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 OVERSEAS PRESS CLUB OF AMERICA • BOARD OF GOVERNORS PRESIDENT SECRETARY Jane Ciabattari Santiago Lyon Charles Wallace PAST PRESIDENTS Michael Serrill Jonathan Dahl Freelance Writer VP and Director of Financial Writer EX-OFFICIO Assistant Managing Editor in Chief NPR.org, Daily Beast Photography David A. 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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 Over seas 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.