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OPC Awards Celebrate Importance and Impact of Free Press INSIDE ments around the world targeting EVENT RECAP Samantha Bee’s journalists, and social media Correspondent Dinner by trish anderton platforms allowing violent non- by Brian Byrd 3 state actors to put out misinfor- n a year marked by attacks Annual Awards Dinner mation, putting the onus on us on both journalists and Photos 4-5 to put more boots on the ground journalism itself, foreign MOORE STEVE I to do credible reporting for our Lydia Polgreen, presenter Award Winners 6-7 correspondents gathered April 27 audiences. to celebrate their work and honor 8-9 “Covering the world has People Column the sacrifices many have made in patients in Venezuela. As Kohut never been more dangerous, more order to report the news. documented in The New York Press Freedom complex, and more important,” 9-10 “At no time in our country’s Times, more than 85 percent of Update Zucker concluded. history have all of us in this room the psychiatric medicines these With more than 430 entries, New Books 10 had a greater collective mission,” institutions need are unavail- this year’s 22 award catego- keynote speaker Jeff Zucker, able or extremely difficult to Q&A: ries were highly competitive. president of CNN Worldwide, obtain. The patients are ravaged Valerie Komor 11 They reflected a large, diverse told a packed room at the OPC by mental illness and physical and troubled world – from the Annual Awards Dinner at the deprivation. resource-starved mental hospitals Mandarin Oriental. “There are “There isn’t enough food and of Venezuela to the long-suffer- more and more places in the most patients are underweight,” ing cities and towns of Syria. world where many news orga- Kohut said. “There’s running Meridith Kohut claimed the nizations have stopped going water for only a few hours a day, Feature Photography Award for because of the inherent dangers. her gripping photos of mental There are repressive govern- Continued on Page 2
OPC to Screen Sneak Preview of ‘Letters From Baghdad’ Iraqi archaeologist and expert Middle East Institute. result helped shape the modern EVENT PREVIEW: MAY 17 in the establishment of the Iraq The film, which is voiced by Middle East. Many of the ancient Museum; and Lisa Anderson, a Academy Award winning actor Til- sites she visited and photographed ocumentary mak- specialist on politics in the Middle da Swinton, debuts June 2. Letters have been destroyed by ISIL. The ers Sabine Krayenbuhl East and North Africa who was from Baghdad is the story of Ger- preview begins with a reception at and Zeva Oelbaum will D president of The American Univer- trude Bell, a British spy, explorer 6:00 p.m. at Interna- discuss their new film Letters from sity of Cairo from 2011 to 2016. and political powerhouse. Bell tional House, 500 Baghdad following a sneak pre- Previously, Anderson was dean of traveled widely in Arabia before Riverside Drive, Click here view for OPC members and guests to RSVP for the Columbia University’s School of being recruited by British military and the screening at International House on May 17. screening International and Public Affairs intelligence during WWI to help gets underway at Also joining the panel will be and director of the university’s draw the borders of Iraq and as a 6:30 p.m. v Lamia Al Gailani Werr, a British- 1 1 ‘Annual Awards Dinner’ about working on documentary their courage and the sacrifice Filmmakers Continued From Page 1 films is we’re able to build im- they made to report on one of the and no funds for any other sup- pact campaigns around them,” 21st century’s ongoing atroci- Junger and plies. There’s no soap, no sham- Beth Murphy of GroundTruth ties,” said Depke. poo, no toothpaste and no toilet explained. “The impact campaign She then invited Abdülhamit Quested paper. All of this in the country for this film was to build a col- Bilici, former editor in chief of with the largest known oil re- lege in the same village – a girls’ Turkey’s Zaman daily newspa- to Screen serves in the world.” college. And I’m very happy to per, to light the Candle of Con- Photographer Daniel Bere- say that the college opened just cern for journalists imprisoned ‘Hell on Earth’ hulak of The New York Times re- three weeks ago.” around the world. More than ceived the Olivier Rebbot Award A new prize made its debut 80 newspeople are behind bars EVENT PREVIEW: MAY 24 for his chilling report on extraju- this year. The Peter Jennings in Turkey alone, following this dicial killings in Manila. award honors the best TV pro- year’s media crackdown by Pres- he opc is hosting a special “Over the course of 35 days gram, video or documentary ident Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. screening and discussion in the Philippines I watched about international affairs one It’s been a troubling year for of the documentary Hell on how the anti-drug campaign of hour or longer. The late anchor’s press freedom in the U.S. as well. T family has made a long term President Trump has stubbornly Earth: The Fall of Syria and the the country’s president, Rodrigo Rise of ISIS, with filmmakers Se- Duterte, became an assembly commitment to supporting the touted falsehoods while attack- bastian Junger and Nick Quested. line of state-sanctioned murder,” award. His widow, Kaycee Freed ing the fact-based reporting of The film places in historical- Berehulak said. “I saw bodies Jennings, presented it to HBO’s respected news organizations. context the atrocities of this brutal stacked like firewood in a morgue, Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel Depke pointed out that Trump paramilitary group, tracing the on sidewalks, near train tracks, for “The Lords of the Rings,” was expected to skip the White roots of ISIS to the rebel move- and 7-Elevens, and McDonalds, which exposed the corruption House Correspondents’ Dinner ment against Bashar al-Assad in across bedroom mattresses and and exploitation at the heart of this year in order to hold a rally Syria as well as U.S. mishandling living room sofas. the Olympic Games. in Pennsylvania. of the aftermath of the Iraq War. “In Duterte’s war you don’t “’The Lords of the Rings’ “Tonight it is our turn to be Hell on Earth was cut from 1,000 need to be guilty to be marked. represents what Peter believed in vocal – not loud, but vocal – to hours of footage that includes Most of the victims I saw were – what he admired, and what, as forcefully assert that the robust that of a family living under ISIS killed by police, assassins and an anchor with muscles to flex, and free press envisioned by control that finally fled vigilantes with utter impunity.” he supported,” she said; “Smart, America’s founders will not be to Turkey, Kurdish Several awards recognized ex- gutsy reporting, the kind that shouted down by pandering poli- fighters in Sinjar and cellence in reporting on Syria and takes on the powerful and the tician or diminished by tweets in Click here Shia militias in Iraq ISIS. Among them were Bryan powerfully corrupt.” the night,” said Depke to a round to RSVP for the Many of the award winners of applause. screening as well as al-Qaida- Denton and Sergey Ponomarev affiliated fighters in of The New York Times, who pointed out that their work was An emotional highlight of the and around Aleppo won the Robert Capa Award for not theirs alone. They heaped evening was the tribute to former and Raqqa. “What ISIS Wrought.” The David praise on their editors, col- OPC president Roy Rowan. The The event will be held from Kaplan Award went to CNN’s leagues, fixers, translators, and legendary foreign correspondent 6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. on Wednes- Clarissa Ward for her coverage of sources. Anand Gopal of The At- and former OPC president died day, May 24 in the Priestly Room the Syrian war. lantic won the Ed Cunningham in September. at Club Quarters at 40 West 45th After six years of “horrific Award after spending months Award-winning tenor James Street. v atrocities,” she said, it’s a chal- with a Sunni family fleeing ISIS Valenti sang a short piece in lenge to keep reporting on the jihadists in Iraq. Rowan’s honor, and Overseas conflict: “We all know what’s “Great journalism is not Press Club Foundation President happening. The world knows possible without great sources, Bill Holstein shared his memo- what’s happening. The bloodshed incredible sources. I was incred- ries of the man. continues, and so we must con- ibly blessed to meet this family “We lost a hero this past tinue. And it’s really that simple. who over the course of a year year,” said “Roy Rowan did it all It’s our duty.” allowed me into their lives – al- and did it in style.” Some stories had happier end- lowed me to glimpse their most Holstein went on to recount ings. The GroundTruth Project intimate moments. And they did tales of Rowan’s exploits in and PBS POV shared the Edward so at great risk to themselves,” China in the late 1940s, at the R. Murrow Award. Their video said Gopal. beginning of his long and storied focused on an all-girls school in a OPC President Deirdre Depke career. village north of Kabul. The school launched the evening by giving “He taught me a personal Left to right: offered young women in the area the President’s Award to the 108 lesson,” said Holstein: “to Deborah Amos, Ben journalists who have died cover- never give up on the things you theirTaub, first Leila chance Fadel at andan education. “One of the things that I love ing the war in Syria. believe in; to race right up to the Mohamad Bazzi. “With this award we honor edge of death at full speed.” v
2 hat and instructing him to stand in the corner. Borrowing from The OPC to Host Man in the High Castle, there was a segment in which Ms. Bee re- Panel on ceives an illegal video that shows an alternative reality after Hillary ‘Mentoring Clinton wins the election. It was both provocative and poignant. the Next One special guest, whose identity was kept secret until he Generation in walked out on stage, was Will Ferrell, reviving his George W. Fact-Based Bush impersonation. “How do you like me now?” he began, after News DIMITRIOS KAMBOURIS/GETTY IMAGES, COURTESY OF TBS OF COURTESY IMAGES, KAMBOURIS/GETTY DIMITRIOS extinguishing a cigarette. “His- tory’s proven to be kinder to me EVENT PREVIEW: JUNE 13 than many of you thought ... I was Samantha Bee considered the worst president of n tuesday, June 13, the all time. That has changed. And it OPC and The Media Line, only took 100 days.” an American news agency The after party at the W Hotel O The First Woman on Late covering the Middle East, are co- rooftop space, was another mix- sponsoring a forum to discuss the Night TV Celebrates the ture of fans, celebrities and jour- Press and Student Policy Program. nalists. There were three specialty This event is for OPC members First Amendment drinks on hand: The Bad Hombre, and other invitees only. The Nasty Woman, and the Orange The Media Line’s Press and Held at the DAR (Daughters Russian. By my count, the first EVENT RECAP Policy Student Program connects of the American Revolution) Con- one was most popular. Arguably, students studying journalism, pub- by brian byrd stitution Hall, roughly two miles the highlight was a concert by lic policy or international relations from the location of the actual Elvis Costello and the Im- he white House with news bureaus in the White House Correspondents’ Correspondents Dinner, posters. Middle East for semester- Dinner, nearly 2,600 people at- All in all, this was a now 103 years old, Click here long mentorship with tended the “alternative” dinner, T celebration of good jour- to RSVP for the veteran journalists. Se- is long considered to be a high making it one of “Washington’s point of Washington’s spring nalism and free speech, panel lected students can earn hottest tickets.” gala season. For more than 100 which raised more than academic credit or pursue The audience was an interest- years, this has been the ultimate $200,000 for the Commit- independent study. ing mix of fans, journalists and insider’s event, where an invita- tee to Protect Journalists. The forum will feature celebrities; of Baby Boomers, tion is the equivalent of securing But, by boiling down complicated presentations by Felice Friedson, Gen Xers, and Millennials, all of Willy Wonka’s golden ticket. But issues into di- president and whom generated a high level of there is a new kid in town, one gestible and CEO of The energy throughout the venue. Just OPC Mixer: May 30 who while extoling the virtues of entertaining Media Line as in her TV show, videotaped journalism, was not shy in taking segments, it and founder of segments featuring Allison Janney the media to task. And that new also served as a the Press and (reprising her role from TV’s The kid is Samantha Bee and her Not cautionary inter- Policy Student West Wing), Steve Buscemi, Nor- the White House Correspondents vention. “Your Program, and man Lear, Patton Oswalt, Kumail Dinner. job has never Marvin Kalb, Nanjiani, Carl Reiner, and Billy Ms. Bee, a former “correspon- been harder,” Edward R. Mur- Eichner. There were also fake dent” for The Daily Show with Jon said Bee in her row professor at “excerpts” from previous White Stewart, now has her own weekly opening mono- Harvard and se- House Correspondents Dinner TV show, Full Frontal. Like the logue. “POTUS nior fellow at the roasts, all featuring Samantha Daily Show, Full Frontal delivers has convinced Joan Shorenstein Bee dressed in clothing reflective When is the next OPC Mixer at insightful and biting commentary 88 percent of his Center on the of the decades. During the short fans that you are The Half King, you ask? Stop by Press, Politics on current events, often highlight- from 7:00 p.m. until 10:00 p.m. breaks between filming segments, the enemy of the and Public ing the hypocrisy of politicians, on Tuesday, May 30 for food, large monitors displayed “Great people.” v public figures and the media. It is drink and fun. Members and Policy. Moments for the Press and the the perfect blend of insight, hon- non-members – all are welcome The panel Presidency.” My favorite de- esty and ironic humor, publically to attend. No RSVP is needed. begins at Club scribed the time FDR admonished voicing what many of us say in Click on the image above to visit Quarters at 6:15 a reporter by giving him a dunce private. the mixer’s Facebook page. p.m. v
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Jeff Zucker, president of CNN Worldwide, gives keynote remarks. PHOTOS: STEVE MOORE STEVE PHOTOS:
Award-winning tenor James Valenti singing a piece in honor of his friend Roy Rowan.
Current OPC President Deidre Depke, center, flanked by former OPC presidents Allan Dodds Frank, left, and Marcus Mabry.
Left to right: OPC Executive Director Patricia Kranz, Andrew Lluberes and Mary Frances Benko.
4 Sarah Lubman, chair of the dinner committee.
Left to right: Serginho Roosblad, Lisa Martine Jenkins, Yi-Ling Liu and Uliana Pavlova. Former OPC President Michael Serrilll, left, and former OPC President Larry Smith.
Left to right: Deborah Rayner, Clarissa Ward, Mina Chang and Tommy Evans.
Michael Serrilll, left, with Linda Fasulo.
Abdülhamit Bilici, former editor in chief of Turkey’s Zaman daily newspaper, lights the Candle of Concern for journalists imprisoned Left to right: Rod Nordland, Santiago Lyon, around the world. Jon Lee Anderson, Emma Daly and Michael Kamber.
5 THE DAVID KAPLAN AWARD Best TV or video spot news reporting from abroad
Clarissa Ward and team CNN “Undercover in Syria”
STEVE MOORE STEVE THE EDWARD R. MURROW AWARD 2016 AWARDS AND WINNERS Best TV, video or documentary interpretation of international affairs less than one hour THE HAL BOYLE AWARD THE OLIVIER REBBOT AWARD Best newspaper, news service or digital Best photographic news reporting from Beth Murphy, Charles Sennott, Justine reporting from abroad abroad in any medium Nagan, Chris White, Sally Jo Fifer PBS POV/GroundTruth Hannah Dreier Daniel Berehulak “What Tomorrow Brings” The Associated Press The New York Times “Venezuela Undone” “They Are Slaughtering Us Like Animals” CITATION Morgan Till, Jane Ferguson, Jane Arraf, CITATION CITATION Jon Gerberg and Sara Just Ben Hubbard, Mark Mazzetti, Carlotta Gall, Aris Messinis PBS News Hour/Pulitzer Center Scott Shane and Nicholas Kulish Agence France Presse “The Fight for Iraq.” The New York Times “Desperate Journey”. “Secrets of the Kingdom” THE PETER JENNINGS AWARD THE FEATURE Best TV, video or documentary about THE BOB CONSIDINE AWARD PHOTOGRAPHY AWARD international affairs one hour or longer Best newspaper, news service or digital cov- Best published photographic reporting from erage of international affairs abroad requiring exceptional courage and The Real Sports Team enterprise HBO’s Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel Simon Denyer, Emily Rauhala “The Lords of the Rings” and Elizabeth Dwoskin Meridith Kohut The Washington Post The New York Times “Behind the Firewall” “Inside Venezuela’s Crumbling Mental THE ED CUNNINGHAM AWARD Hospitals” Best magazine reporting in print or digital on CITATION an international story Tom Burgis, Pilita Clark, Michael Peel, Char- CITATION lie Bibby and Kari-Ruth Pedersen Tomas Munita Anand Gopal Financial Times The New York Times The Atlantic “Great Land Rush” “Cuba on the Edge of Change” “The Hell After ISIS”
CITATION THE ROBERT CAPA GOLD MEDAL THE LOWELL THOMAS AWARD Scott Anderson AWARD Best radio, audio, or podcast news or inter- The New York Times Magazine Best published photographic reporting from pretation of international affairs “Fractured Lands” abroad requiring exceptional courage and enterprise Emily Harris, Gabe O’Connor, Barry Gor- demer, Michael May and Larry Kaplow THE THOMAS NAST AWARD Bryan Denton and Sergey Ponomarev NPR Best cartoons on international affairs The New York Times “Moments of Change for Palestinians Steve Sack “What ISIS Wrought” and Israelis” Minneapolis Star Tribune
CITATION CITATION CITATION Goran Tomasevic, Zohra Bensemra, Jasmine Garsd Adam Zyglis Mohammed Salem and Ahmed Jadallah PRI’s The World Buffalo News Reuters “Women of Colombia’s War” “Battle for Mosul” 6 THE MORTON FRANK AWARD THE MADELINE DANE ROSS THE ROBERT SPIERS BENJAMIN Best magazine international business news AWARD AWARD reporting in print or digital Best international reporting in the broadcast Best reporting in any medium on Latin media showing a concern for the human America Matthew Campbell and Kit Chellel condition Bloomberg Businessweek Nadja Drost, Bruno Federico, Morgan Till, “Hot Mess: How Goldman Sachs Lost Robyn Dixon Patti Parson and Sara Just $1.2 Billion of Libya’s Money” Los Angeles Times PBS NewsHour “South Sudan Slips Back Toward Chaos” “Fight for Peace” CITATION Jordan Robertson, Michael Riley CITATION CITATION and Andrew Willis Kathy Gannon Jon Lee Anderson Bloomberg Businessweek The Associated Press The New Yorker “How to Hack an Election” “Honor Bound” “The Distant Shore”
THE MALCOLM FORBES AWARD THE DAVID A. ANDELMAN BEST DIGITAL REPORTING ON Best international business news reporting AND PAMELA TITLE AWARD INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS in newspapers, news services or digital Best international reporting in the broadcast Best reporting in any medium on Latin media showing a concern for the human America International Consortium of Investigative condition Journalists, McClatchy, The Miami Herald Malia Politzer and Emily Kassie and more than 100 other media partners Marcel Mettelsiefen, Dan Edge, Andrew The Huffington Post/Pulitzer Center “The Panama Papers: Politicians, Crimi- Metz and Raney Aronson “The 21st Century Gold Rush” nals and the Rogue Industry That Hides PBS Frontline Their Cash” “Children of Syria” CITATION Evan Ratliff CITATION CITATION The Atavist Magazine Rob Barry, Christopher S. Stewart, Mark James Blumeil, Dan Edge, Andrew Metz and “The Mastermind” Maremont, Margaret Coker Raney Aronson and Benoit Faucon PBS Frontline The Wall Street Journal “Exodus” BEST INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING “Accounting For Terror” Best investigative reporting in any medium on an international story THE JOE AND LAURIE DINE AWARD THE CORNELIUS RYAN AWARD Best international reporting in any medium Ben Taub Best non-fiction book on international affairs dealing with human rights The New Yorker “War Crimes in Syria” Arkady Ostrovsky The Associated Press Staff Viking/Penguin Random House “Islamic State: A Savage Legacy” CITATION The Invention of Russia: From Gor- Chris Hamby bachev’s Freedom to Putin’s War CITATION BuzzFeed News Ben Hubbard, Mark Mazzetti, Carlotta Gall, “Secrets of a Global Super Court” CITATION Scott Shane and Nicholas Kulish Robert F. Worth The New York Times Farrar, Straus & Giroux “Secrets of the Kingdom” BEST COMMENTARY A Rage for Order: The Middle East in Turmoil, Best commentary in any medium on from Tahrir Square to ISIS international news THE WHITMAN BASSOW AWARD Best reporting in any medium on interna- Masha Gessen tional environmental issues The New York Review of Books “Trump, Russia and the Reality of Power” Elliott D. Woods Virginia Quarterly Review/Pulitzer Center CITATION “The Fight for Chinko” Trudy Rubin The Philadelphia Inquirer “Columns from hots spots and home on US foreign policy challenges of the new era” v
7 PEOPLE
By Trish Anderton OPC SCHOLARS based in the documentary unit, field recently received the McGill Medal Two Emanuel R. Freedman Scholar- producing mostly international piec- for Journalistic Courage for his life- ship winners saw their work recog- es. His previous positions include time body of work. A freelancer and nized at the OPC Annual Awards metro news stringer for The New regular contributor to The New York Dinner this year. The Panama Papers York Times, production assistant for Times, Berehulak lives in Mexico WELCOME project, overseen by 2005 winner the HBO news documentary series City. Marina Walker Guevara of the VICE and spokesman for the U.S. N E W International of the Consortium of Marine Corps. Everyday Mumbai, the Instagram MEMBERS Investigative Journalism, claimed account launched in 2014 by OPC the Malcolm Forbes Award. The Mark Anderson, the Emanuel R. member Chirag Wakaskar, has won Charlotte Alfred project also snagged the Pulitzer for Freedman Scholarship winner in a 2017 Social Media for Empower- Managing Editor ment Award. The prize in the Citi- Refugees Deeply Explanatory Reporting. Ben Taub, 2014, has moved from business edi- Beirut who was a scholar just two years ago tor to Nairobi bureau chief at The zen Media & Journalism category Active Overseas in 2015, was honored by the OPC Africa Report. He will coordinate the recognized Everyday Mumbai for (29 or under) with the Best Investigative Reporting magazine’s coverage of East Africa creating a crowdsourced photog- Sofia Barbarani Award for detailing evidence of war and the Horn of Africa. Anderson has raphy community that aims to be a Freelance crimes by the Syrian government previously covered global develop- “democratic and collective voice of Campello sul Clitunno, based on more than 600,000 pages of ment for the Guardian in London and the photographers who document the Italy city, its issues, its life and its people.” Active Overseas leaked documents. Ben Hubbard, written for Africa Confidential. (29 or under) who won the Stan Swinton Scholar- Everyday Mumbai has over a million AWARD WINNERS followers on the photo-driven social Kathleen L. Campion ship in 2007, shared a Hal Boyle Freelance Award citation with colleagues from OPC member Martin Smith and media platform. New York The New York Times. FRONTLINE have won a Peabody Retired Award for Confronting ISIS, which UPDATES NEW YORK: Mina Chang Emily Steel, who won the David traveled to five countries to examine OPC member and Chief Executive Officer R. Schweisberg Memorial Scholar- the difficulties the U.S. faces in its broadcaster Dan Rather is making Fellow New America Media ship in 2005, co-wrote the New effort to eradicate the Islamist or- a splash in a new medium: Face- Dallas, Texas York Times story that led to the ganization. “Veteran correspondent book. As Politico’s Michael Kruse Associate Non-Resident wrote in a profile recently, Rather (30-34) ouster of longtime Fox News host Martin Smith’s deliberate reporting Bill O’Reilly. It wasn’t the media provides context to America’s ongo- has two million Facebook fans and Sara Just ing war against Islamist extremists his multimedia production company, Executive Producer/ reporter’s first clash with the iconic Senior Vice President broadcaster; two years ago, after she in this essential primer on the origins News and Guts, has another million. PBS NewsHour/WETA investigated his exaggerated claims and timeline of the conflict,” said the “On average,‘News and Guts’ gets Bethesda, Maryland about his Falklands War coverage, judges. FRONTLINE won a second more likes, comments and shares per Active Non-Resident he told Steel, “I am coming after Peabody for Exodus, a film about the post than BuzzFeed, USA Today or Tony Lin you with everything I have.” Nev- refugee crisis. CNN,” writes Kruse, who goes on Freelance ertheless, she persisted in detailing to dub Rather one of “the leading New York Former OPC Governor and multiple voices of the Trump resistance.” Active Resident multiple allegations of sexual harass- (29 or under) ment against O’Reilly in a story that OPC Award winner Harry Benson landed in early April. Fox forced him received the Lifetime Achievement Time Inc. is no longer for sale. (CONTINUED ON PG. 9) out soon after. Award at the International Center of After evaluating expressions of Photography’s Infinity Awards on interest from potential buyers, the The 2016 Fritz Beebe April 24. The ICP notes that Benson company announced in late April that Fellow, Dake Kang, “marched with Dr. Martin Luther it would pursue its own strategic plan is joining The Associ- King, Jr. during the civil rights instead. According to The New York ated Press in Cleveland. movement; photographed the Watts Times, chief executive Rich Battista Kang will spend eight Riots; was embedded in the Gulf is “eager to continue transforming months covering Ohio War; was next to Robert Kennedy Time Inc. from a print publisher to and Western Pennsylva- when he was assassinated; and has a multimedia company.” Time Inc. nia. He spent his fellow- photographed the last 12 U.S. presi- publishes more than 100 magazines,
ship period with the AP dents from President Eisenhower” to including TIME. Sports Illustrated, in Bangkok, where he President Trump. Travel + Leisure, Food & Wine, For- reported on human rights tune and People. issues and illegal fishing, Daniel Berehulak’s chilling For the first time, theInterna - Kang among other issues. reportage of extrajudicial killings in the Philippines, which won the tional Olympic Committee has Russell Midori, who won the Na- OPC’s Olivier Rebbot Award in added human rights principles to its than S. Bienstock Memorial Scholar- April, has also been honored with Host City Contract – a move Hu- ship in 2016, just joined CBS News the Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News man Rights Watch and other groups as an associate producer. He will be Photography. In addition, Berehulak have long pushed for. “Time after
8 9 time, Olympic hosts have gotten PEOPLE REMEMBERED away with abusing workers building Rupert Cornwell, who spent more stadiums, and with crushing critics than four decades as a foreign corre- and media who try to report about spondent in Europe, the Soviet Union abuses,” OPC Governor Minky and the U.S., died at age 71 on March Worden, HRW’s director of global 31 in Washington, DC. Cornwell WELCOME initiatives, said in a statement “The Allam joined the London-based Independent N E W right to host the Olympics needs when it launched in 1986. Before that, to come with the responsibility not University’s School of Communica- he spent 14 years with the Financial MEMBERS to abuse basic human rights.” The tion and the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Times. “Rupert was as humble as (CONTINUED FROM PG. 8) language will first take effect for the Reporting. “Their word must be the he was brilliant, his peerless range 2024 Summer Olympics. extending far beyond the politics of Amy Mackinnon final word,” said Allam, adding that Freelance freelancers must credit local journal- Moscow or Washington, to boxing, Tbilisi, Georgia PHILADELPHIA: ISIS is losing ists for their work. Allam is a former ballet and baseball,” said Independent Active Overseas ground, but it is not demoralized, Baghdad and Cairo bureau chief for editor Christian Broughton, as quoted 29 or under OPC Governor Rukmini Callima- McClatchy Newspapers. She now by the paper. Cornwell published John Naughton chi told Terry Gross of NPR’s Fresh covers Muslim life in the U.S. at his final story just 11 days before his Photojournalist Air in March. “I don’t see any evi- BuzzFeed. death, despite undergoing treatment New York dence of ISIS backing down,” Cal- for cancer. Active Resident limachi said. “They’re fighting tooth LONDON: The Atlantic is establish- Mark Rivett-Carnac and nail for this territory. And they’re ing its first overseas bureau, sending Lifelong Associated Press correspon- Freelance doing it through numerous innova- Bamako, Mali veteran correspondent James Fallows dent, editor and columnist George Active Overseas tions,” including a highly developed to London to “bring Atlantic-quality Bria died on March 18 in New York (29 or under) network of tunnels and the use of City. He was 101. In his early years, journalism to a global audience in a David Rohde drones to identify enemy positions very deliberate way,” according to reporting from Europe, Bria cov- National Security and drop explosives. Callimachi had editor in chief Jeffrey Goldberg. The ered the execution of Mussolini, the Investigations Editor just returned from the front line in 10-person office will include writers German surrender in Italy and the Reuters Mosul, where she was embedded and editors as well as sales, market- Nuremberg war crimes trials. Later he New York Active Resident with Iraqi troops. ing, events and communications became a senior editor on the foreign staff. The magazine says it increased desk in New York. “George was a Kenneth R. Rosen WASHINGTON, DC: Foreign great editor,” recalled Victor L. Simp- Staff its newsstand sales by 19 percent The Atavist correspondents should always defer in 2016 and has seen total revenues son, who served as AP bureau chief New York to local knowledge when reporting grow at a double-digit pace for the in Rome for more than three decades. Active Resident on events abroad, OPC Governor last three years. “He taught me to read my copy out (29 or under) Hannah Allam told students at loud.” Bria retired in 1981 but went Jon Sawyer a panel discussion on “Women in on to write gardening columns for the Executive Director Conflict” co-hosted by American wire service for more than a decade. Pulitzer Center Washington, D.C. Active Non-Resident Scott Sayare Freelance PRESS FREEDOM UPDATE... Paris Active Overseas “Media freedom has never been so Freedom House, meanwhile, monthly magazine Change and the (30-34) threatened,” Reporters Without found that global press freedom had U.S.-based news forum EthioMedia, Ali Shihabi Borders warns in its 2017 World “declined to its lowest point in 13 which are banned in Ethiopia. He was Executive Director Press Freedom Index. The organiza- years” and that “Only 13 percent of arrested after publishing a column Arabia Foundation tion warns of a “tipping point” in the world’s population enjoys a Free critical of the nation’s anti-terror laws. Washington, DC free speech protections, adding that press.” Among the countries that fell The IPI gave its Free Media Pioneer Active Non-Resident “Democracies began falling in the the most were Poland, Turkey, Bu- Award to the Afghan Journalists Terrell Starr Index in preceding years and now, rundi, Hungary, Bolivia, Serbia, and Safety Committee for its work to Senior Reporter more than ever, nothing seems to be prevent, combat and monitor attacks Gizmodo Media Group the Democratic Republic of Congo. Active Resident checking that fall.” Norway, Sweden Those with the biggest gains were on journalists. and Denmark ranked highest for Sri Lanka, Togo, Fiji, Belarus and media freedom in this year’s index; Côte d’Ivoire. Press freedom organizations are Turkmenistan, Eritrea and North Ko- cooperating on a new effort to track rea occupied the bottom three spots. An Ethiopian journalist and blog- the state of the First Amendement. The U.S. and U.K. both fell two spots, ger who has been in jail since 2011 The U.S. Press Freedom Tracker to 43rd and 40th respectively, after a has been named the International Press will be supported by the Committee year of bruising political campaigns Institute’s 69th World Press Freedom to Protect Journalists, the Index on marked by press-bashing. Hero. Eskinder Nega writes for the Continued on Page 10 9 9 NEW BOOKS Press Freedom Update feuds between families rage so hot that teen- MOUNTAINS Continued From Page 9 agers stay home from school in fear for their Censorship, the Freedom of the Press Foundation udith matloff had spent years cover- lives. Matloff visits Marquetalia, Colombia, and others. It will gather data on incidents such ing conflicts around the world – strug- where peasant farmers driven by the govern- as journalist arrests, border stops, searches and gling to breathe in the thin, tear-gas laced ment into the Andes became the FARC. And seizures, leak prosecutions and subpoenas. J she visits Afghanistan, where U.S. soldiers air of Kashmir, reaching out to rebels in the highlands of Chechnya, and battling altitude collapsed from elevation sickness, to explore the difficulties of defeating mountain move- MURDERS sickness as a coup unfolded in La Paz. But ments in combat. ● Political blogger Yameen Rasheed was it wasn’t until a night of board games with found with multiple stab wounds in the hallway her husband and 11-year-old son that she Publisher’s Weekly writes that “Matloff’s of his apartment building Malé, the capital of the made the connection between geography and investigation is a worthy read for foreign Maldives, on April 23. He later died in hospital. warfare. affairs and anthropology buffs alike, and Al Jazeera reports Rasheed wrote satirically During a round of Risk, the game of her conclusion provides insight into current about the nation’s leaders on his blog, The Daily global domination, her son asked her to point global affairs.”v Panic. The 29-year-old had allegedly reported out some of the places where she’d covered receiving death threats. actual wars. CHINA “On a globe that showed elevations, An- here was once a country at the ● A Russian journalist critical of President ton traced the uneven surface with his finger very center of the world, whose Vladimir Putin died on April 19, six weeks after and made notes on a pad, so absorbed that he being beaten by unknown attackers in St. Peters- “Tposition was recognized as such failed to notice his father rampaging through by peoples both far and wide,” Howard W. burg. Nikolai Andrushchenko, 73, was the the Himalayas to take China,” she writes. French writes in the introduction to his new co-founder of the Novy Peterburg newspaper. He “‘Kosovo, Georgia, Nepal, Chiapas,’ Anton book. “Today, we call that country China.” frequently wrote about human rights and crimi- recited, among others, checking the altitude If that tone is reminiscent of a fairy tale, nal justice. key for each. ‘Most occur in mountains. it’s perhaps deliberate. In Everything Under Why?’” ● Reporter Maximino Rodriguez Pala- the Heavens: How the Past Helps Shape Chi- cios was shot dead on April 14 in La Paz, on the na’s Push for Global Power [Knopf, March coast of Baja California Sur. He was the fourth 2017] French argues that China’s self-per- journalist killed in Mexico in six weeks, accord- ception is shaped by its history as a dominant ing to the L.A. Times. Rodriguez wrote for a regional power – much as the foundational news organization called the Pericu Collective. stories of our childhood shape our thought He covered crime in the local area, including processes in adulthood. killings that may have been related to the drug “From at least the Tang dynasty (618- trade; he had also recently written about corrup- 907) nearly to the chaotic end of dynastic tion. He was 72. rule in China in 1912,” writes the former New York Times Asia correspondent,, the peoples ● Journalist Miroslava Breach Velducea, of East Asia “often found ways to defer to China, acknowledging its centrality and 54, was shot to death on March 23 in Chihuahua In No Friends But the Mountains: Dis- loosely following its lead.” Then the nation City, Mexico. The Knight Center for Journalism patches from the World’s Violent Highlands entered a period of waning power – first hum- in the Americas reports that Breach wrote about [Basic Books, March 2017] Matloff explores bled by Europe and Japan, and then suffering politics and security issues for La Jornada and El why conflicts take place in mountain regions through the Cultural Revolution. Diario de Chihuahua. She was also editorial di- and what factors fuel them, including the Now China is on the rise, and its belief in rector for Norte in Ciudad Juárez and was report- independence of mountain cultures, the avail- its natural role as regional leader is amplified edly planning to launch her own news agency. ability of hiding places, and the presence by economic pressures – an aging population of valuable resources such as poppies and and flagging GDP growth – that are press- ● Ricardo Monlui Cabrera, a journal- uranium. ing it to expand its influence. As it does so, it ist, was shot to death April 19 while leaving a Matloff, who presented her work at an clashes with its neighbors and the U.S., both restaurant in Yanga, Veracruz with his wife and OPC book night in March, teaches conflict in trade disputes and in its contested claim to son. He was 57. According to the CPJ, Monlui reporting at the Columbia Graduate School of control over much of the South China Sea. was the editorial director El Político newspaper Journalism and has written for The New York Publishers Weekly calls Everything Un- in Córdoba and wrote a column that appeared in Times Magazine, Economist, and Christian der the Heavens “a nuanced look at a rival the newspapers El Sol de Córdoba and Diario de Science Monitor. superpower,” while Kirkus Reviews terms it Xalapa. Monlui often wrote about regional poli- The book explores the Dinaric Alps of a “lucid if stolid overview of regional history, tics and the sugarcane industry. v northern Albania – a land of little kingdoms useful for students of Pacific affairs in playing divided by mountain ridges, where blood out scenarios of what might happen next.” v
10 Why is it important to have an ar- chivist at a news organization? First, the AP Corporate Archives exists to document the organization for legal and business reasons. Second, the line between journalism and history is very fine. Archivists can ensure that when journalism becomes history, it is preserved. For example, on Nov. 22, 1963, every journalist knew they were witnessing and writing history of a transcendent order. AP journalists saved this copy and bound it, writing on the covers, “PRESERVE!” But journalists write history every day, and AP journal- ists may be said to write something pre- Valerie Komor liminary to history: a factual accounting of events. When I came to AP, I sensed that the staff did not fully grasp the Meet the OPC Members: great scope and content of AP’s history. Journalists had been telling stories since Q&A With Valerie Komor 1846, but no one had told their story. I believe that archives make history real, and we do that here through research, by trish anderton as well as institutional records: charters exhibits, oral history, publications and and bylaws, minutes of the Board of special events. alerie komor is the found- Directors, legal and financial records, ing Director of the Associ- bureau records, administrative records, Major challenge in your current Vated Press Corporate Archives. audio and video collections, artifacts, job: The preservation of the digital Before joining AP in 2003, she held photographs and original wire copy. record in all of its formats, so that in positions at the Oberlin College Ar- 100 years, there will be a record of AP chives, the Rockefeller Archive Center, First job as an archivist: Project in the early 21st century. Unlike paper the Smithsonian Institution Archives Archivist, Oberlin College Archives, documents, which are readable by the of American Art and the New York Oberlin, OH. naked eye, the contents of our laptops Historical Society. She holds an M.A. in need our laptops to be legible. Thus, the Medieval Studies from Yale University How did you come to work at the AP? preservation of 0s and 1s requires more and an M.L.I.S. from the University of In 2003, AP Vice President and Director resources than the preservation of paper. Texas at Austin. As a Fulbright scholar of Corporate Communications, Kelly Left to itself, under good conditions, in Naples, Italy, she studied the writings Tunney, asked me to establish AP’s first paper will last centuries. of Matilde Serao, co-founder of Il Mat- corporate archives. This offer was a Year you joined the OPC: 2014. tino, Naples’ daily paper. great challenge, as it involved creating a new department and promoting a new When traveling, you like to … Walk a Hometown: Los Angeles, CA. idea within the company: the systematic lot, see the art and architecture, and eat. documentation of AP itself. Favorite quote: From Wallace Stevens’ Education: B.A., University of Cali- “Esthetique du Mal”: “The greatest pov- fornia, Davis; M.A., Yale University; Favorite item in the AP Archives: The erty is not to live in a physical world.” M.L.I.S., University of Texas at Austin. Hudson Broadside: a very fancy “sym- pathy card” made in March 1866 for Place you’re most eager Languages Spoken: Latin, French, Frederick Hudson (1819-75), managing to visit: Thomas Hardy’s Italian. editor of The Herald newspaper and a home at Max Gate in Swin- Want to add to the OPC’s member of the Executive Committee don, England. collection of Q&As with What drew you to this line of work? I of the Associated Press. It is a large members? Please contact love “the stuff.” Even in the digital era, oval work on paper (40 in. high), hand- Place I would like to re- [email protected]. archival work requires working with decorated in iron-gall ink with engraved turn to: Capri. personal papers, including letters, dia- vignettes and bordered by 18 salted pa- ries, land deeds, wills, contracts, unpub- per portraits of the Committee members Click here to browse the AP lished writings, photographs, keys, or placed beneath their mastheads. Three Corporate Archives webpage. v calcified wedding cake. At AP, we pre- portraits are by Mathew Brady. serve the personal papers of journalists
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