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The OPC Remembers Past President Marshall Loeb
P
President Mar-
shall Loeb, who helmed the
club from 2006 to 2008,
died at age 88 on Dec. 9 after
a long battle with Parkinson’s
disease.
Loeb was a business journalist
credited for bolstering the success
of Money and Fortune magazines.
After a year as a city reporter for
The St. Louis Globe-Democrat, he
joined TIME magazine in 1956 as
a writer, rising over the years to
business editor and nation editor.
He retired from Time Inc. at 65,
and edited The Columbia Jour-
nalism Review, regularly aired
nancial advice on CBS Radio
and served a short stint as host of
the PBS television program “Wall
Street Week.”
Loeb joined the OPC in August
1988 and had been a member for
almost 30 years. After graduating
from the University of Missouri
School of Journalism, he served as
a correspondent for United Press
in Frankfurt, Germany. An article
marking his retirement from For-
tune called him “one of the most
visible and inuential editors in
the magazine industry.”
Past OPC President Michael
news climate.”
Glor, an Emmy-award winner and
veteran CBS News journalist, has
reported across the globe for virtually
all CBS News broadcast and digital
platforms in his 10 years with the
network. He has anchored numerous
breaking news stories, most recently
in the eld for Hurricane Irma and in
the studio for the Las Vegas shootings.
Glor was a lead anchor on CBSN,
CBS’ 24/7 streaming news service,
during its critical launch period. As
CBSN continues to grow, Glor will
maintain a prominent presence on the
digital streaming channel. As a cor-
respondent for “CBS This Morning”
and “60 Minutes Sports,” he led re-
ports from Alaska, Africa, Greenland,
Ireland and Newfoundland, among
others.
Also at the luncheon, the Foun-
dation will award a combination of
scholarships and fellowships to 16
graduate and undergraduate college
students aspiring to become foreign
correspondents. Holstein is especially
pleased to announce the rst award in
the name of Sally Jacobsen, who died
unexpectedly in the spring of 2017. A
former vice president of the Founda-
tion and a widely experienced As-
sociated Press correspondent, she was
the rst woman to serve as the news
service’s international editor, oversee-
ing coverage of wars, terrorism and a
stream of history-making events. Her
J
the anchor of the
“CBS Evening News with Je
Glor,” the network’s agship
evening news broadcast, will be
the keynote speaker at the annual
Overseas Press Club Foundation
Scholar Awards Luncheon on Fri-
day, Feb. 23, at the Yale Club. The
event begins with a reception at
the club’s Rooftop Terrace at 11:30
a.m., followed by the luncheon in
the Grand Ballroom. which ends
promptly at 2:00 p.m.
Bill Holstein, president of the
OPC Foundation, said the choice
of Glor to headline the Founda-
tion’s signature event was espe-
cially signicant for this year’s
scholars, since he represents a new
generation at the helm of network
broadcast news. He noted, “Glor is
at the heart of the legacy media’s
attempts to transform itself to com-
pete with many dierent forms and
formats in a changing and volatile
CBS ‘New Generation’ Anchor
to Address OPC Foundation Scholars
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39-year career took her from a Washington economics correspondent
to Brussels to the pressure-packed job at AP’s New York headquarters,
where she lead scores of international correspondents through the years
of 9/11 and the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq.
“Sally was part of the very soul of the Foundation board, having
played an integral role in launching the fellowship program and the
sending of our rst young fellow to the Bangkok bureau of the AP and
then expanding the program to include other news organizations. With
every ber of her being, she believed in what we are doing,” Holstein
added.
Holstein is concerned with how the current economic model support-
ing international news will aect this generation of young journalists.
“We think we are witnessing a decline in the number of young Ameri-
cans who believe that becoming a foreign correspondent is a great and
glorious cause. So we are increasingly playing the role of an institution
that encourages young people to see the act of covering international
stories as something that is valuable to themselves and to our democracy
as a whole,” he said.
The 2018 winning recipients are from Brown University, City Uni-
versity of New York, Columbia University, DePauw University, New
York University, University of California-Berkeley, University of Mis-
souri, University of Texas at Austin and Yale University. “These young
people inspire me every year because they want to travel down what I
regard as the sacred path of bearing witness. They just want a chance.
Our imperative is to help train them and keep them safe as they explore
the world,” said Holstein.
Events for the 2018 winners will last three days starting on Thursday
afternoon, when the Foundation will host two panels at Reuters for those
award winners interested in either business journalism or television
news. That evening, Reuters editor-in-chief Stephen Adler will host the
traditional reception for current and past winners of OPC Foundation
awards at the wire service’s Times Square headquarters. On Friday,
besides addressing a distinguished audience of more than 200 luncheon
guests at the Yale Club, the award winners will meet with Holstein and
veteran international journalists in a pre-luncheon breakfast and with
several foreign editors following the luncheon. For many, says Holstein,
the opportunity to meet and observe prominent journalists in action is as
valuable as any monetary awards.
For the fourth year in a row, on the Saturday after the luncheon, the
OPC Foundation will oer a full day of risk assessment and situational
training for the winners at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism.
Frank Smyth, president and founder of Global Journalist Security, a hos-
tile environment training rm based in Washington DC, will again lead
the program. Those who participated in the past called the experience in-
valuable. “We have a responsibility to make sure our winners engage in
the world’s stories in ways that keep them safe,” Holstein said. “We will
continue to do what we can, as scal sponsors of the ACOS Alliance, to
see that journalists throughout the world have the training and support
they need to do their jobs as well and as securely as possible.”
Up to 12 of this year’s winners will receive fellowships to work in
the foreign bureaus of the Foundation’s media partners, including the
AP, Reuters, The Wall Street Journal, GroundTruth Project and Forbes.
The fellowships ensure that the awardees gain valuable experience and
insight working with veteran editors and reporters. In 2017, the Foun-
dation funded fellowships in bureaus across Europe, Asia, Africa, the
Americas and the Middle East. The Foundation picks up the cost of the
airfare and one to two months of living expenses for the winners.
Holstein is grateful to Bloomberg, which again hosted the judging in
December, and to the dedicated panel of judges who chose the 2018 re-
cipients: Allen Alter; Bill Collins; John Daniszewski of the AP; Joe Flint
of The Wall Street Journal; Allan Dodds Frank; Sharon Gamsin; Tim
Ferguson of Forbes Asia; Holstein; Adam Horvath of The Wall Street
Journal; Larry Martz; Marcy McGinnis; Maria Mercader of CBS News;
Kate McLeod; Ellen Nimmons of the AP; Jim Pensiero; Charlie Sennott
of the GroundTruth Project; Michael Serrill; Steve Swanson of the New
York Botanical Garden; and Karen Toulon of Bloomberg.
Lydia Polgreen, HuPost editor-in-chief, was previously announced
to be the speaker but she had to cancel because of a scheduling conict.
Luncheon tickets are $85 for OPC members and $150 for non-members.
The Foundation encourages media and corporate support at its three lev-
els of giving: Benefactors, $9,000; Patrons, $6,000; and Friends, $3,000.
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Left to right (at table): Dave
Fondiller, Kumiko Makihara,
Andy Katell and Clarissa
McNair.
Left to right: Colleen Jose, past
OPC President Michael Serrilll,
and Dave Fondiller.
Left to right: Minky Worden,
Albert Goldson and Sonya Fry.
Emma Daly, Robert Sullivan and
OPC President Deidre Depke
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covered Hong Kong and China
gathered on Dec. 12 to swap
stories and reminisce at a special OPC
reunion. The evening featured comments
and storytelling from notable journalists
as well as representatives from the Hong
Kong Economic and Trade Oce, which
co-sponsored the gathering.
Bill Holstein, who worked in Hong
Kong as deputy Asian editor for United
Press International from 1979 to 1981,
said the city served as a platform to
launch his career that continues to focus
on issues in Asia.
“We want to acknowledge that it was
a place that touched our lives and that we
remain connected to,” he said during an
introduction.
Joanne Chu introduced herself as the
new director of the Hong Kong Econom-
ic and Trade Oce in New York, having
arrived in July last year. She pointed out
similarities between Hong Kong and
New York, both of which are centers of
nance and cities with “a strong pres-
ence of international media.”
Clement Leung, the Hong Cong
Commissioner to the US based in Wash-
ington, DC, dropped by the reunion to
chat with journalists. Hong Kong has
a separate trade mission to the US as a
result of the “one country, two systems”
policy of reunication that followed the
end of colonial rule in 1997.
“Given the state politics in DC, I
always try to get out for some fresh air,”
Leung joked. He recalled a recent return
to Hong Kong in November for a meet-
ing of heads of mission. “When you land
at the airport you feel the energy, you
feel the vibrancy, and the intensity, but
of course I enjoy the eciency and the
pace,” as well as the food, he said.
When Leung mentioned his daughter
is now studying journalism in Hong
Kong, Holstein piped in to recommend
he “tell her to pick a dierent eld.”
“That’s what my wife said,” Leung
responded. “Our family practices ‘one
family, two systems,’” he said. Leung’s
wife studied journalism, so the two do
not always agree on government matters,
he added.
“Hong Kong Hands” at the event
collectively represented experience span-
ning ve decades, and “centuries” of
coverage, Leung said on the sidelines.
Yvonne Dunleavy, who worked for
the Hong Kong Standard in the 60s,
remembered seeing signs of trouble
brewing in the early days of the Cultural
Revolution in 1966, as revolutionaries
marched in formation in navy blue uni-
forms while holding copies of the “Little
Red Book” and chanting “down with
the governor!” in protest against British
colonial rule.
Soon it escalated into a full-edged
civil war, she said. “Trucks and busses
were overturned, people working for the
British government were threatened by
sympathizers in Beijing, saying ‘there’s a
list and you’re going to be on it when the
Maoists come.’”
Dunleavy remembered being chased
into a hotel while carrying lm for Life
magazine, and later narrowly escaping
her car being overturned by protesters.
Richard Bernstein, who covered busi-
ness in Hong Kong and China for TIME
magazine, went to Hong Kong in 1975
at the end of the Cultural Revolution and
stayed until 1979.
He said he feels nostalgic about those
years, when the city was orderly and
stable and growing in prosperity.
“It never stopped thrilling me to just
be in this place. It reeked of a kind of
post-colonial exoticism.”
He said Westerners who became
journalists after studying Mandarin and
China at the time formed a fellowship of
“China watchers” who monitored news
of the mainland from Hong Kong, often
depending on scant information like the
Survey of the China Mainland Press,
which published translations of Chinese
radio broadcasts.
“Despite sparse resources I think
we got the story right,” he said. “That
there was a power struggle involving
[Premier] Zhou Enlai on one side and the
Gang of Four on the other, and a contest
between a more reformist group and a
more hard line ideological group.”
Andrew Tanzer, who worked in Hong
Kong for Forbes magazine and others,
told the gathering that he rst went to
Asia on a $3000 award from the Over-
seas Press Club Foundation in the early
80s to pursue a project in Taiwan.
He went to work for the Far Eastern
Economic Review in 1983, replacing
someone who had been kicked out by the
Taiwan government.
Tanzer discussed his newly released
book, Robert Kuok, about a “secretive”
overseas Chinese tycoon from Malaya
who made his fortune on the sugar fu-
tures market in the 1960s and spent 40
years living in Hong Kong.
Tanzer had interviewed Kouk for a
cover story in Forbes magazine in 1997
– a story Tanzer said helped to start the
Forbes “billionaires list” franchise – and
later worked on his memoirs.
The book follows the businessman’s
life as a Chinese emigrant in Johor
Baru, where he attended British colonial
schools and was classmates with several
future Malay prime ministers and Sin-
gapore’s longtime prime minister, Lee
Kuan Yew. The book has made waves in
Southeast Asia because of Kuok’s com-
ments about prominent political gures,
Tanzer said. Kwok goes on to work for
Mitsubishi and plays a controversial role
in getting food into China during the
Cultural Revolution.
The book had a limited release in
English in Asia, and is slated to be avail-
able in the U.S. in March.
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Serrill, who served from 2012 to 2014, said Loeb was a legend
who “helped to invent modern business journalism, considered
a journalistic backwater until the 1980s. He also, in the course
of reviving Fortune, helped to make business coverage global,
oering reports and proles from moguls around the world.”
Past OPC President Allan Dodds Frank, who served from
2008 to 2010, called Loeb a “pillar of the Overseas Press Club
of America and the much larger world of nancial journalism.”
“He was a charming true gentleman with a sly sense of
humor that illuminated his prodigious gifts as a storyteller. He
also had the great skill set that makes a superb editor,” he said.
“Marshall was a wonderful listener, terric incubator of ideas
and an even better counselor about how one should proceed. At
both Money and Fortune, he nurtured dozens of reporters and
editors while invigorating the spirit, content and prots of those
publications. He was a great mentor, leader, condante and
friend. We will miss him and never forget him.”
Past OPC President Richard Stolley, who served from 2004
to 2006, remembers his friendship with Loeb when the two
worked at Time Inc., where Stolley served as editor of the Life
and was founding editor of People.
“The managing editors (the term for top editor) at Time Inc.
had a weekly lunch, and I often sat next to Marshall because
he was good company,” Stolley said. “When I came back from
three years as the weekly Life senior editor in Europe, Marshall
encouraged me to join the OPC, for which I am eternally grate-
ful.” Stolley said his own years as OPC president were “made
possible for me because of Marshall and his urging me to look
into the OPC.”
Past OPC President Larry Martz, who served from 2000 to
2002, called Loeb “a tough competitor.”
“I remember many years ago, when I was business editor at
Newsweek and he had the same job at TIME, when I was go-
ing through the morning papers I’d see a big story and wonder,
‘How is Marshall Loeb reacting to this one?’ And I’d try to
order up reporting on some angle he might overlook. It didn’t
often work out. Marshall was thorough, and a good editor.”
Past OPC President Bill Holstein, who served from 1994 to
1996, remembered asking Loeb to run in the club’s election. “A
number of us former and future presidents persuaded Marshall
to run for president in 2006, which he did,” Holstein said.
“Soon after, he and I had lunch and he disclosed that he
had been diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease. Within a few
months, the disease began to manifest itself. Then Executive
Director Sonya Fry and I, and others, stepped in to stabilize
the club’s management. But more importantly, even suer-
ing a serious illness, Marshall hung in there and fought for
the causes he believed in, such as press freedom around the
world. His name alone gave us big credibility in the profes-
sion because he had been so successful at Fortune and was so
universally admired. He was still working for MarketWatch
when the disease took hold and he kept that going as well. He
was remarkably courageous in the face of what promised to
be a long illness. And he was a gentleman throughout, a rarity
in today’s media landscape.”
Former OPC Executive Director Sonya Fry called Loeb “a
true gentlemen.”
“Marshall was always gracious even though its was obvious
that the Parkinson’s was taking over his body. At some point
near the end of his presidency, when walking was very compro-
mised, he still took all his duties seriously, like coming to the
OPC oce with a Russian health aide to sign checks, certi-
cates and make sure that the programs and awards dinner were
progressing. Marshall was a lovely, caring man with a will to
succeed and conquer no matter the odds.”
OPC member Tim Ferguson also lauded Loeb’s contribu-
tion to the industry. “For business journalists of a certain age,
the Loeb era at Fortune, coinciding with those of Jim Michaels
at Forbes and Steve Shepard at Business Week, was a golden
one.”
Bill Rukeyser, OPC Foundation board member, remem-
bered Loeb for his friendship and professionalism.
“Marshall Loeb was a good man – unfailingly courteous,
considerate and loyal to friends, colleagues and especially his
beloved family. He succeeded me at both Money and Fortune
as managing editor, the title Henry Luce had awarded to each
top editor of a Time Inc. magazine to denote that all of them
were No. 2 to the editor-in-chief: him. Though neither maga-
zine was in dire circumstances, Marshall’s intelligence, bril-
liant editorial radar and legendary energy (“All anybody wants
to talk about is my glands,” he once complained to me) raised
both to greater success. I miss him.”
In an email message forwarded to the OPC, Gordon Cro-
vitz, former publisher of The Wall Street Journal, called Loeb
“a leader among the generation of American journalists who
made business news as fascinating, engaging and instructive
as any form of news. Thanks in large part to Marshall, it’s now
hard to imagine that business, nance and technology were
once considered dry topics.”
Current OPC Executive Director Patricia Kranz added that
“Marshall Loeb was a very loyal and supportive member of
the OPC. Every December he mailed a very generous donation
check to help support the club’s work.
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OPC SCHOLARS
Anupreeta Das, former OPC
governor and winner of the Reuters
scholarship in 2006, has been named
deputy business editor of The Wall
Street Journal. An announcement to
Journal colleagues called Das “one
of our nest, most creative, most
versatile reporters and a trusted men-
tor to many in our newsroom.” Since
joining the Journal in 2010, she has
covered mergers, nance and invest-
ing and serves as part of the paper’s
nancial enterprise team. Before
joining the Journal, Das covered
tech, media and telecom deals for
Reuters.
Paul Sonne, Swinton winner in
2008, is leaving The Wall Street
Journal after more than 8 years to
join the national sta of The Wash-
ington Post to cover the Pentagon.
Sonne had an OPC Foundational
fellowship with The Associated Press
in Moscow. He also interned with
The New York Times in Moscow be-
fore joining the Journal in London,
covering business and political news.
While in London, Paul and his col-
leagues won the Malcolm Forbes
Award for best international business
reporting in newspapers. He later re-
turned to Russia to serve as Moscow
correspondent for the Journal from
2013 to 2016, covering the Kremlin
as relations between Washington and
Moscow soured. Since then, he has
covered national security from the
Washington bureau.
Diksha Madhok, Theo Wilson
winner in 2011, has been named
digital director of ThePrint, a news
media start-up in India. Madhok has
also worked as India editor at Quartz
and as a reporter for Reuters in New
Dehli.
Katie Paul, Irene Corbally Kuhn
scholarship winner in 2007, is
transferring from one Reuters bu-
reau to another in the Middle East.
After several years in Riyadh, she is
moving to the Dubai bureau where
she will be a senior correspondent
covering business throughout the
Gulf. Katie had an OPC Foundation
fellowship in the Reuters bureau in
Buenos Aires.
Edward Wong, former Beijing
correspondent for The New York
Times and 1998 David Schweisberg
scholarship winner, wrote a longform
feature about China’s growing global
role and its use of force, writing that
the “emerging imperium is more
a result of the Communist Party’s
exercise of hard power, including
economic coercion, than the product
of a gravitational pull of Chinese
ideas or contemporary culture.” OPC
Foundation President Bill Holstein
wrote on his blog that “all of us at
the foundation are touched that we
helped launch Ed Wong, who has
become an important voice on issues
that Dave [Schweisberg] was pas-
sionate about.” Holstein worked with
Schweisberg in Hong Kong, and both
served as chief of the Beijing bureau
for UPI in the 80s.
WINNERS
2016 Hal Boyle Award winner Han-
nah Dreier has received a 2018
Ochberg Fellowship from the Dart
Center for Journalism and Trauma
at Columbia University’s Graduate
School of Journalism. The weeklong
program focuses on exploring issues
surrounding psychological trauma
and ethics challenges connected to
journalists’ work. Dreier won her
OPC award while covering political
turmoil in Venezuela The Associated
Press, and is currently a reporter at
ProPublica, focusing on immigration.
OPC Governor Josh
Fine, along with
several colleagues
at HBO Sports With
Bryant Gumbel, has
received an Alfred
I. duPont-Columbia
University Award for
an global investiga-
tion into the Interna-
tional Olympic Com-
mittee. The same sto-
ry, “The Lords of the
Rings,” also won the
OPC’s inaugural Peter
Jennings Award last year. Fine and
his colleague, David Scott, who
also worked on the IOC story, won
2014 The David A. Andelman and
Pamela Title Award for “The Price of
Glory.” Also receiving an Alfred I.
duPont-Columbia University Award
was OPC member Amy Mackin-
non, formerly of Coda Story, who
shared an award with the team that
worked on “Russia’s New Scape-
goats,” a radio documentary about
Russia’s anti-gay movement. The
award was shared with collaborators
Reveal from The Center for Investi-
gative Reporting and PRX. Since re-
porting on the story, Mackinnon has
returned from stints in Moscow and
Tbilisi to pursue a masters degree at
the CUNY journalism school.
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misinformation and hate speech.
Financial Times CEO John Ridding
told Poynter that challenges in the
new information ecosystem will
require a subscription model that
allows publishers to manage access
to their content and make a direct
connection with readers, or else “as
the large majority of all new online
advertising spend continues to go
to the search and social media plat-
forms – quality content will no lon-
ger be a choice or an option.” Jacob
Weisberg, editor-in-chief of the Slate
Group, told The New York Times that
the change “looks like the end of the
social news era.”
NEW YORK:An investigation span-
ning several months by OPC Gover-
nor Azmat Khan and OPC member
Anand Gopal into underreported
civilian casualties in Iraq continues
to make ripples after it was published
in the new York Times Magazine
late last year. In “The Uncounted,”
Khan and Gopal found that airstrikes
in Iraq are killing civilians at 31
times the rate that the US-led coali-
tion forces reported. In an interview
about the piece for Al Jazeera, Khan
said on-the-ground reporting at air-
strike sites in ISIS territory revealed
that one in ve bombings resulted in
a civilian death.
OPC Governor Lara Setrakian
has co-founded a campaign to stop
sexual harassment and assault in lo-
cal and national newsrooms. “Press
Forward” plans to analyze best prac-
tices to create better working envi-
ronment, and will ultimately publish
a “blueprint” for media organiza-
tions. Members of the independent
group are current and former jour-
nalists, and receives support from
the Greater Washington Community
Foundation. It is slated to launch
early this year.
The New York Public Library and
the Chicago Public Library both
named How Dare the Sun Rise, a
book co-written by Sandra Uwir-
ingiyimana and OPC Treasurer
Abigail Pesta, among the best
books of 2017. The memoir follows
Uwiringiyimana’s story as a young
woman who escaped a childhood
massacre in Africa and ed to Amer-
ica, where she struggled to adapt to a
new life attended a middle school in
New York.
OPC Governor Emma Daly, who
serves as director of communications
for Human Rights Watch, wrote an
extensive piece in December detail-
ing the eorts of journalists and hu-
man rights activists to report on war
crimes during the Yugoslav Wars of
the 90s. Daly, who was Balkans cor-
respondent for The Independent from
1990 to 1997, wrote that “human
rights activists helped put war crimes
rmly on the international agenda –
with help from journalists who often
didn’t understand the legal implica-
tions of the horrors they reported on
every day.” Her piece, titled “Beyond
Justice: How the Yugoslav Tribunal
Made History,” coincided with the
closure of the Yugoslav tribunal,
which indicted a total of 161 people
after 24 years. Daly spent a total of
18 years as a journalist, mostly as a
foreign correspondent, at a number
of outlets including The New York
Times, the Independent, Newsweek,
the Observer and Reuters.
OPC Third Vice President Pancho
Bernasconi of Getty Images spoke
to digital culture news site Uproxx
about a specially curated gallery of
images to honor the “love and resil-
iency” of survivors of tragic events
over the last year. The “Images Of
Strength” collection includes 18 pho-
tos that show Rohingya refugees in
Bangladesh, survivors of gun attacks
in Las Vegas, Sutherland Springs,
Texas and Fort Lauderdale, Florida,
soldiers embracing children in Iraq
and rst responders in the aftermath
of hurricanes Maria and Harvey in
Puerto Rico and Texas and the earth-
quake in Mexico City. Bernasconi
told Uproxx in a Q&A that images
depicting moments of strength and
compassion provide crucial context
for stories about crisis. “The world
can have a conversation through a
shared sense of an image or a truth,”
he said. Bernasconi also underscored
the need for photojournalists to stay
vigilant when covering conict or
working in disaster zones. “You as a
professional work with your editors
and the people you know and trust to
mitigate [risks] as much as possible.
And, we have to trust our photogra-
phers,” he said.
OPC Governor Rukmini Cal-
limachi is warning that the decline
of ISIS has been overstated, saying
that the terror network is now more
deadly than the Taliban. In separate
podcast interviews, Callimachi told
PRI’s The World and World View, a
foreign aairs podcast produced by
The Irish Times, that although Islam-
ic State’s territory has reduced in size
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Left to right: OPC members Alan Riding, Vivienne Walt, Sonya Fry and Jim
Bittermann during a lunch at the Traveller’s Club on the Champs Elysees
in Paris. Fry went to Paris for the John Morris Memorial at the American
Cathedral where Bittermann spoke about his friend and colleague.
January 2018
7 7
by 98 per cent in Syria and Iraq, the
US Pentagon reports that its numbers
in Yemen have doubled over the last
year. Her interviews follow Callima-
chi’s reporting in the Times over the
last month on two IS bomb attacks
in Kabul on Dec. 28 and Jan. 4, and
a gun assault against members of a
Coptic Orthodox Church in Cairo on
Dec. 29.
The OPC’s 2016 Best Commentary
winner, Masha Gessen, delivered
the Robert B. Silvers lecture, titled
“The Stories of a Life,” on Dec. 18.
The lecture was created by Max
Palevsky and named in honor of
Silvers, the co-founding editor of
The New York Review of Books, who
died in March last year. Her talk was
featured on the New York Public
Library Podcast in January.
WASHINGTON, DC: Hannah
Allam, BuzzFeed reporter, for-
mer OPC Governor and a current
member, was interviewed on NPR’s
Morning Edition about her coverage
of allegations of sexual harassment
surrounding Dallas-based Muslim
celebrity preacher Nouman Ali Khan.
Allam told the public radio program
that many Muslim women face ad-
ditional challenges when deciding
whether to report abuse involving
cultural and religious taboos. Allam
spoke to one of Ali Khan’s accusers
for a BuzzFeed piece in December
with details of how he allegedly ma-
nipulated female followers into sham
marriages and then paid them to stay
silent.
LOS ANGELES: Newsroom em-
ployees at the Los Angeles Times
voted in early January on whether to
form a union for the rst time in the
paper’s 136-year history. The work-
ers are calling for higher salaries,
better benets and working condi-
tions, and pay equality for women
and minorities. The vote to join
NewGuild would aect about 380
employees. The New York Times re-
ported that the move has sparked ten-
sions between the paper’s manage-
ment and employees, with manage-
ment urging for sta to vote against
the move and saying in an email that
“The question to you is do you want
to preserve your independence and
the independence of the Los Angeles
Times or do you want someone else
negotiating on your behalf?” Results
are slated to be released on Jan. 19.
LONDON: Carrie Gracie, former
China editor for the British Broad-
casting Corporation (BBC), resigned
from her post in Beijing citing a
“secretive and illegal pay culture” of
pay inequality compared to male in-
ternational editors at the broadcaster.
During an interview on BBC Radio
4’s Woman’s Hour, Gracie said she
was oered a 33 percent pay increase
but rejected it because she wanted
equality, not more money. She said
she could not resume her post in Chi-
na and “collude knowingly in what I
consider to be unlawful pay discrimi-
nation.” BBC was forced to disclose
employee salaries last July, revealing
that two thirds of the highest paid
on-air talent were male, and the top
seven earners were men. The UK-
based National Union of Journalists
has led complaint with the BBC on
behalf of 121 female employees over
pay disparity.
CBS News has hired OPC Governor
Roxana Saberi as correspondent
based in London. Saberi served as
a freelance correspondent for the
network news service and for its af-
liate, Newspath, since 2016. She
has also served as ll-in anchor
for CBSN. Saberi, who is uent in
Persian, previously worked as corre-
spondent for Al Jazeera America, and
reported on Iran for several years. In
2009, she was arrested while work-
ing on a book about Iran and held for
100 days at the notorious Evin Prison
in Tehran on espionage charges. An
announcement on the CBS site said
Saberi “brings a wealth of unique
international and national reporting
experience.”
BUENOS AIRES: An Argentin-
ian fact-checking site has released a
piece of software that automatically
identies claims in online media
and matches them with existing fact
checks. The tool, Chequeabot,
uses machine learning to assist fact
checkers in newsrooms. Poynter.org
reported that the software scans text
from 25 media outlets in Argentina,
automatically agging claims from
politicians and other sources. The bot
has already helped to ag erroneous
trade surplus numbers from the coun-
try’s foreign ministry in a newspaper
interview, and to unpack statements
about the electricity grid that the
energy minister made during a press
conference. The organization that
developed the software, Chequeado,
received a fellowship in 2016 from
Poynter’s International Fact Check-
ing Network to work with Full Fact,
a nonprot based in the UK that is
developing similar automated tools
for English-speaking newsrooms.
PEOPLE REMEMBERED
The former editor of the Guardian,
Peter Preston, died on January
6 at the age of 79. Preston began
his career at the paper in 1963 and
served as editor for two decades,
from 1975 to 1995. Preston helmed
the Guardian through a period of
historic news events and is credited
with helping the paper survive a
price war with The Independent by
overseeing a redesign in the mid-
80s. His nal column on press and
broadcasting was published on New
Year’s Eve, in which he said jour-
nalists’ biggest new challenge is to
re-establish “some modest degree
of public respectability” and trust
among readers amid attacks from
President Trump and others around
the world. Preston is survived by his
wife Jean, four children, and eight
grandchildren.
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MICHAEL DAMES
January 2018
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The The Committee to Protect
Journalists reports that at least
42 journalists were killed during he
course of their work in 2017, which
represents a decline in numbers
overall for the second year in a row
compared to record highs over the
last decade. According to a report
from the organization, the decrease is
due to fewer armed conicts. Mexico
was a notable exception, where six
journalists were killed due to their
reporting, marking a historical high.
In 2016, 48 journalists were killed,
and before that the number had
ranged from the low 60s to the mid
70s, partially due to coverage of con-
ict in the Middle East. The report
also notes that 2017 was the rst year
Syria was not one of the most deadly
countries for journalists. Eight of
the journalists killed this year were
women. That represents 19 percent
of the total, compared to a historical
average of about 7 percent.
A delegation of global press free-
dom groups has embarked on a
fact-nding mission to gather data
on the state of press freedom in the
United States. The CPJ and IFEX
convened the group, which includes
representatives from organizations
including Reporters Without Borders
(RSF), Article 19, Index on Censor-
ship and the International Press In-
stitute. The group plans to meet with
“high-level policy makers” in Hous-
ton, Texas, Columbia and St. Louis
in Missouri, and Washington, DC. In
a release Christophe Deloire, RSF’s
secretary general, said that under
President Trump’s leadership, “the
US has become a treacherous place
for media workers and journalists in
a way we haven’t ever seen before.”
According to data US Press Freedom
Tracker, at least 32 journalists were
arrested, 39 physically attacked, and
16 journalists had their equipment
seized in the US in 2017.
The CPJ has given President Don-
ald Trump the dubious top prize
for “Overall Achievement in Un-
dermining Global Press Freedom.”
CPJ in January named ve awards to
highlight leaders around the world
who go “out of the way to attack
the press.” The list included Turkish
president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan,
Russian leader Vladimir Putin and
Chinese President Xi Jinping. The
organization said Trump “consis-
tently undermined domestic news
outlets and declined to publicly raise
freedom of the press with repressive
leaders.” Myanmar leader Aung San
Suu Kyi was given the award for
“Biggest Backslider in Press Free-
dom.”
Egypt has ordered a criminal in-
vestigation into a report in The New
York Times alleging that an intelli-
gence ocer told TV hosts that they
should persuade viewers to accept
President Donald Trump’s decision
to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s
capital. Press freedom advocates say
the investigation is the latest move in
a tightening of censorship ahead of
presidential elections in March. The
country has extended a state of emer-
gency and used it to justify prosecu-
tions of journalists and placed them
on terrorist watch lists. Between May
last year and January 11 this year,
the government blocked access to at
least 465 websites, including news
websites, blogs, rights organizations,
according to the Association for
Freedom of Thought and Expression
and the U.S. based Open Observa-
tory of Network Interference.
Celebrity TV host Oprah Winfrey
gave a nod to journalists amid at-
tacks on press freedom during a
speech at the Golden Globes award
ceremony in January. As she accept-
ed Cecil B. DeMille Award for life-
time achievement, she underscored
the value of journalism and added
“we all know the press is under siege
these days. We also know it’s the
insatiable dedication to uncovering
the absolute truth that keeps us from
turning a blind eye to corruption and
to injustice.” She also cheered men
and women who broke silence about
sexual assault and harassment in the
wake of accusations against producer
Harvey Weinstein and other powerful
men in the entertainment industry.
The speech has sparked widespread
speculation about a possible run for
the White House in 2020.
The National Press Club, RSF and
other press freedom organizations
are calling for the US Department of
Justice to release Mexican journalist
Emilio Gutierrez, who is being
detained at a federal detention facil-
ity in Texas. Gutierrez has been seek-
ing asylum in the U.S. for more than
a decade after receiving death threats
in connection with his reporting for
El Diario del Noroeste newspaper in
the northern state of Chihuahua in
Mexico. The request was nally de-
nied in July last year. After a wave of
news reports and a visit from Texas
Congressman Beto O’Rourke, the
Board of Immigration Appeals has
reopened the Gutiérrez asylum case
and temporarily blocked his deporta-
tion, though he remains in detention.
OPC member Kiran Nazish with
the Coalition of Women in Journal-
ism is calling attention to the arrest
of freelance journalist Priyanka
Borpujari, who Mumbai police
wrongfully detained for “inciting
violence” while covering a protest.
In a phone interview with HuPost
India, Borpujari said police “were
trying to intimidate me, they kept
snatching my phone away, and when
I bent down to pick it up, they pulled
my shirt. I came home with two-
three bruises and contusions.” She
said when she asked police how she
had instigated violence, that the fact
that she was present with a camera
encouraged protestors.
Colleagues of South African free-
lance photojournalist Shiraaz
Mohamed, who was abducted by
gunmen more than a year ago while
working in northwestern Syria, say
they have received proof that he is
still alive. Gift of the Givers, the
South African humanitarian NGO,
told RSF that Mohamed’s family has
correctly answered questions only he
would be able to answer. On Jan. 10,
2017, Mohamed and two employees
of Gift of the Givers were abducted
by men who claimed they represent-
ed “all armed groups in Syria.” The
two NGO employees were release
soon after their abduction. At least 29
journalists, including 7 foreign jour-
nalists, are still being held hostage by
armed groups in Syria, according to
the World Press Freedom Index.
In Brazil, attackers in a silver car
PRESS FREEDOM UPDATE...
January 2018
9 9
ran Gabriel Barbosa da Silva, a
part-time freelance reporter, cartoon-
ist, and photographer for the São
Paulo publication VerboOnline, o
the road while he was driving his
motorbike on Dec. 28. A passenger
in the car then shot a gun three times,
though none of the bullets struck da
Silva. Da Silva had been covering a
controversial garbage collection tax
and was critical of the local govern-
ment. He received a text message
from someone claiming to be one of
the attackers, according to VerboOn-
line’s reports.
Tajik police arrested reporter
Khayrullo Mirsaidov after he
published an open letter calling for
a crackdown on local government
corruption. His letter on Nov. 8 was
addressed to President Emomali
Rahmon, as well as the governor and
general prosecutor of the Sughd re-
gion. Mirsaidov was arrested and on
Dec. 8 charged with “embezzlement,
forgery, false reporting to police, and
inciting ethnic and religious hatred.”
Two Reuters reporters were arrested
while working in the Myanmar city
of Yangon on Dec. 12. On Jan. 10,
Kyaw Soe Oo and Wa Lone were
charged violating the country’s Of-
cial Secrets Act. Police said the two
were arrested for possessing “impor-
tant and secret” documents connected
to events in the country’s western Ra-
khine state, where more than 650,000
Rohingya refugees have ed violence.
The charge carries a possible sentence
of up to 14 years in prison.
Documentary lmmaker Comiti
Paul Edwards was arrested on Dec.
9 in Srinagar, a city in India’s Jammu
and Kashmir state, while producing
a video on pellet gun injuries against
protestors. Pellet guns have report-
edly been used by authorities to quash
protests, and have led to nearly 100
deaths and thousands of injuries,
according to TheWire.in news site.
Police said they arrested Edwards
because of an issue with his travel
documents and lacked permission to
make a documentary on political or
security-related issues. He was re-
leased on bail on Dec. 26. and handed
over to a French Embassy ocial.
Sudanese police conscated the
entire print runs of eight newspapers
due to their critical coverage of un-
rest following a spike in bread prices.
Two of the papers Akhbar Al-Watan
and Al-Midan, support opposition
parties and four of the papers are
independent, including Al-Tayar, Al-
Mustagilla, Al-Karar and Al-Assay-
ha. RSF condemned the censorship
of critical voices, saying the move
“contravenes international law” and
is only “illusory as a way of ending
popular discontent.”
From June 20 to 23, 2018, press free-
dom research groups will hold an in-
ternational conference, titled “Free-
dom of Speech: dialogues
and reections from Law and
Literature,” at the Universidad San
Francisco de Quito campus, in Quito,
Ecuador. The groups are calling for
papers on several topics, with a due
date in March.
The Press Freedom Foundation
and other watchdog organizations
are mourning the death of James
Dolan, one of the co-creators of the
digital document software Secure-
Drop, after he took his own life over
the holidays at the age of 36. Secure-
Drop is an open source whistleblow-
er submission system that journalists
have relied on to protect sources
and secure documents crucial to
their reporting. In January 2013,
Dolan’s colleague and co-founder
of SecureDrop, Aaron Swartz, com-
mitted suicide while he was under
investigation for violating the Com-
puter Fraud and Abuse Act related to
allegedly copying academic articles
from JSTOR.
MURDERS
Veteran Mexican journalist Carlos
Domínguez Rodríguez was
stabbed to death in broad daylight
in the border town of Nuevo Laredo
on Jan. 13, marking the rst journal-
ist to be murdered in Mexico this
year. The reporter had worked for 40
years, most recently for the Noreste
Digital and Horizonte de Matamoros
websites, and was critical of the lo-
cal government wrote about frequent
kidnappings and organized crime in
the region.
Naveen Gupta, a stringer who’d
been working for India’s Hindustan
newspaper, was shot and killed on
Nov. 30, CPJ reported. The organiza-
tion called in December for authori-
ties in Uttar Pradesh to investigate
the possible motive for his death.
Naveen’s brother, Nitin, had been
with him at the time of his murder
outside Nitin’s oce where his broth-
er had gone to visit him. Nitin re-
called Naveen talking to two men and
seeing Naveen give his phone to one
of them when about four assailants
shot him. Nitin said his brother had
written “fearlessly on multiple issues”
during his decade at the newspaper,
according to CPJ. v
January 2018
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NEW BOOKS
KIDNAPPING
A
Van Dyk was freed from Tali-
ban kidnappers in 2008, he found himself
haunted by questions about his capture and
about what went on behind the scenes to secure
his release. Captured while covering the region for
CBS News, he was held for 45 days and held in the
no-man’s-land between Afghanistan and Pakistan.
In The Trade: My Journey into the Labyrinth of
Political Kidnapping, [PublicAairs, October 2017]
Van Dyk documents his journey back to Afghanistan
in 2014 and his personal investigation into his own
kidnapping and liberation.
He was the second American journalist to be cap-
tured by the Taliban; the rst was Wall Street Journal
reporter Danial Pearl, who was killed by Pakistani
terrorists in 2002. After Van Dyk was freed, he was
thrust into an emotional journey common to many
survivors, suering waves of guilt for those who did
not survive capture and for loved ones who lived in
despair during his captivity.
Many of the people involved behind the scenes, it
turns out, actively discourage digging too deeply for
answers. CBS News warned Van Dyk not to write
or talk about his ordeal, saying doing so could put
other correspondents at risk. The FBI would only tell
him cryptically that they had “brought all assets into
play.” The US bans negotiation with terrorist orga-
nizations and most countries deny paying ransoms.
Families in the US are told to keep the kidnapping of
their loved ones secret.
Despite this resistance, Van Dyk delves into the
shadowy “business” of hostage negotiations among
governments, corporations, families and agents of
the criminal underworld. His investigation takes
him through tribal areas of Pakistan and tea houses
in Kabul to the White House and homes of family
members of people who were kidnapped, including
an emotionally loaded visit with Daniel Pearl’s par-
ents in Los Angeles.
“Van Dyk is a methodical and sensitive reporter,
and his emotions are made vivid,” Writes Janine di
Giovanni in a New York Times book review, con-
cluding that “there is no happy ending to Van Dyk’s
tale. Perhaps, in the grim world of The Trade there
never will be.
In 2010 Van Dyk published a book titled Captive
about his days in Taliban control. In October last
year Van Dyk spoke on an OPC panel with Kathy
Gannon and David Rohde, with Bill Holstein serving
as moderator.
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VENEZUELA
A
groans under the weight of
President Nicolas Maduro’s dictatorship,
economic crisis, endemic corruption and
rampant starvation, the country serves as a model of
the so-called resource curse. Despite having some
of the world’s largest oil reserves, Venezuela ap-
pears to be teetering on the edge of collapse. In his
new book, Crude Nation: How Oil Riches Ruined
Venezuela [Potomac, October 2017], Latin America
analyst Raul Gallegos proposes that the
country’s collapse began long before
Maduro’s ascension after the death of
former President Hugo Chavez in 2013,
with roots stretching back more than a
century to the digging of its rst major
oil well in 1914.
Gallegos argues that Venezuela’s
dependence on the cycles of a singular
resource has warped its economy and
political development. Short-term booms
have spurred government spending
sprees that make it vulnerable to inevi-
table downturns and exaggerated the
divide between rich and poor. The book
places the country’s current crisis and strongarm
regime in context as just another cycle in a long his-
tory “of larger-than-life leaders who promised to use
oil to quickly turn Venezuela into a modern, power-
ful nation, only to disappoint voters in the end.”
Gallegos, now a senior analyst with consulting
rm Control Risks, formerly worked as a correspon-
dent for Dow Jones Newswires and The Wall Street
Journal. His reporting includes interviews with an
extensive cast of subjects such as a retired policeman
hoarding food and a plastic surgeon working connec-
tions to import breast implants. Gallegos oers sev-
eral concrete, though idealistic suggestions for how
to x the economy with oil revenue used for rainy
day funds and cash dividends to citizens. The book
nevertheless serves as a cautionary tale, warning that
“too much money poorly managed can be worse than
not having any money at all.”
The Naughty Nineties examines how a decade
of excess and sensationalism built a foundation
for a Trump presidency and an accepting public.
He covers a broad range of events and phenomena
including the rise of fertility drugs, third-wave
feminism, gay marriage equality, plastic surgery
and shock-jockey entertainment like the Howard
Stern Show. With scandal and sexuality dominating
headlines and becoming part of the background
noise, Friend believes the current political climate
was inevitable.
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By Chad Bouchard
January 2018
11
R
isa freelance
photographer and lmmaker who
has worked around the globe,
covering a range of issues including
health care in India, food shortages in
Sudan and turmoil in Somalia. She is
based in Nairobi and Paris, and has com-
pleted rst aid and hostile environment
training. In 2017 she received Firelight
Media’s Short Film Grant, which she
used to nd a documentary on Sudanese
political satire for The New York Times.
Her work has also appeared in VICE,
NPR, CNN, Al Jazeera, PRI and The
Guardian. In 2016, Gogineni traveled to
South Sudan with OPC member Nicholas
Kristof to help document “killing elds”
for The New York Times.
Charleston, WV.
BA Diplomatic History &
African Studies, University of Pennsyl-
vania; MSc African Studies, University
of Oxford.
French, Spanish,
Telugu, deteriorating Arabic and Swahili.
Photographing
West African and South Asian migrant
workers eeing Libya during the Arab
Spring.
Somalia, Su-
dan, Chad, South Sudan, Kenya, Rwanda,
Burundi, Nigeria, India, Israel, Turkey,
Iraq, Jordan, Spain, USA.
Joined in 2017. I’ve been a member of
the Foreign Correspondents Association
of East Africa for many years, which has
been an amazingly supportive commu-
nity and resource. I’m now working in
other parts of the world and wanted to
join a broader community of colleagues..
I wanted to be near Somalia. It wasn’t
feasible to live in Mogadishu at that time,
so I moved to Nairobi to get close.
As a freelancer, funding is always a chal-
lenge. I’m bad at pursuing grants, or pitch-
ing big projects, and tend to sink lots of my
money in obeat stories before anyone is
convinced by them.
Don’t wait for someone to send you some-
where. Carry oral rehydration salts. Dump
cards every night and religiously backup
hard drives.
I’ve had a couple bad experiences with
commissioning editors who had certain
ideas of what a story from Somalia or
Chad should look like, and pushed me
and my xers into dangerous situations.
In general, media has become more risk
averse when sending foreign corre-
spondents to cover war, but I’m always
frustrated that there’s not the same regard
for the local journalists or xers.
Reporting on a massacre
in the Tana River Delta in Kenya, during a
spate of violence between Pokomo farm-
ers and Orma pastoralists. This particular
attack (carried out with machetes) left 38
dead, many of them women and children.
I arrived shortly after it had happened and
the survivors were in a daze. The hardest
part for me was seeing the impermanence
of the story in the news. There was no
greater war, or geopolitical relevance,
and that impacted the news value of this
unconscionable violence. That calculus
continues to be hard.
Move somewhere for a
while. There’s no substitute to living in a
place with your ear to the ground. There
are ways to support yourself that may not
be so obvious from home in the US. I got
a gig writing art reviews for a Kenyan
newspaper, then photographed for an
airline industry magazine. It was not the
work I had set out to do, but it I learned
from the experience and paid my bills.
Primum non nocere
(First, do no harm). It’s the aphorism
taught in medical school, but could equal-
ly inform the practice of journalism.
Produc-
ing a Somalia Idol TV series (a departure
from journalism…)
Seeking “human” moments, raw emo-
tion, at the expense of someone’s emo-
tional wellbeing. We’re not psycholo-
gists, and there’s a limit to our cultural
competency. I think we have a respon-
sibility to not further someone’s trauma
in the course of making a story. More
generally, a lack of self-awareness.
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