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MONTHLY NEWSLETTER I January 2020 OPC Scholar Luncheon to Feature INSIDE Event Preview: Keynote from Reuters’ Clare Baldwin Book Night by jane reilly 3 Bill Holstein, president of the with Tiff Roberts lare baldwin, OPC OPC Foundation, said he was OPC Winter Party 3 Award and Pulitzer Prize- especially pleased to have Baldwin winning special correspon- headline the Foundation’s signature Farnaz Fassihi C Covers Iran 4 dent for Reuters, will be the keynote event. “Clare Baldwin reflects the speaker at the annual Overseas best values that we seek to instill People Rememered: Press Club Foundation Scholar in our winners. In 2018, Clare was Jim Lehrer 4 Awards Luncheon on Friday, Feb. part of the three-person Reuters 28 at the Yale Club. The event will team that won a Pulitzer for expos- People 5-7 begin with a reception at 11:30 ing a campaign of deadly violence Press Freedom a.m., followed by the luncheon in by Philippine president Rodrigo Update 8-9 the Grand Ballroom which will Duterte. She also won the presti- end promptly at 2:00 p.m. The gious Hal Boyle award from the New Books 10 reception, which is held in the OPC for that body of work. Then Q&A: Yale Club’s Rooftop Terrace, will the very next year, she was part Portia Crowe 11 also feature an exhibit of archival of the Reuters staff awarded the photographs by famed Time Inc. Pulitzer for exposing the military Clare Baldwin photographer Ben Martin. Continued on Page 2 Kristof And WuDunn To Discuss ‘Tightrope’ and America’s Abandoned Working Class event preview: feb. 20 The book’s inspiration reporting took them across all fifty stemmed from Kristof’s home- states, from the Dakotas and Okla- n their latest book, best- town of Yamhill, Oregon, where homa to New York and Virginia. selling authors Nicholas D. many of his childhood classmates Kristof has been an OPC mem- IKristof and Sheryl WuDunn have died from drugs, alcohol, sui- ber since 1998. He is an op-ed col- turned their focus on America’s cide, reckless accidents and pre- umnist for The New York Times and economic crisis and foundering ventable diseases such as obesity previously served as bureau chief working class. Tightrope: Ameri- and diabetes. in Hong Kong, Beijing, and Tokyo. cans Reach for Hope connects the “We wanted to understand more WuDunn worked at the Times as dots between policy shortcomings, deeply what had happened to Nick’s a business editor and foreign cor- the hemorrhaging of blue-collar friends on the school bus,” the duo respondent in Tokyo and Beijing, jobs, and devastation in small rural wrote, as they investigated “how our and now works in finance and con- towns. country could have let tens of mil- sulting. They have coauthored four Kristof and WuDunn will lions of people suffer an excruciat- previous books together: A Path Ap- discuss Tightrope during a book ing loss of jobs, dignity, lives, hopes pears, Half the Sky, Thunder from night at Club Quarters on Feb. 20 and children.” the East, and China Wakes. v at 6:00 p.m. The event will be held Many of the book’s personal in the dining room. stories come from Yamhill, but their 1 1 OPC Kicks Off 2020 with Winter Party ‘Scholar Luncheon’ “Are we going to continue to support for the winners at the Craig Newmark Continued From Page 1 on-the-ground telling of truth or will we Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY. be swamped by non-truths and non-facts?” Frank Smyth, president and founder of units responsible for the expulsion of the asked Holstein. “These young people are Global Journalist Security, a hostile envi- Rohingyas from Myanmar. Based in Hong part of the answer to that question. They ronment training firm based in Washing- Kong, she goes to wherever the story is – have excellent language skills, and some ton DC, will lead the program. Those who and nails it.” have multiple passports. They have astute participated in the past called the experi- Baldwin has also written about cyber eyes for detail and the ability to capture the ence invaluable. “We have a responsibil- thieves, pro-democracy protests, sanction- complexity of what they see in prose. They ity to make sure our winners engage in busting and government bailouts. A native have the right stuff. They are ready to go.” the world’s stories in ways that keep them of Alaska and a Stanford University The 2020 winning recipients are from safe,” Holstein said. “We will continue to graduate, she previously wrote for The Columbia University, Craig Newmark do what we can, as sponsors of the ACOS Frontiersman newspaper in Alaska, Wired School of Journalism at CUNY, DePauw Alliance, to see that journalists throughout magazine, The San Francisco Examiner, University, Kathlieke Universiteit Leuven the world have the training and support The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner and The (Belgium), New York University, Stanford they need to do their jobs as well and as Peninsula Clarion. Left to right: Rachel Strader, Patricia Left to right: Pete Engardio, Jocelyn Ford, William University, University of California-Berke- securely as possible.” The luncheon will also feature the Kranz, Paula Dwyer and Vera Naughton. Holstein, Minky Worden and Gary Silverman. ley, UCLA and Yale University. “These Up to 10 of this year’s winners will presentation of a combination of scholar- young people inspire me every year be- receive fellowships to work in the foreign ships and fellowships to 16 graduate and cause they want to travel down what I re- bureaus of the Foundation’s media undergraduate college students aspiring to gard as the sacred path of bearing witness. partners, including The Associated Press, become foreign correspondents. Holstein They just want a chance. Our imperative Reuters, Bloomberg, The Wall Street is especially pleased to announce the first is to help train them and keep them safe as Journal, and the GroundTruth Project. The award in the name of Deb Amos and Rick they explore the world,” Holstein said. fellowships ensure that the awardees gain Davis. Holstein noted, “Deb Amos, an Events for the 2020 winners will last valuable experience and insight work- award-winning correspondent for NPR three days starting on Thursday afternoon, ing with veteran editors and reporters. In News, met Rick Davis in Beirut in 1982 when the Foundation will host a media 2019, the Foundation funded fellowships and they became a husband-wife team training panel at Reuters for the award across Europe, Asia, Africa, the Americas covering the Middle East for decades. winners. That evening, Reuters will host and the Middle East. The Foundation Rick, a former NBC News correspondent, the traditional reception for current and picks up the cost of the airfare and one passed away in 2019 and Deb has chosen past winners of OPC Foundation awards to two months living expenses for the to endow this award in both their names in at the news organization’s Times Square winners. support of high-quality Middle East cover- headquarters. On Friday, besides address- Holstein is grateful to Bloomberg, age.” Amos is First Vice President of the ing a distinguished audience of more than which again hosted the judging in Decem- Overseas Press Club and the Ferris Profes- 200 luncheon guests at the Yale Club, the ber and to the dedicated panel of judges sor of Journalism in Residence at Princeton award winners will meet with Holstein who chose the 2020 recipients: Allen University. She previously reported for Left to right: Stéphanie Fillion, Karen Toulon, Maria Mercader, Left to right: Josh Fine, Albert Goldson, Marcy McGinnis, Sonya Fry, and veteran international journalists in a Alter; Bob Dowling; Joe Flint of The Wall ABC’s Nightline and PBS’s Frontline. Vera Naughton, Allan Dodds Frank, Lilian King and Emma Daly. Evelyn Leopold, Michael Serrill and Azmat Khan. pre-luncheon breakfast and with several Street Journal; Allan Dodds Frank; Bill Holstein remains concerned with how foreign editors following the luncheon. Glasgall of Volker Alliance; Holstein; the current economic model supporting For many, said Holstein, the opportunity Adam Horvath of The Wall Street Journal; international news will affect this generation to meet and observe prominent journalists Caitlin Hu of CNN; Larry Martz; Kate of young journalists. “Never has there been in action is as valuable as any monetary McLeod; Maria Mercader of CBS News; a time in our profession, our craft, when we Tiff Roberts to Discuss ‘The Myth Of Chinese Capitalism’ award. Ellen Nimmons of AP; Jim Pensiero; Mi- need to work harder to defend the values we On the Saturday after the luncheon, chael Serrill; Steve Swanson of the Bronx believe in, particularly as it relates to what is the OPC Foundation will offer a full day Botanical Garden; Ed Tobin of Reuters; event preview: march 17 happening in the world,” he said. tion of its youth away to become migrants; of risk assessment and situational training Karen Toulon of Bloomberg, and Tiffany and Dongguan, China’s most infamous factory Wu of Reuters. n the Myth of Chinese Capitalism, OPC town located in Guangdong, home to both the Luncheon tickets are $85 for OPC member Dexter “Tiff” Roberts explores the largest number of migrant workers and the members and $150 for non-members. reality behind today’s China and pulls the country’s biggest manufacturing base. The Foundation encourages media and I curtain back on how the Chinese manufactur- Roberts brings to life the problems that corporate support at its three levels of giv- ing machine is actually powered. On March 17, China and its people face today as they attempt ing: Benefactors, $9,000; Patrons, $6,000; Roberts will discuss his work during a Book to overcome a divisive system that poses and Friends, $3,000.
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