June 30, 2025
The Ukrainian Journalists Association of North America invites OPC members and friends to the organization’s annual conference from May 19 to May 20 at the Ukrainian Institute of America on Central Park East…
The OPC is partnering with the Human Rights Watch Film Festival to present three screenings. Tickets went on sale May 3 for Draw Me Egypt, When Spring Came to Bucha, and The Etilaat Roz…
The OPC’s 84th Anniversary Awards Dinner featured a keynote speech from Alessandra Galloni, editor-in-chief for Reuters, presentation of the President’s Award to Christiane Amanpour, CNN’s chief international correspondent, lighting of the Press Freedom Candle by Oksana Markarova, the Ambassador of Ukraine to the United States, remarks about Evan Gershkovich from Almar Latour, the chief executive officer of Dow Jones and publisher of The Wall Street Journal, and acceptance speeches from recipients receiving this year’s 22 awards for exceptional international journalism…
International correspondents gathered in New York City for the Overseas Press Club of America’s 84th annual awards dinner on April 27 to celebrate and honor brave journalists whose reporting brought to light stories of conflict, controversy, and resilience from around the world this past year…
Watch a livestream of the 84th Annual Awards Dinner via this page on April 27 at 7:00 p.m. Eastern Time…
OPC Foundation President William J. Holstein opened this year’s scholarship awards celebration on May 1, the first to be held in person since February 2020, by commending the foundation’s continued support for aspiring international journalists through the challenges of the pandemic…
Mike Chinoy, the CNN correspondent who has dedicated 25 years to covering China, including the brutal crackdown on protesters in Tiananmen Square in 1989, defended the American and Western media’s coverage of China despite the Chinese government’s rhetoric that the media is seeking to foment “color revolutions” and topple the Chinese Communist Party…
When Washington Post staff photographer Salwan Georges fled Iraq with his family in 1998 at the age of 8, he did not expect he would be away from those he left behind for more than two decades, and did not expect conditions to be worse, in many ways, than they were before the war…
On March 23, the OPC, ChinaFile and Strategy Risks hosted a book night to discuss “Assignment China – An Oral History of American Journalists in the People’s Republic,” a new book by former CNN correspondent Mike Chinoy, who covered the Tiananmen massacre for the network, among other major stories…
On March 16, the OPC and The Washington Post hosted a conversation between Salwan Georges, a Post staff photographer, and his colleague Louisa Loveluck, the newspaper’s Baghdad bureau chief. The moderator was Olivier Laurent, a senior photo editor on the Post’s foreign desk…
