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MONTHLY NEWSLETTER I February-March 2019 The Washington Post’s Martin Baron INSIDE to Deliver Keynote at OPC Annual Dinner Event Recap: Scholar Awards Luncheon 2 of stories and journalistic ideals EVENT PREVIEW: APRIL 18 is worthwhile and noble and has a Event Preview: by patricia kranz profound impact on the audience Tiananmen and the subjects of the work,” said After 30 Years 3 s the OPC marks the 80th Pancho Bernasconi, president of the anniversary of its founding People Remembered: OPC. “Maggie’s long-term commit- at the Annual Awards Dinner James P. Colligan 3 A ment to stories, such on April 18, the club will honor all as her powerful and Scholar Profiles 4-5 the journalists who dedicate, risk, Baron Holt NINIAN REID/WIKIMEDIA COMMONS NINIAN REID/WIKIMEDIA deeply moving Click here and even lose their lives covering the to RSVP for the People Column 6-7 reportage from world – now, and over the past eight more than 60 counties around the Annual Awards Haiti over several decades. world for a range of clients including Dinner Press Freedom decades, serves as Update 8-9 Martin Baron, the executive Newsweek, National Geographic, an example of how a editor of The Washington Post, will Smithsonian, and many others. She New Books 10 photojournalist can help bring into be the keynote speaker, and Lester has earned several awards for her sharp relief the issues that impact a Holt, anchor of NBC Nightly News work, including the OPC’s 1988 Ol- Q&A: people and their country.” Andre Borges 11 and Dateline NBC, will present the ivier Rebbot Award, the Leica Medal Baron took the helm as editor awards. of Excellence, Pictures of the Year at the Post in December 2012 after The President’s Award will and World Press Photo awards. serving as editor for The Boston go to Maggie Steber, a celebrated “Maggie Steber’s body of work photojournalist who has worked in shows that dedication to the pursuit Continued on Page 2 Jason Rezaian to Discuss ‘Prisoner’ in Book Night EVENT PREVIEW: APRIL 24 general American audience, first as a freelancer on the same day that the historic nuclear deal for a variety of outlets and later as The Wash- between Iran and world powers was imple- by patricia kranz ington Post’s Tehran bureau chief. mented. oin the OPC for a very special event. He reported on two presidential elections, Fassihi covers diplomacy at the U.N. and Jason Rezaian, a Washington Post reporter Iran’s nuclear negotiations with global powers, foreign policy following a 14-year career as Jwho spent almost two years in Tehran’s the effects of one of the most punitive sanctions a war correspondent in the Middle East. She Evin prison, will discuss his book Prisoner: regimes in modern times, and environmental has covered 6 wars and many uprisings from My 544 Days in an Iranian Prison – Solitary issues. the invasion of Afghanistan to Iraq, Gaza, Confinement, a Sham Trial, High-Stakes Diplo- In between the big news events, he Lebanon, Syria, Iran and beyond. She macy, and the Extraordinary Efforts It Took to told the stories of everyday Iranians, has won numerous national awards Get Me Out. Click here reporting on Iran’s small community to RSVP for the including two OPC awards and last The moderator will be Farnaz Fassihi, se- of baseball players, the quest for the book night. year was honored with an Ellis Island nior writer at The Wall Street Journal. best high-end hamburger in Tehran, Medal of Honor. She is the author of Rezaian is one of the few Western journal- and a clinic for female drug addicts. a book on the Iraq war, Waiting for an ists to have been based in Tehran in recent In July of 2014 Rezaian and his wife Ordinary Day. The event will get underway years. From 2009 until his arrest in 2014 he were detained in their home and he went on at Club Quarters at 6:30 p.m. Click on the gold covered stories that tried to explain Iran to a to spend 544 days in prison. He was released button to make reservations. v 1 1 C.J. Chivers Tells OPC Scholars to ‘Stick to Basics’ ‘Annual Dinner’ EVENT RECAP about the impact of global climate Continued From Page 1 change. She spoke about reporting by chad bouchard on the effects of climate change in Globe from 2001 to 2012. he overseas Press Club Senegal, where traditional seasonal Newsrooms under his Foundation presented 16 rains have become so torrential that direction have garnered Tscholarship awards at the they spark floods and wash away fer- multiple OPC awards and organization’s annual Scholar tile soil. Gray said she was moved by Pulitzer Prizes, among Awards Luncheon on Friday, Feb. the prayers of those she talked to for other honors. Baron has 22, 2019, at the Yale Club. the story. They prayed for her safety, been an outspoken critic OPC Foundation President Bill and prayed that the story would make of President Trump’s at- Holstein said during his opening KANG SYLVIA SANGSUK something happen. “Most stories about tacks against press and remarks that the organization is but you are going through this with climate change are pretty awful. They what he called the “mud- joining a global battle by launching us,” she quoted the man saying, “your are constipated with numbers that none the careers of journalists’ who share dling of fact and fiction.” story will be different.” Duarte has an of us quite understand,” she said. She key values of integrity and hard work. credited her teachers at Columbia for Last February, during the OPC Foundation fellowship with the “We’re fighting against the forces reinforcing that good reporting means Reuters Memorial Lecture GroundTruth Project. “I want to give of isolationism, against a sort of na- “you get your body there, you observe, at Oxford, he said that in visibility to invisible realities,”she tional navel-gazing that’s going on said. and you write something that makes the face of “an unrelent- today. We’re fighting against all the people feel a [certain] way,” she said. ing assault from the most This year marked the launch of bullies and thugs around the world, the first Richard Pyle Scholarship, “My intention is to use the years left powerful person on earth, including here at home,” Holstein told which went to A.J. Naddaff, a student that I have to work to write stories that the answer for us is clear: the capacity luncheon crowd. at Davidson College with reporting make you feel something, to answer Just do our job. Do it hon- C.J. Chivers, Pulitzer Prize- experience in the Middle East, North the prayers of these women, for whom estly, honorably, seriously, winning correspondent for The New Africa and Kosovo. The award’s the stakes could not be higher.” v fairly, accurately, and also York Times, was the keynote speaker. namesake spent 50 years at The Asso- unflinchingly.” He began by rejecting what he called ciated Press. In presenting the award, Holt spent a total of 19 a cliché descriptor of journalism as OPC member and veteran AP reporter years as reporter and an- merely “bearing witness,” and called Edith Lederer remembered when Pyle chor at CBS in New York, on the scholars to instead “validate was her boss as Saigon bureau chief MANY THANKS Los Angeles and Chicago and lift the suffering of people who while she covered the Vietnam War. before moving to NBC in are in the way and trod upon. You can She called Pyle “a brilliant word- The OPC Foundation is especially 2000. In 2015 he became expose, indict and shame the powerful, smith who never lost his passion for grateful for its Patrons and permanent anchor of NBC the ignorant and the abusive. And you pursuing important stories and ‘the Friends who supported the Nightly News, replacing can explain, if you’re smart, the most truth.’” Naddaff said in his remarks 2019 Scholar Awards Luncheon. Brian Williams. pressing problems of modern times to that during his time reporting on ISIS Their contributions ensure The Annual Dinner at your fellow citizens with sound analy- in Kosovo, he learned that “pushing the continued success of the sis and compassion.” foundation’s scholarship/ Cipriani, 25 Broadway, through fear creates the best stories.” He reminded scholars to “stick to will get underway with Naddaff will head to Beirut for an fellowship program. basics,” and to “remember that very a cocktail reception at OPC Foundation fellowship with the little that’s good rises from weak 6:00 p.m., with the dinner AP. Patrons roots.” Irene Corbally Kuhn Scholarship and program at 7:00 p.m. Bloomberg This year’s winners included six winner Mehr Nadeem spent 10 years Click on the gold but- Daimler from Columbia University, two from growing up on an expat compound ton on the front page to Reuters Harvard, and one each from Yale, in Saudi Arabia. In her remarks, she RSVP, or visit: Brown, Tufts University, UC-Berke- spoke about how the constant threat Marcus Roy Rowan bit.ly/OPC_RSVP. v ley, University of Missouri, UNC- of terrorist attacks created a claustro- Toyota Motor North America Chapel Hill, SOAS University of phobic atmosphere in the compound. Friends London and Davidson College. Each The piece she submitted for the The Associated Press recipient spoke briefly about their fu- scholarship was a long-form investi- Boies Schiller Flexner LLP ture goals and past reporting, sharing gation into a security and surveillance stories from the field.