Overseas Press Club of America

2010 OPC Scholars

2010 OPC Scholars from left: Roberts, Brookland, Henderson, Gross, Stein, Law, Kibenge, Finnegan, Stauffer, Ioffee, Matthews and Freeman

Dan Rather at the OPC Scholarship Luncheon

Dan Rather was among the guests at this year's OPC Scholarship Luncheon. From left, OPC Foundation President William J. Holstein, Rather and FT editor and keynote speaker Lionel Barber.

Barber Talks Paywalls and Journalism's Future

OPC President Allan Dodds Frank, flanked by 2010 OPC Scholars who rang the closing bell at Nasdaq. Far right is OPC Foundation Director Jane Reilly.

FT Editor Lionel Barber Gives the Keynote Address

FT Editor Lionel Barber gave the keynote address at the OPC Scholars Luncheon and said "there hasn't a better time to be a financial journalist since the great crash."

The OPC Scholarship Luncheon

More than 220 guests attended this year's OPC Foundation Scholarship Luncheon and echoed the cause that foreign correspondents are needed now more than ever.

OPC BOOK NIGHT

From Serving to Covering the Front Lines of War

By Sonya K. Fry
Tuesday, 16 February 2010

To say that Seymour Topping has been an eyewitness to the major news events of the 20th century would be a vast understatement. Join us on Tuesday, March 23 at 6 p.m. at Club Quarters to hear Topping discuss his latest book On the Front Lines of the Cold War. Read more...

EVENT RECAP

OPC Members Share Tchotchkes, Memories

By Doug Merlino
Thursday, 4 March 2010

About 100 OPC members and guests piled into the lower Manhattan apartment of board member Minky Worden and husband Gordon Crovitz on March 3 for the club's first ever Tchotchke Night. See photo slideshow. Read more...

Upcoming Event

Japan Hands Reunion

Event Name:

Japan Correspondents Reunion

Event Date and Time:

18 March 2010 - 6:00pm - 9:00pm

Event Location:

Club Quarters, 40 West 45th Street

Event City:

New York

Event Fee:

$60

The Overseas Press Club of America is organizing a reunion of correspondents who have served in Tokyo at some point in their careers. It will be held March 18 at 6 p.m. at Club Quarters in Manhattan. “The Club has organized reunions of ‘old China hands’ and former Moscow correspondents, but never former Tokyo correspondents, so this is a first,” says Bill Holstein, the OPC Board Member who has helped coordinate the event. Read more...

Barber Talks Paywalls and Journalism's Future

By Aimee Vitrak
Friday, 19 February 2010

More than 220 guests attended this year's OPC Foundation Scholarship Luncheon and echoed the cause that foreign correspondents are needed now more than ever. See photo slideshow. With the help of an OPC scholarship, twelve aspiring news leaders have been given a chance to carry the torch. Keynote speaker Lionel Barber said the current economic crisis is a boon for recent j-school graduates: "there hasn't a better time to be a financial jouralist since the great crash."

A Tale of Two Reporters

By Aimee Vitrak
Thursday, 18 February 2010

Journalist and author Kati Marton spoke to OPC members and their guests to a packed room at Club Quarters in midtown Manhattan on Wednesday, February 17. See photo slideshow. She called her latest book, Enemies of the People, a "reporters tale," which recounts her parents as the last independent journalists behind the iron curtain during the Cold War. Read more...

Reader's Digest Chapter 11 Update

By Lawrence Elliott
Tuesday, 9 February 2010

While writing for Reader's Digest for 48 years, there was never a question then of what it might cost to go to Baffin Island in northernmost Canada to write a story about the Eskimo artists there or to hire interpreters to see me through the Soviet Union in preparation for interviews for a story on Brezhnev. Those were the days. Read more...

A Media Academy Grows in Bangladesh

By bxpnyc
Thursday, 4 February 2010

I love Dhaka and I fear Dhaka. I have made good friends on previous trips, in 2002 and 2008. I’ve had life-changing experiences here—seen amazing photography, heard brilliant and inspiring lectures. I have learned to dart through honking and careering vehicles without hyperventilating. Or (so far) getting killed. But I must admit that many of the everyday sights still shock my bourgeois American sensibility. Read more...

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NYTimes.com Takes Another Swing at a Pay Model

By Aimee Vitrak
Friday, 22 January 2010

The New York Times announced it will introduce a paid model for NYTimes.com. When I worked for the Times online, it was in the days when we took an image map of the front page of the paper. It's come a long way since then and now might be finally worth the extra dough. Read more...

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OPC Holiday Party Photos

By Aimee Vitrak
Tuesday, 12 January 2010

The OPC Holiday Party had 65 members in attendance to welcome the new year and see one of the final days of the famed Christmas tree in Rockefeller Center. Guests were treated to a table of appetizers, an open bar and a turkey buffet that included all the trimmings. Read more...

Press Freedom Letters

OPC Protests Afghani Gag Order

Tuesday, 09 Mar 2010

The OPC is dismayed by last week's order of the Afganistan National Directorate of Security that local and international media must stop reporting...

Reversal in Yevloyev Case Further Erodes Russian Press Freedom

Friday, 05 Mar 2010

Yet again, Russia's courts have made a mockery of the government's repeated promises to respect the principles of press freedom and protect Russian...