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THE MONTHLY NEWSLETTER OF THE OVERSEAS PRESS CLUB OF AMERICA, NEW YORK, NY • July-August 2015 Board Election Features Packed Slate of Candidates Last spring, an email was sent to Members Advisory Council whose ture events as they unfold, and give members calling for nominations of main charge will be to advance ideas them meaning and perspective. candidates for the 2015 board of gov- and programs that further solidify I plan to vote and I hope you will ernors’ election. Thanks to you and the OPC’s position as an important too. the nominating committee, we have a resource for journalists. Areas of - Brian Byrd slate of 17 active members running for focus include press safety and free- Chairman, board seats, out of which 12 will be se- dom, membership, Elections Procedure Committee lected. In addition, four candidates are events, awards and running for two open associate board others. Details and ELECTION REMINDERS seats. Each and every one of them are election results will exceptional in backgrounds, experi- be announced and ● Watch your email inbox for ences and accomplishments, making discussed at the a message from the OPC this one of the most competitive elec- upcoming annual that will include a link to your tions in recent memory. The strength meeting on Tues- electronic ballot on Balloteer, a and diversity of this slate is, in no small day, Aug. 25 at 6:00 secure online voting service. part, a reflection of the revised system p.m. at Club Quarters, 40 West 45th ● To log in, use the email in which OPC elects its board of gov- St. The meeting is open to all mem- ernors. We hope members will find this bers. address where you receive process to be effective and transparent. As you can see, there is great mo- OPC electronic corre Now comes the hard part. On Tues- mentum building within the OPC. spondence. day, July 21 you will receive an email The organization and its members ● Active members may vote with a link to an online ballot. You will have displayed new energy and cre- only for Active candidates. have until noon on Monday, Aug. 24 ativity in programs and events, all Associate members may vote to cast your vote to fill the open board in service to journalists here and only for Associate candidates. seats. Members who prefer a paper bal- around the world. These activities lot can contact the OPC office and we have given the OPC a reinvigorated ● For a paper ballot, call the will mail one to you. It is vital that each presence in a field that strives to cap- office at 212-626-9220. and every active and associate OPC member vote in this election. The OPC OPC LAUNCHES AN OLD-FASHIONED RECIPE SWAP is only as strong as the board of governors who guide it, and our responsi- In 1962, the OPC published a cookbook with recipes and sto- bility as members is to elect governors ries from dozens of club members around the world. The Overseas who reflect the great diversity of expe- Press Club Cookbook, edited by Sigrid Schultz, rience of the OPC membership. features dishes from Joseph Stalin’s banquet, Additionally, we have created a the secret café of Aga Khan III, wartime lunches and exotic delicacies like bird’s-nest soup. OPC Inside. . . Foundation board member Felice Levin recently Election Slate...... 2-6 donated a copy for our archives. That gave us an idea. The OPC would like to gather recipes from Azmat Khan and Afghan Schools...... 6 current members to post on the OPC website. Did People Column...... 7-8 . you discover a favorite dish while working abroad? Do you have Press Freedom Update...... 9-10 any food stories for the website or the pages of the Bulletin? Please Q&A: Jonathan Kapstein...... 11 send your stories, recipes and food-related ideas to patricia@opcofamerica.org. New Books...... 12 2015 Election Slate includes stints at NPR, PBS, and ABC-TV. Awards include ACTIVE NOMINEES (Electing 12) the George Polk and DuPont-Columbia, but I am most HANNAH ALLAM proud of recent teaching fellowships, mentoring journalism I’m the foreign affairs correspondent for McClatchy students at SUNY, Columbia and Princeton. Newspapers, covering the State Department and foreign If elected to this prestigious board, I want to focus policy as part of the national security team. I spent nine on best safety practices for freelance reporters, fixers, years reporting from across the Middle translators and drivers. I have worked mostly in the field East and North Africa, first as Baghdad and I know, first hand, the dangers of crisis reporting. bureau chief during the war, and then as There is more OPC can do to mentor the growing tribe of bureau chief in Cairo during the wave freelance reporters. I am interested in expanding OPC’s of rebellions known as the Arab Spring. profile on social media to reach the next generation of I still travel overseas for my current international correspondents. beat, sometimes with Secretary of State John Kerry on official trips and other times unilaterally MOLLY BINGHAM on assignment in conflict zones. My work has been featured in The New York Times, If I get to serve on the Overseas Press Club board, the Washington Post, and others. “Ordinary Warriors”, I would use the position to amplify two issues that are published in Vanity Fair, won honorable mention for the dear to me. The first is journalist safety, especially for OPC’s Madeline Dane Ross Award. freelancers working in dangerous areas. The second is As co-director of the documentary film what I consider the “democratization” of the sometimes Meeting Resistance, I won the “Golden rarefied world of foreign news – I’d love to see the work Award” at the 2007 Al Jazeera Interna- of far-flung journalists reach more Americans, particu- tional Documentary Film Festival and larly young people and communities of color. the “Best Documentary Courage in Film- making” Award by the Women Film Crit- ics Circle. I’m a former Nieman and Sulzberger fellow, and DEBORAH AMOS was named one of “20 Women to Watch” by the Columbia I have been an international corre- Journalism Review in 2012. spondent for three decades, covering the As the founder and CEO of Orb, a digital journalism Middle East. My beat has mainly been nonprofit, I’ve been re-engineering the editorial process by chaos. I cover wars; invasions and the re- fusing massive data analysis, the public’s knowledge and sulting humanitarian fall out. My career OVERSEAS PRESS CLUB OF AMERICA • BOARD OF GOVERNORS PRESIDENT ACTIVE BOARD Charles Graeber Robert Nickelsberg ASSOCIATE BOARD PAST PRESIDENTS Marcus Mabry Jacqueline Albert- Freelance Journalist Freelance MEMBERS EX-OFFICIO Editor at large Simon and Author Photojournalist Brian I. Byrd Michael Serrill The New York Times U.S. Bureau Chief Program Officer David A. Andelman Politique Internationale Lara Setrakian NYS Health John Corporon FIRST VICE PRESIDENT Azmat Khan Co-Founder & CEO Foundation Allan Dodds Frank Calvin Sims Investigative Reporter News Deeply Alexis Gelber President and CEO Rukmini Callimachi BuzzFeed News Bill Collins William J. Holstein International House Foreign Director, Public & Marshall Loeb Correspondent Martin Smith Business Affairs Larry Martz SECOND VICE PRESIDENT The New York Times Dan Klaidman President Ford Motor Company Roy Rowan Abigail Pesta Deputy Editor Rain Media Larry Smith Freelance Journalist Yahoo News Emma Daly Richard B. Stolley Jane Ciabattari Communications THIRD VICE PRESIDENT Columnist Liam Stack Director EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Pancho Bernasconi BBC.com Evelyn Leopold Breaking News Human Rights Watch Patricia Kranz Vice President/News Independent Journalist Reporter Getty Images United Nations The New York Times Daniel Sieberg OFFICE MANAGER Chris Dickey Global Head Boots R. Duque TREASURER Foreign Editor of Media Outreach Tim Ferguson The Daily Beast, Paul Moakley Seymour Topping Google EDITOR Editor Paris Deputy Director Emeritus Chad Bouchard Forbes Asia Photography and Professor of Abi Wright Visual Enterprise International Journalism Executive Director, SECRETARY Peter S. Goodman Time magazine Columbia University Prizes OPC Deidre Depke Editor-in-Chief Graduate School ISSN-0738-7202 Journalist and International of Journalism Copyright © 2015 Author Business Times Charles Wallace Columbia University Overseas Press Club Financial Writer Awards of America

40 West 45 Street, New York, NY 10036 USA • Phone: (212) 626-9220 • Fax: (212) 626-9210 • Website: opcofamerica.org OPC Bulletin • July/August 2015 • Page 2 journalists. Each story is delivered in multiple formats and quarterly print magazine and daily news site. Prior to that, languages, enabling a diverse audience to unite around the I was a producer for PBS Nightly News and MTV Inter- issues that touch us all. national, producing award-winning segments on vigilante I would like to work with the OPC to encourage the ex- female justice groups in India, election fraud in Florida, ploration of solutions for journalism in these rapidly chang- gang violence in Chicago, and the growing times. I’m excited about OPC’s ability to spotlight and ing refugee crisis in Syria. reward journalistic work that is innovative, impactful, and Despite these wonderful career oppor- engaging. I’d very much enjoy being a part of these en- tunities, I am still quite young and hope deavors at OPC. to bring this youth and drive to the Over- seas Press Club board. And as the curator ANUPREETA DAS for the World Economic Forum’s Global I write about Warren Buffett and his company Berk- Shapers, a group of 20-something professionals in New shire Hathaway for The Wall Street Journal. I also track York, I believe I have the requisite experience to build such the global flow of wealth by writing profiles of billionaires a community. Providing a fresh and ambitious approach to and where they are putting their money to work. I have pre- attracting younger members, I can expand the organization viously reported for Reuters and several from the bottom up and ensure its vitality for years to come. U.S. and Indian publications. I won an OPC scholarship in 2006. SCOTT GILMORE The need for cross-cultural under- I would like to join the board of the OPC, an organi- standing in communications has never zation I have long admired, to help it grow, innovate and been greater than at this moment, when become even more effective. I am an international colum- our world is so interconnected that an nist for Maclean’s Magazine, and was previously a Ca- event in any one country can have global ramifications, nadian diplomat who worked in Central whether it’s the recent Ebola outbreak or low interest rates and Southeast Asia. But I believe it is my in the U.S. Readers, too, are increasingly global. As a cul- most recent role as the founder and CEO tural transplant myself, if elected to the board, I would of the New York-based charitable social work to enhance the abilities of all journalists to be cultur- enterprise Building Markets that would ally aware, thoughtful and sensitive to multiple contexts in be most useful to the OPC. I have spent their reporting. a decade building programs, expanding operations, establishing corporate partnerships, and most ROBERT DOWLING importantly fundraising. I am running for the OPC board after some years of I strongly believe in the importance of the OPC. Its absence as a board member and officer. I serve on the OPC mandate and reputation make it uniquely important as jour- Foundation board. nalists in the United States and overseas grapple with new I’d like the OPC to develop a broader international challenges to their independence, while simultaneously re- reach by streaming events and expanding inventing their business model. It is my hope I can help the overseas contributions to its website and OPC as it continues to pursue its important goals. expanding its Freedom of the Press Com- mittee, where I previously served. STEVEN L. HERMAN I retired as international managing ed- I am a longtime OPC member working in Asia for the itor from BusinessWeek (now Bloomberg past 25 years and currently Southeast Asia bureau chief for Businessweek) in 2007 after 28 years as the Voice of America, based in Bangkok, following previ- Washington correspondent, European editor and Asian edi- ous VOA postings in New Delhi and Seoul. tion editor. I developed a program in Global Business Jour- I have held numerous leadership posi- nalism at Tsinghua University, Beijing from 2007 to 2009 tions in journalistic organizations in the edited the English edition of Caixin the Chinese weekly region, including president of the For- magazine. I currently write columns for Caixin, Gateway eign Correspondents’ Club of Japan and House, various regional U.S. newspapers and coach writ- the Seoul Foreign Correspondents’ Club. ers at St. John’s College, Santa Fe N.M. I would hope to Through my active involvement with the participate at times as a remote board member. Asian American Journalists Association and the South Asian Journalists Association I am a mentor YAFFA FREDRICK for younger members. I am the managing editor of World Policy Journal, one In addition to traditional reporting I am at the forefront of the few U.S.-based magazines devoted to accurate and of digital journalism as one of the most visible correspon- nuanced foreign news reporting. Working with reporters dents in Asia on Twitter @w7voa. across six continents, I coordinate the production of our (Continued on Page 4)

OPC Bulletin • July/August 2015 • Page 3 (Continued From Page 3) of members. I would bring to the mix more than a half As an OPC Active Overseas member, with your sup- century of journalism and OPC membership. I was the port, my involvement on the board can move the OPC for- managing editor of Harvard’s daily Crimson and served ward in greater engagement with its members and the jour- overseas in World War II. Then, I served as an editor nalistic community at large via social media and emerging of Look magazine for nineteen years. digital platforms. As Look’s foreign editor, I covered the globe, including three in-depth visits to ANJALI KAMAT the Vietnam War. The OPC honored my I’m a correspondent for Fault Lines, Al-Jazeera’s Look work in 1968 and 1971. I have had flagship current affairs documentary program. I’ve re- nine books published including a his- ported from the Middle East, Africa, South Asia, Latin tory of the U.S. Marine Corps and the America, and the U.S. since 2002. My first full history of the United States Foreign Service, recent stories have covered the civil war published in 2013. Both contain my reporting around the in South Sudan, labor trafficking on US world. Although I no longer chase wars, I can bring an military bases in Afghanistan (which intense interest in international journalism to the table. I won an Overseas Press Club award), would welcome the opportunity to serve the OPC once Bangladesh’s garment industry (which again. won a Peabody and an RFK Journalism award and was nominated for an Emmy), and abuses in ROBERT NICKELSBERG post-Mubarak Egypt. I was previously a Cairo-based As a board member for the past two years, I focused producer and correspondent for Democracy Now and on improving the visual editing and production of the 75th covered the uprisings in Egypt and Libya. I speak flu- anniversary issue of Dateline magazine and oversaw the ent Arabic, Hindi, and Tamil and am on the editorial increased use of archival photography. This benefited not committee of the Middle East Research and Information only the text stories in the 2014 issue but Project (MERIP). As an OPC board member, I would also highlighted the award winners and like to focus on supporting and amplifying the voices of under-resourced local journalists in conflict zones, made it a noteworthy and quality publi- many of whom, in their roles as “fixers,” are critical to cation. After winning the Overseas Press the work of foreign correspondents. Club’s Olivier Rebbot Award for my - book, Afghanistan-A Distant War, I’ve JO LING KENT given numerous presentations to foreign I’m a correspondent covering the global technology affairs groups, journalism classes and think tanks and have sector at Fox Business Network and host a weekly tech been able to highlight the need for strong visual coverage podcast, “Fast Forward with JLK.” for international events and long-form journalism. This has Prior to joining FBN, I was an investigative reporter proven to be a positive method to promote and highlight for NBC Connecticut in Hartford and the Overseas Press Club. By serving on the Membership part of the team awarded a Peabody for Committee, I want to continue to expand the OPC mem- coverage of Newtown. I covered the bership and feel I can attract more photojournalists, editors 2012 presidential campaigns with NBC and documentary filmmakers. News and spent five years reporting from Beijing for CNN and ABC News. MARY RAJKUMAR I graduated from LSE and Peking I am the international enterprise editor for The Associ- University (master’s degrees in international affairs) and ated Press, where I have edited two Pulitzer finalist pack- Rice University (BA). I was a U.S. Fulbright Scholar to ages as well as stories that have won awards from the OPC China, specializing in legal aid for women. I serve on (Hal Boyle and Bob Considine), ASNE, National Headlin- Minnesota YMCA Youth in Government’s board of di- ers and many others. The work I’ve done rectors and co-chair the NYC chapter of Young China includes a 2015 project on labor abuse in Watchers. Southeast Asia that led to the rescue of Since joining OPC, I’ve supported the organiza- more than 500 enslaved fishermen, and tion’s outstanding work, including judging the 2015 OPC a test of freedom of information laws in Awards. If elected, I’ll work to mobilize the next genera- dozens of countries. I currently serve on tion of journalists to not only join but also actively partici- a Pulitzer jury. pate in our efforts to enhance OPC’s stature. I would be honored to join the OPC board. I am from Singapore, which has given me a deep appreciation for the J. ROBERT MOSKIN importance of freedom of the press and the work the OPC The OPC benefits from a board that includes a variety does to secure it. I also have a keen interest in promoting

OPC Bulletin • July/August 2015 • Page 4 diversity within journalism, and would love to see the OPC chairman of the membership committee, I proposed reduc- build stronger ties with minority journalism groups with ing membership dues for younger and senior members, chapters abroad, such as the Asian-American Journalists which was adopted in 2014. I edited the OPC’s 75th an- Association. niversary issue of Dateline, which traced the organization’s history over seven decades. I was co-chairman of the 2015 GARY REGENSTREIF Awards Dinner and helped the OPC raise funds by selling Most recently Reuters editor-at-large and advisor to a tables to a number of organizations, a role I will continue journalism non profit, I offer my experience in interna- to play going forward. I now work in New York as a col- tional news and commitment to champion a free press as umnist for the Financial Times and Institutional Investor an active OPC board member. magazine. With press freedom at its lowest point in a decade, the OPC’s efforts are more important VIVIENNE WALT than ever. Against that backdrop, I have I am a seasoned correspondent, currently for Time been chairman of the Advisory Board of magazine & Fortune, based in Paris, and reporting from Press Start which, when it launches in Africa, the Middle East and Europe. I have reported from September, will crowdfund support for more than 30 countries, including from independent journalism where the press Ukraine and Nigeria this past year, spe- is not fully free. cializing in conflict and its consequences. From postings in Caracas, Buenos Aires, Rome and My work has also been published in The Paris, I spent most of my 25-year career at Reuters cover- New York Times, Washington Post, LA ing Latin America and Europe as a correspondent, bureau Times, Bloomberg Businessweek, Wall chief and head of regional operations. Street Journal and National Geographic I have been delighted to be an OPC judge for three Magazine. I am a regular guest on PRI’s “The World” and years. But I would like to contribute more: by seeking to France 24’s “The World This Week.” boost its profile, increase membership, help foster more I was raised in Cape Town, South Africa, then emi- interest in international journalism and add to efforts to grated to New York, where I worked for Newsday. I have ensure a free press. been an OPC juror since 2012, and headed this year’s Ed Cunningham judges’ panel. I am also a juror for the Prix MARTIN SMITH Bayeux for War Reporting. If elected, I want to mobilize I have been honored to serve these last two years. US correspondents overseas to get involved in the OPC, The club’s new leadership has made great strides taking especially on issues of safety. the OPC forward and I wish to continue to contribute wherever and however I can. While working full-time ASSOCIATE (Electing 2) constricts my ability to do all I would like, I want to redouble my efforts and SARAH LUBMAN find out where my time and effort can I was a journalist for 17 years before joining Bruns- be valuable. I continue to be interested wick and got my start overseas in Japan and China, where in helping the club do more to support I spent 6+ years working for various outlets (ABC News, those who make foreign reporting pos- UPI, Washington Post, NPR). Interna- sible: fixers, translators, stringers and tional reporting remains near and dear to drivers working abroad under dangerous circumstances. my heart. I have an endless appetite for The risks in foreign correspondence are rising. Recently, complex, well-told stories and believe new safety guidelines were introduced and supported they deserve both support and celebra- by a broad cooperative alliance of signatory organization. During my previous tenure on the tions. I want to support and expand this important work. board, I helped the OPC speed up the Thank you. transition to online award entries and access and worked with the group to update the award categories. I’ve also CHARLES WALLACE worked hard to drum up support for the dinner, enlisting I was a foreign correspondent for not just Brunswick to buy a table but also clients such as more than 30 years for UPI in Moscow McKinsey and Citi, which came in at the highest level and Nairobi, the Los Angeles Times in and sponsored an award. I would love to put my com- the Middle East (Beirut, Amman and munications experience to work on the OPC’s behalf and Nicosia Cyprus) and Asia (Bangkok and would be honored to rejoin the board. Singapore), and Time magazine in Milan and Berlin. As an OPC board member and (Continued on Page 6)

OPC Bulletin • July/August 2015 • Page 5 (Continued From Page 5) TOM SQUITIERI MINKY WORDEN DANIEL SIEBERG Our profession needs passion, I am a longtime OPC member, I am the global head of media experience, creativity and determi- past board member, and I am also on outreach with the Google News Lab, nation to keep it strong. We all know the OPC Foundation board. As Hu- man Rights Watch’s which collaborates the dangers facing Director of Global with journalists and journalism’s future. During my previ- Initiatives, I work entrepreneurs to with the media and ous time on the build the future of develop and imple- board I was able to ment international media. Prior to join- add my perspective ing Google, I worked outreach and advo- and depth to others cacy campaigns. I previously served as as a technology correspondent for seeking to maintain the OPC’s vital Human Rights Watch’s media director. ABC News, CBS News and CNN. role. That imperative still drives me. Before joining Human Rights Watch I also have contributed to MSNBC, I was a full-time journalist for in 1998, I lived and worked in Hong BBC News and Discovery. I started 34 years, honored three times by Kong as an adviser to Democratic Party my journalism career at the Vancouver the OPC and the White House Cor- chairman Martin Lee and worked at the Sun and have been nominated for mul- respondents’ Association. I offer a Department of Justice in Washington, tiple Emmy Awards for reporting. My vibrant blend of many areas of our D.C. as a speechwriter for the U.S. Attorney General. A member of the first book, The Digital Diet, came out profession, including writing a column for The Hill and teaching a col- Council on Foreign Relations, I speak in 2011. I live in NYC with my wife lege course on reporting, writing and Cantonese and German. I am the editor and two daughters. surviving war zones,. of The Unfinished Revolution (Seven Stories Press, 2012) and China’s Great My goal for serving another term My career began at an under- Leap (Seven Stories Press, 2008), and on the board of the OPC is to advise as ground newspaper in western Penn- much as possible on how to bring the the co-editor of Torture (New Press, sylvania, moved to my hometown 2005). I have long drafted letters to organization and its members to work paper and then to Washington, D.C., repressive governments for the OPC more with technology companies (e.g. eventually at USA TODAY. Along Freedom of the Press Committee, I’m Google) and foster a sense of innova- the way I served multiple terms as a frequent visitor to Overseas Press tion within the international reporting secretary, vice president and trea- Club partners such as the FCC in Hong community. surer of the National Press Club and Kong, and I have occasionally hosted made it to all seven continents. the “OPC Tchotchke Night” party Azmat Khan Exposes ‘Ghost Schools’ in Afghanistan Since the early days of the war in Afghanistan, the dren was hollowed out by corruption,” Khan writes, U.S. has touted education as one of its premier suc- “and by short-term political and military goals that, cesses in the country, trumpeting impressive statistics time and again, took precedence over building a viable about the number of schools built, girls enrolled, text- school system. And the U.S. government has known for books distributed, teachers trained, and dollars spent. years that it has been peddling hype.” But a months-long investigation by OPC board member Azmat Khan for BuzzFeed News found those claims to be “massively exaggerated, riddled with ghost schools, teachers, and students that exist only on paper.” Based on visits to more than 50 U.S.-funded schools in seven Afghan provinces, Khan found a majority of schools resemble “abandoned buildings,” that many were either never built or are no longer operating; and that projects intended to educate Afghan children have often lined the pockets of brutal warlords, reviled strongmen and corrupt contractors. Through on the ground reporting, internal U.S. and Afghan databases and documents, and more than 150 interviews, the investigation also uncovered that the U.S. knew about massive infla- tion in school statistics for years, but continued to tout Azmat Khan / BuzzFeed News them to Congress and he American public. A school refurbished with U.S. funding in Nangarhar “The American effort to educate Afghanistan’s chil- province in February.

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AWARDS documents to shed light on the hid- ducer of 60 Minutes, who accepted OPC members Felix Golubev den offshore holdings of China’s the award on behalf of Simon’s and Simcha Jacobovici have won elite. Nordland received an Honor- family. “He wasn’t seeking the spot- the Canadian Association of Jour- able Mention in the Group A Excel- light. He thought of himself as just nalists Prize for their documentary, lence in Human Rights Reporting a regular reporter. He never inserted “Tales from the Organ Trade.” The award for “The Ballad of Zakia and himself into the story.” Simon died film, which won the OPC’s Edward Mohammad,” the story of an Afghan in a car crash in February in New R. Murrow award last year, shows couple facing death threats for at- York. Among his many awards was how a kidney is sold on the illegal tempting to marry against her fam- the OPC’s President’s Award for organ market and reaches a trans- ily’s wishes. lifetime achievement, which he re- plant recipient. Along the way, it ceived in 2014. challenges assumptions about the The US Marine Corps Correspon- ethics of the organ trade. Golubev dents Association has posthumously UPDATES and Jacobovici were honored along honored OPC member Georgette OPC member and former OPC with Ric Esther Bienstock, also an Louise “Dickey” Chapelle with Bulletin columnist Susan Kille is OPC member. the 2015 Brig. Gen. on the waiting list for a lung trans- Robert L. Denig Sr. plant at NewYork-Presbyterian/Co- Distinguished Ser- lumbia University Medical Center vice Award. Cha- as she continues battling a rare lung pelle got her start as disease. Kille left her part-time job a war photographer at The New York Times in January in Okinawa and Iwo due to her health issues. “Should I Jima in World War Chapelle win this lottery and get a transplant, II, and then cover- I could have a different and im- ing the Marines in Vietnam in the proved life for some years ahead,” early 1960s, often traveling with the she writes. Please join us in wishing troops. The Milwaukee Press Club Felix Golubev, left, and Susan the best of luck in her quest inducted Chapelle into its Hall of Simcha Jacobovici for recovery. Fame on Oct. 24. OPC member Jerome Delay has NEW YORK: OPC board mem- 2010 David Kaplan Award win- won an Associated Press Media Edi- ber Peter S. Goodman wrote a Mod- ner Richard Engel has won the Fred tors Award for his photograph of two ern Love column for The New York Friendly First Amendment Award young refugee girls from the Central Times on July 9. The piece deals with from Quinnipiac University. The how he and his wife, Deanna Fei, African Republic. “Once again, we award, named for the former CBS see innocent children amid conflict,” have navigated challenges – first, the News president, honors defenders of demands of his career as a foreign the judges said. “But we also see free speech. “Fred used to say that correspondent and hers as a writer, hope. We see that even amid bleak the job of the journalist is to explain and then the experience of having circumstances, friendship blooms.” complicated stories,” Friendly’s a premature baby with significant Delay is AP’s chief photographer widow, Ruth, told Engel. “That’s health needs. His wife’s book, Girl for Africa. He has won or shared what you do, Richard. You illumi- in Glass, has just been published. It’s the OPC’s John Faber Award three nate and elucidate the news, at times about the health struggles of their times. risking your life.” child, Mila, and the surrounding po- The late CBS News correspon- litical and social issues. Mila’s birth OPC members Gerard Ryle and dent Bob Simon was also honored made national headlines when AOL Rod Nordland have been honored at Quinnipiac’s 22nd annual Fred CEO Tim Armstrong referred to her with SOPA Awards from The Soci- Friendly First Amendment Award as a “distressed baby” and blamed ety of Publishers in Asia. Ryle won luncheon. Simon was recognized her for increasing the company’s the Excellence in Explanatory Re- with the 2015 Lifetime Achieve- health costs. Happily, Goodman, his porting award in Group B for “Peo- ment Award. “We all think of him as wife and nearly three-year-old Mila ple’s Republic of Offshore.” The the quintessential foreign correspon- are all doing well now. investigative story explored leaked dent,” said Jeff Fager, executive pro- (Continued on Page 6)

OPC Bulletin • July/August 2015 • Page 7 (Continued From Page 5) Former Associated Press foreign the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts. New York Times columnist and correspondent Stevenson Jacobs, When not working as a journalist, OPC member Roger Cohen is mov- 37, died on June 8 in New York of an Myers traveled extensively and pur- ing from London back to New York apparent heart attack. Jacobs covered sued humanitarian activities, training political unrest in Haiti in the mid- this month. Cohen, who was born in journalists at Arabic and French- 2000s following the ouster of Presi- London, moved to Europe to work language newspapers in Algeria and dent Jean-Bertrand Aristide. Before on his recently-published memoir, building houses with Habitat for that, he wrote for the AP in Jamaica The Girl from Human Street, which Humanity in Uganda and Mongolia. and served as an editor and reporter “She put her career on hold for years was featured during an OPC book in Puerto Rico. “He was kind-heart- night in January. at a time to help the needy,” said ed, hard-working and people trusted former AP Washington bureau chief him enough to tell him their most in- Sandy Johnson. OPC Board of Governors mem- timate stories,” said Paisley Dodds, ber Martin Smith’s latest documen- a former AP Caribbean news editor, Journalist and author Donald tary aired on PBS’s Frontline on May as quoted by the AP. Jacobs was a Neff died in York, Pennsylvania on 26. Obama at War examines how a partner and head of business devel- president who pledged to extract opment at ShearLink Capital at the May 10 at the age of 84. Neff be- the U.S. from military conflicts has time of his death. gan his journalism career in York nonetheless found his administration in 1954. He joined the Los Angeles mired in them. Newsweek called the Dick O’Regan, a longtime cor- Times in 1960, working as a Tokyo film “first-rate,” adding that it was respondent in Europe for the Associ- correspondent, and then moved to “crisply written, reported and pro- ated Press, died in Geneva on June 1 Vietnam to cover the war for Time duced.” at the age of 95. O’Regan got his magazine. During his 14 years at start working for newspapers in Brit- Time, he served as bureau chief in ain as a teenager, according to the Houston, Los Angeles, Jerusalem AP. He decided to move to the U.S. and New York. He wrote numerous during the early part of World War II, books, including a trilogy about the and during the voyage he saw a Nazi Arab-Israeli conflicts of 1956, 1967 U-Boat torpedo a British Navy ship. and 1973. In a review of his Fallen He wrote a story and offered it to Pillars: U.S. Policy Towards Pales- the Philadelphia Bulletin, which not tine and Israel Since 1945, Foreign only ran the piece but offered him Affairs magazine wrote: “Neff suc- a job. After a stint at the paper and ceeds in showing the intensity of the PEOPLE REMEMBERED another at the United Press in New political debates in the bureaucracy Marlene Sanders, a trailblazing York, he signed on with the AP and and the broader public arena. Even television journalist for ABC and was sent to Germany to cover the those who disagree with Neff will CBS, died of cancer on July 14 at the aftermath of the war. He advanced have to acknowledge the thorough- age of 84. Sanders became the first to bureau chief in Vienna and later ness of his research.” woman to anchor a network newscast Frankfurt, where he oversaw news and business in Germany, Switzer- when she filled in for Ron Cochran Veteran CBS Radio correspon- land, Austria, Eastern Europe and in 1964 at ABC, where she worked dent David Jackson, 70, passed the Balkans. He eventually became for 14 years. She was also the first away July 2 at his home in Kula, director of AP operations in Europe, female television journalist to report Africa and the Middle East. Hawaii. Jackson covered some of the from Vietnam during the war in 1966. biggest international news stories of She is the mother of CNN and New Longtime Associated Press re- his time. He was on the scene dur- Yorker journalist Jeffrey Toobin, porter and editor Laura Myers died ing the Tiananmen Square protests in who wrote on his Facebook page the on June 19 at age 53. Myers grew 1989; he was also present when Pope “she informed and inspired a gen- up in Nevada and launched her ca- John Paul II was shot in 1981, and in eration. Above all, though, she was reer at the Reno Gazette-Journal in Germany when the American hostag- a great Mom.” Sanders co-authored 1984. She began working for the AP es being held in Iran were released in Waiting for Prime Time: The Women in 1988, eventually becoming a top 1981. “He helped CBS News deliver of Television News. She taught at the member of the editorial team. My- the best broadcast journalism in the Columbia Graduate School of Jour- ers was one of three senior editors world,” read the letter announcing nalism and New York University. in charge of war coverage during his departure from CBS in 1999.

OPC Bulletin • July/August 2015 • Page 8 Charles Sennott we aretryingtostop.”OPC member Americans and funding terrorism payments risk “endangering more ransoms, however, saying that such ment itself would still refuse to pay Obama emphasized that the govern marish aftermath of a kidnapping. and ignoringthemduringthenight the government of bothbullying victims’ families, who haveaccused come in response to complaints from nappers. This and other changes their lovedonesfromforeignkid pay ransom inan effort to rescue threaten to prosecutefamilies who nounced that the U.S.willnolonger in prison. a yearandcouldfaceupto20years tion. Rezaian has beendetained for did notappear tochange his situa toric accord announcedthenextday during nuclear talks with Iran, ahis the issueofRezaian’s imprisonment charges.” While Washingtonraised answered somequestionsaboutthe that “Jason wasingoodspirits and 13. His lawyer told Rezaian’s family hearing onespionagecharges onJuly ports thatRezaian faced histhird chief for captive tages’ familymembersfollowingcomplaintsaboutthreatsandpoortreatment. President BarackObamaannouncesashiftingovernmentrelationswithhos PRESS FREEDOMUPDATE... President Barack Obama has an has Obama Barack President Court hearingscontinue in Iran Jason Rezaian Washington Post , founderof The . The Post bureau re ------GroundTruth Project,wroteapprov tographer mittee to Protect Journalists. Pho cline in Egypt,according to theCom ment sincethecouplastMay. cancelled or censored by the govern Rights, 71publiceventshavebeen report from Thai LawyersforHuman coup Thailand. According toanew discussion ofhumanrightsinpost- the governmentputkiboshona in astatement.Earlierthemonth, cided tocancel,”theFCCT wrote is withgreatregretthatwehavede other tenantsinthebuilding,andit acceptable impositiononthemany Diplomat ade the building, according to club was told soldiers would block majesté lawwascanceledafterthe on thecountry’s controversialLèse- Thailand. A June17paneldiscussion the ForeignCorrespondentsClubof banned tworecenteventsplannedby sure wedo.” ington Post better,” Sennott wrote in plement them. “We can definitely do tions hadalotofworktodoim the government and media organiza ingly ofthemeasuresbutsaidboth Press freedom continues to de Thailand’s rulingjuntahas magazine. “Thisisanun Wagdy Khaled , “andnowwehavetobe The Huff , newspa OPC The The Bulletin ------

Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images v official statements. terrorist operations that contradicts about convicted ofpublishingnews of twoyearsinprisononjournalists bill thatwouldimposeaminimum has alsoannouncedananti-terrorism is bannedinEgypt. The government and workingfor Al-Jazeera, which cused ofspreading false information reports; thelatter three werealsoac news to according Brotherhood, lim being members ofthebannedMus in early July. All were charged with nalist Shaab el-Jadeed,andfreelance jour of theoppositionnewswebsiteEl- photojournalist per correspondent 2014. Alemu still faces one charge before; theywerearrested in April lem Kibret gers and giorgis tional. Editor according to PublicRadioInterna captivity, in years four after 9 July umnist Col Obama. Barack President U.S. journalists on theeve of avisit from its allies. ing onallegedabusesbyRussiaand vaya Gazeta Ukraine and the United States. out accreditation, and spyingfor in separatist-controlled areas with him ofusingillegal drugs, working accused captors his says He offices. front of the separatist movement’s after hecovered a rarepeace rally in cuffed andinterrogated him the day Donetsk People’s Republic hand resentatives of the self-proclaimed Free Europe/RadioLibertythatrep ern Ukraine.KanygintoldRadio Russian-backed separatists in east detained, beaten and expelled by spondent •July/August 2015 •Page9 Novaya Gazeta Ethiopia has released six jailed Tesfalem Waldyes Mahlet Fantahun Sherif Ashraf , freelancers Edom Kassaye Reeyot Alemu Pavel Kanygin were released the day isknownforitsreport Asmamaw Haile (Continued onPage 10) Hamdy Mokhtar Mohamed Adly wereallarrested special corre was freed on , andblog n Z and hasbeen ela No ------, under the country’s sweeping anti- for the daily newspaper Cumhuriyet. ● Freelance journalist Jagen- terrorism law, while all charges have The man who masterminded the dra Singh died on June 8, a week been dropped against the rest. “I’m killing of Colombian journalist Or- after being attacked in his home in hoping this might be a page turner in lando Sierra Hernández has been the northern Indian state of Uttar Ethiopia’s poor track record on press sentenced to 36 years in prison in a Pradesh. Singh told a police official freedom,” Tom Rhodes of the Com- case hailed as a landmark by press that strongmen and police officers mittee to Protect Journalists told the freedom advocates. Francisco Fer- aligned with a local dairy minister radio network. However, 12 journal- ney Tapasco González, a former had carried out the assault, according ists facing similar charges remained president of the Liberal Party in Cal- to The New York Times. The veteran jailed. das province, was convicted on June journalist had written several Face- 24; brothers Fabio and Jorge Her- book posts accusing the minister of Sri Lanka President Maithripala nando López Escobar also received involvement in illegal sand mining. 28-year sentences for their involve- Sirisena has revived the country’s The Committee to Protect Journal- ment in the murder. The case was “a Press Council, giving the govern- ists has called for an independent in- ment wide-ranging power over me- symbol of the fight against impu- quiry into the murder. “Given the al- dia outlets – including the ability to nity in Colombia,” writes the Inter legations of police participation, and jail journalists for their reporting. American Press Association. Sierra India’s poor track record of solving The move immediately drew fire Hernández, who frequently wrote crimes in connection with reporting from press freedom advocates, in- about corruption in the local govern- cluding Reporters Without Borders. ment, was shot by a hitman in front on local corruption, the involvement The council was dissolved in Janu- of his daughter in January 2002. He of an independent authority is essen- ary 2015 when Sirisena won office was deputy editor of the Manizales tial,” CPJ research associate Sumit on a platform that included support newspaper La Patria. Journalists Galhotra said in a statement. for press freedom. and advocates campaigned for years to keep the case in the public eye. ● Media organizations are de- Ninety percent of journalist murders manding investigations into the in Colombia go unpunished, accord- deaths of three journalists in Mexico. ing to the CPJ. Radio journalist Filadelfo Sanchez Sarmiento was fatally shot out- MURDERS side the La Favorita 103.3 FM sta- ● Reporter Sandeep Kothari tion in Miahuatlan de Porfirio Diaz was abducted in Madhya Pradesh, in the southern state of Oaxaca on India on June 19 while riding on a

Buddhika Weerasinghe/Getty Images Buddhika Weerasinghe/Getty July 2. Sanchez had reported receiv- Sri Lanka President Maithripala motorbike with a friend, according ing death threats during elections in Sirisena prepares to take the oath of to India’s Frontline magazine. His June. The same day, Juan Mendoza office in January this year. burned body was found near train Delgado, a news website editor in tracks in neighboring Maharashtra Medellín de Bravo, Veracruz, was state two days later. Several people run down by a car. And on June 26, Turkish journalist Canan have been arrested in connection newspaper editor Gerardo Nieto Coşkun faces up to 23 years and with the murder. Kothari was a Alvarez was found with his throat four months in prison for allegedly freelance reporter who had written cut in Comonfort, in the central insulting government officials, the extensively about illegal sand min- state of Guanajuato. “We call on the Committee to Protect Journalists ing in the region. “The employment reports. Coşkun’s lawyer, Bülent conditions in the illegal mining sites Oaxaca, Veracruz and Guanajuato Utku, told the CPJ that prosecutors are pathetic; it is nothing but bonded authorities to ensure that impartial, launched a criminal investigation labour,” Frontline quoted an un- independent and thorough investiga- into Coşkun on the day she pub- named senior journalist in the area tions are carried out and that those lished an article alleging that Is- as saying. “Anyone who raises his responsible for these despicable tanbul judges and prosecutors had voice meets the most brutal treat- crimes are arrested,” said Reporters enjoyed sweetheart deals on luxury ment. Journalists, too, fear for their Without Borders programme direc- real estate. The indictment issued on lives and hardly write about it, de- tor Lucie Morillon. Morillon also June 22 accuses the reporter of “in- spite it being common knowledge. urged authorities to make sure inves- sulting civil servants over their pro- Kothari was one of the few who tigators didn’t rule out a link to the fessional duties,” according to local consistently wrote about the illegal victim’s journalistic work from the news organizations. Coşkun writes mining activities.” start of the investigation.

OPC Bulletin • July/August 2015 • Page 10 Meet the OPC Members: Q&A With Jonathan Kapstein By Trish Anderton Jonathan Kapstein is the president of the Press Club Brussels Europe, and a longtime business journalist. He has served as Business Week (now Bloomberg Business- week) regional bureau chief in Rio de Janeiro, Toronto, Milan, Johannesburg and Brussels. Over the course of his career he has, in his own words, “interviewed indig- enous dissidents in Peru, canoed upriver to Japanese pep- per plantations deep in the Amazon, watched not a few US companies self-destruct through stupidity, observed oil crews and Eskimo artists in the High Arctic, shared tastes in reading with Pierre Trudeau, observed clashes

between Cold War surrogates in Africa, traveled with oth- Courtesy of Jonathan Kapstein er journalists in chartered planes flying below the arming Jonathan Kapstein moderating a Press Club Brussels altitude of SAM missiles, dined in Ethiopia with my so- Europe panel with visiting officials from Beijing and the licitous host personally feeding spiced raw meat and hep- PRC Mission at the EU. atitis into my mouth” … and much more. In recent years Kapstein has freelanced as a foreign correspondent while tional Press Association started in Brussels in 1975 and working in government affairs and communications in still exists to facilitate relations with the EU institutions. the chemical and airline industries. Kapstein has won an But with several hundred foreign journalists here, there OPC award for Best Reporting from Latin America and was also a need for a more social, more open venue that has shared two other OPC citations for his work. He lives could provide press conferences, briefings, and a place to in Brussels. meet broader professional requirements. Thus, the Press Club Brussels Europe, which was founded five years ago. Hometown: Providence, RI. Best journalism advice received: Always travel with a Education: BA Brown University, MS Columbia School flashlight, a jackknife, toilet paper, and cash. of Journalism, International Reporting Fellowship, also at Columbia. Worst experience as a journalist: The time a toilet ex- ploded on a Caravelle aircraft flown by Cruzeiro do Sul Languages: My McGraw-Hill World News colleague airline. Fortunately I was out of range. Also, many other in Brussels once described me as someone who knew 20 third world airline events. languages – but only 200 words in each. Not quite true, but, hey, close… When traveling, you like to … read to relax. First job in journalism: Providence Journal, then Hous- Hardest story: Trying to write a cover story on a Swed- ton Chronicle. ish CEO while down with pneumonia. Countries reported from: Vietnam (very briefly), all the Journalism heroes: Many. ones in South America, some Central American, Canada, Italy and several neighboring states, the sub-Saharan Af- Advice for journalists who want to work overseas: Get rican nations, the Benelux countries, the Nordic bloc. a sponsor and go to the action, write and write to build a freelance portfolio, and, above all, be lucky. Year you joined the OPC: 1969 but with an interruption. Dropped membership while in the corporate world. Dream job: Done it. What drew you to business reporting? Good ques- Favorite quote: The coda for my journalism career came tion. I had become more and more convinced that eco- one day when a Central Banker looked at me thoughtful- nomics was driving politics in the post-modern world. At ly over an invitational farewell drink in his office. “You the same time I was always fascinated by international know, Jon,” he said, “you write with even-handed mal- affairs. Put together it became international economic- ice.” Not a bad compliment for a journalist, I think. politics, and Lew Young’s remake of Business Week was Place you’re most eager to visit: Egypt, India…. an open door. Country you most want to return to: All. You’ve gone from business reporter to working in the business world. How do the two compare? See my bio Twitter handle: None. I am experimenting with staying for the answer to that one. away from social media. The Press Club Brussels Europe launched in 2011. Want to add to the OPC’s collection of Q&As with mem- How did it get started? What is its focus? The Interna- bers? Please contact [email protected].

OPC Bulletin • July/August 2015 • Page 11 cleaning a machine gun while listen- ian Turned Double Agent [Simon & New Books ing to music on an iPod, or racing a Schuster], is the story of the three WAR PHOTOGRAPHY wounded Afghan National Army sol- years he spent trying to entrap the DOUBLE ROW OF SOLD- dier to the hospital. Russian spy and prove his abilities as A iers bends down on one knee, A photo of Air Force a double agent. heads bowed in prayer for a fall- service members around Jamali wanted to been comrade. A small Afghan boy a fire pit is especially poi- come a Navy intelligence dressed in white clutches the hand gnant. It’s an intimate, officer, but was told he of a US soldier in bulky battle cam- even happy moment, as didn’t have enough expe- ouflage, who towers over him. A fe- members of the 838th Air rience. Conveniently, his male captain reclines against a small Expeditionary Advisory parents just happened to mountain of gear, waiting for the Group swap stories late be in regular contact with next flight out of Bagram. into the night. But we see Russian agents already. In Afghanistan: On The Bounce them from a distance, sur- They owned a shop in [Insight Editions, 2014], photogra- rounded by a melancholy pher Robert L. Cunningham and au- darkness, with a strip New York specializing thor Steven Hartov portray the work- of barbed wire slicing through the in hard-to-get books and ing lives of U.S. soldiers in the field. space above their heads. A sense of documents, and for years they’d been While Cunningham’s lens captures loneliness and hidden threats lingers giving the FBI information about the moments of high emotion, such as over the scene. materials ordered by a series of Rus- the memorial ser- Another photo sian customers. Jamali called the FBI vice for an Army shows a beautiful and persuaded them to let him take sergeant, it also Afghan landscape the operation further. He set out to shows the day-to- of green fields, capture his parent’s latest Russian day effort involved with the sun set- buyer, a taciturn middle-aged guy with keeping a ting behind dis- named Oleg. military force fed, tant mountains. Getting close to Oleg involves clothed, and on the In the foreground more dinners at suburban strip malls move. we see a row of than high-tech Bourne hijinks. But Cunningham gleaming bullets Jamali does eventually get to record has logged 132 and the barrel of a some meetings on an FBI-supplied missions as an em- gun – all pointing watch, and is given the cool code bedded photographer with troops in toward the countryside and ready to name “Green Kryptonite.” (He loves Afghanistan. His photos take us into shatter the peace. Green Kryptonite so much he gets the lives of soldiers, whether they’re Veterans have praised Afghani- it tattooed on him arm – in Morse stan: On the Bounce as a realistic code.) Along the way, the FBI pro- reflection of life on duty. It’s an un- vides him with some useful advice, usually close look at America’s lon- such as “Under no circumstances are gest war. you to get into a drinking competi- tion with Oleg.” TRADECRAFT Upcoming Events AVEED JAMAIL LEARNED When the operation reaches its Nthe tricks of the espionage trade critical moment, it’s at a Hooters the way the rest of us do: by watch- in Wayne, New Jersey – and a last- Annual Election ing Miami Vice, Magnum PI and the minute twist puts the whole carefully Deadline: Bourne movies. But after the Sept. arranged bust in jeopardy. If this is starting to sound like a Hollywood Noon, Aug. 24 11 attacks he somehow convinced both the FBI and a Russian intelli- movie, it could be soon. 20th-Centu- gence agent to trust him. His book, ry Fox is reportedly coming out with How to Catch a Russian Spy: The the film adaptation in 2017. True Story of an American Civil- — By Trish Anderton Annual Meeting WELCOME TO OUR NEW MEMBERS Open to all members Kim Gittleson Thalia Beaty 6 p.m. Aug. 25 BBC/Knight Bagehot Fellow Freelance Columbia University Active Resident, 29 and under Active Resident 29, and under

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