May 31, 2017
On Wednesday, May 24, the OPC is hosted a special screening and discussion of the documentary Hell On Earth: The Fall Of Syria And The Rise of ISIS, with filmmakers Sebastian Junger and Nick Quested....
On May 17, the OPC hosted a special sneak preview of the documentary Letters from Baghdad at International House. Check out this playlist of clips from the discussion on the OPC YouTube channel.
The OPC’s 78th Annual Awards Dinner last night was one for the history books. The club raised a record amount of money through table sales and a new text-to-pledge campaign. Tenor James Valenti’s beautiful voice and a tribute to past OPC President Roy Rowan added a magical note to the evening...
In a year marked by attacks on both journalists and journalism itself, foreign correspondents gathered Thursday night to celebrate their work and honor the sacrifices many have made in order to report the news...
OPC was at Samantha Bee's Not the White House Correspondent's Dinner in Washington, DC. Here's a recap of the event...
Valerie Komor is the founding Director of the Associated Press Corporate Archives. Before joining AP in 2003, she held positions at the Oberlin College Archives, the Rockefeller Archive Center, the Smithsonian Institution Archives of American Art and the New-York Historical Society...
On March 22, the OPC and the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism hosted a book night to discuss No Friends but the Mountains - Dispatches from the World's Violent Highlands with author Judith Matloff. Her book, which took eight years to report and 72,000 miles of travel, explores why mountainous regions are disproportionate share of the world's conflicts.
The OPC is pleased to announce that Jeff Zucker, president of CNN Worldwide, will be the keynote speaker at this year’s Annual Awards Dinner on April 27...
President Donald Trump still lacks a clear policy in the Middle East, which could leave the U.S. open to manipulation from autocratic governments in the region and embolden terrorists, experts said during a panel on March 1...
On Feb. 24, Rebecca Blumenstein, deputy managing editor of The New York Times, told a capacity crowd at the OPC Foundation Scholar Awards Luncheon that foreign correspondents play a crucial role in the future of journalism...
The Overseas Press Club of America is alarmed by the increasingly hostile attacks on the news media by the President of the United States, Donald J. Trump...
Roy Rowan officially departed this world the same way he lived it — with complete integrity displayed through a globe-trotting seven-decade career, with humor and deep friendship, with love of wife and family, and indeed with gallantry...
I met Roy a few months after I joined The Times in January 1990. A book of his called Connections: American Business and the Mob, written with Sandy Smith, had been killed in suspicious circumstances by his publisher...
"At first, of course you will think yourself innocent. You will plead your case to the other prisoners. But they cannot forgive you even if they wanted to. You are wasting your breath. Later you will plead with visitors to your cell. Everyone does so. It would be odd if you did not. But only the highest, top-most commanders can give you what you want and they will not come to you in a thousand years..."
Despite Donald Trump’s tough talk about China, author and journalist John Pomfret told an OPC/West gathering in the San Francisco area in early January that history shows that the relationship is deep, complex, and "simply too important" to fail...
A standing-room crowd of more than 170 gathered at the Harriman Institute on Jan. 18 to hear thoughts from Russia experts about the uncertain relationship between Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Donald Trump, the impact of Russian hackers on the U.S. presidential election, and the future of a shifting world order...
On Dec. 12, 2016, the Overseas Press Club of America hosted a talk and slideshow showcasing award-winning photos from the club’s annual awards competition to students from the Bronx Documentary Center’s high school and adult photography programs.
On Nov. 30, the OPC co-hosted an evening at the American Library in Paris with veteran photographer and OPC award winner Christopher Morris, who showed photos and video of Donald Trump’s election campaign that he took while on assignment for TIME magazine.
Longtime OPC member Ruth Gruber, an award-winning photojournalist and author, died on Thursday, Nov. 17 at the age of 105 at her home in Manhattan...
When I started work on a story about sexual harassment in journalism earlier this year, I didn’t expect sexual politics to become a key part of the 2016 election. Then again, little about this presidential race has followed any well-worn track...
In a US election year when Russia has played an unusually prominent role – from Donald Trump’s admiration of Vladimir Putin to strong suspicions of Russian hacking, two Russian journalists told an OPC/West gathering in San Francisco on Oct. 28 that the next US president needs to understand that Putin is an unpredictable opportunist. OPC/West is an informal affiliate of the OPC.
Roy Rowan, one of the most legendary foreign correspondents and authors of his era, succumbed to multiple physical conditions on Tuesday, Sept. 13, at the age of 96 at Greenwich Hospital in Greenwich, CT. He would have been 97 in February.
On Oct. 4, on the eve of a key straw poll among Security Council members, the OPC hosted a discussion about the UN’s current role in tempering global conflicts and crises...
By John Corporon: In 1969 or 1970, I hired John McLaughlin (as speech writer for President Nixon) to do a commentary on WTOP’s news programs. As general manager of WTOP, I employed commentators of liberal and conservative persuasion...
