THE MONTHLY NEWSLETTER OF THE OVERSEAS PRESS CLUB OF AMERICA, , NY • July/August 2013 Full Slate and Online Voting in Annual Election by Azmat Khan have 10 candidates running for five the OPC office at 212-626-9220. In leading this year’s election positions as Active board members The OPC is using the online vot- committee, Bill Holstein and I made and four others running as Associ- ing website balloteer.com to host its it our mission to seek out as diverse ate board members. It’s a competi- secure election. You will receive an a group of talented, motivated can- tive election and we’re grateful to so e-mail in early July with a link to the didates as possible, whose values many candidates who are enthusias- election at the e-mail address where and ideas for contributions embody tic about shaping the organization. you receive OPC electronic corre- the OPC’s mission. In particular, Whatever the outcome of the spondence. If you have not received we sought to encourage a new gen- election, we’re hopeful the com- this link by the end of July e-mail eration of journalists to take more ing two-year term will bring more [email protected] to obtain responsibility within the OPC, and growth, action and an OPC that the link. we’re thrilled about this year’s elec- keeps pace with the digital age. Each ballot requires a log-in, tion slate. which is your e-mail address where Candidates include journalists For the first time the OPC will you received the ballot link. The from television, print, radio and pho- hold its election online. For those system allows one voting ballot and tojournalism who draw from vary- averse to the Web, fear not: you may delineates between Active and Asso- ing demographics, ages and media still cast a paper ballot by e-mailing ciate members. organizations. As you can read from [email protected] or calling (Election Slate Begins on Page 2) their campaign statements, they bring ambitious agendas to enhance OPC to Screen “The Patience Stone” in August the OPC ranging from addressing whistleblower protections to pro- EVENT PREVIEW: AUGUST 6 moting the use of innovative tech- by Sonya K. Fry nologies in storytelling to drawing The OPC offers members the more under-represented individuals chance to see the film “The Pa- into international reporting. tience Stone” on Tuesday August 6. This year’s OPC Board election The film is about a young Afghani is also different than in years past be- woman who tends to her comatose cause it’s a very competitive one. At older husband. The war swirls out- Sorbonne. The Patience Stone, the last year’s annual meeting, several side their window and tanks roll in first novel written by Rahimi, won OPC members called for the club to the streets. Fearing for the lives of the 2008 Prix Goncourt, France’s have more of a competition to the her two young daughters she takes most renowned literary award. He annual election, and this year we them to the safety of a relative’s was wary of turning it into a film, but home while she returns daily to care did so when he met Golshifteh Fara- Inside. . . for the unresponsive man. As weeks hani, a superstar Iranian actress who go by, she begins to give voice to her is also in exile in Paris. 2013 OPC Election Slate...... 2-4 previously private thoughts, memo- The film will be shown at 6 ries and grievances. Her husband be- p.m. at the SONY Screening Room People...... 5-9 comes her “patience stone”or syngue 550 Madison (between 55 and 56th People Remembered...... 9 sabour in Persian lore, absorbing Streets). Check in at the Sky Lobby one’s suffering and secrets until it fi- where you will receive a ticket and Poland Press Club Recap...... 10-11 nally shatters. then proceed to the 7th floor screen- ing room. RSVP by calling the OPC OPC Profile: George Burns...... 11 The filmmaker Atiq Rahimi was born in Afghanistan but became a office 212-626-9220 or email so- New Books...... 12 refugee living in Paris attending the [email protected]. September 2012. ducer with CNN in Election Slate As a former Africa Beijing, I helped ACTIVE Editor of the FT, I to organize events know first-hand the and forums that JANE CIABATTARI difficulties of re- addressed a spike I would like to return and help the porting from tough, in censorship and OPC move forward in its 75th year developing world material challenges with my previous OPC board experi- countries. In my previous job, as faced by journalists covering China, ence. I have organized the showing Deputy Editor of the FT in , I politics and human rights. I’ve also of films and programs, headed the worked closely with our global team organized an annual International committee that revised the club’s of correspondents on stories of acute Women’s Day event in Beijing, Lon- Constitution and By-laws, served sensitivity, liable to political, legal or don and Houston since 2006 that as an OPC officer (VP and Secre- censorship challenges. links underprivileged girls to com- tary), co-chaired I believe strongly in the causes munity mentors in public schools in the awards judging championed by the OPC: freedom China. process and acted of the press, the safety of journal- My hope is to help foster in- several times as ists and the importance of powerful terest in international journalism nominating com- international reporting in explaining among young journalists, promote mittee chair, most the complexities of the world. All are the use of technologies for storytell- recently in 2012. under threat, be it from governments ing in emerging markets, and pro- My goal was recruiting new board or a lack of public engagement in mote more international journalism members with multi-platform expe- international affairs and shrinking in the U.S. I’m currently a business rience as well as stellar traditional editorial budgets. The OPC performs reporter covering international mar- credentials. I am a regular contribu- a vital role countering these forces, kets at Fox Business Network and tor to NPR.org and The Daily Beast. but it could be even more effective if . Previously, I was an in- I spent three years as president of the it dynamically harnessed the power vestigative reporter with NBC Con- nonprofit National Book Critics Cir- and reach of social media. necticut and a campaign embed re- cle and am now online VP, in charge porter with NBC News covering the of website/blog and social network- JO LING KENT 2012 presidential election. I’m fluent ing. I am interested in bring a fresh in Mandarin and continue to cover perspective to an organization I re- China for Fox. MARTIN DICKSON spect and admire. As a member of I have been the U.S. Managing the Foreign Correspondents Club of Editor of the Financial Times since China for two years while a field pro-

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PRESIDENT SECRETARY Deidre Depke Santiago Lyon ASSOCIATE BOARD PAST PRESIDENTS Michael Serrill Jonathan Dahl Executive Editor VP and Director of ­MEMBERS EX-OFFICIO Assistant Managing Senior Editor The Daily Beast Photography Brian Byrd David A. Andelman Editor The Wall Street Journal Associated Press Program Officer John Corporon Bloomberg Markets Adam B. Ellick NYS Health Allan Dodds Frank ACTIVE BOARD *Video and Print Marcus Mabry Foundation Alexis Gelber FIRST VICE PRESIDENT Jacqueline Albert- Journalist Editor at Large William J. Holstein Tim Ferguson Simon International Herald Emma Daly Marshall Loeb Editor U.S. Bureau Chief * on leave attending Tribune Communications Larry Martz Forbes Asia Politique Internationale Harvard Kennedy School Director Roy Rowan John Martin Human Rights Watch Leonard Saffir SECOND VICE PRESIDENT Amar C. Bakshi Arlene Getz Writer/Editor Larry Smith Abigail Pesta JD/MBA student Editor-in-Charge, Media Sarah Lubman Richard B. Stolley Freelance Journalist Yale University Thomson Reuters Romesh Ratnesar Partner Deputy Editor Brunswick Group EXECUTIVE THIRD VICE PRESIDENT Rebecca Azmat Khan Bloomberg DIRECTOR Toni Reinhold Blumenstein Senior Digital Producer Businessweek Minky Worden Sonya K. Fry Editor in Charge, Deputy Editor in Chief Al Jazeera Director of Global New York Desk The Wall Street Journal Tom Squitieri Initiatives EDITOR Reuters Evelyn Leopold Freelance Journalist Human Rights Watch Aimee Vitrak Paul Brandus Independent Journalist TREASURER West Wing Report United Nations Seymour Topping Abi Wright OPC Dorinda Elliott Emeritus Director ISSN-0738-7202 Global Affairs Editor Howard Chua-Eoan Dafna Linzer Professor of Alfred I. duPont – ­Copyright © 2002 Conde Nast Traveler Former News Director Managing Editor International Columbia University Over­seas Press Club of Time MSNBC.com Journalism Awards America Columbia University 40 West 45 Street, New York, NY 10036 USA • Phone: (212) 626-9220 • Fax: (212) 626-9210 • Website: opcofamerica.org OPC Bulletin • July/August 2013 • Page 2 EVELYN LEOPOLD the vital role played by governments When I re- I am an independent journal- and journalism organizations in se- turned to the U.S., I ist based at the United Nations and curing freedom and legal protections tracked Texas poli- contribute to the Huffington Post for . I support the initia- tics at the AP, cov- and other publica- tives to use social media to reinforce ered regional busi- tions. I was Reuters OPC’s reputation as a dedicated de- ness at the Seattle bureau chief at the fender of press freedom. As the club Times and followed U.N. for 17 years. approaches its 75th year, our mission the oil and gas markets at TheStreet. At Reuters I also remains clear: protect journalists and com. Thanks to connections I made was a news editor the principles of journalism at all at the OPC, I was able to take a stab for North America, levels at home and overseas. at another dream: become a full-time the editor for the freelancer for The New York Times. company’s Africa region, based in ROBERT NICKELSBERG Six years later, I write regularly for Kenya, and associate editor world- I have been a photojournalist as- the paper on military affairs, busi- wide. Earlier, I was a correspondent sociated with Time magazine for ness and real estate. in London, Bonn, New York and nearly 30 years based in Latin Amer- I’d like to reach out to young for- Washington D.C. ica, South and Southeast Asia. I have eign correspondents to build the next I chair the Dag Hammarskjöld photographed the war in Iraq for generation of stalwart club members. Fund for Journalists and was award- Time and The New York Times. My Arts organizations, like the Met, ed the gold medal for U.N. reporting new book, Afghanistan — A Distant have groups for those under 40 to by the U.N. Correspondents Asso- War, covering the rise of Islamic fun- build their membership and fund- ciation. I received an Alicia Patter- damentalism in the 1980’s through raising base and I think it is neces- son Fellowship and co-authored a the invasion of U.S. — NATO troops sary in this changing time for the book in German on women in East to the present, will OPC to have the same. Germany. I am also a member of the be published in Oc- Council on Foreign Relations and the tober 2013. MARTIN SMITH Newswomen’s Club of New York. I’ve been able I have been a producer for WG- to focus on promo- BH’s Frontline for 28 years and JOHN MARTIN tion of the Club by have covered major international I am a writer, photographer and serving on the Ad- news events from the fall of Com- editor of two sports newsletters re- missions Committee and participat- munism in Russia to investigation of ported and distributed internation- ed on the OPC photography awards the emergence of Osama bin Laden ally and a freelance jury in 2012 and 2013. I would like and the Al Qaeda network. In 1998, I writer covering to strengthen the OPC board’s efforts founded Rain Media, an independent professional tennis to attract more photojournalists and production company. I began my for The New York documentary filmmakers and of- career at CBS News and wrote my Times. I retired in fer greater depth and diversity to its first documentary “Guatemala” in 2002 as a national events program and expand the use 1982 which won a correspondent for of visual narratives on the OPC web- George Polk Award ABC News and taught reporting at site. and an Emmy. I Columbia University’s Graduate have won four OPC Edward R. School of Journalism from 2002 to KRISTINA SHEVORY 2010. I am currently researching a The OPC has been an integral Murrow Awards. memoir based on nearly 50 years as part of my career since I won an OPC I would like to focus on bolster- a newspaper and television journal- Foundation scholarship in 1998. The ing ongoing OPC efforts to protect ist (working title: Jump Cuts: A Re- award gave me the freedom to move press freedoms for reporters as well porter’s Life in the Age of Arledge). to St. Petersburg, Russia to work on as for the local fixers, translators and During my term as an OPC board the language skills I acquired serving drivers who risk their lives to sup- member, I accepted a temporary as- in the U.S. Army and to realize my port them. I am also interested in the signment as acting chairman of the dream of becoming a foreign corre- protection of whistleblowers while Freedom of the Press Committee, spondent. The experiment worked: grappling with defining what kind of where I served in the 1990’s under I became managing editor of the St. information releases best serve our Norman Schorr. As an active cor- Petersburg Times, an English-lan- society. respondent, my arrests in Mexico, guage newspaper, and an AP, Dow Nicaragua and Brazil taught me Jones and Businessweek stringer. 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OPC Bulletin • July/August 2013 • Page 3 (Continued From Page 3) and technology as it relates to for- the eyewitness account and analysis. SEYMOUR TOPPING eign news coverage. In half a century of work as a re- DANIEL SIEBERG porter, editor and Pulitzer admin- ASSOCIATE I’ve led Google’s Media Out- istrator rarely have I witnessed vi- reach team which able journalism under such severe BILL COLLINS works with jour- pressures as today. As a Board mem- I am Communications Director at nalists to empow- ber I am commit- Ford Motor Company based in New er them through ted to reinforcing York and am a former journalist. I training on digital the leadership of have served two previous terms on tools and the Inter- OPC in the struggle the OPC Board and am a member of net. Prior to that, for a free, secure the Freedom of the Press Commit- I was an Emmy- and independent tee. I currently head up the Public nominated technology reporter for press worldwide. I Relations Committee for the OPC’s ABC News, CBS News, CNN, BBC am an Emeritus 75th Anniversary. My top three pri- News and the Vancouver Sun. I’ve Professor of International Journal- orities for the OPC traveled the globe and am a passion- ism at Columbia University and am include: raising ate supporter of conveying interna- running for a second term. the OPC’s profile tional stories to a U.S. audience. through earned and As a board member of the CHARLES P. WALLACE social media; in- OPC, I’d like to continue the push I have more than 30 years expe- creasing member- for journalists to master innova- rience as a foreign correspondent, ship by targeting tive technologies. Indeed, this is a working for UPI, the Los Angeles younger journalists revolutionary time when access to Times, Fortune and Time magazine. and digital media; broadening its information has never been greater, In that time I was based in Moscow, reach by partnering with top-notch but communicating it in the right

Africa, the Middle East, Southeast organizations that share our mission. way for a modern and increasing- Asia, Italy and Germany. In my ly mobile society is essential. I’d years overseas, I also had the plea- EMMA DALY also like to see more journalists in sure of experiencing some of what I am the Communications Direc- emerging markets participating the best foreign press clubs had to tor at Human Rights Watch, over- in the creation of such tools and offer including Hong Kong, Bang- seeing all media communication how they can their industry kok, London, Tokyo, Berlin and coming from the organization since and reach new audiences. the wonderful As- July 2007. Before joining Human sociazione della Rights Watch, I spent 18 years as a ABI WRIGHT Stampa Estera in journalist, mostly as a foreign corre- As the OPC approaches its 75th Italy. I would like spondent, working for The New York Anniversary, we have an opportu- to share some of Times, The Independent, Newsweek, nity to rethink and update the focus these insights with the Observer and Reuters, among of the organization to better reflect the OPC. My feel- others. I have con- changes in the ing is that we could tributed to several news media, har- do more between the annual awards books including ness new technolo- dinner to engage our members and Secrets of the Press gies to strengthen perhaps even attract new members. – The Penguin our community and I’d like to see more events that Book of Journal- secure the OPC for brought in experts from outside, ism and Crimes of future generations perhaps academics, politicians or War: What the Public Should Know. of journalists. I am even diplomats from abroad, who After almost 20 years as a for- interested in continuing to support could discuss such issues as what eign correspondent and another sev- the important work of the Freedom is happening in China and Europe en at HRW, I understand the value of the Press committee, as I have for these days. I regularly attend gather- of reporting from the ground. We the past two years with social media ings at the Asia Society that would need independent journalists gather- interns from Columbia, and continu- appeal to journalists. I think there ing information first-hand in order ing to participate in the reform of would also be broad interest in sym- to understand the world around us. the awards process, building on the posia to help our members stay up to Technology helps us to stay con- success of this year’s ceremony and date with the latest in social media nected, but there is no substitute for dinner.

OPC Bulletin • July/August 2013 • Page 4 PEOPLE... by Susan Kille [email protected]

OPC SCHOLARS nize reporting that the threat of violence, such as in Adriane Quinlan, who won makes a difference Somalia and Syria, two of the most the OPC Foundation’s 2013 Flora to people around deadly countries in the world for the Lewis Internship, will start work in the world. Four of profession. Others fled the threat of July reporting for The Times-Pica- Anin’s colleagues prison, especially in Iran, where the yune of New Orleans. She is a Yale at Novaya Gazeta government deepened its crackdown Anin graduate who in the lead-up to the were murdered in ahead of elections. CPJ released its 2008 Olympics worked in China as the last decade, annual survey of journalists in exile a freelancer and speed typist. The but he continues to mark World Refugee Day on June move to the Big Easy means putting to document high- 20. on hold her plans to return to China, level corruption but Quinlan said the position was too and helps break NAIROBI: Members of the news good to pass up. Her beat will be Jef- stories with inter- Cheema media were kicked out of the media ferson Parish. national outlets center in the Kenyan Parliament on including the Financial Times and June 5 and told they may only cover WINNERS BBC. Cheema was kidnapped and parliament when invited. National The June 6 headline read like it tortured in 2010 after writing stories Assembly Clerk Justin Bundi or- was from The Onion: “Hugo Chávez critical about the government. Since dered that computers and office fur- Given Venezuela Journalism Prize.” then, he has shown how car smug- niture in the media center be removed But indeed, Venezuela’s National glers make huge untaxed profits. He to allow space for committee rooms. Journalism Prize Foundation jury mined data to expose how lawmak- Legislators were angered about cov- unanimously elected to give the ers spend little time in Parliament erage of plans to raise their annual country’s former president its high- working on legislation and that 70 pay from $78,000 to $126,000 while est honor, the Simón Bolívar Nation- percent of legislators did not file in- the average Kenyan earns $1,800 in al Journalism Award. Chávez, who come taxes in 2011, including Presi- a year. The media center was estab- died March 5, was honored despite dent Asif Ali Zardari. lished in 2009 with the assistance of accusations that he had persecut- the U.S. government, which contrib- ed the press during his 14 years in PRESS FREEDOM uted $29,440. power. OPC’s Freedom of the Press WASHINGTON: An open letter Committee wrote Chávez at least sent June 10 to Congress by a bipar- DUBLIN: In a resolution passed 10 times since 2005, decrying press tisan coalition of 86 civil liberties during its 28th World Congress here conditions in Venezuela. Lil Rodrí- organizations and Internet compa- in June, the International Federation guez, a journalist and jury member, nies — including the American Civil of Journalists (IFJ) called on Phil- explained that while neither Bolívar Liberties Union, Mozilla, Freedom- ippine President Benigno Simeon nor Chávez were journalists “we Works, the Electronic Frontier Foun- Aquino III to expedite justice in the have never had better communica- dation and reddit — called for a 2009 massacre of 58 people includ- tors than the two of them.” While congressional investigatory commit- ing 32 journalists in Maguindanao the award may have surprised press tee into recent revelations about un- province; 90 of the 196 accused re- advocates, one element of news re- checked domestic surveillance. The main at large and only three of the ports did not; members of the foun- letter was accompanied by the launch principal suspects have so far been dation jury are seen as government of StopWatching.us, a petition call- arraigned. The IFJ Congress, attend- supporters. ing on Congress to provide a pub- ed by more than 300 journalists rep- lic accounting of the United States’ resenting organizations from more Roman Anin, a Russian reporter domestic spying capabilites and to than 100 countries, was concerned who investigates corruption in Rus- bring an end to illegal surveillance. with “confirmed reports that the ac- sia, and Umar Cheema, a Pakistani cused are coercing families to accept journalist known for courage and NEW YORK: Fifty-five journal- monetary settlements in exchange muckraking, won the 2013 Knight ists fled their homes in the past year for signing affidavits of desistance.” International Journalism Award. The with help from the Committee to International Center for Journalists Protect Journalists (CPJ). The most ISTANBUL: Turkish and foreign administers the awards, which recog- common reason to go into exile was (Continued on Page 6)

OPC Bulletin • July/August 2013 • Page 5 (Continued From Page 5) in violation of the law, opening the was murdered. Reports said that the journalists covering recent unrest in door to censorship. assailants carried flags of the ruling Turkey have been the victims of ar- Trinamool Congress party. Sengupta bitrary arrests and police violence. said he was dragged into an aban- Although exact figures are unknown, doned house, beaten and doused in Turkey is believed to have the highest gasoline. “They were about to burn number of journalists in the world in me alive when some locals stormed prison. Prime Minister Recep Tayy- inside and after a scuffle managed to ip Erdoğan accused foreign media protect me,” he said. Sengupta and outlets such as CNN, the BBC and Chatterjee were treated for severe Reuters of “fabricating news” about Ndege head injuries. the protests, alleging a conspiracy against Turkey. On June 18, the pro- ZINDER, Niger: Al Jazeera’s government daily Takvim published correspondent Yvonne Ndege, cam- a fabricated interview with Chris- era operator Romuald Luyindula, tiane Amanpour, an OPC member producer Mohammed Abubakar and chief international correspon- and driver Rabiu Abdullahi were dent for CNN, alleging that she said released June 17 after being arrested she was ordered to cover the ongoing and held for three days in the east- protests to destabilize Turkey on be- ern part of the country for “travelling Tracy half of international business inter- without accreditation.” The team ests. Amanpour condemned the ar- was released without charge to make CARACAS: After being ar- ticle on Twitter posting: “Shame on its way back to the border into Ni- rested and accused of spying in late you @Takvim for publishing FAKE geria. April, Tim Tracy was released and interview with me.” expelled from Venezuela on June 8. ATHENS: The June 11 action Tracy was accused of espionage and SÃO PAULO: At least 25 jour- of Greek Prime Minister Antonis fomenting violence in which eight nalists have reported being attacked Samaras to cut costs by closing its people died after the presidential or detained amid protests that swept state-run television and radio broad- election following the death of Hugo caster Hellenic Broadcasting Corpo- Brazil in June, growing from discon- Chávez. The country’s Minister of ration, known as ERT, outraged the tent over public transportation fare Interior and Justice Miguel Rodrí- country’s powerful labor unions, op- hikes into wider nationwide demon- guez announced the release through position parties and press advocates. strations against government poli- Twitter, posting: “The gringo Timo- cies, according to the CPJ. A spike The move put some 2,600 journal- thy Hallet Tracy, captured commit- in violence over the past two years ists out of work. The government ting espionage in our country, has has made Brazil one of the most dan- called ERT, which began in 1938, a been expelled from the national ter- gerous countries for journalists, CPJ “haven of waste” and it has a small ritory.” said. Brazil is the 10th worst coun- audience share. A court ordered the try in CPJ’s Impunity Index, which station back on the air but agreed spotlights countries where the killers with the government that it should be AMMAN: The Jordanian gov- of journalists go free. relaunched as a smaller, independent ernment on June 2 blocked access public broadcaster. within the country to about 300 news QUITO: Ecuador’s legislature on websites under a new law that the June 14 passed a law that will tighten KOLKATA: Indian authorities sites’ editors and international jour- media regulations, raising concerns arrested at least 14 people after a June nalism experts described as censor- about press freedom and giving a 7 attack on three journalists in which ship aimed at quelling criticism of key victory to President Rafael Cor- one reporter was almost burned King Abdullah II. The law, enacted rea, who repeatedly has clashed with alive. The journalists — Barun Sen- in September, requires sites to regis- independent journalists. Correa said gupta of Chhobish Ghanta TV, As- ter with the government, pay $1,400 the law would force news organiza- tik Chatterjee of ABP Ananda TV in licensing fees and hire unionized tions to act fairly. Carlos Lauría of and Tona Singha Roy of Kolkata journalists as editors. Hundreds of the CPJ said the wording was vague TV — were attacked while covering news sites have sprung up in recent enough that it left ample room to clashes between rival factions the years in Jordan and many say they define a variety of content as being day after Trinamool leader Jitu Lal cannot afford to comply with the

OPC Bulletin • July/August 2013 • Page 6 law. Ninety-two sites that registered the agreement, it must ensure that ery, witnesses said. continued to operate as usual and articles are “properly sourced, veri- Police believe the those that had been blocked within fied and factual” and that they do not motive may have Jordan remained available outside create “tension,” incite “ethnic ha- been to silence the country. tred,” “cause insecurity” or “disturb the reporting done by his newspaper, law and order.” Two days before the de Lemos SINGAPORE: A government agreement, police fired tear gas at Hora H. policy took effect in June that re- journalists in Kampala protesting the quires news websites that report media crackdown after reports in the Ahmed Ali Joiya, a Pakistani regularly on Singapore and have at two newspapers sparked a rare pub- reporter who had been working for least 50,000 viewers a month to ob- lic debate on who will succeed aging several newspapers and magazines, tain licenses and to remove content President Yoweri Museveni. was killed by gunfire May 26 while considered objectionable by the gov- in a market in Bhangrana. Two street vendors were also injured in the at- ernment within 24 hours of notifi- MURDERS cation. Newspapers and television tack. Police said Joiya had told them have long been tightly supervised about death threats from a man in Singapore, and officials maintain wanted in more than 150 murders, that the Web policy is not meant to robberies and kidnappings. Police muzzle freedom of expression. Hu- said they had asked Joiya to be care- man Rights Watch said Singapore is ful and inform them of any meetings undercutting its status as a financial with strangers. center by expanding censorship to the Web and urged the government A trial of five men accused in Pere to withdraw the new licensing re- the 2006 murder of investigative quirement. The body of Thomas Pere, a re- reporter Anna Politkovskaya be- porter for the state-owned New Vi- gan June 21 in Moscow. Politkovs- BEIJING: Friends of Du Bun, a sion media group in the Ugandan kaya, a fierce critic of the Kremlin Chinese journalist who has worked capital, was found on June 17 in a who wrote for Novaya Gazeta, was for The New York Times as a free- field a few miles outside Kampala. gunned down in the entrance to her lance photographer, said Du was es- He was last seen in the New Vision Moscow apartment. On trial are three brothers from Chechnya, their corted by police from his apartment newsroom at around 8 p.m. June 16 on May 31. Du Jirong, his sister, said uncle, and a former police officer. before he left to go home. The po- on June 18 that Du is being held but The Russian supreme court over- lice said Pere died from a blow to the that his family had not received a de- turned the 2009 acquittal of three of head, but they did not think he was tention notice. In late May, Du had the men. A new jury was chosen for killed where the body was found. published a book titled Tiananmen a new trial. Lom-Ali Gaitukayev is Pere covered society stories for the Massacre, which compiles previ- accused of organizing the hit, while ously published accounts from vari- entertainment and supplements sec- his nephew Rustam Makhmudov al- ous government sources, and he re- tions and it was not clear if the mur- legedly pulled the trigger. cently released a documentary about der was linked to his job. His mobile Last December, Dmitry Pavly- a forced-labor camp. phone, wallet and credit cards were uchenkov, a former police officer, found in his pockets, suggesting that was given an 11-year sentence after KAMPALA: After an 11-day robbery was not a motive. cooperating with investigators and closure by the Ugandan government, admitting keeping track of Politkovs- the daily newspapers Daily Monitor Jose Roberto Ornelas de kaya’s movements and providing the and Red Pepper, and two radio sta- Lemos, the head of a newspaper assassin with a gun. Politkovskaya tions that broadcast from the head- known for reporting on crime and was the first winner of OPC’s Ar- quarters of Monitor Publications corruption, was shot to death June tyom Borovik Award for outstanding Limited (MPL) that owns the Daily 11 in a town outside Rio de Janeiro, reporting by a Russian journalist. Monitor, resumed operating May 30. the latest in a string of apparent as- Reporters Without Borders (RSF) sassinations of Brazilian journalists. A court in Thailand ruled May said that MPL was allowed to reopen He was shot at least 40 times by four 29 that Fabio Polenghi, an Italian after accepting restrictions. Under masked men while visiting a bak- (Continued on Page 8)

OPC Bulletin • July/August 2013 • Page 7 (Continued From Page 7) The Marie Colvin Center for “For an artist, a designer, it’s of the photojournalist, was shot and killed International Reporting at Stony utmost importance to be able to ex- by a bullet fired by a soldier during Brook University on Long Island press the truth and the reality of the a government crackdown on street has received a pair of $50,000 dona- world.” protesters in May 2010. The inquest tions: one from Christiane Aman- ruling established the circumstances pour, an OPC member and chief in- WASHINGTON: OPC mem- surrounding his death but failed to ternational correspondent for CNN, ber Susan Glasser, former editor in apportion blame to any individual and another from Rupert Murdoch, chief of Foreign Policy, has joined military commanders or politicians whose donation was given through Politico to head new long-form jour- in power at the time. After talking the News Corp. Foundation. Aman- nalism and opinion divisions, includ- to Polenghi’s sister, Elisabetta, RSF pour, who was the inaugural speaker ing managing Politico’s new maga- urged authorities not to pardon those for the Marie Colvin Distinguished zine. Glasser joined Foreign Policy responsible for the fatal shot. Lecture Series in February, had pre- in 2008 after it was purchased by viously donated $10,000 to fund a The Washington Post, where she was UPDATES reporting trip to Kenya for 16 stu- an editor. She led Foreign Policy’s NEW YORK: Job moves are dents in the school’s “Journalism ambitious expansion in print and on- hard to predict these days. After two Without Walls” course, which has line. Among the numerous awards decades on the faculty of Columbia also sent student journalists to Rus- during her tenure was last year’s Journalism School, Sree Sreeniva- sia, Cuba and China. OPC award for online general excel- san, a former OPC board member, lence. Glasser spent four years as co- has become the first chief digital of- OPC member Fareed Zakaria chief of the Post’s Moscow bureau ficer of the Metropolitan Museum celebrated the fifth anniversary of and covered the wars in Afghanistan of Art. Sreenivasan, who for the his CNN show, “Fareed Zakaria and Iraq, including the battle of Tora last year has had a similar title at GPS,” on June 2. In the five years Bora and the invasion of Iraq. the journalism school, said he looks since his show launched, Zakaria forward “to forging new connec- has interviewed almost 600 different In the spirit of the spring gradua- tions between the superb, expansive guests from almost 60 countries and tions, Paul Brandus, an OPC board collections of the Met — which are 35 heads of state. member and a member of the White a true representation of our shared House press corps, contributed an global history — and the 2 billion WESTPORT, Connecticut: item to TheWeek.com with more people who use the Web.” Jon Meacham, a Pulitzer Prize- than 60 pieces of advice for high winning author whose most recent school graduates. They include: Beer Fred Ferguson, an OPC mem- work is Thomas Jefferson: The Art of is really an awful thing to drink. ber, accepted the National Hemo- Power, was honored May 22 with the Costs too much, tastes lousy and philia Foundation leadership award 15th Westport Public Library Award makes you fat. Don’t mess with the in June given posthumously to Betty during the library’s annual fund- IRS. You’ll make mistakes; learn Jane and Robert Henry, Ferguson’s raiser called “Booked for the Eve- from them quickly and move on. sister and her husband. The Henrys ning.” Meacham, executive editor of Splurge on a good trench coat; it’ll established the foundation in 1948 Random House and former editor of last forever and doubles as a blanket after their son, Lee, was diagnosed Newsweek, received the Pulitzer for or pillow. with hemophilia. In 65 years, the or- American Lion, his bestselling 2008 ganization has grown to a national biography of Andrew Jackson. He CHICAGO: Former OPC board network of 51 chapters. Ferguson is also the author of the bestsellers member Klara Glowczewska, edi- said he had many memories of his Franklin and Winston and Ameri- tor in chief of Condé Nast Traveler, nephew, who was 19 when he died can Gospel. Previous winners of the spent a day working undercover of a throat hemorrhage after chok- Westport library award include Tom as part of her magazine’s Travel ing. The Henrys later established Brokaw, Doris Kearns Goodwin, Confidential series. She donned Hemophilia Research Inc. to pro- Adam Gopnik, Pete Hamill, David the uniform of a housekeeper at vide research grants. The award was Halberstam and Calvin Trillin. the Waldorf Astoria Chicago and presented at the foundation’s Spring worked an 8½ hour shift. She made Soiree in Manhattan. Ferguson told PARIS: Ai Weiwei, the dissident beds, cleaned bathrooms and gained the 350 attending, “Betty, Jane and Chinese artist, has become an “am- a lot of insight on travelers. “Other Bob would be tremendously proud bassador” for RSF. “Human rights than the sudden spotlight thrown on of the turnout tonight and of all you activists in China know about this the profession by the Dominique have done for the Foundation.” important organization,” Ai said. Strauss-Kahn episode,” Glowcze-

OPC Bulletin • April 2012 • Page 8 community and sparked conspiracy remembered for a single question theories. Hastings, who often wrote to sports commentator Jimmy “the about national security, won a Polk Greek” Snyder. Hotaling, who was Award for a Rolling Stone profile 75, died June 3 on Staten Island of a that led to the 2010 ouster of Gen. heart attack. In his early 20s, he lived Stanley McChrystal, commander outside Tehran and wrote for an Ira- of American forces in Afghanistan. nian publisher. Next, he worked for Most recently he covered politics Glowczewska in Chicago the International Herald Tribune for the news website BuzzFeed but in Paris and then moved to Greece, wska wrote, “I must admit that I’ve remained a contributing editor at never much considered the women Rolling Stone and also wrote for where he taught, wrote and reported, pushing their carts in hotel hallways, GQ. Hastings covered the Iraq War including covering the Greek coup the ones we all see but barely ac- for Newsweek and wrote the 2008 in French for Radio Luxembourg. knowledge and occasionally even memoir I Lost My Love in Bagh- Hotaling also reported on the Six- forget to tip.” dad: A Modern War Story after his Day War in . After returning to fiancée died in Iraq. BuzzFeed editor the United States, he wrote for the Ben Smith said that shortly before Village Voice and worked as a CBS Hastings died he told friends and producer before becoming Middle colleagues that he believed he was East bureau chief for CBS News and being investigated. After WikiLeaks McGraw-Hill World News. In 1977, said Hastings had asked for its help he joined WRC-TV in Washington. with an FBI inves- While researching a report on the tigation, the FBI 200th anniversary of the building released a state- Debra and Marc Tice, at an interview of the White House and the Capitol, ment denying that during a previous trip to Beirut in Hotaling found documentation that November 2012. Hastings was un- der investigation. African-American slaves worked to BEIRUT: The parents of Austin The Los Angeles erect both buildings. The discovery Tice, a U.S. journalist from Texas Police Depart- led to a Congressional task force to missing in Syria since August, flew ment said it had determine how to honor the slaves. Hastings here on June 23 to “seek out people found no evidence Snyder’s reply to Hotaling’s ques- who can help facilitate his release,” of foul play in the tion about racial progress in profes- according to a family spokesman. death. Writing about Hastings, Smith sional sports led to Snyder being Tice smuggled himself into Syria to linked him to the tradition of Hunt- fired by CBS. report on the uprising and the U.S. er S. Thompson and Watergate-era State Department has said it believes journalism. Like David Halbers- Tice was detained by Syrian officials Hal McClure, who covered two tam, the Pulitzer Prize-winning jour- as he was preparing to leave. Tice Arab-Israeli wars for The Associ- nalist, Hastings reported fearlessly is one of two American freelance ated Press, died May 26 in Laguna from dangerous war zones only to journalists missing in Syria; James Hills, California after complications die in a car crash. Foley was last seen November from surgery following a fall. He 22, 2012. Earlier in June, Senators was 92. He spent 21 years overseas John Cornyn and Ted Cruz of Texas starting in the 1950s. He covered joined Sens. Jeanne Shaheen and the unresolved 1961 disappearance Kelly Ayottea, who represent Foley’s of Nelson Rockefeller’s son off the home state of New Hampshire, in coast of New Guinea; Pope Paul VI’s urging Secretary of State John Kerry 1964 visit to the Holy Land, the first to raise awareness about Tice and by any pontiff; and the Arab-Israeli Foley. wars in 1967 and 1973. After his PEOPLE REMEMBERED Hastings’s car accident. final AP assignment as chief of bu- The death of Michael Hastings reau in Newark, N.J., McClure be- came a film documentarian, travel- at age 33 in a fiery solo car crash Edward Hotaling had a wide- ing around the world with his wife, in Los Angeles early in the morn- ranging career but is probably best ing of June 18 shook the journalist Dorothy.

OPC Bulletin • July/August 2013 • Page 9 International Press Clubs Converge in Warsaw by Sonya K. Fry Warsaw was the site of the annual meeting of the In- ternational Association of Press Clubs (IAPC) under the direction of Jaroslaw Wlodarczyk of the Press Club Polska. Jarek is an energetic man who ran the meetings, planned the programs and even acted as tour guide on excursions in Warsaw and Gdansk. Belarus, Berlin, Brussels, Jerusalem, New Delhi, Mongolia, New York, Paris, Prague, Vienna, and War- saw were the clubs in attendance. Decisions were made to admit the Mongolian Press Club, Press Club Brus- sels Europe, the International Press Club of Prague and the twelve press clubs in the Asia-Pacific Association of Press Clubs and also to recognize the new Jerusalem OPC member Andrew Nagorski poses with Sonya Fry Press Club as a Provisional for the year since it had not by a mobile Solidarity truck that urged people to vote. been officially launched yet and was only beginning its membership drive. Belarus journalists who have been under the wing of the Press Club in Warsaw applied for full status, but since a press-club-in-exile is not some- thing the IAPC had ever dealt with before, it was decided to give Belarus Observer status. The IAPC, founded in 2002, has not had a clear focus nor a robust website, so much of the meeting time was devoted to discussing how to advance the future of the organization and how to incorporate more member clubs. Panelists from left: Kasia Madera, Andrew Nagorski, Jas The OPC, in conjunction with the Press Club Polska, Gawronski and Lucie Morillon speaking. organized a panel discussion on the Freedom of Media the underground and Security of Journalists. The panel included OPC member Andrew Nagorski who had served as bureau leader of Solidar- chief for Newsweek in Warsaw, Moscow, Rome, Bonn, ity who was the and Berlin. Nagorski is currently Director of Public Pol- country’s most icy at the EastWest Institute. The other panelists were wanted political Kasia Madera, a BBC World News presenter and jour- fugitive. I was led nalist, Jas Gawronski, an Italian journalist of the family by Solidarity con- that founded the prominent Italian newspaper La Stam- tacts through back pa, Lucie Morillon, head of Reporters Without Borders alleys, jumped Advocacy and Research Desk, was the expert on journal- in and out of Lech Walesa and Sonya K. Fry ist security. The discussion was moderated by Jaroslaw cars, and went Gugala, journalist and presenter of Polsat TV evening through all sorts of other drills to avoid being followed. news. The event held at the Polish Press Agency was at- Today, that’s hard to imagine. Political life is free and the tended by 60 people was made possible by a grant from media is free. And the country has taken off economi- the Ford Foundation. FedEx paid for the shipment of cally, banishing the chronic shortages and depravation of Dateline magazines, which were distributed at the panel the bygone era. As elsewhere, the media is facing plenty discussion. of competitive pressures, but no more so than every- During the panel, Nagorski contrasted the historical where else.” differences that journalists faced from the Cold War to The highlight of the IAPC gathering was a black-tie the present. “It’s worth noting that, despite all the dan- dinner in the Royal Palace. The first Free Speech Award gers today to freedom of the media and the huge prob- was granted to Reporters Without Borders and was pre- lems we have with security for journalists, there are some sented by Lech Walesa, Solidarity leader, Nobel Prize positive trends,” he said. “There’s no better example than winner and former Polish President. Members of the the country we’re now in. I covered Poland in the 1980s, IAPC had voted on the awardee. Gerald Sapey, Presi- when I had to play cat-and-mouse games with the secu- dent and Christophe Deloire, General Secretary of RSF, rity services to interview someone like Zbigniew Bujak, (Continued on Page 11)

OPC Bulletin • July/August 2013 • Page 10 The Man Who Saved the OPC in 1995: George Burns by William J. Holstein people including myself had won OPC member and former Trea- were displayed on the walls. It was surer George Burns had two strokes clear that we were in the inner sanc- at the beginning of June. He is in a tum of a major journalistic organiza- nursing facility in Westchester, but tion. his wife Barbara plans to move him The news was dire, I told the to a facility closer to their home on printer. I put on my best bad-guy the Upper Westside by July. George, face, the utter face of realism, and who suffered from dementia, was at- told him we could not, and would tending the day program previously not, pay him. It was a tough meet- and knows the staff and some resi- ing. But toward the end, George, dis- dents since George is a very social playing his best Irish charm, began guy. Bill Holstein who lives in West- talking to the printer about how he chester visited George on Wednes- might be able to work something Bill Holstein, left, during a recent day, June 20 and recalled this story: visit with George Burns. out after the meeting. A few days later, George called me to say that I was elected President of the the printer, miraculously, had settled for an amount of OPC in 1994 but the news on the financial front was not cash that we actually could pay. good. The Club was technically broke because of years, George described it this way in his 1995 Treasurer’s perhaps decades, of mismanagement. George, who was Report: “As to our condition, we finally wiped out all Treasurer, made some progress on settling old debts but outstanding debt. In 1994 we completed payments on a by 1995 we owed a printer more than $20,000 for an is- Chase Bank debt that went back to the 1970s. In 1995, we sue of Dateline magazine as well as printing and mailing settled a disputed debt of nearly $20,000 for $5,000. For the Bulletin, as I recall, and we had only a few thousand the first time in many years, we face the future free of the dollars on hand. George and I decided to play bad cop/ burden of old debt.” good cop with the printer to see what we could do. My more emotional response was, Bankruptcy was I summoned the printer to the very impressive Busi- avoided! George had saved the OPC! ness Week conference room on the 40th Floor of the Mc- George and I retold that story to each other for the Graw-Hill Building. All the awards that Business Week following 20 years. It was one of our finest moments.

(Continued From Page 10) he wants to reserve judgment until the film is ready accepted the award. for distribution. Nagorski said, “I was struck by how The OPC had anoth- Robert Wieckiewicz, probably Poland’s best character er presence at the dinner: actor...captures Walesa’s mannerisms, intonation and member Rita Cosby, a quirks. I covered Walesa for a long time, and, based on three time Emmy Award what I’ve seen so far, I think he’s absolutely nailed him.” winner and special cor- The film is scheduled for release in October. respondent for CBS’s After such a tumultuous history with 85 percent of “Inside Edition.” Cosby Warsaw totally destroyed during World War II, there is a is well-known in Poland vitality, resilience and determination in the Polish nation because of the book she OPC member Rita Cosby that is remarkable. I visited Gdansk with the IAPC group, wrote in 2010, Quiet which has a jewel of a town center recreated to look as Hero: Secrets From My Father’s Past about her Father who was a Polish Resis- it did when it was part of the Hanseatic League in the tance fighter in the Warsaw Uprising during World War 13th century. Krakow is also a lovely old city that was II. Cosby gave a moving speech about discovering her not destroyed during the war and is famous as the home Father’s past as a young man in Poland before he emi- of Pope John Paul II and the site of Oskar Schindler’s grated to the U.S. factory which was featured in Steven Spielberg’s film Guests also had a sneak preview of Andrzej Wa- “Schindler’s List.” jda’s film “Walesa.” Wajda, who spoke just before Spending time in-person with people who I usually the film, is an Academy Award lifetime achieve- correspond with via e-mail or phone was a good oppor- ment winner. The film clips were about the mak- tunity for the OPC to exchange information and extend ing of the film, but Walesa did not attend because our network of friends.

OPC Bulletin • July/August 2013 • Page 11 Chafets writes that Ailes expectation that he will allowed him wide access die within 10 years and a New Books at Fox News, “which is NORTH AMERICA memory box he’s leaving PC MEMBER ROGER AILES usually about as reporter- for his 12-year-old son, O is the subject of a new biogra- friendly” as Tehran. Zac. phy and a recently delayed book. He Some media observers Ailes also made head- made headlines with an appearance saw the cooperation with lines after the publica- in another new book and he report- Chafets as a way to coun- tion of The Center Holds: edly is working on an autobiogra- ter a book by Gabriel Sher- Obama and His Enemies phy. That’s a lot of print for a televi- man of New York magazine [Simon & Schuster, June] sion guy. that definitely is not autho- by Jonathan Alter, a Ailes, who should need rized. After Off columnist for Bloomberg no introduction to Bul- Camera was published, View and contributor to MSNBC, letin readers, is the savvy Random House pushed a Fox competitor. Ailes, who is one political strategist who back publication of Sher- of the enemies the title refers to, made Fox News Chan- man’s The Loudest Voice received a disproportionately large nel into the planet’s most in the Room: The Inside amount of attention for a book that popular cable news net- Story of How Roger Ailes is about Obama after Alter described work. It should come as and Fox News Remade a paranoid executive who is afraid to no surprise that politick- American Politics from go in the front door of News Corp.’s ing is suspected behind May to next January. headquarters building and is “rou- the scenes of these books. But book-publishing tinely” called “cuckoo” by his boss, Zev Chafets said his politics aside, Chafets Rupert Murdoch. Ailes responded to book, Roger Ailes: Off has a captivating subject Alter by calling those suggestions Camera [Penguin/Sentinel, March], in Ailes, an undeniable genius with and more “patently, provably false.” is not an authorized biography, but canny political instinct and shrewd — by Susan Kille Ailes has said he picked Chafets, understanding of our media-satu- author of 2010’s Rush Limbaugh: rated society. Chafets repeats some The Midtown Executive Army of One. What is not in dispute well-known stories about Ailes but One Complimentary is the book is seen as favorable to introduces others while taking read- Prix Fixe Lunch its subject and that in his preface, ers from his childhood and through Weekdays noon to 2 p.m. a career that has mixed populism, Club Quarters Midtown politics and showbiz savvy. Head- 40 West 45 Street lines generated by the book have fo- When dining with a group of three guests or more. Only one cused on zingers by Ailes about pol- voucher redeemable per table. iticians from both parties as well as For reservations: media figures, but Ailes also talked [email protected] to Chafets about his hemophilia, his Summer Board Overseas Press Club of America Election deadline: 40 West 45 Street New York, NY 10036 USA Noon, August 19

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