Twenty-four freelance journalists from places including Cairo, Chicago and Brooklyn convened in the Bronx April 19 for the debut class of Reporters Instructor in Saving Colleagues, a non-profit founded by Sebastian Junger after the death of his friend and colleague Tim Hetherington. Read more...

Mike Wallace was a great friend and supporter of the Overseas Press Club, although next to his CBS colleagues Walter Cronkite and Andy Rooney, he was a relative newcomer. Wallace, already at the peak of his game when he joined the club in 1979, served as the awards presenter at the OPC dinners in 1984, 1992 and 2000. In 1998, Don Hewitt, Wallace and the rest of the “60 Minutes” team jointly received the President’s Award from OPC President John Corporon. Read more...

The “Meet the Winners” after-party sponsored by Thomson Reuters was a huge success with people spilling out of the Ballroom after the awards dinner. Many stayed to see old friends and colleagues and to have one more beverage (read champagne). Photos | Read more...

Conversation, anticipation and a few hundred well-dressed people filled the double-height, window-walled space overlooking Central Park on the 35th floor of the Mandarin Oriental at the cocktail reception before OPC’s Annual Awards Dinner. Photos |  Read more...

No one will be surprised that a plurality of this year's OPC Awards featured words and images from two events: the uprisings of the Arab Spring — especially the triumphant revolution in Libya — and the earthquake and tsunami that rocked Japan. Beyond these two stories, award winners are a portrait of diversity. OPC Award Winners |  Read more...

This is a New York story about the revolution in Egypt, a rented tuxedo, Occupy Wall Street and how we, as journalists, are covering a rising tide of global discontent over economic inequality. So here's the tale. It was November and the height of the Occupy Wall Street movement. I was just back from a reporting project in Egypt and came to New York for an awards event. Read more...