Three years after suffering near-fatal injuries in a bomb blast, Kimberly Dozier, the former CBS foreign correspondent makes a redemptive return to Iraq: Last December, I finally made it back to Baghdad. I’d left on May 29, 2006, unconscious on a stretcher after my CBS News team and the 4th Infantry Division patrol we’d been covering walked into the path of a 300- to 500-pound car bomb. Read more...

News outlets across the country have downsized or closed their overseas bureaus. The new Boston-based online international news service www.globalpost.com, co-founded by OPC member Charles Sennott, has built a network of 70 correspondents in 50 countries. Read more...

The recipient of this year’s Overseas Press Club President’s Award is Andy Rooney, CBS’s avuncular, and irascible, 60 Minutes commentator whose experience as a foreign correspondent dates back to his World War II job as a reporter for Stars and Stripes. Earlier this year his son, television correspondent Brian Rooney, gave a talk at a “roast” sponsored by friends and colleagues from both Andy and Brian’s alma mater, Colgate University. This tribute by Brian is adapted from that event. Read more...

The OPC’s 71st Annual Awards Dinner is set for Thursday, April 22 at the Mandarin Oriental at Columbus Circle with a new pre-gala reception in the Lobby Lounge. Andy Rooney will receive the President's Award and Kimberly Dozier will present the awards. Read more...

Ben Johnson, along with other soon-to-graduate J-schools, came to the panel of experts that the OPC organized recently to discuss The Crisis in Foreign News Reporting. They came to get for career advice from William J. Holstein, Dorinda Elliott, Marcus Mabry and Craig R. Whitney. Read more...

Media veterans of the wars in Cambodia and Vietnam are gathering in late April to renew old friendships, visit the cities that played such an important part in their lives and remember those no longer with us. Read more...