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OPC Awards Celebrate Importance and Impact of Free Press OPC to Screen Sneak Preview Of MONTHLY NEWSLETTER I April-May 2017 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.
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