THE MONTHLY NEWSLETTER OF THE OVERSEAS PRESS CLUB OF AMERICA, NEW YORK, NY • December 2016 Panelists Inspire Student Photographers at Bronx Center ber Award-winning series EVENT RECAP from four New York Times By Chad Bouchard photographers; Mauricio Though new image publish- Lima, Sergey Ponomarev, ing platforms like Instagram have Tyler Hicks and Daniel Et- changed the business of photojour- ter. The series followed the nalism, students must still hone tra- plight of refugees pouring ditional skills of reporting and sto- into Europe from , Af- rytelling.

ghanistan and Iraq during Chad Bouchard That was one of the key lessons the migrant crisis in 2015. Pancho Bernasconi, on left, and Robert Nickels- presented to the Bronx Documen- “Sequencing is incred- tary Center’s high school and adult berg talk to students at the Bronx Documentary ibly important in this par- photography students during a Dec. Center. ticular essay,” he said. 12 talk and slideshow to discuss from abroad in magazines or books winning photos from the OPC’s an- “Arriving, moving, sleeping, mov- in 2013. Bernasconi encouraged the nual awards competition this year. ing, running, struggling – and the students to sharpen skills at home Panelists were Pancho Ber- perfect thoughtful ending frame,” on familiar subjects. nasconi, the OPC’s third vice presi- which showed piles of abandoned “One of the first things about be- dent who serves as vice president/ life jackets in Greece. ing a good global photojournalist is news for Getty Images, and Robert Nickelsberg’s book, Afghani- being a good local photojournalist,” Nickelsberg, an OPC governor who stan – A Distant War, was awarded he said, noting that most experienced has worked as a freelance photo- the OPC’s Olivier Rebbot Award photojournalists begin by shooting journalist for nearly 30 years. for best photographic reporting (Continued on Page 4) Nickelsberg told the students that photos presented as an essay or slide show must connect from one You are Invited: to the other “to have sort of a score, as in music, that works from the be- ginning to the end.” the OPC Holiday Party He demonstrated using photos from “Exodus,” the 2015 John Fa- Tuesday, January 10 Come celebrate the season with colleagues on Tuesday, Jan. 10, Inside. . . from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. at Club Quarters. The event will be held in the dining room. Preview: Trump-Putin Connection.....2 Preview: Middle East Hands ...... 2 The party features an open bar with wine and beer, hot and cold Panel Recap: China Innovation...... 3 hors d’oeuvres, Atlantic salmon, filet mignon and dessert and coffee. Panel Recap: Following Trump...... 3 Righting a Wrong...... 4 The cost is $50 per person. Advance reservations are essential. Please click on this image to RSVP and select a payment op- People Column...... 6-8 tion, or send a check to the OPC at 40 West 45th Street, Press Freedom Update...... 9-10 New York, NY 10036. Q&A: Keith Richburg...... 11 New Books...... 12 Panel to Explore Effects of US date for names of other panelists. The event will begin at 6:00 p.m. at the Kellogg Election Hacks From Russia Center, Room 1501, International Affairs Building, 420 W 118th Street, 15th Floor. Admission is free, but please EVENT PREVIEW: Jan. 18 RSVP via the button below.

Click here to RSVP for the Trump-Putin Panel. Wikimedia Commons Wikimedia Etienne Oliveau/Getty Images Drew Angerer/Getty Images Middle East Hands to Gather As the world prepares for Donald Trump’s inauguration as President of the United States, Russia EVENT PREVIEW: March 1 experts will examine the impact of Russian hackers The OPC and International House are pleased to on the U.S. election and what the close relationship host a major gathering of foreign correspondents who between the two leaders portends for press freedom and covered the Middle East over the past five decades to global order. discuss the future of the region and media coverage in The event, titled “The Trump-Putin Connection: the wake of recent geopolitical changes. Please check What Does It Mean For Journalists and Global Order?” our website closer to the date for a list of speakers. is co-sponsored by the OPC, the Harriman Institute and The event will get underway with a reception at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. International House, 500 Riverside Drive, at 6:30 p.m. Alexander Cooley, director of the Harriman Institute, will moderate. Panelists include Masha in the Hall of History on the 2nd floor. The program will Gessen, author of The Man Without a Face: The begin at 7:30 p.m. in Davis Hall, also on the 2nd floor. Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin, and other books, and Admission is free, but please RSVP via the button below. Kimberly Marten, director the U.S.-Russia relations Click here to RSVP for the Middle East Hands Reunion. program at Harriman. Check our website closer to the OVERSEAS PRESS CLUB OF AMERICA • BOARD OF GOVERNORS PRESIDENT ACTIVE BOARD Charles Graeber Robert Nickelsberg ASSOCIATE BOARD PAST PRESIDENTS Deidre Depke Hannah Allam Freelance Journalist Freelance ­MEMBERS EX-OFFICIO New York Bureau Chief Foreign Affairs and Author Photojournalist Marcus Mabry Marketplace Correspondent Bill Collins Michael Serrill Michael Oreskes Director, Public & McClatchy Steve Herman Senior Vice President David A. Andelman FIRST VICE PRESIDENT Newspapers of News / Business Affairs John Corporon Deborah Amos Senior Diplomatic Ford Motor Company Correspondent Editorial Director Allan Dodds Frank Correspondent Molly Bingham NPR Alexis Gelber Voice of America NPR President & CEO Emma Daly William J. Holstein OrbMedia, Inc. Mary Rajkumar Communications Marshall Loeb SECOND VICE PRESIDENT Douglas Jehl International Enterprise Director Larry Martz Calvin Sims Foreign Editor Editor Human Rights Watch Rukmini Callimachi The Associated Press Larry Smith President and CEO Foreign The Washington Post Richard B. Stolley International House Sarah Lubman Correspondent Roxana Saberi Freelance Journalist Partner Anjali Kamat Brunswick Group EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR THIRD VICE PRESIDENT Patricia Kranz Pancho Bernasconi Correspondent Anupreeta Das Lara Setrakian Vice President/News Fault Lines Daniel Sieberg Reporter Co-Founder & CEO Getty Images Al Jazeera English News Deeply Global Head OFFICE MANAGER Wall Street Journal of Media Outreach Boots R. Duque TREASURER Scott Kraft Martin Smith Google Chris Dickey President Abigail Pesta Deputy Managing Editor EDITOR Foreign Editor Rain Media Chad Bouchard Freelance Journalist Los Angeles Times Minky Worden The Daily Beast, Director of Global Charles Wallace Paris Initiatives OPC SECRETARY Rachael Morehouse Freelance Writer Liam Stack Human Rights Watch ISSN-0738-7202 Breaking News Scott Gilmore Associate Producer Vivienne Walt ­Copyright © 2015 Reporter International Columnist CBS News Correspondent Over­seas Press Club The New York Times Maclean’s Magazine 60 Minutes TIME and FORTUNE of America 40 West 45 Street, New York, NY 10036 USA • Phone: (212) 626-9220 • Fax: (212) 626-9210 • Website: opcofamerica.org OPC Bulletin • December 2016 • Page 2 Experts Discuss China’s High-Tech Business Ambitions EVENT RECAP By Chad Bouchard In 2015, China raised eyebrows when it unveiled an aggressive “Made in China 2025” plan to modernize the country’s industries over the next decade, with a focus on advanced technologies and innovation. On Wednesday, Nov. 16, the OPC, the National Com- mittee on U.S.-China Relations, the Asia Society’s Chi- naFile and Silicon Dragon co-hosted a forum to discuss the outlook of this ambitious proposal and prospects for

transformation. Chad Bouchard “This is an extraordinary undertaking,” said William Left to right: Yu Zhou, Orville Schell, William J. Holstein J. Holstein, who moderated the panel. “They’re trying to and Weiping Wu. force the pace of change so that they can create new jobs, not fundamentally breakthrough innovation,” he said. new high-quality, value-added jobs that will replace the “There are some impressive things, technologically, in jobs that are going off to Vietnam or Cambodia.” the state sector, but I think that from an American per- He asked panelists to address whether China would spective, what we’re interested in is whether non-state be able to innovate technologically on a global scale in players can innovate rather than just borrow.” private-business sectors. Yu Zhou, co-editor of China as an Innovation Na- “So far, China has largely borrowed Western models tion and professor of geography and Asian studies at – Google and so on – and adapted them to the Chinese Vassar College, cautioned against defining innovation market, driven down the cost of cell phones, or done too narrowly as merely individuals who discover break- things that we would regard as sort of derivative, but (Continued on Page 5) Christopher Morris Presents Trump Photos in Paris EVENT RECAP By Vivienne Walt On Nov. 30, the OPC co-hosted an evening at the American Library in Paris with veteran photogra- pher and OPC award winner Christopher Morris, who showed photos and video of Donald Trump’s election campaign that he took while on assignment for TIME magazine. Morris’s close-up look at Trump’s candidacy drew a standing-room-only crowd of about 100 people. Just three weeks after the election, the audience – a mix of Christopher Dickey American and French – was enthralled by Morris’s de- Christopher Morris discusses his photos with attendees scription of Trump’s performance on the stump, as well at the American Library in Paris. as his throngs of supporters. Morris said that while American Library director Charles Trueheart, a for- traveling on the campaign trail, he felt the Trump phe- mer Washington Post correspondent, and the library’s nomenon was like a “tidal wave” sweeping the U.S., program director, Grant Rosenberg, a former TIME that would be impossible for any candidate to over- correspondent. To Walt and Dickey, the library, which come. Most chilling was Morris’s video footage, which sits in the shadow of the Eiffel Tower, seemed the per- he shot for TIME using an extreme slow-motion cam- fect place to introduce the OPC to Paris, a city that’s era, that was overlaid with audio of Trump’s speeches. experienced more than its share of major news lately. The effect gave the 2016 campaign an almost dysto- Not only is the library run by former journalists, but pian quality, which provoked a lot of discussion. it has been a convivial place for American writers The evening was organized by OPC board member since it opened in 1920 – even before the OPC! – and Vivienne Walt and former board member Christopher counts among its early members Ernest Hemingway Dickey – both based in Paris – in collaboration with and Gertrude Stein.

OPC Bulletin • December 2016 • Page 3 Righting a Wrong – After 42 Years By Patricia Kranz in the eyes of not only our players but Early this year, I received a sur- the public who place such a high value prising letter. The athletic director of on it.” The men’s basketball coach the University of Michigan was of- agreed. Not until 1989 did female ath- fering me a free varsity letter jacket. I letes at Michigan get the same jacket already had a jacket in my closet that as the men. I had saved since winning it as a ten- Warde Manuel, the current athletic nis player from 1973 to 1975, despite director, decided to right this wrong having moved from Michigan to Paris and offer all women varsity athletes to Vermont to New York to Maryland from 1973 to 1989 a block M jacket. to Russia and then back to New York. And on Nov. 18 and 19, the university At the time, I did not realize that I honored us with two days of activities, was a member of the university’s first culminating with a ceremony at half- women’s varsity tennis team. I also time of the football game with Indiana did not realize that the jacket they University. Over 300 of us, clad in our gave me back then was not the same jackets, ran through the tunnel on to as the jackets the varsity mens’ teams the field of “The Big House” to the ap- were given. (Some journalist I was!) plause of over 110,000 people. Patricia Kranz holds her old Univer- The new jacket has leather sleeves, The recognition was heart-warm- sity of Michigan varsity letter jacket not wool, and a bigger maize-colored ing, if a long time coming. I found while wearing a new one that features “block M,” just like the men’s. Back that many of the other early women proper school colors and design. in 1974, legendary Michigan football letter winners also did not know that from Michigan, I watched the Amazon coach Bo Schembechler opposed giv- they were on the first varsity teams. series “Good Girls Revolt,” based on ing the jackets to women, saying it Females had been playing on informal a book by Lynn Povitch about female would “minimize the value of the ‘M’ “club” teams, and the university did researchers at Newsweek who filed a not even notify us when class action suit in 1970 to get equal the teams were granted pay and treatment with men. (Women varsity status, thanks in could not be listed on the masthead as part to Title IX, a fed- reporters or writers despite doing re- eral law that required porting and writing that helped their schools to give equal male colleagues!) I loved the series treatment to women in so much, I immediately bought and educational programs. downloaded the book. Without giving (In my Illinois high a reason, Amazon recently declined to school, prior to Title IX, sign the series to a second season. De- I was a co-founder of spite the progress that has been made More than 300 women wearing newly issued Univer- the first girls’ tennis and in women’s rights in my lifetime, there sity of Michigan varsity letter jackets displayed on golf teams.) is still a long road ahead for the next the scoreboard during a halftime ceremony. Soon after returning generation. (‘Photojournalism’ Continued From Page 1) Nickelsberg encouraged students to find creative “in their neighborhood, in their building, on their block, ways to publish and share photographs. “As corporations down the street. That’s how all great photography starts. in journalism are letting people loose, it’s compressing You do what you know.” and it’s become more and more difficult to find these “The world we live in is a visual world. Whatever outlets, so a lot of it is based on your own enterprise and we think of the platforms and what they’re doing to the technology that we didn’t have.” business, you share and receive and feel affected by the The OPC donated more than 100 photo books to the visuals around you, and I think the dynamic of words and center, including many that were submitted for award pictures together will continue to evolve and change.” consideration and some sent for OPC archives over the “Photography gives you the permission to be curious decades. The books will be added to the center’s library. about your world,” he added. “So focus on that, whether Michael Kamber opened the center after spending it’s a difficult world or a calm world, but there is also a a decade photographing conflict and war for The New responsibility to tell that story correctly.” York Times.

OPC Bulletin • December 2016 • Page 4 (‘China Innovation’ Continued From Page 3) throughs. She said innovation often arises from groups JOHN MORRIS TURNS 100 of people working in related areas and building on each other’s work. “If we go with that definition, thinking about innova- tion as a cumulative, collective process, I think China has done a lot in terms of moving into innovation.” Weiping Wu, a professor of urban planning at Colum- bia University, said research funding doesn’t flow from the Chinese government to universities, but it flows to public research institutes. “The enforcement of intellectual property rights can be actually a hindrance for countries and regimes that are go- ing through adaptation and hence it’s only more recently you see the rapid growth of patent applications in China.” Zhou added that although China’s patent laws are not as robust as those in the West, there are still practical bar- Left to right: OPC Governor Vivienne Walt, former riers that keep firms from stealing high-tech ideas. OPC executive director Sonya Fry and longtime “You might have this wonderful idea to build high OPC member Mort Rosenblum. The group gath- speed rail, but can you really easily steal that? You need a ered in Paris to celebrate the 100th birthday of lot of other associated sectors” and overcome high cost of veteran OPC member and renowned photo editor entry to bring innovations to market. John Morris. Rosenblum holds a proclamation Orville Schell, the Arthur Ross Director of the Cen- from the OPC that he had written for the occa- ter on U.S.-China Relations at Asia Society, said though sion. Unfortunately, Morris was not able to attend China’s system is closed compared to the free-wheeling market that Westerners are accustomed to, he is amazed his own party because he was in the hospital so at the “energy and enterprise seething around at all levels the reading of the proclamation was recorded on of China’s model.” video. He suggested that frustrations and bureaucratic hur- dles could be fostering “Darwinian strength” among those of panelists, Holstein asked the group to comment on the who can survive those challenges. potential effects of U.S.-China relations. “I wonder if the power of Chinese ingenuity and inno- Schell compared Trump to the current president of vation doesn’t in some weird way come from the fact that the Philippines, Rodrigo Roa Duterte, as part of a global the Party makes it so damned hard. Only people who re- move in some countries toward “a new thugocracy.” ally persevere, really struggle - when they succeed, that’s “The virtue of a thug is that they move in unpredict- quite an accomplishment.” able ways. And they break up old paradigms, sometimes Zhou said her research showed that China’s top-down they wreck the furniture and they but sometimes they can model succeeded in concentrated sectors like high-speed manage to do very surprising things. I’m ready to be both rail, but “failed miserably” in other sectors like automo- surprised and horrified.” tive and semiconductors where there is high competition Zhou said Chinese observers were fascinated by the and an active international market. U.S. election, and said she saw a prevailing idea that “It’s not as if the Chinese model will be successful ev- Trump might not be as confrontational as the current ad- ery time. Actually most of the time, that top-down system ministration, “since he is a merchant, and merchants deal did not succeed,” she said, adding that necessity could with money and nothing else.” Hillary would have been push China in a direction that the United States doesn’t more predictable, she added, even if she would have been need to. predictably unfavorable. “What I’m hoping China is able to do is create certain Holstein said while Trump’s effect on the relationship industries, certain technologies that can address some- between China and the U.S. is unknown, the two coun- thing that is important to China but also for the world. For tries are too intertwined for shockwaves to completely example, in the environmental field, could China develop sever longstanding ties. certain technology or deploy or adapt better technology “The depth and complexity of the relationship is some- that may address environmental issues which are huge in thing that has taken all these year to develop. It seems China.” unlikely to me that Trump can blow that up overnight.” With the election of Donald Trump as President of the But he added that there is still potential for disruption. United States just one week earlier still fresh in the minds “It a moment of extreme fluidity in the relationship.”

OPC Bulletin • December 2016 • Page 5 PEOPLE... By Trish Anderton

OPC SCHOLARS Dake Kang, the 2016 Fritz as “an offshoot of conservatism Rawya Rageh, 2006 Dan Eldon Beebe winner, has started an OPC mixing racism, white nationalism scholar, is a senior crisis adviser for Foundation fellowship in the As- and populism” or “a white nation- Amnesty International where she is sociated Press bureau in Bangkok. alist movement.” He warns that the investigating human rights abuses He filed a story on term should not be used generically and war crimes in situations of emer- Dec. 1 about Vitit because it “may exist primarily as a gencies. A former reporter for Al Muntarbhorn, the public-relations device to make its Jazeera English, she was at the cen- first U.N. expert supporters’ actual beliefs less clear ter of AJE’s coverage of the Egyp- charged to look into and more acceptable to a broader tian uprising in 2011. Her reporting violence and dis- audience.” crimination against of the events was named one of the lesbian, gay, bisex- Kang OPC affiliate member Brion top 50 stories produced by graduates ual and transgender people. Tingler is the new head of exter- of Columbia Journalism School dur- nal affairs for Chinese e-commerce ing its first 100 years of operation. WINNERS giant Alibaba. Tingler previously OPC Foundation board member worked in senior communications 2001 Reuters Fellowship winner and OPC member Nicholas Schi- roles for Lenovo, and will continue Lingling Wei landed a front-page frin has won a 2017 Ochberg Fel- to be based in New York. story in The Wall Street Journal on lowship from the Dart Center for Nov. 17 about the 8-year low in the Journalism and Trauma at Colum- OPC member Patricia Milton’s yuan, which many analysts tie to ef- bia University’s Graduate School of recent documentary for 60 Minutes forts by the Chinese government to Journalism. The weeklong program focused on Americans who are lured combat economic sluggishness. Wei offers journalists the opportunity to overseas to fight for ISIS. “It kind of covers Chinese finance from The “explore the many dimensions of takes control of you. And you think Wall Street Journal’s Beijing bureau. psychological trauma; to discuss you’re doing something for a greater ethical and craft challenges raised cause. And you think you’re doing it The New York Times carried a by their work; and to forge relation- for good,” one Minneapolis teenager front-page story from 2007 Stan ships with colleagues who share told three-time OPC award-winner Swinton scholar Ben Hubbard on their interests and commitment.” Scott Pelley, after finding Islamic Nov. 14 about the devastating air- Schifrin is a special correspondent extremism through online videos. strikes in Yemen being carried out at PBS NewsHour. Milton is a senior producer with the by U.S.-trained pilots using Ameri- CBS News Investigative Unit. She can weaponry. Hubbard, the Times’ OPC member Nisid Hajari’s previously spent two decades at the Middle East correspondent, reports Midnight’s Furies was shortlisted Associated Press. that the Saudi-led campaign is rais- for the Shakti Bhatt First Book ing accusations of war crimes amid a Prize, an award for first books pub- News outlets including The Wash- lished by Indian authors. The book ington Post, the Huffington Post and burgeoning humanitarian crisis. examines the bloodshed around the Newsday have turned to OPC member 1947 partition of India. Hajari is the and Stony Brook University lecturer Levi Bridges, the 2016 Swin- Asia Editor for Bloomberg View, and Richard Hornik as an expert source ton winner, filed a story for Public writes about Asian politics, history on the “fake news” that fueled Donald Radio International about Russian and economics. Trump’s presidential win. Hornik, who President Vladimir Putin’s broken works at the university’s Center for promises to give UPDATES News Literacy, says news consumers sanctuary to Ukrai- NEW YORK: John Danisze- need to understand that “If something nians after the war. wski, vice president for standards seems too weird, too funny, too per- Bridges developed for The Associated Press, has issued fect,” it probably is – and that placing the story while guidance on how to handle the term high on a list of Google search results working as an OPC “alt-right.” Daniszewski, an OPC is no guarantee of a story’s authentic- Foundation fellow member, says it should be used with- ity. Hornik spent more than 20 years at in the AP’s Moscow Bridges in quotation marks and must always TIME Inc., including stints as bureau bureau. be accompanied by a definition, such chief in Warsaw, Boston and Beijing.

OPC Bulletin • December 2016 • Page 6 Thomson Reuters announced on 2011 Lowell Thomas Award as 300 patients over 16 years in New Nov. 1 that it would cut 2,000 non- winner Lourdes Garcia-Navarro Jersey and Pennsylvania hospitals. news jobs at its locations around the is taking on a new role at NPR. In globe. The losses amount to a 4 per- January, the South America corre- MIAMI: When Fidel Castro cent cut in the company’s workforce spondent will replace Rachel Mar- died in late November, the Miami of 48,000. “It’s about simplification tin as the host of Weekend Edition Herald was ready. “We’ve been and taking out bureaucracy and tak- Sunday, the network has announced. planning for this story longer than ing out layers, all of which have add- Garcia-Navarro has been with NPR some of the people covering it have ed complexity and slowed us down,” since 2004, reporting from Israel, been alive,” managing editor Rick said Reuters president and CEO Jim Iraq, and Mexico. Hirsch told Poynter.org. The “Cuba Smith in a Reuters interview. “These Plan” has been dusted off and updat- actions are not driven by any reac- COLUMBUS, Ohio: If you ed many times over the years – the think fact-checking only reinforces periodic eruption of Castro-is-dead tion to market conditions or in any people’s existing biases, better check rumors always provided a useful way coming on the back of under- your facts. A new study says the so- reminder – and like the industry it- performance.” called “backfire effect,” wherein self it gradually moved from a print- people believe an idea more strong- focused to a digital-first approach. PROVIDENCE, R. I.: Brown ly after it’s been debunked, is actu- The stories and opinion pieces “re- University’s alumni magazine has ally quite rare. “By and large, folks flect the emotional outpouring” of high praise for 1980 graduate and across the political spectrum were the moment, Poynter’s Al Tomp- OPC member Alissa J. Rubin of happy to move, at least some of the kins wrote, and offer a rich range of The New York Times. When you’re way, consistently with a factual in- viewpoints and experiences. reading one of her reports, the mag- tervention,” lead researcher Thomas azine writes, “you might feel as if Wood of Ohio State University told DHAKA: OPC member Hasan you’re reading a short story. That’s Poynter.org. The research was pre- Mahmud was recently honored with how vividly she portrays the char- sented at the American Political Sci- an international pin by former Lions acters and settings.” Rubin focused ence Association this summer. Club governor Abdul Halim Pat- on Renaissance studies and classics wary. Mahmud has served as presi- at Brown and says she sees parallels BOSTON: As Harvard Business dent of the Dhaka Delkus Green Li- between her work and the ancient Review trims its annual print output ons Club since 2015. He is the editor Greeks: Antigone, for example, “is from 10 editions to six, OPC mem- of the national Sunday Line weekly a play about the need to go through ber Adi Ignatius is helping redefine newspaper. burial rites. Think of all the wars in the magazine for the digital age. which people have wanted to find According to the Nieman Lab blog, TORONTO: OPC member their children and bury them.” HBR is planning “six new online se- ries, each of which will be a multi- WASHINGTON, DC: Presi- day, multimedia package organized dent Barack Obama has nominated around a single concept.” It hopes to use these deep dives to attract a OPC member Markos Kounalakis new generation of readers – and sub- to the United States Advisory Com- scribers. The print product is still do- mission on Public Diplomacy. Ac- ing well, “but we’re also not idiots,” cording to the State Department’s Courtesy of Hasan Mahmud Ignatius tells Nieman.“We’re just website, the commission is tasked trying to get ahead of how people Hasan Mahmud, right, receives an with “appraising activities intended consume things.” award from former chief justice of to understand, inform, and influence Bangladesh Tofajjel Islam, left, and auditor general, Masud Ahmed, foreign publics and to increase the SANTA MONICA, Calif.: A di- center. understanding of, and support for, rector has been chosen for the upcom- these same activities.” Kounalakis ing film version of OPC governor Simcha Jacobovici’s Associated is a visiting fellow at the Hoover In- Charles Graeber’s book, The Good Producers is teaming with Keshet stitution at Stanford University and Nurse. According to deadline.com, Studios and producer Robert Lan- president and publisher emeritus of Danish director Tobias Lindholm tos on a 10-hour television series the Washington Monthly. He previ- will helm the Lionsgate produc- about Kabbalah. According to Vari- ously reported for Newsweek and tion. The book tells the story of se- ety magazine, “Kabbalah” will focus NBC Radio in Eastern Europe, the rial killer nurse Charlie Cullen, who on “10 different moments in history USSR and Afghanistan. may have taken the lives of as many (Continued on Page 8)

OPC Bulletin • December 2016 • Page 7 (Continued From Page 7) OPC’s Ben Grauer Award for their where major players were adherents reporting on Haiti. In the mid-1990s of the ancient mystical practice, in- he shifted his focus to television, cluding some of the U.S. founding producing documentaries on topics fathers during the American Revo- ranging from Ebola to street music. lution and Michelangelo during his “The combination of his wit, friend- painting of the Sistine Chapel.” liness, and perfectionism is what created the fuel that ignited Alan’s storytelling genius,” said John La- LONDON: Has the world Ruth Gruber speaking at the Annual stopped caring about mass murder? Awards Dinner in April 2009 after bonia, general manager of Miami OPC member Andrew Nagorski receiving the Fay Gillis Wells Award. public television station WLRN, raises that question in a recent opin- March 1958 and remained a mem- where Tomlinson had worked since ion piece for Reuters. Nagorski con- ber until her death. In 2009, she 2013. trasts the silence that greeted the received the inaugural Fay Gillis AP’s revelation of mass graves in Wells Award, given in honor of one Reporter and editor Dileep Iraq and Syria to the shock people of the OPC founders, to a female Padgaonkar died on Nov. 25 in felt over the revelation of Nazi death journalist of exceptional achieve- Pune, in the Indian state of Maha- camps at the end of World War II. He ment. Gruber is survived by her rashtra, at age 72. Padgaonkar got blames the lack of outrage on an “in- son, David Michaels, an assistant his start in journalism in 1968 as ability to focus” on such stories for secretary of labor in the Obama the Times of India’s Paris correspon- longer than a news cycle. Nagorski administration; daughter Celia Mi- dent. From 1978 to 1986, he worked spent more than three decades as a chaels, a former CBS News editor; at Unesco in Bangkok and Paris. He foreign correspondent and editor for two stepdaughters, Jeri Drucker and was awarded the Legion d’Honneur, Newsweek, based in Berlin, Rome, Elaine Rosner-Jeria; nine grandchil- France’s highest civilian distinction, Moscow, Warsaw and Hong Kong. dren and six great-grandchildren. in 2002 for his service to journalism. His latest book is The Nazi Hunters. In 2010 he was appointed by the In- PBS NewsHour co-host Gwen dian government to a three-person TOKYO: Motoko Rich began Ifill died on Nov. 14 at age 61 in panel to develop a roadmap to peace her new role as The New York Times Washington, DC. Ifill served as co- in Kashmir, traveling the region ex- Tokyo bureau chief in August. Rich anchor and co-managing editor of tensively and speaking to thousands previously covered education for the PBS NewsHour with Judy Woodruff, of people. Times. forming the first all- female anchor team Tatiana Hoffman, a longtime Changes continue at the Foreign on network nightly international affairs reporter, editor Correspondents Club of Japan news. Before com- and host at Israel’s Channel 2, has as the organization wrestles with a ing to PBS in 1999, died at age 69 in Jerusalem. Born steep decline in the number of West- she worked for the in what was then Czechoslovakia, ern correspondents. Freelancer Peter Washington Post, Brendan Smialowski/Getty Images for Meet The Press Hoffman came to Israel in 1968 Langan has resigned as president The New York Times Gwen Ifill to accept a journalism award. The to take a position in Hong Kong. and NBC. Ifill was scheduled to re- USSR invaded her homeland while New president Khaldon Azhari, the ceive the John Chancellor Award on she was away, and she remained in founder of U.S.-based Pan Orient Nov. 16. The award, given out by Israel. She became a foreign corre- News, wrote in November that he the Columbia Journalism School, spondent for Israel Radio, moving to was taking a fresh look at the club’s honors lifetime achievement in jour- Channel 2 in 1993. proposed move to new quarters. nalism. Former Philadelphia Inquirer PEOPLE REMEMBERED Longtime NPR and BBC for- reporter John P. “Jack” Corr died Pioneering journalist Ruth Gruber eign correspondent Alan Tomlinson on Nov. 20 at age 82, in Rittenhouse, died at her home in Manhattan on died in Miami on Nov. 26. He was Pennsylvania. Corr started as a Nov. 17 at age 105. Gruber covered 69 years old. Tomlinson covered copyboy at the Inquirer and worked Stalin’s gulags, the Nazi trials at Central America and the Caribbean, his way up to feature reporter and Nuremberg and the plight of Jewish reporting on the civil war in El Sal- foreign correspondent. He reported refugees in the aftermath of World vador and unrest in Haiti. He and from Belfast, Northern Ireland; Pre- War II. Gruber joined the OPC in colleagues from NPR received the toria, South ; and the Vatican.

OPC Bulletin • December 2016 • Page 8 PRESS FREEDOM UPDATE... The Committee to Protect Jour- nalists has reached out to Vice Pres- AMANPOUR WARNS THAT JOURNALISTS FACE ident-elect Mike Pence in an effort AN ‘EXISTENTIAL CRISIS’ to secure a meeting with the incom- ing U.S. administration. In a letter OPC member Christiane addressed to Pence, the CPJ says Amanpour sounded the alarm the climate for U.S. journalists has for U.S. journalism while accept- “deteriorated sharply,” noting that ing the Burton Benjamin Memo- President-elect Trump “obstructed rial Award from the Committe to major news organizations, attacked Protect Journalists on Nov. 22. reporters by name, and contributed Amanpour, chief international to a threatening climate for journal- correspondent and anchor at ists covering the election.” Pence is Christiane Amanpour speaks at the a founding member of the Congres- CNN, expressed concern about 2016 International Press Freedom president-elect Donald Trump’s Awards on Nov. 22. Click on the im- sional Caucus for the Freedom of the age above to watch her remarks on vilification of the press, saying Press. YouTube. she was “chilled” by his tweet Kidnapped British journalist following the election blasting “professional protesters incited by the John Cantlie appeared in an ISIS media,” a sentiment that evokes similar accusations from authoritar- propaganda video published on De- ian regimes around the world. cember 7, according to CNN. Can- tile was taken in Syria in November “I feel that we face an existential crisis, a threat to the very rel- 2012 and has been held hostage ever evance and usefulness of our profession,” Amanpour said, noting since. He appeared paler and thinner both Trump’s attacks on the free press and the media’s struggles than he has in previous videos. Iraqi with false equivalency while covering the campaign. security officials told CNN the video appeared to have been taken within “I learned long ago, covering the ethnic cleansing and genocide in a few days of publication. Cantlie Bosnia, never to equate victim with aggressor, never to create a was kidnapped along with American false moral or factual equivalence, because then you are an accom- freelancer James Foley, who was ex- plice to the most unspeakable crimes and consequences. I believe ecuted in 2014. in being truthful, not neutral. And I believe we must stop banalizing the truth.” Freelance photojournalist Ed Ou, a 2007 OPC Dan Eldon scholar, Amanpour appealed for the incoming administration to preserve was detained at the U.S. border for press freedom, but also called on journalists to reflect on their role six hours while en route to cover the as watchdogs. anti-pipeline protests in Standing Rock, North Dakota. Ou, a Canadi- “A great America requires a great and free and safe press,” She an, was stopped on Oct. 1 while fly- ing in from Vancouver. He told The said. “Recommit to robust fact-based reporting without fear or favor New York Times that agents took his – on the issues. Don’t stand for being labelled crooked or lying or phones, adding that when they were failing. Do stand up together – for divided we will all fall.” returned it appeared their SIM cards had been disturbed. Ou was working The Burton Benjamin Memorial Award honors extraordinary and on assignment from the Canadian sustained achievement in the cause of press freedom. Broadcasting Corporation when he was detained. Also receiving International Press Freedom Awards from the CPJ that night were Egyptian photographer, Mahmoud Abou Zeid, For the second year in a row, known as Shawkan; Indian freelance journalist Malini Subramani- Somalia ranks worst on the CPJ’s am; Turkish newspaper editor Can Dündar; and Salvadoran investi- Global Impunity Index, which gative reporter Óscar Martínez. (Continued on Page 10)

OPC Bulletin • December 2016 • Page 9 (Continued From Page 9) ing to the broadcaster, the move was The press freedom group says a radio measures how many murders of connected to its refusal to remove station was shut down on November journalists go unpunished. Iraq and a report from its website about the 29 for “transmitting from a place 20 Syria placed second and third, fol- appointment of President Emomali km away from its original location.” lowed by the Philippines, which Rahmon’s daughter to a senior post Three TV stations were allegedly has yet to prosecute anyone for in the Foreign Ministry. The U.S.- closed the next day for similar rea- the deaths of 32 media workers in funded broadcaster expressed “out- sons. “It is hard not to regard these the 2009 Maguindanao massacre. rage” over the suspensions, and said closures as politically-motivated,” South Sudan, Mexico, Afghanistan, the Dushanbe-based reporters were said said Cléa Kahn-Sriber, the head Pakistan, Brazil and Russia rounded not connected to the story. of the organization’s Africa desk, in out the top ten. Brazil and Mexico a statement. “We urge the authorities moved higher on the index this year, A freelancer for the Associated not to embark on the road of media while Sri Lanka dropped off for the Press says he was arrested and de- censorship and harassment, espe- first time since the list’s inception in ported from South Sudan for being cially as Benin has until now been 2008. too critical of the government. Ac- cited as an example of respect for cording to the AFP, Justin Lynch media freedom.” Business mogul was the last foreign reporter living in Patrice Talon was elected president the country. He had recently report- of Benin on April 6. ed on alleged abuses by government forces. “The officers did not official- ly present me with a reason for my MURDERS arrest and deportation, but repeated- ● Newspaper reporter Dhar- ly said my reporting was too critical mendra Singh, 35, was killed on

Wikimedia Commons Wikimedia of the government,” Lynch tweeted November 12 in Amratola, Sasaram, after arriving in Kampala, Uganda. in the Indian state of Bihar. Accord- Reporters who took part in the “As an international journalist, it ing to DNAIndia.com, the Dainik historic Panama Papers investi- is an unfortunate reality that I am Bhaskar journalist was shot by three gation are being harassed, says the privileged compared to my brave people on motorcycles while drink- International Consortium of Inves- South Sudanese colleagues who are ing tea at a roadside stall. tigative Journalists, which led the frequently the victim of intimidation project. The attacks range from a or even death.” Radio journalist Hernán Cho- libel lawsuit in Mongolia to Twit- quepata Ordoñez was killed on ter threats in Panama. In Spain, the China arrested the founder and November 20 while broadcasting in parent company of one major daily editor of a human rights website on Camana province, on the southern newspaper has sued another major November 16, and his family has re- coast of Peru. The Knight Center daily, claiming the latter’s reporting portedly been told that he “might be for Journalism in the Americas re- hurt its business. In Finland, the tax sentenced” for “subversion of state ports that attackers entered the stu- authority threatened to raid report- power.” Liu Feiyue runs the Civil dio during a musical interlude in the ers’ homes, but backed down in the Rights & Livelihood Watch web- program “Habla el Pueblo” (“The face of public protests. More than site, known in China as Minsheng Town Speaks”) and fatally beat Or- 400 journalists from over 80 coun- Guancha. It reports on topics such as doñez. The 45-year-old reportedly tries have worked together on the political protests and police abuse, criticized local officials on air. Panama Papers investigation, which and is banned in China, according was based on a massive leak of fi- to contributing writer Ye Du. The Gunmen killed Iraqi radio nancial documents that reveal how CPJ reports that “subversion of state journalist Mohammed Thabet the richest corporations and individ- power” carries a maximum sentence al-Obeidi in Kirkuk on December uals shelter their wealth. of life imprisonment. 6, according to the AFP. Obeidi ran radio station Baba Gurgur and Tajikistan has suspended the ac- Benin has arbitrarily closed four also worked for the state-run Iraqi creditation of six Radio Free Europe/ opposition broadcast outlets, accord- Media Network. He was reportedly Radio Liberty journalists. Accord- ing to Reporters Without Borders. shot on his way to work.

OPC Bulletin • December 2016 • Page 10 Meet the OPC Members: Q&A With Keith Richburg

By Trish Anderton Keith B. Richburg is the director of the Journalism and Media Studies Centre at The University of Hong Kong. Previously, he worked at The Washington Post for more than three decades, as foreign correspondent and bureau chief in Beijing, Paris, Hong Kong, Jakarta, , Manila and also as bureau chief in New York. He was also the Post’s foreign editor. He covered sto- ries including the invasion of Iraq, the fall of the Tali- ban in Afghanistan, the genocide in Rwanda and the 1997 Hong Kong handover. Richburg won the OPC’s 1998 Madeline Dane Ross Award, two George Polk Awards and the National Association of Black Journal-

ists Award. He was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Courtesy of Keith Richburg his Africa coverage. Keith Richburg in Pyongyang, North Korea, on a rare reporting trip in November 2011. Hometown: Detroit, Michigan – and a lifelong Detroit ing to remain objective. Tigers fan. Most memorable interview: I’ve had too many to Education: BA from University of Michigan, MSc. count. Corazon Aquino in the Philippines. Aug San Suu from London School of Economics. Kyi back in 1989 before she was put under house arrest.

Languages: English, passable French, some high school Journalism heroes: Woodward and Bernstein, of Spanish, and have been studying Mandarin Chinese for course, for anyone of my generation. All the old Viet- several years, so am somewhat conversational now. nam War correspondents. And Peter Parker – Spiderman was a photographer at The Daily Bugle. Year you joined the OPC: 2014 while living in Princ- eton, NJ, as an out-of-town member. Advice for journalists who want to work overseas: Find a place you really want to cover – and then figure What drew you to international reporting? Growing out a way to get there. If you can’t get sent, go on your up in the Midwest gave me an inkling to travel and see own. But you have to love the place. an ocean. And watching the Vietnam War unfolding on television, and the Paris Peace Talks, sparked my inter- Stan Lee from Marvel Comics – “You est in foreign reporting. Favorite quote: have to be a satirist, because the whole world is insane.” Major challenge as a journalist: To maintain the right It has helped me keep a sense of humor even in the worst work/life balance. Being a correspondent can be all-con- of circumstances. suming. But now I’m getting used to the academic cycle. Most over-the-top assignment: I was sent to Fiji to Best journalism advice received: From an old editor; cover the dawn of the new millennium, New Year’s “Your main job is to file the story. You can’t file the story 2000, to see whether the Y2K bug was real. It wasn’t – if you’re dead.” but I had a great time in Fiji.

Worst experience as a journalist: Being shoved to Country you most want to return to: France, for the the ground and having an AK-47 shoved in my face in beauty and culture. But I also want to return to Haiti, Mogadishu. Besides that, covering the cholera epidemic since it’s the place where I got my start as a foreign re- in Goma, Zaire. porter, covering the fall of Baby Doc in 1986.

When traveling, you like to… Find a can or bottle of Twitter handle: @keithrichburg the local beer, and whatever the local food specialty is. Preferably in a local watering hole. Want to add to the OPC’s collection of Q&As with mem- Hardest story: Covering the Rwanda genocide, and try- bers? Please contact [email protected].

OPC Bulletin • December 2016 • Page 11 from the Gestapo.” Dulles In A Rage for Order: New Books also worked with members The Middle East in Tur- WORLD WAR II of the underground German moil, from Tahrir Square LLEN DULLES IS GENER- resistance who were plot- to ISIS [Farrar, Straus and A ally remembered as the head ting to overthrow Hitler. To Giroux, April 2016], Robert of the CIA during the height of the his frustration, he was re- F. Worth traces the fate of Cold War, where he oversaw the Bay strained by President Roo- the Arab Spring in Tunisia, sevelt, who was determined of Pigs invasion as well as coups in Syria, Egypt, and Ye- “not to upset the Soviets men. Worth, a former New Guatemala and Iran. But before his with anything that hinted of York Times Beirut bureau appointment as the nation’s top spy, back-channel deals between chief, focuses on individu- Dulles established an American in- the underground and the Western als like Darrawi to illustrate the larger telligence operation in Switzerland democracies.” forces at play in each country. for the CIA’s predeces- As the conflict in Eu- There’s Aliaa and Noura, teenage sor, the Office of Strate- rope entered its final stag- girls in Syria who are best friends gic Services (OSS). In his es, Dulles led a covert op- – until sectarian strife turns them new book, Agent 110: An eration to secure the sur- against each other. In Libya, we meet American Spymaster and render of German troops in Nasser, a man whose brother was the German Resistance in Italy. This further strained murdered by the Qaddafi regime. WWII [Simon and Schus- relations between Roos- When his militia captures some of the ter, March 2017], Scott evelt and Stalin, who, in killers, Nasser takes the high road; Miller chronicles Dulles’s the days preceding FDR’s rather than exact justice himself, he activities and how they death, “exchanged a series compiles evidence for their prosecu- shaped the role of intelligence in of bitter messages” that tion. But the government loses the U.S. and world affairs. “portended deeper troubles in the evidence and the prisoners escape. In Miller, a former foreign corre- future.” Indeed, Dulles’ experiences Tunisia, Worth follows the progress spondent for The Wall Street Journal as Agent 110 would inform his own of Rachid Ghannouchi and Beji Caid attitude toward the Soviet Union, and Reuters, writes that Dulles grew Essebsi – a rural Islamist and an up- helping to shape the American Cold- his Bern operation into “arguably the per-crust secularist – as they success- War policy of containment. most valuable of America’s intelli- fully work together to avert strife. Miller paints a detailed but lively — By Trish Anderton gence-gathering outposts.” He and portrait of Dulles’ machinations, his team “organized commando raids, shedding light on a lesser-known cultivated spies in the heart of Hitler’s WELCOME stage in the rise of the modern U.S. NEW MEMBERS government, and rescued informants intelligence community.

ARAB SPRING Stephen Barry HMED DARRAWI WAS A a revolutionary for democra- Student Upcoming Events cy. He spent all 18 days of Egypt’s 2011 Arab Spring uprising in Tahrir Campbell MacDiarmid Square, calling for the downfall of Freelance OPC Holiday Party: the Mubarak regime. Later that year Erbil, Iraq 6:00 p.m. Jan. 10 he ran for Parliament under a banner Active Overseas – Young proclaiming “Security and Dignity.” (30 to 34) But he became depressed and dis- The Trump-Putin illusioned as the euphoria of the Siddharthya Roy Connection movement gave way to infighting. Columbia University 6:00 p.m. Jan. 18 “When you see people who Student were together in Tahrir killing each other, there’s no point anymore,” Lisa Ryan Middle East Hands he told his brother after violence Staff Writer Reunion took over the streets in 2012. By New York Magazine 2013, Darrawi had fled to Syria, Active Resident – Young 6:30 p.m. March 1 where he joined ISIS. He died as (29 or under) a suicide bomber in Iraq.

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