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WHEN CIVILIANS ARE TARGETS What will it take to stop the carnage?

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President’s Letter / deidre depke

here is a theme to our gathering tonight at the 78th entries, narrowing them to our 22 winners. Our judging process was annual Overseas Press Club Gala, and it’s not an easy one. ably led by Scott Kraft of the Los Our work as journalists across the globe is under Angeles Times. Sarah Lubman headed our din- unprecedented and frightening attack. Since the conflict in ner committee, setting new records TSyria began in 2011, 107 journalists there have been killed, according the for participation. She was support- Committee to Protect Journalists. That’s more members of the press corps ed by Bill Holstein, past president of the OPC and current head of to die than were lost during 20 years of war in Vietnam. In the past year, the OPC Foundation’s board, and our colleagues also have been fatally targeted in Iraq, Yemen and Ukraine. assisted by her Brunswick colleague Beatriz Garcia. Since 2013, the Islamic State has captured or killed 11 journalists. Almost This outstanding issue of Date- 300 reporters, editors and photographers are being illegally detained by line was edited by Michael Serrill, a past president of the OPC. Vera governments around the world, with at least 81 journalists imprisoned Naughton is the designer (she also in Turkey alone. And at home, we have been labeled the “enemy of the recently updated the OPC logo). Bob Nickelsberg is Dateline’s photo American people” by the president of the United States. editor. Our theme for this issue: the failure of the international Tonight, together, we take a awards, we recognize others who community to take any action in stand. Even as we endure barrage have risked all to tell the story of the Mideast wars to curb human after barrage of criticism, disdain that gruesome civil war. These rights abuses. In addition, Emma and danger, we commit to speak- awards showcase the professional- Daly writes of the important role ing truth to power, to standing ism, perseverance and courage that international correspondents will strong against tyranny in any form. are the hallmarks of our profession play in monitoring the actions of The press will remain a bulwark and the everyday reality for many the Trump administration overseas. against those who would subvert or journalists. There is also an essay by Chris deny liberty. We will persist as an In addition to six awards for Dickey on America’s endless wars— independent watchdog exposing exemplary reporting on the Syrian many of which he has covered. corruption and official misconduct. conflict, there were multiple win- Finally, we have a piece by Anjali And we assert once and for all that ners whose work illuminated the Kamat on government pressure on the news media is not the enemy of unraveling of Venezuela’s public the press and the resulting self- the people: not in the United States institutions, state media control censorship in India. and not in any country in the world. in China and Russia and the fight Of course, the OPC simply could This evening, with the Presi- against the drug trade in Colombia not continue its work without the dent’s Award, we honor our col- and the Philippines. Other work dedication of my fellow governors, leagues who have died reporting detailed unethical practices of the the leadership of Executive Director from Syria. And with six separate International Olympics Committee Patricia Kranz and the hard work of and examined the powerful elites Office Manager Lucrecia “Boots” R. exposed in the Panama Papers. Duque and Web Manager and Social In an encouraging develop- Media Editor Chad Bouchard. ment for the financial future of our Finally, we could not continue industry, several of our awards are without the support of all of you – to journalists who received funding individuals, companies and institu- from nonprofit organizations devot- tions. Your generosity and pres- ed to excellence in journalism. The ence here tonight ensure that the Pulitzer Center for Crisis Report- Overseas Press Club will never stop ing funded three separate award taking a stand against those who winners and one citation winner. work to undermine the fundamen- Groundtruth and the International tal right to a free press. Consortium of Investigative Jour- Thank you, and please enjoy nalists each backed another award- your evening. winning entry. The important time we spend Deidre Depke, a former foreign together tonight is made pos- editor for Newsweek, is the New sible by the dedication of many, York Bureau Chief at Marketplace, including the 90 judges who read, the public radio show produced by Deidre Depke watched and listened to nearly 430 American Public Media.

DATELINE 2017 1 A girl reacts as coloured water is thrown on her face while celebrating Holi, the Festival of Colours, in Mumbai, India, March 13, 2017. REUTERS/Shailesh Andrade

A girl reacts as coloured water is thrown on her face while celebrating Holi, the Festival of Colours, in Mumbai, India, March 13, 2017. REUTERS/Shailesh Andrade

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PRESI D ENT Steve Herman AS S O C I AT E Deidre Depke White House Bureau Chief B OAR D ­MEM B ERS New York Bureau Chief Voice of America Bill Collins Marketplace Douglas Jehl Director, Public & Business Affairs FIRST VICE PRESI D ENT Foreign Editor Ford Motor Company Deborah Amos The Washington Post Correspondent NPR Anjali Kamat Emma Daly Freelance Journalist Communications Director SECOND VICE PRESIDENT Human Rights Watch Calvin Sims Scott Kraft Sarah Lubman President and CEO Deputy Managing Editor Partner International House Los Angeles Times Brunswick Group THIR D VICE PRESI D ENT Rachael Morehouse Daniel Sieberg Pancho Bernasconi Associate Producer CBS News 60 Minutes Global Head of Media Outreach Vice President/News Google Getty Images Robert Nickelsberg Freelance Photojournalist Minky Worden TREASU RER Director of Global Initiatives Abigail Pesta Michael Oreskes Human Rights Watch Freelance Journalist Senior Vice President of News / Editorial Director NPR SECRETARY PAST P R ES I D E N TS EX-OFFICIO Liam Stack Mary Rajkumar Marcus Mabry Breaking News Reporter International Enterprise Editor The New York Times The Associated Press Michael S. Serrill David A. Andelman ACT I V E B OAR D Roxana Saberi Freelance Journalist John Corporon Hannah Allam Allan Dodds Frank Lara Setrakian Foreign Affairs Correspondent Alexis Gelber McClatchy Newspapers Co-Founder & CEO News Deeply William J. Holstein Molly Bingham Marshall Loeb Martin Smith President & CEO Larry Martz President Rain Media OrbMedia, Inc. Larry Smith Rukmini Callimachi Charles Wallace Richard B. Stolley Foreign Correspondent Freelance Writer The New York Times Vivienne Walt EXECU T I V E D IRECTOR Anupreeta Das Correspondent Patricia Kranz Reporter TIME and FORTUNE Wall Street Journal OFFICE MANAGER Christopher Dickey Boots R. Duque Foreign Editor dAT E L I N E The Daily Beast, Paris Editor: Scott Gilmore Michael S. Serrill International Columnist Photo Editor: Maclean’s Magazine Robert Nickelsberg Charles Graeber Art Director: Freelance Journalist and Author Vera Naughton www.veranaughton.com

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Jimboy Bolasa’s bullet riddled body was found under a bridge. He was one of thousands of alleged Philippine drug dealers killed after President Duterte took office.

on the COVER: People run for cover after an airstrike hits Islamic State positions in Mosul, Iraq. Goran Tomasevic/Reuters

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President’s Letter/President’s Award 1 By Deidre Depke

Covering the U.S.’s Wars Without End 6 By Christopher Dickey

‘We Condemn the International Community’ 10 By Alessandria Masi and Hiba Dlewati

The Trump Watch 14 By Emma Daly

Shrinking Press Freedoms in India 18 By Anjali Kamat

THE OPC ANNUAL AWARDS 20

The Hal Boyle Award 22

The Bob Considine Award 22

The Robert Capa Gold Medal Award 23, 24-25

The Olivier Rebbot Award 23, 28-29

The Feature Photography Award 26, 32-33

The Lowell Thomas Award 26

The David Kaplan Award 30

The Edward R. Murrow Award 30

The Peter Jennings Award 31

The Ed Cunningham Award 31

The Thomas Nast Award 34, 38

The Morton Frank Award 34

The Malcolm Forbes Award 35

The Cornelius Ryan Award 35

The Madeline Dane Ross Award 36

The David A. Andelman and Pamela Title Award 36

The Joe and Laurie Dine Award 37

The Whitman Bassow Award 37

imes The Robert Spiers Benjamin Award 40 T ork

Y Best Digital Reporting

ew on International Affairs 40 /N lak

u Best Investigative Reporting 41 ereh

B Best Commentary 41 aniel

D Where OPC Members are Welcome 42

DATELINE 2017 5 Covering the U.S.’s Wars Without End

Overseas reporters risk all to get beyond the propaganda newsfeeds, even as the President labels them “enemies of the people.”

and a $70 million aircraft had to that were impossible to confirm By Christopher Dickey be abandoned and blown up after independently. If, as the saying goes, it crash landed. The incident was a truth is the first casualty in war, in ithin days of taking reminder—a brief one amid a storm our current era of alternative facts office, President and of controversies—that the United truth might never make it off the

commander-in-chief States is involved in shadow wars battlefield at all. mages W I Donald Trump approved a raid on around the globe, and often there Of course, journalistic access etty

an Al Qaeda stronghold in Yemen are no reporters on the scene to tell to the scene of combat has always /G by U.S. Special Operations Forces. the world what’s happening. been a difficult and potentially It did not go well. The hoped-for In this case, anyone who wanted deadly game. But there are critical ickelsberg

high-value target was missing, civil- to know what happened had to rely differences now because of the N ian casualties included an 8-year- on the Pentagon and, yes, Al Qaeda, radical changes in the nature of obert

old girl, a Navy SEAL was killed, for conflicting accounts of the fight war, and the nature of journalism, R

6 DATELINE 2017 and the unprecedented hostility of out military actions against some- but we got to watch the war more Above: the chief executive of the United one somewhere in the world every closely than anyone else. Guatemalan States. The job of a correspondent— few months. Most of those actions, A few months later, the climax Chief of Army part of a the media establishment from Granada, Nicaragua, Lebanon, came when an American guided Staff Gen. labeled the “enemy of the American Libya and the Persian Gulf in the missile cruiser destroyer shot an Benedicto Lucas people” by President Trump— has 1980s to Iraq (repeatedly), Soma- Iranian airliner out of the sky, killing Garcia, 1982. never been more dangerous or, one lia, Haiti and Kosovo in the 1990s, everyone on board. Supreme Leader The U.S. military might add, more thankless. quickly became forgotten headlines Ayatollah Khomeini decided to end was involved in For as long as I’ve been an adult, on yellowing newspapers. the war that had gone on for eight three different which is several decades, the United We hear talk today of war with years, and Saddam Hussein declared Central American States has been fighting ill-defined Iran—but we’ve already been victory, however implausible. Then, conflicts at the wars against endless enemies. there, done that. In 1987 and 1988, two years later Saddam invaded his time. When I was a potential draftee in after Iranian- and Syrian- backed former ally Kuwait. That brought on Opposite: the 1960s (finally saved from the suicide bombers forced the Reagan the U.S.-led operation against him Marine Col. jungles of Southeast Asia by a high administration to beat a humiliating called Desert Storm, the first taste Steven Hummer lottery number) I followed the retreat from its ill-considered mili- since Vietnam that Americans had briefs reporters Vietnam war closely in print and on tary deployment in Lebanon, the of a “big” war, although the fighting in Kuwait as the television thanks to reporters who U.S. Navy was sent to protect ships only lasted five weeks. U.S prepares to had extraordinary access to combat carrying oil that supported Saddam Throughout those years, in attack Iraq in zones. David Halberstam, Neil Hussein’s war against the ayatollahs. Central America and the Middle 2003. Sheehan, Peter Arnett—the list of In short order, U.S. warships were East, my job often was to go to journalists in the thick of the fight sinking Iranian military vessels and places the United States was about is long and laudable, and for the blowing up Iranian oil derricks. to attack and watch the smart and generation of journalists who suc- Frustrated by my inability to not-so-smart bombs rain down. I mages ceeded them, they were heroes. get close to the action, and blessed The challenge was to confirm or etty /G Finally, the war in Vietnam with the kind of budget news refute what Washington was saying ended with the defeat of the United organizations had in those days, I about operations with names like ickey

D States and its allies. But America’s joined with a British TV crew to El Dorado Canyon (Libya 1986)

N ickelsberg little wars continued around the rent a workboat to sail in randomly and Desert Fox (Iraq 1998). Very globe. Year on year, decade upon mined waters with no protection. In often what Washington had to say, hristopher obert

R C decade, the United States carried retrospect, I think we were insane, particularly about civilian casualties

DATELINE 2017 7 Majeed Sharife, and about the political impact of its another matter. By the 1990s, the The so-called Islamic State, a 12-year-old actions, was untrue or bordering on ranks of Islamist extremists were which grew out of Zarqawi’s organi- shoeshine boy, delusional. growing and when these “non- zation, is much larger and its propa- stands by the But with each decade a reporter’s state actors” turned to terror they ganda, while just as grizzly, is much wreckage of Al ability to do such work and survive learned that the new proliferation more polished. When ISIS burns a Jazeera’s Kabul has declined dramatically. The pro- of cable news channels would al- pilot alive in a cage or carries out a headquarters tection afforded by a press card, or low them to pick and choose their mass execution, the presentation is after it was hit “TV” taped to a windshield, or t-shirts outlets, the most famous example as slick as a high-end video game. by a U.S. laser- that read “No Dispare Soy Period- being the way Al Qaeda gravitated The world can watch the killers’ guided bomb in ista,” (Don’t shoot, I’m a journalist), if toward Al Jazeera. In this cen- videos and pick up their Twitter November 2001. such protection ever existed, steadily tury, such groups have developed feeds, so the terrorists see no need eroded, and now is long gone. multiple communication platforms to answer questions from journal- In the wars of the 1980s, even of their own, with slickly produced ists. And those reporters who are the worst of the bad guys knew they packages broadcast on their own intrepid enough to get close to the needed the Western press to get out Internet “news” channels. action have found themselves, all their message. That wouldn’t stop a At the time of the Sept. 11, 2001, too often, held hostage for ransom bullet and it didn’t prevent kidnap- attacks on New York and Wash- or killed in a gruesome spectacle. pings in a place like Lebanon, but ington, Osama bin Laden and his The United States did not stop at least it offered a bit of insurance, cronies thought they needed to hunting and killing its enemies, but or reassurance, to reporters. When carry out spectacular operations after the wars of occupation in Iraq governments were involved— to get media attention and hold and Afghanistan proved disastrous, Muammar Gaddafi’s in Libya, for the world’s attention. Five years it opted for more surgical and secret instance, or Saddam Hussein’s in later, after U.S. forces occupied campaigns, relying on drones and

Iraq— one worked on the somewhat Iraq and resistance began to build, Special Operations Forces to liq- mages I tenuous assumption that if they let the Jordanian terrorist Abu Musab uidate supposed evil doers. As the etty

you into their country, they were al Zarqawi understood that pure New York Times reported last Octo- /G not going to kill you. Even as late as savagery, the beheading of Western ber, in 2016 alone the U.S. “carried 2003, Western correspondents were hostages, would get air time for out airstrikes in seven countries and ickelsberg

able to report on the American his grainy video tapes of atrocity conducted Special Operations mis- N invasion of Iraq from Baghdad. leaked to whatever satellite sta- sions in many more.” How did we obert

But terror organizations were tions would air them. cover them? Mostly not at all, and R

8 DATELINE 2017 Left: Author Dickey interviews Gen Lucas Garcia in Santa Cruz del Quiche, Guatemala, 1982. In 2016 Lucas was arrested and charged with war crimes.

Left: A gunner Above: OPC opens fire award-winner from Lucas’s Clarissa Ward helicopter with reporting from Dickey and Aleppo, Syria. Nickelsberg aboard.

when we did, from very far away. then we need to find much bet- released “Finding Oscar,” laying The spread of secret or semi- ter ways of supporting the men bare at last the truth about a mas- secret American wars around the and women who now take such sacre in Guatemala that took place globe took place under the Obama extraordinary risks to report from more than 34 years ago. administration, but now, in addition war zones. Whether this is done Such reporting will not bring an to the obscurity supposedly dictated by major news organizations, or by end to war or its atrocities, but it by “operational security,” we have some sort of cooperative venture, will help the world understand that a president in the White House or private foundations, or all of the there are no alternative facts when

ickey who seems to regard objective facts above, these correspondents need it comes to violent death, and bring- D as a nuisance and has, as the only to know the people they work for ing to light how and why people measure of truth, his subjective have the will, the means, and the die in these myriad conflicts might

hristopher judgment. His spokesman insisted, determination to support them if eventually save lives that otherwise z; C

i for instance, that the Yemen raid they get into trouble. will be squandered in the shadows. z was a great success. But some places where horrible

bdela As the last 40 years ought to things happen will remain inacces- Christopher Dickey is the author A have taught us, we already live in a sible at the moment of combat. In of seven books; foreign editor of alma

; S world of wars without end. But how those cases, even if it takes years, The Daily Beast; an NBC can we continue to speak truth to the press has to commit itself to contributor;and an essayist on war I mages the powers that wage those wars? A the investigation of the aftermath. and terror. Hewas formerly bureau ickelsberg etty /G couple of approaches come to mind: Several examples come to mind, chief for The Washington Post in N First, we must pry the press including two extraordinary docu- Central America and then in the

obert away from propaganda newsfeeds mentary films: “Terror at the Mall,” Middle East, and Paris bureau chief : R

N ickelsberg and emphasize the importance about the 2013 attack by al-Shabaab and Middle East editor for News- of being there, on the ground, as militants on the Westgate shopping week Magazine. He is a member of lockwise obert

R C close to the action as possible—and center in Nairobi, and the recently the board of the Overseas Press Club.

DATELINE 2017 9 ‘We Condemn the International Community’

on anything in this life and I have to World powers and the U.N. have stood by depend on myself for everything.” impotently while massive human rights If the international community “wanted to help me and the Syrian violations have been committed in Syria by people, they would have helped us a long time ago,” she added. all sides. Will there ever be a reckoning? Human rights abuses in Syria are not just a wartime phenomenon. The regime of the late President as “huge and dirty” and possibly Tu- Hafez al-Assad killed thousands By Alessandria Masi and nisian, to let her take her children while putting down a purported Hiba Dlewati with her, but he refused. He finally Muslim Brotherhood uprising in started beating the car, yelling at Hama in 1982. Amnesty Interna- t midnight in the dead the siblings to “go back where you tional documented cases of arbi- of winter, four figures made came from,” and threatened to take trary detention and government- A their way to a farm in the the boy for “jihad.” Fearing that her sanctioned torture in 1987. More town of al-Bab in the northern son would be forced to fight, Sidra than a decade later, Bashar al-Assad Aleppo countryside in Syria. Al-Bab left her children behind. took over from his father, promising was under the control of the Islamic “It was the hardest moment in to institute reforms and strengthen State and the quartet was bent on my life. Especially when my mother Syria’s ties with the international escape. They crept and crawled for began to shed tears, it was so harsh community. But ten years into his five kilometers in complete silence, on me,” Saleh said, in one of many presidency, Syria’s improved rela- knowing that ISIS shines spotlights online conversations. But even after tions did not lead to “any improve- on the area when its militants hear she reached Azaz weeks later to ment in its human rights record,” a movement, hoping to catch those join her mom, Saleh realized she 2010 Human Rights Watch report ters

fleeing without permission. Under no longer had much hope for her stated. It has only gotten monu- u e

the cover of darkness, 18-year- future, and knew that no one in the mentally worse since then. /R old Wateen Saleh, her father, her international community was ever Today, every party fighting in brother and a doctor from their coming to help her. To Syrians like Syria has been accused of human omasevic town succeeded in escaping ISIS Saleh, the “international communi- rights abuses. Saleh has suffered T

territory. When they reached a ty” is at best a hollow term. At worst under three different groups. ISIS oran safe point, exhausted from the its inaction gives a tacit nod to the entered al-Bab with a promise to walk and fear, they lay in the dirt world’s powerful to turn a blind eye protect her and her community. G /AFP; until the sound of gunfire pointed on their daily horrors. While the She almost believed them, until essinis

them toward their destination, the United Nations and major world a militant stopped her while she M walked to school, yelling that she ris opposition-controlled city of Azaz, powers fruitlessly repeat their calls A ; near the Turkish border. for a Syrian political solution in should dress more modestly and in imes There they joined their mother, Security Council resolutions, armed black. Soon after, ISIS began to use T ork

Sidra, who had fled to Azaz six days state and non-state actors continue violence to control the population, Y ew

before. She had tried to leave al-Bab to fight in a war where victory and banned women from study- N

with her children but had been can only be ensured by blatantly ing, or from traveling without a he /T stopped at an ISIS checkpoint. An disregarding human rights and the man. Militants also kidnapped her ISIS-run Shariah Court had given rules of war. cousin, who is still missing.

the family an exit paper for just “The war has taught me many Soon after, a myriad of parties onomarev P one person. Sidra wept and pleaded things,” Saleh said. “I have to be vowed to rid her town of ISIS, un- ergey

with the guard, who Saleh described brave and I have to never give up der the guise of protecting civilians. S

10 DATELINE 2017 A family flees the fighting in Mosul, Iraq, driving past oil fields set alight by the Islamic State. At the height of the battle, 1 million people were trapped in the city, with little access to food and water and constantly threatened with bombardment.

A migrant is rescued from the Mediterranean by a member of the Proactiva Open Arms NGO In October. The world community has done too little to help refugees.

A prisoner suspected of being an Islamic State fighter crouches in a bomb crater east of Mosul, Iraq, as hundreds displaced by the fighting look on.

DATELINE 2017 11 Technology The Syrian government began to of torture: In rain bombs down on al-Bab, but Falluja, Iraq, instead of hitting ISIS, the bombs this hook and fell on residential areas, including chain apparatus Saleh’s apartment complex. The was used by U.S.- backed Syrian Democratic the Islamic Forces, an alliance of Kurdish and State to hoist Arab fighters, later intervened to prisoners in the fight ISIS around al-Bab, but they air. Beneath the could not be trusted either. When chain is a set of Saleh took a taxi down the dan- batteries used gerous road from Azaz to al-Bab to apply electric alone to visit her family in June for shocks. Ramadan, the SDF stopped the car, forcing her to stand in the desert for five hours while they searched her car for bombs, knowing that she could not eat or drink during daylight hours of the holy month. Saleh’s story is just one of thousands told by Syrians who have suffered unimaginable horrors. New violations emerge, each more hor- rific than the last, every day. First we saw the videos of protesters being shot at by government forces in 2011. Less than two years later, we watched media activists’ footage of bodies wrapped in shrouds lined up on the ground in the aftermath of the chemical attack in Ghouta. In 2014, images of detainees tortured to death in regime prisons were made public. Next came the images of emaciated children under siege code of conduct sets out the rules Russia, a key ally of Assad, has in Madaya in 2015, followed by the of war, designed to protect those used its veto seven times in the calls for help from a decimated not participating in hostilities, and past six years to protect the Syrian eastern Aleppo in December 2016. restricts the means and methods of government from Security Coun- The more we see, the more we warfare. The strictures should apply cil resolutions that would hold it are forced to ask the tough ques- to Syria, but they have not been accountable for IHL violations in tion: Why, in six years of conflict enforced. Syria. Moscow also removed its that has killed more than 400,000 The U.N. Security Council is just signature from the Rome Statute of people, displaced nearly half of the one example of how the interna- The International Criminal Court country’s pre-war population from tional bodies ostensibly created to in November of last year, not long their homes and left 13.5 million in protect the helpless have failed. before Russian forces assisted the need of humanitarian assistance, The five permanent member states Syrian government in decimating has nothing been done to stop the of the Council have veto power, al- eastern Aleppo. blatant human rights abuses? lowing them to halt any action that But favoritism within the goes against their national interests. international community did not No Punishment for “Syria is a mirror of how the veto start with Syria. The U.S. has used War Crimes turned from a theoretical instrument its veto countless times to protect When we think of the international to preserve peace to an instrument Israel from accusations of abuses imes

community we think first of global to protect war crimes and actors against Palestinian civilians and T

entities like the United Nations involved in war crimes, to make it breaches of international law. When ork Y

and the U.N. High Commission impossible for anyone to go after a the International Court of Justice ew for Refugees (UNHCR), charged regime that is violating international ruled in 1986 that U.S. involve- /N

with enforcing the International law,” said Dr. Ziad Majed, a profes- ment in Nicaragua was a breach of enton Humanitarian Law (IHL), codified sor of Middle Eastern studies at the international law and demanded the D ryan

in the wake of World War II. This American University in Paris. Americans pay reparations to the B

12 DATELINE 2017 Sandinistas, the U.S. withdrew from financial resources allotted to the the response, but before that hap- the ICJ’s compulsory jurisdiction. traditional international bodies, pens there needs to be a stop to this.” Protection for civilians in war- they do have solidarity networks Holding the Syrian government time was most recently codified at and the will to act. Local Syrian responsible for its crimes will be- the 2005 U.N. World Summit on groups brave borders and front- come more difficult as the war drags the Responsibility to Protect (R2P), lines to provide much-needed aid on, particularly as world powers a mandate that states a country’s in areas where U.N. agencies have increasingly adopt the notion that government -- in this case the failed to do so. Greek locals and Assad is the only viable option left Syrian state-- is the primary entity international volunteers provided to run the country. Even Turkey, responsible for protecting its popu- life-saving aid to refugees arriving which firmly stuck by its stance that lation from major IHL violations, on Greek islands long before the Assad had no place in Syria’s future, regardless of the perpetrator. If a U.N. launched its projects there. has publicly stated that this is no government fails to fulfill its duty, Most recently in the U.S., lawyers, longer “realistic.” It’s alarming to the international community should translators and protesters chal- think that after reports of atrocities, first use diplomatic and humanitar- lenged and were able to overturn like Amnesty International’s recent ian means to assist in protection, and President Donald Trump’s ban on investigation into mass hangings if that fails “must be prepared to take refugees and immigrants. and crimes against humanity at stronger measures, including the Meanwhile, help never came Saydnaya prison, foreign powers are collective use of force through the when grassroots groups pleaded dabbling with the idea of allowing U.N. Security Council.” R2P has done with the international community Assad to remain. nothing in the face of allegations to save eastern Aleppo. “We have Already both sides have exploit- of war crimes and crimes against allowed world leaders to co-opt the ed media platforms, old and new, by humanity in Syria, largely because humanitarian community, to con- flooding them with what in the cur- past invocations had left a bad taste tinue to invoke their outrage over rent context could be called “fake in the international community’s the carnage in Syria without doing news,” or by dismissing true and mouth. When former U.S. Presi- anything to stop it,” 25 NGOs work- verifiable reports. The result is that dent George W. Bush invoked the principle to invade Afghanistan and Iraq, it “ruined” the international principle created to protect civilians, Saleh’s story is just one of thousands told by said Dragana Kaurin, a Bosnian eth- nographer formerly with the U.N. Syrians who have suffered unimaginable horrors. What’s more, local Syrian organi- zations are usually left out of any in- ternational-scale discussions aimed ing in Syria said in a joint statement truth in Syria has become a subjec- at helping civilians. For the small as the fall of Aleppo loomed. “We tive and arbitrary entity. When group of Syrian activists that do get condemn, in the strongest terms, those inside the country, and those invited, “these events, summits and the international community, in its watching from around the world, high-level meetings (or whatever entirety, for its complicity in the “feel that nothing can be believed, fancy labels they are given) are massacre of Aleppo.” what matters is the emotional truth, seen as gatherings where excessive or the narrative that people want amounts of money are spent to hear Post-War Syria to believe – even if they know it’s emotional speeches by world lead- Many Syrians have given up on the not true,” journalist Annia Ciezadlo ers, and where great pledges of assis- international community’s will to in- wrote in Syria Deeply. And each tance are made but never translated tervene while the conflict is ongoing, time the gruesome reality portrayed into concrete results on the ground,” so they are pushing to, at the very by human rights groups is chal- Fadi Halisso, a cofounder of Syrian least, hold those who committed lenged, it is that much easier for the refugee relief organization Basmeh IHL violations accountable for their international community to, once & Zeitooneh, wrote ahead of this crimes. Not until this year did the again, justify doing nothing. year’s U.N. General Assembly. United Nations General Assembly Six years into the Syrian conflict, adopt a resolution to investigate war Alessandria Masi is an award- the term international community crimes and human rights violations winning journalist and the Managing

T imes is being redefined. Global institu- in Syria since 2011. “If the conflict Editor of Syria Deeply. She is also ork tions’ inertia in the face of such a were to end, we have years of work the chief of News Deeply’s Beirut Y large-scale humanitarian crisis has in front of us to document missing bureau. Hiba Dlewati is a Beirut- put the onus on individuals and people, to try and identify people based journalist and the Deputy grassroots groups to rise to the in mass graves,” said Nicolette Boe- Managing Editor of Syria Deeply. occasion and fill the gap. And while hland, Syria researcher at Amnesty She is also the recipient of a National

/N ew D enton B ryan they do not have the political or International. “We are so behind in Geographic Fulbright Fellowship.

DATELINE 2017 13 The Trump Watch

direct consequences of U.S. actions By Emma Daly As the new president abroad undertaken in their name. lays down draconian They also need to see the knock-on is the first modern U.S. effects that could harm millions as restrictions on president to make no effort other governments use Trump poli- immigration, imposes Dto promote human rights cies to justify their own abuses. during his campaign. Now he is With his cry of “America First,” a new ‘global gag rule’ governing without paying much at- President Trump is shattering tention to the checks and balances a decades of bipartisan consensus and seeks to unwind democratic system puts on execu- in Washington that post-Cold War laws requiring ethical tive power. His promise to create an foreign policy should – at least in America-centric foreign policy will principle – support human rights, business practices affect people the world over. democracy and the rule of law. In abroad, it’s important So it’s more important than practice, of course, hypocrisy and ever for people to be able to rely self-interest frequently undermined that foreign correspon- on international correspondents to this ideal, most obviously of late in dents be there to report cover the Trump administration’s the Middle East. Even so, Trump’s reach beyond U.S. borders. First, attempts to erode human rights or on the consequences. Americans will need to know the misuse them for political ends will

14 DATELINE 2017 Commission for Refugees (UN- it – the Trump version goes far be- Guadalupe HCR), which leads the global yond what it covered under previous Garcia de Rayos process, and those sent to the U.S. Republican administrations, impact- was suddenly undergo extensive, rigorous – one ing $9.5 billion of health funding, seized and might even say “extreme” – vetting approximately 15 times the amount deported when that typically takes 18 to 24 months. of funding that would have been she made one of American voters should understand affected under George W. Bush’s ver- what had been the human cost of Washington up- sion of the rule. annual visits to ending 40 years of bipartisan policy, Women’s rights activists and an immigration especially if the Trump administra- public health experts say the office. At left tion also cuts funding for refugee Trump rule will reach deep into the she peers out of assistance abroad in the upcoming doctor-patient relationship, censor a van stopped budget, including through UNHCR, much information and could lead to by protesters in which gets about 40 percent of its the deaths of thousands of women Phoenix. budget from the U.S. around the world every year. Who The president tweeted after an will tell those stories? The Nether- appeals court declined to rein- lands reacted by promising a fund state his ban that “72% of refugees to offset some of the cuts, with admitted into U.S. (2/3 -2/11) during support from Sweden, Denmark, COURT BREAKDOWN are from 7 Belgium, Luxemburg, Finland, countries: SYRIA, IRAQ, SOMALIA, Canada and Cape Verde. IRAN, SUDAN, LIBYA & YEMEN.” But it’s unlikely they can (His caps.) Those statistics merely mitigate the full impact of the rule reflect the fact that refugees – by or replace the U.S. in many other definition – are fleeing conflict and arenas that could be under threat. repression of the kind currently Washington has frequently pushed underway in those nations. governments to end human rights Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey and violations and to free dissidents. For Kenya, which host enormous years, Washington funded indepen- numbers of people fleeing con- dent groups to foster and encour- flicts in Syria and Somalia, receive age development of civil society hundreds of millions of dollars from groups and advocates who could the U.S. While some governments hold governments to account. If the could take up a bit of the slack in forthcoming budget is trimmed, as cuts to refugee funding, others may many expect, those are some of the have devastating consequences for follow Trump’s suit and cut their first programs that could be frozen many outside the U.S. funding and other commitments as or dramatically downsized. Take the proposed refugee ban, well. In any case, significant cuts in Authoritarian leaders who which is squarely aimed at Muslim U.S. support for refugees will almost fear scrutiny have laws restricting refugees and is being challenged in certainly make life even more mis- foreign funding of human rights the courts. Although there is still a erable for some of the world’s most groups – in Russia, Ethiopia and vast need for aid to the millions dis- vulnerable people. Journalists need Venezuela, for example. They also placed by conflict and crisis around to be there to describe that misery tend to crack down on independent the world, the U.S. has been a leader for Americans and the world. journalism, often demonizing the in resettling refugees, taking in One of Trump’s first orders of media as untrustworthy, corrupt or more than 3.3 million people over business on his first full day on the unpatriotic. It’s hard to imagine that the past 40 years – from Cambo- job was a massive expansion of the a White House that labels any criti- dia, the former-Soviet Union, the so-called Mexico City policy (also cal reporting as “fake news” will put former Yugoslavia, Iran and Sudan, known as the “global gag rule”), money into supporting a free press AP among others. The State Depart- which bans U.S. funding to health or a strong civil society outside the via

ment refugee program’s stated programs that could be linked to U.S. Reporters on the ground are blic u intention has been to promote the abortion. No foreign organization best placed to discover the sources, ep R values of compassion, generosity will be eligible for U.S. funding if it dig up the information and develop ona z and leadership – and was created in tells a woman that abortion could be the stories that really matter. ri A part because the United States did an option or refers her to services– When the U.S. openly flouts hu- he

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Immigrant shrug off criticism of their own in the U.S. will only understand the neighboring countries. Suspend- detainees at torture, indefinite detention and en- brutality of such policies if journalists ing these rules will make it harder a detention forced disappearances. Journalists and activists tell their stories. During to monitor corporate behavior and facility in should be watching to see whether the Obama push to deport undocu- make it easier for corrupt leaders to Florence, Arizona. Washington’s leading by (bad) mented migrants, Human Rights steal and mismanage public funds. Immigration example encourages or empowers Watch actually found American That will increase the need for ac- agents, abuses elsewhere. citizens who had been deported – just curate investigative reporting. emboldened by Closer to home, the executive one example of why we need inde- Since January the world’s at- Trump policies, orders on immigration and border pendent reporting from the ground. tention has been glued to events in have detained security, prioritizing for removal Congress and the Trump Washington. As time goes on, it will thousands in a anyone who has “committed acts administration have also been be up to foreign correspondents to nationwide that constitute a chargeable crimi- moving swiftly to unwind laws that make sure that people back home sweep. nal offense” could uproot millions encourage corporate transparency understand the ongoing effects of of people with deep roots in the and accountability abroad. One the new “America First” policy on U.S., including the parents of Amer- transparency rule under attack the rest of the world – and on Amer- ican children. The administration’s requires listed oil, gas, and min- ica’s image abroad. We won’t know new rules could target anyone who ing companies to publicly disclose which Trump policies cause harm entered the U.S. illegally – which is what they pay governments for (or good) in the wider world unless estimated to cover about half of the production. Another requires U.S. the media invests time and resources 11 million people living in the U.S. companies to disclose sources of in seeking out these stories. without legal status. gold and other conflict minerals. One of the first people known to The first was the result of repeated Emma Daly is communications direc- have been deported under Trump exposes by journalists and human tor of Human Rights Watch, which she was Guadalupe Garcia de Rayos, a rights groups showing that rulers joined after 20 years as a journalist. mother of two U.S.-citizen children, in Angola, Equatorial Guinea and She covered conflict and human rights who came to the U.S. as a 14-year- other resource-rich countries were issues in Central America before join- old. Her only crime was using a fake misusing billions of dollars in funds; ing Britain’s Independent. She spent Social Security number. She was the second came about because two years based in Sarajevo during arrested after checking in with im- journalists and rights groups the Bosnian war and also covered the migration officials, as she had every exposed how business deals were Kosovo conflict and ensuing refugee year since 2008. She was deported enriching abusive warlords in the crisis, and later covered Spain and to Mexico the next morning. Voters Democratic Republic of Congo and Portugal for The New York Times.

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DATELINE 2017 17 Prime Minister Modi Shrinking Press Freedoms in India The subcontinent boasts a diverse and vigorous media, yet pressure and self-censorship make critical coverage of the government increasingly rare.

largest democracy has consistently colonial-era laws on defamation and Anjali Kamat placed in the bottom third of the sedition are routinely abused. World Press Freedom Index, com- “Most of the new television he press is big busi- ing in at 133 out of 180 last year. channels, websites, and newspapers ness in India. And with Veteran Indian journalists argue are not started by people commit- mages over 100,000 newspapers, that a flurry of corporate takeovers ted to journalism but those who see I

T etty nearly a thousand television chan- of media outfits, combined with a the media as an influence-peddling nels, hundreds of radio stations, and rapidly shrinking space for dissent platform to further their own /AFP/G dozens of news websites serving under the current government of personal, political, and financial

the country’s 1.2 billion residents Prime Minister Narendra Modi, interests,” longtime investigative harma in nearly two dozen languages, has had a chilling effect on press journalist Josy Joseph told me. Jo- S oney

business is booming. Yet the world’s freedoms in the country. Moreover, seph, who is fighting a $150 million M

18 DATELINE 2017 defamation lawsuit for his report- Information and Broadcasting Ven- ing, is the national security editor of kaiah Naidu attempted to justify the The Hindu, a family-owned national initial order, saying, “Freedom of the newspaper founded in 1878. He press is very important, but security added that the partisan agendas and unity of the country is the most of most large media houses are in- important.” creasingly aligned with those of the Most of the condemnation of re- ruling right-wing Hindu national- strictions on press freedom has fo- ist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), cused on the elite English-language which came to power in 2014. “The press based in New Delhi and other climate is changing,” media analyst large cities. Yet reporters from the Sevanti Ninan said, noting that rest of the country have long had to “with the watering down of liberal- contend with a more sinister real- without reporting these facts?” Mir Indian soldiers ism across the country, the situation ity. India is not a place that most said that in Kashmir the censorship arrive at an for the press is more oppressive.” international journalists consider is constant, regardless of who is in army base in Uri, Curtailing press freedoms is not to be particularly dangerous. Still, power in New Delhi. “This govern- Kashmir, after it unique to the current government. last year six journalists were killed ment is just more brazen,” he said. was attacked by Historians often point to the brutal in India—most of them small-town Malini Subramaniam, who won rebels. Kashmir crackdown on the media during or rural reporters with local media CPJ’s 2016 International Press news is heavily the two-year Emergency declared outlets who had exposed corruption Freedom Award, had been report- censored. by former Prime Minister Indira or wrongdoing by political leaders ing for five years from the heart Gandhi of the Congress Party in and power brokers. of the central Indian conflict zone 1975 as the country’s darkest period “Our principal concern is im- between Maoist and security forces for democracy and the press. What’s punity and the failure to prosecute for the independent news website unfolding in newsrooms across the people who have killed journalists,” scroll.in, exposing human rights country now, Joseph and several Steven Butler, the Asia Program violations by security forces. In other journalists told me, is not as Coordinator at the Committee to February 2016, she was forced to overt as a formal emergency, but Protect Journalists (CPJ) told me. move out of the state following functions as an unspoken regime “Since the 1990s, at least 27 jour- weeks of intimidation by the police of censorship. Journalists have to nalists have been killed for their and attacks on her home by an be very careful about how they work with no one ever being held anti-Maoist vigilante group. “It is so cover the Modi government and its accountable.” The Geneva-based difficult to access these areas now backers—or risk having their stories Press Emblem Campaign lists an that no one even knows if someone never see the light of day. even higher figure, reporting that gets killed anymore,” she told me. A year and a half ago, the former at least 25 Indian journalists have “The government has created a set executive editor and co-founder of been killed since 2011. of obstructions so that even if the the popular news website Firstpost In the conflict zones of Kash- atrocities are continuing, the news resigned abruptly, citing “editorial mir and parts of the central Indian just doesn’t get out.” pushback,” independent magazine states of Chhatisgarh, Jharkhand, Truth, Subramaniam lamented, The Caravan reported. According to and Orissa, which are controlled by remains the greatest casualty of this sources at Firstpost, certain board Maoist-affiliated rebels, freedom of latest clampdown on reporting from members at the website’s owner – the press remains a mirage. Last year, the area. To a lesser degree, the the media conglomerate Network18, for reasons that were never publicly same holds across India. which in turn is owned by the stated, the Indian government banned country’s largest private corporation, the only independent newspaper in Anjali Kamat is an investigative Reliance Industries—had issued a Kashmir, the Kashmir Reader, for journalist and former correspon- directive warning that any critical three months. Hilal Mir, who edits the dent and producer for Al Jazeera’s coverage of at least three senior po- Reader, said that even since the ban current affairs documentary shows, litical leaders of the BJP, including was lifted in December 2016, the state Fault Lines and Democracy Now! Prime Minister Modi, was off-limits. has continued to pressure the owner Her work has been recognized with Last November, the Indian over editorial content. a Peabody, an Overseas Press Club government threatened to take a na- “Even basic reporting of the award, an RFK award, and four I mages tional private news channel (NDTV) situation here is seen as problem- Emmy nominations. She has reported off the air for a day. Its offence: atic or anti-establishment if it goes from South Asia and the Middle East broadcasting “strategically sensitive” against the narrative of the state in for the past decade and is writing a /AP information about an attack on an any way,” said Mir. “Indian security book on migrant labor in the Middle han

K Indian military base. After an outcry forces are wrongfully arresting old East for Verso Books. She is a etty S harma /AFP/G from the press, the 24-hour-ban was people and shooting at children. member of the Board of Governors khtar

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The1 Hal Boyle Award The2 Bob Considine Award Best newspaper, news service or Best newspaper, news service or digital digital reporting from abroad interpretation of international affairs

Hannah Dreier Simon Denyer, Emily Rauhala and The Associated Press Elizabeth Dwoskin “Venezuela Undone” The Washington Post “Behind the Firewall”

In insightful, enduring, and In “Beyond the Firewall,” richly detailed reports, Dreier Washington Post reporters chronicled the unraveling confronted a subject of of a nation. Venezuela’s vast dimensions and epic humanitarian crisis is not the implications: the Internet story of a people overlooked in China. The idea of the Hannah Dreier by progress; it is the story of Simon Denyer Internet as an inherently a once-prosperous society, democratizing force for with the largest oil reserves in the world, driven good has run up against the by its leaders to the brink of starvation. Dreier reality of China’s campaign bore witness to a collapse of middle-class life to censor in cyberspace. The — food riots, collapsing health care, the dawn of team took readers into the mob justice — and then unearthed its origins, fascinating and bizarre world a combination of mismanagement, political behind the “Great Firewall.” delusion and corruption. Throughout, she also Emily Rauhala They explained how the exposed a less visible realm of ruin: the loss of authoritarian regime in Beijing empathy among neighbors, the corrosion of has utilized social media the soul. Her efforts had consequences. U.S. and web usage to create an senators called for sanctions against corrupt Orwellian surveillance tool, the officials. Readers donated money to pay for a “social credit rating,” to punish child’s medical treatments. At the same time, she and reward every citizen. received threats from Venezuelan intelligence They interviewed dissidents officers and government supporters. Hannah Elisabeth Dwoskin who test the boundaries of an Dreier’s brave and revealing reporting exemplifies implacable crackdown that the legacy of Hal Boyle and the best of foreign has succeeded in blocking tens of thousands correspondence. It is not only a rendering of of websites, yet tolerates certain loopholes for recent history but also a warning for the future. a globally connected minority. The series was smart, vivid and effective, bringing alive a difficult Citation: subject. It explored a frontier where geopolitics Ben Hubbard, Mark Mazzetti, and technology converge, presenting counter- Carlotta Gall, Scott Shane and Nicholas Kulish intuitive questions about how governments The New York Times manage ever-sprawling societies that have the “Secrets of the Kingdom” potential to affect vast numbers of people, far beyond China and far into the future. Sponsor: Norman Pearlstine in memory of Jerry Flint Citation: Tom Burgis, Pilita Clark, Michael Peel, Charlie Bibby and Kari-Ruth Pedersen Judges: Barry Bearak (head); Gady Epstein, Financial Times The Economist; Kari Howard, freelance; Nieman “The Great Land Rush” Storyboard; Kerry Luft, Max McGraw Wildlife Foundation Sponsor: William J. Holstein and Rita Sevell

Judges: Sebastian Rotella (head), ProPublica; Chris Kraul, freelance; Ginger Thompson, ProPublica; Calvin Sims, International House New 22 DATELINE 2017 York; Tim Golden, freelance The3 Robert Capa The4 Olivier Rebbot Award Gold Medal Award Best photographic reporting from abroad Best published photographic reporting in any medium from abroad requiring exceptional courage and enterprise Daniel Berehulak The New York Times. Bryan Denton and Sergey Ponomarev “They Are Slaughtering Us Like Animals” The New York Times “What ISIS Wrought”

Bryan Denton and Sergey Daniel Berehulak’s riveting Ponomarev showed photographs captured, exceptional courage, intimately and in depth, the advancing with Iraqi Special lives and deaths of those Forces and Kurdish fighters affected by the Philippine drug into Islamic State-occupied war. It was visual story telling at Bryan Denton areas, and they captured Danial Berehulak its best: images that one judge intimate views into the lives described as a “journey through of those affected by war. The hell.” The work also brought wide attention to a images were artful as well as story that had been largely overlooked. powerfully journalistic. Citation: Citation: Aris Messinis Goran Tomasevic, Agence France Presse Zohra Bensemra, “Desperate Journey” Sergey Ponomarev Mohammed Salem and Ahmed Jadallah Sponsor: Getty Images Reuters “Battle for Mosul” (Judges David Furst and Adrees Latif recused themselves) Sponsor: TIME Magazine

Judges for the three photography awards: Adrees Latif (head), Reuters; Carol Guzy, freelance; David Furst, The New York Times; Sarah Leen, National Geographic; Kira Pollack, TIME Magazine; Michael Kamber, freelance

(Judges David Furst and Adrees Latif recused themselves from Robert Capa Award selections)

DATELINE 2017 23 The Robert Capa Gold Medal award Bryan Denton and Sergey Ponomarev The New York Times “What ISIS Wrought”

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In the battle for than 70,000 cries over the Mosul, civilians people had been body of his paid a heavy displaced from father, who was price. When Iraq’s second gunned down by these photos largest city. an Islamic State were taken, more At left, a boy sniper. DATELINE 2017 25 Overseas press club of america Annual Award winners 2016 78 th ANNUAL AWARDS DINNER AT OVERSEAS The5 Feature Photography The6 Lowell Thomas Award Award PRESS CLUB Best radio, audio or podcast news or Best feature photography published in any interpretation of international affairs OF AMERICA medium on an international theme Emily Harris, Gabe O’Connor, Barry Gordemer, Meridith Kohut Michael May and Larry Kaplow The New York Times NPR “Inside Venezuela’s Crumbling “Moments of change for Mental Hospitals” Palestinians and Israelis”

Meridith Kohut’s moving What causes people to change images brought attention their minds, their beliefs, their to the plight of people view of the forces shaping their in Venezuela’s state-run lives? These four powerful psychiatric hospitals, places and nuanced stories describe that have been all but such pivotal moments for Meridith Kohut forgotten in that country’s Emily Harris people living in the middle of disintegration. The stark, the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. powerful photographs from inside the halls of Emily Harris introduces us to a those institutions grimly cast a light on endemic Palestinian man whose empathy suffering and malnourishment. transforms him from revenge seeker to peace activist. Then Citation: we meet a Palestinian woman, Tomas Munita long involved in peace activism, The New York Times Gabe O’Connor who becomes alienated from “Cuba on the Edge of Change” the process and from her former Israeli friends. An Sponsor: Cyma Rubin, Business of Israeli woman changes from Entertainment settlement opponent to West Bank settler. And a former (Judge David Furst recused himself) Israeli soldier, once a proud defender of the nation, suddenly Barry Gordemer sees himself as “occupier” when he smiles at a young Palestinian girl and catches her look of fear in response. These profound transformations, pulling in different directions, Outstanding Performances deftly remind listeners of the many facets of this conflict, and For Everything that Moves the World Michael May they presage the challenges of finding a lasting peace. The world is in motion. This makes an objective and critical view of changes and Citation: ground-breaking developments even more important. The Overseas Press Club of America Jasmine Garsd PRI’s The World assumes its responsibilities and recognizes exemplary communication. We appreciate this “Women of Colombia’s War” important work and are happy to support it. Congratulations to all of the award winners and their outstanding contributions. Larry Kaplow Judges: Ann Cooper (head), Columbia School of Journalism; Anne Garrels, author; Diantha Parker, freelance; Arun Venugopal, WNYC; Mary Kay Magistad, freelance www.daimler.com

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DATELINE 2017 29 Overseas press club of america Annual Award winners 2016

The7 David Kaplan Award The8 Edward R. Murrow Award Best TV or video spot news reporting from abroad Best TV, video or documentary interpretation of international affairs less than one hour Clarissa Ward CNN Beth Murphy, Charles Sennott, “Undercover in Syria” Justine Nagan, Chris White and Sally Jo Fifer PBS POV/GroundTruth “What Tomorrow Brings”

In a year marked by brave and This documentary transported courageous reporting, Clarissa the life-and-death war for Ward and her team at CNN women’s rights in Afghanistan stood out for the incredible right into American living risk they took to bring their rooms. In a crystal-clear stories from Syria to light. The story about an all-girls school Clarissa Ward images, editing, and writing Beth Murphy northeast of Kabul, the PBS brought jarring resonance to team brilliantly illuminated the a critical story. With poignant interviews, CNN’s lives of the girls, their families team told difficult stories without resorting to and the courageous teachers and administrators hype. It didn’t just address the what, but the striving to survive constant cultural, economic why, including why doctors don’t leave and the and political challenges. implications for institutions under direct attack. This report exemplified international television Citation: reporting at its finest. Morgan Till, Jane Ferguson, Jane Arraf, Jon Gerberg and Sara Just Sponsor: Ben and Karen Sherwood PBS NewsHour/Pulitzer Center “The Fight for Iraq” Judges: Edith Chapin (head), NPR; Eric Marrapodi, NBC; Diane Ruggiero, CNN; Sponsor: CBS Ellen Shearer, Northwestern University; Gerry Holmes, NPR Judges: Allan Dodds-Frank (head), freelance; Walt Bogdanich, The New York Times; (Judge Ruggiero recused herself from the final Kathleen Campion, freelance; Kitty Pilgrim, selection) author; Roxana Saberi, freelance

30 DATELINE 2017 The9 Peter Jennings Award The10 Ed Cunningham Award Best TV, video or documentary about Best magazine reporting in print or digital international affairs one hour or longer on an international story

The Real Sports Team Anand Gopal HBO’s Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel The Atlantic “The Lords of the Rings” “The Hell After ISIS”

HBO’s documentary, the first recipient in this Anand Gopal’s “The Hell After new OPC category, exemplified the core values ISIS” is a beautifully written of Peter Jennings’ reporting: commitment to account of the consequences covering international of war. His narrative, based stories, unflinching on 13 months of reporting, dedication to the recounts the suffering of one craft of journalism, Anand Gopal Sunni family in Iraq, fleeing consistent inquiry to uncover all aspects of a ISIS jihadists only to fall prey story, and the courage to follow the story no to unforgiving Shia militias. Gopal was detained matter the consequences. “The Lord of the and expelled from Iraq, but managed to return Rings” was an ambitious, unique and riveting to complete this compelling narrative that sheds expose that explained the painful human and light on both the rise of ISIS and the global environmental cost of the Olympic Games and refugee crisis. the unethical practices of its organizing body, the International Olympics Committee, the Citation: wealthiest sports organization in the world. Scott Anderson Reported over two years from nine countries The New York Times Magazine with four correspondents, the 75-minute long “Fractured Lands” program aired on the eve of the 2016 Rio Games and revealed that the IOC pursues Sponsor: Ford Motor Company wealth, privilege and glory for its members at a staggering cost to people around the world. This Judges: Robert Friedman (head), Bloomberg complex and disturbing story shed new light on News; Barbara Demick, Los Angeles Times; the IOC and uncovered graft and corruption at Stephan Faris, Politico Europe; Laurie Hayes, a great cost to human rights and dignity at the Brunswick Group; Liam Stack, The New York Olympic Games. Times

Sponsor: The Jennings Family (Judge Stack recused himself from the citation decision.) Judges: Abi Wright (head), Columbia School of Journalism; Liz O. Baylen, The New York Times; Jonathan Jones, Center for Investigative Reporting; Cynthia Lopez, freelance producer

DATELINE 2017 31 The feature Photography award Meridith Kohut The New York Times “Inside Venezuela’s Crumbling Mental Hospitals”

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The11 Thomas Nast Award The12 Morton Frank Award Best cartoons on international affairs Best magazine international business news reporting in print or digital Steve Sack Minneapolis Star Tribune Matthew Campbell and Kit Chellel Bloomberg Businessweek “Hot Mess: How Goldman Sachs Lost $1.2 Billion of Libya’s Money”

Steve Sack successfully Matthew Campbell and Kit harnessed all the cartoonist’s Chellel’s engaging piece about tools — caricature, a multi-billion-dollar deal composition, biting wit and between Goldman Sachs and solid journalism — in his Qaddafi’s Libya was a feat of impressive portfolio. Visually storytelling. The careful and Steve Sack engaging and often smile- Matthew Campbell vivid selection of details -- a inducing, Sack covered a wide banned novel resting on the variety of subjects, from the erosion of coral reefs table, a late-night call to a to the suffering of Syrian civilians, with skill, style prostitute in Dubai, the long and aplomb. wait for an elevator in Tripoli — brought a cinematic quality to Citation: the writing. The reporting was Adam Zyglis equally impressive. The story, The Buffalo News Kit Chellel drawn from court documents and interviews, created three- Sponsor: Daimler dimensional characters and offered readers a rare glimpse into how secretive financial deals Judges: Kal Kallaugher (head), freelance; are sealed. It was a thrilling collision between two Robert Ruby, Freedom House; of the biggest news themes of the past decade -- Jenny Robb, Ohio State University; the financial crisis of 2008 and an autocracy on David Horsey, Los Angeles Times its last legs before the Arab Spring.

Citation: Jordan Robertson, Michael Riley and Andrew Willis Bloomberg Businessweek “How to Hack an Election”

Sponsor: Marc Lemcke

Judges: Farnaz Fassihi (head), Wall Street Journal; Aryn Baker, TIME Magazine; Anna Fifield, The Washington Post; Jesse Pesta, The New York Times; Robert Worth, The New York Times magazine

34 DATELINE 2017 The13 Malcolm Forbes Award The14 Cornelius Ryan Award Best international business news reporting in Best non-fiction book on international affairs newspapers, news services or digital Arkady Ostrovsky International Consortium of Investigative Viking/Penguin Random House Journalists, McClatchy, the Miami Herald and “The Invention of Russia: From Gorbachev’s more than 100 other media partners Freedom to Putin’s War” “The Panama Papers: Politicians, Criminals and the Rogue Industry That Hides Their Cash”

Using documents leaked from a Panamanian Grippingly told and brimming law firm, this highly innovative global coalition with brilliant insights, “The of news organizations shocked the world with Invention of Russia: From detailed accounts Gorbachev’s Freedom to of how political and Putin’s War” explained the past business elites, arms 60 years of Russia’s turbulent dealers and others Arkady Ostrovsky political development. Arkady hid their wealth in Ostrovsky, a veteran Russian- secretive webs of born journalist who has been on the scene at more than 200,000 offshore banking entities. historical events, immersed himself in years of More than 400 journalists from nearly 80 Russian newspapers and TV programming, and countries took part in the remarkably complex conducted candid interviews with dozens of project. The sheer scale of the project, lasting Russia’s leading politicians, oligarchs and media over a period of years, surpassed the best efforts kingmakers. The result was a fascinating and of any single news organization. compelling insider account of how power has been won and lost among Russia’s ruling elite. Citation: Ostrovsky highlighted the outsized influence Rob Barry, Christopher S. Stewart, of the Russian media, from the pioneering Mark Maremont, Margaret Coker and newspaper Kommersant to the national TV Benoit Faucon networks and their often amoral news anchors. The Wall Street Journal In one chilling anecdote, political reformer Boris “Accounting For Terror” Nemstov visits the office of Russia’s newly elected president, Vladimir Putin, and sees Sponsor: Forbes Magazine nothing on Putin’s desk except a TV remote control. Putin would soon establish complete Judges: Bill Holstein (head); Pete Engardio, Boston Consulting Group; Stephanie Mehta, power over Russian media; years later, Nemstov Vanity Fair; Leah Nathans Spiro, Riverside would be assassinated. Creative; Jo Ling Kent, NBC News Citation: Robert F. Worth “A Rage for Order: The Middle East in Turmoil, from Tahrir Square to ISIS”

Sponsor: Friends of Richard Threlkeld

Judges: Dan Hertzberg (head), freelance; John Bussey, The Wall Street Journal; Neil Hickey, The Columbia Journalism Review; Jennifer Siebens, freelance

DATELINE 2017 35 Overseas press club of america Annual Award winners 2016

The15 Madeline Dane Ross The16 David A. Andelman and Award Pamela Title Award Best international reporting in print or digital Best international reporting in the broadcast showing a concern for the human condition media showing a concern for the human condition Robyn Dixon Los Angeles Times Marcel Mettelsiefen, Dan Edge, Andrew Metz “South Sudan Slips Back Toward Chaos” and Raney Aronson PBS Frontline “Children of Syria”

Robyn Dixon’s vivid dispatches This was a captivating piece from Nigeria and South of documentary-making. Sudan read like novellas, with While there have been many strong central characters stories on the Syrian refugee presented not in archetype but crisis, PBS produced a lovely, in all their complex humanity layered story of tragedy and Robyn Dixon as they struggle against Marcel Mattelsiefen hope that added context corruption, terrorism and to the migrant story. The civil war. Thorough, revelatory news reporting team perfectly captured the undergirded these tales, but Dixon kept the emotion of a family dealing focus on ordinary people in unimaginable with war and its effects. The circumstances: a big-hearted father of 25, a focus switched from person driving teacher on perilous roads, a teenage girl to person seamlessly, building traded for cattle. The lyrical storytelling offered rich pictures of each family a fresh look at African lives that have slipped Dan Edge member. When the family from view as U.S. news outlets shrink foreign arrives in Germany, each coverage. A concern for the human condition member is seen coping in was embedded in Dixon’s journalism — her different ways with their new subjects are survivors, and their capacity for lives. The eldest daughter resilience lingered with the reader. Dixon’s work makes German friends, was a master class in foreign reporting that shedding her hijab for lipstick preserves the dignity and voices of the people and for the first time in her who trust us with their stories. Andrew Metz life feeling free. Her mother, however, seems adrift without Citation: her husband of 21 years, lonely Kathy Gannon and confused in a strange The Associated Press country. The cinematography “Honor Bound” was first rate.

Sponsor: Linda Fasulo Raney Aronson Judges: Hannah Allam (head), McClatchy; Bob Dowling, freelance; S. Mitra Kalita, CNN; Citation: Ernesto Londono, The New York Times; James Blumeil, Dan Edge, Andrew Metz John Yearwood, International Press Institute and Raney Aronson PBS Frontline “Exodus”

Sponsor: David A. Andelman and Pamela Title

Judges: Denise Vance (head), The Associated Press; Tony Cavin, CBS; John Clarke, Reuters TV; Robert Reid, Stars and Stripes

36 DATELINE 2017 The17 Joe and Laurie Dine The18 Whitman Bassow Award Award Best reporting in any medium on Best international reporting in any medium international environmental issues dealing with human rights Elliott D. Woods The Associated Press Staff Virginia Quarterly Review/Pulitzer Center The Associated Press “The Fight for Chinko” ”Islamic State: A Savage Legacy”

AP’s “Savage Legacy” series In a raw and unique tale from was a powerful reminder of the the Central African Republic, role that the basic business Woods described in vivid detail of journalism — getting the how three 20-somethings run facts — still plays in the battle the remote, 38,000-square- against human rights abuses, mile Chinko wildlife preserve. war crimes and crimes against humanity. The Elliot D. Woods In his lone, intrepid journey, series also underlined how the reach of a global Woods captured the chilling news agency can tell a story that goes beyond terror and life-threatening peril the small team one country or region, showing the patterns endures in the course of their work, including that reflect systematized atrocities. The series how they stave off murderous gunmen and is also a testament to the spirit and endurance spend months in an overcrowded jail. All this in of public service journalism. While officials were order to keep alive one of Africa’s most pristine slow to document the deaths and destruction habitats, with herds of elephant, antelope, rhinos of the Islamic State, AP reporters, often at great and a multitude of other animals. The story, personal risk, took an active role collecting written with sensitivity and attentiveness, cast a evidence of the tragedies and despair. The AP light on the grueling, back-breaking effort needed documented the existence of 72 mass graves to protect wildlife in a country with no resources, and the destruction of cultural and religious rampant corruption, and brutal horrors. sites by corroborating survivor testimony with satellite imagery, on the ground reporting and Sponsor: Citi reports from local rights groups. The result was a series of stories that established not just the Judges: Vivienne Walt, (head) TIME Magazine; terrible facts, but gave voice to the survivors of James Graff, The Wall Street Journal; atrocities, implicitly challenging the international Brad Plumer, Vox; Eric Roston, Bloomberg; community to ensure that the perpetrators are Susanne Rust, Columbia University eventually held to account.

Citation: Rachel Nolan Harpers “Innocents: Where Pregnant Women Have More to Fear than Zika”

Sponsor: Philip Dine

Judges: Anya Schiffrin (head), Columbia University; Jonathan Birchall, Open Society Foundations; Rebecca Chao, Foreign Affairs; Nin-hai Tseng, Fortune

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DATELINE 2017 39 Overseas press club of america Annual Award winners 2016

The19 Robert Spiers Benjamin Bes20t Digital Reporting on Award International Affairs Best reporting in any medium on Best story or series of stories using creative Latin America and dynamic digital storytelling techniques

Nadja Drost, Bruno Federico, Morgan Till, Malia Politzer and Emily Kassie Patti Parson and Sara Just The Huffington Post/Pulitzer Center PBS NewsHour “The 21st Century Gold Rush” “Fight for Peace”

The PBS NewsHour team took In a category dominated by the on a difficult and at times global refugee crisis, “The 21st dangerous assignment about a Century Gold Rush” charted complex issue and succeeded fresh territory in a well- in obtaining unique access to traversed international issue by produce a series of reports digging deeply into those who Nadja Drost that enlightened and informed. Malia Politzer have profited from the refugee The reporting reflected crisis. Spanning four countries, courage, nuance, big-picture with characters from warlords analysis and observed details. to sex slaves, Huffington Post At the core of this team were reporters Malia Politzer and two independent journalists Emily Kassie worked tirelessly who dedicated themselves to to uncover a hidden side of the being on the ground to cover economics of global migration, Bruno Federico the story. They teamed up with Emily Kassie and told it through powerful a prestigious national news digital storytelling. Integrating organization that allowed them text, photography, ambient video, documentary to produce a powerful body video and animations, the story was a seamless of work that reached a wide and searing window into a dangerous ecosystem audience on television and that is only just coming to light. online. It was a partnership that represented the very best Citation: Morgan Till of international news in the Evan Ratliff digital age. The Atavist Magazine “The Mastermind” Citation: Jon Lee Anderson Sponsor: Google The New Yorker “The Distant Shore” Judges: Azmat Khan (head), New America; Ryan Devereaux, The Intercept; Ashley Forde, Patti Parson Sponsor: JetBlue Matter Studios; Ethar El Katatney, AJ+; Dodai Stewart, Fusion; Judges: Charles Sennott Lam Vo, BuzzFeed Open Lab (head), GroundTruth Project; Tom Hundley, Pulitzer Center; Ernest Sotomayor, Columbia University; David Adams, freelance; Mary Rajkumar, AP Sara Just

40 DATELINE 2017 Bes21t Investigative Bes22t Commentary Reporting Best commentary in any medium on Best investigative reporting in any medium international news on an international story Masha Gessen Ben Taub The New York Review of Books The New Yorker/Pulitzer Center “Trump, Russia and the Reality of Power” “War Crimes in Syria”

The war in Syria has generated If ever a year summoned headlines around the world, many commentators to think of them focusing on atrocities outside the conventional committed by the militant group, boundaries, it was 2016. Islamic State. Less understood The world’s last superpower is the saga of torture and murder elected an impetuous, self- Ben Taub going on in every corner of the Masha Gessen absorbed reality TV star to Syrian government’s security and be its commander in chief. intelligence apparatus. In an exhaustively detailed His campaign evidently was assisted — in what account, Ben Taub of The New Yorker laid bare measure we still don’t know — by a Russia that the horrific campaign to stamp out opposition, remains a virtual dictatorship. It was a year made sanctioned by top levels of Syrian President for Masha Gessen. In essays written for The New Bashar al-Assad’s government. Based on a heroic York Review of Books, the Russian-born journalist international effort to gather documentation and author brilliantly deconstructed the Trump- of these war crimes, Taub’s account took the Putin relationship, confronted unquestioned more than 600,000 photos, internal memos and assumptions about how power works, and witness statements and wove a powerful and described a profound crisis of democracy. heartbreaking story of a government waging war Some of her dark forecasts (a stock market on its own citizens. Taub spent months poring crash if Trump won) have not come true (yet), through files to collect evidence of at least 11,000 but there is much she got right, not least the victims mutilated, cut, burned, shot, beaten and ascent of Trump. “It’s time to force ourselves to strangled by the powerful apparatus of the Syrian imagine the unimaginable…Trump being elected state. His meticulous review of the documents was president.” That was in July. Whether or not supplemented by his own unforgettable interviews you shared her deep pessimism about a Trump with one of the regime’s torture victims, and the presidency, she made you think. dramatic saga of the war crimes investigators themselves — lending a powerful humanity to Citation: the document dive. The result was a piece that Trudy Rubin deployed the best traditions of investigative The Philadelphia Inquirer journalism to achieve a chilling and unforgettable “Columns from hots spots and home on US narrative that truly holds power to account. foreign policy challenges of the new era”

Citation: Sponsor: Robert Serio Chris Hamby BuzzFeed News Judges: Bill Keller (head), The Marshall Project; “Secrets of a Global Super Court” Scott MacLeod, The Cairo Review of Global Affairs; Lydia Polgreen, The Huffington Post; Sponsor: Michael Serrill David Shipley, Bloomberg View

Judges: Kim Murphy (head), Los Angeles Times; Gillian Tett, US managing editor, Financial Times; Bill Rempel, freelance; Mary Beth Sheridan, The Washington Post; Henry Chu, Variety

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