OPC leaders William J. Holstein, Marcus Mabry, Craig Whitney and Dinda Elliott will discuss the crisis in foreign news reporting at the 2010 SPJ Spring Conference at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism.

The panel is sponsored by the Overseas Press Club, the nation’s oldest and largest association of journalists engaged in international news, this panel will discuss the changes in international reporting over the past 30 years, particularly as news organizations have cut their network of correspondents abroad. Learn how this trend has hurt the quality of sustained foreign news coverage and what that means to Americans’ understanding of the world.

The panel will be moderated by William Holstein, president, OPC Foundation

There will be a mix of roughly 25 students and professional journalists in the audience.

To register for this event, go to the SPJ conference website: www.spjregion1.org