THE MONTHLY NEWSLETTER OF THE OVERSEAS PRESS CLUB OF AMERICA, NEW YORK, NY • March-April 2016 Awards Dinner to Honor Reporting in a Year of Crisis EVENT PREVIEW: April 28 By Chad Bouchard Europe’s refugee crisis and deadly terrorist attacks are in focus in this year’s Dateline magazine, which will be shared at the OPC’s Annual Awards Dinner on April 28. The issue – and the gala event – honors the work of

international journalists covering up- Christopher Michel Jonas Fredwall Karlsson Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images heaval in the face of growing threats, Left to right: Kai Ryssdal of Marketplace, David Fanning of PBS FRONTLINE which OPC President Marcus Mabry and Jason Rezaian of The Washington Post. said makes the work of correspon- President’s Award. In a message to press freedom candle in memory of dents harder and ever more essential. Fanning offering the award, Mabry journalists who have died in the line Kai Ryssdal, host and senior edi- praised FRONTLINE and Fanning’s of duty in the past year and in honor of tor of American Public Media’s Mar- “extraordinary, defining” work since those injured, missing and abducted. ketplace, will be our presenter. Rys- the show’s first season in 1983. Fan- The dinner will be held at the Man- sdal joined Marketplace in 2005, and ning retired as executive producer last darin Oriental Hotel on Columbus has hosted the show from China, the year after 33 seasons, and still serves Circle, and begins with a reception at Middle East and across the United States. This year’s 22 award winners at the series’ executive producer at 6:00 p.m., sponsored by multinational were selected from more than 480 large. computer company Lenovo. Interna- entries in categories including news Increasing dangers in the profes- tional news agency Reuters is spon- coverage, print, cartoons, photogra- sion remained in the spotlight for the soring a “Meet the Winners” recep- phy, broadcast, books, commentary OPC over the last year as terrorists tion immediately following the din- and multimedia. continue to target journalists and ner. Tickets for this year’s dinner are Mabry selected David Fanning, governments detain and intimidate $295 for OPC members and $295 for founder and executive producer at colleagues. a member’s guest; $750 for non-mem- large of PBS investigative series Jason Rezaian, journalist and bers. Table prices are $7,500 (Friend), FRONTLINE, to receive this year’s former Tehran bureau chief for The $9,000 (Sponsor), $14,000 (Patron), Washington Post who was released $18,000 (Fellow). Dress for the event Inside. . . from Iran in January after more than is black tie. The Annual Awards Din- Recap: Press Freedom in Turkey.....2 18 months in prison, will light the ner will be streamed live. Recap: Intelligence and Security.....3 Recap: Russia Hands Reunion...... 3 Book Night: Andrew Nagorski’s Nazi Hunters Scholars Luncheon Recap...... 4-7 raise a glass to Andy! Interviewing EVENT PREVIEW: MAY 18 Japan Pressures Media...... 9 Andy will be Deidre Depke, who worked with Andy many years at People Column...... 10-12 The OPC will celebrate the publi- cation of OPC member Andrew Na- Newsweek. Andy was Newsweek’s Press Freedom Update...... 13-14 bureau chief in Hong Kong, Mos- gorski’s latest book, The Nazi Hunt- Turkey’s Media Crackdown...... 14 cow, Rome, Bonn, Warsaw and Ber- ers, on Wednesday, May 18 at the lin and the author of many books. Q&A: Valerie Hopkins...... 15 offices of Marketplace at 747 Third To RSVP, contact Eva Fryscak at: New Books...... 16 Ave. (47th Street) at 6 p.m. Come [email protected]. Panelists Analyse Crackdown on Press Freedom in Turkey Panelists Discuss Security, Privacy and Intelligence Gaps EVENT RECAP EVENT RECAP By Chad Bouchard By Chad Bouchard Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has waged an Terrorist groups are using more sophisticated tools aggressive campaign to silence critics and clamp down on than ever before to carry out attacks and recruit sup- press freedom as he moves increasingly toward authoritar- porters via social media campaigns. Using encrypted ian rule. communication and new mobile message platforms like On March 30, the OPC sponsored a program to analyze WhatsApp and Telegram, terrorists such as those who the recent seizure of two key Turkish news outlets and to planned the November 2015 attacks in Paris have left discuss the fate of free expression in the country. law enforcement groping in the dark.

Kerim Balci, recently the editor-in-chief of Turkish Chad Bouchard On March 2, the OPC and New York University’s Kerim Balci, left, and Agnès Callamard Center for Global Affairs co-hosted a panel to discuss Review, a bimonthly journal published by Zaman Media Left to right: Dan Klaidman, Michael Isikoff Group, left the country before police raided and took con- governmental organizations and the judiciary. recent intelligence failures and the increasing tension and Alexis Gelber. trol of Zaman. He now lives in self-imposed exile. His fam- “It’s not just about the press,” she said. “what’s hap- between security and privacy. has covered the FBI for much of his career. ily remains in Turkey, however, and his name remains on pening in Turkey is about dissent and political opposition.” In an interview with Michael Isikoff, chief investiga- The FBI demanded that Apple develop software to the top of a list of wanted journalists and many of his col- She said between 30 and 33 journalists are currently in tive correspondent for Yahoo News, National Security help them unlock the device, but Apple refused and has leagues are in jail or had their passports confiscated. Those jail in Turkey, many of them on national security charges. Agency Director Michael Rogers confirmed that the ter- invoked free speech and public privacy rights in its de- who escaped are lost, he added. Turkey has also stepped up attacks on social media as rorists in Paris used encrypted communications to dodge fense. “They don’t have the hope or courage to start again.” people increasingly seek online sources of information surveillance. The panelists said both sides were using the case for Repercussions of the government seizure are far-reach- amid the crackdown on traditional media. The panelists discussed the pitched battle between their own larger agendas. Calls to and from the phone ing. Zaman Media Group had conducted news trainings Turkey has the “most egregious” record in the world Apple and the Federal Bureau of Investigation over ac- are already available to investigators through metada- around the country, had correspondents in 120 countries when it comes to pulling content from Twitter, Callamard cess to contacts and other data on a cell phone from one ta, Isikoff said. “The basic idea that the FBI needs this around the world and shared content with 87 local stations said. Between January and June 2015, there were 408 Turk- of the suspects in the San Bernardino attack in Decem- phone unlocked to find out whether there was a co-con- in Turkey for free. The only other source of such free con- ish court orders to Twitter for removal of content – which ber 2015. spirator really doesn’t hold up to the evidence.” tent is the government, Balci said. constituted 90 percent of the number of requests worldwide “This is really an inflection point,” said Daniel Klaid- He added that instead of leaving the decision to Con- man, OPC governor and Yahoo News deputy editor who Agnès Callamard, the director of Columbia Universi- for the same period. (Continued on Page 9) ty’s Global Freedom of Expression initiative, spoke about The OPC has written a letter to Erdoğan calling for an the global trend of defamation and terrorism charges being end to the press crackdown. Please consider adding your used to silence journalists and opposition groups. name to the list of more than 600 supporters on Change.org. Russia Hands Explore Country’s Past and Look to Future She said the crackdown in Turkey includes the academ- To read more details about the recent takeover of major me- ic sector, political parties, cultural and artistic centers, non- dia outlets in Turkey, see page 14. els. One focused on EVENT RECAP current events in “Pu- OVERSEAS PRESS CLUB OF AMERICA • BOARD OF GOVERNORS By Chad Bouchard tin’s Russia.” The oth- PRESIDENT ACTIVE BOARD Scott Gilmore Paul Moakley ASSOCIATE BOARD PAST PRESIDENTS President Vladimir Putin’s au- er, titled “Communism Marcus Mabry Jacqueline Albert- International Columnist Deputy Director ­MEMBERS EX-OFFICIO thoritarian domestic leadership and and the Fall of Com- U.S. Lead Simon Maclean’s Magazine Photography and Brian I. Byrd Michael Serrill U.S. Bureau Chief Visual Enterprise Program Officer David A. Andelman aggressive use of force in Ukraine munism,” featured for- Twitter Moments Politique Internationale TIME magazine Peter S. Goodman NYS Health John Corporon and Syria has Russia watchers won- mer correspondents in FIRST VICE PRESIDENT Hannah Allam European Economic Robert Nickelsberg Foundation Allan Dodds Frank Correspondent dering – what is his long-term plan? Calvin Sims Foreign Affairs Freelance Alexis Gelber Moscow with postings Helen Klisser During The New York Times President and CEO Correspondent Photojournalist Bill Collins William J. Holstein Is the former KGB officer trying to McClatchy Director, Public & Marshall Loeb that span more than six Left to right: Alexander Cooley, Timothy Frye, International House Newspapers Charles Graeber Mary Rajkumar International Enterprise Business Affairs Larry Martz shape the country into a grand vi- decades. Vladimir Lenski and Carol Williams. Freelance Journalist Ford Motor Company Roy Rowan SECOND VICE PRESIDENT Deborah Amos and Author Editor sion, or is he just seizing opportuni- During the panel on Abigail Pesta Correspondent The Associated Press Larry Smith Emma Daly Richard B. Stolley ties and reacting to crises like a well- Freelance Journalist NPR Steve Herman Putin, Carol Williams, Lara Setrakian Communications trained field agent? Molly Bingham Bureau Chief Co-Founder & CEO Director longtime Los Angeles Southest Asia News Deeply EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR THIRD VICE PRESIDENT President & CEO Human Rights Watch Patricia Kranz On Feb. 24, more than 180 for- Pancho Bernasconi Voice of America Times correspondent, OrbMedia, Inc. Martin Smith mer Moscow correspondents, OPC Vice President/News President Daniel Sieberg OFFICE MANAGER said that the Russian Getty Images Rukmini Callimachi Anjali Kamat Rain Media Foreign Correspondent Global Head Boots R. Duque members and Russophiles gathered president “changed of Media Outreach Correspondent Fault Lines Liam Stack at Columbia University’s Harriman TREASURER The New York Times Google EDITOR Russia’s narrative” by Tim Ferguson Al Jazeera English Breaking News Reporter Chad Bouchard Institute to grapple with these and focusing on what he Chad Bouchard Editor Anupreeta Das Azmat Khan The New York Times Minky Worden Forbes Asia Reporter Director of Global other questions. The Russia Hands portrayed as threats Left to right: Robert Kaiser, Ann Cooper, David Wall Street Journal Investigative Reporter BuzzFeed News Charles Wallace Initiatives OPC Reunion was an opportunity to dis- from the West and a Hoffman, Tom Kent and Seymour Topping. SECRETARY Financial Writer Chris Dickey Human Rights Watch ISSN-0738-7202 cuss Putin and the country’s trajec- need to restore the coun- to one-party rule, framing human Deidre Depke Foreign Editor Dan Klaidman Vivienne Walt ­Copyright © 2015 New York Bureau Chief The Daily Beast, Deputy Editor Correspondent Over­seas Press Club tory, and to put current develop- try’s status on the world stage. rights as alien Western values and Marketplace Paris Yahoo News TIME and FORTUNE of America ments in historical context. She said he did this by increas- “systematically stifling all dissent- 40 West 45 Street, New York, NY 10036 USA • Phone: (212) 626-9220 • Fax: (212) 626-9210 • Website: opcofamerica.org The afternoon included two pan- ing control over media, returning (Continued on Page 8) OPC Bulletin • March/April 2016 • Page 2 OPC Bulletin • March/April 2016 • Page 3 Gannon Urges Foundation Scholars to Follow Curiosity 2016 OPC Foundation Scholarship Winners ables, have renounced Hinduism and EVENT RECAP converted to Buddhism and Christian- ity as a means of escaping the social By Chad Bouchard trappings of the caste system. Fluent The OPC Foundation Scholar Awards Luncheon this in French and proficient in Spanish, year highlighted a diverse crop of winners with on-the- the UCLA graduate intends to report ground reporting experience that spans the globe. on India’s social issues and cover OPC Foundation President Bill Holstein, in his intro- health issues in West Africa. ductory remarks, said the panel of judges selected win- Gabrielle Paluch ners who had the right “motivations and attitudes” that Columbia University Graduate align with key values for a good journalist. School of Journalism “We ask ourselves, if you were a foreign editor, would Michael Dames H.L. STEVENSON you send this person out to get the story?” Left to right: Levi Bridges, Russell Midori, Annika Hammerschlag, Neha FELLOWSHIP Wadekar, Isma’il Kushkush, Neha Thirani Bagri, Gabrielle Paluch, Kanyakrit Funded by the Gamsin family and For the second time, the OPC Foundation offered a day Michael Dames Vongkiakajorn, Pete Vernon, Alizeh Khohari, Dake Kang, Alissa Greenberg, sponsored by family and friends; pre- of risk assessment and situational training for scholars at Kathy Gannon Jesse Coburn, Wei Zhou and Katie Riordan. sented by Sharon Gamsin the Associated Press headquarters. Frank Smyth, president counted his experience in his ancestral homeland of Sudan, In her winning essay, Gabrielle Following is a list of the fifteen 2016 tural issues surrounding the beauty and founder of Global Journalist Security, a hostile envi- where he lived for 8 years and worked as a stringer for The told the story of Olive, a former drug scholarship and fellowship recipi- industry and skin-lightening prod- dealer, prisoner and survivor, whose ronment training outfit based in Washington DC, lead the New York Times, CNN and others. He said he was inspired program. ents, their affiliations, the prize they ucts in Kenya. A multimedia journal- story encapsulates Myanmar’s endless by coverage of the Arab Spring, but grew concerned about won, the presenter, and a brief de- ist with Spanish language skills, she The event featured a keynote speech from Kathy Gan- civil war. A graduate of Washington the lack of coverage of the refugee crisis in eastern Sudan. scription of their winning applica- has an OPC Foundation fellowship University in St. Louis, she speaks non, who has covered Pakistan and Afghanistan for The He recalled talking to a man who expressed despair tions. The winners were selected in the Reuters bureau in Nairobi. German, Mandarin, Spanish, French, Associated Press as a correspondent and bureau chief. that summed up Kushkush’s reporting on the story: “‘I’m from a highly competitive field of and a bit of Thai and Burmese. While Gannon is all too familiar with reporting in hostile con- 175 applicants from around 55 dif- Jesse Coburn reporting from Myanmar, she broke not respected. I have no life, because I’m a refugee,’” the ditions. She survived an attack while covering elections in ferent colleges and universities. New York University the story of female genital mutilation man told him. Pakistan in April 2014, but her friend, AP photographer HARPER’S MAGAZINE in hospitals in Thailand. A multimedia Flora Lewis Fellowship winner Katie Riordan trav- Alissa Greenberg SCHOLARSHIP in memory of Anja Niedringhaus, was shot and killed. journalist and stand-up comic, she has eled to Somaliland to report on how climate change is UC-Berkeley Graduate School I.F. STONE an OPC Foundation fellowship in The Her message for luncheon guests focused on the need worsening the effects of drought. of Journalism Endowed by John R. MacArthur Associated Press bureau in Bangkok. for more objectivity in journalism, and lamented the blur- DAVID R. SCHWEISBERG and the Pierre F. Simon Charitable ring of lines. She said many journalists have become advo- “Part of the story is how the traditional pastoral way of MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP Trust; presented by Rick MacArthur, Levi Bridges cates or champions for one side of a conflict. life in Somaliland is being imperiled as global temperatures Sponsored by the Schweisberg Fam- publisher, Harper’s Magazine UC-Berkeley Graduate School “When we look at a story through the prism of good rise,” she said. Riordan has an OPC Foundation fellowship ily; presented by David’s brother, In his essay, Jessie wrote about of Journalism Matthew Schweisberg how tensions eventually subsided STAN SWINTON and evil, our stories are colored, or questions are weak and in London for The Wall Street Journal this summer. Neha Thirani Bagri won the Jerry Flint Fellowship for An ardent traveler, Alissa once in the historically Protestant city of FELLOWSHIP in the end it impacts the information the reader receives, it spent a year traveling solo around Hamburg as a Lutheran church un- Endowed by the Swinton Family; skews the recording of history.” International Business Reporting. She spent four years as the globe, including a trek on the derwent conversion into a mosque. presented by John Daniszewki, Vice Gannon urged the scholars to follow their curiosity and a staff reporter in the South Asia bureau of The New York Trans-Mongolian railroad from Having lived in Berlin for several President of International News, The focus on the journalist’s “primary mission to investigate, Times. Her essay focused on Agnelo Valdaris, a man sus- Helsinki to Beijing. Fluent in Span- years, some as a student and later Associated Press question and report.” pected of stealing a gold chain who was tortured and killed ish and proficient in Mandarin, she as a journalist for a German archi- Levi’s interest in Russia was in police custody in Mumbai. She said the case “shed light wrote about how the spread of palm tectural magazine and intern at The piqued by a 6,000 mile bicycle jour- Scholars spoke about some of the stories that first piqued oil plantations in Malaysia was New York Times, he is fluent in Ger- ney from the Sea of Japan to Mos- their interest, and about their ambitions for future work. on the pervasive use of torture in police custody in India crowding out other forms of life and man and proficient in French. A cow, a city he will return to as an OPC H.L Stvenson winner Gabrielle Paluch talked about her and also on the widespread culture of impunity.” livelihood, specifically its impact on graduate of Wesleyan University, Foundation fellow in the AP bureau. reporting on the opium trade in Myanmar that funds a long- She said she wants to tell stories of marginalized com- the indigenous Mah Meri tribe. She he intends to report on Europe for Fluent in Spanish, he spent the last standing civil war between ethnic groups. She said while munities for a global audience, “a task that seems ever is a graduate of Wesleyan university American audiences. decade in Mexico City covering im- more pressing in the face of the crackdown on dissent in migration and labor. In his essay, the reporting she interviewed a woman named Olive, the “oc- Alfred University graduate and for- India today.” Neha Wadekar Annika Hammerschlag togenarian bisexual war lady of royal Chinese descent, the University of Southern California Columbia Graduate School mer Fulbright grantee wrote about the first drug lord of the Golden Triangle, [who] is in fact still Nathan S. Bienstock Memorial Scholarship winner REUTERS FELLOWSHIP of Journalism mistreatment of carnival workers from alive and not dead as erroneously presumed.” Russel Midori, who learned skills while serving as a Ma- Sponsored by Reuters and funded IRENE CORBALLY KUHN Tlapacoyan on H-2B visas in the U.S., Paluch plans to revisit Olive when she reports for rine Corps videographer, submitted a short documentary by The Correspondents Fund; pre- SCHOLARSHIP an experience he shared working as an The Associated Press in Bangkok on an OPC Founda- about security issues surrounding the presidential election sented by David Rohde, National Endowed by the Scripps Howard undercover reporter. tion Fellowship. in Haiti. Security Investigations Editor, Foundation; presented by Pamela Reuters Howard of the Pamela Howard Fam- Kanyakrit Vongkiatkajorn Annika Hammerschlag received the Irene Corbally He recalled first being inspired about international After graduating from Tufts Uni- ily Foundation Columbia University Graduate journalism during a conversation with Getty Images pho- School of Journalism Kuhn Scholarship. She wrote about “untouchables” in the versity, Neha spent two years as a A photojournalist and endurance EMANUEL R. FREEDMAN Hindu caste system who have left the faith and converted tographer Chris Hondros, who was killed in Libya in a management consultant acquiring athlete, Annika was afflicted with den- SCHOLARSHIP to Buddhism and Christianity, and found that Buddhism mortar attack in 2011. Midori told Hondros he wanted to the technical and analytical exper- gue fever while reporting on the story Endowed by family; presented by converts were better able to escape their past. She’ll be go- try reporting overseas, but wasn’t sure how to start. tise that will aid her in her career in that was the essence of her winning Alix Freedman, Manny’s daughter international journalism, preferably essay. In the northeast Indian town and Ethics Editor, Reuters ing to Senegal to write about polygamy and gender issues. “If you can’t figure out how to get there, you really in Eastern or Central Africa. In her of Bodh Gaya and elsewhere, she ob- A native of Thailand and a grad- Roy Rowan Scholarship winner Isma’il Kushkush re- don’t belong there,” he remembered Hondros saying. essay, she wrote about complex cul- served how some Dalits, or untouch- (Continued on Page 6)

OPC Bulletin • March/April 2016 • Page 4 OPC Bulletin • March/April 2016 • Page 5 (‘Russia Hands’ Continued From Page 5) After being deported from Ye- Alizeh Kohari OPC Foundation Scholar Awards Luncheon men, Katie headed to Somaliland New York University uate of Wesleyan University, Kan- Photos by Michael Dames yakrit was back in Bangkok last where she covered, among other en- THE WALTER & BETSY August when a bomb rocked the vironmental and political stories, the CRONKITE SCHOLARSHIP Erawan shrine. She wrote about its effects of drought on the nomadic Funded by Daimler and Supported tribes in this Horn of Africa nation, by CBS News and friends; present- impact on Thai people living in both ed by Tony Cavin, Deputy Foreign Bangkok and New York City. A mul- the subject of her winning essay. Her interest lies in reporting the im- Editor, CBS News timedia journalist, she is committed A native of Karachi and currently to covering the stories of Southeast pact of climate change and the grow- a Fulbright scholar, Alizeh’s interest Asia. Proficient in French, she has ing number of climate refugees. A lies in documenting lives impacted an OPC Foundation fellowship in graduate of the University of Colo- by environmental change. In her the Reuters bureau in Bangkok. rado, Katie has an OPC Founda- essay, she wrote about the villages tion fellowship with The Wall Street along the Indus River in Pakistan Pete Vernon Journal in London. that bore the environmental conse- Columbia University Graduate quences of the 1967 construction of School of Journalism Wei Zhou the Tarbela dam. A graduate of the Kathy Gannon, left, and OPC Foundation President THEO WILSON SCHOLARSHIP University of North Carolina London School of Economics, she is Bill Holstein. Sponsored by donations from fam- S&P AWARD FOR ECONOMIC fluent in English, Urdu/Hindi with ily and friends; presented by family Left to right: Allan Dodds Frank, Neha Wadekar AND BUSINESS REPORTING some Punjabi, French and Spanish. and Pete Vernon. friend Barbara Burns Endowed by Standard & Poor’s; She has an OPC Foundation fellow- As a high school teacher in Gab- presented by David Guarino, Glob- ship with Reuters in Mexico City. arone, Botswana, Pete observed al Head of External Communica- THANK YOU firsthand the uncertain future of this tions, McGraw Hill Financial Russell Midori modern, relatively wealthy country Columbia University Graduate The OPC Foundation is especially as its economy and infrastructure A third-year business journalism School of Journalism grateful for its Patrons and Friends struggle with the impact of drought student, Wei believes that Western NATHAN S. BIENSTOCK who supported the 2016 Scholar and desertification. Formerly with audiences need to better understand MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP Awards Luncheon. Their contribu- Teach for America, he taught 8th today’s China, a country rapidly Endowed by the Richard Leibner tions ensure the continued suc- grade in the Bronx. A graduate of growing into a capitalist state but and Carole Cooper Family Founda- cess of our scholarship/fellowship William & Mary, where he captained where the process of industrializa- tion; presented by Richard Leibner, program. the baseball team, Pete will return to tion comes at a price. In her essay, Co-President, Bienstock, South Africa with an OPC Founda- she wrote about how China’s stock a UTA Company Kathy Gannon, left, and Jane Reilly, executive market plunge last June affected in- Russell learned cinematography director of the OPC Foundation. Patrons tion fellowship in the Reuters bu- The Associated Press reau in Johannesburg. dividual investors. A native Manda- as a Marine Corps combat videog- rin speaker, she has an OPC Foun- rapher before earning his degree in Bloomberg Isma’il Kushkush dation fellowship in The Wall Street broadcast journalism from Brooklyn Daimler Columbia University Graduate Journal bureau in Shanghai. College. His application contained Reuters a compelling short documentary on School of Journalism Standard & Poor’s ROY ROWAN SCHOLARSHIP the security issues surrounding the Neha Thirani Bagri recent presidential election in Haiti. Endowed by family, friends and ad- Columbia University Graduate mirers; presented by Roy Rowan As field producer and on-camera Friends School of Journalism host, he focused on whether the Hai- Isma’il’s career began as a four- JERRY FLINT FELLOWSHIP Bienstock, A United Talent Agency month visit to his ancestral home- tian National Police had succeeded FOR INTERNATIONAL in establishing safe, fair and vio- Company land of Sudan that turned into an BUSINESS REPORTING lence-free polling stations. BlackRock eight-year stint in East Africa as a Endowed by family and friends; Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP stringer for The New York Times and presented by Kate McLeod, Jerry’s Dake Kang CNN, among others. There he cov- wife and Joe Flint, his son University of Chicago CBS News ered the Eritrean refugee crisis, the Neha spent four years as a staff THE FRITZ BEEBE Left to right: Roy Rowan, Isma’il Kushkush and Marc Rowan. Ford Motor Company subject of his essay. Fluent in Ara- FELLOWSHIP bic and a graduate of UC-Davis, he reporter in the South Asia bureau Pamela Howard Family of The New York Times. Intent on Endowed by Anne and Larry Martz; Foundation is interested in covering Africa, the presented by Larry Martz Middle East and diaspora communi- a career in long-form, narrative IBT Media journalism, she is drawn to stories Pursuing a combined bachelor/ ties. Isma’il has an OPC Foundation master degree in economic history International House fellowship in The Associated Press about marginalized communities. Fluent in Hindi, she is a graduate in four years, Alex is intent on a ca- Knight-Bagehot Fellowship, bureau in Jerusalem. reer in business journalism. Fluent in Columbia University of Northwestern. In her essay, she French and learning German, he an- Katie Riordan told the story of Agnelo Valdaris, a alyzed the explosive growth of low- William S. Rukeyser University of Montana-Missoula young man who was tortured and cost airline carriers in Europe and Toyota FLORA LEWIS INTERNSHIP killed while in police custody in the rest of the world and asked why The Wall Street Journal Endowed by the Pierre F. Simon Mumbai and his father’s fruitless their growth has not been as great in Charitable Trust; presented by Mi- efforts to exact justice. She has an the U.S. He has an OPC Foundation chelle LaRoche, Editor of Develop- OPC Foundation fellowship with the fellowship in the Reuters bureau in ment, The Wall Street Journal GroundTruth Project. Brussels. Jesse Coburn and Alizeh Kohari. Levi Bridges and Alissa Greenberg. OPC Bulletin • March/April 2016 • Page 6 OPC Bulletin • March/April 2016 • Page 7 (‘Russia Hands’ Continued From Page 3) 1971, when he said relations with the U.S. were “lousy.” ing voices and restoring tsar-like omnipotence to the He said the KGB was aggressive toward American cor- Japan Pressures Media and Wields Censorship Law presidency.” respondents, and the Soviets were fed up with the adminis- By Toshio Aritake works’ CEOs, who have been intimidated by Prime Vladimir Lenski, anchor for Russian TV International, tration of President Richard Nixon, who was serving in his China and Russia are making headlines because of Minister Shinzo Abe. His cabinet minister in charge of said that Putin lacks long-range vision and has made risky second year when Kaiser arrived. crackdowns on their domestic media. But it seems to be the broadcasting law, Sanae Takaichi, told a parliamen- moves with unknown consequences, such as military op- Tom Kent, who works for The Associated Press and the happening in Japan as well, although in a slightly more tary session on Feb. 9 that she can order television sta- erations in Syria and an aggressive standoff with Turkey. Harriman Institute, covered Russia from 1976 to 1981 for opaque fashion. tions to stop broadcasting programs that are politically “There is no plan, no endgame. It’s very dangerous, how- the AP when Leonid Brezhnev was at the country’s helm. On April 1, the first day of a new business year in biased. The law, she said, requires that the broadcast- ever, because here we have the situation of two strongmen.” He said Western correspondents were barely tolerated then; Japan, three longtime popular newscasters of network ing media must be “politically neutral” and “report facts Timothy Frye, a professor at the Harriman Institute, getting government interviews was difficult, and ordinary television news shows will be quitting in a highly un- without altering them.” The law was enacted under Gen. people were “programmed” to avoid foreigners. cautioned against too much concern in the West over Pu- usual coincidence. Douglas McArthur's U.S. occupation forces. “In being isolated from ordinary people, and being Kazuo Kobayashi, a former NHK Moscow bureau tin’s stranglehold on domestic media and his fervor for They are Hiroko Kuniya, anchor of Close-up Gendai cut off from official organizations, a lot of correspondents (Today’s Close-up), a half-hour prime-time news show chief who had worked with Kuniya, told me Feb. 23 that global “information wars.” missed out about the general acceptance of the system and of the national broadcasting station NHK; Ichiro Furuta- Kuniya's departure would mean that Close-up Gendai is “I think we need to take a step back and recognize that some of the accomplishments of the Soviet state.” chi, newscaster managing the Hodo (reporting) Station no longer a serious news program. “I am totally against there are real limits on the extent to which governments Ann Cooper, a professor at the Columbia Journalism of TV Asahi; and Shigetada Kishii of the NEWS23 show replacing her,” he said. can simply put out a message and have people respond to School who served as NPR’s first Moscow bureau chief of Tokyo Broadcasting System (TBS) Television. There are several reasons the Abe cabinet seems to be it,” Frye said. from late 1986 to late 1991, called her era “the good years.” They have been known for not mincing words when seeking to intimidate the media. Some journalists have During the reunion’s second panel with veteran corre- “At some point I realized the story I most wanted to do tossing questions at interviewees, including politicians, questioned Abe’s military buildup and re-interpretation spondents, Seymour Topping, longtime OPC member and while in Russia was the disappearance of fear,” she said. and departing from the country's notoriously junky vari- of the nation’s constitution to allow Japanese military former correspondent and editor for The New York Times, “For me that was the story of my era.” ety show and soap opera formats. Kuniya, for example, forces to operate outside of Japan. Abe also campaigned recalled reporting on the first signs of division in the Com- David Hoffman,The Washington Post’s Moscow corre- did a show on why hate speech against Koreans is still on promises to rescue Japanese citizens kidnapped by munist world soon after his arrival in Moscow for the Times spondent from 1995 to 2001, said he had expected a closed pervasive 70 years after World War II ended, a very sen- North Korea and to improve the economy through “Abe- in 1960, and on the Cuban Missile Crisis near the end of his society, but was shocked by the free flow of information. sitive subject in Japan. nomics.” But both initiatives are faltering: North Korea stay in 1962. “We had no concept about how thin, how reversible, The three networks said only that they are making cut off bilateral talks on investigations to find and return “It was very much a frightened city during the crisis,” and how unsustainable it was,” Hoffman said. But he changes, including the replacement of the newscasters, Japanese abductees to Japan and Abenomics is not creat- he said. “I would look at my four kids in double-deckers in added that there is some hope despite growing restrictions as part of their routine, spring refreshing policy, a plau- ing the 2 percent economic growth rate Abe promised. our small apartment and wonder if there was a possibility under Putin. sible explanation in a country where a new business year of a missile.” “Vladimir Putin is not all of Russia. There’s a ker- starts when the cherry trees start to blossom. Toshio Aritake is a member of the Foreign Correspon- Robert Kaiser, former managing editor and Russia cor- nel left. Those green shoots have not been completely The real story may be self-censorship by the net- dent's Club of Japan, which is an affiliate of the OPC. respondent for The Washington Post, landed in Moscow in destroyed.” (‘Intelligence Gaps’ Continued From Page 3) erating with the government, refused Comey indicated in a recent press gress, the FBI would prefer to bring to return calls to the chief homeland conference that he was getting security advisor for the White House. the case to court to establish legal “briefed regularly” on the case – a precedent that would favor law en- He said ISIS has gotten sophisti- sign that investigators could be gath- forcement down the road. cated in its manipulation of security ering evidence. The National Security Agency’s rules for its own aims. The terrorist “I think there is a reasonable perspective, Isikoff said, is more network invoked terms of service chance, based on what we know, that sympathetic to Apple. agreements to get graphic anti-ISIS the FBI has something here,” Isikoff “Encryption is a very important videos made by the State Department said. part of our cyber defenses, and the taken down from Twitter and You- He said while criminal charges for Photos this page: Chad Bouchard more you might open the door to a Tube – because the government ran Clinton were probably unlikely, some afoul of the platforms’ rules banning Peter Osnos, left, with Seymour Topping, left, with Serge Schmemann. Ann Imse, left, with Jeff Trimble. weakening of encryption, so that the of her senior aides who wrote emails violent content. Robert Kaiser. FBI and law enforcement can get into on a classified server could face “It’s basically like Ju-Jitsu, using phones, you’re also opening the door charges of mishandling classified in- for foreign hackers and foreign intel- our strengths against us,” Klaidman said. “Which al-Qaeda also did by us- formation. Isikoff said that, as recent- ligence agencies to get the same in- ly reported by Reuters, the language formation,” he said. ing our openness and our technology used in some emails was similar to Klaidman said tensions between to attack us on 9-11.” free expression and security are also Alexis Gelber, former OPC presi- that of classified intelligence reports. playing out in social media. The US dent and longtime top editor at News- “Which means, if you follow the government has pressured platforms week who moderated the discussion, logic, that some people were reading like Twitter and Facebook to police asked the panelists to address Hillary intelligence reports on the classified their sites and block propaganda from Clinton’s use of private email servers system, and then laundering them, or groups like ISIS. for communication while serving as writing a sanitized version with the Left to right: OPC Governor Charles Wallace, Pete Galuszka and OPC Executive Director Klaidman cited an incident where Secretary of State. same language on the unclassified Gordon Joseloff and Andy Katell. Patricia Kranz. Twitter, reluctant to be seen as coop- Isikoff said FBI Director James system.” OPC Bulletin • March/April 2016 • Page 8 OPC Bulletin • March/April 2016 • Page 9 tion, and firsthand reporting from is currently working on a book with owns Newsweek – but the magazine refugees themselves. Setrakian was teenage Congolese war survivor will reportedly not be hit by cuts. PEOPLE... By Trish Anderton also the subject of a lengthy profile Sandra Uwiringiyimana. in Mashable, which said she was WASHINGTON, DC: An FCC OPC SCHOLARS WINNERS UPDATES “ready to change the news industry. OPC Governor Martin Smith’s bandwidth auction set for the end of Congratulations to 2008 Flora OPC member Nisid Hajari’s NEW YORK: Peter S. Good- Again.” latest PBS Frontline documentary March could make billions for TV Lewis winner Devon Haynie and book Midnight’s Furies: The Deadly man is returning to The New York aired in February. “Chasing Heroin” station owners, OPC member Kim- 2014 H.L. Stevenson fellow Cae- Legacy of India’s Partition has won Times as a London-based econom- OPC member Rebecca Blumen- examines the ongoing effects of the berly Adams re- lainn Hogan, who are among the the William E. Colby Award. The ics correspondent. Goodman, an stein has a new role at The Wall drug war and “what happens when cently reported for eleven international journalists cho- prize is given annually by Norwich OPC governor, was Street Journal as the organization addiction is treated as a public health public radio’s Mar- sen by the International Reporting University to recognize a book from previously global continues evolving to a more digi- issue, not a crime.” ketplace. Instead of Project to report from southern Af- a first-time author that has contrib- editor in chief of tal focus. As dep- selling off space on rica in May. Caelainn is a freelance uted to military history, intelligence The International uty editor in chief, Former OPC governor Andrew the broadcast spec- journalist in Ireland whose work has Business Times. He Blumenstein over- M. Rosenthal is stepping down as trum to stations, the operations, or international affairs. Adams been featured in The New Yorker, Carlo D’Este, executive director of has also worked at sees newsgathering editorial page director at the New agency will be pay- Huffington Post and Harper’s, Al Jazeera English, VICE, the Colby Symposium, called Mid- operations; all bu- York Times. Rosenthal will write an ing stations to give up their space in The Washington Goodman The Guardian and The Irish Times. night’s Furies “noteworthy, superbly reaus report to her online column about the presidential order to make more room for stream- Post, and is the author of Past Due: ing data to mobile devices. Many of Devon is now an international news readable, and very timely.” Hajari through the bureau election and other topics. The End of Easy Money and the Re- chiefs and coverage Blumenstein the small stations taking the payout editor for U.S. News & World Re- oversees Asia coverage for Bloom- newal of the American Economy. chiefs. Blumenstein has been with The Dutch-based news app won’t be going off the air; they’re port. Both were OPC Foundation berg View, the editorial page of fellows in Africa for The Associated “Peter’s posting in London signals the Journal since 1995. Her previ- Blendle is bringing its pay-by-the looking at channel sharing and other Bloomberg News. Press – Devon in Johannesburg and our continued commitment to global ous roles include deputy managing story model to the U.S. market. The ways to retain their programming. Caelainn in Lagos. business and economics coverage of editor of international and head of company launched its American OPC member Alissa Rubin the highest standard,” wrote Times the China bureau. service in beta form in late March Is Donald Trump serious about received a Hillary Clinton Award Meng Meng, the 2014 David R. business editor Dean Murphy in an with plans to enroll 10,000 initial changing the nation’s libel laws to Schweisberg Memorial Scholarship in February for her reporting on announcement to staff quoted on Former Al Jazeera America dep- subscribers. It will charge 10 to 50 make it easier to sue news orga- winner, is now working as a report- women in war zones. “[T]oday we TalkingBizNews.com. uty photo editor Vaughn Wallace cents per article, with content com- nizations? OPC member Marcus er/researcher in the Reuters bureau honor her not just is moving on to a position as senior ing from 20 high-profile news out- Brauchli, who talked Trump out of in Beijing. for her courageous OPC member Michael Moran photo editor at National Geograph- lets including The New York Times, numerous lawsuits as a top editor at reporting but for her has been named Visiting Media Fel- ic. Wallace, an OPC member, has The Wall Street Journal, TIME Inc., The Wall Street Journal and Wash- 2013 Nathan S. Bienstock Me- commitment to illu- low, Peace and Security at Carnegie previously worked at Time. He also The Economist, Financial Times and ington Post, thinks the presidential morial Scholarship winner Jacob minating women’s Corporation of New York. Moran recently served on the jury of the The Washington Post. The New York hopeful’s statements to that effect Kushner has spent more than a year experiences during worked in international news at World Press Photo Contest. Times has issued a new policy tight- are more likely “a kind of pandering documenting the impact of Ugan- violent conflict,” Rubin MSNBC and the Center for Foreign ening its use of anonymous sources. rhetoric designed to woo frustrated da’s notorious anti- said Georgetown Policy before going into global risk OPC member Brett Forrest’s Times executive editor and OPC voters.” Nonetheless, he writes in a gay law on the lives University Institute for Women, analysis for Renaissance Capital and investigation into international soc- member Dean Baquet explained recent Post op-ed, these are “omi- of lesbians and gay Peace and Security executive di- Control Risks. His books include cer-match fixing is headed to the the rules in an email to staff. A story nous and foreboding” times in U.S. The Reckoning: Debt, Democracy, politics. Brauchli adds that persuad- men. His story, pub- rector Melanne Verveer, presenting big screen. 20th Century Fox and based primarily on an anonymous and the Future of American Power. ing Trump not to sue involved listen- lished by VICE in Rubin with the Global Trailblazer Chernin Entertainment have signed source will require an in-depth con- ing to a “barrage of profanity” and March, takes us into Award. Rubin is currently Paris bu- directing team Adil El Arbi and Bil- versation with a major masthead Michael Dames OPC Governor Lara Setrakian occasionally inviting him to come small communities reau chief for The New York Times lal Fallah to oversee the film. Forrest editor, while “every other instance Kushner has launched another immersive initially wrote about match fixing of anonymity has to be approved by meet with the editorial team to vent of LGBT refugees and headed the paper’s Afghanistan news site as part of her fast-growing for ESPN Magazine; in 2014 Wil- a department head” or deputy. “We his frustrations. in Kenya, where they still face dan- bureau from 2009 to 2014. GIWPS News Deeply line. Refugees Deeply liam Morrow published his book, have no intention of reducing our ger and discrimination while waiting launched the awards in 2014 to hon- will cover the ongoing refugee cri- The Big Fix. urgency in getting news to our read- LOS ANGELES: Los Angeles years to find out whether they will or “individuals devoted to the cause sis in Syria and around the world. ers,” Baquet wrote. “But we are pre- Times Deputy Managing Editor — be allowed to emigrate. of women, peace and security in the “Syria is just the tip of it,” Setrakian OPC Governor Abigail Pesta pared to pay the price of losing an and OPC member — Scott Kraft world.” told USA Today. “It’s happening in recently profiled Malala Yousafzai’s occasional scoop in order to protect is playing a key role as the paper’s Fatima Bhojani, the 2015 Theo Asia, Africa, Latin America. Sixty to father for The New York Times’ our precious credibility.” newsroom shifts to a “news hub” Wilson scholarship winner, landed 2015 John Faber Award winner 70 percent are not from the Middle Women in the World website. “I mode. The hub functions as a “nerve a story in Foreign Affairs in March. Bulent Kilic has received a third- East. There are a lot of places the tried my best to treat my daughter The International Business center where assigning editors, pho- “How Isis Makes IEDs” explores place prize in the World Press Photo refugee crisis is unfolding, and we as myself,” schoolteacher Ziauddin Times has laid off at least 15 em- to editors, social media specialists, the supply chain that produces the Contest. His photo showed Syrian never hear of it.” RefugeesDeeply. Yousafzai told Pesta. “I gave her a ployees in New York and Califor- data visualizers and practitioners of terrorist group’s “unprecedented” refugees crossing over a broken bor- org, which launched on March 15, lot of freedom.” Malala won the No- nia, says recode.net, citing “multiple the other newsroom crafts” identify numbers of improvised explosive der fence to enter Turkey. Kilic is a features traditional journalism and bel Prize in 2014 as an advocate of sources.” The digital news outlet is and report the biggest stories of the devices. photographer with the AFP. analysis, maps and data visualiza- education for girls in Pakistan. Pesta owned by IBTMedia, which also (Continued on Page 12)

OPC Bulletin • March/April 2016 • Page 10 OPC Bulletin • March/April 2016 • Page 11 (Continued From Page 11) CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va.: ber dinghies stuffed with as many as day, according to a January memo The Virginia Quarterly Review is 60 people and then cross treacher- PRESS FREEDOM UPDATE...v from Editor Davan Maharaj that putting Instagram at the forefront ous waters in freezing conditions,” was published in the L.A. Observed of its new series of nonfiction sto- they write. “Often there isn’t enough Journalist and author Florence A Honduran court has sentenced blog. Kraft’s role is to “shepherd and ries from around the world. OPC fuel to make it out of Turkish waters. Hartmann was dragged screaming journalist David Romero Ellner polish the top stories of the day” for member Paul Reyes, the magazine’s Other times an inexperienced driver from the Hague in late March and to 10 years in prison for defam- jailed for five days while trying to ing a prosecutor. According to the web and print. Kraft has spent more deputy editor, tells the Nieman Lab guns the engine to get to Greek wa- attend the sentenc- Committee to Protect Journalists, than two decades with the paper, as ters as quickly as possible, and burns blog that he hopes writers will use ing of former Bos- the court found that Romero had a national and foreign correspondent out the motor.” Garen and Carleton the #VQRTrueStory project to “push nian Serb leader insulted Sonia Inez Gálvez Ferrari as well as a news department head. the limits of what can be done on are fundraising for the film at light- Radovan Karadžić. and reported inappropriately on her this platform.” The stories go first onthesea.com. Hartmann was fined private life as part of a personal Nicky Loh/Getty Images SAN FRANCISCO: Thomas to Instagram, then to the website, €7,000 in 2009 for vendetta against her. Romero, who Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak Fuller, who has spent a decade cover- with excerpts following in the print LONDON: Journalists at The disclosing confi- Arnaud Février directs Radio Globo and Globo TV, ing Southeast Asia for The New York magazine. The series has reported Independent are being asked to take dential information Hartmann maintained that he was covering to question Prime Minister Najib Times, has taken a new posting as the from places including India, Leso- steep pay cuts as the newspaper ends about the International Criminal Tri- corruption. Razak about corruption allegations. paper’s San Francisco bureau chief. tho, Greece and the U.S. its print edition and goes online-only, bunal for the former Yugoslavia. The The Australian Broadcasting Cor- The Guardian reports. The last issue fine was later converted to a one- The Republic of Congo blacked poration reporter and cameraman Longform publisher Matter is MIAMI: OPC member Jona- of the Independent on Sunday was week sentence, even though Hart- out telecommunications the day be- were accused of breaking a security mann says she deposited the money fore the country’s March 21 presi- line in Kuching and refusing to fol- spinning off from Medium.com to be- than Katz was part of Miami’s The published in late March. More than in a French account. She argues that dential election and kept the ban in low police orders – allegations they come a stand-alone company called Big Read celebration in February. 100 of the 160 journalists on staff Matter Studios. “Essentially: Matter her book containing the information place for several days, preventing deny. Authorities initially told the Katz discussed his book about the are expected to lose their jobs, and is going to be for digital storytellers the National Union of Journalists revealed the court’s attempts to cov- free and fair reporting on the vote, journalists they would face charges, 2010 earthquake in Haiti, The Big er up Serbia’s responsibility for the but later deported them without tak- what HBO and Amazon Studios are complained in a statement that for according to Reporters Without Truck That Went By: How the World 1995 Srebrenica massacre. Borders. In addition, three French ing legal action. for TV makers, or what the best incu- the remaining jobs, “pay and condi- Came to Save Haiti and Left Behind journalists – one from Le Monde bators are for startups,” Matter Stu- tions on the digital side are worse.” a Disaster. Katz is currently writer and two from Agence France-Presse Iraqi authorities have shut down dios co-founder Mark Lotto wrote in The Obama administration set in residence at Duke University’s a record in 2015 for unfulfilled Free- – were reportedly attacked and had pro-Sunni satellite channel Al- a blog post. Lotto added that the com- Franklin Humanities Institute. DOHA, QATAR: Just months after dom of Information Act searches, their equipment and passports seized Baghdadia TV after revoking its pany would produce everything from revealing plans to shut down its U.S. according to the AP. In more than by men who identified themselves broadcast license, the CPJ reports. “multiplatform digital journalism, to cable channel, Al Jazeera revealed SEDONA, Ariz.: OPC member one-sixth of FOIA requests, gov- as police. The items were later re- On March 18 security guards were podcasts and books, to live events, to further job cuts. The network an- Deborah Camiel’s documentary ernment researchers said they were turned. The government reported reportedly ordered to eject staff from streaming film, TV, and video, to new nounced an “optimization initiative” (Dis)Honesty: The Truth About Lies unable to find any relevant records. that President Denis Sassou Nguesso the channel’s offices across 18 cities. things we haven’t thought of yet.” on its website on March 27, saying The administration also set a record had won re-election, but the opposi- The Ministry of Interior cited orders played at the Sedona International “around 500 positions worldwide for censoring and denying access to tion rejected the results and accused from the Iraqi Commission of Media Film Festival in February. The mov- PULLMAN, Wash.: OPC mem- will be affected, the majority of requested materials, which it did 77 the administration of fraud. and Communications, which in 2013 ie, which Camiel produced, explores ber Lawrence Pintak is stepping which are in Qatar.” CNN reports percent of the time. accused the station of encouraging how and why people lie. Camiel down as head of the Edward R. Mur- that the Qatar-owned network has A Venezuelan newspaper that attacks against security forces. The currently produces long-form docu- row School of Communications at been hit by the falling price of oil. An annual survey from the For- had been in print for 82 years end- director of Al-Baghdadia’s London Washington State mentaries for CNBC; she has previ- eign Correspondents Club of Chi- ed its run in mid-March, saying the office said the station did not incite University. Pintak, ously worked at CBS and Reuters. PEOPLE REMEMBERED na shows some improvement in wait state paper company had refused to violence, and added that he believes the school’s founding Editor, correspondent and media times for correspondents’ visa and supply it with newsprint. In a March it has run afoul of authorities be- dean, will wrap up LESBOS, GREECE: OPC critic Ben Bagdikian died on March press card renewals in 2015, though 17 editorial, regional newspaper El cause of its reporting on corruption. his duties by the end member Micah Garen and partner 11 at age 96. Bagdikian began his intimidation of journalists continues. Carabobeño wrote: “Today, a vile About 87 percent of survey respon- blow has materialized against one MURDERS of the spring semes- Marie-Hélène Carleton are work- journalism career in 1947 and did a dents received new residence visas of the most sacred rights of a human ● Journalist Moisés Dagdug ter in order to spend ing on a documentary about the im- stint as a Middle East correspondent Pintak within 10 working days, compared being: the right to be informed.” The Lutzow was found stabbed to death pact of the refugee crisis on Lesbos. before joining the Saturday Evening a year researching to a standard wait time of 15 days in Knight Center at the University of inside his home in Villahermosa, Ta- They published a story and a video and reporting on Islam and the U.S. Post and eventually The Washington 2014. Less than 4 percent reported Texas at Austin reports that the paper basco, southeastern Mexico, on Feb. presidential election. During Pintak’s excerpt on the Vanity Fair website Post. He played a key role in obtain- problems renewing their press cards continues publishing on its website 20. Dagdug, 65, was director and seven-year tenure, the size of the fac- in mid-March about the crossing ing and publishing the Pentagon Pa- or visas. But the report notes that and through an internet radio station. owner of Grupo VX, a media com- ulty roughly doubled; student enroll- from Turkey to Greece known as the pers at the Post. His book The Me- Chinese authorities abuse the press pany. He owned radio station XE- ment increased by 50 percent; faculty “Route of Death”: “Refugees and dia Monopoly, which warned about card and renewal process to punish Australian journalists Linton VX-AM La Grande de Tabasco and research output doubled; and research migrants pay smugglers an average corporate control of the news, went journalists for content unfavorable Besser and Louie Eroglu were ar- hosted a program at the TVX televi- grants quadrupled. of $1,000 per person to get on rub- through several editions. to the government. rested in Malaysia after attempting (Continued on Page 14)

OPC Bulletin • March/April 2016 • Page 12 OPC Bulletin • March/April 2016 • Page 13 (Continued From Page 13) Journalist reports. Ordaniza, 49, ● 23-year-old community ra- sion station, which he founded. had covered topics including il- dio host Nicolás García was mur- Meet the OPC Members: Q&A With Valerie Hopkins The Knight Center at the University licit gambling and the drug trade dered by gang members on March as a reporter for a radio station in 10 in the village of El Carrizal, By Trish Anderton of Texas at Austin quoted local me- Valerie Hopkins is a Kosovo-based journalist for the the town of Pitogo. The Philippines Ahuachapán, according to Report- dia as saying Dagdug had reported Balkan Investigative Reporting Network. She also free- ranks fourth on the CPJ’s Global ers Without Borders. Garcia alleg- receiving threats because of his lances regularly from across the Balkans for Foreign Impunity Index – a list of countries edly refused the gang’s demand that work. Policy and Al Jazeera. Previously, she worked as web where killers of journalists go un- go on their payroll and report to editor for the Organized Crime and Corruption Report- punished; the organization says at them about police activities in the ● Filipino radio journalist Elvis ing Project in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. As a least 44 murders have taken place area. He had been hosting a local 2013 winner of the OPC Foundation’s Jerry Flint In- Banggoy Ordaniza was shot dead since September 2005 “with com- radio program advising residents on ternship for International Business Reporting, she in- in his home on Feb. 16, Global plete impunity.” how to keep themselves safe. terned for Thomson Reuters in Belgrade, Serbia. Before launching her career as a journalist, Hopkins worked

for the Organization for Security and Co-Operation in Photo: Petrit Prenaj Erdoğan Steps Up Crackdown on Press Freedom in Turkey Europe Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina and for a Valerie Hopkins, right, on assignment for The New Yorker boutique election lawfirm in Washington, DC. at the Kosovo Assembly in February 2016 after opposition By Trish Anderton MPs released tear gas. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s simmer- Hometown: Washington, D.C. ing hostility toward the media has boiled over in recent Best journalism advice received: Be accurate. Your days, culminating in the seizure of the country’s largest Education: M.A. Politics, Columbia Journalism School; credibility is all you’ve got. newspaper and its second-largest news agency. B.A. International Relations (Post-Soviet Studies), Col- The government took over the Cihan news agency on lege of William and Mary. Hardest story: One of the first important stories I did March 7. The move came just days after police took con- several years ago was a feature in the Guardian about trol of the newspaper Zaman, forcing their way into its Languages: English, Bosnian/Serbian/Croatian, Rus- victims of wartime rape in Bosnia. I had been volun- offices while firing tear gas and using water cannons to sian, Spanish. teering with the Sarajevo Association of Concentration repel protesters. Camp survivors, but it was my first time writing about First job in journalism: Reporting on trials from the The seizure of Cihan is “another nail in the coffin of the effects of sexual violence so many years on. I was war crimes chamber of Bosnia and Herzegovina’s state journalism in Turkey,” journalist and free speech advo- conscious about trying to interview victims without re- Photo: Gokhan Tan/Getty Images Photo: Gokhan Tan/Getty court for the Balkan Investigative Reporting Network. cate Yavuz Baydar told The Guardian. The news agency, traumatizing them while also making sure I got accurate he added, “was known for independently monitoring Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan, left, has escalated his and complete information that would do justice to their crackdown on media with seizure of the country’s largest Countries reported from: Russia, Ukraine, Bosnia, each and every election in Turkey. The real effects of its newspaper and its second-largest news agency. Serbia, Croatia, Macedonia, Slovenia, Kosovo, Monte- stories. closure cannot yet be understood, neither by the local nor negro, Belgium, Albania, U.S.A. by the global public.” Dundar still faces charges of espionage and seeking Advice for journalists who want to work overseas: Both Zaman and Cihan belong to the Feza Gazete- to overthrow the government. Prosecutors have request- Year you joined the OPC: 2013. Read as many books as you can before you go, and try cilik Media Group, which is linked to influential cleric ed multiple life sentences for him and his colleague, Er- to learn the language – at least basic phrases – so that Fethullah Gülen, a former Erdogan ally now living in dem Gul. Why are you drawn to reporting on the Balkans? The people see that you’re serious about understanding their self-imposed exile in the United States. Gülen and Er- “Erdogan will do his best to put me away,” Dundar Balkans have been out of the global focus since the end country. That will open a lot of doors. of the brutal wars of the 1990s but the effects of those dogan had a falling out in 2013 over accusations of cor- told Deutsche Welle. wars remain and continue to be a primary component of Dream job: Staff writer atThe New Yorker. ruption at the highest levels of the national government. U.S. State Department spokesman John Kirby called Turkey has since labelled Gülen a terrorist, and Erdogan political, economic and cultural life here. As a journalist the Zaman takeover “the latest in a series of troubling Place you’re most eager to visit: The place I am most has accused him of plotting to overthrow the government interested in covering conflict, I hope the lessons I have judicial and law enforcement actions taken by the Turk- eager to visit is Sanaa’s Old City. I hope that once the – a charge the cleric denies. learned covering the lingering effects of wars will enrich ish government targeting media outlets and others criti- my reporting in the future. The religious and cultural bombing stops I will be able to visit the buildings which The latest media crackdown is about more than ham- cal of it.” Reporters Without Borders accused Erdogan mosaic of the Balkans has produced turbulent history are still standing. While I’m there I hope also to visit stringing a political foe, however, according to promi- of “moving from authoritarianism to all-out despotism.” but also powerful beautiful examples of solidarity and Socotra. nent newspaper editor Can Dundar. More than 15 journalists are currently jailed in Tur- coexistence. “Erdogan wants to control all of the opposition media key, according to The Guardian. That number grew on Most over-the-top assignment: Since October 2015, and is taking them over one by one,” Dundar told the Major challenge as a journalist: With the global fo- opposition parties in Kosovo have been setting off tear Deutsche Welle news agency. “Of course taking over a March 8, when an Istanbul court sentenced newspaper editor Barış İnce to 21 months in prison for “insulting” cus on Syria, Ukraine and elsewhere, it can sometimes gas during Assembly meetings. Covering parliamentary newspaper is a threat to all the others, it’s a message that be difficult to convince American editors that Balkan Erdogan. sessions was once normal but has now turned into a cir- they should stay in line.” stories are not only relevant but important. However, Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu claimed the crack- cus, with many journalists now coming prepared with Dundar himself was released from prison just days Kosovo and Bosnia especially are both models of post- gas masks, scarves and water bottles. before the crackdown, when the nation’s Constitutional down on the Feza Gazetecilik Media Group initiated conflict state-building that will be examined and emulat- Court ruled that his rights had been violated. The Cum- solely in the judicial system. “Our government has no ed in Syria, Ukraine and other countries emerging from Twitter handle: @Valeriein140 huriyet newspaper editor was arrested in November for bearing in this,” he said. “It is completely a legal process. war, and the United States and Western European pow- publishing video that purported to prove the administra- No one should have hesitation about press freedom in ers continue to play an outsize role in everyday govern- Want to add to the OPC’s collection of Q&As with tion was sending arms to Islamists in Syria. Turkey.” ing matters, about which our public should be informed. members? Please contact [email protected].

OPC Bulletin • March/April 2016 • Page 14 OPC Bulletin • March/April 2016 • Page 15 ments representing the victors and “beauty was corrupt. … It was New Books the rest of the world grew increas- possible to live here and love the HISTORY ingly indifferent to the fates of the calm eternally, but one would have N 1972, BEATE KLARSFELD Nazi war criminals.” to avoid knowing its center, avoid I flew to La Paz in search of for- The Nazi hunters, like their approaching it.” mer Nazi Klaus Barbie. Since Barbie prey, are passing away. As Nagorski In Bad News: Last Journalists in was being protected by the dictator- points out, that “is why their stories a Dictatorship [Doubleday January ship of Hugo Banzer, Klarsfeld had can and should be told now.” His 2016], Sundaram describes the no power to get the so- book captures their work journalism training program he ran called “Butcher of Lyon” in vivid and detailed prose. for nearly five years in Rwanda. For journalists, it provides One by one, promising students are arrested or extradited. So the added enjoyment of murdered or forced into hiding. One she used the powers she reading about other peo- is driven to the edge of madness; did have: bravery, theat- ple’s investigative tricks others give up and join the regime’s ricality, and a talent for and tools. The Nazi Hunt- propaganda machine; still others are PR. Klarsfeld chained ers stands as both a trib- imprisoned. Eventually, the program herself to a bench in front ute to, and a record, of a itself is shut down. of Barbie’s workplace, unique handful of people Now, having written the book, along with another woman who devoted their lives to Sundaram does not expect to return whose children Barbie had justice. to Rwanda. “I don’t think I’ll be able sent to their deaths. to go back until the regime changes,” As Andrew Nagorski’s The Nazi RWANDA he recently told NPR. Hunters [Simon and Schuster, May N 2013, THE NEW YORK This oppression, Sundaram points 2016] shows, Klarsfeld and her hus- I Times termed Paul Kagame “the out, does not exist in a vacuum; it is band Serge had already invested global elite’s favorite strongman.” supported by plentiful foreign aid. considerable effort in Barbie. They Kagame’s successes in Rwanda are That does not appear likely to change had lobbied prosecutors in Munich undeniable; since con- anytime soon. “I have to reopen his case, traced the former quering the capital and no problem with giving Nazi to Bolivia using a single pho- ending the horrific geno- money to a dictator,” one tograph, and compiled a thick file of cide of the early 1990s, he diplomat tells Sundaram. has turned Rwanda into an evidence proving his identity. The “I’m proud to be giving orderly and increasingly chaining stunt succeeded in drawing him money... we will prosperous nation. Under attention to Barbie. But it took the influence the government his rule, child mortality Klarsfelds many more years of work in the right direction.” has fallen by two-thirds Foreign Affairs calls before he was convicted in 1987. while economic growth Barbie is just one of many former Bad News “an unsettling has chugged along at sev- account of journalists un- Nazis tracked down by Nazi hunters en or eight percent. der fire.” The Guardian – some serving in official positions, But Kagame has praises it as “an important and others working on their own. As eliminated dissent and stifled free book that should shatter any lingering Nagorski writes, “These pursuers speech with similar efficiency. As faith people might hold in Kagame’s demonstrated tremendous determi- a result, writes Anjam Sundaram hideous regime.” nation and courage as they kept up about his years there, the nation’s — By Trish Anderton their fight even when the govern- WELCOME TO OUR NEW MEMBERS Jonathan Masters Kim Murphy Upcoming Events Deputy Editor Asst. Managing Editor, Foreign Council on Foreign Relations News Associate Resident Los Angeles Times Mixer at The Half King Active Non-Resident 6:00 p.m. April 21 Graciela Mochkofsky Director of Spanish-Language Jesse Pesta Masters Program Concentration Enterprise and Project Editor Annual Awards Dinner CUNY Graduate School The New York Times 6:00 p.m. April 28 of Journalism Active Resident Associate Resident Chris Tyree Book Night: Nazi Hunters Multimedia Journalist 6:00 p.m. May 18 ORBmedia, Inc. Active Non-Resident

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