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THE MONTHLY NEWSLETTER OF THE OVERSEAS PRESS CLUB OF AMERICA, NEW YORK, NY • October 2014 China Hands Puzzle Over a Nation in Constant Flux Orville Schell, EVENT RECAP director of the Cen- By Chad Bouchard ter on U.S.-China Foreign journalists have long Relations at the Asia wrestled with how to cover China’s Society, was dubious knotty stories for an outside au- about the country’s dience. What makes its economy chances to become tick? How do its leaders make deci- a world technology sions? Are censors gaining or losing leader, but refrained ground? How can journalists make from making con- sure to get the story right, complete crete predictions. with all the country’s nuances and “This is a very contradictions? contradictory place Lesley Topping On Friday, Sept. 12, the OPC, where opposite things OPC Foundation President Bill Holstein, left, looks on along with the Foreign Correspon- going in opposite di- as Pete Engardio, BusinessWeek’s former China correspondent, reviews decades of magazine headlines. dents’ Club of China and the Asia rections are true at the Society’s ChinaFile, assembled a same time,” Schell said. “It’s very hard China will be at the very top, right team of journalists, authors and in circumstances like that to actually along with us and with parts of Eu- thinkers for an afternoon and eve- get a trend line.” rope,” he said. “It’s just a matter of ning of meaty discussions to take on John Bussey, assistant managing time, just a generation of engineers big questions facing foreign media editor and executive business edi- in the country.” in the Middle Kingdom. tor of The Wall Street Journal, was Later, a forum focused discus- During a lunchtime panel, busi- more optimistic. sion on how best to cover the coun- ness writers and editors swapped “On the technology curve, I try’s nuances for foreign readers. views on the future of China’s im- think there’s just no question that (Continued on Page 10) penetrable economy, which plays by different rules than that of the rest of the world. Experts to Teach Safe Freelancing maker who was kidnapped in south- EVENT PREVIEW: Oct. 21 Inside. . . ern Iraq and held for 10 days in 2004 The murders of James Foley and while filming a documentary about Foley and Sotloff Panel Recap...... 2 Steven Sotloff have made it even the looting of archaeological sites; more imperative that freelance jour- Judith Matloff, a safety trainer at the Photo Winner Forum Recap...... 3 nalists learn how to protect them- Columbia University School of Jour- OPC Archival Interview Project ...... 3 selves as well as how to get the story. nalism; Bruce Shapiro, executive di- The OPC has invited experts in rector of the Dart Center for Journal- Digital Media Forum Recap...... 4 the safety field to talk to members ism and Trauma; and Vaughn Smith, and guests at 6:30 p.m. on Oct. 21 at a member of the board of represen- “News Sorority” Book Night Recap..4 the Columbia University School of tatives for the Frontline Freelance International Affairs Building, 420 Book Review: “Factory Man”...... 5 Register (FFR). West 118th St., room 1302. The OPC and Frontline Club People & Press Freedom...... 6-10 Speakers include Sawyer Alberi will continue the discussion of how of RISC (Reporters Instructed in to freelance safely during an event Q&A: Haley Sweetland Edwards....11 Saving Colleagues); Micah Garen, at the Frontline Club in London on an independent documentary film- Nov. 19. New Books...... 12 Reporting in the Aftermath of Foley and Sotloff who have been abducted. I think it’s appalling,” he said. EVENT RECAP Nicole Tung, a freelance conflict photographer and By Chad Bouchard friend of Foley’s who first discovered him missing, spoke “This is the most deadly and dangerous period for the with difficulty while describing her colleague. “Jim was press in recent history,” Joel Simon, executive director of one of the best people that I knew, and it’s hard not to get the Committee to Protect Journalists, told students and oth- choked up talking about him,” she said. er attendees at the Columbia Journalism School on Sept. 9 Reuters columnist and former New York Times report- during a panel about escalating risks to journalists. er David Rohde, who was held captive for seven months The event, “After James Foley: Covering Conflict in 2008 and 2009 by the When Journalists Are Tar- Taliban before he escaped, gets,” was arranged in re- recommended talking with sponse to the recent mur- loved ones about your wish- ders of Foley and Steven es in case of a kidnapping. Sotloff, both freelancers “Do you want a military who were abducted while raid to save your life? Do working in Syria and ex- you want a ransom paid on ecuted by members of the your behalf to one of these Islamic State. jihadist groups?” Out of the 70 journalists OPC award winner, killed in 2013, about a third board member and New York were freelancers, a percent- Times foreign correspondent

age that has doubled in recent Chad Bouchard Rukmini Callimachi has re- years, Simon said. Rukmini Callimachi, left, and Nicole Tung listen to a ported on terrorist groups’ Phil Balboni, GlobalPost question from a journalism student at Columbia University. use of ransoms to fund their CEO and co-founder, who operations. She reported that spent years fighting for James Foley’s release, said when countries or companies tens of millions of dollars to recov- James Foley was abducted on Thanksgiving Day, 2012, er a single abductee. “Our citizens are now being doomed his organization hired a security firm to handle the case, by the policies of what Europe does,” she said. which in the end cost the company “millions of dollars.” The OPC co-sponsored the event with the Columbia “I’ve seen major international news organizations Journalism School and the Dart Center for Journalism and walk away from their freelance reporters, even some Trauma. OVERSEAS PRESS CLUB OF AMERICA • BOARD OF GOVERNORS PRESIDENT ACTIVE BOARD Azmat Khan Liam Stack Daniel Sieberg PAST PRESIDENTS Marcus Mabry Jacqueline Albert- Senior Digital Producer Reporter Senior Marketing EX-OFFICIO Editor-at-Large Simon Al Jazeera America The New York Times Head of Media Outreach Michael Serrill The New York Times U.S. Bureau Chief Google David A. Andelman Politique Internationale Dan Klaidman Seymour Topping John Corporon FIRST VICE PRESIDENT Deputy Editor Emeritus Abi Wright Allan Dodds Frank Calvin Sims Rukmini Callimachi Yahoo News Professor of Executive Director, Alexis Gelber President and CEO Foreign International Journalism Prizes William J. Holstein International House Correspondent Evelyn Leopold Columbia University Graduate School Marshall Loeb The New York Times Independent Journalist of Journalism Larry Martz SECOND VICE PRESIDENT United Nations Charles Wallace Columbia University Roy Rowan Abigail Pesta Jane Ciabattari Financial Writer Awards Leonard Saffir Freelance Journalist Columnist Paul Moakley Larry Smith BBC.com Deputy Director ASSOCIATE BOARD Richard B. Stolley THIRD VICE PRESIDENT Photography and MEMBERS Pancho Bernasconi Deidre Depke Visual Enterprise Brian I. Byrd EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Vice President/News Journalist and Time magazine Program Officer Patricia Kranz Getty Images Author NYS Health Robert Nickelsberg Foundation OFFICE MANAGER TREASURER Chris Dickey Freelance Boots R. Duque Tim Ferguson Foreign Editor Photojournalist Bill Collins Editor The Daily Beast, Director, Public & EDITOR Forbes Asia Paris Lara Setrakian Business Affairs Chad Bouchard Co-Founder & CEO Ford Motor Comapny SECRETARY Peter S. Goodman News Deeply OPC Jonathan Dahl Editor-in-Chief Emma Daly ISSN-0738-7202 Editor-in-Chief International Martin Smith Communications Copyright © 2014 WSJ.Money Business Times President Director Overseas Press Club of Rain Media Human Rights Watch America

40 West 45 Street, New York, NY 10036 USA • Phone: (212) 626-9220 • Fax: (212) 626-9210 • Website: opcofamerica.org OPC Bulletin • October 2014 • Page 2 2013 OPC Award Photos on Display at Columbia J-School Robert Nickelsberg and Jerome Delay of AP, who won EVENT RECAP the John Faber Award for his photos of unrest in the Cen- By Chad Bouchard tral African Republic. Photojournalists working in conflict areas face in- James Estrin, one of two co-editors of The New York creasing risks that heighten the need for safety and good (Continued on Page 4) planning. Working with dependable fixers, staying in touch with TWO OPC BOOK NIGHTS AHEAD editors and building trust with subjects were among the Mark your calendars for two OPC book many tips that two OPC award-winning photographers nights coming up at Club Quarters in November and a photo editor shared during a panel discussion on and December. best practices in international reporting on Thursday, Sept. On Friday, Nov. 7, join us for a discussion 25 at the Columbia University School of Journalism. with Pulitzer Prize winners Nicholas Kristof The event coincided with the launch of a photo ex- and Sheryl WuDunn on their new book Path hibit on the building’s 3rd floor that will remain open Appears: Transforming Lives, Creating Op- until the end of October, featuring work by Tyler Hicks, portunity. Kristof is an OPC award winner and longtime member of the club. The book centers on philanthropy, its benefits to the giver and best practices for getting the most out of chari- table work. Stop by on Monday, Dec. 1 to hear from OPC awards judge Anya Schiffrin on her book about investigative journalism, Global Muckrak- ing: 100 Years of Investigative Journalism From Around the World. Schiffrin is the director of the media and communications specialization at Columbia University’s School of International Affairs. Chad Bouchard Both events begin with cocktails at 6:00, and Left to right: Robert Nickelsberg, Sarah Voisin and James the main programs will start at 6:30. Estrin speaking to students after a panel on international reporting at the Columbia School of Journalism. OPC Launches Archive Interviews With Veteran Members By Sonya Fry mark in international news. In its 75th anniversary year, the OPC has embarked OPC members are sharing a wealth of information, on a project to record memories of some of our most ideas and stories both funny and tragic in these videos. venerable members for the club’s archives. Check the OPC website periodically for stories from This endeavor, funded by a Ford Foundation grant, your colleagues. is being managed by Sonya In our first installment, OPC Fry, the retired executive direc- Foundation President Bill Holstein tor of the OPC. interviewed former OPC President One of the more enjoy- Roy Rowan, who spent 35 years at able parts of being director, Time-Life serving as bureau chief in Fry said, “was listening to the cities around the world. wealth of stories that journal- We have also posted a round- ists loved sharing.” table discussion in Paris with Jim To capture these stories for Bittermann, senior European corre- future generations, we are put- spondent for CNN since 1996; Mort ting together full-length vid- Lesley Topping Rosenblum, a University of Arizona eos and highlights for the OPC Left to right: Bill Holstein, Roy Rowan journalism professor formerly with and Sonya Fry. website. Some interviews are the Associated Press; and retired first-person accounts of historic moments, and belong New York Times cultural correspondent Alan Riding. in history books. Others focus more on changes in the Keep an eye on the website for more archive inter- industry and how reporters do their jobs, and contain views ahead, including discussions with photo editors advice for younger reporters who want to make their John Morris and Robert Pledge.

OPC Bulletin • October 2014 • Page 3 Buzzfeed, Mashable and VICE Ramp Up Global News EVENT RECAP deep reporting. By Chad Bouchard “To me, it’s more like a TV station,” said Miriam El- As newspapers and traditional media shrink overseas der, foreign editor for Buzzfeed. “One day at 8:00 they’ll bureaus, three digital media powerhouses are ramping have The Simpsons, and then at 10:00 they’ll have the up their international coverage. Editors from Buzzfeed, nightly news. Does the fact that there’s The Simpsons Mashable and VICE shed light on their strategies for affect how you think about the nightly news?” a capacity crowd during a panel at the NYU Arthur L. “We’re super transparent with our methodology,” Carter Journalism Institute on Sept. 18, co-sponsored by Roug said. “We very much try to do that. This is what we the OPC. know, this is how we got it, these are our sources.” Amy O’Leary of The New York Times’ innovation In August, VICE News released a five-part series on team facilitated the discussion. the Islamic State, in which reporters were given unprec- Louise Roug, global news editor of Mashable, said edented access to the violent militant organization. Jason since her publication doesn’t compete directly with tra- Mojica, the Editor-in-Chief of VICE News, said their ac- ditional media, editors have more freedom to decide how cess came with “conditions” that enabled them to get in much attention to give individual stories. and out without harm, though he declined to elaborate “We have that luxury, in maybe a way The New York on details. Times doesn’t. I don’t have to be the paper of record, so During a Q&A session, an audience member asked if I don’t have to write 800 words,” on a story that doesn’t those conditions amounted to collusion. warrant it, she said. “Every interaction between a journalist and subject is O’Leary asked the panelists to address whether they basically an act of combat, in which two parties are both struggle with credibility, given reliance on social media trying to get very different things out of a shared experi- posts, or Buzzfeed’s mix of entertainment content and ence,” Mojica answered.

(Continued From Page 3) photos of Mexico’s drug war, recalled getting stuck in a Times Lens Blog, told a crowd of mainly journalism stu- sketchy situation while covering the funeral of two drug dents that getting good images requires patience and time cartel members in Mexico. Alone and stuck at the site, to devote to the subject. some friends of the deceased became aggressive. “The first thing that I look for in photographs are “I had no way to leave,” she said. She ended up leav- photographs that make me feel something. I want to be ing in a hearse as young gang members chased them moved,” he said. He also looks for “accuracy” and a pro- down the road. “You definitely need a second set of eyes found knowledge of the subject matter. “I’m not only and your own transportation.” looking for the photograph, During a Q&A session, a I’m looking actually for the student asked the three pan- photographer.” elists about the role of tech- OPC board member nology and social media. Robert Nickelsberg, who Voisin said photogra- won the OPC’s 2013 Olivier phers are increasingly ex- Rebbot Award for his book pected to be able to juggle Afghanistan: A Distant War, other kinds of media while told the audience that, when in the field. working in hostile areas, “Making yourself a choosing and developing well-rounded videographer, trust with a local driver is in addition to a social me- critical for photojournalists. Robert Nickelsberg dia expert and storyteller is “They’re basically your Wounded U.S. Army soldiers are evacuated during fight- good,” she said. eyes and ears and navigator ing in Afghanistan in August, 2006. Robert Nickelsberg Estrin said digital technol- of a new terrain or environ- won the 2013 Olivier Rebbot Award for his ogy has been a great advan- ment.” he said. “They’re the book Afghanistan: A Distant War tage for most photographers, cat’s whiskers of any trip. They’re so terribly important.” with a key caveat. He cautioned against disclosing too much information “The one drawback of digital (photography) is the about your project or plans, since drivers and fixers are speed,” Estrin said. Digital technology allows photora- sometimes interrogated or extorted for information. phers to shoot thousands of photos per day. With film, Sarah Voisin, a photographer for the Washington Post you have to consider each of your shots more carefully, who won the OPC’s 2009 John Faber Award for her he said. “You have to think and see.” OPC Bulletin • October 2014 • Page 4 ‘Factory Man’ Shows a Close-Up View of Global Trade By Peter Galuszka wife” in Bethesda, Maryland, a “cushy” Washington sub- The hills around Danville, Virgina are blessed with urb five hours by car from the turmoil farther south. some of the finest hardwoods around such as oak, hicko- For years, Bassett and its sister factories were part of a ry and cherry trees. It is those trees, and the people who network of Southern-style company towns with their own work with them, that have made for one of the more vi- issues, such as paying African-American workers half of cious global trade wars in recent history. what whites got. By the 1970s, U.S. furniture quality and They also represent one of the few trade victories productivity were slipping. A Taiwanese chemist discov- American industry has had, according to Beth Macy, a Ro- ered how to make rubber trees useful for furniture after anoke Times reporter who has written a lively and deeply they stopped producing latex, giving rise to an expanded reported book about Vaughan Bassett, a local Asian export furniture business. firm that is now the largest American furniture Chinese industrialists took over. They vis- maker. Boss John D. Bassett (“JBIII”) refused ited U.S. factories, where, according to Macy, to succumb to an onslaught of cheap Chinese la- naïve executives handed over their produc- bor and government subsidies that helped shut- tion secrets. In short order, cheap Chinese ter 63,300 U.S. factories and five million jobs knockoffs were stealing market share from the from 2001 to 2012. By standing up to Beijing, Americans. A Chinese executive named He he saved his company and 700 jobs. Yun Feng bluntly suggested to JBIII that he Macy’s first book is of value to anyone who shut his plants and handed his business over. covers global trade issues. She punctures the Proud JBIII didn’t turn tail. Instead, he shored conceit, held by many journalists in the New up his production and cut costs while preserv- York-Washington axis, that globalization is a ing as many jobs as he could. He also bucked great and inevitable thing. I heard this constantly at Busi- his reluctant industry and challenged the Chinese for nessWeek where I worked as an editor and bureau chief in dumping and manipulating their currency to give them the 1980s and 1990s. unfair trade advantages. What’s lost in the laud of so-called “free” trade is what “The last thing they wanted to hear was that China happens to the people who lose. Their secure employ- may have been breaking the law.” Macy quotes JBIII as ment turned overnight into a new world of Medicaid, food saying. That’s the nut of Macy’s excellent book. A tighter stamps and family strife. edit, especially in the early history of the Basset family, Big Journalism doesn’t seem to care much. “Even glo- might have helped, but her story is powerful and well told. balization guru Tom Freidman, writing in ‘The World Is OPC member Galuszka lives in the Richmond, Va. Flat,’ briefly acknowledges the agony caused by offshor- area and is author of “Thunder on the Mountain; Death ing.” But she notes that it’s easy for him to say since Fried- at Massey and the Dirty Secrets Behind Big Coal” St. man, “lives in an 11,400 square foot house with his heiress Martin’s Press, 2012. ‘The News Sorority’ Spotlights Three Broadcast Icons “The premise changed from: ‘How have women EVENT RECAP changed the idea of what news is,’ to: ‘these are three By Chad Bouchard women who, each in a different way, have never woken In her new triple biography, “The News Sorority,” up in the morning and said they couldn’t do something.’” Sheila Weller pulls a common thread from the She read from a selection covering Aman- vastly different lives of three female network pour’s early career as a correspondent in Bos- TV news icons. Though Diane Sawyer, Katie nia. OPC board member Emma Daly, who also Couric and Christiane Amanpour have diver- worked as a journalist in Bosnia, makes an ap- gent backgrounds and careers, Weller binds pearance in the book. them together with the common qualities of She asked Weller during a Q&A session tenacity and fierce persistence. if she thought women’s representation in She read excerpts and shared some of her TV news had worsened since the heydays of behind-the-scenes insights during a Book Amanpour, Couric and Sawyer. Night on Wednesday, Oct. 1. Weller told the “We’ve got three white guys again at 6:30. audience at Club Quarters that, despite their Of course 6:30 doesn’t mean what it used to,” differences, the book’s three subjects all pos- she said. “Middle America likes to see a white sess charisma, ambition, strong work ethic and a talent man in that chair at 6:30.” An audio recording of the en- for juggling life with hard assignments. tire book night is available on the OPC website.

OPC Bulletin • October 2014 • Page 5 PEOPLE... By Susan Kille [email protected]

OPC SCHOLARS a $25,000 award. During his career, Amendment Award by the Associa- Tom Finn, who won the OPC Smith has won nearly every major tion for Education in Journalism and Foundation’s 2013 H.L. Steven- journalism award including mul- Mass Communication. CPJ Execu- son Scholarship, has joined Middle tiple Emmys, Peabody Awards, Polk tive Director Joel Simon accepted East Eye, a news website founded in Awards and duPont Batons. the award Aug. 7 in Montreal. 2014 that focuses on the Middle East and North Africa. Sean Carlson, an OPC member, CPJ’s International Press Free- He will be based in received a bronze Lowell Thomas dom Awards annual benefit dinner London and make Travel Journalism Award from the will honor four courageous journal- occasional trips to Society of American Travel Writ- ists: Aung Zaw, founder and editor- the region. Finn was ers in September for a story about in-chief of The Irrawaddy, which an OPC Founda- his mother’s village of Moyvane, in was branded an “enemy of the tion fellow in the County Kerry, Ireland, that was fea- state” by the former military regime Reuters bureau in Finn tured in The Irish Times in print and in Burma and remains under pres- Cairo and previously worked as an online via the paper’s Generation sure from the current government; editor with the Yemen Times. Emigration blog. Siamak Ghaderi, an Iranian free- lancer and former Mateo Hoke, who won the Rukmini Callimachi, an OPC editor and reporter 2013 Harper’s Magazine Scholar- board member, will receive the Ma- for the Islamic Re- ship in memory of I.F. Stone, and rie Colvin Front Page Award for public’s official Cate Malek, with whom Hoke has Foreign Correspondence from the news agency IRNA, worked since 2001, have compiled Newswomen’s Club of New York. who was released in and edited Palestine Speaks: Nar- Callimachi, a foreign correspondent July after spending ratives of Life Under Occupation, a for The New York Times who focuses four years in prison; Zaw book being published by McSwee- on al-Qaeda and Islamic extremism, Mikhail Zygar, ney’s in November. Hoke based his is being recognized for her reporting editor-in-chief of Dozhd, a Russian winning scholarship essay on his on the country’s national security independent TV channel that pro- experiences researching the book challenges. This spring, Callimachi vides a rare alternative to Kremlin- and collecting oral histories of men won both the Hal Boyle and Bob controlled stations; and Ferial Haf- and women from the West Bank Considine awards for reporting on fajee, who has published reporting and Gaza describing how their lives a trove of al-Qaida documents she as editor-in-chief of City Press have been shaped by the intractable uncovered in Mali. The 2014 Front in South Africa that has brought conflict between Israel and Pales- Page Awards will be given out at the fierce criticism and threats of vio- tine. club’s annual gala Nov. 13 in Man- lence against herself and her staff. hattan. Christiane Amanpour, anchor and WINNERS chief international correspondent Martin Smith, an OPC board OPC Second Vice President for CNN and an OPC member, will member who is a writer, producer Abigail Pesta will receive two Ex- be the host for the Nov. 25 dinner in and correspondent for Frontline and ceptional Merit in Media awards New York City. RAIN Media, has been named the from the National Women’s Political 2014 winner of the Caucus at an awards dinner Oct. 27 Russian photographer Emil John Chancellor in Manhattan. Both winning stories Gataullin received the Alfred Fried Award, which has were about teenage girls who fought Photography Award on Sept. 15 for been presented each back against courts and schools for a series of black-and-white images year since 1995 to their handling of sexual assault re- capturing the rhythms of rural life journalists “with ports. The stories were reported on in Russia. The award, given by the courage and integ- NBC News and in Cosmopolitan International Press Institute and its rity for cumulative Smith magazine. partners, is in its second year and professional ac- celebrates photos on the theme of complishments.” The prize, admin- The Committee to Protect Jour- peace. More than 5000 entries were istered by Columbia University, has nalists was awarded the 2014 First received.

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UPDATES JOURNALISTS RISK LIVES COVERING EBOLA WASHINGTON: OPC member A new danger for foreign correspondents was made clear when Susan Glasser, the founding editor Ashoka Mukpo, a freelance cameraman for NBC News became of Politico magazine, was promoted the first American journalist covering the deadly Ebola epidemic in September to editor of Politico sweeping West Africa to be diagnosed with the virus. Mukpo left with full authority over the compa- Liberia and arrived on Oct. 6 for treatment in the U.S. ny’s journalism. Politico co-founders The NBC news crew he briefly worked with – led by Nancy John Harris and Jim VandeHei and Snyderman, the network’s top medical correspondent – entered Politico chief operating officer Kim quarantine for 21 days. Mukpo, who had worked in Liberia for three Kingsley worked with Glasser at years on a number of projects, was hired by NBC on Sept. 30 and The Washington Post, where she was began showing symptoms of the virus the next day. assistant managing editor for nation- “Certainly another journalist coming down with this,” John al news. Glasser was editor-in-chief Moore, an OPC member and photographer for Getty Images, told of Foreign Policy before joining Po- The New York Times, “is very worrying for all of us.” litico. Moore, who won the 2007 Robert Capa Gold Medal Award, said he smells perpetually of bleach that has soaked through his protec- William Dermody, an OPC tive clothing while working in Liberia. He said it takes him 10 min- member, has become vice president utes to suit up in anti-contamination coveralls, two sets of gloves, of policy at the American Bever- surgical mask, goggles and disposable covers over his boots. The age Association. Dermody had been outfit is sprayed with disinfectant. Disrobing requires more time deputy managing editor at USA To- and care because the risk is greatest when removing contaminated day, which he joined as deputy night gear. news editor in 1999. He began his In a separate article in The Times, Ashley Gilbertson, who journalism career as a reporter with won the Robert Capa Gold Medal in 2004, said he “had five differ- Suburban Newspapers outside of ent symptoms of Ebola” while in Liberia in June, three months after Boston and worked for The Associ- the start of the Ebola epidemic there. He said he repeatedly sought ated Press as a national editor and treatment in Monrovia and asked to be tested for Ebola but no reporter from 1992 to 1994. one would test him. He said he was still ill when he left Liberia and “looked like hell,” but he exited without screening and was asked MIAMI: Juan O. Tamayo re- no questions when he landed in New York. tired in September after 32 years at When he sought treatment in Manhattan, doctors said they the Miami Herald/El Nuevo Herald, could not test for Ebola but gave him a 1-800 number for the Cen- where he was foreign editor, chief of ters for Disease Control and Prevention to call if he got sicker. correspondents and for many years took the lead in the paper’s coverage low members for their support. The Morris at a reception on Sept. 11 at of Cuban affairs. He also headed bu- show began life as Newsweek on Air the Hotel Scribe, reaus in the Middle East, Europe and before becoming financially and edi- which after the the Andean region. In 1999, he re- torially independent of Newsweek. liberation of Paris ceived Columbia University’s Maria A full, free, searchable archive of became a cen- Moors Cabot award, a top prize for past shows is being established at the ter for renowned journalists reporting on Latin Amer- non-profit Internet Archive: https:// journalists, broad- ica. He said he plans to devote more Jacques Menasche archive.org/details/foryourearsonly. casters and pho- time to Spanish-to-English transla- tographers such as Morris tions and organizing his files on the Ernest Hemingway, William Tamayo family tree. PARIS: Honors continue for John Morris, the London photo ed- Shirer and Robert Capa, whose celebrated photos of the D-Day itor for Life throughout World War SAN FRANCISCO: David Alp- landings Morris helped edit. Rob- ern, an OPC member, has ended pro- II and a longtime OPC member, ert Pledge, an OPC member, was duction of For Your Ears Only, an who recently published Quelque master of ceremonies. independent, non-profit, syndicated Part en France: L’été 1944 de John NEW YORK: The New York radio and Web program that he pro- G. Morris (Somewhere in France: Times announced Oct. 1 that it will duced and hosted for more than 32 John G. Morris and the Summer of eliminate 100 newsroom jobs, or years. In an email to the OPC, Alp- 1944). The Anglo-American Press ern thanked the group and his fel- Association of Paris paid tribute to (Continued on Page 8)

OPC Bulletin • October 2014 • Page 7 (Continued From Page 7) Tainted Waters, a multimedia proj- an education specialist for United ect that is the first iBook from 100 Press International and in his syn- about 7.5 percent of the staff. Buy- Reporters, was released in September dicated column, “You, Your Child outs are being offered but layoffs with a familiar byline: Chad Boucha- and School.” He had a long tenure will occur if not enough people vol- rd, the OPC’s website manager and so- as superintendent of Jericho Pub- unteer to leave. The company said cial media editor. In late 2013, before lic Schools on Long Island and held it would continue to expand and the fall of Sinjar to the Islamic State, other positions at school districts in invest to support growth in areas Bouchard went to northwestern Iraq the region. He was a director of the that include digital technology, au- to investigate claims of corruption in Guide Dog Foundation for the Blind dience development and mobile of- the district’s water systems and drink- and an adjunct professor at the C.W. ferings. At the same time, the coming water that was making people sick. Post Campus of Long Island Univer- pany ended NYT Opinion, a mobile He found water in Sinjar was drawn sity, now known as LIU Post. His app dedicated to opinion content, from the ground through rusty pipes daughter, Leslie Nydick, said her fa- because it did not attract enough that passed through gutters and open ther was proud to be a member of the subscribers. sewers. Purifying treatments were spo- OPC. “My Dad always and proudly radic and not monitored. A grant from carried his OPC membership card Integrated Whale Media Invest- the Fund for Investigative Journalism with him – and it is still in his wal- ments, a Hong Kong-based interna- made his reporting possible. As a for- let,” she said. tional investment group, in Septem- eign correspondent based in Indonesia ber completed a deal to take over a for four years, Bouchard’s coverage majority stake in Forbes Media offi- appeared in The Sunday Telegraph, cially ending 97 years of family con- The Financial Times, Scientific Ameri- trol. The Forbes family, which has can, the Washington Post Magazine controlled the firm since its founding and other publications. in 1917, is retaining a minority stake. Changes have occurred in the pub- His daily commute from Croton- lishing ranks of major U.S. newspa- Harmon to Grand Central gave Pat- pers. In August, Austin Beutner, a rick Oster, managing editor for le- former Wall Street investment banker, gal news at Bloomberg News and the became publisher and chief execu- husband of OPC Foundation Vice tive of the Los Angeles Times, suc- President Sally Jacobsen, inspira-

ceeding Eddy W. Hartenstein. Jeff Courtesy of Leslie Nydick tion that led to publication of The Bezos, the chief executive of Amazon David Nydick’s smile in this photo Commuter, published in July by the who bought The Washington Post in was captured during his daughter’s Perseus Books Group. The book, de- 2013, in September replaced Publisher wedding two years ago. scribed as a quirky thriller, is about a Katharine Weymouth, whose uncle, laid-off office worker and avid bird- grandmother, grandfather and great- David Lomax, a reporter for the er who tracks the clandestine and grandfather were Post publishers, with BBC’s flagship current affairs pro- criminal lives of his fellow commut- Politico’s first chief executive, Fred- gram Panorama, died Sept. 25 at age ers. Oster said he wrote much of the erick J. Ryan Jr., a former Reagan 76. He traveled the world on hun- book during his commute, but also administration official. And in The dreds of assignments, was jailed in during weekends and vacations. New York Times, a modest piece on the Zimbabwe for a week and was once Aug. 31 Vows pages announced the pinned down in a ditch for four hours Paul Moakley, an OPC board marriage of Arthur Ochs Sulzberg- by sniper fire in Lebanon. His no- member and deputy photo editor of er Jr., the chairman and publisher, to table interviews included Idi Amin, Time magazine, was among the judg- Gabrielle Elise Greene, a partner in Robert Mugabe and Steve Jobs, who es for the 40th annual Light Work an investment firm. The credit line on walked out of his interview. While Grants in Photography. Established the standard-size announcement photo interviewing Mugabe, Lomax virtu- in 1975, Light Works has one of the was a standout for that page: Damon ally accused him of being respon- longest-running photography fellow- Winter, a Pulitzer Prize winner. sible for the murder of hundreds of ship programs in the country. Each members of the opposition party led recipient receives a $2,000 award, PEOPLE REMEMBERED by Joshua Nkomo. Mugabe allowed has their work exhibited at Light David Nydick, a longtime OPC the interview to continue, and Lo- Work’s gallery in Syracuse, N.Y., member, died on Sept. 20, 2013. max later said he was much relieved and published in Contact Sheet: The He was an educator who shared when he and his film where on the Light Work Annual. his knowledge and experience as next plane to London.

OPC Bulletin • October 2014 • Page 8 PRESS FREEDOM UPDATE... By Susan Kille The OPC issued a statement global dialog on governmental poli- sphere blog about covering what has Sept. 18 abhorring a propaganda cies in hostage crises and supporting become known as the “Umbrella video released by the Islamic State, American journalists reporting from Rebellion” for the ubiquitous way or ISIS, featuring John Cantlie, a conflict zones; and promoting qual- protesters ward off tear gas and pep- captive British journalist who was ity education for urban youth. Infor- per spray. Wong clearly speaking under duress. “To mation about the fund can be found said his reporting use a hostage in this way is a new at jamesfoleyfund.org. gear is more modest kind of perversion and evil,” said Press freedoms in China have also than what he need- Marcus Mabry, OPC president. been a recent focus for the OPC. As ed in Iraq, where “Whatever this group’s goals, they mentioned in the Bulletin’s report on he worked for 3½ will not be met through terror and our China Hands Reunion, the For- years, but for the propaganda.” eign Correspondents’ Club of China first time he is car- Wong in September issued a scathing report rying a gas mask on restrictions and intimidation faced and plastic goggles along with an um- by correspondents in China. Recent brella. protests show those restrictions are In early October Iran released extending to Hong Kong, which had Yeganeh Salehi, a correspondent enjoyed a high degree of autonomy for The National in the United Arab since the 1997 British handover of Emirates on bail, but her husband, the city to China. Washington Post Tehran Bureau In recent years it has become Chief Jason Rezaian, remained in harder for foreign journalists to enter custody. The couple was arrested and stay in China and many of those July 22 when their home was raided turned away went to Hong Kong. by security forces. Neither Salehi, When pro-democracy protests erupt- an Iranian, nor Rezaian, who has Ira- ed in September, Western reporters nian and American citizenship, have

Wikimedia Commons Wikimedia based there provided unprecedented been formally charged. Salehi’s coverage of demonstrations against brother told the Post that no member John Cantlie in the Pech valley, Afghanistan June 2012 the Chinese government. Dramatic of the family would comment about images and reports reached the rest the detentions. of the world, but Chinese censors The murders or questionable Since then, the group has re- suppressed the news on the main- deaths of at least nine journalists leased other propaganda videos with land, removing mentions from so- were reported since the last edition Cantlie, who was traveling with cial media and blocking the photo- of the Bulletin. Two were officers James Foley, an American reporter, sharing app Instagram. in Pakistani press groups and strong when they were kidnapped in Syria While Hong Kong residents en- advocates of press freedoms in a on Nov. 22, 2012. Foley and Steven joy privileges not available on the country where reporters are often Sotloff, also an American journalist, mainland, journalists say a crack- victims of targeted attacks: were beheaded last summer by the down against the press has increased Islamic State, which posted video- and access to areas is being limited. ● Gunmen killed Yaqoob Shehzad, tapes of the murders online. Some In July, the Hong Kong Journalists a correspondent for Pakistan’s Ex- foreign journalists captured by ISIS Association released a report that press News and chairman of the have been released after the pay- said press freedoms have deteriorat- Hafizabad Press Club, Oct. 5 as he ment of ransoms, but the U.S. and ed and called 2014 “the darkest for sat with a friend inside an office the British governments have re- press freedom for several decades.” in Gujranwala in Punjab province. fused to pay ransoms. That group, the Foreign Correspon- He was hit three times and killed Foley’s parents, John and Diane, dents’ Club in Hong Kong and local on the spot while another man was have announced the formation of the broadcaster RTHK in early October injured. James W. Foley Legacy Fund to pro- joined in condemning violent at- mote the passions and the ideals of tacks on members of the press by ● Nadeem Haider, a teacher who their son, who was taken hostage in pro-Beijing demonstrators during was also a correspondent for Paki- Syria and beaten and tortured while street clashes. stan’s Daily Dunya, was shot and being held for nearly two years. Edward Wong, the Beijing bu- killed Oct. 3 while teaching students The fund will focus on three ar- reau chief for The New York Times at a school in Hafizabad. eas: building resources for families who won the David Schweinsberg of American hostages; fostering a Scholarship in 1998, wrote a Sino- (Continued on Page 10)

OPC Bulletin • October 2014 • Page 9 (Continued From Page 9) stan are typically delivered by hand. voy of escaping civilians that came un- ● After receiving threats for a month, der heavy fire. Tawfiq Ben Saud, an 18-year-old ra- ● Gunmen killed Mohammed al- dio journalist in Libya, died along with Qasim, a Syrian journalist for Rozana ● Nurul Islam Faruqi, a TV host in a friend in a hail of bullets as they were Radio who contributed to Al-Jazeera, Bangladesh who was also an imam, driving through a Benghazi suburb. while he was driving in a car with a was tied up with his family on the Saud was host of “Ishah bi Jawuha,” rebel military leader, who was a rela- night of Aug. 28. Assailants then slit or “Live your Life,” on Libyana Hits, a tive. Both men died. Al-Qasim was in- the throat of Faruqi, who often used popular privately owned station. terviewing the leader about a blast that his popular program on a privately killed leaders of another rebel group. owned news and education channel, to ● Palwasha Tokhi, an Afghan jour- It was unclear whom the gunmen tar- speak out against Islamist groups and nalist who worked for Bayan Radio geted. militancy. in the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif, ● Russian forensics experts confirmed ● Two gunmen stormed the offices of was stabbed to death Sept. 3 that human remains in a burnt- the independent news agency Quetta Sept. 16 after being out car near Donetsk, Ukraine were International News Network in Paki- lured outside her those of Andrei Stenin, a Russian stan on Aug. 28, killing Bureau Chief home to receive a photographer who had been missing Irshad Mastoi and a reporter, Gh- wedding invitation, since Aug. 5. RIA Novosti, the news ulam Rasool Khattak. Mastoi was which in Afghani- Tokhi agency where Stenin worked, said secretary of the Order of Journalists Stenin was last seen traveling in a con- of Baluchistan. (Continued From Page 1) OPC SIGNS CPJ PETITION Gady Epstein, Beijing bureau chief for The Economist, said when demand drives coverage, some stories lose The OPC has joined the #RightToReport cam- out. “I think the human rights story is very hard to sell. paign organized by the Committee to Protect Because I think people are tired of it,” he said. Journalists that calls on the Obama administra- Barbara Demick, outgoing Beijing bureau chief of tion to respect journalists’ right to gather and the Los Angeles Times, noted that despite censorship, report the news in the digital age. We urge our foreign media increasingly serve a local readership, members to review the campaign’s petition – because of social media and increasing Internet access. bit.ly/Right2Report – and consider signing on. “I’ve had many, many situations where I’ve gone into a village and people have said ‘thanks for report- Documents leaked by Edward Snowden ing this story for the Chinese people,’” she said. suggest that intelligence agencies in the U.S. The afternoon schedule included an update on press and its allies target news organizations, journal- freedom, featuring the release of a report from the Chi- ists and human rights groups for surveillance. na Foreign Correspondents’ Club. Kathleen McLaugh- American journalists have reported being lin, a Knight Science Journalism fellow at MIT and detained and interrogated at the U.S. border Asia contributor to The Economist and Guardian, and having their electronic devices searched. presented some grim findings, with two-thirds of the polled journalists said they were harassed in some way How the U.S. and other Western democracies over the previous year. respect and protect the right to report has an The 14-page position paper highlighted a rise in pre- influence around the world. When democracies emptive warnings against journalists, cyber attacks on limit press freedom their actions give support foreign media companies. to even more brutal restrictions of repressive Minky Worden, director of global initiatives for governments. Human Rights Watch, said despite increased aggres- The CPJ petition seeks three key commit- sion toward journalists, there is some cause for hope in Hong Kong, which is under an international trea- ments from the Obama administration: 1) Pro- ty, separate from mainland China, that protects press hibit the hacking and surveillance of journalists freedom. and media organizations. 2) Limit aggressive “If we can preserve and protect press freedom in prosecutions that ensnare journalists and intimi- Hong Kong, it’s going to be a lot easier to improve it in date whistleblowers. 3) Prevent the harassment China.” of journalists at the U.S. border. Meanwhile, social media followers were optimistic about the use of digital tools for social and political change. “It’s a whole generation of Chinese now that have David Wertime, editor of Tea Leaf Nation and Foreign experienced censorship personally, which I think erodes Policy, said China’s restrictions on digital media could, credibility of government-sponsored media.” over the long term, cause a backlash that would threaten Recaps of all panels from the event, with full videos the government’s control. and highlight clips, are available on the OPC website.

OPC Bulletin • October 2014 • Page 10 OPC Members: a Q&A With Haley Sweetland Edwards By Susan Kille Haley Sweetland Edwards has reported from the Middle East and the Caucasus, writing mostly for the Los Angeles Times, and also for The Atlantic, The New Republic, Foreign Policy online, The New York Times’ Latitude Blog and other publications. She was one of four correspondents expelled from Yemen in 2011 during a crackdown to control news coverage of anti-government unrest.

Current assignment: Correspondent, Time magazine, DC Bureau.

Hometown: Camarillo, Calif. Go Scorpions.

Education: Yale University (B.A. in Philosophy and Paul Stephens History); Columbia University (M.A. with a concen- Haley Sweetland Edwards in Yemen tration in politics at the Journalism School). Hardest story to write: About four years ago, I interviewed a young woman with her 3-year-old daughter Languages: I’ve studied Spanish, Arabic, Georgian, strapped to her chest who had just survived a desper- French, and Russian at different stages and am passably ate trip across the Red Sea in what was basically a pile terrible at most of them. of boards. She still had sand and salt in her hair when I started asking her all the generic reporter questions, like First job in journalism: Back in the day, the good folks “What was your home like? What are you running away at The Seattle Times took a huge risk hiring a totally in- from?” Her answers were all horrific: war, rape, blood in experienced young reporter, who was pretty sure a nut the streets. When I went back to my hotel that night, I re- graf was a delicious snack. I am forever grateful to all member being paralyzed by my inability to string words of them. together in a way that even began to do justice to her pain and bravery. When I joined the OPC: In 2009 as an Overseas Press Club Fellow! Journalists whose work should be required reading: Marjorie Williams for her profiles; Robert Kaiser for Countries I’ve reported from: Yemen, Qatar, India, his patience; Katherine Boo for her humanity; the late Egypt, Georgia, Azerbaijan and a handful of other coun- Matthew Powers for his humility; David Mitchell for his tries, partial-countries, breakaway regions, and separatist wanderlust; Charles Peters for his inimitable charm. That states in the Middle East and Central Asia. barely scratches the surface, of course.

Best journalism advice I’ve received: An editor told Place most eager to visit: Antarctica. Or Nunavut. me that when I find myself struggling to explain a confus- Someplace on the end of the Earth. Or Baffin Island for ing idea, I should give up trying to “write an article” and the narwhals: glorious animals. instead just write a letter to a friend. It works, actually. My pet peeve about editors is: When they tell you, “I Worst experience as a correspondent: I once got food think we need more reporting in this section,” and so you poisoning about 45 minutes into what turned out to be a spend a week doing all this new reporting and writing it 16-hour, partially off-road mini-bus ride from Hargeisa all up, and then it all ends up getting cut. Having recently to Addis Ababa. I won’t go into the details (you’re wel- worked as an editor myself, I must admit that I subjected come), but suffice it to say I don’t think anyone on that more than a few writers to that treatment too. Not on pur- bus will ever forget me. Not in a good way. pose. (Cue: maniacal editor laughter.)

When traveling, I: always bring 50 SPF sunscreen. I Twitter handle: @haleybureau mean, look at me. My ancestors lived in foggy dells; I’m not cut out for an Arabian sun. Want to add to the OPC’s collection of Q&As with members? Contact Susan Kille at [email protected]. (Continued From Page 12) many investigative reporters of they did their work and the causes scholars and activists have curated the the past are no longer remembered they exposed but of the possibilities collection and introduce each article, even in their own countries, but that remain in a world still filled with providing historical context and ex- “the legacy they left behind is still injustice.” plaining the impact of the reporting. worth studying, not just for how Prominent international journalists, — By Susan Kille

OPC Bulletin • October 2014 • Page 11 compares hope to a path that de- versity’s School of International velops in the countryside. First and Public Affairs, collected 47 New Books there is nothing, then as more peo- PHILANTHROPY examples of world-changing re- ple walk in the same direction, a N 2009’S HALF THE SKY, THE porting in Global Muckraking: 100 path can be seen. In A husband-and-wife team of Years of Investigative Jour- I Path Appears, Kristof Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl Wu- nalism From Around the and WuDunn illustrate Dunn detailed the atrocities and World [New Press, July]. their belief that indi- exploitation that many women This anthology of long- viduals can make a dif- and girls face. Now, they pres- form investigative journal- ference by applauding ent A Path Appears: Transform- ism comes from around “innovators who are the world and covers more ing Lives, Creating Opportunity using research, evi- [Knopf, September] and describe than a century, reaching dence-based strategies, back to an 1896 depiction how individuals can address the and brilliant world’s ills. of the indentured “coo- ideas of their lie” system in the English “We crave meaning own to pre- colonies and extending to and purpose in life, and vent violence, a 2013 exposé of a cor- one way to find it is to improve health, boost poration ignoring workers in the connect to a cause larger education, and spread sugar cane industry who are bat- than ourselves,” write opportunity at home and the authors, who have around the world.” tling chronic kidney disease. By produced three best-sell- Major philanthro- organizing the content by topics, ing books and together pists get their names on Schiffrin shows the global impli- won a Pulitzer Prize for programs and buildings, cations of local issues that repeat their coverage of Chi- but the authors show that through time: human rights abus- na’s Tiananmen Square poor and middle-class es, corruption, food shortages, movement. Kristof is an Americans collectively give more mistreatment of women, environ- OPC member and a columnist for than the big names. Readers are mental damage and more. Some of The New York Times. WuDunn, a drawn in by profiles of people who the reporters included suffered, or former journalist and executive at are improving the lives of others even died because of their writing. The Times, is an investment bank- and are told how to contribute ef- “Reading these articles, one er with a passion for philanthropy. fectively while avoiding the non- is amazed at how contemporary An Ancient Chinese proverb profit shams that claim to do good many seem and how much in com- but actually provide little help. mon the journalist of our time has with the journalist of 50 or 100 MUCKRAKING years ago,” writes Schiffrin, who NYA SCHIFFRIN, DIRECT- has served as a judge for OPC’s A or of the media and communi- annual awards. She writes that Upcoming Events cations program at Columbia Uni- (Continued on Page 11)

How to Freelance Safely: Overseas Press Club of America 40 West 45 Street 6:30 p.m. Oct. 21 New York, NY 10036 USA

Book Night: Nicholas Kristof & Sheryl WuDunn 6:00 p.m. Nov. 7

Book Night: Anya Schiffrin 6:00 p.m. Dec. 1

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