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OPC to Hold Investigative Reporting Techniques Seminar Innovating in Global Hotspots THE MONTHLY NEWSLETTER OF THE OVERSEAS PRESS CLUB OF AMERICA, NEW YORK, NY • June 2014 OPC to Hold Investigative Reporting Techniques Seminar AP. The documents she found strewn EVENT PREVIEW: JUNE 23 in 10 buildings, formerly occupied OPC members can learn key in- by the fighters, led her on a pains- vestigative reporting techniques taking journey of verification, and it from two of this year’s award win- resulted in stories that painted a por- ners on June 23 in a seminar on “How trait of al-Qaida’s presence in Africa. to report on secret organizations.” The event kicks off the OPC’s Steve Stecklow of Reuters, who new “Meet the Winners” series. won the Malcolm Forbes Award for It will be held from 7 to 9 p.m. at “Assets of the Ayatollah,” will fo- CUNY Graduate School of Journal- cus on how best to use online tools ism, 219 West 40th Street, Room like Google, LinkedIn and Way- From left, Steve Stecklow 308. To register, e-mail patricia@op- and Rukmini Callimachi back Machine. In a three-part series, cofamerica.org or call 212 626-9220. Stecklow and his colleagues drew a devastating portrait of how Ayatol- lah Khamenei had secured a posi- tion in nearly every sector of Iran’s Innovating in Global Hotspots economy through a little-known EVENT PREVIEW: JUNE 25 agency called Setad that confiscated Partner, Rise Capital; Tony people’s homes. Silicon Dragon Ventures was formed by OPC member Florence, General Part- Rukmini Callimachi of The ner, NEA; Bernd Schoner, New York Times, who won the Hal Rebecca Fannin to help con- nect innovators and venture Founder, ThingMagic and Boyle and Bob Considine awards, author of The Tech Entrepre- uncovered one of the most signifi- investors in tech hotspots with news and events. Now neurs’ Survival Guide; Vicky cant troves of al-Qaida documents Wu, Co-Founder, fashion ever made public while working at in its fourth year, the Silicon Dragon team has run more ecommerce site, ZaoZao; Rebecca Fannin than 35 forums around the Nirmal Mulye, President, Inside. world. Fannin will bring together Nostrum Energy. Fannin will be on hand as the MC Empire State Building......................2 another panel co-sponsored with the OPC to spotlight Tech Entre- and moderator. Other panel modera- Foundation Scholar Report.............3 preneurship, Venture Capital, An- tors will be OPC Foundation Presi- gel Investing and Crowd Finance in dent Bill Holstein, business journal- Taiwan Breakfast Panel Recap.......4 the World’s Leading Startup Hubs: ist and author of The Next American Economy; and Bianca Chen, Finance Bayeux Recap.................................5 China, India, Silicon Valley, Russia, Israel. Correspondent, Thomson Reuters. People........................................7-11 Some panelists include Brian The event takes place on Wednes- Cohen, Chairman, NY Angels and day, June 25 from 5 to 8 p.m. Tick- People Remembered....................11 author of What Every Angel Inves- ets are $80 or $125 for the Silicon Tribute: Agnes Dodds Kinard........12 tor Wants You to Know; David Rose, Dragon Circle and can be purchased CEO, Gust and author of Angel In- in advance online at http://bit. Pittsburgh Panels Recap...............13 vesting; Jon Medved, Founder & ly/1pwka0M. The three panels will convene at Farewell to Sonya Fry...............14-15 CEO, OurCrowd; Harry Hui, Found- er and Managing Partner, Clearvue the OPC Club Quarters, 40 W. 45th New Books....................................16 Partners; Nazar Yasin, Managing Street. Midtown Tribute to the OPC’s 75th in Blue by Brian Byrd April 24 marked the official recognition of the OPC’s 75th anniversary. What better way to honor this event than with a special lighting of an American cultural icon: the Empire State Building. Out of the thousands of requests the ESB receives on a regular basis, the Overseas Press Club of America was not only given the nod to have the building swathed in blue, but we were also asked to participate in a special ceremony to mark the occasion. The ceremony was held in the building’s lobby on the morning of the annual awards dinner. After brief introduc- tory remarks by myself and Joe Bellina, the building’s general manager, David Muir, ABC World News Weekend Above, from left: David Muir, Toni Reinhold, Michael Anchor, stepped up to offer praise of OPC, and personal Serrill, Marcus Mabry, Brian Byrd, Patricia Kranz and thoughts on the complex challenges faced by international Minky Worden in the Empire State Building foyer. Below, from left: Brian Byrd and Michael Serrill on journalists. Afterwards and with great fanfare, he flipped the 103rd floor of the Empire State Builiding. the switch to light the building’s replica in blue, OPC’s of- ficial color. David, his assistant Erin McLaughlin, and a small group of OPC representatives then posed for photo- graphs on the 86th and 102nd floors. The group was invited to visit the exclusive VIP ob- servation deck. Only a few guests are allowed to see the “secret” 103rd floor, where a narrow, circular outdoor ter- race offers dizzying views of the city, unencumbered by a protective fence. Standing just underneath the base of the antenna, we had an 80-mile panoramic view of the region. After walking the terrace 1200 feet above the city, it was clear that the evening’s blue lighting was an appropriate tribute to OPC’s “long history of distinguished journalism.” OVERSEAS PRESS CLUB OF AMERICA • BOARD OF GOVERNORS PRESIDENT ACTIVE BOARD Martin Dickson Robert Nickelsberg ASSOCIATE BOARD PAST PRESIDENTS Michael Serrill Jacqueline Albert- U.S. Managing Editor Freelance MEMBERS EX-OFFICIO Assistant Managing Simon Financial Times Photojournalist Brian Byrd David A. Andelman Editor U.S. Bureau Chief Program Officer John Corporon Bloomberg Markets Politique Internationale Arlene Getz Romesh Ratnesar NYS Health Allan Dodds Frank Editor-in-Charge Deputy Editor Foundation Alexis Gelber FIRST VICE PRESIDENT Amar C. Bakshi Digital News Bloomberg William J. Holstein Tim Ferguson JD/MBA student Thomson Reuters Businessweek Sarah Lubman Marshall Loeb Editor Yale University Partner Larry Martz Forbes Asia Azmat Khan Martin Smith Brunswick Group Roy Rowan Rebecca Senior Digital Producer President Leonard Saffir SECOND VICE PRESIDENT Blumenstein Al Jazeera Rain Media Daniel Sieberg Larry Smith Abigail Pesta Deputy Editor in Chief Head of Media Outreach Richard B. Stolley Freelance Journalist The Wall Street Journal Evelyn Leopold Seymour Topping Google Independent Journalist Emeritus EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR THIRD VICE PRESIDENT Paul Brandus United Nations Professor of Minky Worden Patricia Kranz Toni Reinhold West Wing Report International Journalism Director of Global Editor in Charge, Dafna Linzer Columbia University Initiatives OFFICE MANAGER New York Desk Howard Chua-Eoan Managing Editor Human Rights Watch Boots R. Duque Reuters Former News Director MSNBC.com Charles Wallace Time Financial Writer Abi Wright EDITOR TREASURER Santiago Lyon Director Aimee Vitrak Dorinda Elliott Jane Ciabattari VP and Director of Alfred I. duPont – Freelance Journalist Freelance Writer Photography Columbia University NPR.org, Daily Beast Associated Press Awards OPC SECRETARY ISSN-0738-7202 Jonathan Dahl Deidre Depke Marcus Mabry Copyright © 2014 Editor in Chief Journalist and Editor at Large Over seas Press Club of WSJMoney Author The New York Times America 40 West 45 Street, New York, NY 10036 USA • Phone: (212) 626-9220 • Fax: (212) 626-9210 • Website: opcofamerica.org OPC Bulletin • June 2014 • Page 2 Affording International Environmental Journalism by ST McNeil Few forget their first experience of authoritarianism. In 2009, the police detained an Italian friend of mine for two days in Tunisia for photographing poverty. He had been assembling a story about the economic disparity that even- tually erupted into the Jasmine Revolution. Protestor’s car- ried posters with the mugshot of the dictator Ben Ali who fled the country on January 14, 2011. With his departure, Tunisia became stunningly open. All subjects are on the table. Many write about Islamists, booze, bikinis, social media and democracy. Others focus on larger structural forces. In the wake of the Arab Spring, my comrade Radhouane Addala, who is a Tunisian jour- McNeil Photos: ST nalist, and I sensed a chance to break some new ground. “I want to live” reads this sign in Arabic at a protest Our idea was to talk to regular folk in Tunisia dealing against a phosphate refinery in Gabès, Tunisia that some residents claim flouts environmental regulations in the today with climate change. The multimedia project re- destabilizing wake of the 2010 revolution. volved around the Mediterranean’s salt and the Sahara’s sand, two elements representing sea-level rise and deserti- fication. The investigation would have been illegal under Ben Ali, and might again become a dangerous subject. My research revealed the Tunisian government’s ma- nipulation of environmental stewardship to generate profit at the expense of people and ecosystems. Money borrowed from international institutions fueled not only social but ecological devastation. We were muckraking in the ruins. I followed in the footsteps of photographer Andrew Borowiec as we roamed across the south, talking to farm- ers and fishermen, with counsel from mentors like OPC member Mort Rosenblum. Grants from the Arizona Press Club and the Shantel Foundation ran out in the first month, Hand by hand, a worker outside of Tataouine on the northern edge of the Sahara maintains a shifting string so we freelanced for Al-Jazeera and others to cover the of palm-frond walls to try and halt sand encroachment costs while riding public transportation and crashing on driven in part by climate change. couches. On returning to the States, Indiegogo.com helped us crowdsource funds to professionally edit our Reception for Afghanistan: A Distant War 42 hours of footage. We raised $7,000 in total, haven’t paid ourselves, and have kept a few day jobs.
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