The New York Microsoft office held a special session for OPC members for digital tools like OneNote 2010 and the Capturx digital pen and notebook that might help reporters get their jobs done more effectively. Read more...

Johnny Chi-Chen Chiang, Taiwan’s information minister, addressed guests at a luncheon sponsored by the OPC and the Carnegie Council by saying trade is Taiwan’s lifeline “so we cannot allow ourselves to become economically marginalized.” Read more...

We begin the annual report with some good news. This past year we wrote two letters that were not protests but congratulations: one to Raul Castro and one to U.S. President Barack Obama. Read more...

Perhaps the only promise I can make over the next two years of my tenure as president of the OPC, is that the  challenges we face as foreign correspondents will only become more intense, more pressing and more vital to our survival and that of our society. See the new Board Members | VIDEO: Outgoing OPC President Allan Dodds Frank hands over the gavel to David A. Andelman.
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A documentary on Ruth Gruber, appropriately titled "Ahead of Time," will open in New York City and Los Angeles in September. Gruber -- foreign correspondent, author, photojournalist and OPC member -- was honored with the OPC Fay Gillis Wells Award in 2009. Read more...

Online recruiters for the Tribune Company are calling for "a solid team of anti-establishment producer/editors, "preditors"... ." Awesome. Retire real journalists and deploy tyros in "earbuds" and "flip-flops" to explain to Americans why they have killed uncounted innocents and squandered $5 trillion on two unwinnable wars that make yet more people hate them. Read more...