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This is a hybrid event, to be held in-person and streamed online.

The link to watch the event online is here.

The Overseas Press Club and the Ethics & Journalism Initiative at New York University’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute are co-sponsoring a panel on the ethics of overseas reporting.

Panelists will examine ethical issues that may arise in the relationship between US-based journalists and the local journalists that they often rely on in the field. Are bylines, credits and compensation fairly determined? What steps are necessary to assess whether identifying a local journalist may result in imprisonment or worse? Is it ethical to hide your identity as a journalist in a place where it might be dangerous? What is the best way to protect the safety of the entire team?

Panelists are:

Victor Blue, a Brooklyn-based photojournalist and filmmaker whose work is most often concerned with the legacy of armed conflict, human rights and the protection of civilians in conflict. His photographs appear in The New York Times, The New Yorker, Harper’s Magazine, The New York Times Magazine, TIME, and other international publications. His work has been recognized with 7 Pictures of the Year International awards and 5 NPPA Best of Photojournalism awards.

Azmat Khan, a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter whose work grapples with the human costs of war. She is an investigative reporter with The New York Times and New York Times Magazine and the Patti Cadby Birch Assistant Professor at Columbia Journalism School, where she is also the director of the Simon and June Li Center for Global Journalism. Khan is writing a book for Random House investigating America’s air wars.  She is a governor of the OPC.

Aida Alami, a Moroccan reporter usually based in Rabat, Morocco, and Paris, and now, in New York City. She mainly covers migration, human rights, religion, and race. She has reported from North Africa, the Middle East, Europe, the United States, Haiti, the Dominican Republic and Senegal. Alami has been a regular contributor to The New York Times since 2011 but writes for other places such as the New York Review of Books. She was a contributor to the best-selling book, Our Women on the Ground: Essays by Arab Women Reporting from the Arab World, and is a graduate of the Columbia School of Journalism. She is currently finishing a documentary feature on civil rights in France.

Moderator:

Stephen J. Adler, board chair of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press and founding director of the Ethics and Journalism Initiative at NYU’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute. He was editor-in-chief of Reuters from 2011-2021, and editor-in-chief of BusinessWeek from 2005 until 2009. He is a governor of the OPC.