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Captive Journalists' Cases Raise New Issues for OPC
Monday, 24 Aug 2009
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Journalists everywhere breathed easier in recent weeks after freelancer Roxana Saberi was released by the Iranian government,...

Breen Finds U.K. Government Response Ludicrous, Insulting
Thursday, 16 Jul 2009

n_breen_sm.jpgSuzanne Breen, the U.K. reporter who refused to surrender notes on Real IRA and was supported by the OPC and a Belfast Court, responds to Secretary of State for...

Video and Text: OPC President Speech at Ling and Lee Vigil
Wednesday, 03 Jun 2009

OPC President Allan Dodds Frank spoke at the New York Candlelight Vigil, one of six events held on June 3, to support detained journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee. This article provides the text of his speech.

For 70 years, the Overseas Press Club of America has stood for freedom...

Families Write to Urge Action for Ling and Lee
Monday, 01 Jun 2009

The families of detained journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee urge for support on Wednesday, June 3, for candlelight vigils to be held in New York, Washington D.C., Birmingham, Los Angeles, and San Francisco.

Russia Insists Reporter's Death Was Suicide
Friday, 01 Feb 2008

The Russian government wrote a letter to the OPC's Freedom of the Press Committee, providing a typically legalistic and bureaucratic non-response to an urgent question: Was Ivan Safronov, pictured right, the fourteenth journalist to be murdered since Vladimir Putin became president of Russia...

Committee Meets Heroic Colombian Journalist
Friday, 30 Nov 2007

Hollman Morris was honored by Human Rights Watch for his work. In New York recently, he met with members of the OPC Freedom of the Press Committee to thank them for a recent letter urging Colombia's President Alvaro Uribe to guarantee Morris's safety.

The American Media's Failure in Asia
Friday, 05 Oct 2007

Asia is arguably the most important part of the world; it is home to many powerful companies in Japan and South Korea, and to companies that seek to emerge on the world stage in countries like China, Southeast Asia and India. If Americans are to have any idea of the opportunities and challenges...