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THE MONTHLY NEWSLETTER OF THE OVERSEAS PRESS CLUB OF AMERICA, , NY • October 2012 Former OPC Scholar Pens Book on Yemen EVENT PREVIEW: NOVEMBER 12 by Sonya K. Fry The Last Refuge: Yemen, Al-Qa- eda, and America’s War in Arabia [W.W. Norton & Company, Novem- ber, 2012] is an eye-opening look at the successes and failures in fight- ing a new type of war in the turbu- lent country of Yemen, written by Gregory D. Johnsen, who is an OPC Foundation Scholar, a Fulbright fel-

low in Yemen, part of a 2009 US- Photo: Taylor Jeff AID conflict assessment team and Gregory D. Johnsen is now a doctoral candidate in Near Eastern studies at Princeton Univer- balancing act of staying in power a walked out the front door to free- sity. “snake dance.” For years this dance dom. Johnsen’s crisp storytelling Johnsen takes readers into Ye- included concealing Islamists from brings events to life and shows how meni mosques where clerics in the the prying eyes of U.S. intelligence a handful of men thousands of miles 1980’s recruited young men to ji- and yet later he allowed the U.S. to from the and far from had to fight the Russian invaders in conduct attacks that killed dozens of the battlefields of and Afghani- . These men eventually Al-Qaeda operatives including Abu stan continue to keep policymakers formed the basis for the Al-Qaeda Ali al-Harithi, who was known as up at night fighting a clandestine movement. The story also leads to the “godfather” by U.S. intelligence. war of drones and suicide bombers the presidential palace in Yemen The dramatic story sounds like a in an unforgiving corner of Arabia. where the country’s military dicta- Hollywood movie: Haritihi turned In 2006, Johnsen won an OPC tor, Ali Abdullah Salih vascillated on his cell phone as he left a secret Foundation’s David Schweisberg between helping the U.S. get rid meeting which signaled a predator scholarship while he was a student of Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Pen- drone to track him. The first mis- at the University of Arizona. His insula and hindering the process. sile from the drone exploded next winning essay was on presidential Salih himself called this delicate to Harithi’s speeding car. He threw politics in Yemen’s fledgling de- the phone out of the window and mocracy. His stories on Yemen have Inside. . . screamed at everyone to get out, but appeared in , there was nowhere to go since they Foreign Policy and and Shepard Book Night Recap...... 2 were in the middle of the desert. The he is a frequent guest on NPR and drone fired its second missile and CNN. Punch and the ....3 the car exploded in flames. William J. Holstein, president of Memorial for Sulzberger...... 4 Less than four years after the OPC Foundation, will serve as Harithi’s death and the destruction interlocutor for the Book Night on People...... 5-9 of the original Al-Qaeda network in Monday, November 12. The recep- Yemen, the group rebounded as 23 tion will start at 6 p.m. with the talk People Remembered...... 9-11 men tunneled out of a maximum- at 6:30 p.m. Books will be available A Birthday in Paris...... 10 security prison in Sana’a and into for purchase and signing. RSVP by a neighboring mosque where they calling the OPC at 212-626-9220 or New Books...... 12 said their morning prayers and then e-mail [email protected] Shepard Provides Path for to Realize Digital Longevity EVENT RECAP: OCTOBER 15 by Aimee Vitrak OPC member, CUNY Journalism Dean and long- serving journalist Steve Shepard gave everyone at his OPC book night for Deadlines and Disruptions: My Tur- bulent Path From Print to Digital an education in recent journalism history and a forecast for where journalism is headed. He is not the first to sound the death knell for pa- per, but he may be the first among his generation to write about the real possibility that the present print-and-deliv- er model of newspapers will go the way of silent movies, Photo: Sonya K. Fry to paraphrase Shepard’s example. He said it would be difficult for him to forsee a time without a Sunday paper, At the reception from left: Lynn Povich, David Wallace, because Sunday papers are advertising-rich, but Andy Nagorski, Steve Shepard and Bill Holstein print editions are migrating to digital platforms. Post will earn all year. If newspapers are to be successful Shepard outlined the final chapter of his book which Shepard contends, management must stop chasing pop- gives a case-study of a large metro daily he referred to as up ad dollars and emphasizing page views. The Daily Bugle, a borrowing of the oft-named Marvel On average, people used to spend forty-five minutes comics . He dissected the business model of a day reading a newspaper, now a reader spends about newspapers and how they can be supported in the digi- three minutes on one website shopping for the article tal age. Newspapers still do the majority of original re- porting, he said, but in the past five to six years, they they would like to read. Shepard referred to these read- have also lost half of their advertising revenue, or $25 ers as “drive-by visitors.” “It’s like buying a single song billion dollars. The digital age was originally thought instead of an entire album,” he said. Instead, the trick is as a rescue for newspapers, but online advertising has for The Daily Bugle to specialize and focus its coverage turned out to be less lucrative than hoped at less than $1 to give readers something they can get nowhere else. To billion in that same five-to-six year timeframe. Online cover for world news, “link,” he said, knowing his audi- advertising is successful for other venues like Google, ence was filled with those rapt for foreign reporting. “Do Yahoo! and AOL, but newspapers have yet to see similar what you do best and link to the rest,” he said. returns. Shepard said that the amount Google earns in ad Shepard also suggested that offering services for the revenue in eight hours is equal to what The Huffington (Continued on Page 4)

OVERSEAS PRESS CLUB OF AMERICA • BOARD OF GOVERNORS PRESIDENT SECRETARY Deidre Depke Santiago Lyon ASSOCIATE BOARD PAST PRESIDENTS Michael Serrill Jonathan Dahl Executive Editor VP and Director of ­MEMBERS EX-OFFICIO Assistant Managing Former Editor-in-Chief Photography Brian Byrd David A. Andelman Editor Smart Money Program Officer John Corporon Bloomberg Markets Adam B. Ellick NYS Health Allan Dodds Frank ACTIVE BOARD *Video and Print Marcus Mabry Foundation Alexis Gelber FIRST VICE PRESIDENT Jacqueline Albert- Journalist Editor at Large William J. Holstein Tim Ferguson Simon The New York Times International Herald Emma Daly Marshall Loeb Editor U.S. Bureau Chief * on leave attending Tribune Communications Larry Martz Forbes Asia Politique Internationale Harvard Kennedy School Director Roy Rowan John Martin Leonard Saffir SECOND VICE PRESIDENT Amar C. Bakshi Arlene Getz Writer/Editor Larry Smith Abigail Pesta JD/MBA student Editor-in-Charge, Media Sarah Lubman Richard B. Stolley Editorial Director Thomson Romesh Ratnesar Partner Women in the World Deputy Editor Brunswick Group EXECUTIVE Rebecca Azmat Khan Bloomberg DIRECTOR THIRD VICE PRESIDENT Blumenstein Digital Producer Businessweek Minky Worden Sonya K. Fry Toni Reinhold Page One Editor PBS - Frontline Director of Global Editor in Charge, Tom Squitieri Initiatives EDITOR New York Desk Evelyn Leopold Freelance Journalist Human Rights Watch Aimee Vitrak Reuters Paul Brandus Independent Journalist West Wing Report Abi Wright OPC TREASURER Emeritus Director ISSN-0738-7202 Dorinda Elliott Howard Chua-Eoan Daphna Linzer Professor of Alfred I. duPont – ­Copyright © 2002 Global Affairs Editor News Director Senior Reporter International Over­seas Press Club of Conde Nast Traveler Time Pro Publica Journalism Awards America Columbia University 40 West 45 Street, New York, NY 10036 USA • Phone: (212) 626-9220 • Fax: (212) 626-9210 • Website: opcofamerica.org OPC Bulletin • October 2012 • Page 2 Inside the Decision: Punch and the Pentagon Papers by Seymour Topping al of similar nature. I stated also In my cherished remem- that publication was vital since brances of , what was revealed in the Pa- one episode endures as the most pers about War policies revealing of his devotion and would serve to guide Congress courage in safeguarding the and the public in determining mission of The New York Times if new safeguards were needed and the future of American jour- against secret arbitrary action by nalism. The episode unfolded the Executive branch. at The Times on the morning Punch looked intently at the of April 29, 1971 when Abe and then back at the Rosenthal, then managing edi- Punch answering questions on June 16, 1971, at a editors. An enormous burden tor, Jim Greenfield, the foreign news conference about the Pentagon Papers. had been thrust on the 45-year- editor, and I, deputy managing old publisher. He, alone, had to editor, were summoned to the Arthur Ochs “Punch” Sulzberger died Sep- decide what was in the national Board Room on the fourteenth tember 23 after a long illness at his home in interest, and weigh the warnings floor. Entering, we saw grouped of his long-time legal counsel in a corner Louis Loeb, senior Southampton, New York. He was 86. His ten- of possible government crimi- partner of Lord, Day & Lord, ure as publisher of the newspaper and as nal prosecution of the Times, who had served for twenty-three chairman and chief executive of The New York including possible prosecution years as consulting corporate of himself as the responsible counsel to The Times, and two Times Company spanned 34 years. He was executive, if he sanctioned pub- of his associate lawyers. Also an OPC member for 50 years. An article about lication. He also had to judge present were , how publication would affect his memorial service is on page 4. The Times’ staff general counsel the paper’s reputation and fu- and other company executives. ture. The project would entail The subject of the meeting: Should The Times go forward great expense in production and anticipated legal fees at with the publication of extracts of the official classified a time when the Times was struggling financially in an top secret history of the United States role in Indochina economic recession. Punch ended the meeting ruling we from World War II to 1968? In March, , would go forward with preparation of the Papers for pub- our investigative reporter, had, through dogged pursuit lication, but withheld his final decision as to whether we and ingenuity, secretly obtained copies of forty-five of would publish pending an exhaustive review. the forty-seven volumes of the history, later to become Rosenthal, Greenfield and I returned to the newsroom known as the Pentagon Papers. The Papers documented to continue preparing for publication. We believed that origins of the United States policy drift into the Viet- Punch, in the tradition of his family’s commitment to the nam imbroglio and also revealed details of the covert paper’s journalistic mission, would opt for publication. sabotage operations carried out by the Pentagon against Yet there was no certainty. There were legal hurdles and North Vietnam without the cognizance of Congress. apprehensions among executives about risks and costs. Punch took his seat at the head of the table, with the On June 13, I was in , having unexpectedly consulting lawyers on his right, and on his left, Rosen- been granted a visa by Premier Zhou Enlai, reporting thal, James Reston, Washington columnist and compa- and negotiating for establishment of a Times news bu- ny vice-president, Greenfield and me. Arguing strongly reau, when Rosenthal messaged me saying we were go- against publication, the consulting lawyers read extracts ing to press that morning with the first installment of the from the Federal Secrecy Codes pertinent to illegal dis- Papers. I clasped my hands in thanksgiving. Punch had semination of . For violations of assented, agreeing as we had requested not only to pub- the codes, penalties were stipulated of imprisonment for lication of our analytical articles, but also to the printing up to ten years. Listening, Reston retorted he would be of pertinent texts of the documents. Punch had fulfilled delighted to go to jail for publishing the Papers. If The his destiny. Times did not publish, he would do so in his Martha’s Seymour Topping served at The Times as foreign cor- . In concurrence, the editors then made respondent, foreign editor, managing editor, and edito- the case that the Codes were not applicable since the doc- rial director of regional newspapers from 1960 to 1992. uments were historical, did not affect national defense, He is Professor Emeritus of International Journalism at and the press had repeatedly published classified materi- Columbia University and an OPC board member.

OPC Bulletin • October 2012 • Page 3 Employees Past and Present Celebrated Sulzberger by Susan Kille starting his day with the newspaper and that it had to When OPC member Arthur Ochs “Punch” Sulz- be pristine, folded just so and waiting for him at break- berger died September 29, journalists and newspaper fast. After his stroke when he had trouble turning pages lovers around the world mourned. He was 86. and reading, he had the paper read to him. She said she, Sulzberger guided The New York Times as publisher, her sisters and her brother were raised to take great per- chairman and chief executive for 34 years through an era sonal pride in The New York Times. When someone said of national expansion and new revenue sources at a time “There was a good story in the paper ,” she would of vast changes in the media indus- automatically say “thank you” and try. While ensuring the company was it wasn’t until later that she realized on solid financial ground, he gave his that from a young age she had been editors independence to serve readers taking credit for other peoples’ work. and fiercely defended freedom of the Max Frankel, Punch’s last ap- press and the legacy of his family that pointment as executive editor, was has controlled the paper since 1896. next, talking about Punch’s role in Current and former employees of the newspaper and especially his The New York Times were invited to a leadership in publishing the Penta- celebration of Sulzberger’s life at The gon Papers (see article page 3). Times Center on October 5. A Who’s Walter Mattson, a former Times Who of journalism and others who A special edition on Punch. Co. president, spoke about Punch’s worked for a man everyone called leadership style and his role on the Punch wisely arrived early to find a seat. The room filled to capacity and an overflow area with a live video feed business side and in expanding the company. was packed. Any attempt to list names would leave out Donald Graham of Co. said scores from mastheads, bylines and Pulitzers through the he wished his mother, Katharine, the publisher of The years. For example, Howell Raines, who stood behind Post who died in 2001, could be there to talk about her me in line, said it was the first time he had been to the good friend Punch, but he was certain what she would new Times building. say. His mother and Punch met when they were young at Arthur Sulzberger Jr., his son and the current pub- a publishers’ meeting held by Sulzberger’s father at the lisher, spoke first. He said that anyone who knew Punch family home in Connecticut and they liked each other knows it is important to be on time and with that, the immediately. Graham said his mother and Punch both program began two minutes early. He thanked Clyde had fierce loyalty to what their families had created, Haberman, who he described as his “former boss,” for dedication to their readers and passed that sense of duty the obituary he had written for The Times and those pres- to their children. ent applauded. Then, four speakers presented different When Arthur Sulzberger thanked everyone for com- aspects of Punch’s life. ing, he noted his father’s last act as a newspaperman was Cathy Sulzberger, his daughter, spoke about the to die on Saturday morning in time for his obituary to run personal side. She said that until the end, Punch enjoyed in all Sunday editions.

(Shepard Recap Continued From Page 2) survival. Shepard acknowleged that it begins to charge, similar to the re- community like reviews of schools, a privacy could be an issue and said cent move by The New York Times. crime index, traffic report and com- that website browsers like Chrome, “The Times has signed up 500,000 munity calendar are all ways to at- Internet Explorer and Firefox and readers for its digital platforms, who tract a loyal readership and targeted newspaper sites need to make their on average pay about $200 a year advertising. He said it was essential security settings easier for the com- for the service. That’s $100 million for newspapers like The Daily Bugle mon person to adjust to the level of in new revenue for a newsroom bud- to engage with local bloggers and lo- privacy that they prefer. get that is $200 million.” Indeed, cal radio and embrace social media. A final essential ingredient Each one of these tools would be Shepard said to the digital success of with numbers like these it might give good for newspapers to capitalize on, newspapers is charging users. “I’m a everyone hope that newspapers are but one audience member expressed believer in the metering system,” he not over, just recalibrating their in- concerns about privacy for online said. Metering allows visitors to read terface to meet public and financial readers for the sake of a newspapers’ a certain amount of content and then demands.

OPC Bulletin • October 2012 • Page 4 PEOPLE... by Susan Kille [email protected]

WINNERS diploma to Albanian journalist Tel- ernment, which has not acknowl- The Committee to Protect Jour- nis Skuqi for his work in Gjirokas- edged holding him. Tice, 31, a for- nalists (CPJ) will honor four journal- tra, where he is a correspondent for mer Marine, reported from for ists who risked their lives to report the Albanian ATA news agency. A The Washington Post, McClatchy the truth with 2012 International special mention went to the Sarajevo Newspapers, CBS News, al-Jazeera Press Freedom Awards. The win- Center for Investigative Journalism English and Agence -Presse. ners are Mauri König, a Brazilian for its contribution in the region. The whereabouts and well being of investigative reporter; Mae Azango, at least three other foreign journalists a Liberian journalist; jailed Tibetan In an unanimous resolution, the also remain a mystery. Syrian au- journalist Dhondup Wangchen; executive board of the International thorities have denied holding Bashar and Azimjon Askarov, a report- Press Institute (IPI) on October 6 Fahmi, a Jordanian citizen of Pales- er serving a life term in Kyrgyz- honored Ferai Tinç, a board mem- tinian origin who is a correspondent stan. The awards dinner will be No- ber who this summer received the for the U.S.-funded Arabic-language vember 20 at the Waldorf Astoria in Turkish Journalists’ Association’s satellite station Al Hurra. He disap- New York. The for Askarov 2012 Press Freedom Award in recog- peared with Al Hurra cameraman told CPJ that his client was vis- nition of her defense of media free- Cüneyt Ünal on August 20, the day ibly moved when he heard a Voice dom and journalists in . Tinç Japanese reporter Mika Yamamoto of America broadcast in his cell worked as a reporter, editor and col- was killed by what witnesses said about his award. CPJ will also pres- umnist at Hürriyet, a Turkish daily, appeared to be government soldiers. ent , editor of the for 28 years until her retirement in The pair was reportedly traveling Guardian, with the 2012 Burton 2011. Throughout her career, she with Yamamoto. Ukraine’s Foreign Benjamin Award for his commit- pushed for greater inclusion of wom- Ministry said Ankhar Kochneva, ment to press freedom. en’s points of view in foreign politi- a Ukrainian woman working as an cal reporting. interpreter for a Russian TV crew in OPC member Hagit Bachrach Syria, was kidnapped October 9 by was a producer on the Coun- PRESS FREEDOM rebels in the country’s west. cil on Foreign Relations’ “Crisis Guide: Iran,” which won an Emmy. : An appeals court The multimedia guide also won the unexpectedly released Yekaterina 2011 OPC award for Best Use of Samutsevich, a member of the punk Online Multimedia. Bachrach is now protest band Pussy Riot, from prison off to Kenya to work on an indepen- on October 10 while upholding the dent project about Chinese aid and two-year prison sentences of band investment in Africa. mates Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Maria Alyokhina. The ruling Matej Šurc and Blaž Zgaga upheld the guilty verdict against all A video frame of the hostage. from Slovenia were named win- three women on charges of hooligan- ners of the Central European Initia- DAMASCUS: For the second ism motivated by religious hatred, tive and the South East Europe Me- month, the Bulletin must report that stemming from the band’s perfor- dia Organization’s 2012 Award for as of press time, Austin Tice, an mance in the city’s main Orthodox Outstanding Merits in Investigative American freelance journalist shown cathedral in February in which they Journalism for their book trilogy In above, is missing in Syria. The first urged the Virgin Mary to rid the Name of the State about arms glimpse of Tice since August 13 of Vladimir Putin. The court appar- trafficking during the 1990s in the came on October 1 when a website ently accepted an argument by Sam- former Yugoslavian countries. The that supports the Syrian government utsevich’s new attorney that she had pair, which received a 5000-euro publicized an undated video of a man a smaller role than the other two. The prize, spent more than three years held hostage by what appeared to be OPC’s Com- analyzing more than 6000 pages of Islamist militants. Analysts said the mittee wrote Putin on September 6 documents. The jury, which consid- clip appeared to be staged. The State asking for clemency for all three. In ered 22 applications from 10 coun- Department has said it believes Tice a letter signed by John Martin and tries, awarded a special investigative is in the custody of the Syrian gov- (Continued on Page 6)

OPC Bulletin • October 2012 • Page 5 (Continued From Page 5) limit freedom of speech. Under the The court said the editorial violated Larry Martz, the committee wrote: law, a person using sites that include a prohibition against “disseminating “Freedom of expression, however , and blogs could political or electoral propaganda” in distasteful to authority, remains a ba- be fined or jailed if comments were the days leading up to an election. sic tenet of democracy.” found libelous. “Would a ‘yes’ stance have averted a conviction?” asked Reporters With- MUMBAI: The government in : A special media court out Borders. “In a statement respond- the western Indian state of Maha- on October 7 found Parisa Hafezi, ing to the penalty, Vistazo asked why rashtra dropped sedition charges on the Tehran bureau chief of Thomson the daily El Telegrafo had not been October 12 against Aseem Trivedi, Reuters, guilty of “spreading lies” similarly found guilty for publishing an Indian political cartoonist, in fa- with a video that briefly included a a column on May 6 headlined ‘10 vor of the lesser offense of insulting posted description of women training times yes.’” “national honor.” He was arrested as martial arts killers. After a com- and jailed for three days in Septem- plaint, Reuters changed the headline NEW YORK: The U.N. Human ber, but was freed from prison on from “Thousands of Female Ninjas Rights Council on September 27 bail after a public outcry. Legal ex- Train as Iran’s Assassins” to “Three affirmed for the first time that the perts and press groups said the anti- Thousand Women Ninjas Train in safety of journalists is a fundamen- sedition law is increasingly used to Iran,” and issued an official apology. tal element of freedom of expressi- suppress free speech in democratic Despite the correction, the Reuters on. The 47-member body passed by India. bureau was suspended in March and consensus a resolution introduced by most of its staff shifted to Dubai. Austria, Brazil, Morocco, Tunisia, Hafezi, an Iranian national who was and Switzerland that called on states not allowed to leave Iran, is expected to “promote a safe and enabling en- to be sentenced soon. vironment for journalists to perform their work independently” and to : A Cambo- fight impunity by ensuring “impar- dian court on October 1 sentenced a tial, speedy and effective investiga- prominent journalist and land rights tions” into acts of violence against Trivedi gestures as he is arrested. campaigner to 20 years in prison on journalists. charges of inciting rebellion. His supporters say the charges are base- CITY: After a less. Mam Sonando, who runs the brief trial under heavy security, three independent Beehive radio station, bloggers found guilty of spreading was also fined over the alleged plot anti-government propaganda were by villagers in Kratie to form their sentenced September 24. They were own state. Rights groups said the accused of posting political articles government was seeking to justify a on a banned website called Free crackdown on a land dispute, where Journalists’ Club and articles criti- security forces clashing with dem- cal of the government on their own A depiction of Ajmal Kasab, who was the only member of the Pakistani onstrators killed a teenage girl. CPJ blogs. Nguyen Van Hai, who uses terrorist group that attacked said Sonando was imprisoned on the pen name Dieu Cay, received the Mumbai in 2008 to be captured. criminal charges in 2005 longest sentence of 12 years. Phan and inciting crimes in 2003, both for Thanh Hai was jailed for four years. : Public criticism led his reporting. Ta Phong Tan, a former police of- the top court in the Philippines to is- ficer who also wrote a blog called sue a 120-day suspension on Octo- QUITO: An Ecuadoran court on Justice and Truth, was sent to jail for ber 8 of a law targeting cybercrime September 26 imposed an $80,000 10 years. In July, her mother died af- that had gone into effect the week fine against Vistazo, an opposition ter setting herself on fire in front of a before. Officials said the Cybercrime magazine, for an editorial against government office. Prevention Act of 2012 was intended measures giving the government to prevent online child pornography, greater control over media content ABIDJAN: Four days after identity theft and spamming but pro- and ownership. A May 6 editorial, suspending all six newspapers al- testers said the law could be used to titled “A Resounding No,” urged lied with former President Laurent target government critics, search and citizens to vote against two of 10 Gbagbo, Ivory Coast’s press council seize data from online accounts and questions in a May 7 referendum. responded to international criticism

OPC Bulletin • October 2012 • Page 6 by lifting the suspensions on Sep- that since 2011, Ethiopia has con- which has refused to give her a visa tember 17. During Gbagbo’s 10-year victed 11 independent journalists to leave Cuba. rule, newspapers allied with current and bloggers under the sweeping President Alassane Ouattara, then anti-terrorism law, some in absen- MURDERS the opposition leader, were frequent- tia. Among the six journalists still in One journalist was killed and ly harassed. Many had hoped Ouat- Ethiopian prisons is Eskinder Nega, three others injured October 7 when tara would stop interference with the the winner of the 2012 Pen Ameri- gunmen fired on a Pakistan People’s news media. ca’s Freedom to Write prize. Party rally in Khairpur. At least six people at the rally died and 10 were BANJUL: The Gambian Press HAVANA: Calixto Ramón wounded. Mushtaq Khand, 35, a Union and others harshly criticized Martínez Arias, a Cuban journal- reporter for Dharti Television Net- the September 14 order by the Na- ist who works for work, had been the president of the tional Intelligence Agency closing news website Hablemos Press, has Khairpur Press Club for the past five two privately owned English-lan- been in custody since mid-Septem- years. He had also worked for the guage newspapers: The Standard, a ber on charges of insulting Fidel and Sindhi newspaper Mehran in Hyder- daily, and The Daily News, which is Ramón Castro. He was detained at abad. Journalists Mukhtiar Phul- published three days a week. Both Havana’s international airport while poto, Allahdad Rind and Faheem have covered sensitive political is- investigating a story about a dam- Mangi were injured. sues including recent executions of aged shipment of medicines. nine death row inmates. Also in Sep- Abdul Haq Baloch, a prominent tember, two journalists, Baboucarr Later in September, IPI reported Pakistani journalist and a longtime Ceesay, first vice president of the that Roberto de Jesús Guerra, edi- correspondent of ARY Television, Gambia Press Union, and Abuba- tor of Hablemos Press, was detained was shot dead September 29 in carr Saidykhan were arrested and along with one of the city of Khuzdar in Baluchistan charged with incitement to violence, the site’s photog- province. He was killed while leav- conspiracy to commit felony and raphers, Gerar- ing the Khuzdar Press Club, where seditious intention. They reportedly do Youmel Ávila he was secretary-general. Accord- sought permission to stage a peace- Perdomo, while ing to news reports, he had not re- ful march to protest the executions. the two were on ceived prior threats and no group has In August, Teranga FM was shut their way to an claimed responsibility. down after it was warned to stop a Internet train- Chaitali Santra, 40, a freelance program that translated newspaper ing course at Roberto de Jesús reports into local languages. the Czech em- Guerra Indian journalist with the Delhi- bassy in Havana. based weekly Julm se Jung and an STOCKHOLM: Swedish jour- Hours later, Magaly Norvis, another active member of the Committee nalists Johan Persson and Mar- Hablemos Press journalist and Jesús for Protection of Democratic Rights, tin Schibbye were pardoned Guerra’s wife, tweeted that Jesús died instantly September 26 when and freed September 10 from an Guerra had been released but “sav- a parcel received through a courier Ethiopian prison after being sen- agely beaten beyond recognition.” agency and delivered to her home tenced last December to 11 years exploded in her hands. Family told on terrorism charges. Speaking a Yoani Sanchez, a dissident Cu- reporters she often received threats few days later at press conference in ban blogger who was named an IPI in connection with her reporting. Sweden, the pair accused Ethiopia World Press Freedom Hero in 2010, of using anti-terrorism laws to stifle was arrested October 4 while on Seven Somalia journalists were journalism and said they had not her way to a trial, about 400 miles killed in September in Mogadishu. been sincere when forced to record from Havana, of a Spanish politician Zakariye Mohamed Mohamud a televised apology to secure their charged in connection with the death Moallim, an independent camera- release. They said that during their of two dissidents in a car crash. She man, was shot dead by unidentified imprisonment they were subjected was covering the trial for the Span- gunmen on September 16. Four days to a mock execution. International ish newspaper El País. Sanchez, her later, three journalists were killed and journalism and human rights groups husband, Reinaldo Escobar, and five others wounded when two sui- campaigned for their release since Agustin Lopez, another blogger, cide bombers exploded in a restau- their July 2011 arrest after entering were held for about 30 hours and re- rant, killing at least 15 people. The the country from neighboring Soma- turned to Havana. Online, Sanchez is Islamist armed group al-Shabaab lia with rebel fighters. CPJ reports a frequent critic of the government, (Continued on Page 8)

OPC Bulletin • October 2012 • Page 7 (Continued From Page 7) for Vorakchun Khmer Daily news- two journalists who died on assign- said its supporters had carried out the paper, Odom had implicated the ment, Anthony Shadid and Sultan bombing. The journalists who died son of a military commander in the Mohammad Munadi, by naming were Abdisatar Daher Sabriye and smuggling of illegal timber in mili- conference rooms in their honor. Liban Ali Nur of Somali National tary vehicles. In April, a land activ- Plaques were installed September TV and Abdirahman Yasin Ali of ist who was escorting two 6 honoring both. Shadid, an OPC Radio Hamar. The next day, Hassan Daily journalists through a forest in member and a two-time Pulitzer Yusuf Absuge died after being shot southwestern Cambodia was shot Prize winner, dedicated his career to three times in the head as he was and killed in a confrontation with covering the Middle East, where he leaving the studios of Radio Mantaa, uniformed Cambodian soldiers and died in Syria last February. Sultan an independent station where he was military police officers. was an Afghan journalist and inter- the program director. The beheaded preter who died during a September body of Abdirahman Mohamud The body of Eddie Jesus Apos- 2009 raid by British forces attempt- Ali, an online journalist who worked tol, who leased airtime from DXND ing to rescue him and Stephen Far- for a Somali-owned website, was Radio in the Philippine province of rell, a foreign correspondent for The found September 27 dumped in a Maguindanao, was found on Sep- Times. forces had captured street. Ahmed Abdulahi Fanah, 32, tember 1. News reports said Apostol Farrell, who was rescued, and Mu- of SAPA News Agency, was shot to had been shot twice in the head and nadi. Shadid and Munadi join fallen death September 28. IPI reports that his hands and his feet were bound. colleagues, Byron Darnton, Fakher 14 Somali journalists have lost their His motorcycle and cash were miss- Haider, Khalid Hassan, Nathaniel lives in 2012, a number second only ing, but his press card was found Nash, Elizabeth Neuffer and Rob- to the 36 who have died in Syria. near his body. Apostol was a former ert Post, who were honored with town councilor and his weekly radio plaques outside conference rooms. At least three journalists and show often touched on issues impor- media activists died in September tant to native Filipinos. in Syria. The Syrian Journalists As- sociation reported two deaths: Yu- UPDATES suf al-Aqraa, a media activist of : OPC mem- al-Farouq Battalions Press Office ber Ruth Gruber turned 101 on in the , was killed Sunday, September 30. As far as we September 27 while filming a battle know, she is OPC’s oldest member. in Hom while Mohammed Fayyad In honor of her al-Askar, a citizen journalist in the birthday several hundred of her John Morris as delegate at the Demo- Deir al-Zour News Network and cratic National Convention 2012. Free Deir ez-Zor Radio, was shot closest friends by pro-government forces in Deir and colleagues PARIS: John Morris, an OPC ez-Zor on September 28. CPJ re- gathered at the member since 1954, attended the ported that Syrian security forces on Museum of Jew- Democratic National Convention in September 19 assaulted the home of ish Heritage in North Carolina in September as a lower Manhattan, delegate of the Democrats Abroad Abdel Karim al-Oqda, a camera- Ruth Gruber man and reporter for Shaam News where festivities France. He is also hosting sessions Network, a citizen news organiza- included the showing of Ahead of on the upcoming election at his tion based in Damascus. Al-Oqda, Time, an award-winning documen- apartment in Paris. Morris was the who had recorded hundreds of vid- tary portrait of Gruber. first executive editor of the Magnum eos on the country’s conflict using Gruber entered the large room, photo agency, but is best known as the pseudonym Abu Hassan, and where her friends were sipping cof- Robert Capa’s picture editor for three of his friends were killed and fee and eating bagels and mini-cup- Life magazine on D-Day. He re- his house was burned. cakes, under her own steam, greeting ceived the French Legion d’Honneur people as she slowly walked across in 2009 and New York’s Internation- The body of Hang Serei Odom, the room. Afterward, she answered al Center of Photography’s Lifetime an environmental reporter in Cam- questions. What other centenarian do Achievement Award in 2010. bodia, was found September 11 in you know that would subject herself the trunk of his car at a cashew nut to Q&A? Only Ruth Gruber. HONG KONG: Brian Rhoads, plantation. He had been missing for an OPC Foundation board member, two days. In his most recent story The New York Times has honored has left Thomson Reuters after 16

OPC Bulletin • April 2012 • Page 8 years, most recently as Greater Chi- Times. Brooke and journalism. Sims is chairman of na bureau chief in Hong Kong, and started his jour- the Educational Activities has moved across town to become nalism career as Fund board and a trustee of the Na- managing editor at the South China assistant to col- tional Book Foundation, which ad- Morning Post. From 2008-2010, he umnist James ministers the National Book Awards. was based in New York as Reuters’ Reston at The The bride is a portfolio administrator managing editor for North, Central New York Times at Neuberger Berman, an asset-man- and South America. Rhoads joined and said he is Jim Brooke agement company. Reuters in 1996 as an editor in Hong continuing that tradition by “colum- Kong after working on newspapers nizing.” He worked for The Times as PEOPLE REMEMBERED in the United States and teaching a foreign correspondent in Africa, English in China. Latin America, Canada, and the . He works for Voice of OAKLAND PARK, Illinois: America in Moscow and said VOA A.E.P. “Ed” Wall, an OPC mem- has an increasing interest in video. ber since 1976, sent along a piece he wrote for his local Patch website. In NEW YORK: A story that earned “When the Doctor’s News is Scary,” a series of accolades for Abigail Pes- Wall describes Multiple System At- ta, an OPC board member and edito- From left: John Updike, Robert J. rophy, a rare dis- rial director of Women in the World Manning and Justin Kaplan. ease and a form for Newsweek/The Daily Beast, is a Robert J. Manning whose of Parkinsonism winner again. “The Accidental Sex 15 years as editor of The Atlantic that he was diag- Offender,” written for Marie Claire, Monthly capped a distinguished ca- nosed with when most recently received a Clarion reer, died September 29 at age 92. he was 75 after Award for magazine feature writing He was recognized for broadening dealing with the from the Association for Women in the Atlantic’s scope and readership symptoms for Ed Wall Communications. It previously won and said he was proud during his ten- years. “Getting honors from the General Federation ure to have been placed on President MSA is bad luck,” he wrote but added of Women’s Clubs, the New York ’s enemies list. that he has had fine doctors and sup- Press Club, the National Headliner His time at the Atlantic ended in portive family and friends. “Thus, at Awards and the National Council on a bitter business feud after Manning age 87 I still enjoy life among com- Crime and Delinquency and it was a helped Mortimer Zuckerman initi- puters and books in a condo shared finalist with the Deadline Club. ate the purchase of the magazine and with a feline who thinks shuffling Zuckerman’s subsequent discharge feet are part of a game. My prayer WEDDING of Manning and refusal to honor is that a smart person, somewhere, contractual obligations acquired in is close to finding a cure right now.” the sale. In its obituary of Manning, Wall noted that while some of the said Manning told newspapers he worked for are gone a reporter at the time, “If the esti- beginning with the Pittsburgh Sun- mable custom of dueling were still Telegraph or merged like the Ho- in practice, one of us would now be nolulu Star-Bulletin (Sunday editor) dead, Zuckerman from a shot in the and The Honolulu Advertiser (man- heart but more likely Manning from aging editor), he knows he still has Patricia Baptiste and Calvin Sims a shot in the back.” friends at the OPC. His email ad- His journalism career began as a dress is [email protected]. Calvin Sims, an OPC member senior in high school when he was and a program officer for the Ford hired as a copy boy at The Bingham- MOSCOW: OPC member Foundation, married Patricia Bap- ton Press. He soon was promoted Jim Brooke reports that he is writ- tiste on October 13 at the Marble to reporter. He took a job with The ing a weekly column titled “Russia Collegiate Church in New York. Associated Press in Buffalo instead Watch,” which appears in newspa- Sims, a former foreign correspon- of attending college and joined the pers in capitals around the rim of dent for The New York Times in Bue- Army in 1942, but received an early Russia — Warsaw, Prague, Sofia, nos Aires; ; and Jakarta, Indo- honorable discharge because of near- Kyiv and Tbilisi — and most recent- nesia, manages grants given by the sightedness. He was the United Na- ly it was picked up by The Moscow for the news media (Continued on Page 10)

OPC Bulletin • October 2012 • Page 9 A Birthday in Paris With a Sojourn to Normandy D-Day Memorials by Sonya K. Fry giving an award to a brave photojournalist every year in This September I travelled to Paris to celebrate my the name of Robert Capa, seeing his small, but separate Big Birthday with family. It was a grand celebration that memorial was heart-warming. helped take the sting out of this “growing older” phe- Returning to Paris for a second week I visited OPC nomenon. At the end of the week where we explored members and was invited to the new International Her- Paris and ate and drank everything in sight, we drove ald Tribune offices, recently located to La Defense, by to Normandy to visit D-Day sites. I editor Alison Smale, who was a pre- had heard from OPC member Ned senter at last year’s awards ceremony. Parker that there was a monument I sat in on the morning editor’s meet- to fallen journalists in Bayeux that ing and then met with editorial page also hosted the Bayeux-Calvados editor Serge Schmemann and OPC Award for war correspondents. Vice President Marcus Mabry. In a small park setting off the I knew that OPC member Mort beaten track from the tourist areas Rosenblum resided on a houseboat in of Bayeux there were simple stone Paris, but when he and his wife Jea- monuments, about six-feet high nette invited me for dinner I realized with the names of journalists fallen just what a prime location their boat in the line of duty. People who are commanded: on the Seine between included: Ernie Pyle, Anna Polit- Notre Dame and the Eiffel Tower. We

kovskaya, and Da- Photo: Sonya K. Fry watched the Eiffel Tower reveal its vid Kaplan, but I was in search lightshow while sipping tea after din- of Chris Hondros and Tim Hetherington, the photo- ner on the deck. The Rosenblums also had another guest, journalists who died in Misrata, Libya, and left us bereft journalist and author Tad Bartimus who now lives in on the eve of the OPC’s Awards Dinner in 2011. Their Hawaii with her husband. She was one of the authors names were on opposite sides of a recently carved stone of War Torn: Stories of War from the Women Reporters stele and in a strange way, it was comforting to see their Who Covered Vietnam. She had appeared on an OPC names permanently etched in stone. Then, as I was leav- panel of those women reporters in September 2002 and it ing this quiet garden, I found a small tombstone-like me- was great fun to meet her again in Paris. morial to Robert Capa. Since the OPC has the honor of Sonya K. Fry is the Executive Director of the OPC.

(Continued From Page 9) Henry Champ, a Canadian and lifetime member of the National broadcast journalist who was a for- Press Club of New Zealand, a former tions correspondent for United Press eign correspondent, died September member of the Foreign Correspon- and joined Time magazine in 1949, 23 at age 75 in Washington, where dents’ Club of Hong Kong and had where he wrote for the magazine’s he had retired as CBC’s Washington been Hong Kong correspondent for national and foreign sections, with correspondent in the New Zealand Press Association, time out in 1952 to work in the Dem- 2008. He spent 15 a cooperative of more than 40 news- ocratic presidential campaign of Ad- years with CTV’s papers at the time, and Singapore lai Stevenson. A Time cover story that investigative af- Bureau chief for Reuters. He was lat- sent him to ­Ernest Hemingway’s fairs show “W5” er bureau chief for the Press Cuban home in 1954 led to a friend- and served as the Association before returning from ship based partly on a shared passion network’s Wash- foreign service to be the group’s for fly-fishing. He was Time-Life’s ington and Lon- chief parliamentary correspondent London bureau chief from 1958 to don bureau chief, Henry Champ and then operations manager. He 1961 and then became Sunday editor and also worked for NBC in Europe was best known for his work cover- of The . A and Washington before joining CBC ing the and the historic year later, he became assistant secre- in 1993. visit of Australian Prime Minister tary of state for public affairs in the Rob Muldoon to China in 1976. Kennedy administration, where he The life of Derek Round, one of The tragic news was sent to the spent two and a half years. He joined New Zealand’s most distinguished OPC by Peter Isaac, president of the the Atlantic in 1964 and was named journalists, ended in a brutal beating National Press Club of New Zealand, editor two years later. last May. Round, 77, was a founder who said the killing ended “the life

OPC Bulletin • October 2012 • Page 10 (New Books Continued From Page 12) n Distant Witness: Social Media, the Arab Spring of the lawsuit and its aftermath in The Good Girls Re- and a Journalism Revolution, by Andy Carvin, NPR’s volt: How the Women of Newsweek Sued Their Bosses senior strategist for social media, on his use of social and Changed the Workplace [PublicAffairs, September networks in reporting the series of Arab uprisings col- 2012]. It’s a fascinating story and one not told in such lectively known as the Arab Spring and what has hap- detail before. pened since. In 1975, Povich became the first woman senior edi- n Fighting for the Press: The Inside Story of the tor at Newsweek, where she stayed until 1991. She has Pentagon Papers, by James Goodale, chief counsel for been editor-in-chief of Working The New York Times during the Pentagon Papers, reveals Woman, managing editor and se- the behind-the-scenes stories of the internal debates and nior executive producer for MSN- the reasoning behind the strategy that emerged. n BC.com. She edited a 2005 book Investigative Journalism in America: A History, by Steve Weinberg, a member of the University of Mis- of columns by her father, famed souri Journalism School faculty and co-founder of IRE, Washington Post sports writer the association of investigative reporters and editors, is Shirley Povich, called “All Those a narrative look at the reporters, publications and stories Mornings … At the Post.” Povich that drove the development of investigative reporting. is part of the OPC family as the n The Pleasures of Being Out of Step: Nat Hentoff’s wife of Stephen Shepard, author Lynn Povich Life in Journalism, Jazz and the First Amendment, is a of the book featured on page 2 of biography of the noted jazz critic and free speech activ- the Bulletin. ist by CUNY Journalism Professor David L. Lewis, a At a time when women such as Jill Abramson at The former Daily News reporter and “60 Minutes” producer New York Times are still changing the face of the media, and associate producer who is also directing a feature- The Good Girls Revolt shows us how the industry has length documentary on Hentoff. evolved. It offers lessons for women who are concerned The CUNY Journalism Press will operate in partner- about discrimination today while making clear the revo- ship with OR Books, an independent publisher based lution has not met its goals. in New York. The editor is Tim Harper, a visiting professor and writing coach at HE CUNY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF CUNY. Authors seeking information or of- T Journalism launched an academic press fering proposals may reach him through the to publish books related to journalism. Dean CUNY Graduate School of Journalism web- Stephen Shepard said the new imprint will site. “We’re looking for anything about jour- publish three to five books a year, beginning nalism, anything about news and the news in 2013. media, past, present or future,” Harper said. “We think that publishing more thought- “We’re interested in skills and how-to books, ful, insightful books about journalism at this anthologies, histories, memoirs, anything and critical time in the history of news and infor- everything that adds to what we know about mation is important for journalists, important journalism and journalists.” for writers and for readers,” Shepard said. Four titles are planned for 2013: — by Susan Kille

was approached during the The trial of Round’s alleged assailant by Soviets agents and asked to pass is pending, with a judge denying bail on information for a fee. He agreed on October 8. but went instead to New Zealand security officials, who turned him Editor’s Note: October 25 briefly into a double agent. At that marks the first anniversary of the time, two Soviet embassy officials death of long-time OPC member were expelled although Round’s in- Derek Round, right, in 2010 talking volvement remains unclear. and People columnist Albert E. with Rt. Hon. Jonathan Hunt. After a second career in business, Kaff. We want to thank Susan Kille of one of ’s most active and he had retired to Wanganui, where for writing the Bulletin columns and colorful industry figures.” Among his body was found in his home on otherwise pitching in when needed the facts in a fascinating profile on May 17. It was reported that authori- for the past year to fill these pages the Club’s website, was that Round ties believe Round knew his attacker. with news and notes for members.

OPC Bulletin • October 2012 • Page 11 that investigators say was caused by sentimental portrait of a region’s Massey’s sloppiness and cost-cutting people and their struggles. New Books mentality killed 29 miners working NORTH AMERICA N THE BOOK THUNDER ON in the very same mine complex near N THE LATE 1960s, WOMEN I the Mountain, Death at Massey Montcoal, West Virginia. Research I at Newsweek distributed mail, and the Dirty Secrets Behind Big for this book about the international clipped newspaper stories, fact- Coal [St. Martin’s Press, September market also took Galuszka to China, checked and did research they hand- 2012], Peter A. Galuszka explores Mongolia and Japan. ed over to writers. The career path the worst deep mining After the blast at for women stopped there, no mat- coal accident in 40 years Massey Energy’s Up- ter their college degree, savvy or a and traces the divisive per Big Branch, Ga- roster of talent that included Susan workplace and environ- luszka said he realized Brownmiller, Nora Ephron, Ellen mental issues confront- he wanted to write about Goodman and Jane Bryant Quinn. ing the Central Appala- what happened and he Only men were hired as reporters chian region. got help with a book and writers. Decades with Busi- proposal from Leah Na- In 1970 in the country’s first fe- ness Week, including thans Spiro, an OPC male class action lawsuit, 46 women two tours as Moscow member sued Newsweek for gen- bureau chief, and an and former der discrimination in interest in energy and Business hiring and employment. coal issues that began Week col- The revolt, planned with growing up partly league who largely in the ladies’ in West Virginia, gives Galuszka, an is now president of Riv- room, changed Ameri- OPC member, a deep understand- erside Creative Manage- can media. The suit had ing of big business and energy. He ment. been brewing for a while had covered Don Blankenship, the Through solid re- but its filing was timed notorious former CEO of Massey porting and research, to coincide with the pub- Energy, for years. Almost a year to Galuszka contrasts the lication of a Newsweek the day after he made a reporting trip hard work and pov- cover story titled “Wom- to write about mountaintop removal, erty endured by coal en in Revolt.” Male edi- the horrific methane gas explosion miners and their families with tors had decided the piece should be the unrelenting capitalism of coal written by a woman but hired an out- companies and the energy indus- side writer. try. While telling a disturbing story Lynn Povich, who after gradu- about fossil-fuel dependence, Ga- ating from Vassar began her award- luszka explains the complex class winning journalism career as a sec- issues and politics of Appalachia retary at Newsweek, tells the story Upcoming and provides a sympathetic but un- (Continued on Page 11) Book Night: Overseas Press Club of America 40 West 45 Street The Last Refuge: New York, NY 10036 USA Yemen, Al-Qaeda, and America’s War in Arabia by Gregory Johnsen With Interlocutor Bill Holstein November 12 6 p.m. 40 West 45 Street

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