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. president Deidre Depke announced the re- Depke thanked governors who are leaving formation of the OPC’s Press Freedom Com- the board due to term limits: Rukmini Cal- mittee, and called for volunteers to serve on a limachi, Bill Collins, Emma Daly, Charles group that will monitor press freedom news, Graeber, Anjali Kamat, Rachael Morehouse, pressure world leaders to improve protection Abigail Pesta, Roxana Saberi, Lara Setrakian, for journalists and call out those who attack and Calvin Sims. the press. The OPC Foundation’s executive director, “The White House is doing its best to un- Jane Reilly, announced that Stephen Adler, Pancho Bernasconi and Deidre Depke dermine the work that we do every day, and the editor-in-chief of Reuters, will be next CHAD BOUCHARD PHOTOS: other governments are finding shelter in this year’s keynote speaker at the foundation’s president’s remarks and his example,” she luncheon, and that the organization will offer said. a new award in the name of legendary AP re- The OPC also elected officers, nine newly porter Richard Pyle, who died last September. elected or reelected Active board members William Holstein spoke about progress in the and three Associate board members. Deborah A Culture of Safety (ACOS) alliance, a coali- Amos of NPR was elected First vice Presi- tion of groups working to improve safety for dent. After a run-off vote to break a tie during freelance journalists in the field. The OPC the meeting, Christopher Dickey of The Daily Foundation administers the finances of ACOS. Beast was elected Second Vice President, The group is hammering out the details of a and Scott Kraft of the Los Angeles Times was possible insurance scheme for freelance jour- elected Third Vice President. Liam Stack of nalists. Abigail Pesta and Josh Fine The New York Times is Treasurer, and Paula Executive Director Patricia Kranz an- Dwyer of Bloomberg News is Secretary. nounced several programs coming up this fall, Active members elected or reelected to the including a play and panel on Sept. 20 about board are: John Avlon of CNN, Miriam Elder reporting in Russia, with a performance of of Buzzfeed, Alix Freedman and Michael Intractable Woman, A Theatrical Memo on Williams of Reuters, Douglas Jehl of The Anna Politkovskaya. Tickets for that event are Washington Post, Jim Laurie of Focus Asia sold out. On Oct. 18, there will be a panel on Productions, Adriane Quinlan of HBO’s Vice video journalism with Priscila Neri of Witness News Tonight and Gary Silverman of the Fi- and Erica Anderson of News Lab at Google, nancial Times. among other speakers. On Oct. 30, the OPC Associate board members elected or William Holstein will moderate a panel on the reelected are Pete Engardio of Boston Con- future of Taiwan with several China and Asia sulting Group, Sarah Lubman of Brunswick policy experts. v Group and Kem Knapp Sawyer of The Pulit- Robert Nickelsberg and Michael Serrill

3 New Video Therapy Service Offers Help for Journalists by chad bouchard wanted feelings,” Mortimer said. “If you reacted. It isn’t the type of contempt and ife as an international journalist need to seek out adrenalin and danger, cruelty that people would mete out to comes with big rewards, but can or even feel the need to help people who people they love.” also come at a cost. A high-octane are much worse off than yourself, you al- Interstate medical rules in the US can L ready probably have some stuff to think make remote therapy services tricky, so lifestyle, marked by frequent uprooting between posts and the trauma of witness- through.” therapists in The Mind Field are all based ing tragedy and loss, takes a toll on Mortimer’s father, David Blundy, was in Europe and licensed by European au- mental health. But getting help can feel a foreign correspondent and conflict re- thorities. like a nearly impossible task for such porter for the London-based Sunday Cor- Mortimer added that people who are moving targets. A new service launched respondent newspaper. He was shot and interested should understand that it’s ok this summer is aimed at making access killed while on assignment in El Salvador to sign up for a single session and would to therapy easier via remote video chat. in 1989. not be pressured to commit to more. The The Mind Field is a small but grow- She said he was of a generation of cost is $100 per hour. Therapy is current- ing network of therapists who are avail- journalists “who would rather have died, ly available in English, Italian, Spanish, able for video therapy sessions to help and indeed did, than ever see a shrink.” Arabic and Russian, and the organization aid workers, volunteers and journalists in Mortimer said people facing trauma plans to add other languages. the field wherever they are. Anna Mor- in the field often turn to drinking or other There is a Facebook page (@the- timer, a therapist and former Moscow self-destructive behaviors to cope, while MindFieldworld) where people can correspondent for The Times, London also becoming their own relentless crit- request access for a closed group that (as Anna Blundy), launched the project ics. serves as chat support. For more informa- along with two colleagues who have ex- “You’ve got this horrible double thing tion, you can find the website at themind- perience in the development realm. happening. You’ve seen awful stuff, and field.world, where people are also invited then you are very contemptuous and to share stories, even anonymously, about “People who go into these profes- v sions are already on the run from un- cruel to yourself for the way that you’ve mental health issues in the field.

Legendary Foreign Correspondent Richard Pyle Laid to Rest at Arlington Cemetery by chad bouchard riends and family members of legendary war cor- respondent and Army veteran Richard Pyle gathered Fat the Arlington National Cemetery on Aug. 20 to celebrate his life and a career with The Associated Press that spanned nearly five decades. Pyle died on Sept. 28 last year at the age of 83 after battle with respiratory disease. At the service his wife, actress and writer Brenda Smiley, who is also an OPC member, received a folded American flag, and placed her husband’s ashes in a memorial wall. Seven soldiers fired three volleys of rifle shots. Later that night, friends and colleagues continued to cel- ebrate Pyle’s legacy at their home. The AP quoted Brenda as saying she was moved by the group’s tributes. “When I walked into the family room, all I could think was how thrilled Richard would have been. This was a party not to be missed! And in an alternate universe, he would still be there deep in conversation.” PAUL STEVENS PAUL Pyle served two years in the U.S. Army before graduating Brenda Smiley receives a folded American flag during a from Wayne State University in Detroit. He joined the AP’s memorial service for her husband at Arlington National Detroit bureau in 1960. Cemetery. His career spanned 49 years, including top stories such as the presidency of John F. Kennedy, the Vietnam War, the 1980s, he served as AP’s Asia news editor based in Tokyo. resignation of President Richard M. Nixon, revolution in the He was the author of the 1991 book Schwarzkopf, on the Philippines and the 2001 attack on the World Trade Center’s 1991 Gulf War commander H. Norman Schwarzkopf, and twin towers. co-author of Breaking News: How the Associated Press Has He covered Vietnam from 1968 to 1973, serving as Saigon Covered War, Peace, and Everything Else,” a history of the bureau chief for the last few years of his tenure there. In the AP published in 2007. He retired in 2009. v September 2018 4 WELCOME PEOPLE By Farwa Zaidi N E W MEMBERS OPC SCHOLARS Hopkins Hubbard “powerful coverage Valerie Hopkins, winner of the of social issues and Martyn Aim Jerry Flint Fellowship for Interna- conflict in the Middle Freelance East, Asia and Africa, Amman tional Business Reporting in 2013, Active Overseas is now the Southeast Europe cor- and her work as a dedicated advocate Sarah Bellingham respondent for the Financial Times Freelance covering Hungary, Romania and for freelancers’ rights and safety.” Tung is New York the former Yugoslavia. She is based Active Resident, Young a freelancer based in in Budapest. Hopkins had an OPC (29 or under) Turkey. Foundation fellowship in the Reuters Andre Borges bureau in Belgrade. She speaks Ser- Senior Editor and Manager, OPC member and Quick Response Team bian/Croatian, some Albanian, some former Governor Abi- Russian, basic German and basic BuzzFeed gail Pesta has won Mumbai MICHAEL DAMES MICHAEL Spanish. Her new role will make it multiple awards this Active Overseas, Young necessary for her to learn Hungarian Moonves and 60 Minutes executive summer. She won third place in the (29 or under) as well. producer Jeff Fager. Vernon complet- National Headliner Awards for mag- Jane Ferguson ed an OPC Foundation fellowship in azine feature writing on several top- Special Correspondent Ben Hubbard, who won the the Reuters bureau in Johannesburg. ics she had covered in Mother Jones, PBS NewsHour Swinton Award in 2007, was named Cosmopolitan and Texas Monthly. Beirut the New York Times bureau chief in WINNERS She also won a New York Press Club Active Overseas, Young (30-34) Beirut. An Arabic speaker, he has Last month’s People column Award in sports feature writing for reported from Egypt, Libya, Syria, neglected to mention a notable acco- her article on Lindsay Lemke, who Paul Haven Iraq, Jordan, Yemen, Lebanon, lade for past OPC President David was one of the first gymnasts to Global Director Saudi Arabia and elsewhere. He A. Andelman, who won this year’s of Top Stories publicly identify herself as a victim The Associated Press had an OPC Foundation fellowship Deadline Club Award for Opinion of abuse by Larry Nassar. Pesta also New York in the Associated Press bureau in Writing. Andelman is a columnist won a Clarion Award for magazine Active Resident at CNN who regularly contributes Jerusalem, a posting that lunched feature writing from the Association Patrick Hilsman his career, which lasted until he opinion pieces on global affairs. He of Women in Communications for a CUNY Legendary Foreign Correspondent Richard Pyle joined the Times as a correspondent is a veteran foreign correspondent, profile in Texas Monthly of a young New York in 2013. author, and commentator. He was woman who escaped jihad in Syria Student also recently elected president of the and went on to de-radicalize herself Laid to Rest at Arlington Cemetery Society of the Silurians, a presti- Pete Vernon, the 2016 Theo Wil- in Texas. Pesta is working on a novel gious club of past and present staff son scholar, wrote an article pub- highlighting stories from hundreds of members of newspapers and related women who teamed up to take down lished on July 30 in the Columbia organizations in the New York area. Nassar. The book will be published Journalism Review surrounding an He succeeds Allan Dodds Frank, next year by Hachette (Seal Press). off-the-record meeting between Pres- who is also a past OPC president. ident Trump and New York Times Andelman served as president of the Three team members who worked on publisher A.G. Sulzberger. The story OPC from 2010 to 2012. an OPC award-winning project are recounts Trump’s claims over Twitter recipients of the McGraw Fellowship that the meeting included discussion Several OPC members received for Business Journalism. Margie of “the vast amounts of Fake News accolades from the Online News Mason, Robin McDowell and being put out by the media.” Sul- Association on Sept. 16. Work from Martha Mendoza are members of zberger responded that he had met OPC Governor Coleen Jose, Jan the The Associated Press investiga- with Trump “to raise concerns about Hendrik Hinzel and late OPC tive team for Seafood from Slaves, the president’s deeply troubling member Kim Wall received a 2018 which won the OPC’s Malcolm anti-press rhetoric.” That prompted General Excellence in Online Jour- Forbes and Hal Boyle Awards in tweets from Trump painting media nalism award in the “small news- 2017. The fellowship will build on as “unpatriotic.” Vernon wrote that room” category. The award went to the award-winning project, which Sulzberger had made a mistake in The Marshall Project, a multimedia exposed human rights abuses in the “expecting that Trump would both report on climate change and nuclear fishing industry in Southeast Asia. provide an accurate account of the testing in the Marshall Islands. The The project led to the release of more meeting and change his approach to project was published in Süddeutsche than 2,000 enslaved migrant fisher- Zeitung, The Guardian, Mashable the media, two things he has shown men and the seizure of millions of and other publications. OPC member no interest in doing.” Vernon’s ar- dollars in assets and revisions to U.S. Nicholas Kristof garnered an law. The three team members will ticle also examined Ronan Farrow’s ONA award for Online Commentary, receive $15,000 to continue examin- latest campaign against high-profile along with other New York Times ing labor abuses and international sexual abusers, foreshadowing the colleagues. This year’s James Foley supply chains. New Yorker investigation into allega- Award for Conflict Reporting went tions against CBS chairman Leslie to OPC member Nicole Tung for Continued on Page 6

September 2018 5 Continued From Page 5 text read “There are people who lost Eastern province. Freeland voiced their jobs trying to harm me and if concern for Israa al-Ghomgham, who you pass on these damaging claims was accused of “starting protests,” The International Women’s Media without your own reporting to back “filming protests and posting them Foundation (IWMF) announced that them up that will become a serious on social media,” and “providing this year’s Gwen Ifill Award winner problem.” Soon after Fager’s resigna- moral support to rioters.” Freeland is Karen Amanda Toulon of tion, Quinnipiac University rescinded and other advocates are worried that Bloomberg News. Toulon serves as a a Fred Friendly First Amendment Ghomgham could face the death pen- board member for the OPC Founda- Award that Fager had received at a alty for her charges. Freeland started tion. The Gwen Ifill Award recog- luncheon ceremony in June. her journalism career as a stringer nizes an outstanding female journalist based in Ukraine for the Financial of color whose work furthers Ifill’s OPC member and veteran CNN re- Times, The Washington Post and legacy of supporting women journal- porter Christiane Amanpour has The Economist, and later served as ists. The IWMF said in a release that started her new role as host of a talk Moscow bureau chief and then U.S. Toulon received the honor for “devel- show on PBS that has replaced Char- managing editor of the FT, global oping and promoting the broadcast lie Rose’s former slot. PBS launched editor-at-large of Reuters, and editor skills of Bloomberg journalists and “Amanpour and Company” on Sept. of Thomson Reuters Digital. Freeland researchers around the world, while 10. Rose’s show ended nearly ten left journalism in 2013 to begin a helping to diversify Bloomberg’s months ago after he was accused of career in politics. global lineup.” sexual assault by multiple women. PBS began running Amanpour’s OPC Governor Vivienne Walt UPDATES CNN International program in Rose’s penned the cover story of TIME maga- On Sept. 9, 2018, Leslie Moonves slot soon after it went off the air. zine’s Europe edition on Sept. 24 with stepped down as Chairman of CBS Amanpour is CNN’s chief interna- a profile of Italy’s far-right nationalist on following several sexual abuse tional correspondent, and served as Interior Minister, Matteo Salvini. He allegations against him. An investi- a war correspondent for the network spearheaded a political movement that gative piece published in an August in the early 90s, covering conflict defeated traditional parties in Italy’s issue of The New Yorker included in the Persian Gulf, Haiti, Bosnia elections in March, mobilizing support- accusations of intimidation, sexual and Rwanda. She told Salon in an ers with nationalist rhetoric, drumming coercion, assault and misconduct interview that despite her career as a up fear over the immigrant crisis and from 12 women in incidents spanning show anchor, she remains a reporter collapse of Syria, and criticizing the from the 1980s to the early 2000s. at heart. “I’ve spent my whole career European Union. Walt wrote that his Moonves’ resignation marks one of in the field. And I genuinely view my “rocketing rise over just six months the most powerful media executives role as an anchor, almost like sort of has jolted Europe’s establishment and to face abuse allegations since the drawing on all my experience in the threatens to finally upturn a political start of the #MeToo movement in field, bringing that into the studio system that has reeled under a populist October last year. After Moonves’ and into the conversation.” The show surge for the past three years.” She resignation, CBS announced it would is a co-production between WNET wrote that former White House chief donate $20 million to organizations and CNN, and will continue to air strategist and nationalist Stephen Ban- to support the #MeToo movement on CNN International on weekdays. non met Salvini in Rome on Sept. 7 to and equality for women in the The show’s format includes three discuss creating a hard-line coalition workplace. The Los Angeles Times interview segments per night, with across Europe ahead of E.U. elections reported that the CBS board plans Amanpour on camera for two of them slated for May next year. In an inter- to negotiate a severance settlement and the third done by a contributor. view with Walt, Salvini he outlined a after the conclusion of an investiga- Amanpour has been a member of the plan to change Europe from within the tion by two prominent law firms. OPC since 2009. E.U., rather than push for a Brexit-like Joseph Ianniello, who has served as departure for Italy. the company’s chief operating officer Former OPC Governor Chrystia since 2013, has been appointed presi- Freeland, who now serves as OPC member Beth Knobel will dent and acting CEO. The chairman Canada’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, speak on a panel about her new position will remain open until the sparked a row between Canada and book on watchdog reporting on Oct. company names a permanent CEO. Saudi Arabia in early August over 17. The book, The Watchdog Still comments about a jailed female Barks: How Accountability Reporting Only a few days later, CBS News civil rights activist in Saudi Arabia. Evolved for the Digital Era, rejects a fired longtime 60 Minutes producer Freeland, along with many other popular notion that investigative jour- Jeff Fager, who was dismissed fol- Canadian public figures, have voiced nalism is in decline, and presents a lowing a text message he sent to CBS concern about the Saudi kingdom’s study of how the form came of age in News correspondent Jericka Duncan human rights violations. Human the digital era at American newspa- that warned her to “be careful” about rights advocates have spoken out pers. The evening will get underway a story she was working on about against the recent imprisonment of at 7:00 p.m. at Book Culture near allegations that he had groped CBS multiple activists in the country’s Columbia at 112th and Broadway. employees at company parties. The

September 2018 6 the story “difficult had been on a series of bleak and and heartbreaking” heart-wrenching assignments, includ- to report. She has ing terror attacks and sex slavery, been an OPC member and launched the project to heal her since the beginning of despair. She shared the best love this year. stories she heard on her Instagram A FRONTLINE page. Rousselle has been a member documentary from of the OPC since 2013, and was part OPC Award winner of a New York Times team that won Marcela Gaviria the 2015 David Kaplan Award for and former OPC best TV or video spot news reporting Governor Martin from abroad. Smith aired on July 31. Separated: OPC member Markos Kounalakis Children at the launched a new book in July warning Knobel is a professor at Fordham and Border follows the story of immi- that state-run media in China and a former CBS News producer. Other grant children separated from their Russia are overtaking Western media panelists include OPC member Kim parents. Gaviria produced the film, as the latter shrinks its foreign desks. Murphy of The New York Times and Smith and Gaviria wrote it, and Brian The study, titled Spin Wars and Spy Steven Waldman, Report for America Funck co-produced and edited the Games: Global Media and Intel- co-founder. A reception will follow piece. The film explores the impact ligence Gathering, found that while the panel. of Trump’s “zero tolerance” policy the number of foreign correspondents and compares the treatment of minors around the world is growing, they are OPC member and author Stephen at the border under the Trump and mainly from China and Russia. The Shepard will talk about his new Obama administrations. Gaviria was book examines how this changing book at the 92nd Street Y on Nov. 1. part of a team that won the 2009 news landscape affects foreign affairs Rabbi Scott Perlo, with the Bronfman Edward R. Murrow Award for Best and policy. In an interview for The Center for Jewish Life will interview TV interpretation or documentary on Washington Times, Kounalakis, a Shepard about A Literary Journey to international affairs. visiting fellow at Stanford’s Hoover Jewish Identity: Re-Reading Bellow, Institution and a senior fellow at the Roth, Malamud, Ozick, and Other OPC member and former Governor Budapest-based Center for Media, Great Jewish Writers [Bayberry Rukmini Callimachi told The Data and Society at Central European Books, January 2018]. The literary Guardian in August that covering University, said as Western news memoir explores a “golden age” of radicalization and the Islamic State bureaus abroad are “supplanted by post-war Jewish writing in America, for her New York Times podcast non-Western organizations with state- and how those writers influenced his “Caliphate” sparks ambivalent driven agendas, the information that sense of Jewish identity and faith. feelings. The ten-episode series has we’re getting in the United States is Shepard served as editor-in-chief of been among the top downloads on becoming agenda-driven,” result- BusinessWeek magazine from 1984 to iTunes since it was launched in April. ing in a less informed citizenry that 2005, and as editor at Newsweek from Callimachi interviewed a young man is subject to manipulation by rival 1976 to 1981. He is also the founding who calls himself Abu Hufaiza, a Ca- foreign powers. Kounalakis has been dean emeritus of the Graduate School nadian and former member of Islamic an OPC member since 2014. v of Journalism at the City University of State who recounted his experience in New York. Syria. “Deradicalization is not some sort of neat process,” Callimachi told OPC member Ruchi Kumar filed The Guardian. She also spoke about an article for Foreign Policy maga- another source, Huzaifa, who was ar- zine on Aug. 29 about boys and teens rested by Canadian police the day af- forced to join the Taliban or ISIS. ter Callimachi first interviewed him. The article, “Afghanistan is Trying “I cover a bunch of killers, who vary to Save its Child Bombers,” included in the level of disgust or empathy that interviews with boys ages 12 to 17 they evoke in me,” she said. who faced threats and intimidation. They discussed lost childhoods and Photojournalist, videographer and the desire for a better life and oppor- OPC member Stefania Rousselle tunities. Kumar wrote about chal- took a road trip across France in 2017 lenges for Afghanistan’s new system on a quest to collect people’s deepest in keeping up with the children and and most life-changing love stories. offering opportunities for reform and The result can be found in her article rehabilitation, and she highlighted the for The Guardian, “This is What Be- urgent need to fill gaps. Kumar called ing in Love Looks Like.” Rousselle

September 2018 7 PRESS FREEDOM UPDATE... By Farwa Zaidi

The OPC has issued several state- On Sept. 4, the OPC called on been able to walk out of prison, they ments in support of press freedom police in the United Kingdom to plan to fight the conditions of his since the last Bulletin. In mid-Au- release two British journalists who release. Shawkan and his lawyer plan gust, the organization joined newspa- were arrested Friday on suspicion to appeal the verdict. With at least 32 pers across the country in condemn- of stealing confidential documents. journalists currently detained in con- ing President Trump’s assaults According to The Washington Post, nection with their reporting, Egypt on U.S. journalists. The Boston two men were arrested in Belfast for is ranked 161st out of 180 countries Globe and the American Society of allegedly stealing documents from on Reporters Without Borders’ 2018 News Editors (ASNE) led the call for Northern Ireland’s police ombuds- World Press Freedom Index. joint action to defend a free press. man. The paper said filmmaker Alex “This dirty war on the free press Gibney tweeted that Trevor Birney Venezuelan freelance photographer must end,” ASNE said in a blog post and Barry McCaffrey had been Jesus Medina Ezaine was ar- on Aug. 9. “The slander of ‘fake detained. They were in custody for rested and sent to on Aug. 29 and news’ has become Donald Trump’s 14 hours before being released on sent to military prison. Ezaine had most potent tool of abuse and incite- bail. McCaffrey and Birney worked been working on a story at a hospital, ment against the First Amendment, on Gibney’s 2017 documentary “No helping two Peruvian journalists labeling journalists the ‘enemy of the Stone Unturned” about a 1994 mas- with an investigative report when he American people’ and ‘dangerous sacre in the village of Loughinisland was detained at a subway station and and sick.’” southeast of Belfast. later charged with crimes including “The Overseas Press Club has inciting hate. A group of armed men a long history of defending the Also on Sept 4., the OPC denounced approached and asked Ezaine if he rights of journalists and promoting a court ruling in Myanmar that knew the Peruvians. He responded responsible journalism around the found two Reuters journalists guilty that he did not, and the men im- globe,” said Deidre Depke, OPC of breaching a law on state secrets mediately took him into custody. At President. “But the attacks the press and jailed them for seven years. The his hearing on Aug. 31, Ezaine was has sustained under the Trump ad- verdict “is a major step backward in formally charged with money laun- ministration are a new low in modern the nation’s transition to democracy,” dering, criminal association, illegal American history. It is time for all said Stephen J. Adler, editor in chief enrichment against acts of public journalists and all defenders of a free of Reuters. According to Reuters, administration, and inciting hate. press to simply say, ‘enough.’” Yangon northern district judge Ye Ezaine’s photographs have appeared Also in August, the OPC spoke Lwin said Wa Lone, 32, and Kyaw on the website Dolar Today, which is in support of the Foreign Cor- Soe Oo, 28, breached the colonial- based in the US and is critical of the respondents’ Club of Hong Kong, era Official Secrets Act when they Venezuelan government. which came under pressure from collected and obtained confidential both the Chinese and Hong Kong documents. The two reporters, who The Nepalese government governments for hosting a pro-inde- were investigating the killing by the passed a new law that threatens pendence speaker Andy Chan, who security forces of Rohingya villag- press freedom in the country. A new advocates independence for Hong ers at the time of their arrest, had criminal code that went into effect Kong from China. pleaded not guilty. on Aug. 17 criminalizes several “At that time, the Chinese prom- journalistic activities, such as record- ised that Hong Kong could maintain Egyptian photojournalist ing or photographing people without its political system and its liberties Mahmoud Abou Zeid, also their consent, satirize any individual, for 50 years as part of a plan called known as Shawkan, was released or disclose private information on ‘One Country, Two Systems’,” past from prison after he was sentenced public figures. Provisions of the law OPC President William J. Hol- on Sept. 8 to five years of “police could put journalists under threat of stein said. “Freedom of speech is observation.” Under the sentence, he exorbitant fees and imprisonment. an incredibly important aspect of will have to appear at a police station The articles go against the preamble what has traditionally made Hong every night at sunset. The Commit- of the Nepalese constitution, which Kong a thriving outpost on China’s tee to Protect Journalists is calling supports press freedom. A new doorstep and attracted investments for the Egyptian government to government took power in Nepal in from around the world.” Holstein remove all restrictions on his release. December 2017, led by an alliance of was based in Hong Kong from 1979 Shawkan was convicted on charges two communist parties. to 1981 and frequented the FCC at of murder and membership in a ter- its previous location. “We believe rorist group. He had been in prison Unidentified attackers threw fire- that in free societies such as Hong since August of 2013, when he was works at Brazilian reporter Adenil- Kong it is vitally important to allow arrested while covering clashes son Miguel and left a written death people to speak and debate freely, between Egyptian security forces threat at his home on Aug. 9. The even if one does not agree with their and supporters of former President attack took place around 1:00 a.m., particular views,” the FCC said in a Mohamed Morsi. While Shawkan’s only a few hours after he had shared statement. family is relieved that he has finally information about alleged corruption

September 2018 8 9 in the mayor’s office. The Commit- Ndu is about 77 miles from Bamen- time and was off duty, but investiga- tee to Protect journalists reported da, the capital of the Northwest tors have not ruled ouot the possibili- that the note read “you are going to region. English-speaking separatists ty that he was killed in retribution for die,” and included a homophobic in the region have been waging a his work. His death marks the third slur. Miguel told the CPJ he believes battle for an independent state called attack in Quintana Roo state over the the attack was meant to prevent him Ambazonia against the government last two months, including the July from publishing an article in Vox, of President Paul Biya. All sides 24 shooting of Rubén Pat Cauich, an independent newspaper he writes of the conflict have been guilty of co-founder and editorial director and publishes. Miguel founded the harming and mistreating members of of online news resource Semanario paper four years ago. It is not affili- the media. No employees of Sky FM Playa News, and the June 29 murder ated with the website of the same were injured in the attack. of José Guadalupe Chan Dzib, name founded by Ezra Klein. The who also worked for Playa News. No paper is distributed twice a month in Thegovernment of Mozam- suspects have been arrested in those seven towns and cities in the south of bique recently made plans to impose cases. Minas Gerais state, one of the most extremely high fees that target populous in Brazil. independent media. On July 23, a gov- Afghani media technician Moham- ernment decree outlined hefty hikes mad Dawood was killed on Aug. At least two dozen journalists in registration fees that must be paid 10 during a Taliban attack on his and more than 200 other people to the department in charge of media workplace. Dawood worked for Ra- were injured in Bangladesh dur- registration. The decree stated that the dio Television Afghanistan, a state- ing protests in early August. Police new fees went into effect on Aug. 23. run broadcast in the provincial capi- fired rubber bullets into crowds and The Mozambican government is cur- tal of Ghazni. The area of the city destroyed camera equipment and rently in the middle of signing natural where the attack took place, known forced several photojournalists to gas contracts with multinational cor- as Tape-e-Television, includes head- delete photos or video documenting porations. The country is also holding quarters and broadcast equipment the protests. News reports alleged municipal elections in October and for many local media outlets. The that police and supporters of the rul- general elections in 2019. CPJ’s Africa attack was part of an ongoing assault ing Awami League party beat several program coordinator, Angela Quintal, on the area by the Taliban. Militants journalists. Demonstrations broke said that the new fees make it virtually recently burned down a building that out in Dhaka on July 29 after a bus impossible for independent press to was privately owned by Ghaznavian ran over passengers at a bus stop, continue working, and are a clear Radio-TV. Landlines and cellphone killing two students and injuring a attempt to undermine transparency links to the city have been cut off dozen others. One of the journal- prior to the elections. Mozambique’s during the fighting. Since it began on ists detained was Shahidul Alam, an press regulator, the Conselho Superior Aug. 10, at least 100 Afghan police award-winning photographer and da Comunicação Social, told CPJ that and soldiers have been killed, as well founder of a photography school the fees are “illegal” and violate the as 20 civilians, according to reports and festival in Dhaka. More than right to freedom of expression en- from The Associated Press. 20 police raided his home on Aug. shrined in Mozambique’s constitution. 5 after Alam had posted a video on Somali cameraperson Abdirizak Facebook saying he had been beaten MURDERS Kasim Iman was shot and killed in by pro-government thugs. He was Two journalists died in a double Mogadishu on July 26. Iman worked later seen barefoot being taken to a bombing in Kabul, Afghanistan on for the privately-owned SBS TV. court hearing, when he shouted that Sept. 5. Samim Faramarz and He was shot while trying to pass he had been tortured in custody. OPC cameraman Ramiz Ahmadi were through a checkpoint near a public member Rod Nordland reported in both covering a bombing at a wres- park in Mogadishu. Witnesses said a story for The New York Times that tling club in a Shi’ite neighborhood police had ordered his driver to back Alam was charged under a law that for TOLO News when a second blast up and not to pass the checkpoint. gives the government latitude to ar- went off, killing them both. No group During their argument, the officer rest critics of the government. immediately claimed responsibility. shot Iman twice in the head, ac- In April, at least nine journalists were cording to reports. He was taken to A community radio station in Cam- among dozens of people killed in a a nearby hospital and pronounced. eroon, Sky FM, was the target of an suicide bombing in Kabul. The police officer allegedly fled the alleged arson attack on Aug. 3. The scene following the shooting. Iman’s station is based in the town of Ndu, On Aug. 29, unknown shooters shot family said that he was on his way to in the volatile Northwest region. and killed Javier Enrique Rodrí- work at the television station when Unknown assailants set fire to the guez Valladares, a cameraman he was killed. He had his camera station, destroying the building and for a local TV broadcaster Canal 10 with him at the time of the attack. equipment inside. The equipment based in Cancún. Another male who At least twenty-six journalists have included two transmitters, comput- was with Rodríguez Valladares in a been killed in Somalia over the last ers, four recorders, a video camera, a residential area of the resort city was decade. v mixer, a decoder, a television set, and also killed in the attack. He was not some office furniture. The town of wearing any company clothing at the

September 2018 9 9 NEW BOOKS By Farwa Zaidi

INDIA IRAQ

fter India’s economic liberalization in n Aug. 3, 2014, the Islamic State attacked 1991, the country spent decades building a majority Kurdish area of northern Iraq’s Anew industries and expanding private foreign Ninewa province. The offensive targeted investment. The country became known for rapid O the Yazidi people, a Kurdish religious minority with growth and displays of wealth rivaling America’s roots that stretch back centuries in the region. IS Gilded Age, with a vastly uneven distribution of had declared its intention to comletely eliminate the wealth. In his new book, The Billionaire Raj [Tim group from Iraq, which is considered heretical among UPCOMING Duggan Books, July 2018], James Crabtree, former extremists. Over just a few harrowing hours, about Mumbai correspondent for the Financial Times, takes 150,000 Yazidis were forced to flee their homes. Many EVENTS a deep look into India’s boom through the 2000s, and sought refuge on the nearby holy site of Mount Sinjar. examines power and privilege in the country’s emerg- They were stranded, surrounded by jihadi militants, ing billionaire class. Crabtree sheds light on vast eco- in over 100-degree weather without food or water. In nomic disparity, with skyscrapers looming over slums Sinjar: 14 Days to Saving the Yazidis From Islamic and fortunes built on mountains of unpaid debt. How To Do State [Rowman & Littlefield, September 2018], Susan He explores ties between economic power and Shand chronicles how many Yazidi survivors were Video Journalism In government, following a generation of wealthy rescued from Sinjar and the Islamic State. influencers, so-called “Bollygarchs,” who These Dangerous Times Shand’s book gioves an insider’s view of the story finance political campaigns and secure powerful of U.S. intervention and the effort to rescue survivors positions in government. Crabtree argues that on the mountain. She worked with a Yazidi colleague Club Quarters the rich and famous of India have used power to to investigate how a group of Yazidi expatriates, 6:30 p.m erase scams, scandals and crimes. He wrote that working from a Super 8 motel room in Maryland, “the Trump administration’s alleged excesses pale was able to pressure a small and forgotten office in in comparison with the unchecked power of India’s Oct. 18 the U.S. State Department, supplying intelligence new tycoons, enmeshed in and protected by layers of that led to a military operation aimed at averting a political and economic influence.” humanitarian crisis. While the Islamic State killed Crabtree immersed himself in the lavish world of thousands of Yazidi men and sold thousands more The Future India’s elites, flying with the Bollygarchs on pri- women into slavery, U.S. troops were able to airdrop vate jets and mingling at their parties. The book water and food and help evacuate tens of thousands of Taiwan offers a thorough survey of India’s political of strandedYazidis. and economic transformation, chronicling Shand has served as a television producer in the the country’s transition from British rule to Club Quarters Near East and Central Asia division of the Voice one of the world’s most attractive markets. Reception 6:00 p.m of America for ten years. She covers news in Iraq, Crabtree was the Mumbai bureau chief Turkey, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Azer- Program 6:30 p.m. for the FT from 2011 to 2017. He is cur- baijan and Uzbekistan. She has reported on refugee rently based in Singapore and is an associate crises and the stories of Yazidi and Christian refugees Oct. 30 professor of practice at the Lee Kuan Yew several times. She lives in Washington, D.C. v School. He most often provides analysis on Asian geopolitics and development, particularly focusing on South and Southeast Asia. v

September 2018 10 Meet the OPC Members: Q&A With Charles Graeber by chad bouchard now in the United States, but in truth it’s always a mission in peril. Professional harles graeber is a contributor organization helps secure it, and provides to a wide range of publications, community for what is increasingly an Cincluding The New Yorker, New isolating profession. York Magazine, Bloomberg Business- week, The New York Times, National What sparked your interest in long- Geographic Adventure, Vogue, The form crime reporting? It’s all about Guardian, The Daily Beast, Salon and excuse. Crime is interesting – I like Wired, for which he is a contributing edi- to read about it, especially when it’s Charles Graeber tor. He is also author of The Good Nurse, inventive, and so I like to write about it a portrait of America’s most prolific seri- as well. Then by chance, my first story Hardest story: 5,000-word stories where al killer, Charles Cullen. Graeber’s work at the Budapest Sun was about a group scouring a high desert and finally encoun- has received several awards, including from a traveling circus who had been tering a pile of cat scat was the climax the OPC’s 2011 Ed Cunningham Award busted as professional burglars – they (the cat was endangered). More generally for reporting on the 2011 earthquake and used a contortionist to get into windows, creating drama from intellectual or subtle tsunami in Japan for Bloomberg Busi- the strongman to move the goods, etc. criminal acts or transgressions is tricky nessweek. He served as OPC Governor That’s three big stories in one, really – the – making a lockpicking conference feel from 2014 to 2018. obvious salacious news, the backstory on like Wimbledon was a challenge. In terms the individuals, the socioeconomics of of raw work, trying to get to, humanize and return a 12,000-word story on a city Hometown: Nantucket, MA. the thing – really, crime has it all. It’s an (the people, really) devastated by the excuse to write about everything. Education: Tufts University BA, Bryn 2011 Japanese tsunami, and in a timely fashion and without a fixer, translator, Mawr PostpBac Premed, other. Major challenge as a journalist: etc – that still seems hard. That was one Left to my own devices I’d study the of the hardest emotionally, too – the dead Languages you speak: English, pidgin. situation from the edges forever. Editors were everywhere and the stories were don’t like that. Journalism is like being too much, and yet, because they weren’t First job in journalism: The Budapest pushed from the edges into the center of mine, it wasn’t mine to break down over Sun (newspaper reportage), Phnom Penh the dance. So the major challenge is both- them, except in private. Generally, what’s Post (longform), Harper’s Magazine ering people. I probably wouldn’t have a hard is bearing witness, then trying to do justice to that truth, and those people, (longform magazine feature). phone if I wasn’t a journalist. in print. All while keeping it interesting- Countries reported from: Australia, because that’s an essential aspect of the Best journalism advice received: effective communication. Brazil, Cambodia, Canada, Czech Re- “There is no case but this case” and/or public, England, East Timor, Germany, “when in doubt, lay brick.” Advice for journalists who want to Guatemala, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Japan, work overseas: Go. There’s a sense some Kenya, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zea- Worst experience as a journalist: have that one needs to be sent, or to get land, Oman, Panama, Portugal, Russia, There’s the horrible and there’s the some sort of specific training or permis- Scotland, Thailand, Uganda, Vietnam. embarassing. Embarassing is standing up sion. Surely all of that helps, and I’m not the president of Iceland, by accident. Hor- advocating recklessness. But, especially when young, I believe you have a radar When and why did you join the OPC? rible has been the times when the family for the shifting fault lines on the planet, I joined in 2013. I was out there as a free- of those victimized by a criminal took lancer, and fairly isolated from any notion and a capacity to save up enough me as a sort of moral accomplice to the temp work cash to get there and put Want to add to the OPC’s of professional journalistic organizations mastermind, though those instances were finger to pulse. Go. collection of Q&As with and relying on editors to tie my work into all misunderstandings, awkward but re- members? Please contact the larger matrix. Then a story I wrote solved. Truly the worst experiences have Dream job: This one. Close sec- [email protected]. won The Ed Cunningham Award and I been specific to journalism as a profession onds include parasitologist, rhino was introduced to a larger community or business. People screw you over, espe- prosthetics manufacturer and whiskey of journalists via the OPC, which was cially when you’re young and vulnerable. taster. thriling and eye opening, and eventually Early on I had my work stolen by major Country you most want to return to: invited to contribute ideas as to how they editors, was threatened with blackballing Kashmir, but in peace. might even better serve the needs of those if I didn’t sell to X rather than Y, and at out there in the world. The organization a certain price, etc. And I’m positive my Favorite quote: Everything in modera- gives community, structure, support, and experiences are tame compared to folks tion, including moderation. the like to those who need it. That’s true who weren’t white men making their way around the world. The mission of the in the biz. Twitter handle: @charlesgraeber – media seems especially under attack right Website: charlesgraeber.com v

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