MONTHLY NEWSLETTER I November-December 2018

OPC Renames Commentary and Cartoon INSIDE Awards; Honors Flora Lewis Event Recap: ‘FREELANCERS’ by patricia kranz Lewis later reported Screening and Panel 2

he opc has named its award for best commen- from Bonn, Eastern Europe and for the Post and Invitation: tary on international news for Flora Lewis, a 2019 Holiday Party 2 correspondent and columnist who won four OPC in 1965 was chosen to open T the paper’s bureau in New Event Recap: awards during her decades-long career. York City. After her divorce, The Future of Taiwan 3 “Much of her work, done when foreign policy was made by men who thought women had no place in the she joined in 1972 as bureau OPC Press Badges world of diplomacy, revealed deep knowledge of his- By Chriss Swaney 3 tory inflected by the experience of living through some chief in and also be- of the most turbulent events of an epochal century,” said came the paper’s European Press Freedom: diplomatic correspondent. A letter to Mexico 4 her obituary in The New York Times, published on June 3, 2002. She was 79. In 1980 she became the paper’s third foreign affairs ‘New Media’ Report The obituary summarized her extraordinary career. Flora Lewis By Bill Holstein 4 She got her first job in 1942 with The correspondent. TIMES YORK THE NEW OF COURTESY PHOTO and over the years covered Europe and Latin Ameri- She won the OPC’s award for Best Interpreta- FCCJ Relocates 5 can for American and European newspapers. In 1956, tion of Foreign Affairs in 1962 for The Washington People Column 6-8 when her husband Sydney Gruson was The New York Post and in 1976 and 1978 for The New York Times. In 1956, she won the OPC’s Best Magazine Reporting Times’s correspondent in Warsaw, she was hired by The Press Freedom Washington Post. The Times’s nepotism rules at the of Foreign Affairs for work in The New York Times Update 8-9 time barred her from being hired as long as her husband Magazine. 10 also worked there. “The rules, of course, essentially “Foreign affairs reportage and commentary were New Books acted to stop women from becoming correspondents. It her life,” said past OPC President David A. Andel- man. “She knew everyone and everyone knew and Q&A: took decades for the paper to see the light,” said her son Hasan Mahmud 11 Lindsey Gruson. Continued on Page 2

The OPC Awards competition is now open for submissions. We invite you to submit entries for international cov- erage in Newspapers, News Services, Digital, Magazines, Radio, Podcasts, Television, Video, Cartoons, Books and Purchase Photography. The general an OPC Press deadine is Jan. 30, and the Badge. Cornelius Ryan deadline is Jan. 9, 2019. Click on the ban- ner on the left to read more on the awards submission page, or check the OPC home page at opcofamerica.org.

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Discuss Industry Challenges ‘COMMENTARY/CARTOON’ Continued From Page 1

After TV Pilot Screening admired her. She could parachute EVENT RECAP into the most remote capitals and within hours have tested the tem- by chad bouchard perature, talked with just the right folks and turned out a perfectly ill gentile, a veteran crafted column. Her extraordinary journalist and documenta- legacy will live on admirably in ry filmmaker who teaches B this award.” journalism at American University Gruson said his mother would in Washington, DC, has launched have been delighted and grateful a new documentary TV series to to have the award named after explore the lives and challenges of her. “We hope it will in some way freelance journalists on the front spur other reporters to emulate lines around the world. CHAD BOUCHARD her,” he said. On Nov. 14, the OPC hosted The OPC Board of Gover- a special screening of the pilot Left to right: Sulome Anderson, Bill Gentile and Jason Motlagh. nors also has decided to make a episode for ‘FREELANCERS,’ do believe that Americans want “New organizations have been change to the OPC’s award for which profiled several journalists to see, read, listen to, learn about downsizing foreign bureaus and best cartoons on international af- struggling to make a living. As foreign events, if it’s packaged in staff for a long time, but there fairs. Since 1978, the award has host of the show, Gentile shadows the right way.” was still a market. And that has been named for Thomas Nast, an freelancers in Nogales, Mexico as A group of journalism students increasingly shrunk,” she said, influential American cartoonist in they cover the dangerous world from Rutgers University attended adding that news operations have the 19th century. However, Nast’s of drug and human traffickers at the event. Gentile addressed them become much more cautious and legacy includes cartoons that ex- the Arizona border. He also talks directly, telling them to learn as fraught with legal issues after the hibited an ugly bias against immi- with a couple that both work as many skills as possible. ISIS killings of James Foley and grants, the Irish and Catholics. freelancers as they weather the “Photography, video work, pro- Steven Sotloff in 2014. “The Board had a thoughtful turbulence of a restless lifestyle ducing, writing – learn all of those “News organizations reacted and robust conversation regard- together, as well as a wom- skills, because you’re going to that in several ways. Obviously ing the issues brought to light an who works on her own to need them. They’re in with more awareness and concern Click here regarding some of Thomas Nast’s and struggles to maintain demand, and you’re going around the safety of freelance cor- to watch video editorial cartoons,” said OPC bonds in her personal life. clips from the to need every skill that respondents, which is great, and President Pancho Bernasconi. After the screen- panel. you can put to task to sur- that needs to happen. But what “Once we became aware of how ing, Gentile moderated a vive financially.” also happened is that they stopped some groups and ethnicities were discussion with freelancers Anderson is a journalist taking these stories. A lot of them portrayed in a manner that is not Sulome Anderson and Jason Mot- based in Beirut, Lebanon and New just don’t take freelance pitches. consistent with how journalists lagh. York City. While she encouraged To get a freelance pitch through work and view their role today, “I think one of the myths that students to pursue journalism as a their legal team is an incredibly we voted to remove his name we’re trying to push back on is the career, she cautioned that changes arduous and difficult process.” from the award.” v idea that Americans don’t want to in the industry have made the Anderson’s work has appeared see foreign news,” Gentile said. business of freelancing much more “And I don’t believe that. I really challenging. Continued on Page 5

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November-December 2018 2 Panel Explores US-China ‘Cold War’ and Impact on Taiwan

EVENT RECAP by chad bouchard mid trade disputes, security scuffles and cyberattacks on intellectual property, China analysts and watchers are Awarning that the U.S. and China may be settling in for a long Cold War. That puts a country like Taiwan, with China still disputing its sovereignty and the U.S. offering some arm’s-length support, on a knife’s edge. On Oct. 30, 2018, the OPC hosted a panel discussion about ongoing tension between the two superpowers and its bearing on

Taiwan. CHAD BOUCHARD Past OPC President William J. Holstein, who was based in Left to right: Richard Bernstein, William J. Holstein, Russell Hong Kong and Beijing from 1979 to 1982 for United Press In- Hsiao and Andrew Nathan. ternational, moderated the discussion. During his introduction, he held up a recent issue of with a cover story titled of America’s foremost experts on China and its foreign “US vs. China, a Dangerous Rivalry.” policy, said the U.S. intelligence community is particularly Click here “Clearly there’s been a shift in the American and British concerned about cyberattacks. to watch video media’s tone of coverage, ” Holstein said. With the two nations “The Pentagon is very worried about China’ ability to clips from the panel. sparring over tariffs, naval maneuvers in the South China Sea and potentially attack Taiwan or to prevent the United States Taiwan Strait, and diplomatic rows over trade-secret espionage from effectively intervening because of the way they’ve allegations, Holstein asked panelists if the “Cold War” label was modernized their military to hold the US military forces off the warranted. Andrew Nathan, a professor at and one Continued on Page 5

OPC Press Badge Creates Access in Pittsburgh Crisis by chriss swaney of the surviving victims remain in critical Mourners remem- n a rainy October day in Pittsburgh, condition. bered brothers Cecil Pa., I walked quickly to the first of Following the press conferences, I was and David Rosenthal as several press conferences that would assigned to cover the court proceedings. With- “the helpers’’ at Pitts- O out proper identification, you simply do not burgh’s Tree of Life unveil the somber and tragic acts of Robert Bowers. Armed with an assault rifle and three gain access. I flashed my OPC press badges, a synagogue, where they handguns, Bowers charged into the sanctu- driver’s license and glint of a smile before be- were among the 11 con- ary of the Tree of Life temple in Squirrel Hill, ing searched. Finally, I was whisked through gregants shot to death screaming “all Jews must die” before spraying a labyrinth of police security to courtroom on the Jewish Sabbath. bullets indiscriminately on the worshipers. 8A, one of the oldest, ornate court rooms in Others remembered the Killing 11 and wounding six others, FBI offi- the city. kind, giving nature of cials said the scene was worse than an airplane I slid into a pew and watched the man so many of the victims. charged in the Pittsburgh synagogue massacre And to my surprise, crash. Swaney Anti-Semitism appeared to run deep for appear in court shackled to a wheelchair. The mourners also thanked Bowers, 46. Before it was deleted, a social onetime truck driver, who frequently posted me for being there to media account believed to belong to him was anti-Semitic material online and was de- tell their stories. Unlike some pedantic politi- filled with anti-Jewish slurs and references to scribed by neighbors as a loner, was charged cal pundits who refer to the media as the “en- anti-Jewish conspiracy theories. with 29 federal felony counts and could face emy of the people;’’ we are, in fact, teachers The victims of his unbridled rage were the death penalty if convicted. and messengers of hope. My mother, Gwen C. identified in a second press conference where From the courtroom, I jogged back to the Swaney used to define journalists as teachers. my OPC press tags once again helped me bus stop where my OPC press badges afforded She would say, “the best teachers are those secure a front row seat in a jammed press me a free ride on public transit. The bus driver who show you where to look, but don’t tell conference room at Pittsburgh’s emergency was so impressed with the tangled mass of you what you should see.’’ dispatch center. badge colors that I received another front row May our readers and listeners always enjoy As my OPC tags tangled aimlessly around seat. the journey. my neck, officials slowly and methodically The next stop was coverage of a myriad Chriss Swaney is a freelance writer for read the long list of victim names. In addition of funerals for the victims. Press was not Reuters, Pittsburgh Engineer, U.S. News & to the mostly elderly victims who were killed, permitted in the sanctuaries, so I had to snare World Report, Print Newspaper, Workers Com- six people, including four police officers, were mourners when they departed from the ser- pensation.com, Forward Magazine and Antique wounded before the suspect was arrested. Two vice. It was heart wrenching to hear their tear- Trader Magazine. She has been a member of ful praise of victims. the OPC since 1997. v November-December 2018 3 What Happened to ‘The New Media?’ On Dec. 4, the OPC Press Freedom Committee sent a letter to recently elected Mexican by william j. holstein President Lopez Obrador to urge the government to stop spying on journalists. The fol- s a fine piece inThe Washington Post titled “The lowing is a copy of that message. Digital-Media Bubble Is Bursting” makes abun- dantly clear, the New Media mavens who once Aappeared to be the future of journalism are running out of OPC Letter to Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador gas. Vice, Quartz, Buzzfeed, Mic and other Internet-based President of Mexico news organizations are not meeting their financial targets and there is a hint of consolidation in the air. December 4, 2018 By no means am I gloating about it. My career was torn apart by the rise of the Internet, the dominance of Google Dear President Lopez Obrador, and Facebook, and major shifts in advertising dollars. BusinessWeek, where I once worked, was sold to Bloomberg On behalf of the Overseas Press Club of America, the oldest U.S.-based for pennies on the dollar. U.S. News & World Report, once journalist organization covering global news, I wish to congratulate you on your a respected news magazine, no longer prints. Business 2.0, inauguration as President of Mexico. You assume leadership of the country where I was a senior writer briefly, was taken over by TIME with many serious challenges, but the one that concerns us most is a scandal and eventually folded. Everywhere we look we can see the where the Mexican government is using illegal surveillance technology to spy on carnage that has hit the established media. journalists. So what is the economic model that can sustain an American media that does a quality job of analyzing and A Nov. 27 story in The New York Times detailed how two Rio Doce colleagues of interpreting events at home and abroad? The corporate interests slain Mexican journalist Javier Valdez were contacted the day after his murder that swept in thinking media assets were highly profitable have and invited to open links containing spyware embedded in email messages. been getting out. GE sold NBC, for example. The corporate buyers wanted 18 to 20 percent rates of return. Forensic analysis performed by the Citizens Lab at the University of Toronto But now technology money is flowing into top media has confirmed nearly two dozen targets in Mexico’s journalist and human rights assets. Jeff Bezos bought with his community. personal money and the newspaper is rebuilding under Martin Baron (who will be appearing at the Overseas Press Club The Mexican government denounced the spying and opened an investigation dinner on April 18). Patrick Soon-Shiong, a doctor turned after it was reported in The New York Times. However, not one individual has entrepreneur, bought the Times after a nightmarish been punished or even reprimanded. While this development broke during the number of years under the ownership of Chicago real estate administration of your predecessor, Mr. Enrique Pena Nieto, the danger lingers for beasts. It’s doing well under Norman Pearlstine and Scott journalists. Our organization calls on your leadership to ensure that a thorough Kraft, both OPC members. (Kraft runs the club’s award investigation is completed so the perpetrators can be brought to justice and program.) Mexico’s journalists can be assured that surveillance has been stopped. Elsewhere, the widow of Steve Jobs made a big investment in the Atlantic magazine group. And Salesforce billionaire The Inter-American Press Association (IAPA) approved freedom of expression Marc Benioff used his personal wealth to buy TIME magazine. principles for the digital era on Oct. 22 in Buenos Aires, stating: “The Authorities (Less positive examples: Forbes and Fortune, now controlled must not use digital surveillance mechanisms for the purpose of violating by Hong Kong Chinese and Thai interests, respectively) the liberties and privacy of citizens, except in cases where a legitimate goal is This represents a return in the ownership model to the being pursued in accordance with the provisions of human rights conventions. days when families such as the Binghams in Louisville, Ky., Widespread surveillance is unacceptable under any circumstances.” owned The Courier-Journal, where I interned as a college student. Other families owned The Wall Street Journal, Los We also recall that in 1994, representatives of the Americas gathered in Mexico Angeles Times and other major media entities. They wanted to City for the IAPA’s Hemisphere Conference on Free Speech. It adopted 10 Press break even or perhaps make some money but they saw media assets as their contribution to their communities and states and Freedom Principles, including No. 4: “Freedom of expression and of the press perhaps the country. They certainly did not insist on 18 to 20 are severely limited by murder, terrorism, kidnapping, intimidation, the unjust percent rates of return. imprisonment of journalists, the destruction of facilities, violence of any kind and So it seems we have come full circle. The old media, under impunity for perpetrators. Such acts must be investigated promptly and punished new ownership, will be revived. They have websites and all harshly.” the bells and whistles that younger readers want. But at their core, they have solid editorial teams and possess far more The OPC hopes that you are the kind of leader aspiring to protect press freedom experience and sophistication than the vast majority of the for Mexican journalists working to inform a democratic society. New Media shops. In the end, I am hopeful that editorial quality will prevail Thank you for your consideration. and start to create a healthier debate about the things that matter most to Americans. The shakeout has been painful and Sincerely, will continue to be painful for some. But at long last, there is a glimmer of hope for a stable ownership structure for the Bill Collins American media. v Chair of the Press Freedom Committee, Overseas Press Club of America.

November-December 2018 4 Japan’s Foreign Press Club Has a Change of Scene by chad bouchard ‘FREELANCERS’ fter a few years of heated discussion and arrangements, the Continued From Page 2 Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Japan (FCCJ) has finally moved from its longtime home in the Yurakucho Denki Building in outlets including The Atlantic, Foreign Policy, NBC News, News- A week, Harper’s and Esquire. Her book, The Hostage’s Daughter, was to Tokyo’s Marunouchi business district. On the eve of the club’s relocation on Oct. 29, Robert Whiting, the published by HarperCollins in 2016. club’s Second Vice President, made a statement looking back fondly at She said many news organizations will now tell freelancers that the FCCJ’s history in Yurakucho. they will only look at material after they have done the reporting and “It is with great nostalgia that I write this, given the many memorable returned safely home, “which is pretty ethically questionable at the events that have taken place here, particularly as I was front row witness to very best.” many of them,” Whiting wrote in a post on the club’s website. The full state- Jason Motlagh is a writer, broadcast journalist and filmmaker whose work focuses on conflict and human rights. He won the OPC’s ment is posted on the club’s website at fccj.or.jp. Madeline Dane Ross Award for Best International Reporting on the The club moved to Yurakucho in 1976. The latest move marks the fourth Human Condition in 2014. since the club was founded in September 1945. The OPC covered news He said the rigors of freelance life in a shrinking market have of the recent move back in 2014, when past OPC President Bill Holstein pushed many veteran reporters out of the game, which leaves room wrote that “the decline in the number of American correspondents in Tokyo, for new freelancers to step in, but at a big cost to the quality of re- brought about as news organizations somehow conclude that Japan isn’t porting. interesting or important anymore, has damaged the FCCJ’s finances and cre- “You have really talented people who have put a lot of skin the ated bitter conflict about the club’s future direction.” game for a long time and have risked a lot, who have the credibility Lucy Birmingham, who was president of the FCCJ at the time, re- and have earned it, and they can’t keep doing it. And then someone sponded with a letter stating that “the FCCJ is still solidly run by journal- else might step into their shoes, but you’ve just lost all that depth ists,” and that “we decided that as a group of foreign reporters, we were not of knowledge, and those relationships that really give texture to the equipped to handling the complexities of a full restaurant and banqueting reporting.” operation, which was posting large losses. We therefore decided to bring in Motlagh has reported from more than fifty countries and a half- an outsource partner, one of Japan’s biggest hotel and restaurant operators, dozen conflicts spanning West Africa to Southeast Asia for National allowing the Board and Club management to focus on the journalistic activi- Geographic, Rolling Stone, Outside, The Washington Post, The ties that are at the core of what we do.” v Guardian and The Economist. Both Anderson and Motlagh stressed that they hoped not to talk students out of freelance reporting or a career in journalism, but also

‘Taiwan’ bringing it into the World Trade Organization and other international institu- Continued From Page 3 tions, would somehow modify its behaviors. “Nearly 20 years down the road now, we can clearly see the verdict that that has not been the case,” Hsiao US’s depending on forward deployed airfields and ports and aircraft car- said. riers that are now vulnerable to Chinese attack, and that may deter the US.” “In fact, it’s manipulating the rules of these international institutions to “In the policy community, there are a lot of powerful forces that do feel suit its interests, that extend beyond just economic. It’s political as well,” that China is behaving in a way that poses a threat,” Nathan said. “They he said. “China’s interference in democracies, either through propaganda or don’t really have a good strategy to make China stop doing what it’s doing. disinformation, but also infiltration in civil society and the manipulation of On the part of Trump, I think he may possibly just be interested in the trade academic institutions, all highlighted various means in which China’s rise deficit as such, which is a thing that you cannot fix, and which is not a strat- is impacting not only how the international institutions work, but also how egy.” He added that right-wing operatives like Steve Bannon simply want democracies work.” to use China as a threat to scare the electorate into voting for conservative He said Taiwan could play a critical role as a Chinese-speaking democ- candidates. racy in shepherding China toward more liberal policies. An official document published last year, the so-called National Security Richard Bernstein, formerly based in China for TIME magazine and Strategy of the United States, identifies China as the primary strategic threat, a veteran of several foreign postings for The New York Times, said one of even ahead of Russia, Nathan noted. China’s chief interests in the world now is how to make the world safe for “If China believes that the US is abandoning or softening that position as authoritarianism. a way of containing China, which is what they think is happening, the new “One of the things that Xi Jinping has done is make advocacy of the very Cold War that you’re alluding to, that’s China’s view of what the US is do- values that we Americans most cherish practically criminal offences,” he ing. That now we’re almost ready to overtake the US and they want to push said, citing in internal document circulated among Chinese officials in 2013 us back into the box. And if Taiwan is viewed as part of that strategy, that’s called “Document Number Nine,” which warns against several threatening not good for Taiwan.” Western values, including media freedom and judicial independence. Russell Hsiao, executive director of the nonprofit think tank Global Tai- “I worry about Taiwan’s long-term ability to determine its own future wan Institute in Washington, said U.S.-China relations have been “due for a without being forced into reunification with the mainland,” Bernstein said. course correction for a very long time.” “And over the long term, will the United States continue to see it in its inter- He said that the U.S. and other nations have been making the mistaken est to guarantee Taiwan against a forceful takeover 15 to 25 years from now? assumption that integration of China into the “liberal international order,” by I’d like to be confident of that, but I’m not.”v November-December 2018 5 PEOPLE By Farwa Zaidi and Chad Bouchard WELCOME N E W OPC SCHOLARS asylum. Gessen identified MEMBERS Ben Taub, the 2014 Emanuel R. herself as an immigrant and Freedman winner, has been honored “technically, a refugee.” Evgeny Afineevsky by the United Nations Correspondents She recounted her family’s Freelance Association (UNCA) with the Prince immigration from Russia to Los Angeles Albert II of Monaco and UNCA Global the United States in 1981, Active Non-Resident Prize for Climate Change. The award an experience that made her Daniel Berehulak recognizes print, digital and broadcast aware of “the right to have Photojournalist rights.” The transcript of media for coverage of climate change, The New York Times Gessen’s speech was printed biodiversity, and water issues. Taub Mexico City in an article for The Atlan- Active Overseas received the gold medal at the 70th tic. Gessen is a staff writer Kelly Nyks Annual UNCA Awards and Dag at The New Yorker, and Freelance Hammarskjöld Fund for Journalists Taub Diewati author of multiple books. Brooklyn, NY gala event on Dec. 5 in New York. Taub DAMES MICHAEL Active Resident won the OPC’s 2016 Best Investigative As special counsel Robert Mueller gains OPC member and former Frederic Wehrey Reporting Award for coverage of Syria. traction in the ongoing investigation Governor Abigail Pesta won two Senior Fellow into President Trump and his inner cir- awards from Folio Magazine during Middle East Program Hiba Diewati, the Sally Jacobsen Carnegie Endowment cles, Elizabeth Barchas Prelogar, their annual Eddie and Ozzie Awards. for International Peace Fellowship winner in 2018, worked on the 2006 Flora Lewis Fellowship win- Pesta was recognized for two articles: Washington, DC a documentary that was just nominated ner, is among the team of prosecutors in “To Forgive a Killer,” featured in Notre Active Non-Resident for an IDA Documentary Award for the spotlight. Prelogar was recruited as Dame Magazine, and “Women Who Best Feature. Directed by Joshua part of Muller’s team from the solicitor Change the World” which was featured Bennett and Talya Tibbon, Sky and general’s office last year. A New York in five different publications. She also Ground is an 84-minute film about a Times explainer on Nov. 30 covering received an honorable mention for her large, extended Syrian-Kurdish family developments called Prelogar the team’s article “We All Trusted Him,” published as they make their way from their home resident Russian speaker, and said she in Cosmopolitan Magazine. Earlier this in Aleppo to Berlin. has been “involved in pretrial litigation year, Pesta won two Front Page Awards and witness interviews.” She shelved from the Newswomen’s Club of New Derek Kravitz, winner of the 2014 her admission to Harvard Law School York, including Best Magazine Feature Harper’s Magazine Scholarship in mem- to pursue a Fulbright scholarship in St. for her article in Texas Monthly, and the ory of IF Stone, along with three other Petersburg, Russia, and later served as winning entry for Best Magazine Essay, colleagues at ProPublica, were awarded clerk for Supreme Court justices Ruth which was told to Pesta by Reverend the 2018 Free Speech & Open Govern- Bader Ginsburg and Elena Kagan. Sharon Risher and also featured in ment Award from the First Amendment Notre Dame Magazine. One article she Coalition for its “Trump Town” project, 2014 Jerry Flint Fellowship winner wrote highlighted the women who took which exposed how dozens of obscure John Ismay was one of three military down predator Larry Nassar, and Pesta Trump campaign staffers, including veterans at The New York Times who is writing a book on the topic which is conspiracy theorists, had populated spoke on a call-in panel on Nov. 12 for slated for publication next year. the government through hiring mecha- subscribers as part of the paper’s obser- nisms meant for short-term political vance of Veteran’s Day. Ismay served as PBS investigative series FRONT- appointees. They also found at least 188 an explosive-ordnance disposal officer LINE, which has won multiple OPC former registered lobbyists in the Trump in the Navy. The panel also included awards over the years, has won the first administration, many of whom once C.J. Chivers, an OPC award winner in duPont-Columbia Gold Baton given in lobbied in the same areas that are regu- 2011 and 2014, who served as an infan- a decade. The award is Columbia Uni- lated by the agencies they joined. try officer in the Marine Corps, as well versity’s highest honor for excellence as Washington bureau reporter Thomas in journalism. The program received Katherine Sullivan, the 2017 S&P Gibbons-Neff, who served as a Marine the award for a range of work across Global Awardee, won a 2019 duPont- infantryman. multiple platforms, including broadcast Columbia Award. Sullivan was a re- documentaries, digital interactive sto- searcher on the ProPublica team that WINNERS rytelling, and an original narrative pod- partnered with WYNC and the Inves- Masha Gessen, winner of the cast. The podcast series was recognized tigative Fund to produce Trump Inc., OPC’s 2016 Best Commentary Award, as a “standard bearer and innovator.” In a collaborative reporting podcast that recently received the fourth annual 2015, 2016 and 2017, Frontline received tackled the business relations among Hitchens Prize on Dec. 3 for report- OPC awards for excellence in reporting. the Trump administration, the Trump ing that “reflects a commitment to free expression and inquiry.” In accepting family, the Trump business and the rest Fred Ryan, CEO of The Washington the award, Gessen spoke about the of the world. Katherine was an OPC Post, was recently honored at the Wom- Foundation fellow with Forbes Asia in importance of reporting on immigration issues, particularly on refugees seeking en’s Media Foundation Courage in Jour- Mumbai. nalism Awards, where he dedicated his

November-December 2018 6 PEOPLE speech to slain Post contrib- utor Jamal Khashoggi. Ryan recounted in his acceptance speech how Khashoggi was “lured into a death trap,”

tortured and murdered by BRIAN BYRD OF COURTESY agents of the Saudi govern- A photo from 2003 from Brian Byrd, on far right, with slain journalist Jamal Khashoggi (red arrow) and Gary Hart ment, including members (yellow arrow) during a Saudi Arabian-American relations meeting at a conference center in Bellagio, Italy. of Crown Prince Mohamed bin Salman’s personal se- “best newspaper, news service or digital having particularly good luck when it curity team. Ryan said that Khashoggi reporting from abroad.” Kathy Boyle comes to boats.” was killed for reporting on corruption in Youngquist, whose grandfather was the Saudi government, “but for Jamal, Hal’s brother, brought her two children, Ingrid Wall, the mother of OPC mem- as for too many journalists, the truth Hazel and Jack, with her to New York ber Kim Wall who was murdered in he sought to expose was inconvenient from Perry, Kansas. They were happy 2017 while reporting on board a subma- – at least for leaders trying to cover up to see a framed photo of Hal on the rine, wrote a book about her daughter their abuses of power. And so the Saudi wall of the OPC’s office and to receive that was published on Nov. 9. In the government decided to silence Jamal, copies of dozens of photos of him from book, titled The Book of Kim Wall: forever,” he said. the OPC’s files. Hal Boyle himself was When Words End, Ingrid said that she a legendary war correspondent who wrote the book because “Kim should John Moore, OPC member and award won a Pulitzer Prize in 1945 for his be presented as the engaged and strong- winner, recently won the Inaugural coverage of World War II for The As- willed women she was, as the person Impact Award from the Lucie Awards sociated Press. Boyle was only 17 years and journalist Kim Wall – not as the vic- program. The Lucie Awards honor great old when he joined the AP in 1928 as a tim.” Ingrid also said that she feels “no achievements in photography. A senior copy boy at the organization’s Kansas hate” for Peter Madsen, who was con- staff photographer for Getty Images, City bureau. In an email, Kathy said: victed of killing her daughter. “I have Moor has also received a Pulitzer Prize “My teenager did a reading for a high no energy to waste on Madsen,” she and World Press Photo award for his school Forensics competition of one of told Swedish news site The Local. “It work. He won the 2007 Robert Capa Hal’s stories from [Boyle’s book] Help, causes him no pain if I hate him. In fact Gold Medal Award and received a Capa Help! Another Day! My Dad is in one it certainly makes no difference to him citation for his work in 2015. He started of the pictures in this book. The Boyle at all.” Ingrid Wall spent 20 years as a working for Getty in 2005 and has been family was very close knit and we still reporter for the newspaper Trelleborgs an OPC member since 2013. are today.” Allehanda.” Ingrid and Kim’s father, Joachim Wall, lit the Candle of Con- In June 2003, OPC member and former cern during the OPC’s Annual Awards UPDATES Governor Brian Byrd was a mem- Dinner in April this year. Descendants of Hal Boyle visited ber of the U.S. delegation for a Saudi the OPC’s office during a holiday in Arabian-American relations meeting at Thomson Reuters Corp. announced New York in late November to view the Rockefeller Foundation’s Confer- on Dec. 4 that the company plans to cut the club’s archives. The club’s oldest ence Center in Bellagio, Italy. A photo 3,200 jobs by 2020 as it tries “stream- award for best reporting from abroad Byrd sent to the Bulletin (above right) line the business and improve operating was given in 1940 and renamed for Hal shows Jamal Khashoggi, indicated with efficiencies.” The cuts were announced Boyle in 1978. The award is now for a red arrow, among those who partici- as part of a strategy overview during pated as a member of the Saudi an investor day in Toronto. Reuters delegation. In an email, Byrd employs more than 2,000 journalists. wrote that “during those four The company did not say what part of days of discussions – which sometimes got heated – he its operations the job cuts would come remained a thoughtful and from. Executives also said the company engaging person. I’m still try- would reduce its global office footprint ing to wrap my brain around by 30 percent by 2020. his senseless murder and our government’s support for the OPC Governor David Ariosto re- mastermind. Also present: Gary leased a new book on Dec. 11 that Hart (yellow arrow), the former draws on his experience as a photo- US Senator and presidential journalist in Cuba to examine dramatic candidate, who – in response changes in the Caribbean nation over to an announcement that lunch the last decade. His book, This Is Cuba: Left to right: Patricia Kranz, Hazel Youngquist, will be on a boat on Lake Como An American Journalist Under Castro’s Kathy Boyle Youngquist and Jack Youngquist. – made a funny joke about not Continued on Page 8

November-December 2018 7 Continued From Page 7 women about their rights. In Iraq, a wom- about his friend Lu Guang, an internation- an named Yanar pushed for parliamentary ally acclaimed photographer from China, Shadow, begins with his first posting in reform while running shelters for abused who disappeared in early November while Havana for CNN at the start of a 2-year women. Lastly, Rojda, a commander of en route to Urumqi. He was reportedly assignment for the network. He follows the Syrian Democratic Army, led 60,000 seen with state security agents. Friends the waning days of Fidel Castro’s regime troops to defeat ISIS. She helped free the and family have asked the Chinese gov- and the uncertainty and crisis that now city of Raqqa and its people. Argentieri ernment about his fate, but have not re- brews in the power vacuum. Ariosto’s has been a member of the OPC since ceived answers. book was named as one of “10 Books 2016. to Read – and gift – in December” in a Two-time OPC award winner Brian Washington Post year-end article in the OPC member Andrew Nagorski re- Reed discussed his groundbreaking Books section. cently donated original cassette tapes of podcast S-Town at the Bard Fisher Center his interviews to The Hoover Institution. on Nov. 10. His presentation centered on OPC Governor Christopher Dickey, The tapes have now been digitized and “developing an entirely new kind of sto- who serves as foreign editor for The made available at the Hoover Archives. rytelling.” S-Town was downloaded over Daily Beast in Paris, covered the Nagorski spent more than three decades 40 million times in its first month, set- violent “yellow vest” protests in as a foreign correspondent and editor ting a podcasting record. Reed’s research Paris on Dec. 8 and reported in an for Newsweek. During his career, he for the podcast spanned more than three email that “my OPC press pass interviewed major political and cultural years. It began when a man named John got me through 9 out 10 police figures, as well as dissidents and activ- B. McLemore asked Reed to investigate barricades.” He wrote in an ar- ists from Central and Eastern Europe. an alleged murder in his small Alabama ticle that police drove protesters The tapes were recorded between 1976 town. In 2012, Reed was part of teams into his own neighborhood in the and 2008. Nagorski said he donated the that won The Thomas Lowell Award and city, where teargas floated in the tapes to the Hoover Archives because he The Joe and Laurie Dine Award, both for air and “cars and motor scooters has found their collections useful while investigation of a 1982 massacre in Gua- burned on the street behind my researching his books, and hopes his temala. Dickey place, and the street in front, and tapes will also be useful to students and near my favorite café.” Separately, historians. OPC award winner Adam Ellick told COURTESY OF CHRIS DICKEY OF COURTESY Dickey and OPC Governor John NPR’s Fresh Air host Terry Gross in Avlon, who works for CNN, spoke OPC member Murat Bilgincan has November that a conspiracy theory about together at the Charleston to Charleston filed a new article for the Al-Monitor site the origin of AIDS that was spread by Literary Festival over the weekend of and filmed a documentary on political disinformation agents in the Soviet Union Nov. 10. Lynsey Addario, a former OPC polarization in Turkey. The article, titled in the 1980s still has traction today. El- award winner and photojournalist, also “One Vote, Three Corpses,” is a look into lick, who was part of teams that won OPC spoke at the event. The four-day festival how a referendum in Turkey divided a vil- awards in 2007, 2010 and 2015 for cover- is now in its second year. lage and a family. Bilgincan wrote about age of Pakistan and the Arab Spring, has the Yildiz family, who were deeply invest- launched a three-part video series on the A documentary by OPC member Bene- ed in the election, and how their opposing New York Times website. The series covers detta Argentieri about three women views tore them apart. His documentary, fake news operations from Russia, includ- fighting for equality in the Middle East titled A Report Card for Democracy is a ing an episode about a rumor that AIDS had its world premiere at DOC NYC in thirty-minute look into how the family has virus was created by the U.S. military for early November. The film, titled I Am grappled with the aftermath of the divisive use as a biological weapon, specifically the Revolution, was sold out for weeks election. Bilgincan has been a member of against African-Americans and homosex- beforehand. Argentieri filmed the docu- the OPC since 2016. uals. The other episodes are “The Seven mentary in three countries. In Afghanistan, Commandments Of Fake News” and she trailed a politician named Selay, who Longtime OPC member Robert Pledge “The Worldwide War On Truth.” v traveled with armed protection to teach wrote a piece in The New York Times PRESS FREEDOM UPDATE... By Farwa Zaidi On Dec. 4, the OPC made a statement the government’s tax evasion charges temporarily required the White House and Chad Bouchard condemning relentless attacks on press and continue her work. “This is an attack to reinstate the media credential for Jim freedom by the government of the Phil- on one of the world’s bravest journal- Acosta, chief White House correspon- ippines as its justice department filed tax ists,” said Marty Baron, the executive dent, CNN, whose access had previously evasion charges against Rappler Hold- editor of The Washington Post. been revoked. The OPC objected earlier ings Corp. and journalist founder, Maria to the administration pulling Acosta’s Ressa, a longtime critic of President The OPC applauded a U.S. federal press card on the grounds he inappro- Rodrigo Duterte. Ressa vowed to fight district court ruling on Nov. 16 that priately touched a female White House

November-December 2018 8 9 intern who tried to take the microphone 27. Azarpeyk has previously been ar- in April alleging Singh’s involvement in away from him during a Nov. 8 Q&A rested for her reporting. corruption linked to a government rural with the President Trump, though video employment project. Tiwari was the sec- of the incident did not support the claim. According to Reporters Without Borders, ond journalist to be killed in India in a Belarus has reached a record this year one-week period. The Committee to Protect Journalists for persecution of journalists. So far announced on Nov. 8 that two staff mem- this year, 99 fines have been slapped on Abdullahi Mire Hashi, a Somali bers from CPJ who had been arrested Belarusian journalists “working with radio journalist, was gunned down and in Tanzania were released. Angela foreign media without accreditation.” killed on Oct. 27. At least two unidenti- Quintal, CPJ’s Africa program coordi- Ninety-one of those reporters work fied gunmen shot Abdullahi in the town nator, and Muthoki Mumo, CPJ’s sub- for just one media outlet, Belsat TV. of Elasha Bihaya. Abdullahi was the Saharan Africa representative, were de- The Belarusian TV channel is based producer and host of a daily show on the tained in early November. CPJ Executive in neighboring Poland. RSF says au- privately-owned radio station Darul Sun- Director Joel Simon said the incident thorities force independent media to base nah. He was shot dead after attending made it “abundantly clear to anyone who themselves outside the country, and then afternoon prayers at a mosque near his followed the latest developments that refuse to give their correspondents press station. The gunmen immediately fled Tanzanian journalists work in a climate accreditation, which forces journalists the scene. Abdullahi’s radio station fo- of fear of intimidation.” to work illegally. The rate at which fines cused mainly on religious programming. are imposed is increasing exponentially: According to several other journalists, On Nov. 8, dozens of police officers from 10 in 2016 to 69 in 2017, and al- Abdullahi had recently received anony- raided the Karachi Press Club around most 100 this year so far. mous phone calls questioning why his 10:30 p.m. Armed policemen wear- station was not covering militant group ing plain clothes, stormed the club and On Oct. 24, Chinese business journalists Al-Shabaab’s operations in the region. searched the facility. According to a Zou Guangxiang and Liu Cheng- The director general of the Somali fed- statement from the Karachi Press Club, kun were sentenced to one year and eral ministry of information told CPJ police harassed journalists and club of- eight months in prison, respectively, on that the attack appeared to be an act of ficials, and took photos and videos while charges of “picking quarrels and provok- terrorism, and security services are in- searching. This was all done without any ing troubles.” The two had revealed the vestigating. warrants or permission. Witnesses say existence of an investigation against that the gunmen arrived at the club in at the chairman of Yili Industrial Group, a Sohail Khan, a Pakistani journalist, least six vehicles. When questioned by powerful dairy company. Zou was arrest- was shot and killed in Haripur on Oct. the club’s president, an officer claimed ed in March in Beijing, two days after 16. Khan was a reporter for K2 Times, that they didn’t know it was a press club he disclosed on his blog that Pan Gang an Urdu daily. Khan reportedly received and were there to arrest wanted individu- was being investigated. The information threats shortly after he wrote a story als. The day after the raid, Karachi jour- went viral and caused a 3.5 percent fall about the arrest of an alleged drug dealer nalists gathered to protest. The Karachi in the share price of the company. Liu named Musarrat Iqbal. On the day he Press Club was founded in 1958 and published some elements of the story as was killed, Khan had gone to the police boasts about 1000 members. fiction, hoping to protect himself, but to file an order of protection. Haripur was arrested a few days later. China is officials have since said that Khan was There has recently been a heightened currently holding more than 60 journal- killed because of his reporting. Ac- crackdown on journalists in Iran, with ists behind bars. cording to the officials, local police are several questioned in the past month searching for Ali Sher and Himayun or arrested over social media posts. On MURDERS Iqbal, sons of the drug dealer, who are Nov. 5, Massoud Kazami was ar- Chandan Tiwari, an Indian reporter suspected of ambushing Khan’s car rested in her home. Kazami is a former for the Hindi daily Aj was killed on Oct. and killing him. Last year, the Haripur reporter for the daily newspaper Shargh. 30. Tiwari was abducted on Oct. 29 and bureau chief of the K2 Times was shot Officers in plain clothes arrived at her found badly beaten the next day. He later dead. Police have yet to make an arrest house and confiscated her files and com- died at the hospital. Police said the re- in that case. At least 33 journalists have puter storage devices. She frequently porter was found injured in a forest about been killed in relation to their work in criticizes Iran’s policies and its govern- 175 miles from his town of Jharkhand. Pakistan since 1992. v ment on her Twitter account, which has At a press conference on Nov. 1, police been inaccessible since her arrest. On identified three suspects. Superintendent Oct. 29, journalist Saba Azarpeyk Akhilesh Variar said that two of the was arrested during a raid on her home suspects had been arrested, but one fled. shortly after accusing labor minister Mo- Police believe Tawari was targeted for hammad Shariatmadari of corruption and his reporting on one of the killers, Pintu nepotism. She posted her accusations on Singh, who is a private contractor. Ta- social media with supporting documents wari exposed Singh’s alleged financial just before a vote in parliament on Oct. irregularities. He also published a story

November-December 2018 9 9 NEW BOOKS By Farwa Zaidi

UPCOMING MEDIA SYRIA he way audiences consume news has n February 2012, Marie Colvin defied govern- EVENTS changed drastically over the last few years, ment decrees preventing journalists from entering Twith broadcast news thriving and print outlets Syria and crossed over the border on the back of struggling to stay afloat, and social media sites be- I a motorcycle. Accompanied by photographer Paul coming the primary method of news delivery. In her Conroy, she was determined to report on the civil war new book, The Merchants of Truth: Inside the War in Syria, where few other foreign journalists were for News, [Simon & Schuster, 2019] former New on the ground. It would be her final reporting trip York Times executive editor Jill Abramson takes into a conflict zone. She was killed in an explosion OPC a deep dive into the ongoing struggle between in Homs. Marie Brenner’s new book, A Private War: HOLIDAY PARTY new and old media. Marie Colvin and Other Tales of Heroes, Scoundrels, The book focuses on four media giants: and Renegades [Simon & Schuster, October 2018] 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. The New York Times, The Washington Post, chronicles the final few days of Colvin’s life. Buzzfeed, and VICE. She compares the two Colvin was a veteran war correspondent known Club Quarters legacy papers with two newcomers that have for a fearless, outspoken, and unrestrained approach. grown their audiences solely online. Abramson Before her final trip to Syria, she had covered Jan. 9 follows the papers over a decade of upheaval conflicts in Egypt, Chechnya, Kosovo and Libya. and radical adjustment, concluding that new She had witnessed countless tragedies and is even digital realities have made old models unworkable, credited for saving thousands of lives during a while online media appeals directly to a growing au- conflict in East Timor in 1999. Colvin had refused dience of millennials. to stop reporting until the endangered civilians were Abramson profiles the work of media players evacuated. Her reporting drew attention to the East such as Jeff Bezos and Marty Baron ofThe Wash- Timorese, which helped to protect them while they ington Post, Arthur Sulzberger and Dean Baquet of fled over a tense four-day period. The New York Times, Jonah Peretti of Buzzfeed, and The explosion that took her life happened just one Shane Smith of VICE. Abramson also looks at how day after her last broadcasts to several media outlets, the struggle between new and old media affects news including BBC, Channel 4, CNN and ITN News. consumers as well as journalists. That day she told Anderson Cooper in an interview Merchants of Truth gives an insider’s perspective over satellite phone that the bombardment of Homs on the industry’s turmoil, was the worst conflict with a candid look at the she’d ever seen. French growing pains of both photographer Remi Och- new and old media as lik also died in the attack they blurred lines of paid that took Colvin’s life. advertising and news and The Syrian government shifted to “click bait” sto- claimed the explosion ries to grab readers’ atten- had been from an impro- tion. Merchants of Truth vised explosive device raises pointed questions filled with nails that was about the state of news detonated by terrorists. delivery as well as press But several journalists freedom and waning trust in Syria said that the in traditional media. Syrian Army had shelled Abramson is a sea- the media building that soned reporter herself, having spent seventeen years Colvin had reported from, likely by tracking satellite in the most senior editorial positions at The New York phone signals. Times. She was the first woman to serve as Wash- Brenner first wrote about Colvin for aVanity Fair ington bureau chief, managing editor, and executive article shortly after her death. The article inspired editor. Before that, she had spent nine years at The Benner’s book, as well as a movie about Colvin’s Wall Street Journal. She is currently a senior lecturer life that was released earlier this year. The film was at Harvard University, as well as a columnist for The directed by Matthew Heineman, written by Arash Guardian, where she writes about US politics. v Amel, and stars Rosamund Pike as Colvin. Brenner is an American author, investigative journalist, and writer at large for Vanity Fair. She has written for The New Yorker and The Boston Herald, and has taught at Columbia University’s Graduate School for Journalism. v

November-December 2018 10 Hasan Mahmud

Meet the OPC Members: Q&A With Hasan Mahmud

asan Mahmud is a Bangladeshi staying in touch with colleagues around Journalism heroes: Elizabeth Cochrane investigative broadcast journal- the world. Seaman, her pen name Nellie Bly, an ist, writer and social worker. American journalist who was widely H known for her record-breaking trip He has been an editor of Weekly Sunday What do you make of the state of around the world. Line since June 2010 and served as press freedom in Bangladesh at the special correspondent and chief crime moment? I am saddened by this situa- Dream job: Investigative reporting. reporter of TV channels Diganta Televi- tion. Very recently, a council of editors sion and Jamuna Television, working in Bangladesh, as well as journalists, Favorite quote: “Education is the most on investigative desks for both outlets. were speaking out against a new law that powerful weapon which you can use to Mahmud covered the United Nations restricts press freedom. My colleagues change the world” – Nelson Mandela peacekeeping mission in South Sudan there are fighting hard for press freedom. in 2007. He has reported in Bangladesh Place you’re most eager to visit: and from many other countries around Major challenge as a journalist: Switzerland the world. Journalism is a very challenging job in Bangladesh. We face new problems, Most over-the-top assignment: Hometown: Dhaka, Bangladesh. including abductions of journalists and I was in Sundarban in Bangladesh to intimidation from those who want jour- report on pirate kidnappings. It is the Education: Masters degree in political nalists silenced. largest contiguous coastal mangrove science, Dhaka University, 1991. forest in the world, and is considered one Best journalism advice received: of the world’s greatest natural wonders. Languages you speak: English and “Safety first.” One day, during that reporting trip, I Bangla. suddenly found myself facing down a Worst experience as a journalist: large Royal Bengal Tiger. First job in journalism: I started work- Covering the massive civil war that con- ing for Bangladesh’s most-circulated tinued for 22 years in the South Sudan. Most common mistake you’ve seen: independent broadsheet and oldest news- Up to 300,000 people are estimated to When political leaders in my country paper, The Daily Inqilab, in 1991. have been killed in the war overall. As a talk publicly, they make mistakes journalist covering the war in 2007, I wit- constantly. Countries reported from: Bangladesh, nessed killing and brutality. But this year Country you most want to return to: the United States, Greece, Saudi Arabia, in 2018, along the Bangladesh-Myanmar There is a very popular place in the old Switzerland, Italy, Bahrain and South border, I saw brutality again, this time part of Dhaka. I want to return there. Sudan. against the Rohingya people. Twitter handle: @HasanMa27658135 v When and why did you join the When traveling, you like to… OPC? I joined the OPC in 2016. I think I like to travel in the winter. the OPC is a very old and prestigious journalist organization, and I feel lucky Hardest story: Interviewing pirates in to have met with OPC Executive Direc- the Bay of Bengal. Want to add to the OPC’s collection of tor Patricia Kranz in New York while Q&As with members? Please contact I was covering the United Nations [email protected]. General Assembly. The OPC is a way of November-December 2018 11 40 West 45th Street New York, NY 10036 USA Phone 212.626.9220 Email: [email protected] opcofamerica.org

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