THE MONTHLY NEWSLETTER OF THE OVERSEAS PRESS CLUB OF AMERICA, NEW YORK, NY • FEBRUARY 2012 14 Aspiring Reporters to Be Honored at Luncheon est pool of academic institu- The OPC Founda- EVENT PREVIEW: FEBRUARY 17 tions and from every region tion awards are given in by Jane Reilly of the country, demonstrat- the names of eminent Jeff Fager, Chairman of CBS ing the program’s broad and journalists and media or- News and Executive Producer of “60 extensive appeal. William ganizations. Besides ad- Minutes,” will be the keynote speaker J. Holstein, OPC Founda- dressing a distinguished at the annual OPC Foundation Schol- tion president, noted, “The audience of more than arship Luncheon on Friday, February fact that we received appli- 200 luncheon guests, the 17 at the Yale Club. At the event, the cations from 70 universities scholarship winners also Foundation will award a combina- across the country further tour the Associated Press tion of scholarships and funded in- establishes us as the domi- and meet with veteran ternships to 14 graduate and under- nant force in seeking to international journalists graduate college students aspiring to identify the next generation Jeff Fager at a breakfast hosted by become foreign correspondents. The of foreign correspondents Holstein. On the night scholarship recipients, who emerged and launch their careers. No one else before the luncheon, Reuters will from an incredibly competitive field is doing what we are doing on the host its traditional reception for cur- of 175 applications from nearly 70 scale we’re doing it.” (Continued on Page 2) different colleges and universities, are from American University in Front Lines of War Depicted in Documentary Cairo, Columbia University, George Washington University, Johns Hop- EVENT PREVIEW: JANUARY 19 has been a spokesman for major net- kins University, Princeton Univer- by Sonya K. Fry works about the psychological cost sity, Stanford University, University Journalism in times of war is an of covering war. of California-Berkeley, University of increasingly lethal vo- Their documentary, Missouri, University of Oregon, Uni- cation. Two journalists “Under Fire: Journal- versity of Southern California and were killed in WWI ists in Combat,” which University of Texas. and 63 lost their lives opened in December, The OPC Foundation scholarship in WWII, but now, in weaves together combat program has grown dramatically in the past two decades, footage with first-hand the past two decades and is now con- at least one journalist accounts by journalists a week has been killed, sidered the most prominent scholar- who reveal what they with the dead now num- saw, thought and felt ship program in the country for as- bering in the thousands. as they confronted both piring foreign correspondents. This In addition to facing the savagery of war and year’s applicants came from the larg- death, kidnapping, tor- the insatiable 24-hour Inside. ture and beheadings are news cycle. OPC President letter........................3 now part of the job de- In many cases the scription. journalist is ransomed Kandahar Book Night Recap...........4 Writer/director Martyn Burke has for a price, but the native fixer/trans- made several documentaries about lator/driver is tortured or killed which People Column...........................5-10 war for PBS, HBO and TNT. Antho- adds to the guilt that the captured Opinion: Business of Journalists....11 ny Feinstein is a psychiatrist, trained journalist endures. The term post- in South Africa and London and is traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is New Books.....................................12 now at the University of Toronto. He (Continued on Page 3) Luncheon: Continued From Page 1 of the airfare and one month’s liv- enterprise reporting and increased ing expenses for the winners. Interns foreign coverage. As the senior rent and past winners at its Time usually use their own funds to extend broadcast producer for the “CBS Eve- Square headquarters. For many, says their stays. ning News” (1994-96) he covered Holstein, the opportunity to meet Holstein is especially pleased that many major international stories, and observe prominent journalists in someone of Fager’s stature in the in- including the war in Bosnia and the action is as valuable as any monetary dustry will be addressing this year’s assassination of Israeli Prime Min- awards. winners. An award-winning journal- ister Yitzhak Rabin. A graduate Media organizations have con- ist in his own right, Fager became of Colgate University, he began tinued to cut back their international the first chairman of CBS News last his career in 1977 at the CBS sta- operations and, to the extent they February after more than 30 years tion WBZ-TV in Boston. do cover global stories, their cover- experience at every stage of the tele- Holstein is grateful to Bloom- age tends to be sporadic. Correspon- vision news business, including 15 berg, which hosted the judging this dents parachute in, and then depart years at the executive producer level, year, and to the dedicated panel of almost as suddenly. “We’re trying to seven of those at the helm of “60 judges who chose the 2012 recipi- identify the next generation of cor- Minutes.” ents: Allen Alter, CBS News; John respondents who have the right val- For his work, the Producers Daniszewski, AP; Eddie Evans, ues,” Holstein noted. “We think the Guild of America voted him best Reuters; Allan Dodds Frank; Jona- people covering the world ought to producer in non-fiction television than Gage, Sharon Gamsin; Felice speak languages and ought to make four times and TV Week named him Levin; Jeremy Main; Larry Martz; commitments to live in-country, not to its top 10 list of most powerful Kate McLeod; Steve Swanson and just get on a plane from New York or television news executives. Broad- Karen Toulon, Bloomberg. London.” casts that he executive produced Luncheon tickets are $75 for OPC It is precisely to help these stu- garnered 33 Emmys, eight Pea- members and $125 for non-mem- dents launch overseas careers that bodys, eight RTDNA/Edward bers. The Foundation encourages the Foundation began and has now R. Murrow Awards, four Alfred media and corporate support at its expanded its internship program. Be- I. duPont-Columbia University three levels of giving: Benefactors gun in 2006 with one AP intern, the batons, three Sigma Delta Chi $8,000; Patrons $5,000; and Friends program in 2011 funded six interns Awards and three Investigative Re- $2,000. Tables seat 10. The reception — who are chosen from among the porting and Editing Awards. begins at 11:30 a.m.; the luncheon scholarship winners — to AP bu- As executive producer of the ends promptly at 2 p.m. All pro- reaus in Cairo, Bangkok and Johan- “CBS Evening News with ceeds benefit the OPC Foundation. nesburg, and Reuters’ bureaus in Dan Rather” from 1996 to For further information, contact Hong Kong, Singapore and Taipei. 1998, Fager led the broadcast’s high- Jane Reilly at 201-493-9087 or foun- The Foundation picks up the cost ly praised rededication to hard news, [email protected]. OVERSEAS PRESS CLUB OF AMERICA • BOARD OF GOVERNORS PRESIDENT SECRETARY Tim Ferguson Toni Reinhold ASSOCIATE BOARD PAST PRESIDENTS David A. 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Bureau Chief Video and Print Journalist Women in the World Over seas Press Club of Politique Internationale The New York Times America 40 West 45 Street, New York, NY 10036 USA • Phone: (212) 626-9220 • Fax: (212) 626-9210 • Website: opcofamerica.org OPC Bulletin • February 2012 • Page 2 Different Reporting Era, Same Dilligence in Reporting full-fledged foreign correspondents, because of the extraordinary role LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT two American producers, two veter- played by some individuals using When The New York Times first an bureau assistants, including Bob that unique medium who kept us so sent me overseas, heading for Saigon Albertson who could easily have well informed throughout the Arab via Phnom Penh in December 1974, passed for a foreign correspondent in Spring and into the summer, fall and it was quite clear who was a foreign his own right (his French being far winter as well. Indeed, the Internet correspondent. There were largely more accomplished), plus camera is becoming an ever more important two varieties — the staff correspon- crews, editors and expeditors. part of our entire awards process. dents for the major national and Now, of course, the world is quite international media, and some re- None of this is to suggest the dis- different in oh so many ways.