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THE MONTHLY NEWSLETTER OF THE OVERSEAS PRESS CLUB OF AMERICA, NEW YORK, NY • February/March 2014 Panels on Cyber Security to Convene in Pittsburgh changes may be coming in cyber Robert Hanssen espionage case and EVENT PREVIEW: MARCH 24 security and how that could impact the 9/11 terrorist attack on the Pen- “The Future of Cyber Security journalism, since national security is tagon. and Global Journalism” will be the often cited as a reason to muzzle or n Andrew Conte, Investigative topic of two panels sponsored by the even prosecute journalists. Reporter for the Pittsburgh Tribune- OPC and hosted by Carnegie Mellon The first panel is “Hackers Every- Review, who reports on cyber-space University’s College of Engineering where: Is the Internet Our Friend?” and Internet crooks. in Pittsburgh. From the cyber attacks on Target to n Nicholas Christin, an expert at The panels, supported by the widespread identity theft and the fa- information system security at Carn- Ford Foundation, will be divided be- cilitation of illegal global commerce, egie Mellon tween the world of hackers and the hackers and Bitcoin-enabled deni- The Second panel will be “The ramifications of Edward Snowden’s zens of the web are stealing every- Big Picture: The National Security National Security Agency leaks. where. How big is the problem and Agency After Snowden” Both panels will address the impacts what can be done about it? n David Shribman, Executive of cyber security on journalism. The The panel will include: Editor of the Pittsburgh Post-Ga- first will deal with the security pre- n FBI Agent J. Keith Mularski zette will moderate. cautions many journalists must take who runs Cyber Squad 16 in Pitts- n Joining by live video confer- to protect themselves, their work and burgh. Mularski investigated nation- ence will be Ben Wizner: Attorney their sources. News organizations are al security matters for seven years in for Edward Snowden and Director of even dealing with what may be state- Washington including work on the (Continued on Page 13) sponsored attacks on their websites. The second panel will discuss what Lederer to Receive Fay Gillis Wells Award achievements, the OPC will bestow EVENT PREVIEW: MARCH 11 Inside. . . the award to Edith Lederer, Associ- Bloomberg News has generously ated Press Chief Correspondent at Walt: Getting the Exclusive...... 2 invited OPC members to a the United Nations and special breakfast on Tues- longtime OPC member. Scholars Luncheon Recap...... 3 day, March 11 from 7:30 The first Wells Award was to 9:30 a.m. to mark its 2014 OPC Scholars...... 4-5 given to Ruth Gruber at 75th anniversary. A buffet the 2009 awards dinner. Pakistan Panel Recap...... 6 breakfast will be held on the 28th floor which has a Brian Byrd, chair of People...... 7-11 great view of the eastside. the 75th Anniversary Committee, will talk with People Remembered...... 11 OPC member Matthew Winkler, Editor-in-Chief Edith Lederer Lederer about her career, Helen Rowan Memorial...... 11 of Bloomberg News, will host the particularly her coverage event. “Bloomberg News is honored of Vietnam, stories about covering Press Freedom in Egypt...... 12 to be able to share in the celebration the United Nations and her other re- Tucson Panel Recap...... 13 of the OPC’s 75 years of supporting porting adventures. journalists around the world,” said RSVP by e-mail to replyevents@ OPC at 75: Margaret Kreig...... 14 Winkler. bloomberg.net. The breakfast takes In celebration of the Club’s Jubi- place from 7:30 to 9:30 a.m. at Scholar Luncheon Photos...... 15 lee Year and in honor of the month Bloomberg LP, 731 Lexington Av- New Books...... 16 of March dedicated to women’s enue between 58th and 59th streets. OPC Member Walt Lands Exclusive Hollande Interview With the media frenzy around French President Fran- into a portrait studio, with lights and a backdrop. cois Hollande’s love life in January, OPC member Vivi- Within hours after the interview, Hollande released enne Walt landed Hollande’s first-ever international in- a statement saying that he and his companion, Valérie terview in the grand Élysée Palace. The interview was Trierweiler, had formally ended their relationship. Tri- pegged to Hollande’s state visit to Washington D.C. in erweiler, a journalist for Paris Match, had served as the February. Walt sent the OPC the inside story. de facto first lady. To us, though, he would only say, “Private life is al- by Vivienne Walt ways, at certain moments, a challenge ... In my situation, As the day drew near for the interview with French I cannot show anything.” But under his powder that a President François Hollande, we wondered if the nervous makeup artist had applied Élysée officials might for the Time photo shoot, he cancel, with the whole blushed. world’s press clamoring for Hollande seemed to re- gossip about his supposed ally enjoy being able to talk affair with a French actress. about serious things like In the end, they welcomed the economy, Syria, and us in: me, Time’s editor-at- large Catherine Mayer, Obama, rather than his ro- the acclaimed portrait pho- mantic entanglements. But tographer Marco Grob and that wasn’t going to last Grob’s two assistants. long! After four hours in- On Saturday morning side the Élysée, we stepped Marco Grob January 25, the palace was out to find a phalanx of TV empty. Hollande, a small Catherine Mayer, left, and Vivienne Walt talk to satellite trucks broadcasting man rattling around as the François Hollande in the Élysée Palace, Paris. live about his love life. ultimate bachelor in this Walt has reported huge 300-year-old palace, was a gracious and patient from about 30 countries and is�� an award-winning for- host, sitting down for an hour’s chat in his office, where eign correspondent based in Paris. She has written for outsiders rarely venture, and then being led around the Time since 2003. Read the exclusive interview online at Élysée by Marco, who had turned the majestic landing http://ti.me/1isddcL

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Fry Editor in Charge, Deputy Editor in Chief Azmat Khan New York Desk The Wall Street Journal Senior Digital Producer Martin Smith Minky Worden EDITOR Reuters Al Jazeera President Director of Global Aimee Vitrak Paul Brandus Rain Media Initiatives TREASURER West Wing Report Evelyn Leopold Human Rights Watch Dorinda Elliott Independent Journalist Seymour Topping Freelance Journalist Howard Chua-Eoan United Nations Emeritus Abi Wright OPC Former News Director Professor of Director ISSN-0738-7202 Time Dafna Linzer International Journalism Alfred I. duPont – Copyright © 2002 Managing Editor Columbia University Columbia University Overseas Press Club MSNBC.com Awards Of America 40 West 45 Street, New York, NY 10036 USA • Phone: (212) 626-9220 • Fax: (212) 626-9210 • Website: opcofamerica.org OPC Bulletin • February/March 2014 • Page 2 Dozier Spoke of Constant Career Evolution and Learning EVENT RECAP: FEBRUARY 21 by Aimee Vitrak “Risk” was a word that appeared in many of the speeches of the 2014 OPC Scholars, the Foundation President William J. Holstein and keynote speaker Kim- berly Dozier, now an intelligence writer at The Associ- ated Press, at the Scholarship Luncheon on February 21. This year’s 14 recipients will use their scholarships and Michael Dames internships in Beirut, Nairobi and Cairo, among others, for AP, Reuters, GlobalPost and The Wall Street Journal. Holstein addressed the issue of risk, speaking to the Kimberly Dozier warned about getting too comfortable. room at large and parents of the scholars specifically: “They came to us,” he joked. “We didn’t instigate this. in for,” she said. “Thanks to the DOJ, this is the first time But we do urge caution and to take lessons from experi- I had to have my speech cleared by a lawyer.” enced journalists.” Dozier was making a reference to the May 2013 news The 2014 Stan Swinton Fellowship recipient Sam that the Justice Department secretly obtained months of Kimball has reported on the Middle East from Yemen, phone records of AP reporters and editors. As the intel- Syria and Egypt and has been based in Tunis for the past ligence and counterterrorism reporter for the AP, she was five months completing his master’s thesis on hip hop in one of the journalists who had their phone logs seized. the Tunisian revolution. He’s strung together freelance Her speech was one of caution against getting too gigs but said that the OPC Fellowship in Beirut with The comfortable as a journalist. “If you ever think your ca- AP is a welcomed opportunity. “I’m happy to have the reer is set in stone, be prepared for a shock.” structure and stability of a full-time assignment as a re- Dozier’s career is one marked by reinvention and porter,” he said. “I want to dig deeper into the region.” Every year John R. MacArthur introduces the Harp- experience. She went from being a domestic newslet- er’s Magazine Scholarship in memory of I.F. Stone and ter reporter to overseas stringer to overseas CBS news presents the scholar with one of Stone’s books. This year, correspondent and now intelligence reporter for the wire MacArthur gave Derek Kravitz Underground to Pales- service. “There were many false starts, bad jackets and tine. The book was written in the spring of 1946 when it’s not always easy to look back,” she said. She spoke Stone was the first newspaperman to accompany survi- about the missteps — now clear with hindsight — that vors of the Holocaust on their epic clandestine journey might have contributed to being in a car bomb attack from Eastern Europe to the biblical homeland. Kravitz in Baghdad in 2006 that killed two CBS colleagues, a is fluent in French and speaks some Arabic and wants to translator and an American soldier and left her severely cover francophone Africa and South East Asia. injured. She said she died a few times in the incident and This year’s scholars, as in past years, do not fit the spent three months in a hospital to recuperate. profile of millennials that is portrayed in the media: they When she left the hospital she said she felt ready to are focused, savvy about the world and determined to tell return to the field but the people around her — from CBS other people’s stories. These scholars presented them- colleagues and bosses to family and friends — were not selves to be the anti-selfies of their generation. ready to send her back into a war zone. She received a Theo Wilson Scholarship recipient and first OPC job offer from the AP and accepted. “I didn’t know a lot Foundation/Wall Street Journal fellow Olivia Crellin is about intelligence reporting,” she said. “I gave out my the daughter of two psychiatrists and in her speech lik- personal phone number of a CIA contact, which was ened many of the global events today an illustration that a really bad idea.” Because she used a personal phone “insanity is the rule.” She said, “This madness is human- ity and affects us all.” She spoke about her reporting of number, her records were fair game for the DOJ and her victims of sex trafficking throughout Brazil, which is sources left vulnerable. “I became an outcast by friends only second to Thailand in child prostitutes. She met a and contacts who were asked about me by the DOJ.” 14-year-old girl on a bus who told her she has had two She has now implemented alternative forms of com- abortions, her first at the age of eight. “Being a journalist munications, many of the same measures her sources use doesn’t feel much differently than being a therapist.” but declined to be more specific, to protect her sources. Acclaimed foreign correspondent Dozier gave the “To new journalists, you are up to the task,” she said. keynote address. “My job is to let you know what you’re “Welcome to the family.”

OPC Bulletin • February/March 2014 • Page 3 2014 OPC Foundation Scholarship Winners mela Howard Family Foundation and Scripps Howard Foundation As a summer intern at the Ghana Daily Guide, Maddy covered the en- vironmental consequences of mercury used by small-scale miners throughout Ghana to refine gold. Despite vast numbers afflicted with mercury poisoning throughout villages like Prestea, miners continue to use “the dancing liquid metal.” The resulting red dust produces a permanent and le- Michael Dames thal smog. The editor-in-chief of her college newspaper, Maddy is eager to return to Africa. 2014 Scholars from left: Left to right, Derek Kravitz, Maddy Crowell, Sam Kimball, Olivia Crellin, Portia Crowe, Sam McNeil, Meng Meng, Caelainn Hogan Mark Anderson, Anna Nicolaou, John Ismay, Shira Telushkin, Columbia University Graduate School Caelainn Hogan, Alison Sargent, and Jian Gao. of Journalism Following is a list of the 2014 further uncover the economic reasons H.L. STEVENSON FELLOWSHIP scholarship and fellowship recipients, why the region lags so far behind even Funded by the Gamsin family and affiliations, prize received, presenter East Africa in developing a modern fi- sponsored by family and friends; and description of the winning appli- nancial system. In her essay, she wrote presented by Sharon Gamsin cation. Winners emerged from 175 ap- about remittance networks and other As a contributing writer for The plicants from 65 colleges and universi- monetary issues that plague and retard Irish Times and others, Caelainn re- ties from eight countries. growth in Burkina Faso. Portia is from ported from eight countries in the Saskatchewan and speaks French and last two years. In her essay, she wrote Meng Meng some Swahili and German. about the trials of Syrian refugees in University of Southern California Turkey and the efforts — despite the DAVID R. SCHWEISBERG Derek Kravitz conflict and their homes in rubble — MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP Columbia University School of to return to their native Syria. An Irish Sponsored by the Schweisberg International and Public Affairs citizen and graduate of Trinity Col- Family; presented by David’s brother, HARPER’S MAGAZINE SCHOL- lege, Caelainn will return to Africa on Matthew Schweisberg ARSHIP in memory of I.F.STONE an OPC Foundation fellowship in an Meng wrote about the sink-hole Endowed by John R. MacArthur and AP bureau in either Lagos or Johan- crisis afflicting the coal cities of north- the Pierre F. Simon Charitable Trust; nesburg. ern China where residents have been presented by Rick MacArthur, forced to abandon their homes and publisher, Harper’s Magazine Sam Kimball farms. A native of the area, the gradu- Derek wrote about the industry that New York University ate of Shanghai University first cov- has risen around the nascent global STAN SWINTON FELLOWSHIP ered the story as an intern for CNN. kidnapping trade. With governments Endowed by the Swinton Family; She intends to become a business and refusing to negotiate, the void has presented by Helen Swinton, economics reporter and focus on the been filled by insurers and private se- Stan’s wife consequences of China’s rising status curity specialists like the Somali-born Fluent in French and several dia- as an economic power. businessman whose greatest asset is lects of Arabic, Sam has already re- knowing a lot of people. Derek is flu- ported on the Middle East from Ye- Portia Crowe ent in French and speaks some Arabic. men, Syria and Egypt. Now based in Columbia University Graduate School He intends to use data-driven skills to Tunis completing his master’s thesis of Journalism cover Africa and SE Asia. on hip hop in the Tunisian Revolu- REUTERS FELLOWSHIP tion, Sam wrote about the plight of Sponsored by Reuters and funded by Maddy Crowell Syrian refugees caught in the politi- The Correspondents Fund; presented Carleton College cal maelstrom in Cairo and what that by Eddie Evans, Reuters IRENE CORBALLY could mean for the political trajectory With an OPC Foundation fellow- KUHN SCHOLARSHIP of Egypt. Sam has an OPC Foundation ship in the Reuters bureau in Dakar, Endowed by Scripps Howard Founda- fellowship in the Associated Press bu- Portia will return to West Africa to tion; presented by Pam Howard, Pa- reau in Beirut.

OPC Bulletin • February/March 2014 • Page 4 Mark Anderson Endowed by the Pierre F. Simon Sam has scoped out his beat: en- University of California at Berkeley Charitable Trust; presented by Flora’s vironmental convergence journalism Graduate School of Journalism friend, Jacqueline Albert-Simon focused on political and social prob- EMANUEL R. FREEDMAN Alison is the first OPC Founda- lems stemming from resource scarcity FELLOWSHIP tion scholar attending graduate school and climate change. While filming a Endowed by family; presented by in Paris. She chose France not only to documentary on desertification, he Tobias Bermant, Freedman Family improve her French but also to learn discovered a former secret prison in A graduate of the University of the language of politics, economics Tunisia, the topic of his essay. Fluent London’s School of Oriental & Afri- and European institutionalism. She in Levantine and Tunisian dialects of can Affairs, Mark currently has a fel- wrote her essay about the launch of Arabic, Sam has an OPC Foundation lowship from the U.S. Department BuzzFeed France and asked how uni- fellowship in the AP Cairo bureau. of Education for African studies and versal is culture in a global society. journalism. Fluent in Swahili, he has Shira Telushkin an OPC Foundation fellowship in the Anna Nicolaou Yale University Reuters bureau in Nairobi. In his es- University of Toronto NATHAN S. BIENSTOCK say, he wrote about the links between S&P Award for Economic MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP Turkey and Somalia and how Turkish and Business reporting Endowed by the Richard Leibner and development and investment is chang- Endowed by Standard & Poor’s; pre- Carole Cooper Family Foundation; ing the war-torn African nation. sented by Sam Stovall, Chief presented by Richard Leibner, Co- Equity Strategist, S & P Capital IQ President, N.S. Bienstock Olivia Crellin A former hedge fund analyst, Anna With a major in demonology, Shira Columbia University Graduate is attending graduate school on a fel- has taken opportunities to engage in School of Journalism lowship that combines classwork and cultures from Pagans to Mormon mis- THEO WILSON SCHOLARSHIP business reporting at The Globe and sionaries. In her essay, she wrote about Sponsored by donations from fam- Mail. In her essay, she wrote about how, as a tour guide in the West Bank, ily and friends; presented by Theo’s the very public spat between Germany she observed a shared understanding friend, Roz Massow and the U.S. over Germany’s continu- between an Orthodox Jew and his Pal- A daughter of two psychiatrists, the ing glide on a weak euro, buoyed by estinian host and their mutual respect U.K. native and University of Cam- its out-sized surplus. Anna has an OPC for each other’s deep commitment to bridge grad learned the value of listen- Foundation fellowship in the Reuters their respective religious faiths. She ing, a skill she developed in her report- Brussels bureau. has an OPC Foundation fellowship in ing gigs throughout South America. religious journalism with GlobalPost. Fluent in Spanish and Portuguese, Ol- John Ismay ivia has the first Wall Street Journal/ Columbia University Graduate MANY THANKS OPC Foundation fellowship. In her School of Journalism The OPC Foundation is especially essay, she wrote about the victims of JERRY FLINT FELLOWSHIP grateful for its Benefactor, Patrons sex trafficking throughout Brazil. She FOR INTERNATIONAL and Friends who supported the 2014 will work in a WSJ bureau in Europe. BUSINESS REPORTING Scholarship Luncheon. Their contributions ensure the success of Endowed by family and friends; pre- our scholarship/fellowship program. Jian Gao sented by Jerry’s wife, Kate McLeod Academy of Art University A graduate of the U.S. Naval Acad- Benefactor (San Francisco) emy, John intends to use his mix of Bloomberg ROY ROWAN SCHOLARSHIP multimedia skills with his 12 years’ Endowed by family, friends and experience as a munitions special- Patrons admirers; presented by Roy Rowan ist to work on the unintended conse- Daimler In his essay, Jian described Red quences of American foreign policy Ford Foundation Fragments, a long-term documentary and military actions abroad, as well as Reuters project that shows Chinese culture and the global issue of arms proliferation. The Wall Street Journal Chinese living conditions in nine sym- John has a Foundation fellowship and Friends bolic cities across the 10,000 miles in is headed to the Congo for GlobalPost. The Associated Press China where he traveled last year. Al- N.S. Bienstock, Inc. ready an award-winning photojournal- Sam McNeil CBS News ist, the native of China intends to focus University of Arizona Ford Motor Company on the economic boom of South East THE WALTER & BETSY General Motors Asia’s developing nations. CRONKITE SCHOLARSHIP GlobalPost/The GroundTruth Project Funded by Daimler and Supported by Knight-Bagehot Fellowship, Colum- Alison Sargent CBS News and friends; presented by bia University École de Journalisme de Sciences Po Ingrid Ciprian-Matthews; Vice Presi- Standard & Poor’s William S. Rukeyser FLORA LEWIS INTERNSHIP dent, CBS News

OPC Bulletin • February/March 2014 • Page 5 Shaking Conventional Wisdom When Reporting on Pakistan EVENT RECAP: FEBRUARY 11 a radical clergyman named Hafiz Mohammed Saeed, the founder of Lashkar-i-Taiba, the group held responsible by Michael S. Serrill Malala was hardly mentioned. for the 2008 attack in Mumbai that killed 166 people, That was one surprise at and on whose head the U.S. the OPC’s February 11 pro- has put a $10 million bounty. gram on covering Pakistan. The underreported story that Organizer, moderator and Leiby wrote for The Post: OPC board member Azmat what makes a terrorist? For Khan encouraged the panel- it happens that Saeed has a ists at the event, held at The brother, Masood, also a cler- George Washington Univer- gyman, who spent years in the sity in Washington, D.C., Boston area working with lo- to talk about underreported cal religious groups, including stories from the tumultuous Jews, to encourage religious country. And the tale of Mala- Top, from left: Azmat Khan, Declan Walsh, Habiba tolerance. la Yousafzai, the girl from the Nosheen, Sadia Shepard and Richard Leiby Two panelists were U.S. Swat Valley who was shot and filmmakers, both with Paki- almost killed by the Taliban Below: Walsh, left, and Nosheen during the panel. stani roots. Habiba Nosheen for speaking out in favor of is an OPC award winner who schooling for girls, is anything spent five years making the but underreported. film “Outlawed in Pakistan,” The star of the evening which examines the Pakistani was Declan Walsh, the Paki- justice system through a rape stan reporter for The New York case. Sadia Shepard’s “The Times, who flew in for the Other Half of Tomorrow” is a program from London. Last series of short films that looks

May he wrote a series for The Photos: Sonya K. Fry at women in Pakistan society. Times on a trip he took across What may surprise viewers of Pakistan by rail, in order “to look at the country through Habiba’s film is that she had full cooperation of the four a new lens.” The underreported story he found is that men accused of the rape and how she came away from the once-glorious Pakistani rail system is a wreck, and a the project, “without really knowing what happened.” symbol of the larger deterioration of infrastructure that is What is known is that rape accusations rarely result in crippling the Pakistani economy. The 5,000 miles of rail, convictions and, so far, neither has this one. built by the British, once united the country, carried its Shepard’s film is a joyous exploration of the many goods to world markets and was at the heart of a vibrant roles women play in the country’s diverse society. She economy. Now it is plagued with unusable track, decrep- shows women dancers, poets, cricket players and mem- it cars and locomotives that can barely make it over the bers of the women’s national guard. One focus is on a next rise. The railroad and its workers are a burden rather brave woman who runs a program that opposes honor than a boon for a creaking economy. Most Pakistani trav- killings of women that continue to afflict Pakistani so- elers take the bus. ciety. She boldly travels around the region where she Walsh’s second underreported story concerned Balu- lives getting women together for songfests in which they chistan, the huge province that has been in revolt against chant that there is no honor in honor killings. the government for years — an uprising that has largely Writing the truth about Pakistani society isn’t always gone unreported because “there is no Taliban angle, no tolerated. Days before his railroad odyssey was pub- Afghan angle,” Walsh said. The global press’s lack of in- lished, Walsh was expelled. Until recently he was still terest, he said, has allowed atrocities by both insurgents The Times’ Pakistan reporter but working his sources and the army Frontier Corps to go on unreported. from London. He is now on leave writing a book. Another daily journalist on the panel was Richard Event funding was part of the Ford Foundation to Leiby, who was a reporter in Pakistan for The Washing- extend the OPC mission to a wider audience. ton Post in 2012 and 2013 and now lectures at GWU. He Michael Serrill is president of the OPC. called Pakistan “an amazing and terrifying place.” One Video from this event is available at http://youtube. frightening character Leiby wrote about while there was com/opcofamerica

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OPC SCHOLARS has reported from Afghanistan for 2014 World Press Freedom Hero of Leah Finnegan, who won the five years, won for articles in Roll- the International Press Institute (IPI). Stan Swinton Scholarship in 2010, ing Stone where he presented “con- Shamsolvaezin, who won the Com- has been promoted at The New York vincing evidence” that a U.S. Army mittee to Protect Journalism’s (CPJ) Times from news assistant in Op-Ed Special Forces unit had executed 10 2000 International Press Freedom to a staff editor of the mobile Opin- civilians outside a base in Afghani- Award, is the former editor of four ion team. She will be responsible for stan. Pete Hamill, a columnist, au- reformist dailies, Kayhan, Jame’eh a broad swath of duties around read- thor and editor, won the Polk career (later Tous), Neshat, and Asr-e Aza- er engagement. Her OPC scholar- award. degan, which were all shut down ship sent her to Cairo to cover Arab by Iran’s authorities. He was jailed Spring for The Associated Press. She numerous times for his criticism of joined The Times in 2011 and also government policies. The award will has worked at the Huffington Post. be presented in April at IPI’s annual World Congress in South Africa. Xiaoqing Pi, who won the 2013 S&P Award for Economic and Busi- OPC Second Vice President Abi- ness Reporting, joined Bloomberg gail Pesta has received a Min Edito- News in December to report from rial & Design Award for a feature in Beijing on the Chinese economy. Nagorski with Lech Walesa Cosmopolitan magazine about Caro- Her OPC scholarship placed her in lyn Moos, the former financée of the Thomson Reuters’ Beijing bureau. Andrew Nagorski, an OPC first openly gay NBA player, Jason She also had internships with The member and a vice president of the Collins. In an as-told-to essay, Moos Wall Street Journal in Beijing, The EastWest Institute, received the described her eight-year relationship New York Times in Shanghai and the Lech Walesa Media Award from the with Collins before he came out in Phnom Penh Post in Cambodia. American Institute of Polish Culture. Sports Illustrated last year. The Min Nagorski spent more than three de- contest honors excellence in con- WINNERS cades as a foreign correspondent tent and design among consumer, Glenn Greenwald, Ewen Ma- and editor for Newsweek, including business-to-business and specialized cAskill and Laura Poitras of The a stint as bureau chief in Warsaw information-media brands. Guardian and Bar- where he reported on the rise of Soli- ton Gellman of darity, the first trade union in the for- John Stanmeyer of the VII The Washington mer Communist Bloc, and Walesa, Photo Agency received World Press Post shared the Polk the union’s driving force. In present- Photo of the Year 2013 honors for a Award for national ing the award during a Miami gala photo showing African migrants on security reporting on February 1, Walesa said Poland’s the shore of Djibouti city at night, for stories based on Greenwald transition was eased by correspon- raising their cellphones in an attempt documents leaked dents like Nagorski who, with great to capture an inexpensive signal from the National insight, reported and analyzed the from neighboring Somalia — a tenu- Security Agency by news during the era that led to Soli- ous link to relatives abroad. Djibouti Edward J. Snowden. darity’s triumph. In accepting the is a common stop-off point for mi- Jim Yardley of The award from the former Polish presi- grants in transit from such countries New York Times won dent, Nagorski said all young jour- as Somalia, Ethiopia and Eritrea, for foreign reporting MacAskill nalists dream about covering historic seeking a better life in Europe and for documenting un- figures and key events. “Thanks the Middle East. The picture also safe conditions and to Lech Walesa and Solidarity,” he won first prize in the Contemporary low wages in the said, “I can count myself among the Issues category and was shot for Na- garment industry in lucky few who were able to do so.” tional Geographic. Bangladesh. Mat- thieu Aikins, a free- Iranian journalist Mashallah Audrey Ronning Topping won lance journalist who Poitras Shamsolvaezin has been named (Continued on Page 8)

OPC Bulletin • February/March 2014 • Page 7 (Continued From Page 7) South Africa (+11). For the fourth died February 15 after being shot in the Media and Cultural Studies year in a row, Finland tops the in- the stomach and head by fighters of award in the 38th Annual PROSE dex, followed as it was last year by a Ugandan rebel group called the Al- Awards for China Mission: A Per- Netherlands and Norway. The three lied Democratic Forces. Muliwavyo sonal History from the Last Imperial last three positions again were held was riding in a vehicle of the Con- Dynasty to the People’s Republic, an by Turkmenistan, North Korea and golese national armed forces that account of China as seen by three Eritrea. The Chinese Communist was ambushed. Two other journalists generations of her family. The As- Party’s propaganda department im- were also injured but survived the at- sociation of American Publishers mediately banned publication of in- tack. Professional and Scholarly Publish- formation about the RSF report. “It ing Division sponsor the PROSE is a perfect example of the Chinese The buried body of Gregorio Awards, which were announced in government’s policy of gagging the Jiménez de la Cruz, a Mexican February. media and justifies China’s position journalist in the state of Veracruz, in the latest index, 175th out of 180 was found February 12, a week af- PRESS FREEDOM countries, a fall of two places from ter he was abducted by armed men Austin Ramzy, a Beijing-based its position last year,” said Benja- after Jiménez dropped his children journalist who joined The New York min Ismaïl, the head of the RSF’s off at school. He covered crime and Times in 2013, was forced to leave Asia-Pacific Desk. security for the newspapers Noti- China on January 30 after China re- sur and Liberal del Sur and had re- fused to grant him a journalist work RSF has questioned how much ported on abductions and violence visa. A Chinese official said Ramzy, credence should be given to a claim toward migrants. After his body was who had been based in China for by Tesfamariam Tekeste Debbas, discovered, Mexican officials said more than six years, had violated Eritrean ambassador to Israel, that they had five suspects in custody and regulations by continuing to travel Dawit Isaac, a journalist who was believed a personal to and from the country using the arrested in 2001, is still alive. Isaac, dispute led to the journalist visa he was issued while who co-founded the independent killing. Journalists working for his previous employer, newspaper Setit in 1997, was ar- in Veracruz ques- Time magazine. The Times reported rested in September 2001 during a tioned the conclu- that China did not cancel Ramzy’s round-up of journalists and govern- sion that Jiménez’s previous visa and never raised the ment critics, and was last seen alive murder was not de la Cruz issue until The Times asked in De- in detention in January 2010. Of the linked to his work and demanded a cember about the delay in issuing a 11 journalists arrested in September full investigation. new visa. China is also continuing 2011, RSF has established that at to block other journalists working least three have died in detention. Suon Chan, a Cambodian jour- for The Times and for Bloomberg nalist, was beaten to death of Febru- News from taking up assignments MURDERS ary 1 by assailants who struck him in Beijing. Both organizations have Vyacheslav Veremiy, a report- repeatedly with stones and sticks, published award-winning investiga- er for the daily newspaper Vesti in and attacked two of his relatives tions into the wealth of families of Kiev, was killed February 19 during who came to his aid. News reports top Chinese leaders that led to China a surge of violence in the Ukrainian said the assault followed a series of blocking the Bloomberg and The capital. Veremiy and a colleague, articles exposing illegal fishing that Times’ websites. Aleksei Lymarenko, were attacked Chan wrote for the Meakea Kampu- while in a taxi after chea newspaper and reported that In the 2014 World Press Freedom leaving work. The the attackers were fishermen. index released in February by Re- assailants threw Mo- porters Without Borders, the United lotov cocktails at the Four journalists in Brazil were States was among the countries cited car, dragged Ver- murdered in less than two weeks. for major declines in press freedom. emiy, Lymarenko n Santiago Andrade, a camera- The U.S. drop of 13 spots to place and the driver from Veremiy man for the Bandeirantes television 46th out of 180 countries puts it in the vehicle, and beat network, was mortally wounded the company of the Central African them with bats, Vesti reported. Ver- while covering a protest in Rio de Ja- Republic (-43 places), Guatemala emiy was shot in the chest and died. neiro against fare hikes. Other jour- (-29) and Kenya (-18). Meanwhile, Germain Kennedy Mumbere nalists rushed to his aid after he was progress was seen in Panama (+25), Muliwavyo, a television reporter in hit in the head by a flare lighted and Ecuador (+25), Bolivia (+16) and the Democratic Republic of Congo, thrown by a protester. He underwent

OPC Bulletin • February/March 2014 • Page 8 brain surgery, but was declared brain dead on February 11, five days af- Upstart Aims to Increase Imprint of Women in Policy ter his injury. Two 22-year-old men Two women — including an OPC scholarship winner — who are will- have been charged with his murder. ing to raise their voices have founded Foreign Policy Interrupted (FPI), an n Edilson Dias Lopes, a journal- initiative to increase the number of women being heard ist for community radio Explosao on foreign policy issues. Jovem FM, was gunned down Feb- The “Interrupted” in the group’s name comes from a quote by Madeleine Albright: “My motto…for young ruary 11 in Pinheiros, a town in the and medium-aged women is that we have to learn to the state of Espírito Santo. interrupt because you don’t get called on just because n Pedro Palma, who owned the people think you should be. You have to have some suburban weekly newspaper Pan- thoughts and interrupt.” orama Regional south of Rio de Ja- The goal of FPI is to supply information, mentoring, training and partnerships that will help women speak Bohn neiro, was gunned down and killed up and make their expertise known. February 13 by two men on a motor- Lauren Bohn, who won a 2012 internship from the cycle outside his home. News reports OPC Foundation that sent her to the The Associated said the paper had frequently alleged Press bureau in Jerusalem, formed the FPI with El- corruption in the local government mira Bayrasli, who writes about global entrepreneurs and a friend of Palma’s said that the and is a fellow at the World Policy Institute. Bohn is a multimedia journalist based in Istanbul, a 2013 UN publisher had received threats but Foundation press fellow and a 2011 Fulbright fellow in had not taken them seriously. Egypt, where she helped spearhead the creation and n José Lacerda da Silva, a cam- production of the Cairo Review of Global Affairs. Bayrasli eraman for regional TV Cabo Mos- The group’s website — fpinterrupted.com — cites soro, was shot dead February 15 by studies that women write only 10 to 20 percent of op-eds and that a wom- two individuals in a car as he was an over 65 is less likely to be cited as an expert in the media than a boy between 13 and 18. FPI is building a fellowship program to include me- going to a grocery store in Mossoro, dia training and mentoring at partnering media institutions to help women a city in the northeastern state of Rio break both internal and external barriers. You can sign up for a weekly Grande do Norte. email newsletter of “brain-food served up by female foreign policy experts and other yummy miscellany.” FPI’s Twitter handle is @fpinterrupted. A Haitian judge in January con- Bohn said the group “isn’t a girls’ clubhouse” and that prominent male editors and foreign policy experts have signed up as mentors and collabo- cluded an investigation into the no- rators. torious political assassination of the — by Susan Kille radio journalist Jean Dominique by accusing nine people, including Bernie Krisher founded The close associates of former President Cambodia Daily in 1993 to train Jean-Bertrand Aristide, of having a new generation of post-Khmer had a hand in the killing. Gunmen Rouge Cambodian journalists and shot Dominique and a security guard to give a start to a new generation outside the radio station’s office in of western Indochina hands. Brooke Port-au-Prince. Mirlande Libérus, a said he would continue Krisher’s former senator from Aristide’s po- commitment to receiving OPC litical party, was indicted as the orga- Foundation scholarship and intern- nizer of the murder. An appeals court ship awardees. Brooke started his Nachtwey after being wounded must now decide if and how to act on journalism career as assistant to col- during protests in Thailand. the judge’s recommendations. umnist James Reston at The New nine OPC awards including the York Times and was a foreign cor- 2008 President’s Award for lifetime UPDATES respondent for The Times in Africa, achievement, suffered a minor gun- PHONM PENH: After eight Latin America, Canada, Japan and shot wound to his leg during clashes Russian winters, OPC member the Koreas. Brooke, who met the Kr- here on February 1. Nachtwey told James Brooke is trading the Mos- ishers while reporting from Tokyo, The Wall Street Journal that he was cow River for the Mekong. He is will work with Deborah Krisher- struck during a gunfight and it was leaving Voice of America Moscow Steele, Bernie’s daughter and deputy “hard to tell” where the bullet came and moving to Phnom Penh, where publisher. from. Medics on the site of the clash he will become editor-in-chief of cleaned his wound and he later vis- The Cambodia Daily and The Burma BANGKOK: James Nachtw- ited a hospital. “I consider myself Daily. ey, a photojournalist who has won (Continued on Page 10)

OPC Bulletin • February/March 2014 • Page 9 extremely lucky,” he said. Nachtw- the U.S. and the Soviet Union. In an colleague’s video camera from a ey, who has documented conflicts open note to NBC in February, Bro- corner of the frame. AP reviewed across the globe since the 1980s, was kaw wrote: “I’m still the luckiest guy the nearly 500 photos Contreras has injured during a grenade attack in I know.” filed since he began working for it in 2003 in Baghdad. 2012 and found no other instances of alteration. The compromised pho- Time Inc. began a new round of to was not part of the package that layoffs in February that will result won the Pulitzer. “AP’s reputation is in the loss of about 500 jobs as Time paramount and we react decisively Warner prepares to spin off its strug- and vigorously when it is tarnished gling publishing business, which by actions in violation of our ethics includes People, Time, Sports Illus- code,” said Santiago Lyon, an OPC trated, Fortune and InStyle. In un- board member and AP’s vice presi- veiling plans for the job cuts, Joseph dent and director of photography. A. Ripp, chief executive of Time “Deliberately removing elements Inc., said the company may leave 2014 Nathan S. Bienstock Memorial from our photographs is completely its headquarters in the Time Life Scholarship recipient Shira Telushkin unacceptable.” Building and move to less expensive with Richard Leibner who endows the space. Time Warner is expected to Bienstock scholarship. David P. Michaels is the new make an initial public offering for its president of the Foreign Press As- publishing side in the second quarter. N.S. Bienstock, the dominant sociation (FPA), succeeding Alan agency for television news person- Capper, who served as president Former OPC President David alities and producers, was acquired from 2006 to 2013. The 96-year-old Andelman has traveled to 72 coun- in January by United Talent Agency, FPA, which is based in New York, is tries to cover the news. In February, one of the world’s largest talent agen- the leading journalist organization he reported on an internal matter: the cies. The N.S. Bienstock name will for foreign correspondents living in replacement of his faulty heart valve. be retained and the agency, which is the United States. It has about 400 Andelman, editor in chief of World celebrating its 50th anniversary, will members. Michaels is the senior ad- Policy Journal, wrote a story and have management autonomy under visor to Strategic Communications did voiceovers to a video report on it’s current leadership, co-founder Laboratories, a research and commu- his four-hour surgery for USA Today, Richard Leibner and his wife, Car- nication company based in London. where he is a member of the board ole Cooper. The couple and their of contributors. The surgery was in sons, Adam and Jonathan, have run In the last year, OPC’s Twitter mid-December and although he suf- the firm since the early 1970s. The account — @opcofamerica — has fered a setback that required a sec- Richard Leibner and Carole Cooper more than doubled its audience to ond hospital stay, Andelman said in Foundation endows the OPC’s Foun- pass the milestone the video that he is working to “re- dation Nathan S. Bienstock Memo- of 1,000 followers. store my stamina and my body to the rial Scholarship. Nathan Bienstock Sana Bég, an OPC shape it was before the faulty valve joined with Sol and Richard Leibner, intern, is respon- began to fail.” father and son, in 1964 to form the sible for many of agency. The agency has more than the tweets. Follow NBC News Special Correspon- 600 clients, mostly on-air reporters the OPC on Twitter Bég dent Tom Brokaw, who received and anchors and behind-the-camera and help expand our voice through the OPC’s 2013 President’s Award, producers. retweets. revealed in February that he has been diagnosed with multiple myeloma, Citing an ethical violation, The Barbara Raab, who spent more a blood cancer that affects the mar- AP in January severed ties with Nar- than 20 years as a senior newswrit- row, and said he and his physicians ciso Contreras, a freelance pho- er, editor and producer for NBC are encouraged by the progress he tographer who was part of team of Nightly News, has begun work as is making. The diagnosis came in photographers who shared in AP’s the program director of the Ford August and Brokaw has continued Pulitzer Prize last year for images Foundation’s media and justice ini- to work on NBC News projects, in- of the Syrian war. Contreras told tiative. She will oversee, design and cluding a special report timed for editors that he manipulated a digi- administer grants that foster inno- the Olympics games in Russia about tal picture of a Syrian rebel fighter vations in reporting, disseminating the Cold War space race between taken last September to remove a and financing quality news, with a

OPC Bulletin • February/March 2014 • Page 10 concentration on social justice issues, diversity of voices, standards Memorial Service for Helen Rowan and ethics and press freedoms. She by William J. Holstein was the senior producer in 2013 for The event was billed as a cele- “In Plain Sight,” NBC News’s Ford- bration of the life of Helen Rowan, funded multiplatform reporting ef- and what a life it was. fort on poverty in America. The Ford The wife of former OPC Presi- position had been held by Calvin dent Roy Rowan died on Novem- Sims, an OPC member and former ber 19, 2013 but the Rowan family waited until early February to pack New York Times correspondent, who a room at the Century Club with 165 is now president and chief execu- family members and friends. Helen, tive officer of International House, in her 90s, had been ailing for some time and had lost much of her vision. a New York non-profit program and Roy told how the young woman from Detroit, who was interested in residence center that promotes cross- art, came to New York to seek her fortunes. Helen landed a job as a photo cultural understanding and peace. editor at Life magazine in New York, where Roy was a correspondent in Europe. After a whirlwind romance, she flew to Frankfurt “and took her PEOPLE REMEMBERED wedding vows in a language she didn’t understand,” Roy recalled. From The OPC, under the leadership of Europe, they moved back to New York City and then Chicago and then John Corporon and Roy Rowan, Greenwich, Connecticut, “without a whimper from Helen.” came to reside She developed her passion for art as well as gardening, cooking and entertaining all while giving birth to four sons over a nine-year period. at Club Quarters When Roy told her they were going to move to Hong Kong so that he in 1999. Ralph could cover the Vietnam War, again there was no hint of resistance. With Bahna, the found- Roy gone for long periods of time, Helen even arrived in Saigon unan- er and chairman nounced at one point when artillery shells were bursting in the skies over- of Club Quarters, head. “That didn’t scare Helen,” Roy said. presided over the Close family friend and also a former OPC president, Dick Stolley negotiations and offered some of the most moving insights into the Rowan family in re- took an interest in marks to well-wishers. He noted that Helen was the lone female among providing the Club a husband and four boys. “Even their damn dog was named Jim,” Stolley with office space, a place to have quipped. Their marriage lasted 61 and a half years. Stolley told the audience that the relationship between Roy and Helen board meetings, a storage area down- “was one of the great love stories of our time,” and added, “She was such town for the vast paper archives and an attractive woman, inside and out.” room for programs and the all-im- “It was a wonderful celebration, warm and loving,” former president portant bar. Bahna died at age 71 on Larry Martz said afterward. “It made all of us who were not life-long friends February 24 in Stamford where he of Helen’s wish that we had been. And Roy’s final tribute, “Thank you, resided. His first Club Quarters ho- Babe,” brought tears to the eye.” tel, 40 West 45th Street, is the OPC The family arranged for music to be performed by Jing Wang, con- headquarters. certmaster of the Hong Kong Philharmonic, who flew to New York for the occasion. Other OPC members in attendance included Bill Collins, Jer- Garrick Utley, a veteran NBC emy Main, former OPC Presidents Allan Dodds Frank and Larry Martz current OPC President , OPC members and News foreign correspondent, anchor Michael Serrill Seymour Au- drey Topping and Boots Duque from the OPC office. and host of Meet the Press, died Feb- ruary 20 at his home in Manhattan. coming to New York to and Warsaw Pact forces, He was 74 and died of prostate can- lead a weekly magazine the Yom Kippur war, the cer. Utley, whose parents were cor- show and serve as week- fall of the Berlin Wall respondents for NBC News radio, end anchor and to fill in and the Persian Gulf War. was fluent in Russian, German and French and reported from some 75 for Chancellor and Tom In 2000. he published a countries. He began his 30-year ca- Brokaw on Nightly News. memoir, You Should Have reer with NBC in Brussels in 1963 on He later worked for ABC Been Here Yesterday: the recommendation of John Chan- News and CNN. He cov- A Life Story in Televi- cellor, a family friend who became ered the Vietnam War, the sion News. Utley won a his mentor. Utley was NBC’s first invasion of Czechoslova- Peabody Award and the Saigon bureau chief and later headed kia during the so-called OPC’s Edward R. Mur- the London and Paris bureaus before Prague Spring by Soviet Utley in 1971. row Award.

OPC Bulletin • February/March 2014 • Page 11 Persecution of Journalists in Egypt Expands by Susan Kille A Message From the OPC to Egypt: #FreeAJStaf Nizar Manek, a 2012 OPC scholar, received an e-mail on the morning of January 23 from the editor of the English edition of Le Monde Diplomatique ask- ing him to file a short piece reflecting on the Egyptian revolution and its anniversary two days away. He wrote back “Fairly dramatic situation here... .” He had plenty to write, and he would, but not within that deadline. The previous night he watched as his two room- mates in Cairo were arrested without warrants by Egypt’s security services. Jeremy Hodge, a freelance translator from Los Angeles, was freed four days later without charges and he returned to the United States. Hossam al-Din Salman al-Meneai, was released on February 9 but he said he could still face trial on charges of “spreading false news and endangering the stability of the nation.” Hodge told reporters that he witnessed Meneai being beaten and saw an officer put a gun to Meneai’s head and threaten to pull the trigger. “The doorbell rang and three people came in and asked for our passports,” said Manek, a British citizen who was placed under a form of preliminary house ar- When the Egyptian uprising broke out in Janu- ary 2011, Al Jazeera made its name. Millions of people rest for two hours before agents took his friends into around the world tuned in to watch its in-depth, around- custody. “We complied with any questions they had.” the-clock coverage of protests that would soon become a PEN International has declared that Egyptian secu- full-fledged revolution. rity forces are targeting journalists, writers, civil rights Today, not one Al Jazeera journalist is reporting in activists, and people with independent or critical voices Egypt. Four of the media network’s journalists are being for their reporting or peaceful activism. Free speech detained by Egyptian authorities, and nine of its journal- and human rights groups are responding with outrage. ists are among a group of 20 currently on trial, accused In February, the British National Union of Journalists of joining or aiding and abetting a terrorist organization. The worldwide campaign for their release, which is demonstrated in front of the Egyptian embassy in Lon- gaining momentum, relies on a simple message: Journal- don to protest the persecution of journalists in Egypt. ism is not a crime. Three seasoned journalists working for Al Jazeera In its commitment to advancing freedom of the press, English were arrested on December 29 and accused the OPC has joined others expressing their solidarity with of illegally broadcasting from a hotel suite, becoming journalists who have been detained or stifled in Egypt known as “the Marriott cell:” Peter Greste, an Aus- through the #FreeAJStaff hashtag online. These photos tralian national; Cairo Bureau Chief Mohammed Fah- of OPC board members were taken during the February board meeting. Join with your own: take a photo with a my, a Canadian-Egyptian, and producer Baher Mo- #FreeAJStaff sign and share it over social media. hamed, an Egyptian. On January 29, they and 17 other — by Azmat Khan journalists, some in absentia, were referred to trial on charges of belonging to a terrorist organization; calling main in custody. Egypt ranks among the top 10 jailors for disruption of the law and preventing state institu- of journalists in the world. Since July 2013, at least five tions from working; broadcasting false news to support journalists have been killed, 45 journalists assaulted, a terrorist group and harming national interests. and 11 news outlets raided in Egypt, according to the The trial for the 20 journalists was set for February CPJ. The group also reported that at least 44 journalists 20. The three Al Jazerra journalists and five others in have been detained “without charge in pretrial proce- custody appeared in metal cages in court. They were dures, which, at times, have gone on for months.” denied bail and proceedings were quickly adjourned Manek, who left Egypt for London, won the OPC until March 5. The other 12 journalists are being tried Harper’s Magazine Scholarship and went on to be a in absentia. Sixteen of those charged are Egyptians. Marjorie Deane fellow at the Financial Times. He ar- The Committee to Protect Journalists reports at least rived in Egypt in August to study Arabic and work as 60 journalists have been detained since the military an independent journalist. He misses Egypt and is un- ousted President Mohamed Morsi last July and nine re- sure when he will return. Manek may move to Tunisia.

OPC Bulletin • February/March 2014 • Page 12 Tucson Panel Discussed Stifled News and Lost Lives tering the field of EVENT RECAP: FEBRUARY 18 “big data,” which The panel discussion at the University of Arizona needs program- was a launch of the new Center for Global Journalism. mers, researchers Panelist Ricardo Sandoval, veteran Latin American re- and reporters. porter and human rights researcher, told the audience that Moderator smuggling Mexicans into the U.S. used to be a mom- Bill Schmidt, re- and-pop business. However, since 1995 when the U.S. legislated stopping immigration and recently has ratched cently retired as Sonya K. Fry up its war by putting up a fence and tightening the legal deputy managing From left: Schmidt, Segnini, screws on immigration, the business is now in the hands editor from The Sandoval and Rosenblum of organized crime. He said he likes to think of the area New York Times, between Mexico and the U.S. as a “Seam” — an area spoke about the difficult circumstances that he had to of coexistence — instead of what it has become: a war deal with when reporters are kidnapped or maimed. Dur- zone. ing all of WWII, The Times lost two reporters, but now Giannina Segnini, until recently an investigative there is constant danger. reporter for La Nacion in Costa Rica, has experienced Mort Rosenblum, who has covered 200 countries, threats and physical harm from her research on corrup- said that years ago you “had to have bad luck or were tion. There are different kinds of psychological borders pretty stupid” to be captured. Mort talked about his sur- and she wanted to convey the fact that the traditional prise when he was held for a few hours in a small island journalism where you “own the story” is dead. Investi- nation. He said that there were three goons — the official gative journalism has become a team effort if you are en- goon, the head guy who was fingering his sidearm and then the tech-savvy goon who had a Google print out of OPC mem- Mort’s career — that was a game changer. ber Don Under- The discussion also reached into other problems in wood and his foreign correspondence like lawless areas controlled wife Pat live in only by mafia-style cartels or political entities that have Tucscon and invited us to their closed down areas of the world where old-fashioned re- home. Don was porting is impossible. Panelists talked about the problem eager to show of relying on fixers and local journalists. The locals are his photography the best equipped to know the story, but they can also Mort Rosenblum gallery. Mort be listening for the local government or business. San- Don Underwood and Sonya Fry Rosenblum, Gi- doval told of opening the Havana bureau for the Dallas annina Segnini, Morning News with an assistant that was in the employ Ricardo Sando- of the Cuban military. Schmidt spoke of fixers that escort val and I were riv- a reporter safely across the border into Syria are now be- eted by the world- coming co-opted by the jihadists and were often the ones class pictures who set up the kidnappings. signed by photographers with good wishes to Don (Continued From Page 1) Karsh portraits that are part of the who worked for Underwoods’ colleciton. Life magazine for the ACLU Speech, Privacy & Technology Project. 10 years. n Carnegie Mellon CyLab Director Virgil Gligor, Among the most famous photos is the one of General who is known for his scholarship in computer and net- Douglas MacArthur coming ashore in the Philippines in work security. 1945 at the end of WWII taken by Carl Mydans. You- n David A. Harris, Professor of Law, University of suf Karsh signed two 50-year retrospective posters of Pittsburgh, an expert on privacy and national security. Hemingway and Churchill. The most well-recognized The first panel will be held from 5 to 6:15 p.m., the picture was taken by Alfred Eisenstadt in Times Square second panel from 6:30 to 7:45 p.m. Both panels will of the sailor kissing a young lady. Life editors said it was take place at the first floor Deck room of the Collab- the most famous and beloved picture ever to appear in orative Innovation Building, 4720 Forbes Avenue, Pitts- Life magazine…“it sings of joy, triumph and America.” burgh.

OPC Bulletin • February/March 2014 • Page 13 Cookbook Helped to Bond Club Members in the 1960s such motherly advice as “Don’t let some maniac push OPC 75TH ANNIVERSARY you off the platform in front of a train.” When I emerged by Andrew Kreig from college, I remember, “Always pay for a friend’s In 1962, the Overseas Press Club Cookbook por- book when you can. No freebies.” trayed the dining adventures of 60 foreign cor- This portrait’s larger point? She treasured respondents from the club’s first era. her time with fellow writers who lived on the As the club celebrates its 75th anniversary, edge. She treated me on occasion to visits to the cookbook brings to life those first genera- the old OPC clubhouse at 54 West 40th Street. tions. My mother, Margaret Kreig (1922-98) The experience influenced my career choice. was an OPC member in the 1960s who be- She was proud to join club camaraderie, queathed me her copy and memories of a career facilitated by club predecessors. as I am reminded in rereading the OPC mem- The cookbook editor was Sigrid Schultz bers’ culinary adventures. Especially touching (1897-1980), the Chicago Tribune’s Central for me was a generous, handwritten inscrip- Europe correspondent from 1926 into World tion to her at the top of the cookbook chapter War II. Schultz’s recipe came from a wartime by OPC officer Lawrence Blochman (1900- banquet she helped prepare in Germany to dis- 75). tract a high-ranking Nazi from supervising a Long out-of-print, the Overseas Press Dutch reporter’s frame-up on spy charges. Club Cookbook published in 1962 is out of sight — in Quentin Reynolds (1902-1965), author of 25 books, both senses of the term. In terms of recipes, I recommend wrote the first chapter. It described a cozy wartime din- the menu from Schultz where she had to cook for a high- ner that Winston Churchill hosted in 1943 for Reynolds ranking Nazi titled “A Lunch for a Man’s Freedom.” The and FDR advisors Harry Hopkins and Averell Harriman. menu items give a sense of the drama: scotch barley soup That year my mother dropped out of college to be- à la printanière, zabaglione and a “Daily Telepgraph come one of the first women volunteering for the Marine Cake.” Some of the menu writers, including Schultz, Corps. Later, she became freelancer in Chicago and New did not provide such precise instructions as to guarantee York; women had difficulty getting staff jobs. Among foolproof replication. And Churchill’s meal, despite war- her many scoops, she documented in 1950 that middle- time conditions, was 23 courses. The book represents a class teenagers were beginning to use hard drugs in sub- living legacy that should not fall out of mind. stantial numbers. OPC member Andrew Kreig’s latest book is Presiden- As the medical editor of Parents Magazine in 1960, tial Puppetry: Obama, Romney and Their Masters she began research for Green Medicine: The Search for the Plants that Heal. The best-seller became “the first to The OPC Cookbook was pub- deal with the modern, world-wide scientific resurgence lished in 1962 by Doubleday. The of interest in medicinal plants.” book is broken into sections like Still without a degree, she had been interviewing em- “Highest Echelon Banqueting,” “Pag- ing Famous Authors” and “On the inent Harvard researchers when they invited her to travel Newsbeat in Peacetime” among oth- to the Amazon if she could leave promptly. Gung-ho, she ers. Each contributor writes a three- borrowed my gym shoes and disappeared into the jungle page introduction and provides the for six weeks to learn from witch doctors. Overall, she menu and a loose idea of the ingredi- logged 35,000 miles. Research included interviews of ents and steps involved. LSD co-creator Dr. Albert Hofmann in Switzerland, and One of the OPC founders Burnet Hershey wrote futurist Aldous Huxley. in “The Gourmet Beat”: Once upon a time there was Black Market Medicine (Prentice Hall, 1967) ex- a Foreign Correspondent who had covered two world wars, three minor wars, numberless riots and revolu- posed how the Mafia and their associates in legitimate tions. He had occupied grandstand seats at the cru- drug supply chains were counterfeiting life-saving pre- cial happenings during the most agitated half centu- scription drugs. To obtain exclusive access to federal ry in history -- all of which added up to hundreds of files, she worked undercover in cooperation with agents. newspaper clippings. His wife had pasted up his best She posed, for example, as a madam to buy “uppers for work in a set of scrapbooks, but he had added some- my girls.” She twice quit the project because of death thing else. Alongside many a clipping was a penciled threats. But in June 1967, she led off a Congressional footnote giving the name of a restaurant, a menu, a hearing that exposed threats to consumers. Congressmen recipe or the name of a wine or liquer. Long after the reporter’s return to home base, these notations con- praised her for “courageous” and “shocking” revelations. tinued to serve as a guide to good living. My two brothers and I were city kids who followed

OPC Bulletin • February/March 2014 • Page 14 OPC Scholars Luncheon Photos: Michael Dames

What it’s all about: contacts. Louise Dewast gives keynote speaker Kimberly Dozier her card. Nathan S. Bienstock Memorial Scholar Shira Telushkin, right, speaks with Kate McLeod, and Kevin Grant and Charles M. Sennott, both of GlobalPost.

S&P Award for Economic and Business Reporting recipient Anna Nicolaou, left, speaks with a luncheon Vice President of CBS News Ingrid Ciprian-Matthews guest Bryan Brown and OPC Foundation speaks with The Walter and Betsy Cronkite President William J. Holstein. Scholarship recipient Sam McNeil.

Roy Rowan Scholarship recipient Jian Gao is flanked by Flora Lewis Internship recipient Alison Sargent with Jack Bausman and Roy Rowan. Gao and Rowan both OPC board member Jacqueline Albert-Simon. got their start as freelance photographers in China.

(Continued From Page 16) Morocco adopted a liberal constitution in 2011, and it is conservative monarchy judged as a threat to its founda- enjoying a remarkable peace and stability in the midst of tions. The Ibrahim government was dismissed and a long the turmoil of the Arab Spring. period of absolute rule and political repression ensued. Abbadi has contributed articles about security, strat- This situation continued until the end of the 1990s when the opposition was once more called upon to head the egy, international cooperation and development in Jeune government and the political system began to open up as Afrique, Le Matin, World Diplomatic Observer, The In- Morocco had its own version of national reconciliation. dependent and other publications. He is co-author of Vi- Today, the government is led by the head of the Jus- sion for a New Civilization. tice and Development Party, a moderate Islamist group. — by Susan Kille

OPC Bulletin • February/March 2014 • Page 15 er Abbadi, an OPC member, focuses New Books on the restoration of Moroccan inde- pendence during the crucial years of NORTH AMERICA COLLECTION OF PHOTO- 1956 and 1960. A graphs and writing by the late Abbadi, the former deputy direc- photojournalist Chris Hondros is tor of the U.N. Security Council, ex- due to be published in April by Pow- amines the emergence of Morocco erHouse Books. Testament covers from 44 years of French colonial his work from the world’s conflicts rule as the country was unified and since the late 1990s, including Koso- democracy was introduced after the 1955 return of Sultan Mohammed vo, Afghanistan, the West Bank, Chaos in Liberia: photo is from Hon- Iraq, Liberia, Egypt and Libya. dros’s 2003 OPC Faber Award. V from exile. Mohammed V built a Hondros, an employee of Getty communicate their plight.” modern governmental structure un- Images, was killed while working Hondros was known as a com- der a constitutional monarchy, where in Libya in April 2011. He won the mitted observer and witness, who the sultan had an active political role. OPC’s 2005 Robert Capa award and worked to humanize complex events These years witnessed for the first the 2003 John Faber award. and shed light on shared human ex- time the presidency of the govern- “Chris believed that his work periences. His writing, interspersed ment by one of the leaders of the Na- could and would make a difference,” in the book, shows his determination tional Union of Popular Forces, a left Jonathan Klein, co-founder and to broaden understanding of war and leaning party, and the launching of a CEO of Getty, writes in the introduc- its consequences. progressive economic and tion to the book. “He dedicated and His work appeared on social program. Abdullah ultimately lost his life in pursuit of the covers of magazines Ibrahim, the prime minister, that belief. I have no doubt that Chris such as Newsweek and The traveled to Washington to was correct. Economist, and on the front meet with President Dwight “Images can and do influence pages of major American Eisenhower to negotiate an public opinion, galvanize people and newspapers, including The agreement aimed at closing societies, and force governments to New York Times, The Wash- the U.S. Air Force Strate- change. They bring much-needed fo- ington Post, and the Los gic Air Command base in Abdelkader Nouaceur, near Casablanca. cus and attention to the suffering of Angeles Times. Abbadi people who are otherwise unable to The agreement was reached in 1959 and in 1963 the U.S closed MIDDLE EAST the facility, now known as Moham- ITH HISTORY THAT SPANS med V International Airport. W more than 12 centuries, Mo- During these years, a series of rocco has had many transitions of radical political, economic and so- UPCOMING EVENTS: power. In Le Maroc Indépendant cial measures were adopted that the (Independent Morocco), Abdelkad- (Continued on Page 15) Bloomberg Breakfast Overseas Press Club of America 40 West 45 Street To Celebrate New York, NY 10036 USA

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