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Wapo's Martin Baron to Keynote 2019 Awards Dinner OPC Elects Pancho MONTHLY NEWSLETTER I September 2018 OPC Elects Pancho Bernasconi as President INSIDE as Well as Officers and Governors Event Preview: Video Journalism by chad bouchard Symposium 2 uring the OPC’s Annual Meeting on Sept. 4, Event Preview: members elected Pancho Bernasconi, vice Taiwan’s Future 2 president of Global News at Getty Images, as D Remembering the club’s next president. Bob Gibson 3 As a career photo editor, Bernasconi takes the helm as the club’s first visual journalist to be elected presi- The Mind Field 4 dent, and is also the first foreign-born OPC president. Bernasconi was born in Chile, and his father was a Richard Pyle Memorial 4 working print and radio journalist in Chile, as well as a professor of journalism. His family moved to Wash- People Column 5-7 ington, DC when he was seven years old, because CHAD BOUCHARD “being a journalist in the early days of the Pinochet Left to right: Newly elected OPC President Pancho Press Freedom Update 8-9 regime was not an easy task,” he said. In Washington, Bernasconi, Executive Director Patricia Kranz and his father worked in the press office of the Organiza- outgoing President Deidre Depke. New Books 10 tion of American States. Bernasconi said he looks for- Bernasconi started his journalism career as a photo ward to supporting the club’s mission to protect press Q&A: Charles Graeber 11 freedom. editor at the Washington DC bureau of Agence France- “What we are in the middle of today, both in this Presse. Before joining Getty Images in 2004, he was country and everywhere else, is something that de- a photo editor at The Chicago Tribune and The New mands all of our attention and effort, and demands that York Times. we make space to help.” Continued on Page 3 WaPo’s Martin Baron to Keynote 2019 Awards Dinner by patricia kranz Kim Wall Award this spring for Table prices range from $10,000 artin baron, execu- their 2017 work “Occupied, ” an to $25,000. tive editor of The Wash- immersive series that transports If you know of companies Mington Post, will be readers into the worlds of three that may be interested in buying the keynote speaker at the OPC’s Palestinians. a table, please send contact infor- 80th Anniversary Awards Dinner The dinner will be held at mation to Sarah Lubman, chair on April 19, 2019. Cipriani 25 Broadway. The board of the Awards Dinner Committee, Baron is one of the top editors of governors is seeking help at [email protected] in American journalism. News- from members in selling corpo- or Patricia Kranz, OPC executive rooms under his leadership have rate tables at the dinner. Revenue director, at won 14 Pulitzer Prizes, including from the dinner helps fund OPC [email protected]. v seven at the Post. Reporters from services such as free photo press the Post have also won several ID cards for members, training OPC awards, including the first programs and freelancer support. COMMONS FUZHEADO/WIKIMEDIA 1 1 Panel to Offer Advice on Video Journalism in Dangerous Times EVENT PREVIEW: OCT. 18 PANEL ON REPORTING IN RUSSIA any journalists today are TO BE STREAMED LIVE expected to do their storytell- ing through video as much as the On Sept. 20 around 8:45 p.m., you can tune in to M a live stream of a panel on reporting in Russia via printed word. A panel of experts will lead a seminar to provide a tool kit so that beginners the OPC’s YouTube channel. Tickets are sold out for can learn, and video experts can brush up on, the panel and performance of the play “Intractable what’s involved. It will teach the basics of Woman, A Theatrical Memo on Anna Politkovskaya.” video technology: how to get started; how to But the panel portion of the program use your smartphone; how to do live stream- will be streamed live, and clips will ing; and how to provide for the safety and be available soon after te show. Click here security of digital video. (FLICKR) RICHARD MASONER Judith Matloff, a journalism to watch a The seminar will feature Erica Anderson, professor at Columbia University live stream Enterprise Fellow at FRONTLINE. of the panel. lead for U.S. partnerships with News Lab and author who has specialized The moderator will be OPC Secretary at Google. She will talk about the tools that in writing about regions of Paula Dwyer of Bloomberg News. The semi- Google provides to verify the authenticity of conflict, will be the moderator. nar will start at 6:30 p.m. at Club Quarters. videos that journalists use from third parties. Panelists include Zach Fannin, a freelance journalist Click on the gold button or visit the OPC Also joining the panel will be Priscila who won several awards for “Inside Putin’s website to RSVP. v Neri, senior program manager for Witness, Russia,” a PBS NewsHour series; Misha Friedman, a program that trains people globally how to a photographer who has worked extensively in Russia use video and technology to document human and Ukraine; and Elena Kostyuchenko, a special correspondent for Russia’s Novaya Gazeta (where rights violations and to tell stories that other- Click here Anna Politkovskaya worked) who covers conflict and wise would go unheard and unseen. to RSVP Sara Obeidat, a co-producer at Rain Media for the video gay rights. She is the 2018 Paul Klebnikov Russian Civil working on films for FRONTLINE, will journalism Society Fellow at Columbia’s Harriman Institute. Click panel. also speak. Her work includes Inside Yemen, on the gold button above to watch the program live. Separated and The Pension Gamble, which will be coming out in October. She also is the East Asia Experts to Discuss the Future Of Taiwan EVENT PREVIEW: OCT. 30 Will Trump’s actions increase the Moderating the discussion will chances of stability or conflict? be OPC past president, business aiwan, the self-govern- On Oct. 30, the OPC will host journalist and author William J. ing island of 23 million a panel to explore these and other Holstein, who is also former Bei- Tpeople, is caught between questions surrounding the island na- jing bureau chief for United Press an increasingly aggressive Beijing tion. Panelists will include: Andrew International. that is projecting military power in Nathan, a professor at Columbia The evening will kick off at the South China Sea and conduct- University and one of America’s 6:00 p.m. at Club Quarters with ing war games near Taiwan, and foremost experts on China and a reception – beverages and ap- President Donald Trump’s admin- its foreign policy; Russell Hsiao, petizers will be provided – and the istration, which has increased sup- executive director of the nonprofit discussion will begin at 6:30 p.m. port for Taiwan above what most think tank Global Taiwan Institute Click on the gold button or visit previous U.S. governments have in Washington, which seeks to the OPC website to RSVP. v offered. A potential trade war be- improve Taiwan’s international tween China and the United States relations; and Richard Bernstein, Clockwise from upper left, and increasing military tensions formerly based in China for TIME Click here Richard Bernstein, William J. between the two superpowers magazine and a veteran of several to RSVP Holstein, Russell Hsiao and complicates the picture. Will Bei- foreign postings for The New York for the Taiwan Andrew Nathan. jing resort to actual military action Times. Bernstein is also author of panel. to put pressure on Taiwan to join numerous books, including The what it considers the motherland? Coming Conflict with China (1997). 2 OPC Remembers LA Times Icon Bob Gibson by chad bouchard officer. Gibson later worked for McGraw- ne of of the longest standing members of the OPC, Hill’s news service in London and served Bob Gibson, known for shaping foreign coverage at as correspondent in Moscow, where he the Los Angeles Times, died on June 22 at the age of declined an offer from the Russian gov- O ernment to become a spy. 89. He had been an OPC member since 1957. Gibson began his career in foreign news covering the Ko- Gibson moved to Los Angeles and rean War at the age of 22. A story about Gibson in the Times began working at the Times in 1964, and said that publisher Otis Chandler assigned Gibson to build up soon ascended to helm the foreign desk. the paper’s scant staff in international bureaus. A Times piece said that Gibson “cut a Gibson grew up in St. Louis, and his family moved to formidable figure in the newsroom,” at the Gibson San Marino, California. He studied journalism and political Times, at a height of 6 foot 4 inches tall, GIBSON ESMERALDA science at Stanford University, graduating in 1950. He landed “an image that belied his compassion for Click here reporters and knack for magic tricks.” to watch a his first job in Honolulu as correspondent for United Press live stream Associations, which later became United Press International Gibson took a buyout in 1991, and during retirement he of the panel. and his wife Esmerelda Gibson both secured memberships as (UPI), and was soon sent to cover the Korean War. He was v drafted into the Army at 26 and served as public information magicians at the exclusive Magic Castle in Hollywood. ‘Annual Meeting’ zer Center for Crisis Reporting. Continued From Page 1 Board members still serving out their terms are listed in the masthead on the back page of Earlier in the meeting, outgoing OPC the Bulletin.
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