THE MONTHLY NEWSLETTER OF THE OVERSEAS PRESS CLUB OF AMERICA, NEW YORK, NY • FEBRUARY 2012 14 Aspiring Reporters to Be Honored at Luncheon est pool of academic institu- The OPC Founda- EVENT PREVIEW: FEBRUARY 17 tions and from every region tion awards are given in by Jane Reilly of the country, demonstrat- the names of eminent Jeff Fager, Chairman of CBS ing the program’s broad and and media or- News and Executive Producer of “60 extensive appeal. William ganizations. Besides ad- Minutes,” will be the keynote speaker J. Holstein, OPC Founda- dressing a distinguished at the annual OPC Foundation Schol- tion president, noted, “The audience of more than arship Luncheon on Friday, February fact that we received appli- 200 luncheon guests, the 17 at the Yale Club. At the event, the cations from 70 universities scholarship winners also Foundation will award a combina- across the country further tour the tion of scholarships and funded in- establishes us as the domi- and meet with veteran ternships to 14 graduate and under- nant force in seeking to international journalists graduate college students aspiring to identify the next generation Jeff Fager at a breakfast hosted by become foreign correspondents. The of foreign correspondents Holstein. On the night scholarship recipients, who emerged and launch their careers. No one else before the luncheon, will from an incredibly competitive field is doing what we are doing on the host its traditional reception for cur- of 175 applications from nearly 70 scale we’re doing it.” (Continued on Page 2) different colleges and universities, are from American University in Front Lines of War Depicted in Documentary Cairo, Columbia University, George Washington University, Johns Hop- EVENT PREVIEW: JANUARY 19 has been a spokesman for major net- kins University, Princeton Univer- by Sonya K. Fry works about the psychological cost sity, Stanford University, University Journalism in times of war is an of covering war. of -Berkeley, University of increasingly lethal vo- Their documentary, Missouri, University of Oregon, Uni- cation. Two journalists “Under Fire: Journal- versity of Southern California and were killed in WWI ists in Combat,” which University of Texas. and 63 lost their lives opened in December, The OPC Foundation scholarship in WWII, but now, in weaves together combat program has grown dramatically in the past two decades, footage with first-hand the past two decades and is now con- at least one accounts by journalists a week has been killed, sidered the most prominent scholar- who reveal what they with the dead now num- saw, thought and felt ship program in the country for as- bering in the thousands. as they confronted both piring foreign correspondents. This In addition to facing the savagery of war and year’s applicants came from the larg- death, kidnapping, tor- the insatiable 24-hour Inside. . . ture and beheadings are news cycle. OPC President letter...... 3 now part of the job de- In many cases the scription. journalist is ransomed Kandahar Book Night Recap...... 4 Writer/director Martyn Burke has for a price, but the native fixer/trans- made several documentaries about lator/driver is tortured or killed which People Column...... 5-10 war for PBS, HBO and TNT. Antho- adds to the guilt that the captured Opinion: Business of Journalists....11 ny Feinstein is a psychiatrist, trained journalist endures. The term post- in and and is traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is New Books...... 12 now at the University of . He (Continued on Page 3) Luncheon: Continued From Page 1 of the airfare and one month’s liv- enterprise reporting and increased ing expenses for the winners. Interns foreign coverage. As the senior rent and past winners at its Time usually use their own funds to extend broadcast producer for the “CBS Eve- Square headquarters. For many, says their stays. ning News” (1994-96) he covered Holstein, the opportunity to meet Holstein is especially pleased that many major international stories, and observe prominent journalists in someone of Fager’s stature in the in- including the war in Bosnia and the action is as valuable as any monetary dustry will be addressing this year’s assassination of Israeli Prime Min- awards. winners. An award-winning journal- ister Yitzhak Rabin. A graduate Media organizations have con- ist in his own right, Fager became of Colgate University, he began tinued to cut back their international the first chairman of CBS News last his career in 1977 at the CBS sta- operations and, to the extent they February after more than 30 years tion WBZ-TV in Boston. do cover global stories, their cover- experience at every stage of the tele- Holstein is grateful to Bloom- age tends to be sporadic. Correspon- vision news business, including 15 berg, which hosted the judging this dents parachute in, and then depart years at the executive producer level, year, and to the dedicated panel of almost as suddenly. “We’re trying to seven of those at the helm of “60 judges who chose the 2012 recipi- identify the next generation of cor- Minutes.” ents: Allen Alter, CBS News; John respondents who have the right val- For his work, the Producers Daniszewski, AP; Eddie Evans, ues,” Holstein noted. “We think the Guild of America voted him best Reuters; Allan Dodds Frank; Jona- people covering the world ought to producer in non-fiction television than Gage, Sharon Gamsin; Felice speak languages and ought to make four times and TV Week named him Levin; Jeremy Main; Larry Martz; commitments to live in-country, not to its top 10 list of most powerful Kate McLeod; Steve Swanson and just get on a plane from New York or television news executives. Broad- Karen Toulon, Bloomberg. London.” casts that he executive produced Luncheon tickets are $75 for OPC It is precisely to help these stu- garnered 33 Emmys, eight Pea- members and $125 for non-mem- dents launch overseas careers that bodys, eight RTDNA/Edward bers. The Foundation encourages the Foundation began and has now R. Murrow Awards, four Alfred media and corporate support at its expanded its internship program. Be- I. duPont-Columbia University three levels of giving: Benefactors gun in 2006 with one AP intern, the batons, three Sigma Delta Chi $8,000; Patrons $5,000; and Friends program in 2011 funded six interns Awards and three Investigative Re- $2,000. Tables seat 10. The reception — who are chosen from among the porting and Editing Awards. begins at 11:30 a.m.; the luncheon scholarship winners — to AP bu- As executive producer of the ends promptly at 2 p.m. All pro- reaus in Cairo, Bangkok and Johan- “CBS Evening News with ceeds benefit the OPC Foundation. nesburg, and Reuters’ bureaus in Dan Rather” from 1996 to For further information, contact Hong Kong, Singapore and Taipei. 1998, Fager led the broadcast’s high- Jane Reilly at 201-493-9087 or foun- The Foundation picks up the cost ly praised rededication to hard news, [email protected].

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40 West 45 Street, New York, NY 10036 USA • Phone: (212) 626-9220 • Fax: (212) 626-9210 • Website: opcofamerica.org OPC Bulletin • February 2012 • Page 2 Different Reporting Era, Same Dilligence in Reporting full-fledged foreign correspondents, because of the extraordinary role LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT two American producers, two veter- played by some individuals using When The New York Times first an bureau assistants, including Bob that unique medium who kept us so sent me overseas, heading for Saigon Albertson who could easily have well informed throughout the Arab via Phnom Penh in December 1974, passed for a foreign correspondent in Spring and into the summer, fall and it was quite clear who was a foreign his own right (his French being far winter as well. Indeed, the Internet correspondent. There were largely more accomplished), plus camera is becoming an ever more important two varieties — the staff correspon- crews, editors and expeditors. part of our entire awards process. dents for the major national and Now, of course, the world is quite international media, and some re- None of this is to suggest the dis- different in oh so many ways. The appearance of our core foreign corre- gional papers and then there were the Paris bureau is gone. It’s now a ca- stringers who filled in when the rest spondents. They are still so alive and tering facility. The walls of our war- exciting in newspapers, magazines, of us were too occupied or needed an ren of offices have been torn down extra set of hands and legs. Of course wire services and books, as well as and my office and that of our bureau in front of television cameras and there were also the local “fixers” or chief, Jennifer Siebens (one of the radio microphones and through the translators, many of whom, like The survivors — now executive producer lenses and viewfinders of their still Times’s late Dith Pranh, were indeed of the “CBS Evening News” week- cameras. better journalists than many of us end editions) is the large banquet We hope you will all consider who called ourselves “foreign cor- hall. The edit room, where untold respondents.” In Belgrade, a couple numbers of pieces were agonizingly, submitting your work or those of of years later, for instance, Mirjana anxiously assembled under frantic your reporters, writers, producers Komaretsky, The Times “bureau as- deadlines, is now the kitchen. The and photographers. And of course, sistant” had been hired by C.L. Sul- managers of the facility were fasci- we’ll be delighted to have you with zberger nearly three decades earlier nated by my tales. They had no idea us in April when we all celebrate and knew and understood more about the history of their nation and Eu- their accomplishments. Meanwhile, the Balkans than any of a succession rope that passed through their space. we are now well launched into a of bureau chiefs who she helped sort All this is a prelude to my 2012 that we trust will be filled with their way through the intricacies of thoughts for a month when the Over- those events that, as Edward R. Mur- Serbian or Montenegrin, even Croa- seas Press Club Awards gear up for row used to enjoy saying, alter and tian politics. another round — recognizing ex- illuminate our times. And through When I first arrived in Paris in cellence in foreign correspondence. our members and colleagues — you late 1980, there was a full-fledged Today, the correspondent may look will be there. bureau at 37 rue Marbeuf. Charles different, but not the skills they bring Best regards, Collingwood had first established it to the remarkable work we will be when he rolled into Paris with De- honoring this April at our Awards Gaulle at the end of World War II. Gala. For the first time, we’ll wel- When I pitched up, there were two come Twitter submissions, largely David A. Andelman

Documentary Screening: Continued From Page 1 respondent for The Times among others. The film and discussion are co-sponsored by Inter- now being given to the symptoms of depression, anxiety and substance abuse that journalists as well as combat- national News Safety Institute, the OPC and Columbia ants suffer. Jon Steele of ITN (England) and author of Graduate School of Journalism. Following the film Dr. War Junkie puts it this way in the film “We didn’t call it Anthony Feinstein will talk about the documentary and PTSD back then, we called it ‘I need a drink.’” conduct a Q&A. The many repercussions of war are discussed in the The film will start at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, January 19 film from Christina Lamb of The Sunday Times (Eng- at the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism located land) “It seemed really, really stupid to die in that field at 116th Street and Broadway. Enter Columbia through in .” to Chris Hedges, formerly of The New the 115th Street gate, make a sharp left toward the im- York Times “In the same way a drug physically breaks posing limestone building with the statue of Thomas Jef- down an addict, I was being broken down by war.” Other ferson in front. Climb the steps, enter the lobby and turn journalists included in the film are Finbarr O’Reilly, a left into the Stabile Student Center. Reuters photojournalist, Ian Stewart, former AP Bureau RSVP to the OPC office by calling 212-626-9220 or Chief in West Africa and Anthony Loyd, U.K. war cor- e-mail [email protected].

OPC Bulletin • February 2012 • Page 3 Eating On the Job: Gastronomy From the Front Line EVENT RECAP: JANUARY 4 by Jeff John Roberts Veteran conflict reporter Matt McAllester says there’s not much to be said for war. Except, that is, the food and time spent sharing it with friends. The observation kicked off the OPC’s latest book night and soon brought about merry bouts of culinary story-swapping at Club Quarters on January 4.

The gathering came to toast the publication of Sonya K. Fry the book Eating Mud Crabs in Kandahar, a col- lection of foreign correspondents’ tales, edited by OPC President David Andelman, Matt McAllester, McAllester, of eating in extreme situations. Charlie Sennott and his 9-year-old son, Jack. In the title story, Christina Lamb recounts her ex- joyful, about their memories of sharing it. perience sharing a bite in a foxhole with a then- This was apparent from the cheerful open mic session young Hamid Karzai. Other episodes feature Scott at Club Quarters where Thanassis Cambanis report- Anderson drinking his way to the heart of the ed taking a break from the - war to join IRA and Barbara Demick showing that even de- McAllester for martinis and pickles at sunset. ranged dictators have sophisticated palates. In his turn at the mic, NPR’s Adam Davidson de- In a moving reading, Global Post founder Charles scribed offering a U.S. military “Meal, Ready to Sennott spoke of an intersection of war, family and Eat” to an astonished Iraqi. The man found the food that took place at the outset of the second inti- army meal delicious and told Davidson that drop- fada. In the holy land, Sennott and his pregnant wife ping MREs would have been a more effective smelled burning tires and cordite mingled with softer tactic than leaflets in inducing surrender. scents of seasoned lamb, olives and warm Palestinian The evening also included the requisite gross-out mo- bread. The food brought physical and moral sustenance ments. These were topped by Bill Holstein’s penis-on-a- and, years later, its recollection gave strength when plate tale from China and Allan Dodds Frank’s experience Sennott feared for the life of that young son. with Eskimo muktuk — a “crisco-covered innertube.” The book and the gathering revealed that the food The gathering soon adjourned for more civilized fare foreign reporters eat is as diverse as the countries — a generous meat and cheese spread supplied by an they visit. But there is something universal, and often anonymous OPC board officer.

New Books: Continued From Page 12 mir Putin of ordering his murder. Dunkerley says the sources and ideology. Wallace, who lost 33 pounds dur- claim that Putin ordered the murder is not fact-based and ing the trek, tells about surviving in some of the world’s was instead, an allegation spread by an enemy of Putin. most dangerous territory while wearing filthy clothes; “The most newsworthy aspect of the Litvinenko case is surviving on monkey meat; dealing with insects, snakes, how a specious story was pumped up into top headlines 90 percent humidity, caimans and jaguars; and living around the world,” Dunkerley says. with the threat of deadly arrows. Lessons from history Dunkerley, a media business analyst and consultant and anthropology add to the story of the expedition and based in New Britain, , was commissioned explain why it is important to protect an isolated tribe. in 2007 by the organizers of the World Congress of the International Federation of Journalists to study the me- RUSSIA dia coverage of the Litvinenko poisoning. The Congress HAT WILLIAM DUNKERLEY HAS TO SAY was held in Moscow, where he presented his report. In W in The Phony Litvinenko Murder [Omnicom Press] “The Phony Litvinenko Murder,” he reflects upon and is pretty much summed up in its title. The book was updates his findings. released in late November, the fifth anniversary of the Dunkerley also notes that the London coroner hasn’t death of Alexander Litvinenko, who was reported to be concluded that Litvinenko was even murdered. Certain- a dissident former Russian spy poisoned in London by ly, many questions remain. That could change, however, radioactive polonium. because in October a coroner agreed to open a full in- Litvinenko has been widely identified as a former quest into Litvinenko’s death. K.G.B. agent but Dunkerley says that is not true. On his deathbed, Litvinenko accused Russian President Vladi- — by Susan Kille

OPC Bulletin • February 2012 • Page 4 PEOPLE...

The People column was written the grant. The 2011 winners, an- expression. The whole world can see by Susan Kille. For news tips, e-mail nounced in November, are: into what happens in Bahrain, tweet [email protected]. If you are n The World Wide Web Foundation, by tweet.” interested in writing for the People which will create a voice-based news and New Books columns, e-mail the platform in rural areas of develop- MURDERS editor at [email protected]. ing countries that will allow citizen Abdisalan Sheikh Hassan, a journalists to use mobile phones to Somali television journalist, was shot OPC SCHOLARS: Alex deliver news to community radio dead in on December 18 Pena, who won the OPC Founda- stations. Because the service, which by a man that witnesses said used tion’s first Walter & Betsy Cronkite will be tested in Mali, is voice-based, an AK-47 assault rifle and wore a Scholarship in 2011, graduated in it does not require literacy. military uniform of the Transitional December from Florida Gulf Coast n Internews Europe will provide National Government. A suspect has University in Fort Myers, Florida, training and support to enable Af- been arrested. Hassan is the 25th and a few weeks later headed to rican journalists to use crowd- journalist to have been killed in Africa to do freelance work for the sourcing techniques with the goal since 2007, but The New York Voice of America. Pena plans to be of expanding press freedom and de- Times reported that his death might be based in , . mocracy. The project will be based the first case to be prosecuted. Paul Sonne, winner of the Stan in Kenya with supporting activities Swinton scholarship from the OPC in Ivory Coast, Uganda, Rwanda and Foundation in 2008, has been work- the Central African Republic. ing for the European edition of The n The University of Central Lan- Wall Street Journal in London. His cashire will provide training and byline appeared on the front page mentoring to digital entrepreneurs of The Journal’s U.S. edition in in the and Turkey late December from Tehran. Work- focusing on software development, ing with colleague Farnaz Fassihi, data journalism, and core business competencies to create sustainable Sonne described how the Iranian Khadzhimurad Kamalov at a protest regime filters out unwanted content news enterprises. in Dagestan in 2008. from the satellite television channels that reach millions of Iranians. The PRESS FREEDOM Khadzhimurad Kamalov, the regime has jammed the broadcasts The OPC denounced the tear- founder of Chernovik, a popular of the BBC’s Persian channel as well gassing suffered by Nicholas muckraking newspaper in Russia’s as the Voice of America and other Kristof and Adam Ellick of The violence-plagued North Caucasus Western networks with Persian-lan- New York Times, on December 9, region, was gunned down on guage programming. while covering a protest in Bahrain. December 15 outside his newspaper’s Both are OPC members and Ellick office in Makhachkala, the provincial WINNERS: The International is a board member. “We object capital of Dagestan. Witnesses said Press Institute has named the first in the strongest possible terms to a masked man fired about 14 times winners in its News Innovation Con- the treatment of our colleagues,” before leaving in a car. Kamalov test. The contest is sponsored by wrote Larry Martz and Kevin was known for his investigations Google through a grant of $2.7 mil- McDermott of the Freedom of the into sensitive subjects, including lion. Three winning projects, which Press Committee in a December 12 corruption, disappearances, police will receive more than $600,000 in letter to Hamada ibn Isa al-Khalifa, abuse and Islamic extremism. The total, were chosen from more than the king of Bahrain. The letter OPC wrote Russian President Dmitri 300 applications. The contest fo- repeated the Twitter updates that Medvedev and Prime Minister cus is online journalism innovation Kristof sent as he was in a haze of Vladimir Putin expressing outrage for journalists in Africa, Europe gas and then detained. The letter and urging that Kamalov’s killer be and the Middle East. In 2012, IPI concluded: “Your Majesty, there is brought swiftly to justice. Larry will consider a new set of propos- no future for governments committed Martz and Kevin McDermott of als and award the remainder of to a program of hostility to free (Continued on Page 6)

OPC Bulletin • February 2012 • Page 5 (Continued From Page 5) the Freedom of the Press Committee Year-End Recaps Paint the Stark Risks Journalists Face wrote: “Bearing in mind the impunity At the end of a year, journalism that so many killers of journalists organizations tally grim statistics. have enjoyed, we urge the central Numbers of journalists killed in 2011 government to take a hand in the differ due to how groups consider investigation -- and also to pursue cases but in every count, it is ap- the unsolved murder on May 8, also palling that these numbers exist at in Dagestan, of Yakhya Magomedov, all. To add to the tragedy, impunity a reporter for the Russian means that most deaths go unpun- Islamic newspaper, Al-Salam.” ished, fueling more numbers that Laércio de Souza, a radio will be posted this time next year. journalist who had received death Reporters Without Borders re- threats believed to be from local ported on December 21 that 66 traffickers, was shot dead January journalists were killed worldwide in 2011, many of them covering Arab Journalists Ana Marcela Yarce, left, 3 by two gunmen in the town of and Rocio González Trapaga were revolutions, gang crime in Mexico Simões Filho, Brazil. Investigators killed on September 1. Although doz- believe that his death is related to or political turmoil in Pakistan. The ens of journalists have been killed, a social infrastructure for a local group’s toll was 57 in 2010, 75 in kidnapped or threatened in Mexico, community he was building on land 2009 and 60 in 2008. The group this appeared to be the first time jour- found Pakistan, where it said 10 nalists have been slain in the once- that he owned. Although his death thought safe harbor of Mexico City. had no immediate ties to De Souza’s journalists were killed, was the most work as a journalist, Reporters dangerous country for news cover- Without Borders is watching the age for the second year running. case. The group notes that five A few days later, the International Federation of Journalists reported journalists in Brazil lost their lives that 106 journalists or other media staff were killed in 2011, compared with in 2011, with three of the deaths 94 in 2010. In addition, the group said, 20 journalists or other media staff, clearly linked to their work. died in accidents and natural disasters. The IFJ said violence against the Shukri Abu el-Burghol died on media was worst in Pakistan, Iraq and Mexico, each of which saw 11 January 2, three days after he was deaths. Most of those named by IFJ were frontline journalists. The rest shot while at home in Damascus. were cameramen, drivers and other media support staff. According to news reports cited Also in December, the Committee to Protect Journalists said at least by the International Press Institute 43 journalists were killed worldwide in 2011 in direct relation to their work. Death Watch, El-Burghol was shot Seven of the deaths were in Pakistan, where the group said 29 journalists in the eye while at home preparing were killed in the past five years. Libya and Iraq, with five fatalities each, a report for the radio station where and Mexico, with three deaths, also ranked high. CPJ considers a death work-related only when reasonably certain that a killing was in direct re- he worked. His son reportedly told prisal for a journalist’s work, in crossfire or while carrying out a dangerous state television that there had been assignment. Deaths involving unclear motives, but with a potential link to gunfire nearby; when El-Burghol journalism, are classified as “unconfirmed” and CPJ continues to investi- went to the window to see what was gate. happening, he was killed. In early January, the International Press Institute Death Watch re- Luz Marina Paz Villalobos, a leased its 2011 numbers: 103 journalists killed because of their work radio journalist, was killed Dec. 6 in — two more than in 2010 and the second highest since IPI started its Tegucigalpa, the Honduran capital, Death Watch in 1997. Not everyone on the list was murdered. Some on her way to work. Her cousin also (Continued on Page 7) died when two men on a motorcycle intercepted their car and struck them Honduras since the beginning of entered the country with an ethnic with dozens of bullets. An extortion 2010, but the first female. Somali rebel group. The two were gang had reportedly threatened Paz arrested in July by Ethiopian Villalobos, the director of the “Three ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia: troops during a clash with rebels in in the News” program broadcast on Swedish journalists Johan Persson eastern Ethiopia’s Somali region, Honduras News Channel, after she and Martin Schibbye, were a restive area where it is difficult refused to pay protection money. sentenced December 27 to 11 years for journalists to visit. The ruling According to the IPI Death Watch, in prison on charges of supporting was condemned by journalism and she is the 16th journalist killed in terrorism after the two illegally human rights groups, which called

OPC Bulletin • February 2012 • Page 6 September 2003 and convicted of When Getting the Story, and Sometimes Become the Story subversion the following year. His (Continued From Page 6) sentence was linked to his articles about forming an opposition party, were at work when natural disaster struck, a plane or helicopter crashed news reports said. or bombs exploded. The IPI said almost all were local reporters and cam- eramen covering local conflicts, corruption and other illegal activities. BERLIN: German President The IPI found Mexico the deadliest country for journalists in 2011, with Christian Wulff apologized January 10 killed. Iraq, with nine journalists killed — most from bombings — was 4 for a threatening message he left the second deadliest. Six journalists were killed in Yemen, Pakistan and for a newspaper editor, but said he Honduras respectively and five each in Libya and Brazil, the IPI said. would not consider resigning. Wulff Four died in the . faced growing calls to step down after “The combination of dangerous assignments turned deadly and tar- news spread that he tried to interfere geted murders that remain unsolved is a double challenge to free expres- with press freedom by leaving Kai sion,” said CPJ Executive Director Joel Simon. “Combatants must recog- Diekmann, chief editor of Bild, a nize the right of journalists to cover conflict, while governments must be threatening voicemail on December held accountable for investigating and prosecuting those who carry out 12 raising the prospect of “war” if crimes against the press.” the tabloid reported that Wulff had u received a low interest personal loan of about $649,000 from the wife of In its annual census of imprisoned journalists, CPJ reported that a German entrepreneur. Wulff also 179 journalists were imprisoned worldwide as of December 1, a 15-year called Bild’s publisher in an attempt high and an increase of 34 from 2010. Nearly half of those held were to suppress the story. Bild published online journalists, while about 45 percent were freelancers. Iran topped the story that pointed out Wulff had the list for the second consecutive year with 42 journalists in prison, fol- denied any financial connection to the lowed by Eritrea, 28; China, 27; Myanmar, 12; and , 9. entrepreneur who is a close friend. For the first time since CPJ began compiling annual prison surveys in Wulff apologized last month for not 1990, no journalist in the Americas was in jail for work-related reasons. disclosing the details of the loan but Declines continued in Europe and Central Asia, where only eight jour- since then the emerging news of his nalists were jailed, the lowest regional tally in six years. Those improve- threatening phone calls has become ments, however, were offset by increased jailings across the Middle East and North Africa, where governments were holding 77 journalists, nearly the focus of public concern. 45 percent of the worldwide total. BUDAPEST: Balazs Nagy u Navarro and Aranka Szavuly, editors with Hungarian state For the first time, Reporters Without Borders listed the world’s 10 television station MTV, were fired most dangerous places for the media. The list includes cities, districts, December 28 when their employer squares, provinces and regions where journalists and netizens were objected to the political nature most exposed to violence and where freedom of information was flouted. of their hunger strike protesting The list, in alphabetical order, is: Manama, Bahrain; Abidjan, Côte government manipulation of news d’Ivoire; Cairo’s Tahrir Square, Egypt; Misrata, Libya; Veracruz state, content. Beginning December 10 Mexico; Khuzdar, Pakistan; Manila, Cebu and Cagayan de Oro and continuing into January, the metropolitan areas on the islands of Luzon and Mindanao, Philippines; men have been surviving on only Mogadishu, Somalia; Deraa, Homs and Damascus, ; and Sanaa’s liquids at a makeshift camp outside Change Square, Yemen. the broadcaster’s headquarters in Budapest. for the immediate release of the dissident, after serving eight years HO CHI MINH CITY: Nguyen men and said that the government of a 12-year sentence. Huang was Van Khuong, a reporter who writes controls access to the area where the released in October but told not to under the pen-name of Hoang men were arrested to keep abuses publicize his freedom. The US-based Khuong for the Vietnamese-lan- there from being exposed. Human Rights in China announced guage Tuoi Tre daily newspaper, the release in early December. Huang, was arrested January 2 in connection BEIJING: Chinese authorities who worked for several newspapers with an investigation into police freed Huang Jinqiu, a former and contributed to dissident news corruption. While working under- newspaper reporter and cyber website Boxun, was arrested in (Continued on Page 8)

OPC Bulletin • February 2012 • Page 7 (Continued From Page 7) abetting a terrorist organization. cover, Khuong posed as a traffic The OPC Freedom of the Press violator and had an intermediary Committee wrote a letter to Prime bribe a police officer to release an Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on impounded vehicle, news reports January 6 assailing the government’s said. Reporters Without Borders says crackdown on the media. Khuong’s reports about corruption have made him famous in Vietnam KARACHI, Pakistan: Ahsan and prompted public criticism of Kohati, senior correspondent for the police. Khuong is to be held for the Waqt television station, was four months while the authorities wounded in the chest and abdomen investigate his use of a bribe to Turkey’s two leading journalists, while covering a November 27 rally expose traffic police corruption. Ahmet Sik, far left, and Nedim Sener, in Karachi that turned violent. Three center, gesture as they arrive at a members of a banned militant group, court in Istanbul March 5, 2011. HONG KONG: Jim Laurie, who had taken part in a protest against a former OPC board member, is human rights groups are increasingly an attack the day before by NATO shifting gears once again to help alarmed at press freedom abuses in helicopters on a military checkpoint China Central Television expand Turkey occurring while Western in Pakistan, sparked mob violence its U.S. presence. Laurie, once a officials describe the country as an when they shot and killed two Shia broadcast journalist for ABC News example of a Muslim democracy. Muslim volunteers at a separate based in Beijing and Tokyo, among The New York Times gave the issue religious event. Kohati was injured other capitals, has recently been front-page treatment on January when paramilitary forces fired on the 5, reporting that Turkish jails held director of broadcasting and senior rioters, according to reports. 97 members of the news media, teaching consultant at the University including journalists, publishers and LONDON: A guide for Scotland of Hong Kong’s Journalism and distributors. That figure grew from Yard issued January 4 warns officers Media Studies Center. He has been a Bulletin report last month when against flirting and drinking with at the university since 2005. an Istanbul court ruled December journalists. In a move to have tighter He is leaving the university and 23 that 38 people, many of them controls on the release of information, Hong Kong to spend more time in journalists, accused of links to members of the Metropolitan Police the U.S. His production company a Kurdish separatist group and Service were told not to flirt with — Focus Asia Productions — will arrested in December must remain journalists, to eschew “late-night remain housed in Kowloon Tong in detention until their trial, for carousing,” and to not let a member with friend Fred Wang at Salon which no date has been set. of the news media use alcohol in Films. But Laurie himself will be “Turkey’s democracy may be a an effort to get you to “drop your spending more time in Florida, good benchmark when compared defenses.” Officers were urged to Washington D.C. and Maine. “In with Egypt, Libya or Syria,” Hakan keep a note of every conversation Washington, I am taking on a large Altinay, a senior fellow at the they have with journalists. The report task for China Central television as Brookings Institution, told The Times. was commissioned after a continuing consultant to their new build-out “But the whole region will suffer if phone hacking scandal led Rupert in America,” Laurie wrote in an Turkey is allowed to disregard the Murdoch to close the disgraced tab- e-mail. “CCTV News is developing values of liberal democracy.” loid The News of the World. four hours or more of English The most prominent journalist programming each day out of North MEXICO CITY: Reporters With- imprisoned in Turkey is Nedim and South America. It is an exciting out Borders and the Centre for Jour- Şener, who was named a World nalism and Public Ethics staged a ‘launch’ that will keep me pre- Press Freedom Hero in 2010 by December 10 forum on “Justice for occupied at least to summer.” the International Press Institute Murdered and Disappeared Journal- The Chinese are attempting to following publication of his book ists” in Mexico City. The groups project “soft power” around the on the murder of Turkish-Armenian said the majority of the 80 murders world and are hiring broadcasters journalist Hrant Dink. Şener, who in Mexico of journalists since 2000 from ABC News, Bloomberg, CBS, says he is a victim of a revenge have gone unpunished; another 14 NBC, CNNI, Al Jazeera English, operation, is one of 10 journalists journalists have dis-appeared since Russia Today, and The Associated among 13 defendants imprisoned 2003. The danger to journalists has Press to help them achieve that. since March who are being tried increased since the start of a fed- ISTANBUL: Journalism and on a variety of charges related to eral offensive against drug traffick-

OPC Bulletin • February 2012 • Page 8 started his career in , but Newswomen’s Club of New York Front Page Awards Business Week hired him in Atlanta and transferred him to Hong Kong. He used that position for many years to travel the region, from China to India, chronicling the emergence of Asian economies and describing the strategies of Western multinationals. He won OPC awards and citations for his coverage. He returned to New York several years ago to work at Business Week headquarters, but left the magazine after Bloomberg acquired it. Aside from winning OPC awards, Engardio has served as a judge. He lives in Brooklyn with wife and child. u Several OPC members enjoyed the Newswomen’s Club 2011 Front Page Awards which were held at the Downtown Association on November Colin Myler is back in New 10. The picture includes from left to right: Clive McKeef (Reuters), Mar- York but this time, he is working for garet Zellers (GeoMedia), Sarah Lubman (Brunswick Group), Toni Re- Mort Zuckerman as editor-in-chief inhold (Reuters and Newswomen’s Club President), Roz Massow (OPC of The New York Daily News. When Foundation Board), Sonya Fry (OPC Executive Director) and Evelyn Leo- he last worked in New York, he was pold (UN and OPC Board member). OPC Board members Gillian Tett (Fi- executive editor at the rival New nancial Times), Michael Serrill (Bloomberg Markets) and Chrystia Free- York Post for Rupert Murdoch. land (Reuters) were in attendance as well as Edie Lederer (AP). He left New York in 2007 to work Freeland was honored by the Newswomen’s Club with a Front Page for Murdoch as editor of The News Award for Specialized Writing in the business category. Freeland is the of the World in London but lost his editor of Thomson Reuters Digital. She previously had been with the Fi- job when the popular paper was nancial Times as U.S. managing editor and before that, deputy editor in closed last July in a phone hacking London. The Front Page Awards recognize female journalists in the New scandal. Myler, whose new job was York tri-state area for their work in print, broadcast and online media. announced January 4, is said to relish ing after Felipe Calderón became newscast on CNN International. For the idea of taking on his former paper and his former boss. president in December 2006. Re- ABC, she will be roving global af- porters Without Borders says organ- fairs anchor and report on foreign u ized crime and drug cartels are the affairs in primetime specials and on leading source of physical danger all ABC News broadcasts. She was Abigail Pesta, an OPC board to journalists in Mexico, but major replaced on “This Week” by George member who serves as editorial abuses have occurred in the course of Stephanopoulos, who previously director of Women in the World for the federal offensive, during which hosted the show. After the deal was Newsweek and The Daily Beast, 50,000 have died, that is supposed to announced in December, Amanpour received two Exceptional Merit in respond to this threat. wrote on Twitter: “Really thrilled to Media Awards in November from the achieve the best of both worlds — National Women’s Political Caucus. NEW YORK: In an unusual op- prime time specials at ABC, week- She was recognized for articles she portunity, OPC member Christiane day shows around the world at CNN wrote for Marie Claire, where she Amanpour now has anchor jobs International!” had been editor-at-large. One story with ABC and CNN. The agree- u was “An American Tragedy,” about ment came as Amanpour left ABC’s a young woman killed by her Iraqi- “This Week,” where she was host for Pete Engardio, one of Business born father in Phoenix for refusing a year and a half before signing off Week’s most distinguished Asia an arranged marriage. The other was December 25, 2011. At CNN, where correspondents, has joined Boston “Diary of an Escaped Sex Slave,” a she worked for 20 years before join- Consulting Group as a writer in New profile of a young woman forced to ing ABC, she will anchor an evening York. Engardio, a native of Detroit, (Continued on Page 10)

OPC Bulletin • February 2012 • Page 9 (Continued From Page 9) she and three other photographers have sex with hundreds of men when working for The New York Times she was sold into sexual slavery as were captured and held in Libya a child in . The woman for six days by pro-Gaddafi forces. escaped and now rescues other girls. While Addario was in captivity, her Pesta, who was born in London and husband Paul de Bendern, who raised in Indiana, has worked around was bureau chief for Reuters in the world as a journalist, from New India at the time, told his wife via York to London to Hong Kong. Michael Dailey of Daytop Village, CNN, “You’ve gotta come back here ascending the staircase of the because we’ve got to have kids.” u former OPC headquarters. The Bulletin is pleased to report program that bought the that Addario gave birth A lecture that Seymour on December 28, 2011 Topping, an OPC board member, building from the OPC to a boy (at press time, gave December 7 at Columbia in 1973, had turned down still unnamed). Addario University has been published an advertising photo wrote in an e-mail: in Chinese in Reference News, shoot using the staircase “He’s precious. One the select service of Xinhua News because the ad was for would never know he Service, which is provided to about a liquor company and 2 million government and party would violate a ban on spent his time in my officials as well as other elites. The alcohol in the building. womb in Senegal, Saudi, lecture, “China in Engagement with The non-profit, however, Afghanistan, Somalia, the : From the Maoist is due to come into some Kenya, Gaza, and in the money. City Room U.S. and India!! No War Insurgency to Korea, Vietnam, and Lynsey with son. Challenges Today,” has also been reported Daytop was in Wounds!” published with illustrations on the process of selling the Weibo, a popular social media web building for $27 million and moving PEOPLE REMEMBERED Al Kaff’s family wrote to thank site in China. A video of the lecture to smaller headquarters. the OPC for the tributes to him was featured on the website of the ROME: Up to 100 newspaper World Policy Institute. in the December Bulletin. Kaff titles in Italy may close because died October 25. u the cash-strapped government “My mother Diana, my brother plans to cut annual subsidies from Arthur and I would like to sincerely John Martin, former ABC $221 million to $69 million. The thank you and all who were involved News correspondent and Columbia affected papers include Liberazione, in putting together the December University teacher, will succeed a communist daily; L’Unita, the issue of the Overseas Press Club Travis Fox on the OPC Board of former communist party daily Bulletin, honoring my late father,” Governors. Fox resigned from the founded by Antonio Gramsci; Il wrote Alban Kaff. “It was wonderful OPC Board in December citing Manifesto, an independent left-wing for us to read all the comments ailing parents and over-extended paper; and Avvenire, a Catholic daily. from people who knew my dad and commitments. Martin’s work has Most closures, however, will involve worked with him over the years. local papers across the country. earned a George Polk Award, These kind and thoughtful words The subsidies are now viewed as an Emmy Award and a DuPont- are much appreciated and will be wastefully propping up a declining Columbia Award. Until recently he greatly treasured by us. The OPC industry. Liberazione, for example, was a member of the OPC Freedom and the OPC Bulletin meant so publishes about 5,000 copies. of the Press Committee. much to my father, as he spent u BIRTH many long hours working on putting Last year, Lynsey Addario won the together each month’s column in The grand spiral staircase with Olivier Rebbot Award from the OPC such a diligent manner. We have no marble steps at the former OPC for her pictures “Veiled Rebellion: doubt he enjoyed every minute of it. headquarters at 54 West 40th Street Afghan Women” in National “Once again, we would like to was featured December 13 in the Geographic as well as a citation in thank all of you for this wonderful City Room blog on The New York Feature Photography for work in Time tribute issue. It will serve as a fitting Times website. Daytop Village, magazine on “Maternal Mortality.” final chapter to my dad’s long and the drug and alcohol rehabilitation The honors came three months after storied career.”

OPC Bulletin • February 2012 • Page 10 How Journalists Can Maintain Their Influence “It’s in vogue today,” says O’Shea, “to hire people from OPINION outside the media because ‘the journalists just don’t get by William J. Holstein it’. But in the same breath, they talk about the need for Since the days of H.L. Mencken, journalists have credibility. Credibility is as old-fashioned as journalists voiced dismay that owners and top managers of news are. We know that getting it right is important. The urge organizations don’t accept the legitimacy of journalistic is to get people who are more savvy on the Internet and values. We like to think that those values include a deep the digital world. But that risks a loss of attention to ac- respect for reporting the facts, for sorting out what is true curacy. It’s ‘get it out there first’. That doesn’t necessar- and not true, for acting as a check and balance against ily lead to credibility.” institutional abuses of power and for essentially getting Rather than just beating our breasts and commiser- the right story told the right way in a timely manner. ating about the fate of quality journalism, O’Shea says, Three recent reshufflings in the media world, how- and I agree, that journalists need to develop greater so- ever, continue a trend of promoting people who don’t phistication in helping media organizations adapt to the necessarily understand what quality journalism is: digital era and actually make money. We need to move n Time Inc. named Laura Lang to run the largest beyond purism. “Journalists themselves have to get magazine publisher in the United States. She came from more involved in the business side of things and look the digital advertising agency Digitas. There’s no ques- at themselves more as journalistic entrepreneurs and not tion that all media organizations need to adapt to the the high priests of journalism who can’t get their fingers digital era, but don’t they also need some exposure to the dirty making money,” O’Shea says. fundamental craft of journalism? That obviously is not easy and I cannot claim any en- n NPR, the venerable radio empire based in Wash- trepreneurial genius because I worked for news organi- ington, hired Gary E. Knell as president and chief exec- zations that ultimately failed or nearly failed — United utive. He was formerly chief executive at Sesame Work- Press International, Business Week, U.S. News & World shop, the producer of “Sesame Street,” was managing Report, Business 2.0 and Chief Executive magazine. But director of Manager Media International a print and mul- I think we have to spend more time and talent under- timedia publishing company based in Bangkok, Hong standing the business models of the news organizations Kong, and Singapore, and displayed skills in multimedia we work for and trying to help them chart paths that up- programming. He has never worked in a newsroom. hold the best journalistic values at the same time that n And ThomsonReuters said farewell to Chief Ex- they adapt to the digital world and fundamental disrup- ecutive Thomas Glocer, who was not a journalist but tions in the advertising world. If we could do that, more was known for being sympathetic to the cause. Which is journalists would be actually managing media organiza- one reason he was not seen as “financially disciplined.” tions, not just serving at the whim of their masters. Glocer was replaced by Chief Operating Officer James Smith, who started his career as a journalist at smaller WELCOME TO OUR NEW MEMBERS papers but turned to number crunching in Thomson’s Mary Jean Baxley Brian Su professional division. This move was part of the Thom- Freelance Journalist Director, Press Division son family’s takeover of Reuters, but the message was Columbia, SC Taipei Economic and that cost accountability is going to be more important Active Non Resident Cultural Office than spending money on quality journalism. Associate Resident Brian I. Byrd The implications of these moves are obvious. If the Program Officer Brion Tingler people at the top have scant exposure to journalism, NYS Health Foundation Director, Global Media much less respect for it, then they are going to look at Associate Resident Relations seasoned, experienced journalists as mere assets to be Lenovo moved around the chessboard, and eliminated when Geoffrey Cain Morrisville, North Carolina they become expensive. They are going to see the world School of Oriental and Affiliate African Studies through digital and financial prisms. London What can we do? For insight, I called old friend Jim Student O’Shea, a former member of the board of the OPC and ADMISSIONS the former managing editor of both the Chicago Tribune Haley Sweetland Edwards COMMITTEE and Times. He wrote the book, The Deal Freelance Writer/Reporter George Bookman, Chair Georgia David Fondiller From Hell, (See the November 2011 Bulletin) which Active Overseas Felice Levin described how Chicago property magnate Sam Zell es- Linda Goetz Holmes sentially raped some of America’s finest newspapers.

OPC Bulletin • February 2012 • Page 11 Kathy Eldon worked to publish The ment of Isolated Indians, on an ardu- New Books Journey Is the Destination, a criti- ous expedition to where the Amazon AFRICA cally acclaimed book published in rainforest meets the Andes mountain N THE SUMMER OF 1993, 1997 that drew from her son’s note- range. I Dan Eldon, a Reuters photogra- books. A documentary, “Dying to Possuelo sought the Flecheiros pher, was stoned to death in Mogadi- Tell the Story,” was filmed in 1997 — or “People of the Arrow” — a shu, Somalia, by an angry mob after by his sister, Amy. Traveling photo mysterious and seldom-glimpsed a U.N. bombing raid on exhibits have followed tribe of skilled and ferocious archers the suspected headquar- and there are plans for a known to greet intruders with show- ters of a warlord killed movie about his life. ers of poison-tipped arrows before scores of people. Eldon Now, Jennifer New melting back into the forest. The ex- was 22 years old. has published Safari as a pedition did not encounter the tribe, Eldon was born in Way of Life [Chronicle] but that was the goal. London and moved as to tell Eldon’s story to a The mission was to gain informa- a child to Kenya, where new generation. The book tion about the Flecheiros so Brazil his mother, OPC member includes excerpts from could estab- Kathy Eldon, worked as his journals, previously lish a large a journalist and where he unpublished photographs reserve to pro- and his family experienced the failed and copies of documents from his tect them and 1982 coup and its aftermath. He life. New has also developed a high their rainforest joined his mother on assignments school curriculum based on Elder’s habitat from and had photos published in local interests in art, journalism and Afri- the advancing papers. can studies. frontier. Pos- Dan Eldon left behind 17 note- suelo avoided books creatively detailing his ad- SOUTH AMERICA direct contact ventures and passions. He also left N HIS LATEST BOOK, OPC because the a mother and sister who established I member Scott Wallace mixes his- tribe would the non-profit Creative Visions tory and anthropology with a first- have little re- Foundation to honor his legacy and person account of the danger and sistance to the diseases the expedi- to support activists who use me- adventure experienced during a tion might bring. Previous encoun- dia and the arts for positive action. three-month journey into the upper ters between outsiders and isolated Amazon to track one of the planet’s tribes had led to epidemics that dev- last uncontacted indigenous tribes, in astated cultures. The Unconquered. The book comes In more than three decades cover- from an assignment Wallace took ing national and international affairs, from National Geographic to follow Wallace has been drawn to big sto- a 34-man team led by Sydney Pos- ries involving conflict over land, re- Coming up... suelo, an explorer who founded and was then head of Brazil’s Depart- (Continued on Page 4) OPC Scholarship Overseas Press Club of America Luncheon 40 West 45 Street February 17 New York, NY 10036 USA See page 1 for details

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