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To the OPC Holiday Party OPC in California and Paris THE MONTHLY NEWSLETTER OF THE OVERSEAS PRESS CLUB OF AMERICA, NEW YORK, NY • December 2015 Journalist Safety Panel Highlights Growing Risks EVENT RECAP invulnerability you had, that press pass – that magical By Chad Bouchard thing that gave you this sort With violence against journalists of force field – that’s gone.” soaring to an all-time high in recent He called for more pres- years, freelancers and mainstream news media are seeking better ways sure from governments, to protect and give them the support and added that many of the they need to do their jobs. worst jailers of journalists Chad Bouchard On Dec. 16, the OPC, Bloomberg around the world are allies of the U.S. Left to right: Ambassador Raimonda Murmokaite, LLP and the Ford Motor Company Joel Simon, Anna Therese Day, Gregory D. co-sponsored a discussion about “They’re countries like Johnsen and Lara Setrakian. Egypt – which is the second journalist safety with a panel of jour- free speech. “We have to make noise leading jailer of journalists – Turkey, nalists and press freedom advocates. about this at all possible levels,” she In 2015, 69 journalists were Azerbaijan, Saudi Arabia. These are said. “Those who can’t stand the killed and 199 jailed worldwide, ac- countries where the U.S. has signifi- right to free information will never cording to the Committee to Protect cant influence, and it should be exer- defend the journalists.” Journalists. cising that influence.” Anna Therese Day, a freelance Joel Simon, the CPJ’s executive The panel also included Ambas- journalist and a founding board director, told attendees that jour- sador Raimonda Murmokaite, Lith- member of the Frontline Freelance nalists are increasingly targeted be- uania’s permanent representative Register, applauded work from cause of shifting power in the cur- to the UN. She and Lithuania were groups like hers and the alliance of rent “information ecosystem,” with the driving force behind a May UN news organizations, freelance re- governments, criminal organizations Security Council resolution to scale porters and non-profit journalism and militant groups becoming less up efforts to protect journalists in groups that have crafted the Global dependent on journalists than they conflict zones. She urged continued Safety Principles and Practices. She were in the past. pressure on governments that repress (Continued on Page 7) “The reason journalists are more vulnerable is that they no longer exercise this collective information monopoly.” he said. “That feeling of You are Invited: Inside. To the OPC Holiday Party OPC in California and Paris................2 Wednesday, January 6 Jason Rezaian’s Imprisonment..........3 Preview: Russia Hands Reunion........3 Come join us from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. at Club Quarters at 40 Preview: Encryption for Journalists.........3 West 45th Street. The event will be held in the dining room. Cambodia’s Newspaper Wars..........4 The party features an open bar with wine and beer, hot and cold Recap: Google News Lab................4 hors d’oeuvres, filet of Atlantic salmon, roast turkey and dessert People Column...............................5-7 and coffee. Roy Rowan Goes up the Amazon.....8 The cost is $30 per person. Advance Reservations Are Essential. Please Press Freedom Update..............9-10 call the OPC office 212-626-9220 or email [email protected]. Q&A: Stanley Reed.........................11 New Books.....................................12 Calling all OPC Californians (and Parisians) By Markos Kounalakis already had some discussions with The Mechanics’ San Franciscans have a hard time enjoying all the Institute as a place to convene and hold programs. OPC benefits and events in New York City. That’s why If you are an OPC member on the West Coast and a few of us in SF are trying to put together some events interested in finding out more, getting an invitation coordinated with OPC right here in the San Francisco to the first programs, or helping out in any way, send Bay Area in 2016. me an email: [email protected]. In your email, OPC is offering its help and some logistical support include any suggestions for a good bar, meeting to help us find each other. The OPC board was open place, or potential programs (take a look at the types and supportive of this idea. Now it’s time to see if we of programs you’re missing in NY). Include your can make it work. coordinates. The West Coast is home to a number of foreign The East Coast events are terrific, but a BART ride correspondents, either active or retired. Many of them to downtown SF beats taking the Virgin America red- focus on the Pacific Rim and Latin America in their eye to NYC. reporting. Others have had long careers in other parts of the world and call California home. Lots of us have been based here for years or work as freelancers. OPC MEMBERS IN PARIS Stanford, U.C. Berkeley, and USC’s Annenberg School ALSO MULLING MEETUPS keep developing new members of our profession who live and work in the region. Inspired by Markos Kounalakis’ outreach to There is also a preponderance of journalists who members in the San Francisco area, OPC mem- report on cyberspace – a virtual space that may or may bers in Paris are calling for colleagues to help not be interpreted as “Overseas” per se, but is certainly organize club gatherings in the City of Lights. If a place where wars are being fought (e.g., North Korea you would like to get together with fellow OPC v. Sony Pictures) and troops being mustered (e.g., Daesh’s [Islamic State, ISIS] use of social media). members in Paris, please contact OPC gover- San Francisco used to have a wonderful press club nors Christopher Dickey and Vivienne Walt at: with a library and bar, but that is history. This is a first [email protected] and attempt to bring back the convening and convivial [email protected]. space for those engaged in our profession. We have OVERSEAS PRESS CLUB OF AMERICA • BOARD OF GOVERNORS PRESIDENT ACTIVE BOARD Scott Gilmore Paul Moakley ASSOCIATE BOARD PAST PRESIDENTS Marcus Mabry Jacqueline Albert- International Columnist Deputy Director MEMBERS EX-OFFICIO U.S. Lead Simon Maclean’s Magazine Photography and Brian I. Byrd Michael Serrill U.S. Bureau Chief Visual Enterprise Twitter Moments Time magazine Program Officer David A. Andelman Politique Internationale Peter S. Goodman NYS Health John Corporon Editor-in-Chief FIRST VICE PRESIDENT Hannah Allam Robert Nickelsberg Foundation Allan Dodds Frank Calvin Sims International Freelance Alexis Gelber Foreign Affairs Business Times President and CEO Correspondent Photojournalist Bill Collins William J. Holstein Director, Public & Marshall Loeb International House McClatchy Mary Rajkumar Newspapers Charles Graeber Business Affairs Larry Martz Freelance Journalist International Enterprise SECOND VICE PRESIDENT Editor Ford Motor Company Roy Rowan Deborah Amos and Author The Associated Press Larry Smith Abigail Pesta Correspondent Freelance Journalist Emma Daly Richard B. Stolley NPR Steve Herman Lara Setrakian Communications Bureau Chief Co-Founder & CEO Director Molly Bingham Southest Asia News Deeply EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR THIRD VICE PRESIDENT Human Rights Watch Patricia Kranz Pancho Bernasconi Freelance Journalist Voice of America Vice President/News Martin Smith Rukmini Callimachi President Daniel Sieberg OFFICE MANAGER Getty Images Anjali Kamat Rain Media Foreign Correspondent Global Head Boots R. Duque Correspondent Fault Lines of Media Outreach TREASURER The New York Times Liam Stack Al-Jazeera Breaking News Google EDITOR Tim Ferguson Chad Bouchard Anupreeta Das Reporter Editor Azmat Khan The New York Times Minky Worden Forbes Asia Reporter Wall Street Journal Investigative Reporter Director of Global Charles Wallace Initiatives OPC BuzzFeed News Financial Writer SECRETARY Chris Dickey Human Rights Watch ISSN-0738-7202 Deidre Depke Foreign Editor Dan Klaidman Vivienne Walt Copyright © 2015 New York Bureau Chief The Daily Beast, Deputy Editor Correspondent Over seas Press Club Marketplace Paris Yahoo News Time and Fortune of America 40 West 45 Street, New York, NY 10036 USA • Phone: (212) 626-9220 • Fax: (212) 626-9210 • Website: opcofamerica.org OPC Bulletin • December 2015 • Page 2 ‘No Time for Patience’ Over Jailing of Jason Rezaian By Douglas Jehl The awful ordeal being endured in Iran by the Wash- ington Post’s Jason Rezaian hit a grim milestone earlier this month. As of Thursday, Dec. 3, Jason had been held in Iran’s Evin Prison for 500 days – 500 days robbed of his freedom, 500 days deprived of his family, 500 days denied any semblance of justice. Jason has now been held by Iran nearly three times as long as any previous Western journalist – and longer than the American hostages who spent 444 days held by Iranian students during the nightmare of 1979-81. Anyone who has followed the case knows the mag- Post Zoeann Murphy / Courtesy of the Washington nitude of this outrage. Jason is the Post’s correspondent A 2013 file photo of Washington Post correspondent in Tehran, working with full accreditation when he was Jason Rezaian. detained without cause on July 22, 2014. He has done world’s outrage over its treatment of this Washington nothing wrong, and Iran has never even bothered to pro- Post journalist. Even now, Jason continues to be sub- duce any evidence against him. jected to physical and psychological mistreatment, in- Jason’s so-called trial, which ended on Aug. 5, was cluding being forced to wear a hood when allowed to a sham. Recent announcements, without details, of his venture outside his cell. supposed “conviction” and “sentencing” have only add- We know that Iran’s senior leaders have the power to ed new layers of cruelty. Neither Jason nor his lawyer bring this case to a swift and merciful resolution, just as have ever been informed of these developments.
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