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Photos and Video From the 86th OPC Awards
The OPC’s 86th Anniversary Awards Dinner on April 17 featured a keynote speech from Nicholas Kristof, a columnist for The New York Times and an award-winning author, presentation of the President’s Award to Lynsey Addario, an American photojournalist who has covered global conflict, humanitarian crises and women’s issues for more than two decades, lighting of the Press Freedom Candle with remarks from Charles Forelle, deputy editor of The Wall Street Journal, and Julie Pace, executive editor of The Associated Press, as well as acceptance speeches from recipients for this year’s 22 awards for exceptional international journalism. Explore the page below to see photos and videos from the celebration.
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Opening Remarks
Scott Kraft
OPC President
Keynote Speech
Nicholas Kristof
New York Times Columnist
The OPC President’s Award
Lynsey Addario
Photojournalist
Lighting of the Press Freedom Candle
Charles Forelle, deputy editor of The Wall Street Journal
Julie Pace, executive editor of The Associated Press
Scroll left and right using the white arrows to see photos from the evening’s festivities below.
The 86th Annual Overseas Press Club Awards gets underway at Cipriani, 25 Broadway, in New York. Photo: Jennifer S. Altman
OPC President Scott Kraft, OPC Past President Allan Dodds Frank, Ghazi Balkiz, OPC Awards Head Judge John Daniszewski, OPC Past President William J. Holstein, OPC Treasurer Deborah Amos, and OPC Past President Marcus Mabry. Photo: Jennifer S. Altman
OPC Governor Mary Rajkumar, OPC Vice President Deborah Amos and OPC Treasurer Marjorie Miller. Photo: Jennifer S. Altman
Andy Kattell, OPC Executive Director Patricia Kranz, and OPC President Scott Kraft. Photo: Jennifer S. Altman
OPC Governor Marc Lacey and OPC President Scott Kraft. Photo: Jennifer S. Altman
OPC Governor John Simons and Sune Engel Rasmussen. Photo: Jennifer S. Altman
OPC Governor John Simons, Rowena De Silva and Joe Dyke. Photo: Jennifer S. Altman
Guests take their seats at the opening of the 86th Annual Overseas Press Club Awards. Photo: Jennifer S. Altman
Charles Forelle, deputy editor of The Wall Street Journal, talks about the release and return last year of Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich before the annual lighting of the Press Freedom Candle. Photo: Jennifer S. Altman
Julie Pace, executive editor of The Associated Press, speaking before the ceremonial lighting of the Press Freedom Candle. Photo: Jennifer S. Altman
Julie Pace lights the Press Freedom Candle honoring journalists who have been killed, injured or imprisoned in the past year. Photo: Jennifer S. Altman
OPC Past President Marcus Mabry, the awards presenter for the evening, opens the celebration. Photo: Jennifer S. Altman
OPC Governor John Avlon and Lydia Polgreen. Photo: Jennifer S. Altman
Lynsey Addario, recipient of this year's President's Award, on the right, sits with OPC President Scott Kraft, OPC Vice President Sandra Stevenson and OPC Executive Director Patricia Kranz. Photo: Jennifer S. Altman
Nicholas Kristof delivers the keynote speech. Photo: Jennifer S. Altman
Nicholas Kristof. Photo: Jennifer S. Altman
Guests chat during a break in the OPC's 86th Annual Awards Dinner. Photo: Jennifer S. Altman
OPC Vice President Sandra Stevenson introduces this year's recipient of the President's Award, Lynsey Addario. Photo: Jennifer S. Altman
OPC Vice President Sandra Stevenson introduces Lynsey Addario as OPC President Scott Kraft looks on. Photo: Jennifer S. Altman Photo: Jennifer S. Altman
OPC Vice President Sandra Stevenson embraces Lynsey Addario. Photo: Jennifer S. Altman Photo: Jennifer S. Altman
Lynsey Addario speaks to Annual Awards Dinner attendees after receiving the President's Award. Photo: Jennifer S. Altman
President's Award recipient Lynsey Addario, a veteran photojournalist, told attendees that "we must fight more than ever to continue to do our jobs and do them well and with integrity and unwavering commitment so that facts can no longer be disputed." Photo: Jennifer S. Altman
OPC Vice President Sandra Stevenson, Camille Addario, Lynsey Addario, Suzy Hansen and Lydia Polgreen. Photo: Jennifer S. Altman
OPC President Scott Kraft watches the Annual Awards presentation. Photo: Jennifer S. Altman
OPC Past President Allan Dodds Frank applauds award winners. Photo: Jennifer S. Altman
Lynsey Addario, Suzy Hansen and Lydia Polgreen and Nicholas Kristof. Photo: Jennifer S. Altman
OPC President's Award recipient Lynsey Addario. Photo: Jennifer S. Altman
OPC Executive Director Patricia Kranz and Sarah Topol. Photo: Jennifer S. Altman
Minky Worden and OPC Governor Brian Byrd. Photo: Jennifer S. Altman
Guests mingle during a reception following the Overseas Press Club Awards presentation. Photo: Jennifer S. Altman
On right, Miriam Berger celebrates with other guests outside of Cipriani after receiving the Shireen Abu Akleh Award with staff of The Washington Post. Photo: Jennifer S. Altman
Scroll left and right to see photos of winners accepting certificates below, and click on each image to jump to the point in the video where winners accept each award. Photos are by Jennifer Altman, and videos were produced by Michael Smith.
The Hal Boyle Award: Farnaz Fassihi, Hwaida Saad and Christina Goldbaum receiving the award for New York Times Staff. Photo: Jennifer S. Altman
The William Worthy Award: Drew Hinshaw and Joe Parkinson accepting the award for Wall Street Journal Staff. Photo: Jennifer S. Altman
The Robert Capa Gold Medal Award: Nariman El-Mofty and Laura Boushnak, The New York Times. Photo: Jennifer S. Altman
The Olivier Rebbot Award: Meaghan Looram accepting the award for Samar Abu Elouf, The New York Times. Photo: Jennifer S. Altman
The Danish Siddiqui Award: Moises Saman, The New Yorker. Photo: Jennifer S. Altman
The Lowell Thomas Award: Willing Davidson, senior editor at The New Yorker, accepting for Madeleine Baran, Samara Freemark, Natalie Jablonski, Rehman Tungekar, Parker Yesko and Team. Photo: Jennifer S. Altman
The David Kaplan Award: Winners Ghazi Balkiz, James Longman, and Colm O’Molloy, receiving the award along with Sohel Uddin, Fahed AlMawla, and ABC News Staff. Photo: Jennifer S. Altman
The Edward R. Murrow Award: Eric O’Connor, Marcia Biggs and André Paultre receiving the award, which also named Sara Just, Morgan Till and Eric O’Connor of PBS News Hour as winners. Photo: Jennifer S. Altman
The Peter Jennings Award: Winners Laila Al-Arian, Adrienne Haspel, Kavitha Chekuru, Sharif Abdel Kouddous receive the award, for which Ashraf Mashharawi, also of Al Jazeera English, along with Media Town, was also named winner. Photo: Jennifer S. Altman
The Ed Cunningham Award: Sarah Topol, New York Times Magazine. Photo: Jennifer S. Altman
The Best Cartoon Award: Amy Kurzweil, Los Angeles Times. Photo: Jennifer S. Altman
The Malcolm Forbes and Morton Frank Award: Shannon Stapleton and Maurice Tamman receiving the award for Reuters Staff. Photo: Jennifer S. Altman
The Shireen Abu Akleh Award: Júlia Ledur, Meg Kelly, Miriam Berger, Louisa Loveluck and Loveday Morris, for Washington Post Staff. Photo: Jennifer S. Altman
The Cornelius Ryan Award: Sune Engel Rasmussen, Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Photo: Jennifer S. Altman
The Madeline Dane Ross Award: Winners are Rhana Natour and Eman Mohammed, The Atavist Magazine. Photo: Jennifer S. Altman
The David A. Andelman and Pamela Title Award: Winners Laila Al-Arian, John Holman, Mark Scialla and Adrienne Haspel receive the award, which also named Luis del Valle and Rodrigo Galdos-Tanguis for Al Jazeera English. Photo: Jennifer S. Altman
The Joe and Laurie Dine Award: Qadri Inzamam and Megha Rajagopalan, The Fuller Project with The New York Times. Photo: Jennifer S. Altman
The Whitman Bassow Award: Bryan Denton and Maria Abi-Habib, The New York Times. Photo: Jennifer S. Altman
The Robert Spiers Benjamin Award: Jon Gerberg, Júlia Ledur, Jennifer Samuel, Samantha Schmidt and Mary Beth Sheridan, for Washington Post Staff. Photo: Jennifer S. Altman
The Kim Wall Award: Winners Rowena De Silva and Joseph Dyke, receiving the award on behalf of colleagues Nathan Walker, Nikolaj Houmann Mortensen, Sanjana Varghese and Staff of Airwars. Photo: Jennifer S. Altman
The Roy Rowan Award: Natalie Kitroeff and Paulina Villegas, The New York Times. Photo: Jennifer S. Altman
The Flora Lewis Award: Adam Ellick, Kathleen Kingsbury, Amanda Su, and Alexander Stockton, accepting on behalf of Samer Attar, The New York Times Opinion. Photo: Jennifer S. Altman
Click on the thumbnail photos below to see the award pages, with links to the winning work and slide shows of winning images from photo and cartoon award winners.
