NEW YORK, Feb. 28, 2025 – As the OPC marks the 86th anniversary of its founding at the Annual Awards Dinner on April 17, the club will honor all the journalists who dedicate, risk, and even lose their lives covering the world.
Nicholas Kristof, a columnist for The New York Times and an award-winning author, will be the keynote speaker, and Marcus Mabry, senior vice president of digital editorial and programming for CNN Digital Worldwide, will present the awards.
The President’s Award will go to Lynsey Addario, an American photojournalist who has been covering conflict, humanitarian crises, and women’s issues around the Middle East and Africa on assignment for The New York Times and National Geographic for more than two decades. Addario is the recipient of numerous awards, including a MacArthur Fellowship. She was part of The New York Times team that won a Pulitzer Prize for overseas reporting in 2023 for coverage of Ukraine, and a finalist for Breaking news Photography the same year.
In 2010, Addario was part of the NYT team to win the Pulitzer Prize for Overseas Reporting for coverage of Afghanistan and Pakistan, and that same year, Addario won the OPC’s Olivier Rebbot Award for her photo series on women in Afghanistan. Her memoir, It’s What I Do, chronicles her personal and professional life as a photojournalist coming of age in the post-9/11 world. She has five Honorary Doctorate degrees.
“The OPC is thrilled to honor Lynsey Addario, one of the most gifted and courageous photojournalists of our times,” said Scott Kraft, president of the OPC. “Lynsey is truly an artist and a master storyteller. Over the past two decades, her images have cast a light on underreported stories and people too often ignored. And her fearless work from global conflict zones has captured, with an abiding empathy, the difficult reality of people caught in the crossfire.”
Past OPC President’s Award winners include David Remnick, editor of The New Yorker; CNN’s chief international anchor Christiane Amanpour; photojournalist Maggie Steber; and Bob Woodward of The Washington Post.
Kristof’s columns in The New York Times center on human rights, women’s rights, health and global affairs. He joined The Times in 1984, working as bureau chief in Hong Kong, Beijing and Tokyo before becoming a columnist in 2001. He and his wife, Sheryl WuDunn, jointly won a Pulitzer Prize for covering the bloody Tiananmen Square crackdown in China. He won a second Pulitzer for coverage of the Darfur genocide, and an Emmy for a video about Covid. His new memoir is called Chasing Hope.
Mabry is a past OPC president. Prior to joining CNN, he worked at Twitter and The New York Times, where he was international business editor, a national politics editor, and editor-at-large at the international edition based in Paris. He started his career at Newsweek where he was Paris correspondent, South Africa bureau chief and Chief of Correspondents. He has written two books.
The Annual Dinner at Cipriani 25 Broadway, will get underway with a cocktail reception at 6:00 p.m. sponsored by Reuters, with the dinner and program at 7:00 p.m. The post-dinner reception is sponsored by Bloomberg. Click here to RSVP, or visit: tinyurl.com/OPC-RSVP86
The Overseas Press Club of America is the nation’s oldest and largest association of journalists engaged in international news. Every year, it awards the most prestigious prizes devoted exclusively to international news coverage. It was founded in 1939 by nine foreign correspondents in New York City, and has grown to nearly 400 members worldwide. The club’s mission is to uphold the highest standards in news reporting, advance press freedom and promote good fellowship among colleagues while educating a new generation of journalists.