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MONTHLY NEWSLETTER I July-August 2018

Cast Your Vote to Elect an Eclectic Slate INSIDE of New OPC Officers and Governors Election Slate 2-4 by brian byrd ceived this link by Aug. 6, please e-mail People Column 6-7 [email protected] to obtain it. s chair of this year’s nominating committee – The deadline for voting is Monday, Sept. 3 at noon, Press Freedom which includes club President Deidre Depke, Update 8-9 and the results will be announced at the Annual Meet- and governors Emma Daly and William A ing on Sept. 4. Each ballot requires a login, which is New Books 10 Holstein – it is with great pride that I nominate a slate your e-mail address where you received the ballot link. of officers and board candidates who have the energy, The system allows one voting ballot and delineates Q&A: talent and drive to guide the OPC through these turbu- Ceylan Yeginsu 11 between Active and Associate members. For those lent times. The Committee made it a priority to select who prefer to use a paper ballot, please send an email candidates for a slate that is balanced, a well-mixed to [email protected] or call the OPC office at combination comprising young as well 212-626-9220. as those with distinguished careers. Each of them is One final thought. Everyday our members strive exceptional. to truthfully capture events as they unfold, to provide This year, the OPC is electing nine (9) governors meaning and perspective, despite being declared an who are Active members and three (3) who are Associ- “enemy of the public” or members of “fake news.” To ate members. The club is continuing to use the online counter this deceit and protect the Fourth Estate, it is voting website Balloteer.com to host its secure elec- imperative to have a strong OPC and board of gov- tion. You will receive an email in late July with a link ernors. This can only be achieved if you vote. When to the election at the e-mail address where you receive you receive your ballot, please remember this and cast OPC electronic correspondence. If you have not re- your vote. I know I will. v

‘Civil’ Platform Offers Help for and Journalists

EVENT RECAP On July 11, former OPC Governor Daniel Sieberg presented an overview of “Civil,” a new by chad bouchard platform for journalists that uses cryptocur- he litany of challenges facing the rency to create a decentralized marketplace that news industry is daunting. Traditional will be governed by holders of Civil “tokens” Tjournalism has a trust problem. News- based on Ethereum’s virtual currency system. rooms have a sustainability problem. Armies “You can think of this as a cooperatively of bad actors, social media gate keepers, fake owned platform,” Sieberg said during the news makers, hired trolls and hostile politi- program. “Imagine building a platform in Sieberg CHAD BOUCHARD cians press against the gates. service of . This is what we are But a new project is looking for ways to trying to do.” together to create sustainable business models. thwart these threats, to help newsrooms find Sieberg is a co-founder and business de- The government and management of the sustainable models, to foster a trusted commu- velopment lead at Civil. He said the company community is up to “citizens” who acquire a nity of content creators, and eventually help is building a whole system for journalists stake in the community by purchasing Civil journalists get paid for their work. where community members who care about tokens. The secret weapon: blockchain and crypto- journalism can challenge each other’s work, The company, which employs about 25 economics. hold other members accountable, and work Continued on Page 9 1 1 2018 Election Slate

their careers unfold. I want to develop more support for “local” journal- President ists. These brave professionals are the bedrock of international reporting. Called “fixers” or “translators” they share our risks while sharing their ex- PANCHO BERNASCONI pertise in a country and society. The world is ever more dangerous for us I am deeply honored and ex- and especially for them. I want to emphasize the Overseas in our title. cited to have been selected by the nominating committee to run for CHRISTOPHER DICKEY the post of OPC President. During I am the foreign editor of The my 4 years as an OPC Governor Daily Beast, based in Paris. It is it has been tremendously gratify- vital, I think, for the OPC to be ing to work with so many talented seen clearly as the representative and knowledgeable members such organization promoting the work and as past presidents Marcus Mabry protecting the interest of journalists and Bill Holstein as well as current who actually are overseas. As one President Deidre Depke and Execu- of the dwindling number of staffers tive Director Patricia Kranz. in that category I hope I can help I very much want to build on with that. But I would also hope that Deidre’s work of expanding our rolls going forward we can have more with younger members as well as representation of active freelancers creating relationships with the key independent organizations that have on the OPC’s board of governors. come to fill the gaps in training and assistance for freelancers and staff I work with several who might be working internationally. excellent candidates. I would be the first OPC President from the visuals side, having be- Previously I was the Paris bureau chief for and for gun my career working for Agence France-Presse in Washington DC. I Newsweek magazine. I served as the Washington Post bureau chief in went on to work in various photo roles at the Chicago Tribune Cairo, and before that in , where I took my first posting as and and have been with Getty Images for the past a foreign in 1980. 14 years. My current role has me in charge of our global news report working with our roster of staff and freelance photographers and editors. SCOTT KRAFT I am proud to serve on two other -related boards: The I’m at the Los Eddie Adams Workshop and the Chris Hondros Fund. The Hondros Fund Angeles Times and a former foreign is especially close to my heart as it works to amplify the legacy of Getty correspondent who spent a decade Images staff photographer Chris Hondros, who was killed in April 2011 abroad for the Times – in Johan- while on assignment in Libya. nesburg, Nairobi and Paris. It’s I am humbled by the OPC nomination and deeply appreciate your been an honor to be on the OPC support and look forward to engaging with many of you in the coming board, and to be the OPC’s Awards months and years. Chair, for the past two years. I’ve recruited many current and former to chair our awards Vice Presidents juries and marveled at the amazing work our colleagues are doing. I’m very proud to be associated with the OPC because I believe DEBORAH AMOS so strongly in our mission to encourage talented journalists to become I have been an international correspondents and to help protect the rights and ensure the safety of our correspondent for three decades, colleagues around the world. covering the Middle East. I report on wars, invasions, and most impor- tant, the humanitarian fall-out. My career covers reporting for NPR, PBS and ABC. My awards include the DuPont-Columbia, a Peabody, and a George Polk. I am also an educator, teaching journalism at Princeton, Columbia and SUNY New Paltz. I was emcee for the OPC’s Annual Awards Dinner in 2015, and was elected Vice President in the 2016 election. I am running again for Vice President because I want to do more for young journalists and freelancers. I meet them as students and watch

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PAULA DWYER new technology. As it’s become clear that freedom of the press is in re- As a Bloomberg News editor and treat around the world, I believe defending liberal democracy at home and veteran of print and digital media, I abroad will be the primary challenge of our lifetimes – and the “overseas” believe I’m well-positioned to repre- piece of that equation is likely to be more important in the long run. The sent the interests of working journal- work of the Overseas Press Club is vital in this effort and I’d be honored ists globally. (I’m also good at taking to be part of the Board of Governors to help fight the good fight and notes, which will come in handy if protect journalists working abroad, where telling the truth can put their you choose me to be OPC secretary.) freedom at risk without the right support to remind those reporters – and I’m now an editor for QuickTakes, forces hostile to freedom of the press – that they are not in this alone. Bloomberg’s explanatory journalism MIRIAM ELDER unit. Previously I was a and editorial writer at Bloomberg As the World Editor at BuzzFeed View, where I was a Pulitzer finalist News and a former Guardian cor- for editorials on Europe’s debt crisis. respondent in Russia, I’ve seen the I spent five years atThe New York challenges that reporters face all Times and 20 years at BusinessWeek magazine, serving in the 1990s as over the world, both online and off. I BW’s bureau chief, where I shared an OPC award for coverage joined BuzzFeed in 2013 and lead a of globalization. team of 19 reporters and editors, who have reported on everything from the Ebola crisis to the fall of Mosul, the rise of crime against women in Argentina to opioid addiction in Treasurer Nigeria. At , I was the bureau chief and covered LIAM STACK politics, business, and culture in Russia at a time when Putin was consolidating control and swiftly eroding I am a politics reporter for The democratic norms. I was the first foreign correspondent to profile Pussy New York Times. Before that, I was a general assignment reporter covering Riot in Russia, and followed their case closely, putting women at the heart national and international issues for of my coverage. Beyond the traditional challenges that correspondents the Times. I was the editor of Watch- face, it’s clear that misinformation is on the rise and press freedoms are ing ’s War, a multimedia feature eroding worldwide. If elected to the board, I would work to engage our that used curated video by Syrians to membership around these urgent issues, while advocating for greater tell the story of the Syrian conflict, recognition and defense of digital-only organizations, as well as the im- and covered the Egyptian Revolution portance of promoting diversity in foreign correspondence. and the Arab Spring for the Times. From 2005 to 2012 I was a freelance ALIX FREEDMAN reporter and correspondent for the I joined Reuters in 2011 as the Christian Science Monitor based in global editor for ethics and standards. Cairo, where I began my career at My role is to uphold the Reuters The Daily News , an Egyptian English-language . Trust Principles, making sure that we gather the news independently and impartially in the more than 100 countries where we operate, includ- Active Members ing many where we are unwelcome and frequently under attack. I spend much of my time working closely with editors on major stories, final- After 5 years as Editor-in-Chief of reading sensitive, high-impact pieces The Daily Beast and a CNN analyst, before publication. I am now full time on CNN’s New Before Reuters, I served, start- Day between 6:00 a.m. and 9:00 a.m. ing in 2005, as a Deputy Managing as Senior Political Analyst and fill-in Editor of , overseeing ethics and standards and, anchor as well as advising on digital. briefly, as Page One editor. Earlier, I spent many years as an investigative I’ve always believed that world news reporter, winning a Pulitzer prize in 1996 for work on the tobacco indus- should not be seen as “foreign” but as try. I also undertook international investigations in Asia, Africa and the compelling stories of real heroes and Middle East, including a story that exposed the Iraqi oil-for-food scandal villains in real time. The good news in 2002. At the OPC, I’d like to help promote the highest standards of is that world news is relatable to a fair, fact-based journalism, especially in violent and repressive countries new generation where the tyranny of where information can be scarce; and insuring the training and safety of distance has been broken down by local journalists and freelancers.

3 DOUGLAS JEHL continues to produce documentary films and provide consulting services I’m foreign editor of The to a variety of global television news channels. Washington Post, a job I’ve been It would be an honor to serve again as an OPC Governor. lucky enough to hold since 2009. The Post’s international cover- ADRIANE QUINLAN age is expanding rapidly; our team Fascinated by , I graduated now includes 28 correspondents from Yale and jumped to an intern- in 20 locations outside the United ship at TIME magazine’s Hong Kong States, along with more than a dozen bureau, before moving to foreign-desk reporters and editors in where I freelanced ahead of the 2008 Washington. Olympics. My life took me back to I believe the Overseas Press Club the U.S., where I was lucky to go to plays an essential role in champion- graduate school, snag a fellowship ing the very best in international journalism. I am seeking reelection to report for The New York Times’ so that I can continue to support the Metro Desk, and win the Overseas OPC in its mission of training, inspiring and celebrating the journalists Press Club Foundation’s Flora Lewis who are finding new ways to tell the world’s most important stories. award in 2013. I planned to use it to return to Beijing, but I was recruited COLEEN JOSE to write for The Times Picayune I am an independent documentary in New Orleans – culturally, a kind foreign country inside the states. I photographer and digital strategist was grateful to have my award to network with other reporters, and pay with experience working at Insta- for the move. From there, I’ve launched a career as a television news gram and now, Adobe. For the OPC writer, starting at CNN International in 2016. Now, I’m a show writer Board, I intend to develop digital for HBO’s “” based in Brooklyn, where I work with media and innovation strategies to producers, fixers, correspondents, and investigators around the world on educate journalists on resources and scripts that aim to make complex stories visceral and compelling. further elevate the work of members. GARY SILVERMAN As a freelance , I was a Steiger Fellow at the Committee to I am interested in becoming a Protect Journalists, working on press governor of the OPC because it is a freedom issues in Southeast Asia. good way to do two things that mat- I’ve reported from the aftermaths of ter to me: recognizing good report- conflict and natural disasters in the ing, and helping the people who are Philippines. From the Marshall Islands, our team reported an award-win- out in the field doing it. ning series on , migration and contamination from a U.S. I am currently serving a second nuclear waste site. My work has been published in CNN, The Guardian, stint as US news editor of the Rappler, Süddeutsche Zeitung and other news outlets with exhibitions of Financial Times, directing our news my photography in museums and galleries. I am passionate about inclu- coverage in the Americas. During sivity and providing protections to journalists working internationally. more than 18 years at the FT, I also have been a columnist in New York JIM LAURIE and London, global marketing corre- Greetings from Beijing. Starting spondent in London and US banking in October, I shall be spending more editor in New York. time in the . Therefore, Before joining the FT, I worked in New York for Businessweek, on I shall be available to engage in OPC Long Island for Newsday, in Hong Kong for the Far Eastern Economic activities in New York. As an older Review, in Kuala Lumpur for Bloomberg and in Chicago and Washing- Asia hand, I am keen to assist in ton for United Press International. developing more programs focusing on China, Japan, Vietnam, Cambodia and other parts of Asia. My career began in Asia in 1970. I joined NBC News in Saigon in 1972. My Vietnam experiences through 1975 led me to a career as an international correspondent: 28 years first at NBC and then at ABC News. In more recent years, I established a media firm in Hong Kong which

July-August 2018 4 MICHAEL WILLIAMS SARAH LUBMAN I joined Reuters in 2011 to I’m a partner at Brunswick establish an international investiga- Group, a global corporate commu- tive, explanatory and data journalism nications firm specializing in critical team. Our work has earned Reuters issues. Before joining Brunswick in its first Pulitzer Prizes for reporting 2005, I was a journalist for 17 years, (the Rohingya crisis in 2014 and including 6 years in Tokyo and Duterte’s drug war this year) and first Beijing, starting with a night editing Overseas Press Club Awards (Ayatol- job in ABC News’ Tokyo bureau. lah Khamenei’s business empire, the I covered Tiananmen Square as a Putin circle’s wealth, Philip Morris for The Washington Post and other subjects). Before Reuters, and subsequently became a Beijing I was at The Wall Street Journal for correspondent for UPI and a regular 19 years, where my last job was Page contributor to NPR and The Boston One editor. Before that, I was Japan Globe. politics & economics correspondent, and later served as Tokyo bureau After China, I was a reporter for The Wall Street Journal, state/na- chief, Southern Europe bureau chief, and editor of The Wall Street Jour- tional/foreign editor at The San Jose Mercury News and Asia editor at nal Europe. I’m interested in pursuing two themes at the OPC: helping Newsweek International. journalists do their jobs safely in lands hostile to independent reporting; I chaired the OPC Annual Dinner in 2017 and 2018 and helped recruit and promoting data journalism and business-investigative journalism several new corporate sponsors to fund the OPC’s activities. Next year is globally. the OPC’s 80th anniversary – let’s blow it out of the water!

KEM KNAPP SAWYER Associate Members I am a contributing editor at the Pulitzer Center in Washington, DC, and director of its Campus Consor- PETE ENGARDIO tium student fellowship program. I am a senior writer for the The Pulitzer Center provides more Boston Consulting Group, where I than 130 international reporting specialize on global business topics. grants to professional journalists Previously, I was with BusinessWeek each year. We also partner with 35 for 24 years, where in addition to universities (including community five OPC awards and citations, I colleges, journalism schools, HBCUs, received George Polk, Loeb, Sigma and schools of public health) and Delta Chi, and other awards for my support fellowships for students to coverage of Asia and the global economy. I have served previously do international reporting projects. on the OPC board and on numerous I’ve reported on children at risk judging panels. I believe I can be an in Haiti, Bangladesh, India, and the Democratic Republic of Congo and asset to this vital organization as its have written more than a dozen books for young readers, with subjects assess its strategic direction at a time including refugees and child soldiers, as well as biographies of Eleanor when support for journalists on the Roosevelt and Anne Frank. front lines is more vital than ever. I am committed to expanding international reporting opportunities for journalists new to the field – and to celebrating the groundbreaking work of reporters who cover global issues that matter. v

5 PEOPLE By Farwa Zaidi and Chad Bouchard

OPC SCHOLARS and Salon. About 90 Charles Rollet, who received the percent of The New Jerry Flint Fellowship for Interna- Yorker’s editorial staff tional Business Reporting winner voted to form a union in 2017, won a 2018 Gerard Loeb with NewsGuild of Award along with his colleagues at New York, which also The Wall Street Journal in the in- represents employ- ternational category for the paper’s ees at The New York series entitled “China’s Surveillance Times, The Associ- State.” Rollet was posted at the Jour- ated Press, Thomson nal’s bureau in Beijing as an OPC Reuters, The New Re- Foundation fellow. public and The Daily Rollet Hogan Beast. Isma’il Kushkush, the Roy Rowan Scholarship winner in 2016, Two-time OPC Award winner Es- OPC Award winner has been named an Ida B. Wells ther Htusan was on a Associated Clarissa Ward has been named the Fellow by the Investigative Fund. Press team that won a Deadline Club new chief international correspon- He will receive $12,000 plus funds Award this year in the category of dent at CNN. Ward replaces OPC to cover travel and out-of-pocket Newspaper or Digital Beat Report- member , reporting costs. Kushkush will focus ing for “Rohingya Exodus.” The AP who was recently promoted to chief on sports reporting. He had an OPC team also included Kristen Gelineau, international anchor. Ward previ- Foundation fellowship with AP in Muneeza Naqvi and Todd Pitman. ously served as senior international Jerusalem. Htusan was part of the AP team that correspondent for the network. Last won the OPC’s 2015 Hal Boyle year, she won the OPC’s David Ka- Caelainn Hogan, the H.L. Steven- Award and Malcolm Forbes Award, plan Award for best TV or video spot son Fellowship winner in 2014, has both for reporting on slavery in the news reporting from abroad, for her been named a Cill Rialaig resident seafood industry in Southeast Asia. coverage of rebel-held territory in for 2018 by the Irish Writers Cen- Syria. Ward has reported from multi- ter. Hogan had an OPC Foundation The Deadline Club’s Feature Photo ple war zones, including Yemen, Iraq, fellowship in the Associated Press Award went to James Nachtwey Afghanistan and Ukraine. Amanpour bureau in Nigeria. of TIME for photographs of the hu- has been an OPC member since 2009. man cost of Philippine President Ro- J.p Lawrence, the winner of the drigo Duterte’s drug war. Nachtwey 2015 H.L. Stevenson Fellowship The Times named OPC has won four photo awards from the who now works as a downrange awards judge and Governor Scott OPC over the years, including Rob- reporter for Stars and Stripes in Kraft as the paper’s managing edi- ert Capa Awards in 1994 and 1998, Afghanistan, has been covering U.S. tor on July 9. He has worked at the a Olivier Rebbot Award as well as and Afghan military operations. Times for more than 30 years, most a special photo award in 2001. In On July 8, he reported that special recently as deputy managing editor, 2008, he received an OPC Presi- operations troops had captured a and previously as front-page editor dent’s Award for his work. stronghold that Islamic State fight- and national editor. Kraft has served as correspondent from Kenya; South ers claimed as their local capital. UPDATES Africa and France. He will oversee Before his more to Stars and Stripes, Management at The New Yorker foreign, national, Washington, Cali- Lawrence had an OPC Foundation voluntarily recognized a union that fornia and Metro news in addition to fellowship with the Associated Press editorial staff voted to organize in investigations and enterprise report- in Uganda. June. Longtime editor David Rem- ing. In a note to staff Norman Pearl- nick said in a note to employees on WINNERS stine, who became executive editor July 9 that the magazine agreed to The list of honors continues to grow at the paper last month and is a recognize the union after “several for OPC Governor Azmat Khan longtime member and award sponsor weeks” of discussion between the and OPC member Anand Gopal – for the OPC, called Kraft’s promo- parties. “We’re in this together,” he the pair won a Deadline Club Award tion “an acknowledgment of the role wrote in the note. “The work we set for Magazine Investigative Report- he instinctively took on during the out to do every day is more impor- ing for their story “The Uncounted” past tumultuous year, working with tant than ever.” The magazine, which in the New York Times Magazine. teams throughout the to is owned by Condé Nast, joins the The story covers undisclosed civil- produce journalism of the highest list of several other publications that ian casualties from US-led airstrikes quality.” have recently unionized, including against ISIS, won and this year’s Ed Gizmodo, Vox, HuffPost, VICE, The Cunningham Award for best maga- Intercept, ThinkProgress, Thrillist zine reporting. July-August 2018 6 WELCOME N E W MEMBERS OPC member and former Governor Robert Nickels- OPC member John Avlon and his wife Margaret berg has been working on a book that is slated for launch Hoover were featured in a July 11 New York Times piece Patrick Hilsman CUNY in early September. Afghanistan’s Heritage: Restoring that centers on the couple’s “post-partisan marriage.” Both New York Spirit and Stone is a collaboration between Nickelsberg and work as television commentators, with Avlon presenting Student the Cultural Heritage Program of the Office of Press and an independent point of view and Hoover leaning con- Ted Anthony Public Diplomacy at the U.S. State Department. “When the servative. She is a former commentator, worked Director U.S. Department of State asked me in 2016 to photograph on George W. Bush’s second campaign, and serves as the of Digital Innovation new host of “Firing Line” on PBS. She is also the great- The Associated Press granddaughter of President Herbert Hoover. Avlon is an New York/Pittsburgh Active Resident anchor and senior political analyst at CNN, and previ- ously served as editor of The Daily Beast. He has written books criticizing partisanship, most recently Wingnuts: Extremism in the Age of Obama, published in 2014. The couple first met during Rudy Giuliani’s 2008 presidential campaign. Avlon had been the mayor’s former speech- writer and followed him on his run for president. The two met when Hoover interviewed for a position on the cam- paign team. Asked about political conflict in the couple’s marriage, Avlon told the Times that “there is certainly tension because Republicanism is the family religion and

ROBERT NICKELSBERG ROBERT she married outside the faith.”

cultural heritage sites in Afghanistan, the topic and sub- The Washington Post has named OPC member Elias ject matter represented a departure from the news driven Lopez as senior editor for international opinions. Lopez reportage style of my previous thirty years of working in will helm strategy and operations for the section and lead the country,” Nickelsberg said. “I discovered that even in a the planning of new international opinion ventures. He landscape of seemingly endless conflict and war, Afghans previously worked for The New York Times, where he have managed to weave their history and culture into daily was most recently the editorial director and founded New life. The book represents the extraordinary efforts and York Times en Español. He had worked for the Times for resiliency of Afghan craftsmen made over the past decade over ten years, and held positions on national, foreign to preserve their nation’s heritage.” The book, published by and opinion desks. Before that, Lopez served as reporter The Oriental Institute and University of Chicago, will be and editor at The Miami Herald. launched at the U.S. Institute of Peace, and the Diplomatic Center at the Department of State in Washington, DC will OPC member and photographer John Patrick host an exhibit, also in early September. Naughton had a portrait selected as part of the Fourth Annual Group Show at the Davis Orton Gallery in The Tropenmuseum in Amsterdam is currently exhibiting Hudson, New York from July 14 to Aug. 12. Juror Paula work from OPC members Coleen Jose, Jan Hendrik Tognarelli of the Griffin Museum of Photography selected Hinzel and late OPC member Kim Wall. The interactive Naughton’s portrait of sculptor Steven Foust. The photo exhibition includes images and video from their report- is from a portfolio entitled “Staten Island Artist,” which ing on climate change and nuclear testing in the Marshall tracks the migration of talent to the island as rents rise Islands. Several iterations of the award-winning series have across Greater New York. v been published in Süddeutsche Zeitung, The Guardian, Mashable and other publications. The exhibit is slated to continue through the next five years. JOHN PATRICK NAUGHTON JOHN PATRICK COLEEN JOSE COLEEN July-August 2018 7 PRESS FREEDOM UPDATE... By Farwa Zaidi Five people were shot to death in the other charges were dropped. Zaman he was arrested on his way to the newsroom of the Capital Gazette was the country’s biggest daily news- same protests. He was charged with in Annapolis, Maryland on June 28, paper before it was placed under state “committing misdemeanors through marking the deadliest single violent control in 2016. At the OPC Annual speeches.” Both journalists are being attack on media within the U.S. in Dinner in 2017, the former editor-in- held in Casablanca’s Okasha prison. recent history. Police arrested Jarrod chief of Zaman, Abdülhamit Bilici, Ramos and charged him with five lit the Candle of Remembrance for Indonesian journalist Muhammad counts of first-degree murder. He journalists imprisoned around the Yusuf died while in detention in had filed an unsuccessful defamation world. Kerim Balci, former editor-in- South Kalimantan. He had been on lawsuit against the paper in 2012, chief of Turkish Review, a bimonthly trial for defamation and hate-speech and an appeal in 2015 was dismissed. journal published by Zaman Media charges related to his reporting when Victims of the shooting included Group, spoke at an OPC panel in he became ill and died on June 10. He four journalists: editorial page editor March 2016 after fleeing the country complained to prison authorities at Gerald Fischman, editor and colum- ahead of the police raid on Zaman. the detention center about breathing nist Rob Hiaasen, sports writer John difficulties, chest pains and vomit- McNamara, and community cor- Police detained Vietnamese jour- ing. He was taken to a local hospital, respondent Wendi Winters. Rebecca nalist Le Anh Hung on July 5 for where he was declared dead. Family Smith, a sales assistant, was also suspicion of “abusing democratic members said he had never suffered killed. In 2011, the Gazette had re- freedoms” to infringe on the inter- chronic illnesses before his detention ported on a criminal harassment case ests of the state, an offense outlined and have called for an autopsy. Yusuf against Ramos related to stalking a in Article 331 of the criminal code. was arrested in April for charges former classmate on social media. Enforcement of this article is often related to his reporting on a land Ramos had sent threats to the paper used to censor dissent in Vietnam. conflict between local farmers and a before the shooting, and regularly Convictions carry a maximum palm oil company. Between Novem- threatened the paper and judges on seven-year prison sentence. Hung is ber 2017 and March this year, Yusuf his Twitter account. Tom Marquadt, a contributor to the U.S. Congress- wrote at least 23 articles on the land former editor and publisher at the funded Voice of America and is a dispute. He was held in police cus- paper, told media that he had decided prominent independent blogger. tody for more than five weeks before against filing a lawsuit or requesting Hung had recently published a criti- being transferred in early May. a restraining order. Neither he nor cal commentary on Vietnam’s new Eric Hartley, who were defendants cybersecurity legislation, which gives Two Canadian human rights groups in the defamation suit, are still em- the government expanded powers called for the international com- ployed at the paper and were not to censor and control the Internet. munity to pressure the Bangladeshi present during the shooting. The at- He had also recently posted an open government to democratic reforms, tack on the Capital Since 1992, only letter criticizing Communist Party to cease arrests of critics and restore seven journalists have been killed officials for their new proposed law press freedom. The Canadian within the U.S. in relation to their on special economic zones. At least Human Rights International work, according to the Committee to ten journalists remained detained in Organization and Peace And Protect Journalists. Vietnam as of December 2017. Justice Alliance told reporters at a press conference on July 9 that the Two Moroccan journalists have been government uses extra-judicial kill- Six former journalists in Tur- sentenced to multiple years in prison ings, torture, kidnapping and harass- key were sentenced to prison terms and hundreds of dollars in fines.Mo - ment to silence critics. According to as high as ten and one half years on hamed al-Asrihi was sentenced Reporters Without Borders, at least July 6. The journalists worked for on June 26 to five years in prison and 25 journalists and several hundred the newspaper Zaman, which was a fine of 2,000 Moroccan dirhams bloggers and Facebook users were accused of being a terrorist organiza- ($210). Hamid al-Mahdaoui was prosecuted in 2018 under a law tion for its ties with Fethullah Gulen, sentenced to three years in prison that penalizes online content that is a U.S.-based cleric blamed for the and a fine of 3,000 Moroccan dir- deemed defamatory or blasphemous. 2016 coup attempt. A total of 11 de- hams ($315). Al-Asrihi has been fendants from the paper were arrest- in prison since June of 2017 for MURDERS ed after the coup and charged with reporting on protests organized by Mexican journalist Jose Guada- membership in a terror organization, the Popular Movement. He was con- lupe Chan Dzib was murdered in violating the Turkish Constitution, victed on multiple charges, including a bar on June 29. An unknown as- attempting to overthrow the govern- “undermining Moroccan security” sailant shot him in the city of Saban, ment and other crimes. Five of the and “not having necessary accredita- about 150 miles southeast of Cancun. journalists were acquitted. The other tion as a journalist.” Al-Mahdaoui The gunman shot Chan Dzib mul- six were found guilty of “belonging to was an editor and reporter and has tiple times and fled the scene. The an armed terrorist organization,” but been in prison since July 2017, when journalist, who wrote for the online July-August 2018 8 9 news site Semanario Playa News, head of the Presidential Task Force Indian journalist Shujaat Bukhari was already dead when police ar- on Media Safety, said that authorities was shot and killed on June 14 along rived. Ruben Pat, co-founder of the are investigating the murder. Along with two police officers assigned to site, said that he had just been hired with being a reporter, Lacsamana was protect him. Bukhari was exiting in March. Before joining Semanario also a property developer and quarry his office in Srinagar City to -at Playa, Chan Dzib reported for news- operator. He was shot while on his tend a dinner party when several papers Por Esto and Respuesta. He way home from a meeting with fel- unidentified gunmen fired at him. covered general news, local politics, low quarry operators. He suffered fatal injuries to his head and crime and security. Pat told and abdomen. Two police officers The Committee to Protect Journal- Brazilian radio journalist Jairo who had been assigned to protect ists that Chan Dzib had received a Sousa was shot and killed on June him after an attack in 2000 were also threatening anonymous phone call 21. Sousa had just arrived at Radio shot. Bukhari and both the officers three weeks prior to his death. It is Perola, a privately-owned broadcaster were rushed to the hospital, where unknown whether the two incidents in Braganca, when two unidentified all three succumbed to their injuries. are connected. Chan Dzib was the gunmen shot him in the back. Sousa Police said they are not aware of any sixth journalist murdered in Mexico hosted the daily program “Show da recent threats against Bukhari. Police this year. Perola” at the station. Sousa regularly released images of three suspects reported on corruption, homicide, on a motorcycle captured on secu- A newspaper reporter in the Phil- and drug trafficking. He’d been rity cameras and arrested a fourth ippines was shot to death on June working at Radio Perola for two suspect seen stealing a pistol from 23. Manuel Lacsamana was a years, most recently reporting on al- one of the killed officers. Prior to his contributor to the local monthly The legations of corruption in the local most recent job as editor of Rising Media Messenger, and chairperson municipal government. According Kashmir, Bukhari worked as the state of the Central Luzon Media Associa- to a colleague, Sousa had been at- bureau chief of The Hindu national tion press group. Unidentified gun- tacked and threatened in the past, newspaper for 15 years. In 2006, he men shot him while he was driving prompting him to wear a bulletproof survived an assassination attempt a pick-up truck in Cabanatuan City. vest and carry pepper spray. In 2014, when the gunman’s weapon jammed, He was able to drive away to another a man tried to attack Sousa while he and in 1996, he was abducted and street but was pronounced dead reported in a restaurant in the nearby detained by militants in Kashmir for at the Paulino J. Garcia Memorial town of Quatipuru. Local police say several hours. v Research and Medical Center. Joel they will investigate whether his Sy-Egco, who is presidential under- death was related to his work. secretary for communications and

‘Civil’ forces will try to control it through token purchases,” Continued From Page 1 he said. Click here Sieberg acknowledged that the company has spent to watch video people, is developing a “à-la-carte menu” of alterna- a lot of time considering those risks, and put systems clips from the ‘Civil’ program. tive economic tools for community members, includ- in place to protect the community. The economics of ing crowd funding, micro-tipping or subscriptions cryptocurrency prevent large-scale token purchases, that newsrooms can tailor to monetize content via the and the only way to acquire tokens after the platform platform. launches will be from existing members. Past OPC President Allan Dodds Frank, who at- The community has a constitution to support integ- tended the program, was encouraged to hear that Civil rity among member newsrooms, and is governed by an is working on ways for news services and individual elected, term-limited council that can step in and block journalists to detect where their content is published. bad actors or those who do not fit with the commu- “Allowing journalists to track how their work is nity’s mission. used and reused would give them at least a shot at get- Civil recently announced that former NPR CEO ting paid for all the rights to their work. And if Civil Vivian Schiller will lead the company’s foundation, and can perform that function, as ASCAP or BMI did for shepherd the constitution and help to define what does musicians, it would be a great service to all, he wrote in – and does not – constitute ethical journalism on Civil. an email after the program. “More journalists would do The company has been recruiting newsrooms and better, and they would create more in-depth work and projects with seed grants, and is preparing for an im- more people might be inspired to pursue the craft.” minent launch with 100 full-time journalists across 13 But Dodds Frank also raised concerns about the po- independent newsrooms already on board. tential for bad actors to subvert the project’s integrity. Sieberg previously worked on Google News Lab and “Civil as a big idea is promising but if it really gets Google for Media, and before that he worked in broad- going, I will be wondering whether some big dark cast news networks such as ABC, CBS and CNN. v July-August 2018 9 9 NEW BOOKS By Farwa Zaidi

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hile journalist Carmen Gentile was fter the fall of Libyan dictator Moammar embedded with an Army unit in Afghani- Muammar Gaddafi, the country was swept Wstan in 2010, a rocket-propelled grenade up in a moment of hope and euphoria. Peace struck him on the right side of his head, blinding A and political freedom blossomed, but soon began to him in one eye and shattering his face. Though the unravel as fear and tribal conflict sparked a civil war. grenade did not explode, the injury sent him on a Veteran Middle East correspondent Frederic Wehrey long journey of physical and emotional recovery. witnessed this transformation firsthand, and details UPCOMING Blindsided by the Taliban: A Journalist’s Story of his observations in his new book The Burning Shores: War, Trauma, Love, and Loss [Skyhorse Publishing, Inside the Battle for New Libya.[Farrar, Straus and EVENTS March 2018] chronicles the ripple effects of his Giroux, April 2018]. trauma, through multiple surgeries, a broken engage- Wehrey follows the immediate aftermath of long- ment, a drug addiction, and post-traumatic stress suppressed civil resistance movements as they pushed disorder. for parliamentary elections as soon as possible, while Gentile began his reporting career in the late observers in the West urged a slower approach due 1990s as a freelancer based in Cairo. He has to recent sectarian conflicts. Despite complications, Annual Meeting covered wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and Libya was doing well. Oil profits were rising, and lived and worked in Nigeria, writing for there was progress toward elections. Libyans were Open to all members publications including The New York Times, guardedly optimistic about their future. That was until 6 p.m. TIME, Newsweek and USA Today. Gentile Benghazi. lived in Brazil for four years reporting on Wehrey recounts how the attack on two U.S. turmoil in Venezuela, Haiti and Bolivia. Club Quarters government facilities in Benghazi, where the U.S. For many weeks during his months-long Ambassador Libya and three other Americans lost

recovery, Gentile recalls, doctors instructed their lives, led to a more militarized American Sept. 4 him to only look at the ground. For an entire presence in Libya, which widened fractures and month he was instructed by doctors to only look threatened to break the country apart. Wehrey spoke at the ground. Gentile writes that his physical re- to Libyans and interviewed migrants as an estimated covery was not as hard as healing from emotional seven hundred thousand to one million people trauma and depression that followed. As his flooded into the country to flee famine and warfare in OPC Night mental health deteriorated, he descended into the region. opiate addiction and struggled with night ter- The last chapters of the book detail the Islamic at the Theater: rors, and relationships with close friends and State’s growing influence in Libya, and its use ‘Intractable Woman’ family were strained to the breaking point. of discontent to recruit young followers. In an Gentile ultimately 122 Community Center interview on NPR, decides to return Wehrey took the Obama 150 1st Ave., NY to the front lines to administration to task for continue his work. “not being responsible Sept. 20 Krishnadev Calamur for what followed of The Atlantic called the [military intervention], book “an honest portrayal of really abdicating of how difficult it is not responsibility for the only to be a freelance post-conflict recovery journalist, but to be one and reconstruction to the in a war zone. It is a Libyans themselves.” He must-read for those who said the power vacuum romanticize the work, as in Libya opened a well as those who want to “breeding ground” for be journalists.” v Islamic State, as Libyans coming back from fighting in Syria fueled the flames of radicalization. Frederic Wehrey is an American scholar of Middle East affairs and an expert on Libyan and Gulf politics. He is a senior associate at the Middle East program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Burning Shores is his second book on Middle Eastern affairs. His articles have appeared inThe New York Times and The Washington Post. v July-August 2018 10 remaining independent and impartial – covering the news without “fear or favor,” – even in the face of targeted harassment and intimidation.

Best journalism advice received: “Now take a step back.”

Ceylan Yeginsu Worst experience as a journalist: Watching dead children turn up at a morgue after being denied safe passage to Meet the OPC Members: Europe while alive.

Q&A With Ceylan Yeginsu Hardest story: Interviewing ISIS mili- tants. by chad bouchard New York Times and a year or so covering the UK, I’ve seen first-hand just how Advice for journalists who want to eylan Yeginsu is a correspon- important it is for journalists to support work overseas: First learn the history, dent for The New York Times in each other, particularly in challenging then the culture and then the language. CLondon. Previously, she served environments and times. I’ve been very Spend time with locals even when it’s as correspondent for the Turkey bureau, lucky with the Times, but equally lucky not for a story. Do not just hang out with where she covered politics, the Kurdish to meet colleagues from other media expats! conflict, the rise of Islamic State and other organizations who have touched my pro- stories. She earned a master’s degree in fessional life so far. The OPC is a way of Dream job: Breaking into four longform digital media at Columbia University’s staying in touch with colleagues I already stories or so a year, alongside a substantial Graduate School of Journalism in 2011 know, meeting new ones, and perhaps book project. Or, perhaps, to lead a report- and was awarded the Brigid O’Hara- even imparting some wisdom to future ing team in a world city. Forster Fellowship. Yeginsu started her generations of journalists. career in 2008 as a reporter and editor for Favorite quote: “Do the work. No matter the Turkish newspaper Hürriyet. Before How did you become interested in the how many followers you have, or people joining the Times in 2013, she worked as Middle East/Europe? Born in , congratulating you on Twitter – what do a freelance journalist in New York and educated in England (BA, in classical you have to show for it? Your last byline Istanbul, writing for The Atlantic, The civilization), and then back to Turkey doesn’t matter. What’s the next? Always Economist, Huffington Post and Interna- for my first job in journalism, my inter- have something better in the works.” tional Business Times, among others. est in Europe and the Middle East was –David Carr inevitable. The catalyst for my return to Hometown: Istanbul, Turkey / London, Turkey – which obviously strides both Most over-the-top assignment: England. continents – was a strong gut feeling I Trying to hike up a mountain to England’s developed after Columbia Journalism highest market town during a freak snow- Education: University of Leeds (BA); School that Turkey was going to develop storm to do a weather story. Columbia University (MS, Journalism). into a big story. After almost a year of un- successfully applying for foreign postings Place you’re most eager to visit: Japan. Languages you speak: English, Turkish. in Istanbul from New York, I decided to move back and freelance. A few months Most common mistake you’ve seen: Be- First job in journalism: I began as after my return in 2013, the largest anti- lieving exaggerated accounts too easily. intern and was then hired as a reporter for government protests in recent Turkish his- the English-arm of Hürriyet, at the time tory broke out. I ended up covering them Twitter handle: @ceylanwrites v Turkey’s most-circulated independent for the Times, and being taken on by the broadsheet newspaper. newspaper’s Turkey Bureau, then headed up by Tim Arango. Working with Tim – Countries reported from: Turkey, the who was also the newspaper’s long-serv- United States, the United Kingdom, ing Iraq bureau chief – only developed Greece. my interest in the region further. Want to add to the OPC’s collection of When and why did you join the OPC? Major challenge as a journalist: Q&As with members? Please contact I joined the OPC earlier this year. After Being a national of the country you are [email protected]. a five-year stint covering Turkey forThe covering for an international media outlet,

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