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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 , a trio of ners had a daunting task as there was series and a segment on disasters in 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 and the Risen of , 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, — 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, bureau chief of English, had been expelled from . 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 from already had many successes like the campaigns for press his post in . 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 , 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 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 Human Rights Watch Larry Smith Michael Serrill Page One Editor Richard B. Stolley Assistant Managing Editor 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 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 Over­seas 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 , Jeff Plunkett, “The War We Are Living” from “War Reports from and National Public Radio Alex Simmons “Women, War & Peace” ” “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 , 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 – 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 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. ANDELMAN and “Crisis Guide: ” Prospekt Photographers for PAMELA TITLE AWARD Newsweek ED CUNNINGHAM AWARD Best reporting in the broadcast BEST ONLINE “Almost Dawn in Libya” Best magazine reporting from media and online showing INVESTIGATION OF AN abroad concern for the human condition INTERNATIONAL ISSUE OR OLIVIER REBBOT AWARD Charles Graeber Diane Sawyer, Dr. Richard EVENT Best photographic reporting Bloomberg Businessweek Besser, John Quinones, Best reporting that provides new from abroad in magazines or “Nothing To Do But Start Again” Deborah Roberts insights into an event or trend of books Jessica Velmans, Kerry Smith international significance David Guttenfelder THOMAS NAST AWARD ABC News Vanessa Houlder, Megan The for Best cartoons on international “Giving Life: A Risky Murphy, Benjamin Freese, National Geographic affairs Proposition” Johanna Kassel, Christine “The Zone” Patrick Chappatte Spolar (Financial Times); International Herald Tribune JOE and LAURIE DINE Jeff Gerth and Tom Detzel JOHN FABER AWARD AWARD (ProPublica) Best photographic reporting MORTON FRANK AWARD Best international reporting in Financial Times and from abroad in newspapers or Best international business any medium dealing with human ProPublica news services reporting in magazines rights “Tax Wars: A Cross-Border Pete Muller Daniel Golden Sarah Stillman Battle Worth Billions” The Associated Press Bloomberg Businessweek “Battling Impunity: The Fight “New Oriental Cracks the SAT “The Invisible Army” BEST USE OF ONLINE VIDEO Against Mass Rape in Eastern Code” Excellence in original video on Congo” WHITMAN BASSOW AWARD an international topic created MALCOLM FORBES AWARD Best reporting in any medium specifically for a news website FEATURE PHOTOGRAPHY Best international business on international environmental Maisie Crow and Jesse Dukes AWARD reporting in newspapers or issues Virginia Quarterly Review Best feature photography news services “Half-Lives: The Chernobyl published in any medium on an Paul Sonne, Steve Stecklow, The New Yorker Workers Today” international theme Farnaz Fassihi, Margaret “The Fallout” David Guttenfelder Coker, Loretta Chao, BEST ONLINE COMMENTARY The Associated Press Christopher Rhoads, Matt ROBERT SPIERS BENJAMIN Best international affairs “Inside a Closed Society: Daily Bradley, Jennifer Valentino- AWARD commentary or blog Life in ” DeVries, Nour Malas, Don Best reporting in any medium Nicholas D. Kristof, Adam B. Clark on Latin America Ellick, Sean Patrick Farrell, LOWELL THOMAS AWARD The Wall Street Journal Pamela Hogan, Abigail E. Jaron Gilinsky Best radio news or interpretation “Censorship Inc.” Disney, Gini Reticker, Nina The New York Times of international affairs Chaudry, Oriana Zill de “A Year Through a Lourdes Garcia-Navarro, Granados, Kristen Huntley, Kaleidoscope: The Arab Spring”

OPC Bulletin • MAY 2012 • Page 3 Pre-Party Kicks Off a Night of Accolades Photos by Michael Dames PRE-PARTY SPONSORED BY LENOVO by Susan Kille Conversation, anticipation and a few hundred well-dressed people filled the double-height, win- dow-walled space overlooking Central Park on the 35th floor of the Mandarin Oriental at the cocktail re- ception before OPC’s Annual Awards Dinner. “For an industry that is supposedly dying, this crowd looks pretty good,” said Rosalind Massow, who has attended many of these evenings. Felice Levin, Massow’s fellow OPC Foundation board member, said she prefers the opening reception to the event that follows the dinner. Why? The night is young and “people are lively and ready to party,” she said. To many, the Awards Dinner prelude is familiar. Talk and drinks flow. It’s a time to greet and catch up with friends, colleagues and competitors, including some who traveled a great distance to attend. Even if you don’t know someone, you may recognize their name and find people or places in common. Some, however, came with new eyes. Teri Whitcraft, a senior producer for ABC News, had a supply of business cards and no trouble walk- ing up to strangers. She said she was thrilled to be at Former OPC President Allan Dodds Frank, far left, her first OPC event, especially since she and her col- and Patricia Baptiste between OPC members leagues were there to celebrate winning the David A. Charlie Sennott and Calvin Sims. Andelman and Pamela Title Award with “Giving Life: A Risky Proposition.” Daniel Goldman, an editor-at-large for Bloom- berg Businessweek, stood at an edge of the crowd, watching. He had won the Morton Frank Award for “New Oriental Cracks the SAT Code.” He described his story and said he wasn’t sure what to expect from the night, and then he spotted his wife and was off. Lenovo created personalized tributes to winners by printing their text and photos on large cubes that punctuated the room. Lenova, a first-time supporter of the OPC, also had a patron table at the dinner and Seymour Topping, left, and Ted Turner with Sally Ranney. gave each winner a U300 IdeaPad.

Former OPC President Alexis Gelber and From left, OPC Board Member and AP photo editor her husband Mark Whitaker of CNN. Santiago Lyon and Aidan Sullivan of Getty Images.

OPC Bulletin • MAY 2012 • Page 4 A Toast to the Winners and Colleagues After the Dinner AFTER- PARTY SPONSORED BY REUTERS The “Meet the Winners” after-party sponsored by Thomson Reuters was a huge success with people spilling out of the Ballroom after the Awards Dinner. Many stayed to see old friends and colleagues and to have one more beverage (read champagne). The tab was entirely on Thomson Reuters who served drinks to a still-thirsty crowd until the wee hours of the morn- ing. The company also set up a loop of their photogra- phers best work from 2011 presented on a large-screen television monitor. After the pre-party, dinner and acceptance speech- Guests enjoying the OPC after party. es, it was time for people to let their hair down, or in the case of many of the women, kick off those heels. You could hear the sigh of relief from Charles Grae- ber, a contributor to Bloomberg Businessweek, who said he was enjoying the after-party because he no lon- ger had to be nervous about what he was going to say on stage when he accepted the Ed Cunningham Award for “Nothing To Do But Start Over Again.” Graeber said he believes many writers have stage fright. Off to the side of the room, OPC interns Rixey Browning and Marissa Miller (who live Tweeted the event, #opcofamerica) gave party goers an overview of the OPC’s latest website, opcglobalparachute.org, on André Liohn celebrates his win with a friend. display by Lenovo’s latest desktop computer. Across the room, Lenovo distributed its laptop to award win- ners. The laptops came in cardboard carrying cases that alerted party-goers as to who the winners were.

From left, Bob Dowling and OPC Second Vice President Former OPC Presidents Larry Martz, left, and dinner and Awards Chairman Michael Serrill. Co-Chairman Bill Holstein flank Rita Sevell.

Global Parachute team from left: Allan Dodds Frank, Calvin From left: Gordon Crovitz, Daniele Knowles and OPC Sims, Marjorie Baptiste, Aimee Vitrak and Susan Kille. Board Member and Dateline Editor Tim Ferguson.

OPC Bulletin • MAY 2012 • Page 5 OPC Awards Dinner: Continued From Page 1 at the role of women in six conflicts around the globe. Also unusual was a photographer winning two awards and one citation for different works: Associated Press photographer David Guttenfelder took home The Olivier Rebbot Award for photos taken in Japan in its closed-off nuclear exclusion zone, the Feature Photography Award for photographs of daily life in North Korea, and a John Faber Award citation for Japan earthquake and tsunami aftermath photos. C.J. Chivers accepted the Hal Boyle Award for war Photos: Michael Dames reporting from Libya and Afghanistan for The New York Times. He relayed a story when he and photographer Dinner co-chairman Sir Harold Evans. Tyler Hicks were leaving Afghanistan and were trading off coverage with Joao Silva. They had said their good- byes and he headed home for a brief visit with his wife and five children. He was driving between sports events with his four-year-old son and received news that Silva stepped on a landmine and lost both legs. He pulled the car over and exhaled, his son had only heard half of the phone coversations and asked, “how is Joao? What can we do? What did your friend step on?” As if what Silva had stepped on were something as ordinary as a “bottle cap.” His son came to understand the very real dangers associated with what Chivers does for a living and on a subsequent visit home asked, “how come you don’t Joao Silva, who received a standing ovation when he get hurt?” Chivers said, “It’s an acute embarrassment to took the stage, lit the candle of honor. win an award with just your name on it. We don’t do any of this alone. Every step I make is made in consultation with photographers, editors. This award is a reflection of something much larger than me.” Seconding the dangers of being a journalist was the Robert Capa Gold Medal Award winner André Liohn for photos from the besieged Libyan city of Misrata. He said that one year ago he was in Misrata with Marie Col- vin and they had shared a near-death experience. “I’m lucky,” she said and quickly changed the subject with Awards presenters from left: Lester Holt “Let’s do pasta!” She later asked him how old he was, and Alison Smale and he said, 35, almost 40, which drew laughter from the crowd. “There is no other way for people like us,” she said. incredibly funny, telling two stories about his time at Christiane Amanpour and her ABC News team won CNN and delivering a playful jab at . the David Kaplan Award for spot news reporting for When the government was deciding which network Arab Spring, which was the first OPC Award for veteran would have access to cover the first Gulf War, it chose journalist Amanpour. She relayed a story about how she CNN. “We didn’t do anything to compromise our prin- and Marie Colvin were the last journalists to interview ciples to do it,” he said. “Unlike Murdoch, I’m not being Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi. “It’s not often that people get indicted for anything. I never have been, and never will.” interviews together and agree to share and we did it and Turner ended his speech with a rallying cry of sup- we sat together and we were very happy to do it,” she port to guests. “Of all the things I’ve done in my life -- said. “We were two jorunalists getting a great scoop and I’ve won the World Series, won America’s Cup and been not being jealous or possessive about it.” She said the sportsman and yachts and philanthropist of the year -- cash prize for the award will be donated to The Marie the thing I love the most and still love most is journalism. Colvin Center for International Reporting at Stonybrook. In my heart, I’m with you. God bless you all.” Ted Turner was this year’s OPC President’s Award For photos of the parties and winners and videos recipient. He delivered a speech that was unscripted and of speeches, go to opcofamerica.org.

OPC Bulletin • MAY 2012 • Page 6 PEOPLE...

The People column was written by of the Russian-language weekly in April for “The Accidental Sex Of- Susan Kille. For news tips, e-mail Realny and the Azeri- fender,” a report she wrote for Ma- [email protected]. language daily Gündalik Azarbay- rie Claire about a man placed on the can, was jailed in 2007 on charges of Texas sex-offender registry for hav- OPC SCHOLARS defamation and . In 2009, ing sex with his high-school sweet- Hannah Rappleye and while imprisoned, he won the Am- heart. The piece won third-place for Laura Rena Murray, 2011 OPC nesty International Media Award magazine reporting in the National Foundation scholars, were finalists for Journalism Under Threat and the Headliner Awards and a PASS Award in the student division of the 2011 CPJ’s International Press Freedom from the National Council on Crime Investigative Reporters and Editors Award. The European Court of Hu- and Delinquency. It is a finalist for Awards. Rappleye was recognized man Rights ruled in 2010 he should magazine investigative reporting in along with other CUNY Graduate be released, which he was last year. the Deadline Club Awards, which School of Journalism students for will be announced June 4. their investigation of a Massachusetts Sophia Tewa, who helped edit school that uses electroshock Dateline magazine, won Best Doc- therapy, among other treatments, umentary in the Winter 2012 Los and relies on public funds. Murray’s Angeles Cinema Festival for “The article, The High Price of Looking People the Rain Forgot,” which ex- Like a Woman, ran in The New York amines climate Times and covered the transgender change in the ag- community’s use of illegal silicone ricultural areas of injections. The awards, given Eskinder Nega northern . since 1979, recognize outstanding She has worked watchdog journalism. Eskinder Nega, an imprisoned with CNN and Reports for and Ethiopian journalist and blogger, CBS and teaches on by , a 2006 was honored May 1 with the PEN/ multimedia pro- OPC Foundation scholar, was named Barbara Goldsmith Freedom to Write duction at the Sophia Tewa one of the all-time top 50 news stories Award. Nega was arrested in 2011 Meridian, Lehm- produced by Columbia Journalism under sweeping anti-terrorism laws, an College’s student news site. School graduates. The list, which which PEN says criminalize any re- IPI announced the 14 winners of is to grow to 100 stories, is part of porting deemed to “encourage” or its 2012 News Innovation Contest, the school’s Centennial Celebration. “provide moral support” to causes sponsored by Google which provid- Rageh was in Cairo’s the government terms “terrorist.” ed more than $1.7 million to enhance for the dramatic protests that toppled He was found guilty January 23 and online journalism and innovation via and marked the could be sentenced to death. In April, news platforms and training across historic bloom of the Arab Spring. 20 journalists recognized as World , and the . Press Freedom Heroes by the Inter- The winners are: Mandara Media WINNERS national Press Institute condemned Foundation, digital media training Eynulla Fatullayev, a newspa- the imprisonment of Nega and other in Upper ; Media Trust, citizen per editor whose four-year impris- journalists on terrorism charges, and photojournalism in the United King- onment in Azerbaijan drew interna- called for their immediate release. dom; AFP Foundation, fact-checking tional notice, was named the 2012 His wife, Serkalem Fasil, a journal- websites in and training laureate of the UNESCO Guillermo ist who was jailed with her husband future journalists in fact-checking; Cano World Press Freedom Prize. in 2005, accepted the award. Nega Reporters for Interactive, Collab- The prize, awarded May 3 on World has been banned from journalism in orative and Specialized Information, Press Freedom Day, is given for but has continued to speak mobile reporting in ; IREX, work “defending or promoting free- out and write. workshops and how-to videos for dom of expression anywhere in the Abigail Pesta, an OPC member journalists in ; Meedan, col- world, especially if this action puts and editorial director of Women in laborative fact checking in the Mid- the individual’s life at risk.” Fatul- the World for Newsweek/The Daily dle East; The Poynter Institute, train- layev, who had been editor-in-chief Beast, won two journalism awards (Continued on Page 8)

OPC Bulletin • MAY 2012 • Page 7 (Continued From Page 7) KOTTE, Sri Lanka: ing in Egypt; Journalism++, news Magistrate’s hearings into platform in Cameroon; Medialynx, the January 2010 disap- stories behind the news in the Neth- pearance of opposition jour- erlands; Poverty Alleviation Net- nalist and cartoonist Pra- work & Self Dependence Initiative, geeth Eknelygoda continue new tools for storytelling in ; at what CPJ describes as “a Mediacentar Sarajevo, new media tortuously slow pace.” At an and data journalism in Bosnia and April 24 hearing, Eknelygo- The son of missing cartoonist Prageeth Herzegovina; Journalism Develop- da’s wife and teenage sons Eknelygoda at a rally in Colombo. ment Network/Organised Crime and pressed for information. The Corruption Reporting Project, visual family’s lawyer said he may investigative scenarios in Romania ask an appeals court to or- and Balkan countries; AWAN/Arab der former Attorney Gener- Media Consultants, digital journal- al Mohan Peiris to explain ism training boot camp in ; statements he made last No- and , peer-based fund- vember to the U.N. Commit- ing platform for storytellers in the tee Against Torture, saying . Eknelygoda had taken ref- uge in an unnamed foreign PRESS FREEDOM country and that his disap- pearance is a hoax. A cartoon of Eknelygoda’s was captioned: The weak hate democracy. member of the Foreign Correspon- of April. An Islamist group accused dents’ Club of China. Prothom Alo editor Matiur Rah- man of blasphemy, while Dainik NEW YORK: The Committee Shamokal editor Golam Sarwar to Protect Journalists on April 26 in- was threatened with death if he con- troduced online and electronic book tinues to cover an opposition party formats of the Journalist Security leader’s recent disappearance. in Beijing. Guide to guide reporters on how to reduce the dangers of reporting in MOGADISHU, : BEIJING: Melissa Chan, an hostile environments that can range Awke Abdullahi Ali, director of the OPC member and Al-Jazeera’s sole from “from sleepy small towns to in- Voice of Peace radio station, was re- English-language reporter in China, ternational war zones.” In the guide, leased April 28 by authorities of the was effectively expelled from China Danny O’Brien, CPJ’s Internet semi-autonomous region of Puntland on May 7 after officials denied a advocacy coordinator, and Frank after being held without charges for usually routine request to renew her Smyth, senior security consultant, 57 days. Fellow journalists said Ali journalist visa. China also refused discuss threats and outline steps to was freed because his health had to allow another correspondent to increase safety. Journalists including declined while in detention and that replace her, forcing Al-Jazerra to Sebastian Junger, as he left prison, he said he would close the China news operations of and Carolyn Cole also provided ad- never abandon his commitment as a its English-language channel. It was vice. Topics include digital informa- journalist. China’s first expulsion of an ac- tion, armed conflict, organized crime credited journalist since 1998 and and the risk of sexual violence. To ABUJA, Nigeria: Nine people the reasons were unclear. Chan has keep information current, CPJ also were killed April 26 in two bomb- returned to the where launched the Journalist Security ings targeting Nigerian newspapers. she will be a Knight Journalism Fel- Blog. Links to the guide and blog In Abuja, a suicide bomber killed low at Stanford for the 2012-13 aca- can be found on cpj.org. himself, four others and wounded demic year. dozens when he drove a jeep car- Chan, who had reported from DHAKA, : Re- rying explosives into the building China since 2007, won the 2001 Al- porters Without Borders (RSF) con- containing the printing press of This- exander Kendrick Scholarship from demned threats made against two Day, an influential, privately owned the OPC Foundation and is a board dailies over three days at the end newspaper. At the same time, a car

OPC Bulletin • MAY 2012 • Page 8 laden with explosives was stopped pean Union, which has expressed news, “it is altogether shocking that as it approached a building in Ka- concerns over the case. some 100 journalists are still being duna that houses the regional offices held in prison in Turkey.” The let- of ThisDay, The Moment and The URALSK, Kazakhstan: Five ter concluded: “As the events of the Daily Sun. One of the two men in men attacked reporter Lukpan Arab Spring have shown, the Inter- the car got out and detonated a bomb Akhmedyarov near his home April net and social media will get out the that killed at least four people and 17, stabbing him eight times. Akhm- news even when the formal press is wounded about 20 others. No jour- edyarov, who is known for his criti- muzzled.” nalists were killed in either attack. cal views of the authorities and par- ticipation in opposition campaigns, ABIDJAN, Côte d’Ivoire: WASHINGTON D.C.: Press had recently received threats warn- Demonstrations here and in Paris on freedom organizations welcomed ing him to halt his involvement in April 16 marked the eighth anniver- an executive order President Barack organizing antigovernment protests, sary of the abduction of Guy-André Obama signed on April 23 impos- said Tamara Yeslyamova, his editor Kieffer, a Franco-Canadian jour- ing new sanctions for providing the at Uralskaya Nedelya. nalist last seen at a shopping center Syrian and Iranian regimes with parking lot in Abidjan. RSF, which “information and communications has helped Kieffer’s family since the technology that facilitates computer 2004 disappearance, said: “The in- or network disruption, monitoring, vestigation is not progressing quick- or tracking that could assist in or en- ly enough and the changes since last able grave rights abuses.” ����������The��������� sanc- year have not met our expectations.” tions, which include financial penal- ties and bans on entering the United TEHRAN: Iranian officials in- States, addressed the use of mobile definitely suspended the press cre- phone tracking and Internet surveil- Idrak Abbasov in the hospital. dentials of Reuters’ entire staff in lance in and Iran to identify Iran on March 29 after a February dissidents, human right activists and , Azerbaijan: A reporter 16 video report characterized Iranian citizen journalists. who had just won an award for te- women trained in martial art as as- nacity was severely beaten by guards sassins. The video’s original title from the state-owned oil company “Thousands of female Ninjas train on April 17. He was using his cell as Iran’s assassins” was changed phone to film a dispute between lo- 10 days later and the video did not cal people and authorities while oil make the same assertion. “I didn’t company employees demolished see factual errors in the story,” Ste- houses on the outskirts of Baku. phen J. Adler, editor-in-chief of Idrak Abbasov was hospitalized in Reuters, told The New York Times. serious condition after being beaten “The headline was really bad, and... Petar Komnenic unconscious. Earlier in April, he won we changed it.” He said that the error an award from the Britain-based In- was not malicious. PODGORICA, Montenegro: dex on Censorship, in part to recog- Petar Komnenic was sentenced nize risks he has taken covering the April 18 to four months in prison illegal expropriation and demolition on a libel charge for reporting in of homes. 2007 that judges had been illegally placed under surveillance. He was NEW YORK: The OPC Freedom convicted in February 2011 and or- of the Press Committee described dered to pay a fine or be jailed for Turkey as the world’s leading jailer Reuters’ suspension came after four months. He appealed. A second of journalists in an April 17 letter to showing its video of women’s ruling changed the sentence to com- Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, the coun- martial-arts training in Iran. munity service but a higher court re- try’s prime minister. Jeremy Main instated the prison term. Komnenic and Larry Martz wrote that while NEW YORK: After Rogelio is an editor with Podgorica-based the end of the year-long detention of Paleaz, a Bolivian journalist who TV Vijesti and works as a stringer Ahmet Şık and Nedim Şener, win- wrote about government corrup- for RFE/RL and Reuters. Montene- ner of the 2010 IPI’s World Press tion, was sentenced in March to 30 gro is a candidate to join the Euro- Freedom Hero Award was good (Continued on Page 10)

OPC Bulletin • MAY 2012 • Page 9 (Continued From Page 9) Few Convictions, Little Justice for Murders months in jail for criminal defama- by Susan Kille Appalling stories about tion, the OPC Freedom of the Press journalists being killed appear Committee wrote Bolivian President each month in the Bulletin. The Evo Morales Aymain in protest. In Committee to Protect Journal- an April 3 letter, Marissa Miller ists made clear in April that the and Larry Martz called the charges horror continues beyond the “clearly unjustified.” They wrote: deaths when it updated its Im- “We also urge your government to punity Index, which calculates de-criminalize media defamation, unsolved journalist murders as Latin American states including as a percentage of a coun- Costa Rica, and try’s population. , Somalia and the have the CPJ’s Carlos Lauría met with Senator José have recently done.” González Morfín, right, to speak about the top three positions, with Iraq’s risks that Mexican journalists face before On March 28, the Freedom of rate more than double Soma- the Press Committee wrote Benja- the Mexican Senate voted, and approved, lia and Somalia’s twice that of a constitutional amendment that makes min Netanyahu, prime minister of the Philippines. Also on the list, attacks on the press a federal offense. , in support of Uri Blau, an Is- which covers nations with five raeli journalist who faces a possible or more unsolved cases between 2002 and 2011 are in order: Sri Lanka, sentence of seven years in prison for Colombia, , Afghanistan, , , , Brazil and , espionage. “From what we can learn, with Mexico and Pakistan moving higher this year. he revealed no secrets that might en- The Mexican Senate approved a constitutional amendment in March danger the state,” the letter states. that makes attacks on the press a federal offense, taking over jurisdiction “Rather, he published information from local authorities who have proven ineffective or corrupt or both in end- embarrassing to the Israeli Army, an ing widespread impunity for crimes against journalists. The amendment, which still must be ratified by states, drew a letter of support from OPC’s act that fits the classic function of a Freedom of the Press Committee. But in the same month, UNESCO’s 28th journalist: to reveal the facts about biennial session failed to endorse a plan to strengthen international efforts the government’s behavior, both to fight impunity after the proposal drew objections from three countries good and bad.” listed above — Pakistan, Brazil and India. On World Press Freedom Day on May 3, Reporters Without Borders MURDERS updated its Predators of Freedom of Information list and reported 21 jour- The body of Regina Martínez nalists and six netizens and citizen journalists were killed since the start Pérez, a Mexican journalist who of 2012. That is a pace of one death every six days. Netizens, meaning worked for the national magazine people who use the Internet to advance free speech, and citizen journalists Proceso, was found April 28 in her are increasingly valuable news sources in areas where governments don’t home in Xalapa, capital of Vera- want the outside world looking on. Also on May 3, after RSF released those numbers, the dismembered bodies of three Mexican photojournalists, Ga- cruz. She had been badly beaten briel Huge, Guillermo Luna Varela and Esteban Rodríguez, were found and strangled. The in Veracruz, a hotbed of organized crime where seven journalists were state attorney gen- murdered in the last year and a half. eral said her cell Two recent assassinations of law enforcement officials underscore the phones and com- challenge of combating impunity. On April 14, César Santos Magalhães, puter were miss- who was investigating the murder of Brazilian journalist Paulo Rocaro, ing. Her reporting was shot 13 times by gunmen on a motorcycle. Rocaro, who worked in focused on drug- Ponta Pora along Brazil’s volatile border with Paraguay, died in a similar related violence fashion in February. In , prosecutor Luis Sánchez Colona, assigned to and alleged links Regina Martinez investigate the murder of journalist Pedro Flores Silva, was shot six times between cartels Pérez as he left for work on April 16 in Nuevo Chimbote. Silva was gunned down in September 2011, not long after publishing a corruption investigation into and politicians. According to RSF, a local mayor. Martínez joins a list of 80 journal- Even convictions can leave questions. John Alexander Jaramillo, 24, ists killed and 14 disappeared in was sentenced March 31 in Colombia to 21 years in jail for the March 15 Mexico in the past decade. murder of Argemiro Cárdenas Agudelo, a community radio journalist in In what police describe as a con- Dosquebradas. Jaramillo confessed three days after the killing, saying he tract killing, Brazilian political jour- was paid 1 million pesos — about $566 — for the murder but claimed not nalist Décio Sá was murdered April to know the identity of his victim, the head of Metro Rádio Estéreo and the 21 at a bar in Sao Luis in north- town’s former mayor. While noting the speed of the conviction, RSF said it eastern Brazil. Sá was waiting for a could not be satisfied when a verdict does not reveal the motive.

OPC Bulletin • MAY 2012 • Page 10 friend when a man entered, walked der was unclear. couple whose wedding he had been to the bathroom and as he left, shot In Syria, at least four journalists filming. Ogu worked as a journalist Sá six times before fleeing with a and citizen journalists were killed for the privately owned Independent motorcyclist waiting outside. Sá, 42, in April. Sameer Shalab al-Sham Television. The motive was unclear wrote about politics and corruption and Ahmad Abd Fakhriya died on but nothing was stolen from the cou- for the local newspaper O Estado do April 14 in Homs and Damascus, ple’s home, according to a report in Maranhão and on his personal blog, respectively, according to the Syr- the Daily Trust. Blog do Décio. Kevin McDermott ian Centre for Media and Freedom A gunman killed Mahad Salad and Larry Martz of OPC’s Free- of Expression. Fakhriya, 35, was on Adan, a radio reporter in Somalia dom of the Press Committee wrote his way to film Syrian army troops, and a correspondent for the Shabelle Brazilian President Dilma Vana when he was shot dead. Al-Sham, Media Network, April 5 near his Rousseff noting that her country a 26-year-old working for the Syria home in Beledweyne, a stronghold leads Latin America in the murder of News Network, died after a mortar of the al-Qaeda-affiliated militant reporters this year and saying: “Sá’s hit the building where he was film- group al-Shabaab until Somali gov- colleagues, not only in Brazil, but ing. Alaa Al-Din Hassan Al-Douri, ernment forces captured the town around the world, have been driven 44, was wounded at a roadblock and last year. He is the fourth journalist almost to despair by the seeming im- then three days later on April 18 his killed in Somalia in 2012 and the punity with which these killings are body, showing signs of torture, was fifth in the last five months. Abdi- accomplished.” handed over to his family in Hama malik Yousuf Muhammud, chair- A well-known Honduran tele- province. Khaled Mahmoud Kab- man of Shabelle Media, expressed vision presenter, his uncle and his bisho, 44, was held for questioning frustration about impunity in crimes bodyguard were killed April 21 when in Idlib and then executed on April against journalists. He said a cam- they came under fire while leaving 17; media reports said that his head eraman for Shabelle was among 10 the studios of Maya TV in Teguci- was crushed by a tank. journalists seriously wounded in the galpa. Several reports suggested that Three recent journalists’ deaths April 4 bombing at the reopening of Noel Alexander Valladares, 28, were attributed to Syrian border the Somali National Theatre. popularly known as “El Tecolote” forces. Ali Shaaban, a cameraman Yadav Poudel, 39, a Nepalese (“The Owl”), saved the life of his working for the Lebanese TV station journalist, was found dead April 3 wife and co-presenter, Nelly Yorle- Al-Jadeed, died April 10 and two outside a Birtamod hotel where he ny Pavón, by covering her with his colleagues were injured when their had been researching an article on body when shots broke out. car came under heavy fire while in prostitution. He was a correspondent northern near the border. for Avenues TV Walid Blidi and Nassim Terreri, and the Rajdhani Algerian journalists with British National Daily, as passports, were shot dead March 30 well as the execu- when they returned to collect their tive editor of New equipment after an attack by Syrian Mechi Times, a forces on a group of about 50 people daily in Birtamod. News reports said trying to enter Syria at Darkush on Yadav Poudel doctors suspected Murtaza Razvi the border with Turkey. ldion Layao, a former radio jour- he was beaten and thrown from the The body of Murtaza Razvi, the nalist in the Philippines who became hotel’s roof. A letter to Baburam senior editor and head of magazines a village council chairman was killed Bhattarai, Nepal prime minister, at Dawn Media Group, was found in Davao on April 8. He was on his from OPC’s Freedom of the Press April 17 in a friend’s apartment way home with a relative in a car, Committee urged “your government in Karachi. His body bore torture when he was shot by two unidenti- to make a full investigation of the at- marks, his hands were tied and he fied men on a motorcycle. He was tack and prosecute the perpetrators” was strangled, according to the Eng- hit twice in the neck. According to and noted that according to IPI, “18 lish-language daily Dawn. Razvi, a the Sun Star Davao newspaper, po- other journalists have died in Ne- pal in the past decade, most of them columnist and political analyst, is the lice suspect the motive was related murdered, and many of those crimes author of the 2009 book Musharraf: to politics or a grudge linked to his remain unsolved.” The Years in Power, which detailed previous work as a radio journalist. Kamiran Salaheddin, a news the rise and fall of the former presi- Chuks Ogu, 39, a cameraman presenter for the Salaheddin chan- dent of Pakistan. Local journalists in Benin City in Nigeria, was killed told CPJ that the motive of the mur- by gunmen April 12 at the home of a (Continued on Page 12)

OPC Bulletin • MAY 2012 • Page 11 (Continued From Page 11) Jones will publish 10 photo essays nel in Iraq, was killed April 2 when at MotherJones.com or in Mother a bomb attached to his car exploded. Jones magazine, reaching a com- Salaheddin was head of the Journal- bined audience of 4 million people. ists’ Union in Tikrit, reports say. “Everybody wins with this unprec- Leiron Kogoya, a journalist edented partnership: Photography with the newspapers Pasific Post supported by the Magnum Foun- and Papua Pos Nabire, died April 8 dation gains an expanded network when gunmen attacked a commer- with a widely respected venue and cial flight landing at Mulia airport in Roméo Langlois we get to share extraordinary photo Indonesian Papua. A bullet pierced essays with our readers,” said Tim prisoner of war. His kidnapping was J. Luddy Mother Jones creative di- Kogoya’s neck, killing him. Al- condemned around the world. though Kogoya did not appear to be rector. a target, his death illustrates the dan- WASHINGTON D.C.: Da- ger of working in conflict areas. The PRETORIA: Yutaka Yoshiza- vid A. Andelman, OPC president Southeast Asian Press Alliance said wa, an OPC member since 1995, and editor-in-chief of World Policy at least two journalists were killed in has moved here with his wife, Fu- Journal, and Arlene Getz, an OPC Pupua in 2011. miko, and their son as he begins his Third Vice President and editor-in- Jesús Martínez Orozco, 42, a appointment as ambassador of Ja- charge, media at Thomson Reuters, community radio reporter in a small pan to the Republic of South Africa. are among 12 senior journalists se- Colombian city near the Caribbean From 2008 until his new position lected by the International Reporting coast, was gunned down April 1. began in March, he had been ambas- Project to visit Saudi Arabia May 5 News reports said Orozo was on his sador to Fiji, Kiribati, Nauru, Tuvalu through 18. Each year, the IRP se- way to visit a friend when he was and Vanuatu. Yoshizawa joined the overtaken by a motorcycle whose lects two groups of “Gatekeeper Ed- OPC while stationed in New York. passenger fired three shots at him. itors” to travel to a country or region Ahmed Ismail Hussain, a Bah- to explore critical global issues and VIENNA: The IPI in April an- raini citizen journalist who was shot improve international coverage. nounced the promotion of Anthony while filming a protest in the village Mills, a former CNN correspondent of Salmabad, died March 31. Wit- NEW YORK: The OPC Admis- in Lebanon, to acting deputy direc- nesses said he was filming security sions Committee, under the chair- tor. Barbara Trionfi was named forces using tear gas and rubber bul- manship of George Bookman, has Press Freedom manager and Bill lets to disperse protesters and then, added two new OPC members to Blake became manager of Commu- occupants of two civilian vehicles the committee that evaluates all ap- nications and Philanthropic Enter- fired live ammunition at the dem- plications for membership. Robert prise. onstration. Hussain regularly filmed Nickelsberg, a photojournalist who demonstrations, documenting abus- has contributed to Time for more PEOPLE REMEMBERED es by police who have cracked down than 20 years, and Charles Wallace, Roy Essoyan, the reporter who on anti-government protest since a freelance correspondent writing in 1958 exposed the Sino-Soviet February 2011. for Institutional Investor, Fortune, split, died March 22 at his home in Money and the Financial Times will Hawaii. He was 92. He was born in UPDATES be on the committee with Felice Japan after his refugee family, origi- PARIS: At press time, Roméo Levin and Linda Holmes. David nally from , landed there in Langlois, a freelance correspondent Fondiller of The Boston Consulting 1919 after fleeing Vladivostok and for 24 TV and Le Figaro, Group has resigned after serving on the Russian revolution. The family had been held by Farc rebels in Co- the committee for 10 years. moved to Shanghai in 1932. lombia since an April 28 clash be- He was working at the English- tween Farc and government forces u language Shanghai Times and had while the International Red Cross just been married on December 5, and others attempted to negotiate a Magnum Foundation’s Emergen- 1941 when the paper called him to release. Langlois, 35, was making cy Fund, which supports photogra- work on Dec. 8, saying war had be- a documentary on drug trafficking phers committed to documenting so- gun. He hung up, thinking it was a and had accompanied soldiers on cial issues, is working with Mother joke. In 1945, he was hired by the a mission to destroy Farc cocaine Jones to feature the work of Emer- AP in Shanghai and was later as- farms. The rebels called Langlois a gency Fund photographers. Mother signed to Hawaii, where he became

OPC Bulletin • MAY 2012 • Page 12 a U.S. citizen. In 1955, he joined AP’s Moscow bureau at the height Mike Wallace, a Moment or Two of the Cold War and a time of in- tense censorship. He was expelled by Allan Dodds Frank in 1958 after slipping past censors Mike Wallace was a the news that a serious breach had great friend and support- developed between the USSR and er of the Overseas Press Mao Tse-tung’s China. Club, although next to In February 1960, the Soviet Pre- his CBS colleagues Wal- ter Cronkite and Andy mier spotted Essoyan at a press con- Rooney, he was a rela- ference in Indonesia and called him tive newcomer. Wallace, to the stage. Khrush­chev pointed to already at the peak of his Essoyan’s baseball cap, saying he game when he joined the was baffled that Americans wear club in 1979, served as the awards presenter at the OPC dinners in 1984, 1992 and 2000. In 1998, Don Hewitt, Wallace and the rest of the “60 such “silly beanies.” Essoyan re- Minutes” team jointly received the President’s Award from OPC President sponded by playfully putting the cap John Corporon. on Krushchev’s head — a moment As an aspiring print and broadcast reporter, I studied Wallace’s every captured by photographers and pub- nuance, every inflection, every trick, every tick, every technique. Every lished worldwide. Based in Hong story he did was a seminar in real time. While I loved the “” tribute to him, his single most instructive story did not make the cut, al- Kong after Moscow, Essoyan cov- most certainly because the highlight would have been too long. The story ered the early days of the Vietnam was his 1969 interview of Clement Haynsworth, a federal appeals court War. After a brief stint in Cairo, he judge in South Carolina nominated to the Supreme Court by Richard Nix- was named AP’s chief of Middle on. Haynsworth had been accused of being a segregationist and had East operations in Beirut in 1965 not reacted to the accusation in public before sitting down with Wallace. Wallace asked whether the accusation was true and Haynsworth did not and became its chief of North Asia answer. services, based in Tokyo, in 1973. Instead of moving on to another question, Wallace just sat there. He retired in 1985. Squirming and sweating, Haynsworth tortured himself with silence until he could not stand it anymore and blurted out an answer that proved to u be disastrous. That moment taught me that skillful listening is a reporter’s tool, important for content and a critical inducement to get a reluctant, ner- vous interviewee to talk. Finally, a story I told in 2000 when as OPC Awards chairman I intro- duced Wallace. I met him in April 1989 at a black tie reception at Sar- di’s honoring the first 30 women, including Helen Hayes, admitted to the Players Club, a club focused on the theater and arts, which also had a category for journalists. I was newly married and the brand new business investigative correspondent at ABC News, which was at its peak under Roone Arledge. Of more than 100 correspondents, only Wallace’s son Chris was new- er to the ABC payroll than I was. So I introduced myself to the great Mike Wallace, as the son of a fellow graduate, then The family of Al Kaff, an OPC mentioning that his son Chris and I had known each other in Washington. member since 1962 and previous au- Wallace asked me who hired me. Now, an old network vet had ad- thor of this column, have sent along vised me, without exception, to answer that question by saying “Roone,” a photo of the VA marker recently but to Wallace I did not. In fact, I had never gotten to Roone. My hiring had been approved by his right hand man, a skilled political operative placed over his grave in Mount Ver- and Kennedy family confidante named David Burke, the executive vice non Cemetery in Atchison, Kansas. president of ABC News. A month after hiring me in June of 1988, Burke Kaff, 91, died October 25, 2011. became the new President of CBS News, and, at least nominally, Mike Arthur Kaff, Al’s son, said his Wallace’s new boss. mother, Diana, is planning to sell In his inimitable fashion, Wallace hit me with a question I had never been asked: “What did Burke tell you he wants you to do?” I could not the condo in Fairfield, Connecticut, help myself: “He told me he wants me to beat the Supp-Hose (support where she lived with Al, and move stockings for old men with varicose veins) off Mike Wallace.” into an independent living facility In a flash, Wallace grabbed me by the tuxedo lapels and yanked my for seniors in Maryland. Arthur sent face close to his. All the celebrities in the room went silent. Then he gave thanks for all “the OPC did to re- me a big fat wet kiss on the lips and laughed. member my dad.”

OPC Bulletin • MAY 2012 • Page 13 D.C. Panel: Continued From Page 1 Bamford noted that much of the when it issued one of several sub- material in his poenas for Risen, argued seeking the NSA book came reporter’s possible testimony was from Freedom one of the few options the Justice of Information Department felt it had in the case requests, but against Jeffrey Sterling, a former then the NSA CIA officer who is accused of leak- tried to reclas- ing details about efforts to sabotage sify documents the Iranian nuclear program. as secret and “That is the hardest question, take the mate- raising difficult questions that are rial back. “They An audience member asks a question of the panel, unsettled in court,” Miller said, as threatened me from left: Andelman, Bamford, Miller and Risen. Risen sat quietly to his left. “What with prosecution gal. Miller conceded that “you could happens is that too many people if I didn’t give it back,” he said. “I argue” that Drake was genuinely equate investigating leaks with (go- never gave it back, and they never trying to expose a bad government ing after) whistleblowers and the prosecuted.” Likewise, the NSA program. He also noted that two of press.” He said the substance of raided a university library to remove Risen’s subpoenas have been thrown the leaks also get investigated, but documents Bamford used that had out by Federal judges, though the indictments don’t always follow. If been public. government is appealing those deci- there’s no prosecution of wrongdo- Bamford referred to the case of a sions. But he defended the prosecu- ers, Miller said, people jump to the former NSA top official, Tom Drake, tion of Risen’s alleged source, Ster- conclusion that the decision was who was in the audience, who faced ling, and the military case against political — which, he said, doesn’t 35 years in prison on 10 felony Pvt. Bradley Manning, the report- happen “in the vast majority of cas- counts for telling a reporter that an ed source of last year’s massive es.” But Bamford argued that poli- NSA software monitor program was WikiLeaks document dump. tics played a part “in all these cases.” both intrusive on privacy and inef- Risen said an unspoken govern- Miller said prosecution of leaks fective. Bamford showed that the ment agreement to tolerate most harmful to national security — in- alleged secrets Drake told were ac- leaks ended after the 2001 attacks, cluding the sabotaging of Iranian tually unclassified, and the case was and that government actions have nuclear policy and the exposure of a settled as a misdemeanor with no soared since, with the Obama admin- covert CIA operative — is justified. penalty. But the judge in the case istration much more aggressive than “What is the government to do, look berated the Justice Department for any other administration in history. the other way?” The Justice Depart- putting Drake “through hell for four But in the new reality of an unprec- ment actually decides not to pros- years” of fighting the charges. edented kind of war, that puts report- ecute in most cases, he said, because In part, Bamford said, one goal of ers in the cross-hairs. “If you are a the leakers are legitimate whistle- filing charges was to create “a chill- war correspondent on terror,” Risen blowers trying to expose wrongdo- ing effect” on other potential whis- said. “Everything...is secret.” ing. The leaker who blew the gov- tle-blowers. Drake agreed, adding The government’s appeal in ernment’s warrantless wiretapping that the tactic is working. “What you Risen’s case will be argued May program “on the cover of Newsweek” have is the expansion of the national 18. “They said there is no reporter’s was never taken to court, Miller said. security state,” he said, warning that privilege,” Risen said. “They want But in blatant cases where national what has so far been exposed about the court to rule on the issue of a re- security is harmed, the government unconstitutional actions including porter’s privilege in a criminal case. “has to move” against them. torture, rendition of suspects, wire- It would give it a broad impact.” “Is the system broken?” Andel- taps without warrants and data min- He said the goal of terrorism is man asked. “It’s a joke, and it’s al- ing is “the tip of the iceberg.” to upset a society and force changes ways been a joke,” Risen answered. Both Drake and Bamford argued in it, and that has been the real con- Miller conceded that “We do, with- that there is a double standard by sequence of the assault on leaks and out doubt, over-classify, and we clas- the government, with leakers facing the media. “The U.S. has been trans- sify things that shouldn’t be.” Few in jail and no prosecution of those who formed by our fears,” Risen said. the government actually know what actually torture, eavesdrop without “Do you want to give up democracy has been released, Bamford argued, warrants or cooperate with govern- to fight terrorism? That’s what this and classification is meaningless. ment intrusions they know are ille- is really all about.”

OPC Bulletin • MAY 2012 • Page 14 Tragedy Inspires Training Program for Journalists by Susan Kille Twenty-four freelance journalists from places rang- ing from Cairo to Brooklyn convened in the Bronx April 19 for the debut class of Reporters Instructor in Saving Colleagues, a non-profit founded by Sebastian Junger after the death of his friend and colleague Tim Hether- ington. Photos of Hetherington and Chris Hondros sat be- tween four glowing candles and a vase of flowers in the gallery of the Bronx Documentary Center, where the three-day course took place. The two acclaimed war photojournalists died one year earlier, April 20, 2011, Training in the Bronx for 24 freelance journalists. after they were hit during a mortar and grenade attack in Misrata, Libya. Hondros was mortally wounded. Shrap- nel cut Hetherington’s femoral artery, a serious injury but one where fast action could have kept him alive un- til he reached a doctor. Hetherington, however, bled out and died in the back of a pickup truck on the way to a hospital. Junger opened the session by saying he had just turned 50 and had reported on wars for almost 20 years but “since Tim Hetherington died, I’ve stopped.” Heth- erington was “the first person I was really close to who was killed,” he said. Their history includes a year-long Vanity Fair assignment on tour with a platoon in the Ko- Photos: Bronx Documentary Center 2012 rengal Valley in Afghanistan that resulted in their 2010 cal kit, the journalists addressed the leading causes of Oscar-nominated documentary “Restrepo.” preventable battlefield deaths: hemorrhages, blocked air- Junger said Hetherington’s death was a “wake-up ways and collapsed lungs. It was a course in reality, not call” and “made me think of other ways I could contrib- ideals. Some people can’t be saved; focus on those who ute to journalism.” can. Your first obligation is to yourself, your partners, He described how a medic at Hetherington’s funeral the public and then, to the patient. Battlefield conditions told him his friend could have lived. “All that had to be were simulated on the final day. done was to slow down the bleeding,” he said. RISC Wilderness Medical Associates International, a group grew from that conversation. Junger secured funding to specializing in remote medicine with the motto “Face hold three sessions this year to train freelance journal- ists, the group on the frontline of war reporting, to treat any challenge, anywhere,” spent months developing a battlefield injuries so that “someone else in the future curriculum tailored for war zones. will be savable.” RISC received funding to provide participants free Finding a venue for the first class was not a problem. training and accommodations from news agencies. The Michael Kamber, a close friend of Hetherington, was group’s website acknowledges ABC, CNN, National at the funeral with Junger. Kamber is a photojournalist Geographic, Vanity Fair, Getty Images, Condé Nast, who after years of covering wars for The New York Times CPJ and the Chris Hondros Fund. bought an abandoned historic building in the South RISC plans a fall training session in and a Bronx and created the Bronx Documentary Center. The winter one in Beirut. The 24 original slots filled quickly center’s first exhibition last October came from the last with a long waiting list. Participants must have experi- rolls of film Hetherington shot. ence in war zones to be eligible. The training included, but went far beyond, first aid. Junger and Hetherington shared in the 2007 OPC The focus was to assess and manage emergencies and David Kaplan Award for an ABC News- report to safeguard what’s most important – getting oxygen to from the Korengal Valley. They discussed “Restrepo” cells through breathing, heartbeats and blood and then, and books each recently had published during an OPC getting the victim to medical care. Each participant re- book night in November 2010. Hetherington died eight ceived a combat medical kit that they are expected to days before he was to serve as co-presenter at last year’s carry into war zones. Using medical dummies, fake OPC Awards ceremony and receive a citation for his own blood, each other’s bodies and resources in that medi- photography under fire in Afghanistan.

OPC Bulletin • MAY 2012 • Page 15 being an NBC page to becoming a New Books documentary filmmaker who has NORTH AMERICA taught at Columbia, Harvard and PRIL 20 MARKED THE 2ND NYU. He describes nearly dying at A anniversary of the Macondo the Battle of the Bulge and tells how blowout, also known as the Deepwa- he worked for Radio Free Europe, ter Horizon oil spill, and the worst covered the inauguration of John F. environmental disaster in U.S. his- Stanley Reed and Alison Fitzgerald Kennedy, served as a consultant for tory. One of the first books out on co team less than a year before the 20 years to the consulate general of the disaster remains one of the best. blowout. Japan, lectured on cruise ships and In Too Deep: BP and the Drilling “Even though we came out early, traveled extensively in East Asia. Race That Took it Down by Stan- we remain on the money on the spe- ley Reed and Alison Fitzgerald, cific and broader causes of the acci- was published by Bloomberg Press dent,” Reed said in an email. “Also in 2011 but not acknowl- as far as I know, no other edged in the Bulletin. The book offers the inside feel book remains an insightful of BP that I was able to and recommended read. give, having covered the Reed, an OPC member company over 10 years.” who covered BP for Busi- Reed is based in Lon- nessWeek and Bloomberg don for the International for more than 10 years, Herald Tribune. Fitzger- and Fitzgerald, who was ald was on the Bloom- then a colleague at Bloom- berg team that won the berg, make clear their in- OPC Malcolm Forbes sight into the international Award in 2008. oil industry. While serving for 14 years as the London Bureau Along the way, he earned more than FILMMAKER’S JOURNAL IS chief for BusinessWeek, Reed came three dozen national and internation- A more than Sumner Jules Glim- to know the three BP CEOs that ap- al awards making documentaries on cher’s history of a life working in pear in the book and he spent time Confucius, poverty in Latin Amer- with the company’s Gulf of Mexi- film, radio and television. Glimcher, ica, the settlement of the American an OPC member and professor emer- Southwest and the classic “Hiroshi- itus at New York University, has cre- ma-Nagasaki, August, 1945.” ated an interactive ebook with text, Glimcher said he has spent the images, excerpts from 22 of his films last year writing and developing the and even a song. book, which is available at Apple’s Glimcher explains how a nuclear iTunes bookstore. Congratulations physics major at Harvard went from — by Susan Kille to all Overseas Press Club of America OPC Award 40 West 45 Street New York, NY 10036 USA winners!

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