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datelineWINNERS OF THE OVERSEAS PRESS CLUB AWARDS 2013 SPECIAL EDITION A Correspondent Asks: REMEMBER THE AFGHAN WAR? dateline 2013 1 LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT t the Overseas Press Club office in New York, staff member Lucrecia (Boots) Duque is in charge of compiling news about the abuse of journalists around the world and sending dispatches to our Freedom of the Press Committee for possible action by the club. The A reports, from the Committee to Protect Journalists, Reporters Without Borders and other groups, are nothing if not global. In a recent two-week period we had journalists being intimi- dated, arrested, assaulted and murdered in Oman, Azerbaijan, Guatemala, Vietnam, Belarus, Turkey, Egypt and Eritrea. In mid-March, Brazilian crime reporter Rodrigo Neto de Faria was shot dead execution-style in a killing possibly related to his reporting on police corruption. Covering the world has never been more dangerous — and while we at the OPC complain that the band of reporters traveling beyond our shores is constantly shrinking, the number of people targeted by the authorities is rapidly expanding, as online journalists, bloggers and tweeters take up the task of afflicting the comfortable. And then, of course, there is the continuing stream of journalist deaths, injuries and disappearances from the civil war in Syria. We honor one of them at tonight’s dinner: Jim Foley, a freelance writer, photographer and videographer who was kidnapped on Nov. 22, 2012. We join his family’s appeal for whoever is holding him to send him home. In my first half-year as president of the OPC we sponsored a series of programs that addressed some of the human rights issues that have gotten reporters into trouble with the law. None was more moving than our program featuring Danny Lee, a refugee from the North Korean gulag, who spent the first two decades of his life in a concentration camp — for the crime of being born to parents who were already there. Stories that dig deep into such horrors were prominent in our awards for the best reporting and photography of 2012. Syria, of course, dominates the breaking news categories, with reporters and photographers taking home a half dozen prizes for their coverage of that dangerous conflict. There were also tales from more remote corners of the world. Especially noteworthy is a combination print, radio and video package by WBEZ and ProPublica that uncovers for the first time details of the military massacre that destroyed a village in Guatemala 30 years ago. Equally compelling are the winning reports on violence in Honduras and the “opium brides” of Afghanistan. We thank the 76 judges who helped choose our prize winners, and congratulate them for their good work, and, in some cases, for risking their lives to produce it. —Michael S. Serrill, President overseas press club of america board of governors president active board Azmat Khan associate board members Digital Producer Michael S. Serrill Jacqueline Albert-Simon Brian Byrd PBS - Frontline Assistant Managing Editor U.S. Bureau Chief Program Officer Bloomberg Markets Politique Internationale Evelyn Leopold NYS Health Foundation Independent Journalist Amar C. Bakshi Emma Daly first vice president United Nations Tim Ferguson JD/MBA student Communications Director Editor Yale University Dafna Linzer Human Rights Watch Managing Editor Forbes Asia Rebecca Blumenstein Sarah Lubman MSNBC.com second vice president Deputy Editor in Chief Partner The Wall Street Journal Santiago Lyon Brunswick Group Abigail Pesta VP and Director of Photography Paul Brandus Minky Worden Freelance Journalist Associated Press West Wing Report Director of Global Initiatives third vice president Marcus Mabry Human Rights Watch Howard Chua-Eoan Editor at Large Toni Reinhold News Director Abi Wright International Herald Tribune Editor in Charge, New York Desk Time Director, Alfred I. duPont Reuters John Martin Columbia University Awards Deidre Depke Writer/Editor treasurer Editor past presidents ex-officio Dorinda Elliott The Daily Beast Romesh Ratnesar David A. Andelman • John Corporon Deputy Editor Global Affairs Editor Adam B. Ellick Allan Dodds Frank • Alexis Gelber Conde Nast Traveler *Video and Print Journalist Bloomberg Businessweek William J. Holstein • Marshall Loeb secretary The New York Times Tom Squitieri Larry Martz • Roy Rowan Leonard Saffir • Larry Smith Jonathan Dahl * on leave attending Harvard Kennedy School Freelance Journalist Richard B. Stolley Senior Editor Arlene Getz Seymour Topping The Wall Street Journal Editor-in-Charge, Media Emeritus Professor executive director Thomson Reuters of International Journalism Sonya K. Fry Columbia University 40 West 45 Street New York, NY 10036 USA Phone (212) 626-9220 Fax (212) 626-9210 website: opcofamerica.org 2 Overseas Press Club Awards dateline 2013 3 CONTENTS AWARDS 2012 Dateline Hope: Ravaged Mogadishu 7 and a New Somalia Alex Perry A War America — and Most of 11 its Media — Forgot Rod Nordland THE OPC ANNUAL AWARDS 19 The stories and photos that stood out in 2012 The Hal Boyle Award 20 The Bob Considine Award The Robert Capa Gold Medal Award The Olivier Rebbot Award The Robert Capa Gold Medal Award 22 Fabio Bucciarelli Battle to Death The Olivier Rebbot Award 24 Samuel James The Water of My Land The John Faber Award 26 Feature Photography Award The Lowell Thomas Award The David Kaplan Award The Edward R. Murrow Award BANGLADESH The John Faber Award 28 Bernat Armangue Conflict in Gaza Feature Photography Award 30 Oded Balilty An Ultra Orthodox Wedding The Ed Cunningham Award 32 The Thomas Nast Award The Morton Frank Award The Malcolm Forbes Award The Thomas Nast Award 34 Rob Rogers ALSO IN THIS ISSUE A group of Rohingya men, working in the Shamlapur area of Bangladesh, push their fishing boat back to shore after working The Cornelius Ryan Award 36 all night. Often Rohingya men, a muslim minority in western Burma, work as bonded laborers in Bangladesh and are trapped into The Madeline Dane Ross Award Letter From the President 1 debt to local boat owners. GREG CONSTANTINE / Exiled To Nowhere: Burma’s Rohingya — Rebbot Award submission David A. Andelman and Pamela Title Award President’s Award to Tom Brokaw 5 The Joe and Laurie Dine Award OPC Award Sponsors and Judges 43 Where OPC Members Are Welcome 47 The Robert Capa Gold Medal Award 38 dateline 2013 Citation COVER: Ibrahim holds his youngest son in an open-air refugee camp near Tim Ferguson, Editor Louisa Kearney, Publisher Sophia Tewa, Copy Editor Manu Brabo Kabul where he lives with his wife and 11 children. Last winter, the same Sonya K. Fry, OPC Executive Director Nancy Novick, Design Syria’s Civil War camp buried at least two children who died due to the freezing temperatures during the same week. ANDREA BRUCE/NOOR Images/The New York Times, © 2013 Published by the Overseas Press Club of America, which bears sole responsibility for its contents. The Whitman Bassow Award 40 A Deathly Cold — Faber Award submission OPC, 40 West 45 Street, New York, NY 10036 USA Phone: (212) 626-9220 Fax: (212) 626-9210 www.opcofamerica.org Robert Spiers Benjamin Award Best Multimedia News Presentation We wish to thank the following photographers whose work fills the pages of Dateline: Andrea Bruce/NOOR Images/The New York Times, Greg Constantine, Farah Abdi Warsameh/AP Photo, Stuart Price/AP Photo, Jason Straziuso/AP Photo, Kuni Takahashi/ Best Investigative Reporting 42 The New York Times, Mauricio Lima/The New York Times, David Gilkey/NPR, Michael Kamber/The New York Times, Best Commentary PR Newswire is the official news release distributor for the OPC. Tyler Hicks/The New York Times. 4 Overseas Press Club Awards dateline 2013 5 PRESIDENT’S AWARD SeTTing new TO STAndARdS TOM BROKAW BlackRock commends the members of the Overseas Press Club of America and congratulates tonight’s award recipients and honorees. Like the distinguished people we’re honoring today, BlackRock is Duncan and the Dirty Dozen committed to providing answers – and leadership – to those we By Martin Fletcher, NBC News serve. That includes the firefighters and teachers, the parents and grandparents who entrust us with their savings and count on us to he engine was screaming on the chartered later studied his report, I realised that if I had had two help secure their futures. And we take our responsibility to them Dakota into Mogadishu in 1992, everyone was days to polish it, I would not have changed a word. sweating, and the water bottle passed from It takes enormous guts to ad lib live such a his- extremely seriously. Tthe Duke of Miller to the Jinx to the Wanker to toric moment, and only an exceptional newsman who That’s why we have built our world-class capabilities around our Screaming Skull and ended in the hands of Duncan combines depth of knowledge with great empathy for the Wonder Dog aka Tom Brokaw. There was barely the people could have pulled it off. clients’ greatest needs. And that’s why we deliver those capabilities a mouthful for Tom who grimaced at his grimy col- Yet Tom managed anyway. in a way that only BlackRock can – across asset classes, geographies leagues, and said, “Here we go. NBC’s Dirty Dozen.” It wasn’t always such a smooth ride but Tom knew and active and passive strategies, all enhanced by the deep expertise It was true. The same bunch of comrades trotted how to take it on the chin. Back in Beirut, ABC owned the globe and when the story was big enough, we the American hostages story and Tom came in to turn of BlackRock’s investment teams and our unmatched risk were cheered by the presence of our intrepid leader, things round. This was shortly after Thomas Hearns management capabilities. immaculate in Patagonia.