THE MONTHLY NEWSLETTER OF THE OVERSEAS PRESS CLUB OF AMERICA, NEW YORK, NY • September 2016 New President Pledges to Keep Up Club Momentum By Chad Bouchard and CEO of International House, During the Annual Meeting on who is second vice president; and Aug. 9, the OPC announced results Pancho Bernasconi, vice president/ of this year’s election for Board of news of Getty Images, the club’s Governors, which included officers, third vice president. Abigail Pesta, nine Active board members and a freelance journalist, takes over three Associate board members. as the club’s new treasurer, and Outgoing President Marcus Liam Stack, breaking news reporter Mabry praised the club’s strong for , serves as membership, outreach, programs and secretary. Chad Bouchard Nine Active members were Deidre Depke, left, receives the ceremonial gavel leadership amid “massive change from outgoing OPC President Marcus Mabry. and evolution” in the industry. elected to the board, including “We’re on strong footing. We’ve Rukmini Callimachi, foreign freelance journalist; and Lara come a long way, and we’ve got a lot correspondent for The New York Setrakian co-founder and CEO of more work to do,” Mabry said. Times; Christopher Dickey, foreign News Deeply. Newly elected president Deidre editor for ; Charles The club also elected three As- Depke, New York bureau chief Graeber, freelance journalist; sociate board members: Bill Col- for Marketplace, said she hoped Douglas Jehl, foreign editor for lins, director of public and business to build on the club’s success, ; Scott Kraft, affairs for Ford Motor Company; with aggressive moves into the deputy managing editor for the Los Emma Daly, communications direc- digital arena as well as expanding Angeles Times; Rachael Morehouse, tor for Human Rights Watch; and membership and programming. associate producer at 60 Minutes; Sarah Lubman, partner with Bruns- She pledged to focus on the club’s Michael Oreskes, senior vice wick Group. Board members still support for colleagues working president of news and editorial serving out their terms are listed in in the field under increasingly director for NPR; Roxana Saberi, the masthead on page 2. dangerous conditions, and to “work to raise our profile here and abroad Panel to Feature Women Photojournalists to help protect and defend those EVENT PREVIEW: Sept. 7 Glenna Gordon, a documentary pho- correspondents.” tographer whose work has appeared Other elected officers are The OPC and Columbia Journal- in many high-profile media outlets; Deborah Amos, correspondent ism School co-sponsored a panel Kirsten Luce, who worked as a staff for NPR, who serves as first vice with four female photojournalists photographer at a newspaper on the president; Calvin Sims, president who are independently pursuing US/Mexico border before moving to in-depth documentary work. The New York where she became a regu- Inside. . . group discussed how to develop and lar contributor to The New York Times; Preview: Sports Panel...... 2 sustain longterm projects while jug- and Adriana Zehbrauskas, a Brazilian Preview: UN Today Panel...... 2 gling assignments. photojournalist based in Mexico. OPC Honors Bill Holstein...... 3 Co-moderators were Alice Ga- For a peek at Zehbrauskas’s doc- briner, international photo editor, umentary project in rural Mexico, OPC Website Tour...... 3 TIME magazine, and Nina Berman, some of which will be on display at People Column...... 7-8 photographer and associate profes- the Columbia Graduate School of WNYC’s OPC Archives ...... 9 sor at the Columbia Graduate School Journalism this fall, see the photo of Journalism. spread on pages 4 and 5. Press Freedom Update...... 10 Panelists included Malin Feze- Watch the OPC website for a Q&A: Deidre Depke...... 11 hai, an Eritrean/Swedish New York- recap and video of this discussion. New Books...... 12 based photographer and filmmaker; On : #CrossingBordersOPC Sports Journalists to Discuss Rio, Free Expression Group to Release Scandals and the 2016 Olympics Report on China at OPC Panel EVENT PREVIEW: Sept. 14 EVENT PREVIEW: Sept. 22 A new report by PEN America, a free expression organization, documents how the government of President Xi Jinping continues to escalate pressures against Western correspondents and their organizations operating in China. The report also examines how specific news outlets are responding to such pressure. PEN America will release the report on Thursday, Sept. 22, at Club Quarters, 40 West 45th Street, in Manhattan. The Overseas Press Club is co-sponsoring the event. Panelists will include Edward Wong, the Beijing

Mario Tama/Getty Images Mario Tama/Getty bureau chief for The New York Times; and Barbara Demick, formerly of the in Beijing, With the close of the 2016 Olympics, the OPC brings now at the Council on Foreign Relations. you a panel discussion with Josh Fine, a producer at Moderating will be Minky Worden, of Human Rights Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel at HBO; Sean Gregory, Watch, who also serves on the board of the OPC. The a senior writer at TIME magazine who covers sports; report will be introduced by Suzanne Nossel, executive Lindsay Krasnoff, OPC member and writer and author of director of PEN America. A reception will begin at 6:00 The Making of Les Bleus: Sport in France, 1958-2010; p.m., followed by the program at 6:30. p.m. and Grant Wahl, a senior writer for Sports Illustrated and a correspondent for FOX Sports. OPC MIXER MOVES TO MIDTOWN Co-moderating the discussion will be Jacqueline On Sept. 15, the OPC’s monthly mixer will be Albert-Simon, veteran OPC member and board member, held at the Irish-themed eatery Tír na Nóg near and Lindsay Krasnoff. Inside stories, arguments and Times Square, 315 W 39th St. provocation are expected. We’ll gather from 6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. OPC The program will be held from 6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. members and guests will have a private bar and at Club Quarters, with cash refreshments before and drink specials for the first hour. after the program. On Twitter: #OPCSportsPanel. As always, no RSVP is needed.

OVERSEAS PRESS CLUB OF AMERICA • BOARD OF GOVERNORS PRESIDENT ACTIVE BOARD Charles Graeber Robert Nickelsberg ASSOCIATE BOARD PAST PRESIDENTS Deidre Depke Hannah Allam Freelance Journalist Freelance ­MEMBERS EX-OFFICIO New York Bureau Chief Foreign Affairs and Author Photojournalist Marcus Mabry Marketplace Correspondent Bill Collins Michael Serrill Michael Oreskes Director, Public & McClatchy Steve Herman David A. Andelman FIRST VICE PRESIDENT Newspapers Senior Vice President Business Affairs John Corporon Deborah Amos Senior Diplomatic of News / Ford Motor Company Allan Dodds Frank Correspondent Correspondent Molly Bingham Editorial Director Alexis Gelber NPR President & CEO Voice of America NPR Emma Daly William J. Holstein OrbMedia, Inc. Communications Marshall Loeb SECOND VICE PRESIDENT Douglas Jehl Mary Rajkumar Director Larry Martz Calvin Sims Rukmini Callimachi Foreign Editor International Enterprise Human Rights Watch Roy Rowan President and CEO Foreign The Washington Post Editor Larry Smith International House Correspondent The Sarah Lubman Richard B. Stolley Partner The New York Times Anjali Kamat THIRD VICE PRESIDENT Roxana Saberi Brunswick Group EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Pancho Bernasconi Correspondent Freelance Journalist Patricia Kranz Anupreeta Das Vice President/News Fault Lines Daniel Sieberg Reporter Getty Images English Lara Setrakian Global Head OFFICE MANAGER Wall Street Journal Co-Founder & CEO of Media Outreach Boots R. Duque TREASURER Scott Kraft News Deeply Google Chris Dickey Abigail Pesta Deputy Managing Editor EDITOR Foreign Editor Freelance Journalist Los Angeles Times Martin Smith Minky Worden Chad Bouchard The Daily Beast, President Director of Global Paris Rain Media Initiatives OPC SECRETARY Rachael Morehouse Liam Stack Human Rights Watch ISSN-0738-7202 Breaking News Scott Gilmore Associate Producer Vivienne Walt ­Copyright © 2015 Reporter International Columnist CBS News Correspondent Over­seas Press Club The New York Times Maclean’s Magazine 60 Minutes TIME and FORTUNE of America 40 West 45 Street, New York, NY 10036 USA • Phone: (212) 626-9220 • Fax: (212) 626-9210 • Website: opcofamerica.org OPC Bulletin • September 2016 • Page 2 Holstein launched his career in international jour- OPC Honors Bill Holstein nalism in Hong Kong in 1979 working as United Press International correspondent. He won an OPC award for coverage of modernization in China and served as Beijing bureau chief until his return to the U.S. in 1982. Holstein then spent 11 years with BusinessWeek overseeing inter- national coverage, and later worked at U.S. News & World Report and and Business 2.0. He also has written for For- tune and The New York Times. Panel to Discuss UN’s Role Today EVENT PREVIEW: Oct. 4 For the first time in history, in January of 2017 there

Chad Bouchard will be newly-elected heads of both the US and the UN Bill Holstein, left, displays his OPC proclamation with assuming office in the same month. Will having a new Marcus Mabry. UN secretary-general and a new US president make a By Chad Bouchard difference in 2017? How will these two newly elected At the OPC’s Annual Meeting on Tuesday, Aug. 9, leaders impact UN diplomacy and the world body’s the Board of Governors surprised veteran club member multifaceted actions around the globe. and former OPC President William J. Holstein with an Panel members will discuss current international official proclamation in appreciation of his years of ser- conflicts, challenges and crises, including peacekeeping, vice as chairman of the OPC’s Annual Awards Dinner human rights, and humanitarian efforts around the world, Committee. as well as the prospects for the UN in the year ahead. Outgoing OPC President Marcus Mabry read the The panel will be moderated by OPC member proclamation as one of the last acts of his 2-year term. The document, signed by members of the board, recognized Linda Fasulo, author of An Insider’s Guide to the UN, Holstein’s service as chairman “with wit and erudition for and veteran independent correspondent for NPR News 10 successive years.” at the UN. Panelists include Abdelkader Abbadi, UN The proclamation also lauded Holstein’s knowledge correspondent and author of From the Garden to the of the business world, which helped him persuade corpo- Glass House: A Undiplomatic Look at the United rations to buy tables at Annual Awards Dinners, and the Nations, and former director of the UN’s Department document expressed the club’s “deepest gratitude” for his of Political Affairs; Richard Roth, CNN’s veteran UN “vital and magnanimous service.” Correspondent; Stephen Schlesinger, historian and Holstein served as OPC president from 1994 to 1996. author of Act of Creation: The Founding of The United He has been active as an awards judge and organizer of Nations; and Ian Williams, UN correspondent for The OPC programs. He also serves as president of the OPC Nation and author of United Nations for Beginners. Foundation. On Twitter, follow: #UNPanelOPC. Website Upgrade Offers New Features for Members By Chad Bouchard The home page photo carousel Members who have visited the displays higher resolution photos OPC website since April this year than the old site, and the images also have noticed some big changes. The act as hyperlinks to articles and event site has been updated to a more con- listings – a nice feature for mobile temporary design, with new features users. You can also play video links, to display images and make it more when available, from the carousel mobile friendly. without leaving the home page. Click on the image above to open a Please take a moment to watch Several features are available for video tour of the new website. our new introductory tour video members only. To log in, open the Member Dashboard to see updates to highlight new features and help login button on the top of the left on grants, internships or new job op- members to navigate the new site. navigation menu. Enter your user- portunities. We have also collected The home page now has an ex- name (first and last name) and your training videos from past OPC pro- pandable navigation menu on the far password. If you don’t remember grams, tip sheets and other resourc- left side, where you’ll find many of your password, get in touch with es for convenience. There is also a the menu items that were once on [email protected]. member directory and an internal the top of the page. Once logged in, you can go to the (Continued on Page 9)

OPC Bulletin • September 2016 • Page 3 Family Matters is a documentary photo project that Adriana Zehbrauskas launched while working in Mexico with the families of 43 students from a rural teacher’s college who were kidnapped in 2014. “I noticed that none of them had family photos – all they had were snapshots taken on their cell phones that were lost or accidentally deleted,” she writes. “It struck me that these people were not just denied a fu- ture with their loved ones, but they were also denied a past – with the lost photos, their memories would also eventually vanish. And who are we, without our memories?” Zehbrauskas took photos and printed them on the spot for her subjects. Her trip was supported by a Getty Images Instagram Grant. Some of these images and other examples of Zehbrauskas’s work will be dis- Rosalinda poses with her daughter Samantha. This played at Columbia School of Journalism this fall. was the first time they were ever photographed.

Children of one of the missing students, Adan Abrajan de la Cruz, hold signs about their father in front of an altar Xalpa, 19, is one of the survivors of the Sept. 26, 2014 at the family’s house in Tixtla, Mexico. mass kidnapping in Iguala, Mexico.

A woman mourns during a prayer vigil for Alexander Angel, son of Adan Abrajan de la Cruz, reaches for a Mora Venancio, whose burnt remains were found in a balloon after a party to celebrate his eighth birthday. river near Iguala. He was the first of the missing stu- The celebration marked Angel’s first birthday without dents to be officially identified. his father present.

OPC Bulletin • September 2016 • Page 4 Seven months after the student kidnappings, little has Jakilina Virguen Balthazar, grandmother of Jorge Luis come to light. Families are still waiting for the return and Dorian Gonzalez Parral, both among the 43 miss- of their loved ones. ing, in her home in Xalpatlahuac, Mexico.

The sister of Adan Abrajan de la Cruz, Isabel, poses A child, Kady, plays near a missing person sign out- with her husband Ricardo and their son in front of a side her home. Kady’s uncle, Alexander Mora Venan- memorial altar. cio, was one of the the abducted students. Dario Lopez-Mills

Photos and caption information: Adriana Zehbrauskas Oscar Ortiz Serafin holds the picture of his son, Cut- berto Ortiz Ramos, in a classroom turned dormitory On Instagram and Twitter: for families of the missing students. @adrianazehbrauskas

OPC Bulletin • September 2016 • Page 5 PEOPLE... By Trish Anderton

OPC SCHOLARS Jerry Flint Scholarship for Interna- You can add the Gerald Loeb Alexander Saeedy, winner of tional Business Reporting in 2011, Award to the clutch of prizes won the 2015 Fritz Beebe Fellowship, is attended the 21st International by the Associated Press for “Sea- back in Brussels where he was an AIDS Conference in Durban, South food from Slaves.” The team of OPC Foundation fellow in the Re- Africa in July. She currently han- Margie Mason, Martha Mendoza, uters bureau last summer. He is now dles advocacy, strategy and com- Robin McDowell and Esther Htu- a policy reporter with DeHavilland munications for UNICEF’s HIV san also claimed a Pulitzer Prize and covering committees inside the Par- program division. the OPC’s Hal Boyle and Malcolm liament and European Council and Forbes Awards earlier this year for writing a daily press briefing. 2009 Stan Swinton Scholarship exposing the suffering of workers winner Michael Miller has been held captive by the Southeast Asian 2015 Irene Corbally Kuhn Schol- named to the Local Enterprise team seafood industry. The Loeb Awards, which are given each year by the arship winner James Reddick has at The Washington Post. Miller has UCLA Anderson School of Manage- become editor-in-chief of the Phnom spent 18 months on the Morning ment, recognize stories that “inform Penh-based Khmer Times. Reddick Mix blog, where he “established and protect the private investor and started at the paper himself as one of the Post’s most the general public.” several months ago able, accomplished and hard-work- after finishing his ing reporters,” editors wrote in an OPC member Lynsey Addario j-school Masters at announcement of his new position. has won the top Literary Award from UC Berkeley. He Previously, Miller was a senior writ- the Wisconsin Library Association has also lived and er at the Miami New Times. for her 2015 book It’s What I Do: A reported in . Photographer’s Life of Love and War. Reddick Brad Wong, who won the 2002 The awards honor Wisconsin authors. Congratulations to 2012 Walter David R. Schweisberg Memorial Addario’s photos are also part of the & Betsy Cronkite Scholar Lauren Scholarship, helped produce a proj- National Geographic Women of Vi- Rosenfeld, who has been nomi- ect on stateless Hmong refugees in sion traveling exhibit, along with the nated for two News and Documen- the United States for Equal Voice, work of 2008 Olivier Rebbot Award tary Emmy Awards for her work as an online publication of the Mar- winner Stephanie Sinclair. producer on Al Jazeera America’s guerite Casey Foundation. The refu- Forgotten Youth: Inside America’s gees came here as children but lost Ingrid Ciprian-Matthews, an Prisons. The Faultlines film, which their green cards due to committing OPC member and CBS News se- explores what young inmates face crimes. Unlikely to be deported be- nior vice president of news admin- when they’re placed in adult prisons cause the U.S. and Laos don’t have a istration, has received the National – including alleged physical and sex- repatriation agreement, they’re now Association of Hispanic Journalists ual abuse – received a bronze medal stuck in limbo. Wong is a news edi- Presidential Award of Impact. “She in the Investigative Report category tor at Equal Voice. is a strong example of how tenacity, at the New York Film Festival. commitment and truth seeking can WINNERS succeed,” wrote NAHJ President Congratulations to 2011 Theo OPC member Christiane Aman- Mekhalo Medina. Ciprian-Matthews Wilson Scholarship winner Diksha pour will receive the Burton Benja- has previously served as foreign edi- Madhok for being named a runner- min Memorial Award in November tor, senior broadcast producer for the up in the Outstanding Business for “extraordinary and sustained “CBS Evening News,” and senior Story category in the annual awards achievement in the cause of press producer for foreign coverage. presented by the South Asian Jour- freedom.” The CNN correspondent nalists Association (SAJA). Diksha has “consistently used her own jour- UPDATES is the India editor at Quartz where nalism and worked behind the scenes Correction: In the July-August she covers gender, popular culture to defend the rights of journalists and Bulletin, we reported that OPC gov- and business. Before coming to uphold press freedom all over the ernor Steven Herman has a new Quartz, she worked for Reuters in world,” said Sandra Mims Rowe, posting as VOA’s Senior Diplomatic . chairman of the Committee to Pro- Correspondent. While this is true, we tect Journalists, which gives out the incorrectly listed his new station as annual award. the United Nations in New York. In Natalie Bailey, who won the

OPC Bulletin • September 2016 • Page 6 fact, Herman will be working from reaus for Knight Ridder. the company may cut back on its the State Department in Washington. commitment to news. BuzzFeed re- New York Times publisher Arthur portedly fell significantly short of its NEW YORK: OPC Governor Sulzberger is refuting claims that revenue goals last year and slashed Rukmini Callimachi was recently the newspaper is considering “end- its targets for this year. interviewed in Wired Magazine. Se- ing the print edition of its Sunday nior editor Caitlin Roper describes magazine, folding the Metro section, WASHINGTON, DC: OPC Callimachi’s use of social media making the weekly book review sec- member Kimberly Adams wound to inform her reporting on ISIS tion online-only and leasing out up in the news herself when she and calls her “arguably the best re- space in its Midtown headquarters.” and a fellow journalist administered porter on the most important­ beat Sulzberger addressed the assertions, CPR to a bystander at a conference. in the world.” Callimachi says she which came in a New York Post Adams was at the uses Twitter and the encrypted app story, in a memo to staff. He added, joint convention of Telegram to better understand the however, that the Times is adapting the National As- group. While she’s received push- and that “this may result in changes sociation of Black back from readers and editors who in the size and shape of our opera- Journalists and Na- feel she is giving ISIS a voice, she tion, changes that we are committed tional Association argues that “my reporting doesn’t to keeping you informed about.” At of Hispanic Journal- deny that they’re perpetrating least 49 journalists accepted buyout ists when the man Adams crimes against humanity, but I think offers from the paper in July. collapsed. She and Florida-based that our job as journalists is to un- photojournalist Brandon Bryant derstand and to bring gray where Now that CEO Roger Ailes has performed CPR until paramedics there is only black and white. Be- departed under a cloud of sexual arrived. According to local WTOP cause there’s always gray.” harassment allegations, are chang- News, doctors told Bryant that he es ahead at ? Anousha and Adams had saved the man’s life. OPC member Norman Pearls- Sakoui of Bloomberg notes that the tine is now vice chairman at Time network’s aging audience will likely Relatives of Marie Colvin have Inc., focusing on “international push it to diversify its programming filed suit against the government of growth opportunities for the com- to broaden its base. Sarah Ellison at , claiming the late Sunday Times pany’s brands and content.” He Vanity Fair speculates that the net- of London correspondent was delib- previously served as Time’s execu- work will moderate its tone, refo- erately targeted for death in Febru- tive vice president and chief content cusing around high-profile anchor ary 2012 because of her reporting. officer, after a stint as chief content and paring away more The civil lawsuit claims Syrian of- officer at Bloomberg L.P. Pearlstine ideologically-driven stars like Bill ficials were able to pinpoint Colvin’s previously served nearly 40 years as O’Reilly. location through a combination of a reporter and editor, including a de- electronic tracking and intelligence cade as editor-in-chief at Time Inc. Reported.ly, the social media from an informant. The military then news company headed by former shelled the site, killing Colvin and OPC member and OPC Foun- NPR staffer Andy Carvin, shut down French photographer Remi Ochlik. dation Vice President John Dan- operations on Aug. 31 after financial The wrongful-death lawsuit seeks iszewski, who has led international backer First Look Media withdrew punitive and compensatory dam- coverage at the Associated Press its support. The project was an effort ages. Colvin spent 26 years cover- for more than a decade, is the AP’s to create a brand around the style of ing wars around the world and was new editor at large for standards. breaking-news curation and investi- known for her bravery. Daniszewski has logged more than gation Carvin pioneered on Twitter 20 years as a reporter and editor in during the . Carvin said ATLANTA: CNN has launched 70-plus countries in Europe, Africa the team will now “explore our op- a new division devoted to aerial and the . He became the tions” for re-launching independent- drones. CNN AIR, as it’s called, AP’s international editor in 2006. ly or at another news organization. has already generated footage for numerous stories, including cover- The top editor at the AP, Kath- BuzzFeed has split into two de- age of the Flint lead crisis and the leen Carroll, will retire at the end partments – BuzzFeed News and the Republican national convention. of the year. Carroll has been the newly-formed BuzzFeed Entertain- “We were able to show perspective, news agency’s executive editor for ment Group – as it looks to solidify breadth and scope,” CNN’s Greg 14 years and previously was chief its dominance in digital video. The of Washington and international bu- move has sparked speculation that (Continued on Page 8)

OPC Bulletin • September 2016 • Page 7 (Continued From Page 7) National Geographic Channel. became New Delhi bureau chief in 1969 before shifting to coverage of Agvent told Poynter.org. “We’re LONDON: Nearly 270 staffers the conflicts in Vietnam and Cambo- able to use the drone to capture at The Guardian, including 70 in dia. In 1979 he recounted the star- things that you simply cannot cap- the newsroom, have accepted buy- vation and hard labor faced by his ture from a helicopter, which would outs as the paper struggles to stem a Cambodian reporting partner, Dith create that much more noise and cost tide of red ink. The company aims to Pran, under Pol Pot. The story was you that much more money.” slash costs by 20 percent over three turned into a movie, and Schanberg years, according to , while helped Dith get a job as a Times pho- ROCHESTER, NH: The James shifting to a membership model to tographer. Schanberg won a Pulit- W. Foley Freedom Run honors the encourage readers to pay for the zer, two OPC Awards and numerous legacy of freelancer James Foley, news. The paper’s parent company, other prizes. who was murdered by ISIS in 2014. Guardian Media Group, announced Organizers of the Oct. 15 event are record losses of $264 million in late Michael Elliott, an international seeking journalists to run on the July. reporter, editor and anti-poverty cam- Journalists for Freedom team – ei- paigner, died July 14 in Washington, ther in Rochester or by doing a vir- NEW DELHI: Bobby Ghosh, DC at age 65. Elliott held top edito- tual run wherever you are. For more who won an OPC Best Commen- rial positions at TIME International, information, go to www.FoleyRun. tary citation early this year, is the Newsweek International and The org. Foley was working as a free- new editor-in-chief of the Hindustan Economist. He spent two years in lance correspondent when he was Times. He was previously a senior Hong Kong and witnessed the 2004 kidnapped in northwestern Syria in editor at Quartz and has been a regu- South Asian tsunami from his ho- November 2012. lar commentator on CNN. tel window in Phuket. His interview with U2 singer Bono put the rock star LOS ANGELES: Breitbart on the map as a humanitarian. Elliott PEOPLE REMEMBERED News, which caters to the racist, left journalism in 2011 to become French photographer Marc Ri- nationalist “alt-right,” is weighing president and CEO of ONE, Bono’s boud died in Paris on Aug. 30. A a European expansion after the U.S. global anti-poverty organization. protege of pioneering candid pho- presidential election. France, Ger- tographer Henri Cartier-Bresson, many and Brussels are possibilities, Foreign correspondent and Riboud roamed the world for de- Breitbart editor-in-chief Alexander freedom-of-information advocate Marlow told Politico. “Throughout cades, shooting trouble spots but James S. Keat died in Towson, Europe right now we’re seeing this almost always focusing on ordinary Maryland on July 6 at the age of populism and nationalism make a people rather than the powerful. His 86. Keat joined The Baltimore Sun comeback,” he added. Breitbart cur- iconic images include one of a labor- in the 1950s and spent several years rently has a London office. er painting the Eiffel Tower, framed dividing his time between reporting by iron beams, and one of a young from India and covering the Ameri- TORONTO: Titanic and Ava- woman presenting a flower to rifle- can civil rights movement. He later tar director James Cameron is on wielding National Guard members became foreign editor and then as- board with OPC member Simcha at a Vietnam War protest. “He was sistant managing editor of the Sun. Jacobovici’s latest project, Search comfortable with any subject,” Jean- He was known for his passionate for Atlantis. Principal photography François Leroy, founder of the Visa support of government transparency. is already under- pour l’Image photojournalism festi- way on the docu- val, told Time magazine, “and even Longtime L.A. Times foreign mentary about ef- 50 years later, his work has not aged correspondent Stanley Meisler, forts to locate the one bit.” 85, died on June 26 in Washing- famed “lost city.” ton, DC. Over his decades with the The production is Former New York Times report- Times, Meisler reported from points a joint project of er Sydney H. Schanberg, whose around the globe including Nairobi, Discovery Canada, Jacobovici coverage of the Cambodian geno- Barcelona, Paris, Mexico City, To- National Geographic Channel and cide inspired the movie The Killing ronto and the United Nations. A self- Toronto’s Associated Producers. Fields, died on July 9 at age 82 in taught expert on art, he wrote a book The two-hour documentary spe- Poughkeepsie, NY. Schanberg start- about painters in Paris in the 1920s, cial, a follow-up to 2011’s Finding ed at the Times as a copy boy and as well as volumes on the United Atlantis, will air this winter on the remained for a quarter-century. He Nations and the Peace Corps.

OPC Bulletin • September 2016 • Page 8 Audio of OPC Programs Preserved Online at WNYC By Chad Bouchard WNYC, one of the country’s largest public radio stations, has dug up a trove of recorded OPC programs that were broadcast on the station from 1940 to the mid-1970s. The audio archives were recently curated into an online collection that includes speeches, awards programs and forums related to international news. In a 1964 program, photojournalist Dickey Chapelle, who at the time served as a member of the OPC Board of Governors, blasts the U.S. government for blocking journalists trying to cover Cuba. Her career spanned key events of the 20th century, including the 1956 Hungarian

uprising, the Cuban revolution, the Korean War and the Thomas J. O’Halloran via Wikimedia Vietnam War. But in the program, she describes threats Richard Nixon, left, and Nikita Khrushchev square off at faced while working on a story about constitutional is- the so-called “Kitchen Debate” in Moscow in 1959. sues surrounding Freedom fighters in Miami. bloc countries such as Poland to foster resistance against “I’ve had my house raided without a warrant, I’ve been the Communists, and applauded foreign correspondents ambushed at sea, I’ve been blown up at sea,” she said. “And for reporting “not what the Communists tell them, but if nobody minds, I’d like to go back to Vietnam.” what they see and hear on their own.” Just one year after the program in November 1965, Other interviews in the archive include Whitney Chapelle was killed by a landmine while following Young, civil rights leader and executive director of the troops in Vietnam. National Urban League, William F. Buckley Jr., a con- The archive includes many other noteworthy pro- servative figure who was running in the New York may- grams, including a 1966 interview with Richard Nixon, who talks, two years before his second presidential cam- oral election at the time, and Josephine Baker, performer paign, about Vietnam policy while throwing barbs at his and pop icon. Democratic opponents. This web archive was completed with help from the In a 1957 interview, then-Senator of Massachusetts National Endowment for the Humanities and produced John F. Kennedy talks with the OPC soon after winning by WNYC. You can listen to several of these interviews the Pulitzer Prize in Biography for Profiles in Courage, on embedded audio players on the OPC website. Many a book he co-wrote with his adviser Ted Sorensen. Dur- more featured episodes of this archive can be found on ing the program he calls for stronger support for Soviet the WNYC website.

(‘OPC Website’ Continued From Page 3) relevant OPC programs and content, For a short video tour of Global messaging system that allows mem- a country overview and a comment Parachute on our YouTube channel, bers to contact each other directly system called Disqus that adds inter- click here. through the site while keeping email active functions like subscriptions, addresses private. profiles and nested conversations. OPC WEBSITE FEATURES Active OPC members automati- Using some of the features requires a FOR MEMBERS cally have access to Global Parachute, quick email registration with Disqus. ●● Member Dashboard with a set of information and networking For more involved discussion resources and updates. tools for correspondents. Associate and posting, there is also a Global ●● Private member-to-member members can be given access with Parachute forum. Members can start messaging. special permission. Global Parachute their own topics such as hotel recom- ●● Member Directory. used to be a standalone site, but it has mendations, security updates and lo- been incorporated into the new OPC cal contacts. The forum is secure and ●● Easy dues payment and automatic annual payment site to preserve the privacy of conver- can’t be viewed by non-members. option. sations within the community. There is also a separate Global A Global Parachute Dashboard Parachute directory so users can ●● Global Parachute (for Active members or by spe- page includes a short introduction see at a glance who has access to cial permission) - quick-ref- and a navigation map, so you can Global Parachute and contact them erence country info, com- select a country you’re interested in. directly via the site’s internal mes- ment threads and forums. The country pages include links to sage system.

OPC Bulletin • September 2016 • Page 9 PRESS FREEDOM UPDATE... v Zambia’s Independent Broad- “the glory of Islam or the integrity, Kishore Dave was stabbed to death cast Authority raided the studios security or defense of Pakistan or on Aug. 22 in his office at the Jai and suspended the licenses of three any part thereof, public order, decen- Hind daily in Junagadh, in the Gu- private broadcasters on Aug. 22 in cy or morality.” In a statement, the jarat state of western India. Local what Reporters Without Borders Digital Rights Foundation said the police arrested three people for the called a move to “silence these in- law could be used to “heavily censor murder, which they said was over a dependent media.” The Authority is the internet that Pakistanis are famil- financial dispute. However, Dave’s allowed to suspend licenses when iar with, to ensure that democratic family told IndiaSamvad.com they “necessary in the interest of pub- discourse in Pakistan loses another believed the killing was related to lic safety, security, peace, welfare safe space.” the journalist’s political reporting. or good order.” Tensions have run reports opponents are weighing a Dave was 53 years old. high in the country since President court challenge to the measure. Edgar Lungu narrowly claimed re- ● News editor João Miranda do election on Aug. 11, sparking pro- MURDERS Carmo was shot to death in his home tests by the opposition. ● Five current and former jour- just west of Brazil’s capital city on nalists have been killed by Islamic July 24. Do Carmo ran a website Environmental journalists and State in Deir al-Zour, Syria. The date called SAD Uncensored in the town activists face growing threats in of their deaths is unclear; the execu- of Santo Antônio do Descoberto. A Latin America, according to a report tions were shown in a video released police spokesman told the CPJ he released in July by Article 19, the on June 25. According to the Com- had complained of being threatened Center for International Environ- mittee to Protect Journalists, the at least twice before he was killed. mental Law, and Vermont Law five are: Sami Jawdat Rabah, 28, The 54-year-old was known for his School. The report, titled “A Deadly who worked online as a reporter critical coverage of local govern- Shade of Green,” finds conflicts over for the Syrian Observatory for Hu- ment and reportedly intended to run land use are being fueled by “in- man Rights; Samer Mohammed for office in municipal elections later creasing numbers of large-scale and Aboud, 33, a reporter and producer this year. mega-development projects in Latin at Free Deir al-Zour Radio; 28-year- American countries.” It notes, how- old Mustafa Abdul Hassa, a for- Widad Hussein, 28, a reporter ever, that civil society and interna- mer correspondent for Shaam News for the Kurdish website Roj News, tional solidarity are helping to raise Network; Mohammed Eissa, 41, was killed on August 13 in Dohuk, accountability in the region. a former cameraman for the Syrian Iraqi Kurdistan. Eyewitnesses re- Nateq Network news website; and portedly saw men abduct Hussein Russia has added the names of Mahmoud Shabaan al-Haj Had- that morning; his body was found lat- 22 journalists, activists and politi- hir, age unknown, volunteer techni- er. Hussein’s brother told Rudaw.net cal prisoners to a list of “extremists cian for Radio Al-Aan FM in Dubai. that the journalist had frequently and terrorists” in Crimea. Accord- been pressured to cooperate with the ing to Freedom House, the list, pub- ● Belarusian journalist Pavel reigning political party in Dohuk. lished on July 12, includes Mykola Sheremet was killed by a car bomb Semena and Anna Andrievska of in Kiev on July 20. Sheremet was A journalist under police pro- Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. well-known for his critical coverage tection was shot and killed in Ve- Freedom House president Mark P. of the government in Belarus, which racruz, eastern Mexico on July 20. Lagon said the move showed Rus- Freedom House ranks among the Pedro Tamayo Rosas, 43, was a sia’s “disregard for human and dem- worst countries in the world for free- correspondent for the newspaper El ocratic rights in Crimea following dom of expression. Forced to leave Piñero de la Cuenca. According to its annexation of the region.” the country, he worked in Russia for a the Knight Center for Journalism in time, eventually resigning from state- the Americas, he had received “pre- Activists say a new Pakistani run TV in protest over its reporting cautionary measures” from the State cyber-law paves the way for online on the situation in Ukraine. At the Commission for the Care and Pro- censorship. The Prevention of Elec- time of his death, he worked for the tection of Journalists since reporting tronic Crimes Act gives the gov- newspaper Ukrainska Pravda. a threat in January. Rosas document- ernment the power to take down or ed incidences of violence including block online content that threatens ● Newspaper bureau chief kidnappings and disappearances.

OPC Bulletin • September 2016 • Page 10 Meet the OPC Members: Q&A With Deidre Depke By Trish Anderton Hardest story: Septem- Newly-elected OPC President Deidre Depke is the se- ber 11, obviously. I was nior editor and New York bureau chief for public radio’s at Newsweek and run- Marketplace. She has previously worked at The Daily ning Newsweek.com. Beast, TheWeek.com, Newsweek and BusinessWeek. At We worked for 5 days Newsweek, she served as foreign editor and then helped straight without a break, launch Newsweek.com, where she oversaw coverage of also helping produce 9/11 and the and Afghanistan wars and led the site three separate editions to numerous awards. of the magazine. It took me several months to Hometown: Cleveland, Ohio. fully pull it together af-

ter that. I had crying jags Courtesy of Deidre Depke Education: Syracuse University, degrees in journalism at inopportune times for Deidre Depke and political science. a while. It was the images that haunted me. I must have Languages: Rusty Spanish! looked at several thousand photos, many unusable. It was a terribly raw experience. First job in journalism: At first in the trade press and then at Businessweek, I covered the birth of the personal Journalism heroes: My mother and my father. They computer industry and the rise of Silicon Valley. It was were both journalists in Cleveland. a fascinating story then and now – and I was fortunate Advice for journalists who want to be foreign cor- enough to have met all the huge players before they respondents: Don’t skimp on preparation and training. were known – Bill Gates, Steve Jobs and many others. Get a decent medical insurance policy. Learn everything Countries you’ve produced the most stories on: When you can about the place you are going before you go. I moved to Newsweek I developed a real interest in the Dream job: Rich retiree. Middle East and in Afghanistan and Pakistan. I traveled to several times and produced early stories about Favorite quote: “So we beat on, boats against the cur- the Taliban and al Qaeda. As events transpired, it was a rent, borne back ceaselessly into the past.” – the last good background to have. line of Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. I’d like it on my gravestone! Year you joined the OPC: Too long ago to remember. Place you’re most eager to visit: Probably Afghani- What drew you to international journalism? I had stan. I never made it there. If it’s for fun, the lake region initially applied to Newsweek to work as its business of Italy. editor. The late great Maynard Parker suggested that I try something entirely new instead. I have always been Most over-the-top assignment: Well, the most ridic- grateful for his willingness to take that chance on me. ulous story I’ve ever been involved with was Princess Diana’s death. Luckily, I was editing the two best jour- Major challenge as an editor: Keeping up with tech- nalists on the story, Christopher Dickey and Rod Nord- nology and the relentless news cycle. land. And they were incredibly professional about it. But when you look back, you have to say, things were blown Best journalism advice received: Treat people the way WAY out of proportion. you would like to be treated. And never cut corners. Most common mistake you’ve seen: Assuming that a Worst experience as a journalist: Watching the slow fact is a fact just because it’s on the Internet. Everything death of news organizations as they failed to come is on the Internet. to terms with technology and how the business has changed. Twitter handle: @deidredepke

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OPC Bulletin • September 2016 • Page 11 correspondent and winner worse as the decade wore on, New Books of the OPC’s 2010 David ending in Ceausescu’s execu- MIDDLE EAST Kaplan Award, goes on to tion by firing squad in 1989. HE BEST REPORTERS’ MEM- describe launching his ca- Kaplan returns in 1990, T oirs offer a firsthand look at fa- reer in with $2,000 in as the nation struggles to get mous people and events. In And Then his pocket. Making connec- back on its feet. He comes All Hell Broke Loose: Two Decades tions in the Muslim Broth- back again in 2013 and in the Middle East [February 2016, erhood, he worked his way 2014, when a rising tide of Simon & Schuster], into the circles of power. He tourism and an alignment wastes no time getting down to brass became fluent in . with the West are reshaping tacks. , he writes in Over the next twenty years, En- Romania and its economy. the prologue, “had a terrifying gaze. gel would report from Jerusalem, But the book doesn’t confine itself I wanted to take a step back when he and . He was kid- to current events; it ranges deep into looked me in the eye.” Lib- napped in Syria, reported history, literature, music and religion ya’s Mu’ammar Gadhafi extensively from the front to explain the country’s past and spec- “seemed like a washed-up, lines in Iraq and Afghani- ulate on its future direction. strung-out rock star” in the stan, and covered the tu- months before his death. mult of the Arab Spring. — By Trish Anderton of Engel enriches his “increasingly seemed like memoir with history and WELCOME TO a stubborn old man,” while analysis. While chiding OUR NEW MEMBERS Syrian President Bashar George W. Bush for “ag- al-Assad, tellingly, “had gressive interventionism” Ilya Arbit the detached air of a rich that “broke the status quo” Middlesex County College kid who grew up abroad and had no in the region, he also faults Fort Lee, NJ Barack Obama for “timidity and in- feeling for his people.” Student Engel, the NBC chief foreign consistency.” The result is a devastat- ing human toll that he describes with a keen but sensitive eye. Mary Kay Magistad Creator & Host Upcoming Events ROMANIA “Whose Century is It” OBERT D. KAPLAN HAS Public Radio International’s Crossing Borders - R roamed the world throughout “The World” Field Reports From a prolific writing career, from Af- San Francisco, CA International Women ghanistan to Sierra Leone to the U.S.- Active Non-Resident Photojournalists Mexico border. But since the early 6:00 p.m. Sept. 7 1980s he’s had a special passion for Evan Ratliff Romania, a country he sees as a cross- Editor-in-Chief roads of ancient cultures – “a fusion Sports, Scandals and The Atavist Magazine of Roman Latinity and Greek Ortho- the Olympics Brooklyn, NY 6:30 p.m. Sept. 14 dox Christianity,” he writes, “so that ancient Rome and Greece live on, Active Resident however vaguely and indirectly, in- Mixer at Tír na Nóg side the Romanian soul.” Nicholas Schifrin 6:00 p.m. Sept 15 Kaplan’s latest, In Europe’s Special Correspondent/ Shadow: Two Cold Wars and a Thir- Jerusalem Correspondent Chinese Government ty-Year Journey Through Romania PBS NewsHour/NPR Pressure on Western and Beyond [Random House, Feb- Washington, DC Media Continues to ruary 2016] begins with Kaplan’s Active Non-Resident Build first visit to the country – in 1981, 6:00 p.m. Sept. 22 an era ruled by the dictator Nico- Peter Schwartzstein lae Ceausescu in an atmosphere Freelance Reporter of grinding poverty and fear. Cairo, Egypt The UN’s Role in the In Bucharest, “People clutched World Today cheap jute bags in expectation Active Overseas, Young 6:30 p.m. Oct. 4 of stale bread.” Things only got (29 and younger)

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