THE MONTHLY NEWSLETTER OF THE OVERSEAS PRESS CLUB OF AMERICA, NEW YORK, NY • January 2014 Dozier to Give Keynote Address at Annual Scholars Luncheon ship program has “We are very pleased EVENT PREVIEW: FEBRUARY 21 grown in the past two that The Wall Street by Jane Reilly decades and is now Journal/Dow Jones The acclaimed foreign corre- considered the most has joined our board spondent Kimberly Dozier, who prominent scholar- and took part in the now covers intelligence, special op- ship program in the judging process. erations and the war on violent ex- country for aspiring We look forward to tremism for The Associated Press, correspondents. “Our building that rela- will be the keynote speaker at the program just keeps tionship at the same annual OPC Foundation Scholar- getting better and at- time that we enjoy ship Luncheon on Friday, February tracts more attention strong support from 21 at the Yale Club. At the event, the and participation,” Kimberly Dozier The Associated Press, Foundation will award a combina- said Bill Holstein, Reuters and Bloom- tion of scholarships and fellowships president of the OPC Foundation. (Continued on Page 4) to 14 graduate and undergraduate students aspiring to become foreign correspondents. The winning recipi- The Stories You Aren’t Hearing From Pakistan ents who emerged from an incred- by the state in May 2013 for unspeci- ibly competitive field of more than EVENT PREVIEW: FEBRUARY 11 fied “undesirable activities.” 175 applications from nearly 70 dif- by Azmat Khan n Habiba Nosheen, an OPC ferent colleges and universities are The need for objective, boots- Award and Peabody Award-winning from the Academy of Art Univer- on-the ground reporting from Paki- Pakistani journalist and filmmaker sity-San Francisco, Carleton Col- stan — one of the world’s most of the documentary “Outlawed in lege, Columbia University, École de dangerous assignments for journal- Pakistan.” Journalisme de Sciences Po (Paris), ists — has never been greater. The n Sadia Shephard, a Pakistani- New York University, University of nuclear-armed state, home to a ter- American journalist whose film “The Arizona, University of California- rorist insurgency and a controversial Other Half of Tomorrow” explores Berkeley, University of Southern American drone campaign, often contemporary Pakistan through the California, University of Toronto makes U.S. headlines. But Pakistan perspectives of women. and Yale University. is also much more than that. n Richard Leiby, Pakistan cor- The OPC Foundation scholar- In this special event from the respondent for The Washington Post OPC and George Washington Uni- and a professor of journalism at the Inside. versity School of Media & Public GWU School of Media and Public Affairs, journalists who have spent Affairs. Arizona Event Preview....................2 years reporting in the country and n OPC board member and Al pursuing stories that often go under- Jazeera America senior digital pro- Holiday Party Recap.......................3 reported will share their own experi- ducer and reporter Azmat Khan will People..........................................5-9 ences about the challenges and dan- moderate the discussion. gers of their work, and the important The event takes place on Tuesday, Organizations’ Numbers in 2014....9 stories Americans don’t hear enough. February 11 at 7 p.m. in Washington, Panelists include: D.C. at GWU Marvin Auditorium, China Revises Some Visas...........10 n Declan Walsh, Pakistan bu- 800 21st Street, NW. RSVP on- Larry Martz on Snowden................11 reau chief for The New York Times, line: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ who had been reporting in the coun- reporting-in-pakistan-what-you- New Books....................................12 try since 2004, until he was expelled arent-hearing-tickets-8998718409 Reporting Border Conflict: Stifled News, Lost Lives EVENT PREVIEW: FEBRUARY 18 joined the UA faculty. Panelists are America for the Dallas Morning Giannina Segnini, investigations News and Knight-Ridder writing by Mort Rosenblum editor at La Nacion in Costa Rica; hard-hitting stories on drugs and Award-winning journalists with Ricardo Sandoval Palos, veteran border issues. He then supervised decades of global reporting experi- Latin America reporter and human global investigative journalists for ence will explore how border con- rights researcher; and OPC member The Center for Public Integrity and flict from Sonora to Syria skews Mort Rosenblum, Paris-based for- researched border issues for Human reality and endangers reporters in a mer Associated Press special corre- Rights Watch. He is now organizing free public discussion on Tuesday, spondent who teaches International an international news venture. February 18 at 5 p.m. in the Univer- Reporting at the UA. Rosenblum, a UA graduate, sity of Arizona’s Center for Creative Schmidt directed the Times’ ef- joined AP from the Arizona Daily Photography. The UA School of forts to keep scores of far-ranging Star in 1965. He has covered war Journalism and the OPC are spon- correspondents and stringers safe in and peace on four continents, from soring the talk. hostile environments. He helped en- Congo and Vietnam to Iraq and Af- In the past two years, 159 jour- sure a steady stream of reliable news ghanistan. He edited the Interna- nalists were killed in pursuit of from Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, and tional Herald Tribune from 1979 to news, according to Reporters With- North Africa. Before returning to 1981. An eight-time Pulitzer nomi- out Borders. Another 1,705 were ar- New York, he was based in London, nee, he has written a series of books rested, 125 were kidnapped and 150 from where he covered the Middle about global news coverage. had to flee their countries. Growing East, Africa, and the Balkans. Panelists will focus on the U.S.- threats on the safety and security of Segnini’s prize-winning team has Mexico border and Central America journalists impact heavily on how disclosed 10 cases of international within a global context and then take stories are covered. Some home- corruption, including one that sent questions from the audience. based editors and reporters censor two former Costa Rican presidents The event takes place on Tues- themselves in fear for their families. to jail. She travels widely and is a day, February 18 at 5 p.m. in the Correspondents often travel with se- featured speaker and jury member at University of Arizona’s Center for curity guards in conflict zones. international conferences on investi- Creative Photography at 1030 North Bill Schmidt, the panel modera- gative journalism. She also teaches Olive Road. RSVP by calling the tor, retired as The New York Times at the University of Costa Rica. OPC at 212-626-9220 or e-mailing deputy managing editor in 2013 and Sandoval spent a decade in Latin [email protected]. OVERSEAS PRESS CLUB OF AMERICA • BOARD OF GOVERNORS PRESIDENT SECRETARY Jane Ciabattari Santiago Lyon Charles Wallace PAST PRESIDENTS Michael Serrill Jonathan Dahl Freelance Writer VP and Director of Financial Writer EX-OFFICIO Assistant Managing Editor in Chief NPR.org, Daily Beast Photography David A. Andelman Editor WSJMoney Associated Press ASSOCIATE BOARD John Corporon Bloomberg Markets Deidre Depke MEMBERS Allan Dodds Frank ACTIVE BOARD Executive Editor Marcus Mabry Brian Byrd Alexis Gelber FIRST VICE PRESIDENT Jacqueline Albert- The Daily Beast Editor at Large Program Officer William J. Holstein Tim Ferguson Simon The New York Times NYS Health Marshall Loeb Editor U.S. Bureau Chief Martin Dickson Foundation Larry Martz Forbes Asia Politique Internationale U.S. Managing Editor Robert Nickelsberg Roy Rowan Financial Times Freelance Sarah Lubman Leonard Saffir SECOND VICE PRESIDENT Amar C. Bakshi Photojournalist Partner Larry Smith Abigail Pesta JD/MBA student Arlene Getz Brunswick Group Richard B. Stolley Freelance Journalist Yale University Editor-in-Charge Romesh Ratnesar Digital News Deputy Editor Daniel Sieberg EXECUTIVE THIRD VICE PRESIDENT Rebecca Thomson Reuters Bloomberg Head of Media Outreach DIRECTOR Toni Reinhold Blumenstein Businessweek Google Sonya K. Fry Editor in Charge, Deputy Editor in Chief Azmat Khan New York Desk The Wall Street Journal Senior Digital Producer Martin Smith Minky Worden EDITOR Reuters Al Jazeera President Director of Global Aimee Vitrak Paul Brandus Rain Media Initiatives TREASURER West Wing Report Evelyn Leopold Human Rights Watch Dorinda Elliott Independent Journalist Seymour Topping OPC Freelance Journalist Howard Chua-Eoan United Nations Emeritus Abi Wright ISSN-0738-7202 Former News Director Professor of Director Copyright © 2002 Time Dafna Linzer International Journalism Alfred I. duPont – Over seas Press Club of Managing Editor Columbia University Columbia University America MSNBC.com Awards 40 West 45 Street, New York, NY 10036 USA • Phone: (212) 626-9220 • Fax: (212) 626-9210 • Website: opcofamerica.org OPC Bulletin • January 2014 • Page 2 OPC Holiday Party Kicks Off the 75th Anniversary Year EVENT RECAP: JANUARY 7 by Aimee Vitrak The OPC broke tradition from its Holiday Party at Club Quarters in Rockefeller Center for the past several years and returned to its starting place at the Algonquin Hotel. OPC members had unlimited drinks and buffet- style food tables and the opportunity to mingle and tell stories of their time in the field. About 55 members at- Photos: Lesley Topping tended this year’s celebration that kicked off the 75th an- niversary year of the Club, which was founded on April 2, 1939. George Bookman was the oldest member at OPC President Michael Serrill, left, and 99 and James Brooke traveled the farthest coming from former OPC President Richard Stolley Russia, where he is currently the Russia bureau chief for Voice of America, based in Moscow. Executive Director Sonya K. Fry welcomed mem- bers to the party and gave a brief timeline of the Club’s founding. Nine founding members were guests of the fa- mous literary Roundtable at the Algonquin on April 2, 1939. The first two meetings organized the structure of the club, but it was the first meeting of the OPC mem- bership that gained notoriety.