, a Goodman will leave translator and a U.S. soldier. a job as executive business editor and OPC board members Azmat global editor at The Khan and Toni Reinhold are among Greene, left, with Diederich in Huffington Post, the participants April 5 at Conversa- Panama in 1976. where he recently tions in Journalism, the first student- promote his book on his travels helped oversee the Goodman run conference at Columbia Univer- with Greene, The Seeds of Fiction: launch of its global sity Graduate School of Journalism. Graham Greene’s Adventures in publication, WorldPost. In his new Haiti and Central America 1954- job, Goodman will oversee 10 coun- Anka Wessang, director of 1983. Diederich has try editions in seven languages. In the Press Club of Strasbourg, vis- also written books February, Goodman won the digital ited OPC Executive Director Sonya on the Duvaliers of commentary award in SABEW’s Fry in February. Haiti, Rafael Tru- Best in Business contest for columns Wessang had just jillo of the Domini- described as “not just well reported completed a State can Republic and and opinionated, they are also hard- Department-spon- the Somoza dynasty hitting.” sored tour of the of Nicaragua. Club U.S., which ended members boarded in New York. Fry a bus in Wellington and Wesang have for the presentation in the remote previously met at Wesang and Fry Wairarapa Valley, where Diederich’s various European pioneering forebears settled and press club meetings. where family members still farm. Club stalwart John Hayes, who is a Miles O’Brien, a correspondent member of parliament for the Wair- for PBS and former CNN anchor, arapa district, presented the award. Dozier giving the keynote address at suffered an injury during an over- the 2014 OPC Scholars Luncheon. seas reporting trip in February that WASHINGTON: Paul Bran- During her speech, she warned aspir- became life threatening and resulted dus, an OPC board member and ing correspondents about getting too comfortable in their beats or careers. in his left arm being amputated. The founder and bureau chief of West accident happened as O’Brien was Wing Reports, a White House-based Kimberly Dozier, who was the finishing a solo trip first to Japan for news service, has keynote speaker at the OPC Founda- the third anniversary of the Fukushi- signed on with Ly- tion Scholarship Luncheon in Feb- ma nuclear plant meltdown and then ons Press, a division ruary, has been named the 2014-15 of Globe Pequot General Omar N. Bradley Chair in Publishing, to write Strategic Leadership, a joint fac- Under This Roof. It ulty appointment of the U.S. Army is a history of the Brandus War College, Dickinson College White House, how and Penn State University Dick- it has expanded over the last 200 inson School of Law and School years, and will tell some of the more of International Affairs. She is the colorful, but largely unknown things first woman to hold the position and that have happened there to presi- while in residence, she will teach dents and their families. It is sched- at all three schools and do research uled to be in bookstores in late 2015, for a book on resiliency, the intel- just in time for the 2016 presidential ligence community and special op- election. erations. She is leaving her job as an O’Brien demonstrates a sense intelligence reporter for The Associ- of humor while showing where Peter Goodman, an OPC mem- ated Press but will be a contributing the limb was amputated with “no ber, in March was named editor-in- writer for The Daily Beast. Dozier chew” tape wrapping the wound.

OPC Bulletin • April 2012 • Page 8 to the Philippines. He was packing 2006, he became a professor at Stan- Alan Gersten, who covered his camera gear when a heavy suit- ford University and continued his Latin America for Reuters, died case fell off his cart and hit his arm. interest in foreign affairs as a free- in March, following a long battle He said his arm hurt but he wasn’t lancer and syndicated columnist. He with leukemia. Earlier in his career, overly concerned. The bruise grew left Stanford late last year and took a Gersten was maritime editor of the increasingly painful and when his leave from column writing to serve Journal of Commerce and business hand became numb two days later as a tactical adviser for the special editor of the Rocky Mountain News. he saw a doctor who admitted him inspector general for Afghan recon- An accomplished journalist, Gersten to a hospital for acute compartment struction. He wrote several books, received a Knight- syndrome, a condition where a dra- including 2011’s Cambodia’s Curse: Bagehot Fellowship matic increase in pressure within a The Modern History of a Troubled and won a Gerald muscle compartment cuts off blood Land. Survivors include his wife, Loeb Award, which flow. Before O’Brien underwent sur- Sabra Chartrand, a former Times is given for out- gery to relieve the pressure, he was reporter whom he met when both standing business warned that amputation could result. were reporting in Israel. and financial jour- His arm was amputated above the nalism. He was a elbow. He went on to finish the proj- past president of the New York Fi- ects began overseas, saying working nancial Writers Association. He was has been part of his recovery. also the author of A Conspiracy of Indifference: The Raoul Wallenberg PEOPLE REMEMBERED Story, the story of Swedish diplomat , who died March Raoul Wallenberg who saved thou- 11 in Washington, D.C., was the sands of Hungarian Jews before be- son of broadcast news commentator ing arrested by the Soviets and ulti- but he established The profile photo from Power’s mately disappeared. his own reputation early when as a Facebook page. 29-year-old reporter covering the Bill McLaughlin, a diplomatic Cambodian refugee crisis for The Matthew Power, a freelance and foreign correspondent who Louisville Courier-Journal he won journalist, died March 10 while in headed bureaus in and the 1980 Pulitzer for international Uganda where he intended to spend Lebanon for CBS News in the late reporting. He was 61 and died from a week with an explorer who is at- 1960s and 1970s, died March 7 in acute undiagnosed tempting to walk the more than Waterbury, Con- leukemia, which led 4,000-mile route of the Nile River. necticut. He was to pneumonia and On his third day with the expedi- 76 and the cause respiratory failure. tion, Power was overcome by the was cardiac ar- Brinkley left Louis- heat and died, presumably of heat- rest. McLaugh- ville in 1983 for The stroke. He was 39 lin, who lived New York Times, and married to Jes- in , spent where he spent 23 sica Benko, also a most of his 27- years reporting from freelance journalist year television Washington, D.C., and overseas and with overseas expe- news career with served as Jerusalem bureau chief and rience. Power, who CBS but left for two years in 1979 to as an editor. Leaving The Times in lived in Brooklyn, report for NBC News as its United was a contributing editor at Harp- Nations correspondent. For CBS, er’s Magazine and also wrote for he covered the , the GQ, The New York Times, Outside Six-Day War in 1967, the conflict and Men’s Journal, which had sent between India and Pakistan in 1971, him to Uganda. Power’s best known the Arab-Israeli War in 1973 and the pieces included the killing of a con- 1981 shooting of Pope John Paul II. servationist by poachers in Costa He was part of the CBS team that Rica, a Philippine shantytown that received an OPC Award for its cov- survived off a massive trash dump, a erage of the murder of 11 Israeli ath- Brinkley, right, and letes by Palestinian terrorists at the in 1980 celebrate winning a drug resistant malaria in Cambodia Pulitzer Prize for the series “Living and the destruction of Buddha stat- 1972 Olympic Games. He received the Cambodian Nightmare.” ues in Afghanistan by the Taliban. (Continued on Page 10)

OPC Bulletin • April 2014 • Page 9 (Kranz, continued from page 1) miss her terribly, but wish her a very happy retirement.” and I look forward to working with her.” Kranz is a longtime OPC member and a familiar face Serrill praised current Executive Director Fry as at OPC programs. “I am thrilled to join the staff of an “the best thing that ever happened to the Overseas Press organization that helps international journalists do their Club. She carried the Club forward for 20 years, through jobs and honors those who do it best,” she says. Kranz good and sometimes rocky times. After her many years says one of her goals will be to recruit more young over- at the helm, there are few prominent figures in inter- seas journalists to the OPC. “We need to engage them national journalism who don’t know Sonya. Under her where they live, which is on social media,” she says. administration, our annual awards dinners were always Kranz lives in with her husband and sev- carefully organized and impeccably elegant. We will en-year-old son.

(People, continued from page 9) chief in Singapore, bureau chief in another OPC Award for his part in Indonesia and lastly, editor in Wash- the 1974 CBS Reports documentary ington, D.C., He was twice based “The Palestinians,” which included in Singapore and twice president of an interview with the Palestinian Singapore’s Foreign Correspondents leader Yasir Arafat. Survivors in- Association, besides being a mem- clude his wife, the former Huguette ber of the FCC in Hong Kong and Cord’homme, whom he met at the the FCCJ in Japan. After retiring in CBS bureau. 2011 from Reuters, he was execu- ous rejections by English-language tive director of the Young America’s publications to his Indian name and Jerry Norton, 67, who worked Foundation National Journalism “picked a new name out of a tele- Center until he became ill. Norton, overseas for most of his 25 years phone directory, stabbing the pages with Reuters, died December 15 af- who served in the Army in Vietnam at random.” After that, Ram began ter a long battle where he earned a purple heart and with a brain tu- other decorations, will be buried in his career as a sports reporter in mor. Norton was Arlington National Cemetery on India and covered three Olympics: a Commodity April 11. Helsinki in 1952, Rome in 1960 and News Services/ Tokyo in 1964. While in Tokyo, he Unicom News Vernon Ram, a long-serving was hired to redesign and improve reporter in Wash- editor at the South China Morning the sports section of the Hong Kong ington, D.C., be- Post and a former OPC member, Tiger Standard, forerunner of The fore becoming died December 16 at age 87. He Standard. There, he met his wife, regional editor in died of pneumonia after a hip opera- who wrote music reviews. He joined Hong Kong and tion that followed a fall at his home the Post in 1970 as an assistant executive editor in London. on Lamma Island, which is part of He was business editor of the Hong Kong. Ram was born in Mum- editor and worked in posts ranging South China Morning Post before bai and named Ramachandran. In an from writing editorials to editing joining Reuters and working as a se- obituary written for the Foreign Cor- the education section. In 1986, he nior correspondent or veteran editor respondents’ Club, his wife, Jane, left the Post and established his own in Hong Kong and Tokyo, bureau wrote that Ram attributed numer- company offering editorial services.

(New Books, continued from page 12) movies on DVD and CD music from Berlin to in 1936 while in exile in Sweden. Weil died in America. The work is in English or subtitled. Auschwitz. Also due in May from Berlinica is Berlin An afterword to Rheinsberg was written 1945. World War II: Photos of the Aftermath, by Dr. Peter Boethig, the director of the Kurt a book with black-and-white pictures taken by Tucholsky Literaturmuseum in Rheinsberg, Russian soldiers after the fall of Berlin, shown a quaint town north of Berlin where the story for the first time in the . The author takes place in a rural landscape. Berlinica is owned and operated by Dr. Eva is Dr. Michael Brettin, the history editor of the C. Schweitzer, an OPC member and author who divides Berliner Kurier newspaper. Peter Kroh, the former Ku- her time between Berlin and New York, where she works rier photo editor, edited the photos. as a cultural correspondent. Berlinica brings books, — by Susan Kille

OPC Bulletin • April 2014 • Page 10 A View From 40th Street During the OPC Revolution OPC 75TH ANNIVERSARY the job in Vietnam in November 1965, when she met the business end of a booby-trapped landmine. by Sibby Christensen n A few days after Chapelle’s death, the East Coast As editor of the OPC Bulletin during the 1960s, I wit- power grid collapsed. I was marooned in my upstairs of- nessed only a slice of the Club’s long history. But argu- fice just as her photo agent, Nancy Palmer, arrived at the ably it was its most exciting, exasperating, argumenta- building with a packet of pictures for the next Bulletin. tive and game-changing slice. Palmer climbed 11 flights up the darkened stairwell to The Club already was aboil in September 1963, when deliver the photos, and she watched as I organized the I arrived at its townhouse headquarters at 54 West 40th layout by flashlight. Then we both descended the stairs Street to manage OPC’s weekly eight-pager. Madame to the Club’s cozy candlelit bar on the ground floor, Nhu, South Vietnam’s fiery first lady, had been booked packed with members enjoying sandwiches and drinks, to appear at a coming Club “Newsmaker” luncheon, and being offered fast and free to beat refrigerator meltdown. the reaction was polarized. People calling into the Club n Two Bulletin chairmen, Paul Grimes of The New often expressed outrage, then in the next breath, demand- York Times and his successor, Larry Mihlon of McGraw- ed a seat at the event. Response was so Hill News Service, strongly supported me heavy the event had to be moved to the and the OPC members who volunteered to Waldorf’s Grand Ballroom. help with coverage. The latter included Ed It was a taste of what was to come: a Edwin, a political expert doing research weekly schedule in New York crammed for NBC News, and Blythe Foote Finke with luncheons, press conferences, and of the USIA staff. Betty Etter, a veteran book nights, each to be covered in the of women’s magazines, came in weekly Bulletin. These stories ran alongside regu- to compile the popular “People & Plac- lar coverage about correspondents work- es” column. Artist Kay Kato offered her ing in hotspots abroad. A few personal sketches, and Jerry Robinson, who in- vignettes: vented the Joker character as a staff artist n About to send a new issue to the for Batman comics, gave us free use of his printer in late November 1963, I was syndicated “Still Life” feature, centered alerted by Club Treasurer Jim Sheldon on world affairs. about disturbing news showing up on the UPI ticker in- n “Ticker” notes were a central and cohesive reason stalled at the Clubhouse. President Kennedy had been for the Bulletin’s existence. Club members around the shot. In the anxious hours ahead, I remade the front end world kept the home base in New York abreast of ac- of the Bulletin, including a roundup of coverage and a tivities of the overseas press corps, and at the same time, quick Polaroid shot of members watching the ticker. connected with each other. An incomplete list would in- Still, one member complained that I hadn’t remade the clude Bernard Redmont (Westinghouse Broadcasting) whole issue. from Paris, Dennis Redmont (AP) from Rome, Joe Mc- n Burgess Meredith, who portrayed famed WWII re- Gowan (AP) from New Delhi, Welles Hangen (NBC porter Ernie Pyle in a movie, had lunch one day with News) from Hong Kong, Al Kaff (UPI) from Tokyo, Jay former OPC President Will Yolen. Yolen phoned, sug- Axelbank (UPI) from Moscow, and Bob Tuchman (AP) gesting a photo of the actor inspecting memorabilia in from London. (Tuchman gave me a leg-pull with post- the Club’s Ernie Pyle Room. As I arrived for the shoot, ings about colleague Milton Marmor’s midwinter travel Meredith doubtfully eyed me, a female person with an plans, ending with Marmor staying home, “because I al- old Speed Graphic. “I only pose for professional pho- ways wanted to see .”) tographers,” he announced. After Yolen assured his guest All good things come, if not to an end, less frequently. that I was a “real” photographer, I got the shot. Battered by strong financial headwinds and internal tur- n Of all the people I photographed at the Club only moil in the late 1960s, the OPC cut back Bulletin issues two — Richard Nixon and cabaret star Hildegarde — did and pages. In 1970 I was ready to move on, with fond, the corny bit of waving directly to the camera. if tumultuous, memories. But Will Oursler, then-OPC n “When they’re young, they still bother to focus,” president, asked me to stay on, not as an employee but as cackled Dickey Chapelle in her inimitable steam cal- a member of the OPC. liope voice when she saw me toting the camera. OPC Sibby Christensen, managing editor of the OPC Bul- board member, writer/photographer (National Geo- letin, 1963-1970, is retired from The Associated Press, graphic, et al), she was vocally supportive of women, where she edited the AP World Magazine. She is a past- the military and all things journalistic. She was to die on president of New York Women in Communications, Inc.

OPC Bulletin • April 2014 • Page 11 “This is, as far as we know, the CUNY Journalism Press was first book that really examines this launched less than two years ago by New Books intriguing intersection of journal- Stephen Shepard, former dean of the NORTH AMERICA OURTROOM ARTISTS ARE ism, law and art,” said Tim Harper, CUNY Graduate School of Journal- C celebrated in the new book The editor of CUNY Journalism Press ism and an OPC member. The new Illustrated Courtroom: that is releasing the book in April. imprint has built an impressive cata- 50 Years of Court Art. Drawings and in- log. The craft of courtroom sights from some of illustration blends art the biggest courtroom EUROPE and the immediacy of dramas of the last URT TUCHOLSKY WAS ONE news to report from half-century are pro- K of the most important journal- trials where cameras vided by Howard Bro- ists of the Weimar Republic but his are barred. die, Aggie Kenny, Bill first literary success was a novella, The cover illustra- Robles, Richard Tom- Rheinsberg: A Storybook for Lovers, tion shows Charles linson and Elizabeth about a young couple named Wolfie Manson leaping at Williams, all award- and Claire on a romantic weekend. a judge. Other well- winning artists. The The book, released in 1912, will be known subjects in its book gives an eyewit- published by Berlinica in May for dozens of illustrations ness view of trials and the first time in English. include David “Son of looks into the Life did not have a hap- Sam” Berkowitz, John minds, work- py ending for Tucholsky Gotti, Patty Hearst, styles and and Else Weil, who served Michael Jackson, Ber- artistic phi- as the model for Claire. nard Madoff, Jack losophy of the With the end of the World War in 1918, Tuchol- Ruby, O.J. Simpson, Courtroom artist Richard artists. Martha Stewart, the Tomlinson’s 1989 depiction The book sky became the chief editor Watergate burglars and of an un-named defendant. is edited by of Ulk, a satiric magazine key Iran-Contra play- Williams, a in Berlin, for which he had ers. One section features the era’s courtroom illustrator who written anonymously as far most compelling and dynamic law- has covered the trials for back as 1907. In 1920, he yers. The Associated Press and worked married Weil, a physician for every major television network who was one of the first German and many other news organizations. women to study medicine, but the Sue Russell, a crime journalist and couple later divorced. In 1933, his author whose work includes Lethal books were banned and burned. The Intent, a biography of executed se- Nazis hated him, and drove him out UPCOMING EVENTS: rial killer Aileen Wuornos, supplies of Germany. He committed suicide the narrative. (Continued on Page 10) Book Night: Gregory Feifer’s Overseas Press Club of America 40 West 45 Street Russians: The People New York, NY 10036 USA Behind the Power March 31

75th Anniversary Awards Dinner with Samantha Power, Bob Simon and David Muir April 24

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