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Awards Relay a Relentless Drive for the Story EVENT RECAP: APRIL 25 by Aimee Vitrak the OPC Honored the Best in In- Ternational Reporting from 2011 on April 25 THE MONTHLY NEWSLETTER OF THE OVERSEAS PRESS CLUB OF AMERICA, NEW YORK, NY • MAY 2012 Awards Relay a Relentless Drive for the Story EVENT RECAP: APRIL 25 by Aimee Vitrak The OPC honored the best in in- ternational reporting from 2011 on April 25. Guests gathered at the pre- party sponsored by Lenovo on the 35th floor at the Mandarin Oriental in New York and circulated among the two bars along the panoramic window that overlooks Central Park. The second bar was new this year Michael Dames and tripled the ordering areas for a Ted Turner addresses the audience upon receiving the President’s Award. crowd that bore witness in the past year to the Arab Spring, a trio of ners had a daunting task as there was series and a segment on Colombia disasters in Japan and far too many a near-record of 520 entries with a from that series with The Edward deaths among its ranks. majority of entries featuring words R. Murrow Award and The Robert Bells soon rang to usher guests and images from the uprisings in Spiers Benjamin Award to Thirteen/ into the ballroom where OPC Presi- Arab Spring and the earthquake, WNET and Fork Films for its “War, dent David A. Andelmen welcomed tsunami and nuclear disasters in Ja- Women and Peace,” which looked everyone and introduced this year’s pan. This year the judges awarded a (Continued on Page 6) dinner co-chair Sir Harold Evans. Evans spoke about the ever-urgent need for vigilance in journalism Obama’s War on Leaks Imperils Freedom against a backdrop of incredible EVENT RECAP: MAY 1 in Washington D.C., featured James events throughout the world and the Risen of The New York Times, who dangers involved to cover them. by Tom Squitieri and Larry Martz has repeatedly been subpoenaed to As dessert was being served, The Obama Administration is the testify against an accused leaker; awards chairman and OPC Second most aggressive in history in purs- James Bamford, author of The Puzzle Vice President Michael Serrill said ing those who leak key information Palace, the authoritative book about that the 88 judges who selected win- to reporters — even if that material the National Security Agency; and is not as “top secret” as the White Matthew Miller, who served as the Inside. House contends, an OPC panel of Justice Department’s public affairs two distinguished writers and a for- director for the Administration’s first OPC President’s Letter.....................2 mer Justice Department spokesman two years. They were joined by a agreed in a dramatic discussion of cantankerous audience. OPC Award Winners.......................3 the crusade against leaks of gov- All the panelists agreed with Ris- Award Photos & Party Recaps.....4-6 ernment secrets. But the result is a en’s observation that “we can’t have threat to America’s First Amendment a democracy without aggressive re- People Column...........................7-13 rights, the writers warned. porting.” They also agreed that the The OPC joined with the Na- system of classifying documents as Mike Wallace Remembered...........13 tional Press Club for the first time “secret” or “top secret” was haphaz- Journalist Medic Training Camp....15 to sponsor the event. The discussion, ard, dated and ineffective. moderated by OPC president David Miller, at the Justice Department New Books....................................16 Andelman at the NPC headquarters (Continued on Page 14) President’s Letter LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — 80 degrees this morning en route to 103, sunny with no sandstorms on the hori- zon, just another day in Paradise. My first stop with the Gatekeeper Editors of the International Reporting Proj- ect after our overwhelming OPC Awards gala, a sharp blow on my arrival here was news that one of our OPC members, Melissa K. Chan, Beijing bureau chief of Al Jazeera English, had been expelled from China. Accord- ing to Al Jazeera, the Chinese government expressed Michael Dames “unhappiness” with the general editorial content on Al Jazeera-English and her participation on a documentary OPC President David A. Andelman, that the channel reports she did not work on. Chan was called the 2012 Awards Dinner to order. the first western journalist to be expelled since Juergen be more gratifying to someone, like myself, who’s been Kremb of Der Spiegel in 1998, which suggests how far committed to the craft for nearly four decades. the party leadership will go to silence dissent and intimi- My term as OPC President is drawing to a close and date the media. Yet such moves hardly silence any of us. while I have so many priorities still left, I believe we’ve Indeed, Kremb is still monitoring China and Asia from already had many successes like the campaigns for press his post in Singapore. freedom, rewarding unparalleled accomplishment in an Perhaps the most moving tribute to the best among us ever-growing list of categories to include more online comes from Peter Osnos, himself a brilliant foreign cor- media with the OPC awards, mourning and commemo- respondent turned book publisher, whose son Evan was rating all too many among us who have fallen in the pur- a winner this year. Writing in The Atlantic Online, Peter suit of knowledge, understanding and excellence. Still, it observed: “Sitting in the audience as each recipient came has been a privilege to lead, even for the narrowest slice forward and as their work was described, I grew im- of its history, an organization approaching its 75th an- pressed with the range and quality of the stories honored niversary of celebrating the best and supporting all of us and with how many organizations were represented.” who chronicle the world in all its amazing variety. In these perilous times, this says it all. There’s a bak- ers dozen of us along on this two-week trip to Saudi Ara- bia, including OPC Third Vice President Arlene Getz, and each represents a news organization that maintains a commitment to news and commentary. Nothing could David A. Andelman OVERSEAS PRESS CLUB OF AMERICA • BOARD OF GOVERNORS PRESIDENT SECRETARY Tim Ferguson Toni Reinhold ASSOCIATE BOARD PAST PRESIDENTS David A. Andelman Jane Ciabattari Editor Editor in Charge, MEMBERS EX-OFFICIO Editor Author/Journalist Forbes Asia New York Desk Bill Collins John Corporon World Policy Journal Reuters Director, Public & Allan Dodds Frank ACTIVE BOARD Chrystia Freeland Business Affairs Alexis Gelber FIRST VICE PRESIDENT Ron Allen Global Editor-at-Large Tom Squitieri Ford Motor Company William J. Holstein Marcus Mabry Correspondent Thomson Reuters Freelance Journalist Marshall Loeb Editor at Large NBC News Emma Daly Larry Martz International Herald Tribune Evelyn Leopold Gillian Tett Communications Roy Rowan Rebecca Independent Journalist U.S. Managing Editor Director Leonard Saffir SECOND VICE PRESIDENT Blumenstein United Nations Financial Times Human Rights Watch Larry Smith Michael Serrill Page One Editor Richard B. Stolley Assistant Managing Editor The Wall Street Journal Santiago Lyon Seymour Topping Sarah Lubman Bloomberg Markets Director of Emeritus Partner EXECUTIVE Paul Brandus Photography Professor of Brunswick Group DIRECTOR THIRD VICE PRESIDENT West Wing Report Associated Pess International Sonya K. Fry Arlene Getz Journalism Abi Wright Editor-in-Charge, Media Jonathan Dahl John Martin Columbia University Director EDITOR Thomson Reuters Editor-in-Chief Writer/Editor Alfred I. duPont- Aimee Vitrak Smart Money Joel Whitney Columbia University TREASURER Abigail Pesta Editor Awards OPC Jacqueline Albert- Adam B. Ellick Editorial Director Guernica ISSN-0738-7202 Simon Video and Print Journalist Women in the World Copyright © 2002 U. S. Bureau Chief The New York Times Over seas Press Club of Politique Internationale America 40 West 45 Street, New York, NY 10036 USA • Phone: (212) 626-9220 • Fax: (212) 626-9210 • Website: opcofamerica.org OPC Bulletin • MAY 2012 • Page 2 2011 Awards and Winners HAL BOYLE AWARD Loren Jenkins, Douglas CARL SPIELVOGEL AWARD Jennifer Janisch, Lena Best newspaper or news Roberts, Jonathan Blakely, Best international business Shemel, Juan Carlos service reporting from abroad Sean Carberry, Grant news reporting in the broadcast Thirteen/WNET and Fork C.J. Chivers Clarke, Nishant Dahiya, J.J. media or online Films The New York Times Sutherland Christof Putzel, Jeff Plunkett, “The War We Are Living” from “War Reports from Libya and National Public Radio Alex Simmons “Women, War & Peace” Afghanistan” “Arab Spring” Current TV “Sex, Lies and Cigarettes” GENERAL EXCELLENCE BOB CONSIDINE AWARD DAVID KAPLAN AWARD ONLINE AWARD Best newspaper or news service Best TV spot news reporting CORNELIUS RYAN AWARD Best overall international interpretation of international from abroad Best non-fiction book on coverage on a website affairs Christiane Amanpour, Katie international affairs Staff of Foreign Policy Marcus Walker, Charles Hinman, Bartley Price, Nasser Robin Wright foreignpolicy.com Forelle, Matthew Atta, Jeanmarie Condon Simon & Schuster Karnitschnig, David Enrich, ABC News Rock the Casbah: Rage and BEST ONLINE COVERAGE Stacy Meichtry, Brian “Arab Spring – Cairo to Tripoli” Rebellion Across the Islamic OF BREAKING NEWS Blackstone, David Gauthier- World Best online coverage, including Villars, Gordon Fairclough EDWARD R. MURROW Tweets, throughout a 72 hour The Wall Street Journal AWARD MADELINE DANE ROSS period of a breaking news event “European Disunion” Best TV interpretation or AWARD GlobalPost Staff documentary on international Best international reporting in “The Libyan Rebellion” ROBERT CAPA GOLD MEDAL affairs the print medium showing a AWARD Abigail E. Disney, Pamela concern for the human condition BEST USE OF ONLINE Best published photographic Hogan, Gini Reticker, Nina Andrew Higgins and Aaron MULTIMEDIA reporting from abroad requiring Chaudry, Peter Bull, Harlan Best use of interactive graphics exceptional courage and Claudia Rizzi, Oriana Zill de The Washington Post to report on international news enterprise Granados, Johanna Hamilton “Disaster in Japan” CFR.org and MediaStorm André Liohn Thirteen/WNET and Fork Films Council on Foreign Relations European Pressphoto Agency, “Women, War & Peace” DAVID A.
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