THE MONTHLY NEWSLETTER OF THE OVERSEAS PRESS CLUB OF AMERICA, NEW YORK, NY • November 2016 New Awards Honor Peter Jennings and Online Reporting By Patricia Kranz David Kaplan Award is unchanged The OPC is pleased to announce and will go to the best TV or video a new award named after legendary spot news from abroad. ABC News Anchor Peter Jennings. The Jennings family has made a The award is for the best TV, video long-term commitment to supporting or documentary about international the Jennings Award, which like other affairs one hour or longer. OPC awards, will be accompanied by “The Peter Jennings Award is a $1,000 check. Click on the image above to visit the given to exceptional long-form in- The OPC will begin accepting en- OPC Awards web page in your browser. ternational affairs reporting in the tries for all of its 22 awards on Nov. international affairs. The award will tradition of the ABC anchorman/ 30. The general deadline is Jan. 30, honor the best story or series of sto- correspondent who strongly believed while the deadline for the Cornelius ries using creative and dynamic on- the American people deserve the best Ryan book award is Jan. 9. Work line storytelling techniques. The jury serious news presentations possible must be published or broadcast in the about issues of global importance,” will take into account the quality of U.S. or be accessible to an Ameri- the reporting but give special consid- said Allan Dodds Frank, the former can audience for the first time during OPC president and ABC News cor- eration to features unique to the on- 2016. As with all OPC entries, the respondent who is the driving force line experience. reporting should be primarily outside behind the creation of this award. In photography, the Olivier Rebbot the US. To apply, click on the image Kaycee Freed Jennings, Peter’s Award for best photographic reporting widow said: “Peter cared deeply at the top right of this page or check the home page of the OPC website. from abroad in magazines or books about great reporting and particularly has been merged with the former John about bringing great reporting about Additional changes to the awards Faber Award for best photographic re- the rest of the world back home. Peter competition have been approved by would be proud and honored that this the OPC board. The award for best porting from abroad in newspapers or award is being given in his name.” multimedia news presentation has news services. The new Olivier Reb- The OPC’s Edward R. Murrow been eliminated. In its place is the bot Award is for best photographic re- Award for best TV, video or docu- award for best online reporting on porting from abroad in any medium. mentary interpretation of interna- tional affairs will be limited to piec- Paris Event to Show ‘View from Trumpland’ es that are less than one hour. The EVENT PREVIEW: Nov. 30 Inside. On Nov. 30 in Paris, the OPC Event Preview: China’s 2025 Plan......2 and the American Library in Paris are hosting an event with veteran Sexual Assault in Journalism..............3 award-winning photojournalist Christopher Morris OPC West: Russia and US Election...3 Christopher Morris, who will show his photos and videos from months Christopher Morris, left, will show photos from Press Freedom Survey ......................3 Donald Trump’s campaign trail. OPC Foundation Scholar Letter..........4 covering Donald Trump’s momen- tous campaign and explore how ber of VII Photo, Morris splits his Documentary Follows Li Ling-Ai.........5 America has changed – and how the time between Florida and Paris, from People Column................................6-8 media is covering those changes. where he travels the world. Sug- Press Freedom Update.................9-10 He’ll discuss his years photo- gested donation is $10. Maximum graphing several presidential cam- capacity is 75, plus 20 standing. No Q&A: Deborah Amos.........................11 paigns and the White House for RSVP is needed, but attendance will New Books........................................12 TIME magazine. A founding mem- be first come, first served. Panel to Discuss China’s 2025 Transformation Plans is the author or co-author of 10 books about the coun- EVENT PREVIEW: Nov. 16 try, including, most recently, Wealth and Power: China’s By William J. Holstein Long March to the Twenty-First Century. China is attempting to transform itself from a low- Also speaking will be Weiping Wu, a professor of and middle-wage manufacturing powerhouse into an urban planning at Columbia University, is an expert on “innovation nation” by 2025. the role of Chinese universities and public research in- There are huge stakes for China and the world. If stitutes in fostering innovation in the technology clusters China’s companies and enterprises can commercialize the country is developing. Wu studies the role of higher new technologies on a global basis, the world will feel education in innovation and technological development the competitive impact. After all, China is the nation that in emerging economies. She is co-author or co-editor of invented gunpowder and paper. six books, most recently, The Chinese City. But if the Chinese get stuck in lower-level businesses Yu Zhou, co-editor of China As An Innovation Nation and cannot create new high-tech jobs to replace disap- and professor of geography and Asian studies at Vassar pearing manufacturing jobs, the social and political College, will join the discussion. Her research has been costs to Chinese stability could be enormous. in the areas of globalization and high-technology, spe- So far, Chinese companies and enterprises have cializing in the Chinese path of innovation. She also is largely taken Western technologies and adopted them to the author of The Inside Story of China’s High-Tech In- the Chinese market. Very few have attempted to com- dustry: Making Silicon Valley in Beijing (2008). pete internationally on the basis of technology they de- I will moderate. I am a business journalist and au- veloped. thor of seven books, including Has The American Media The fundamental question is whether China’s Com- Misjudged China? I have been following the China sto- munist Party-ruled, state-led model can adopt policies ry since winning the 1979 OPC award for best business that lead to genuine innovation or whether its heavy news reporting from abroad for my coverage of the early hand will prevent innovation from taking root. stages of China’s modernization. On Nov. 16, the OPC, the National Committee on The event begins at Club Quarters with a cash recep- U.S.-China Relations, the Asia Society’s ChinaFile and tion at 6:00 p.m., followed by the program from 6:30 Silicon Dragon are co-hosting a forum to discuss this p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Attendance for the program is free, but question and the implications of China’s 2025 plan. please RSVP via the website, click on the button below Panelists include Orville Schell, the Arthur Ross Di- or contact the OPC office at 212-626-9220. 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Within 48 hours I ism earlier this year, I didn’t expect To me, the most surprising part of had nearly 50 responses from jour- sexual politics to become a key part the story wasn’t the litany of allega- nalists, mainly in the U.S.