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THE MONTHLY NEWSLETTER OF THE OVERSEAS PRESS CLUB OF AMERICA, NEW YORK, NY • January 2014 Dozier to Give Keynote Address at Annual Scholars Luncheon ship program has “We are very pleased EVENT PREVIEW: FEBRUARY 21 grown in the past two that The Wall Street by Jane Reilly decades and is now Journal/Dow Jones The acclaimed foreign corre- considered the most has joined our board spondent Kimberly Dozier, who prominent scholar- and took part in the now covers intelligence, special op- ship program in the judging process. erations and the war on violent ex- country for aspiring We look forward to tremism for The Associated Press, correspondents. “Our building that rela- will be the keynote speaker at the program just keeps tionship at the same annual OPC Foundation Scholar- getting better and at- time that we enjoy ship Luncheon on Friday, February tracts more attention strong support from 21 at the Yale Club. At the event, the and participation,” Kimberly Dozier The Associated Press, Foundation will award a combina- said Bill Holstein, Reuters and Bloom- tion of scholarships and fellowships president of the OPC Foundation. (Continued on Page 4) to 14 graduate and undergraduate students aspiring to become foreign correspondents. The winning recipi- The Stories You Aren’t Hearing From Pakistan ents who emerged from an incred- by the state in May 2013 for unspeci- ibly competitive field of more than EVENT PREVIEW: FEBRUARY 11 fied “undesirable activities.” 175 applications from nearly 70 dif- by Azmat Khan n Habiba Nosheen, an OPC ferent colleges and universities are The need for objective, boots- Award and Peabody Award-winning from the Academy of Art Univer- on-the ground reporting from Paki- Pakistani journalist and filmmaker sity-San Francisco, Carleton Col- stan — one of the world’s most of the documentary “Outlawed in lege, Columbia University, École de dangerous assignments for journal- Pakistan.” Journalisme de Sciences Po (Paris), ists — has never been greater. The n Sadia Shephard, a Pakistani- New York University, University of nuclear-armed state, home to a ter- American journalist whose film “The Arizona, University of California- rorist insurgency and a controversial Other Half of Tomorrow” explores Berkeley, University of Southern American drone campaign, often contemporary Pakistan through the California, University of Toronto makes U.S. headlines. But Pakistan perspectives of women. and Yale University. is also much more than that. n Richard Leiby, Pakistan cor- The OPC Foundation scholar- In this special event from the respondent for The Washington Post OPC and George Washington Uni- and a professor of journalism at the Inside. . . versity School of Media & Public GWU School of Media and Public Affairs, journalists who have spent Affairs. Arizona Event Preview...... 2 years reporting in the country and n OPC board member and Al pursuing stories that often go under- Jazeera America senior digital pro- Holiday Party Recap...... 3 reported will share their own experi- ducer and reporter Azmat Khan will People...... 5-9 ences about the challenges and dan- moderate the discussion. gers of their work, and the important The event takes place on Tuesday, Organizations’ Numbers in 2014....9 stories Americans don’t hear enough. February 11 at 7 p.m. in Washington, Panelists include: D.C. at GWU Marvin Auditorium, China Revises Some Visas...... 10 n Declan Walsh, Pakistan bu- 800 21st Street, NW. RSVP on- Larry Martz on Snowden...... 11 reau chief for The New York Times, line: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ who had been reporting in the coun- reporting-in-pakistan-what-you- New Books...... 12 try since 2004, until he was expelled arent-hearing-tickets-8998718409 Reporting Border Conflict: Stifled News, Lost Lives

EVENT PREVIEW: FEBRUARY 18 joined the UA faculty. Panelists are America for the Dallas Morning Giannina Segnini, investigations News and Knight-Ridder writing by Mort Rosenblum editor at La Nacion in Costa Rica; hard-hitting stories on drugs and Award-winning journalists with Ricardo Sandoval Palos, veteran border issues. He then supervised decades of global reporting experi- Latin America reporter and human global investigative journalists for ence will explore how border con- rights researcher; and OPC member The Center for Public Integrity and flict from Sonora to Syria skews Mort Rosenblum, Paris-based for- researched border issues for Human reality and endangers reporters in a mer Associated Press special corre- Rights Watch. He is now organizing free public discussion on Tuesday, spondent who teaches International an international news venture. February 18 at 5 p.m. in the Univer- Reporting at the UA. Rosenblum, a UA graduate, sity of Arizona’s Center for Creative Schmidt directed the Times’ ef- joined AP from the Arizona Daily Photography. The UA School of forts to keep scores of far-ranging Star in 1965. He has covered war Journalism and the OPC are spon- correspondents and stringers safe in and peace on four continents, from soring the talk. hostile environments. He helped en- Congo and Vietnam to Iraq and Af- In the past two years, 159 jour- sure a steady stream of reliable news ghanistan. He edited the Interna- nalists were killed in pursuit of from Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, and tional Herald Tribune from 1979 to news, according to Reporters With- North Africa. Before returning to 1981. An eight-time Pulitzer nomi- out Borders. Another 1,705 were ar- New York, he was based in London, nee, he has written a series of books rested, 125 were kidnapped and 150 from where he covered the Middle about global news coverage. had to flee their countries. Growing East, Africa, and the Balkans. Panelists will focus on the U.S.- threats on the safety and security of Segnini’s prize-winning team has Mexico border and Central America journalists impact heavily on how disclosed 10 cases of international within a global context and then take stories are covered. Some home- corruption, including one that sent questions from the audience. based editors and reporters censor two former Costa Rican presidents The event takes place on Tues- themselves in fear for their families. to jail. She travels widely and is a day, February 18 at 5 p.m. in the Correspondents often travel with se- featured speaker and jury member at University of Arizona’s Center for curity guards in conflict zones. international conferences on investi- Creative Photography at 1030 North Bill Schmidt, the panel modera- gative journalism. She also teaches Olive Road. RSVP by calling the tor, retired as The New York Times at the University of Costa Rica. OPC at 212-626-9220 or e-mailing deputy managing editor in 2013 and Sandoval spent a decade in Latin [email protected].

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. Andelman Editor WSJMoney Associated Press ASSOCIATE BOARD John Corporon Bloomberg Markets Deidre Depke MEMBERS Allan Dodds Frank ACTIVE BOARD Executive Editor Marcus Mabry Brian Byrd Alexis Gelber FIRST VICE PRESIDENT Jacqueline Albert- The Daily Beast Editor at Large Program Officer William J. Holstein Tim Ferguson Simon The New York Times NYS Health Marshall Loeb Editor U.S. Bureau Chief Martin Dickson Foundation Larry Martz Forbes Asia Politique Internationale U.S. Managing Editor Robert Nickelsberg Roy Rowan Financial Times Freelance Sarah Lubman Leonard Saffir SECOND VICE PRESIDENT Amar C. Bakshi Photojournalist Partner Larry Smith Abigail Pesta JD/MBA student Arlene Getz Brunswick Group Richard B. Stolley Freelance Journalist Yale University Editor-in-Charge Romesh Ratnesar Digital News Deputy Editor Daniel Sieberg EXECUTIVE THIRD VICE PRESIDENT Rebecca Thomson Reuters Bloomberg Head of Media Outreach DIRECTOR Toni Reinhold Blumenstein Businessweek Google Sonya K. 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 OPC Freelance Journalist Howard Chua-Eoan United Nations Emeritus Abi Wright ISSN-0738-7202 Former News Director Professor of Director Copyright © 2002 Time Dafna Linzer International Journalism Alfred I. duPont – Overseas Press Club of Managing Editor Columbia University Columbia University America MSNBC.com Awards 40 West 45 Street, New York, NY 10036 USA • Phone: (212) 626-9220 • Fax: (212) 626-9210 • Website: opcofamerica.org OPC Bulletin • January 2014 • Page 2 OPC Holiday Party Kicks Off the 75th Anniversary Year EVENT RECAP: JANUARY 7 by Aimee Vitrak The OPC broke tradition from its Holiday Party at Club Quarters in Rockefeller Center for the past several years and returned to its starting place at the Algonquin Hotel. OPC members had unlimited drinks and buffet- style food tables and the opportunity to mingle and tell stories of their time in the field. About 55 members at- Photos: Lesley Topping tended this year’s celebration that kicked off the 75th anniversary year of the Club, which was founded on April 2, 1939. George Bookman was the oldest member at OPC President Michael Serrill, left, and 99 and James Brooke traveled the farthest coming from former OPC President Richard Stolley Russia, where he is currently the Russia bureau chief for Voice of America, based in Moscow. Executive Director Sonya K. Fry welcomed members to the party and gave a brief timeline of the Club’s founding. Nine founding members were guests of the fa- mous literary Roundtable at the Algonquin on April 2, 1939. The first two meetings organized the structure of the club, but it was the first meeting of the OPC membership that gained notoriety. “After collecting $40 dues, disposing of four bottles of whiskey, and bacon, eggs and sausages ‘on the house’ the group of 30 adjourned to the lobby bar for a christening party. ...we still owe the OPC Executive Director Sonya K. Fry and Algonquin for considerable broken glass.” (Burnet Her- OPC member Andrew Nagorski shey, 3rd OPC President). Fry presented the Algonquin Hotel with a mock check for $100 to settled the debt in time for a guilt-free 75th anniversary. About 16 members took their turn at the microphone relaying stories of reporting and a Russian-theme began to appear. The stories by decade began with Seymour Topping in Moscow in 1960 as The New York Times chief correspondent; OPC Board member Charles Wal- lace talked about a cold photo shoot at a Russian parade in November 1975; Andrew Nagorski reported from Moscow in 1981 and recalled a humorous story about the unexpected “benefit” of being followed by the KGB for OPC Bulletin editor Aimee Vitrak and a return flight to Moscow; Patricia Kranz in 1991 wrote Global Parachute editor Omar Rahman the first story claiming the Soviet Union would soon col- lapse for BusinessWeek; Ilana Ozernoy a Russian-born reporter who is now the coordinator of the Marie Col- vin Center for International reporting in SUNY-Stony Brook; and James Brooke who told the crowd to keep their eye on Ukraine and the country’s desire to align with Western Europe and away from the Russian Fed- eration influence. Videos of all speakers and additional interviews with Audrey Topping and Jeremy Main are The Algonquin Hotel was presented with a mock available at http://youtube.com/opcofamerica. check for $100 to settle a debt at the Club’s More 75th anniversary celebrations are being planned founding in 1939 for broken glassware. for 2014, including a lighting of the Empire State Build- ing using the Club’s signature blue and a special Awards Gala at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel on April 24. (More photos on Page 4)

OPC Bulletin • January 2014 • Page 3 (Continued From Page 4) Photos: Sonya K. Fry

From left: OPC member Karen Frenkel, OPC Foundation President Bill Holstein, and OPC members Andrew From left: OPC President Michael Serrill, People Nagorski and Bob Sullivan columnist Susan Kille and OPC member Albert Goldson.

(Continued From Page 1) Holstein is especially pleased that Dozier will be the berg. We also are attracting applications from Ameri- keynote speaker at the luncheon. “Kim Dozier is a per- can students studying in Germany, Canada, Britain, fect role model for our winners,” he noted. “She worked France, and the Middle East. Our footprint is global.” her way up the journalistic ladder the old-fashioned way, Besides addressing a distinguished audience of more by earning it.” than 200 luncheon guests, the award winners also tour Before her move to AP, Dozier covered the White The AP and meet with veteran international journalists House and the Pentagon for CBS News’ Washington bu- in a pre-luncheon breakfast, hosted by Holstein. On the reau from 2007 to 2010. In a 14-year career overseas, night before the luncheon, Reuters will host its tradi- she covered the Middle East and Europe as a CBS News tional reception for current and past winners at its Time TV correspondent, covering conflict zones including Square headquarters. “For many,” Holstein said, “the op- Iraq, Israel and the Palestinian territories, Kosovo and portunity to meet and observe prominent journalists in Northern Ireland. Earlier she worked for The Wash- action is as valuable as any monetary award.” ington Post, The San Francisco Chronicle and the BBC Media organizations have continued to reduce their World Service. Dozier was wounded in a car bombing international operations and cut back or close foreign in Iraq in 2006. Her memoir Breathing the Fire: Fighting bureaus, thereby decreasing the opportunities for young to Survive and Get Back to the Fight, recounts the at- journalists to gain experience overseas. Holstein readily tack and recovery. Author’s proceeds from the paperback acknowledges there is little the Foundation can do to re- version go to charities like Fisher House. She is the first verse that trend, but adds, “What we can do, and what we woman journalist recognized by the National Medal of have been doing with great success, is to identify bright students who wish to become foreign correspondents, Honor Society for her coverage of Iraq. support their efforts, and help them launch careers in in- Holstein is grateful to Bloomberg, which again host- ternational journalism.” Holstein is proud of the accom- ed the judging in December and to the panel of judges plishments of OPC Foundation scholars. “Our winners who chose the 2014 recipients: Bob Dowling; Eddie Ev- thrive. They get jobs and have bylines on the front pages ans, Reuters; Allan Dodds Frank; Jonathan Gage, Boston of major newspapers. They’re writing books and produc- Consulting Group; Sharon Gamsin; Sally Jacobsen, AP; ing documentaries.They’re taking on the world.” Felice Levin; Jeremy Main; Larry Martz; Rosalind Mas- Thanks to generous grants last year from The Cor- sow; Kate McLeod; Ellen Nimmons, AP: Jim Pensiero, respondents Fund and the Ford Foundation, the OPC The Wall Street Journal; Steve Swanson, The New York Foundation offers funded internships to nine scholars for Botanical Garden; and Karen Toulon, Bloomberg. opportunities at AP bureaus in Bangkok, Beijing, Buenos Luncheon tickets are $75 for OPC members and $150 Aires and Nairobi and at Reuters bureaus in Beijing, Bel- for non-members. The Foundation encourages media and grade, Brussels and Cairo. The Foundation also works corporate support at its three levels of giving: Benefac- with and sends young correspondents to GlobalPost, tors, $9,000; Patrons, $6,000; and Friends, $3,000. Ta- Forbes and Cambodia Daily. The Foundation picks up bles seat 10. The reception is at 11:30 a.m.; the luncheon the cost of the airfare and one month’s living expenses ends promptly at 2 p.m. All proceeds benefit the OPC for the winners. Interns often use their own funds to ex- Foundation. For more information, contact Jane Reilly at tend their stays to two and three months. 201-493-9087 or [email protected].

OPC Bulletin • January 2014 • Page 4 PEOPLE... by Susan Kille [email protected]

OPC SCHOLARS for Embers of War: The Fall of an commodity shortages here, supplies Beth Dickinson, an OPC Foun- Empire and the Making of Ameri- of newsprint are at an all-time low, dation scholar who won Harper’s IF ca’s Vietnam [Random House. July said the Venezuelan Press Block, Stone Award in 2007, published Who 2012]. The book also earned Lo- which represents the nation’s broad- Shot Ahmed? A Mystery Unravels gevall, a professor at Cornell Uni- sheets. El Impulso, the country’s in Bahrain’s Botched Arab Spring, versity, a 2013 Pulitzer Prize. oldest newspaper, warned in mid- a 51-page Kindle Single in Septem- January that unless it gets more pa- ber. Now based in Abu Dhabi, she PRESS FREEDOM per it might have to halt its presses was in Bahrain in March 2012 when in three weeks. El Nacional, one of unknown assailants killed Ahmed the nation’s largest newspapers, had Ismail al-Samadi, a 22-year-old enough newsprint to publish for a videographer. Dickinson, who spent month El Universal, its main rival, 18 months investigating the death, said it had enough for six weeks. has served as assistant managing editor at Foreign Policy, Nigeria cor- MANILA: A new law allows respondent for The Economist, con- journalists who pass drug and psy- tributing editor at World Affairs and Jailed reporters from left: chiatric tests and have a clean legal Fahmy, Greste and Mohamed correspondent for The Christian Sci- record to carry firearms outside their ence Monitor. The OPC joined journalists and homes. The law classifies journal- free speech activists from around ists, along with priests, lawyers, doc- Stephen Kalin, who won the the world in calling upon the Egyp- tors, nurses, accountants and engi- Foundation’s 2013 Roy Rowan tian government to release a three- neers, as “in imminent danger due to scholarship, has had his byline ap- member Al Jazeera team. Mohamed their profession.” Previously, people pear around the world during a Fahmy, Baher Mohamed and Pe- in these professions had to prove Thomson Reuters internship in Bei- ter Greste were arrested Decem- they were “under actual threat” to rut, where he is covering news and ber 29. Egyptian authorities say the be issued a special permit to carry politics from Lebanon and Syria. journalists held illegal meetings with firearms. The law, which went into the Muslim Brotherhood, which was effect in January, is unclear about Kristina Shevory, who received declared a terrorist group in Decem- whether journalists with pending the foundation’s Reuters scholar- ber. Greste, an Australian, previously libel suits would be able to carry a gun. The International Press Institute ship in 1998, has won a 2014 Alicia worked for CNN, Reuters and the Patterson Founda- said nine journalists were killed dur- BBC. Fahmy, a Canadian-Egyptian, tion fellowship of ing 2013 in the Philippines. previously worked for The New York $40,000. She will Times and CNN. Mohamed is a Cai- spend her fellow- BEIRUT: Two freelance Swed- ro-based producer. The three were ship year traveling, ish journalists in Syria were freed arrested with cameraman Mohamed researching and in early January after a month and a Fawzy, who was released. “The ac- writing on “Shad- Shevory half in captivity. Magnus Falkehed ow Wars: The Era cusations lodged against them — in- and Niclas Hammarström were of Freelance Soldiers and Special cluding the supposed broadcasting abducted in November as they were Operations Forces.” Shevory, who of ‘false news’ that ‘damaged na- leaving Syria. A Swedish national served eight years in the Army as a tional security’ — appear to be part police spokesman said the journal- Spanish and Russian linguist, says of a campaign to intimidate journalists’ release was part of negotia- the military is her favorite subject. ists covering Egypt politics,” OPC tions with unnamed “authorities” but President Michael Serrill wrote in didn’t elaborate. WINNERS an open letter. “That work necessari- Fredrik Logevall has won the ly includes reporting on the activities MOSCOW: Russia has banned Arthur Ross Book Award and its of the once-again outlawed Muslim David Satter, a senior fellow of the $15,000 prize from the Council on Brotherhood.” Hudson Institute and an American Foreign Relations for the best book journalist advising the U.S.-financed published on international affairs CARACAS: Amid widespread (Continued on Page 6)

OPC Bulletin • January 2014 • Page 5 (Continued From Page 5) December 26 shook the offices of than 75 people. Karnib worked more Radio Liberty, from Vijesti, the country’s leading daily than 20 years at Al-Manar, a TV sta- returning here. Sat- and a critic of long-term leader Milo tion linked to Hezbollah. ter said that he had Djukanovic. The building was dam- been promised a aged but editor-in-chief Mihailo Shan Dahar, a Pakistani journal- new visa but that Jovovic and more than 15 staff ist who worked for Aaab Tak News when he went in De- members present were not injured. Channel, died of his wounds Janu- cember to pick it up Satter The attack follows a bomb blast in ary 1 after he was shot in the back on at the Russian Embassy in Ukraine, August outside the home of Vijesti New Year’s Eve while standing near he was told that he had been barred journalist Tufik Softic. The Vijesti’s the Badah Press Club in the Larkana from Russia as undesirable. In a offices were pelted with stones in district. Although some reports spec- statement, the Russian Foreign Min- October. Cars belonging to the paper ulated that a stray bullet fired into the istry said Satter did not properly were torched in 2011. In Niksic, the air during New Year’s celebrations apply for the visa. “The Russian second country’s second largest city, struck him, the news director of Abb decision to declare me persona non Lidija Nikcevic, a correspondent for Takk said that he believes Dahar was grata is more than an action against the daily newspaper Dan, was at- killed in relation to his work. a single journalist,” Satter wrote tacked on the night of January 3 with January 15 in The Wall Street Jour- a baseball bat. Questions followed the death of nal. “It is an admission that the sys- Syrian teen-ager Molhem Barakat, tem under President Vladimir Putin MURDERS a freelance photographer for Re- cannot tolerate free speech, even in uters. He died with his older brother the case of foreign correspondents.” Mustafa, a member of a rebel bri- Satter worked in the Soviet Union gade, while photographing a battle and Russia for almost four decades for control of Aleppo’s al-Kindi as an author and as a correspondent Hospital. Reuters provided Barakat, for The Journal and the Financial whose photos appeared in The New Times. His books include It Was a York Times, Foreign Policy, BBC. Long Time Ago, and It Never Hap- com and other publi- pened Anyway: Russia and the Com- Ćuruvija was murdered in 1999. cations, with camera munist Past. Serbian police on January 15 said equipment, a ballis- they had arrested two former intelli- tic helmet and body gence officers suspected of involve- armor. Reuters said ment in the 1999 murder of journalist Barakat was 18 and Slavko Ćuruvija, a fierce critic of not a minor when he Barakat the late strongman Slobodan Milos- began working for the agency last evic. Ćuruvija was shot dead by two May but journalists who knew Bara- masked men in front of his Belgrade kat doubted he was that old. Journal- home in April 1999. At the time, he ists also have questioned the teen’s Chornovol, before and after the was the editor and owner of Dnevni affiliation with a rebel brigade and attack in December. Telegraf and Evropljanin, two lead- his safety training. KIEV: Tetyana Chornovol, a ing independent publications in a crusading Ukrainian journalist and country then made up of Serbia and After Maoists claimed respon- activist, was beaten on December 25 Montenegro. The murder was widely sibility for killing Indian journalist and remained hospitalized more than blamed on Milosevic’s secret police Sai Reddy in the troubled Bastar re- three weeks later. Chornovol, who and Ćuruvija’s family has accused gion of Chhattisgarh on December 6, is known for her muckraking inves- Milosevic of ordering the killing. A more than 130 journalists for region- tigations into corruption by senior prosecutor said the arrests came after al and national publications agreed state officials, told interviewers that a new witness decided to talk. to boycott the Maoists by not cover- she can connect the attack with state ing news releases from them. Four authorities. An investigation has led Abbas Karnib, a Lebanese tele- men armed with an axe and knives to the arrest of five suspects. vision journalist, died January 6, hacked Reddy to death in a busy four days after being wounded in a market. In a statement, the Maoists PODGORICA, Montenegro: suicide bombing near Beirut that said they killed Sai because he was a A blast just before midnight on killed four others and injured more police informer. The state’s director

OPC Bulletin • January 2014 • Page 6 general of police said Sai was in no name that comes from absinthe’s col- been digital: anchoring live video way helping his force. or. “It’s hard to overstate absinthe’s at political conventions; editing the cultural impact — or imagine a con- former Rendezvous blog at the In- UPDATES temporary equivalent,” wrote Cia- ternational Herald Tribune, while For the second time in less than battari, an OPC board member and a based in London; and working to de- a year, OPC member Roger Ailes past officer. Her reviews, interviews velop The New York Times Minute is the subject of a new biography. and cultural reporting appear in The video series. Ailes cooperated with Zev Chafets New York Times Book Review, The who wrote Roger Ailes: Off Camera, Daily Beast, The Paris Review, The OPC members can take a step published last March by Penguin/ Boston Globe, The Guardian and into the past at two restaurants that Sentinel. The new book by Gabriel other prominent publications. She recently opened at the Williams Ho- Sherman, The Loudest Voice in is the author of the 2013 short story tel, a double brownstone and the site the Room: How the collection Stealing the Fire. She is of the former Williams Club at 24 Brilliant, Bombastic vice president of the National Book East 39th Street where the OPC was Roger Ailes Built Fox Critics Circle, having served as its housed for more than 10 years after News — and Divided president from 2008 to 2011. She it left its 12-story building on 40th a Country, is not as welcomes OPC members who have Street. The Peacock restaurant on friendly. Random experience with the Green Muse to the first level has crystal chandeliers, House, which pub- e-mail her at [email protected]. ornate wallpaper and a lounge. The lished the book on Shakespeare is a less formal restau- January 14, provided Santiago Lyon, an OPC board rant downstairs that serves pub food this description: “A deeply reported member and vice president and di- and has a focus on beer. The Wil- journey inside the secretive world of rector of photography at The Asso- liams Club ceased operating on its Fox News and the life of its combat- ciated Press, protested White House own in 2010 and now operates out of ive, visionary founder.” The biogra- restrictions of photographers’ access The Princeton Club on 43rd Street. phy spurred brouhaha from foes and to presidential activities in an op-ed fans of Ailes even before publica- published on December 11 in The KILLINGWORTH, Conn: OPC tion. Ailes told one interviewer: “At- New York Times. Thirty-eight organi- member Ed Ricciuti has been ap- tacking me and Fox News is nothing zations and news companies formal- pointed a contributing editor for new — it’s a cottage industry.” Sher- ly protested the restrictions in No- Coastal Connecticut magazine. He man is a contributing editor at New vember. Lyon wrote: “The official will cover nature, science and the York magazine. photographs the White House hands outdoors. Ricciuti is a science jour- out are but visual news releases. ... nalist, naturalist, and former curator By no stretch of the imagination are at the New York Zoological Society these images journalism. Rather, (now the Wildlife Conservation Soci- they propagate an idealized portrayal ety) who has traveled the world writ- of events on Pennsylvania Avenue.” ing about wildlife. His website, ed- wardricciuti.com, reads: “My books Marcus Mabry, an OPC board reflect the scope of member, has a new assignment at my interests. A few One of the photos used to illustrate The New York Times. He has joined examples: The Natu- Ciabattari’s column on BBC.com, the the News Desk, where he will work ral History of North first of which was on absinthe. on and re-imagine The Lede, the blog America, Rocks and for national and international news. Minerals, The Yaka- Jane Ciabattari launched a bi- Mabry, an editor at large, joined ma, How to Box, The Ricciuti weekly book column for BBC.com The Times in 2007 from Newsweek, War in Yugoslavia, in January with a toast to a legend- where he spent 19 years as an edi- The Snake Almanac, Amphibians, ary literary muse: absinthe. The tor, a correspondent in Washington, Killer Animals, Killers of the Seas, highly alcoholic drink inspired many Paris and Johannesburg, and chief of Science 101: Forensics, and Federal great writers and may have damaged correspondents. At The Times, he has Bureau of Investigation.” some. She cited literary and art fig- been international business editor ures who imbibed and their works and associate national editor. Most WASHINGTON: In a case that that reference the “Green Fairy,” a of his Times career, however, has (Continued on Page 8)

OPC Bulletin • January 2014 • Page 7 (Continued From Page 7) as an investigative journalist to help captivated the city, Albrecht Muth scores of reporters across the country was found guilty January 16 of first- during a period marred by violence degree murder in the August 2011 and censorship. “As a member of the strangulation and beating death OPC board, I owed Mike O’Connor of Viola Drath, an OPC member a special debt of gratitude,” said well known in diplomatic and so- John Martin. “When he discov- cial circles. Drath, 91, and Muth, 44 ered that our Freedom of the Press years her junior, had been married Committee had an outdated roster of for more than 20 years when Muth Mexican government officials, Mike called police to report he had found pitched in to update our mailing list. his wife dead in their Georgetown It gave our letters of protest a chance home. During a six-day trial, more of getting through Mexico’s abysmal than a dozen witnesses supported the postal services.” Martin said he met O’Connor “years prosecution’s argu- Goldstein standing at his home ment that Muth ver- in Pompano Beach before a ago in Nicaragua bally and physically Styrofoam sculpture of a raised while we were abused his wife. digit; a familiar sign of Goldstein’s covering the Con- Muth, who was con- irreverence. tra war against the victed of assault- lyn native, Goldstein was the son of Sandinista gov- ing Drath in 1992, Drath photojournalist and before starting ernment. We were did not testify. His Screw in 1968, he briefly worked as professional com- petitors — CBS lawyers argued that the case against a photojournalist; he spent several News versus ABC Muth was circumstantial. Muth, who days in a Cuban prison for taking O’Connor in News — but we Mexico City has fasted for more than a year, par- unauthorized photos of Raúl Castro were also allies, in 2012 ticipated via videoconferencing from and he also covered Jacqueline Ken- it seemed, in the his hospital bed. Drath was a jour- nedy’s 1962 state visit to Pakistan. search for facts. He never stopped nalist, author and socialite. Muth, The former First Lady reappeared who has pretended to be an Iraqi fighting for truth and justice. We’ve in Goldstein’s life in 1973 when he general, a count and a German spy, lost a great warrior.” infamously published nude photos faces a maximum punishment of life of her. Screw made Goldstein rich, in prison when sentenced in March. but his empire declined and in 2003, the magazine folded and he filed PEOPLE REMEMBERED for bankruptcy. At one point he was The OPC was among the institu- tions rocked by Al Goldstein, the homeless. He died in a nursing home foul-mouthed, cigar-chomping por- in Brooklyn. nography publisher who died De- cember 19 at age 77. A March 31, Mike O’Connor, a longtime for- 1981 story in The New York Times eign correspondent who became a put it this way: “What’s been de- fervent advocate for Mexican jour- scribed as a ‘sizable uproar’ has nalists, died December 29 from a erupted among members of the heart attack while sleeping in his Overseas Press Club of America over Mexico City home. O’Connor, 67, the recent admission to membership had worked in Central America, the of Al Goldstein, publisher of Screw former Yugoslavia and Israel for Na- John Dominis in Indonesia in 1958. magazine.” Nevertheless, Goldstein tional Public Radio, The New York stayed a member and it could be Times, CBS News and other organi- John Dominis, an OPC mem- said that he was one of the Club’s zations. He earned an OPC award for ber and a photographer known as a most outspoken champions for free his reporting from Haiti. He covered supreme generalist, died December speech. During the first three years Latin America for CBS News and 30 at his home in New York. He was of Screw, a dirty magazine without was a television reporter in the San 92. Dominis photographed sports, subtlety, Goldstein was arrested 19 Francisco Bay area and Los Angeles. politics, celebrities and culture for times on obscenity charges. He spent In 2009, he became CPJ’s represen- Life magazine from the 1950s to millions to defend himself. A Brook- tative in Mexico and used his skills the 1970s. He went to five Olympic

OPC Bulletin • April 2012 • Page 8 Organizations Post Stark Numbers for 2013 by Susan Kille ernments and armed groups to respect the civilian status Although their tolls differ, the International Press of reporters and to prosecute the killers of journalists.” Institute (IPI) and the Committee to Protect Journalists Most journalists who die for their work are locals (CPJ) agree that 2013 was the second deadliest year for covering local stories, CPJ said. In 2013, nine out of 10 journalists since the groups started keeping records. journalists killed were local. At least 118 journalists were killed in 2013, accord- The highest tolls since CPJ began keeping detailed ing to IPI’s Death Watch. In 2012, the number was 132. records in 1992 were 74 deaths in 2012 and 2009, a year Syria again led IPI’s list with 16 deaths, down from 39 in when the total was inflated by the Maguindanao mas- 2012. Iraq and the Philippines were next in 2013 with 13 sacre of 32 journalists and 26 others in the Philippines deaths each, followed by India with nine. when 100 men with automatic rifles and machetes at- IPI’s Death Watch, which began counting work-re- tacked an election convoy. As in too many murders of lated deaths in 1997, lists journalists who died because journalists, the Maguindanao victims await justice. of their work or while on assignment. Not everyone was Year-end reports on journalists imprisoned world- murdered. For example, three Filipino reporters died in wide were released by both CPJ and Reporters Without November while covering Typhoon Haiyan. The IPI says Borders (RSF). Their counts diverged. A lone American its figures reflect the hazards of the profession and that involved in a complicated, troubling case was listed by most of those listed lost their lives in targeted killings. both groups, but again they differed. CPJ said it confirmed 70 deaths in 2013 where jour- CPJ said the 211 journalists imprisoned as of De- nalists were killed because of their work, down from 74 cember 1 was the second highest number since it began in 2012. The group was still investigating the cause of recordkeeping in 1990. The worst year was 2012, when another 25 deaths. 232 were held. Turkey led CPJ’s count for the second The civil war in Syria, CPJ said, claimed at least 29 year, followed by Iran and China. Together, the three journalists in 2013, bringing the toll since the conflict countries accounted for more than half the list. began in March 2011 to at least 63, including some who RSF reported in mid-December that at least 178 jour- died across the border in Lebanon or Syria. The risks in nalists were in prison with the leading jailers repeating Syria include kidnapping. CPJ reports about 60 journal- for a second year: China, Eritrea, Turkey, Iran and Syria. ists were abducted at least briefly during 2013 and The American on CPJ’s list was Roger Shul- about 30 currently are missing. American journal- er of Birmingham, Alabama. Shuler, a former ists James Foley and Austin Tice have both been reporter for the Birmingham Post-Herald, is an missing for more than a year. independent blogger specializing in accusing Al- CPJ reported that violence in Iraq returned abama Republicans with corruption and scandal. to levels not seen since 2011, with 10 journalists He was arrested on contempt of court charges for killed. Unrest in Egypt led to a dramatic increase failure to comply with an October 1 preliminary in deaths in 2013, with six journalists killed for Shuler injunction barring him for publishing certain sto- their work. ries on his blog. “The Middle East has become a killing field The RSF cited Barrett Brown, a journalist for journalists. While the number of journalists based in Dallas who has written for The Guard- killed for their work has declined in some places, ian, Vanity Fair and The Huffington Post. He has the civil war in Syria and a renewal of sectarian been in jail since September 2012 and faces more attacks in Iraq have taken an agonizing toll,” said than 100 years in prison on charges relating to a CPJ Deputy Director Robert Mahoney. “The Brown link he posted to leaked material. His case was international community must prevail on all gov- reported in the October 2013 Bulletin.

Games, capturing the iconic photo of a former assistant managing edi- zine in 1972, Dominis worked as a medalists Tommie Smith and John tor at Life and a former OPC presi- photo editor at People and as an edi- Carlos making the Black Power sa- dent, told The New York Times that tor at Sports Illustrated. He contin- lute on the medal stand at the 1968 Dominis was one of the most modest ued to shoot photos, and shot images Olympics in Mexico City. He cov- “great photographers” he knew, and for five cookbooks by Giuliani Bu- ered the Korean War, President John one of the most poised. “He had his F. Kennedy’s 1963 speech in Berlin, finger on the trigger all the time,” he gialli. He studied filmmaking at the the Woodstock Festival in 1968 and said, while maintaining “a remark- University of Southern California President Richard Nixon’s trip to able calmness.” After Life ceased and served as an Army combat pho- China in 1972. Richard B. Stolley, publication as a monthly print maga- tographer during World War II.

OPC Bulletin • January 2014 • Page 9 China Adjusts Visa Renewal Policy After Criticism, for Some by Susan Kille corruption among the top leadership apply for visas. Foreign journalists China on January 9 renewed vi- as well as on increasing domestic need visas that expire each Decem- sas for journalists who faced mass problems and rising opposition to ber. expulsion, including those who the Party,” he said. “If the Western media concludes work for Bloomberg News and The In a survey conducted by the For- that China intends to return to its New York Times. It appears, howev- eign Correspondents’ Club of China totalitarian ways and not brook er, not every journalist who wanted in May of its members, 98 percent the slightest whiff of independent a visa received one. of respondents replied that report- foreign reporting or domestic dis- After a flurry of media stories ing conditions in China did not meet sent, they will paint a very different about visa delays in December, re- international standards. Seventy portrait of China in the eyes of the ports diminished in January as me- percent said conditions worsened or world,” Bill Holstein, a former OPC dia organizations waited and worked stayed the same as the year before. president and former UPI Beijing behind the scenes. Journalists from Reporting from China has bureau chief, wrote in an es- Bloomberg and The Times were tar- never been easy, said Jaime say before the visas were is- geted in the delays. Both organiza- FlorCruz, an OPC member tions had produced award-winning who has lived and worked sued. “In short, Xi is playing investigations about the wealth of in China since 1971. “As a dangerous game, one with families of top Chinese leaders that journalists, we are bearers of far greater consequences than led to China blocking the Bloom- news, both good and bad,” he may imagine.” berg and The Times’ websites. FlorCruz, CNN’s bureau FlorCruz For the first time, Chinese While journalists already in chief in Beijing, wrote on reporters seeking to renew China and not changing employers CNN.com. “We just ask: don’t shoot their annual press cards were forced were able to renew visas, The Wash- the messenger.” in 2013 to attend ideological train- ington Post reported that The Times The visa renewals ended a ing and to pass a multiple-choice ex- and Bloomberg have been unable months-long standoff that began to amination. to obtain visas for new staff break in December when, af- China ranked 173 out of 179 members. The Post reported ter a personal appeal by Vice countries on Reporters Without Bor- that Austin Ramzy, a for- President Joe Biden to Chi- ders’ 2013 World Press Freedom In- mer Time magazine reporter nese President Xi Jinping, dex. Vietnam and Cuba outranked who began working for The Western journalists facing China and the countries rated below Times, was not given a press Ramzy expulsion were issued press were Iran, Somalia, Syria, Turkmen- card nor allowed to apply for cards that allowed them to istan, North Korea and Eritrea. a permanent visa. On January 11, The Times WELCOME TO OUR NEW MEMBERS announced another new hire Peter Cullum Jonathan Gage Jonathan Randal with China experience: Mi- former Vice President Senior Writer Retired Foreign chael Forsythe, an OPC mem- Donley Communications The Boston Consulting Correspondent ber and Hong Kong-based re- Associate Resident Group Paris, France porter who left Bloomberg in Re-instatement Associate Resident Active Overseas November after reports that Peter S. Goodman Lara Setrakian Bloomberg withheld an inves- Michelle Florcruz World Reporter Executive Business and Executive Editor and tigative article from fear China Global News Editor Founder International Business would expel the company. Huffington Post Media News Deeply Times Group Active Resident Paul Mooney, a veteran Active Resident – Young China correspondent who was Active Resident refused a visa after being hired Daniel Sieberg Karen Frenkel Kerry Kelly Senior Marketing last year by Reuters, told the Freelance Senior Director Head of Media Outreach GlobalPost that 23 journalists Science and Technology FTI Consulting Google received visas in January. “I Reporter/Editor Boston, MA Associate Resident predict that the Chinese will Active Resident Affiliate step up the harassment of the ADMISSIONS COMMITTEE: foreign media this year in an Linda Goetz Holmes, Chair; Felice Levin, Robert Nickelsberg and Charles Wallace attempt to muzzle reporting on

OPC Bulletin • January 2014 • Page 10 Former OPC President Calls Snowden Home by Larry Martz ezuela and Bolivia, where you rightly don’t want to go. Martz is a former OPC President and former co-chair- You have been reduced to dickering with Brazil, offer- man of the Freedom of the Press Comittee ing bits of information in exchange for asylum there – a dirty bargain that would further stain your image. You OPINION have to ask: If Brazil accepted, how long would the deal be good? Where would you have to turn next, at what Dear Edward Snowden: further price? How do you expect to spend the rest of First, my thanks. You have done a great service to your life? What do you want to do now, and how do you your country by exposing the appalling range of the Na- want to be remembered? tional Security Agency’s abuses of our civil liberties, The New York Times has sensibly urged the govern- and you have triggered a great debate that, I hope, will ment to offer you a plea bargain or some form of clem- end in reining them in. ency, to allow you to come home and be a voice for civil I’m not among those who call you a coward for your liberties. My sense is that that is highly unlikely to hap- refusal to submit to prosecution for stealing secret docu- pen as long as you’re on the run. But I think if you do ments and disclosing their contents, and for accepting come back voluntarily, there will be a rising tide of contemporary asylum in Russia. That verdict seems to me a viction that you should not be punished for performing bit like saying that no survivor should be given the Con- what has been a huge public service, and you will have a gressional Medal of Honor, because a true hero would good chance of being freed sooner rather than later. be dead. To expose the NSA’s excesses, you have sac- rificed your career and irredeemably changed your life, This may not happen. The fate of Chelsea (formerly and many people will always think of you as a traitor. Bradley) Manning, who was tortured in solitary confine- That’s a huge sacrifice and I don’t see why you should ment for years and then sentenced to 35 years in military risk being jailed for life to prove you are a true whistle- prison for sending classified documents to WikiLeaks, blower. argues against it. You would be marching into the lion’s I’m surprised, though, at how many reasonable peo- den with no assurance that the beast will be tranquilized. ple, including many of my colleagues in the OPC, con- But unless you do, I’m afraid there is very little prospect demn you for avoiding prosecution. Obviously, I’m not that you will join Daniel Ellsberg, of Pentagon Papers speaking for the Club. But I’m going to suggest that per- fame, in the tiny pantheon of whistle-blowers who have haps you should come home after all and face the music. helped preserve our freedoms by exposing the misdeeds You’re in a precarious and unsustainable position in of our government. And unless you come home, it will Russia. In effect, Vladimir Putin has you in his pocket be far more difficult to force our “protectors” to end as a pawn, to push or sacrifice whenever he pleases in their abuses. Your service to the public has been huge, his long game to defeat Western values. Outside of Rus- but it won’t be completed until you turn yourself in. sia, you are welcome only in countries, including Ven- Join the conversation at http://opcofamerica.org

(Continued From Page 12) wound us to the core,” wrote Kofi critic of President Bashar al-Assad. Annan, a Nobel Peace laureate and Ferzar was abducted in 2011 and GLOBAL HE TOPIC IS FAR FROM A former secretary general of the Unit- tortured by assailants, who broke ed Nations, in introducing the book. both his hands. Now living in Ku- T joke but be assured you are meant The book is a joint project of wait, Ferzat won the 2011 Sakharov to laugh at the satire and irony in 100 Reporters Without Borders (RSF) Prize for Freedom of Thought and Cartoons by Cartooning for Peace and Cartooning for Peace, a group the 2011 RSF Press Freedom Award. for Press Freedom [Reporters With- founded by Annan and French car- Other contributors include Patrick out Borders, December 2013]. It’s toonist Plantu in 2006 in response Chappatte of the International New a powerful collection by more than to a fatwa issued against Danish car- York Times, Willis from Tunis and 50 editorial cartoonists from around toonists who had dared to draw the Nicolas Vadot of Belgium. the world addressing freedom of ex- face of the Prophet Mohammed. The book is available in print and pression, the state of the world and Editorial cartoonists rouse feel- in digital forms. One version is spe- the increasingly hot topic of surveil- ings through humor and irony, often cially designed for iPads. All reve- lance. while defying authority and threats. nue will fund RSF’s work in support “Cartoons evoke strong emo- Syrian cartoonist Ali Ferzat, one of of journalists and bloggers. tions; they can make us laugh, or the provocative contributors, is a — by Susan Kille

OPC Bulletin • January 2014 • Page 11 pieties and self-regard, but he also internship in the West Africa bureau deals with the hard facts of demo- of the Associated Press in Senegal. New Books graphic and economic data. He illus- Henderson recounts her unlikely NORTH AMERICA .J. O’ROURKE HAS BEEN trates his points with many personal romance and marriage with her hus- P called the world’s only trouble- anecdotes. He lampoons but also cel- band, Miles. She was a liberal recent spot humorist. With 16 books on ebrates being part of America’s larg- college graduate who intended to topics ranging from international est generation. Just like high school, live abroad and become a writer. He conflict to etiquette, he’s boomers are organized into was a fighter pilot, a political conser- also been called prolific. classes with their own traits vative. They lived on or near mili- O’Rourke, an OPC member, and telling attitudes: Hilary tary bases, where she found little in rose to national attention as a Clinton, for example, is a se- common with other Army wives and writer of National Lampoon. nior while Stephen Colbert is took temporary, low-paying jobs. He later spent 20 years cover- a freshman. When Miles was deployed to ing wars, riots and rebellions O’Rourke is a contrib- Iraq, she went to live with her moth- in more than 40 countries as uting editor at The Weekly er in Florida. One day she returned foreign-affairs desk chief at Standard, an H. L. Mencken from work to find two soldiers in the Rolling Stone and on assignment for fellow at the Cato Institute and a living room waiting to tell her Miles The Atlantic Monthly. member of the editorial board of had died. Henderson writes unflinch- Foreign travel was not required World Affairs. ingly about that dark encounter for his 17th book: The Baby Boom: and the military briefing where she How It Got That Way And It Wasn’t 010 OPC SCHOLAR ARTIS learned the details of her husband’s My Fault And I’ll Never Do It Again 2 Henderson is earning high praise death. She examines how the loss of [Atlantic Monthly Press, January]. for her first book, Unremarried Wid- her husband mirrored the death of At 67, O’Rourke is entitled to use ow: A Memoir [Simon & Schuster, her father, who died in a plane crash “we” when he writes: “We are the January) about the 2006 death of her that she survived when she was 5. generation that changed everything. husband in a helicopter crash in Iraq. In her journey of heartbreak, Hen- Of all the eras and epochs of Ameri- The death devastated Henderson derson reaches a new level of un- cans, ours is the one that made the and left her at 26 — in mili- derstanding with her mother biggest impression – on ourselves.” tary terms — an “unremarried about being widowed young. O’Rourke writes with humor as widow.” She changed careers Her skill as a writer is he skewers his generation’s liberal and traveled the globe, redis- shown by the way she has covering her passion for in- taken what could easily be ternational affairs. She went a heavy-handed subject and on to graduate from Colum- produced an honest and raw bia Graduate School of Jour- memoir. The book began as nalism in 2010, the year she a “Modern Love” essay in The New UPCOMING EVENTS: earned the OPC Foundation’s Irene York Times. Corbally Kuhn Scholarship and an (Continued on Page 11) Panel: Unreported Stories From Pakistan Overseas Press Club of America Washington D.C. 40 West 45 Street February 11 New York, NY 10036 USA

Panel: Reporting Border Conflict Tucson, Arizona February 18

Scholars Luncheon Yale Club, New York February 21

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