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Jason Rezaian Says White House Lacks Clear Iran Policy Annual MONTHLY NEWSLETTER I April-May 2019 Annual Awards Dinner INSIDE Honors Courageous Journalism Annual Awards Dinner Photos 2-3, 5 EVENT RECAP Tiananmen Event Preview 4 by gabrielle paluch oreign correspondents, members of the Award Winners 6-7 Overseas Press Club and corporate sponsors OPC Backs Fgathered on April 18 at Cipriani 25 Broadway Press Freedom Day 8 in Manhattan for the annual gala to celebrate award winners and honor journalists who faced great personal People Column 9-11 peril in the field over the last year. Press Freedom “While this is journalism we admire, even more Update 12-13 important, it is work we need,” said keynote speaker New Books 14 Martin Baron, executive editor of The Washington MOORE STEVE Post, who highlighted the achievements of journalists Martin Baron, keynote speaker. Q&A: who uncovered crimes and disasters around the world Krithika Varagur 15 this year, even as the press was vilified back home. “If said. “The wonderful thing about Jamal was that he our government proudly exports language that vilifies kept going. He walked into that consulate, he contin- an independent press, we endanger them – and break ued to write his columns, he continued to do his work. faith with what we as a nation have long stood for. If And the simple truth about him is that he loved being we import that language from authoritarian regimes, we Visit the threaten what has kept us free.” a journalist.” OPC website at Washington Post columnist and associate editor OPC President Pancho Bernasconi bestowed the opcofamerica.org to David Ignatius lit a candle to honor the 53 journalists President’s Award on Maggie Steber, whose arresting, see photos and video killed in 2018, including his friend and former col- intimate photography work documenting face transplant clips from the Annual league Jamal Khashoggi, who was slain at the Saudi recipients for National Geographic demonstrated her Awards Dinner. Arabian consulate in Istanbul while working on a story. “preternatural ability to get into a story subject’s life in “Jamal knew when he walked into the Saudi con- a way that most cannot.” sulate in Istanbul that he was a marked man,” Ignatius Continued on Page 4 Jason Rezaian Says White House Lacks Clear Iran Policy something disastrous – but avoid- very different idea of what they EVENT RECAP able – could ignite between the think our Iran policy should be by chad bouchard two countries. – and what it is. That scares the “If you look at the Trump ad- crap out of me.” ason Rezaian, a Washing- ministration, there is not a singular Moderating the chat was Far- ton Post reporter who spent policy on Iran,” he said. “I think if naz Fassihi, senior writer at The almost two years in Tehran’s J you were to take a three-man poll Wall Street Journal. She is an Evin prison, told attendees at an of President Trump, his national Iranian-American journalist who OPC book night that US-Iran rela- security advisor, and his Secretary grew up in Tehran and Portland, tions are “in a bad spot,” and that Jason Rezaian, left, of State, each one would have a Continued on Page 8 there is an increasing likelihood and Farnaz Fassihi 1 1 OPC Annual Awards Dinner Lester Holt, Awards presenter. Sarah Lubman, chair of the dinner committee. Sudarsan Raghavan. Left to right: Minky Worden, Gordon Crovitz and Melissa Ng. OPC President Pancho Bernasconi. PHOTOS: STEVE MOORE STEVE PHOTOS: Michael Serrill, left, and Trudy Rubin. David Ignatius. Pancho Bernasconi, left, and OPC Executive Director Patricia Kranz. David Andelman, left, and Han Tjan. David Ignatius lights the Candle of Remembrance. David Rohde. April-May 2019 April-May 2019 2 3 ‘Awards Dinner’ on their behalf. “They Continued From Page 1 are both fathers to young daughters, from “I feel very deeply all my pictures belong to whom they have been the people in them; they don’t belong to me,“ separated for too long,” Steber said. he said, “we miss them Awards presenter Lester Holt, anchor for both dearly.” NBC Nightly News and Dateline NBC, pre- The Cornelius Ryan sented the awards. Three awards were given Award for the best non- for coverage of the war in Yemen, including a fiction book on inter- New York Times Magazine piece chronicling national affairs went to the journey of a precision missile from creation Rania Abouzeid for her in Tucson, Arizona, to its deployment in Yemen searing account of the on a group of villagers planning to dig a well. lives of Syrians from Additional regions and conflicts represented all sides caught up in included the aftermath of the war in Syria, Bronwyn Starr, left, Left to right: a catastrophic war, atrocities committed against the Rohingya in and Brian Byrd. Mike Chase, Patrick Chappatte, and Leah Spiro. “No Turning Back,” Myanmar, Venezuela, and Gaza. The New York published by W.W. Times hauled in six awards, while two-time Maggie Steber, left, receives the President’s Award Norton & Company. In from Pancho Bernasconi. award winners included VICE News Tonight her acceptance speech, on HBO, The Washington Post, The Associated lustrating the kinds of freedom that democracy Abouzeid explained that what motivated her to Press and Reuters. The Pulitzer Center on Cri- needs and autocracy fears: A scene inside a Saudi write the book was the U.N.’s announcement that sis Reporting supported three of the winning Arabian classroom “that highlighted the chang- they had decided to stop counting the dead in awards. ing face of that country and the dangers inherent Syria’s war. “Nobody is voiceless,” she said, “we The prestigious Hal Boyle Award for best in one particular profession -journalism.” just need to listen.” newspaper or news service reporting from All three awards in photography went to For their in-depth podcast series, “Caliphate,” abroad was won by Sudarsan Raghavan for his women. Carolyn Van Houten of The Washington journalists at The New York Times received the Yemen coverage in The Washington Post. “In Post won the Robert Capa Gold Medal Award Lowell Thomas Award. “We had a vision of ex- an era where great reporting is often associated for her months of documenting migrant caravans plaining the radicalization process step by step,” with mobilizing massive teams,” the judges during their journeys through Central America. awardee Rukmini Callimachi said, as she ex- said, “sometimes all it takes to deliver outstand- Nariman El-Mofty won the Olivier Rebbot Left to right: plained what processes were behind the creation ing work is one talented reporter with in-depth Award for her photos of Yemenis affected by Maggie Steber, Pancho Bernasconi and Nina Berman. Doug Jehl, left, and Paula Dwyer. of the podcast, including a shocking confession knowledge of the subject and courage to go dig- war. And for her quiet, intimate glimpse into from a source, who admitted to having killed ging in the field.” the lives of elderly women living in Japanese someone at the direction of ISIS. Over months Reuters journalists Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe prisons, Shiho Fukada won the award for feature of reporting, Callimachi and her colleagues were Oo were honored with the Bob Considine Award photography for work published in Bloomberg able to reveal in detail how ISIS recruits and for their investigation into a massacre in the Businessweek. Fukada spoke about what her functions, frequently encountering such difficult Myanmar village of Inn Din, the work for which work said about the role of women in Japanese admissions. “We thank our editors for giving us they were jailed. “Their journalistic mission led society. “They said going to prison was the first the time to make this uncomfortable podcast.” to an outstanding series of articles exposing and time they felt they had been paid attention to,” Patrick Chappatte, cartoonist for The New explaining the atrocities against the Rohingya,” she said. “Just because they had a family didn’t York Times, won the award for best cartoon the judges wrote. Unable to attend in person, mean these women had a home.” v on international affairs. Among the slides he their colleague Simon Lewis expressed gratitude displayed was a work judges singled out for il- China Watchers to Examine Tiananmen After 30 Years recaps of five panels covering a host of experts to discuss what les- TIME; Minky Worden, an execu- EVENT PREVIEW: MAY 9 range of angles to observe the 30th sons and portents anaylists might tive with Human Rights Watch; anniversary of the deadly Tianan- glean from the past about China’s and Sheryl WuDunn, former New eservations are al- men Square crackdown in 1989. present and future direction. York Times Beijing correspondent ready filled to capacity for The event will be streamed live, Moderators will be Rebecca and winner of multiple awards. Left to right: Laura King, Betsy Kraft, a day-long event on May R and members can follow the dis- Blumenstein, deputy managing The event is co-sponsored by Left to right: Jon Sawyer, Patricia Kranz, Kem Sawyer. Scott Kraft and Tracy Wilkinson. 9, titled Tiananmen Square Thirty cission on Twitter via #OPC1989 editor of The New York Times; the U.S.-Asia Law Institute at Years Later: Is the Past a Portent and #Tiananamen30. William J. Holstein, former China New York University, the Center of an Even More Authoritarian At press time, organizers were correspondent and past presi- for U.S.-China Relations at the Future? Stay tuned for videos busy preparing for a day of panels dent of the OPC; Susan Jakes of Asia Society/ChinaFile, and the on the OPC’s YouTube channel with survivors of the event, cor- ChinaFile at The Asia Society, Weatherhead East Asian Institute and watch the website for written respondents who covered it, and a who spent 10 years in Beijing for at Columbia University.
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