September 23, 2025
The Overseas Press Club of America (OPC) seeks a dynamic and experienced leader to serve as Executive Director, overseeing the organization’s mission to promote excellence in international journalism and foster connections among foreign correspondents, editors, and media professionals.
By Cathy Manso Uliana Pavlova is a freelance journalist who recently relocated to New York after extensive work in Russia. Winner of the OPC Foundation’s Theo Wilson Scholarship in 2017, she began her journalism career in the U.S. before moving back to Moscow during the COVID-19 pandemic to report on Russian affairs for English-speaking audiences. Despite…
OPC member and veteran NPR correspondent Deborah Amos reflects on launching her Substack, her most recent posts and future projects. Q: What inspired you to start your own Substack? Amos: I left NPR in 2023, and then Gaza started. I’ve been a Middle East correspondent my entire career, and I read everything because it’s in…
The OPC is saddened by the passing of longtime club member and colleague Rod Nordland, a veteran reporter for The New York Times reporter who covered conflict zones for 40 years…
A new documentary, Eyes on Evil, currently in post-production, explores the life of American journalist Sigrid Schultz, who was an early member of the Overseas Press Club and served as The Chicago Tribune’s foreign correspondent in Berlin from 1919 to 1945…
The International Association of Press Clubs made the following statement to mark World Press Freedom Day…
On World Press Freedom Day, the Overseas Press Club of America warns of the dire threats to press freedom in many countries around the world and has rising and significant concerns about the state of press freedom in the US, even though such rights are constitutionally protected here….
Longtime OPC member and former governor Steve Herman, chief national correspondent for Voice of America, is speaking out about the Trump administration’s gutting of the global news service…
86th Annual Overseas Press Club Awards Honors the Finest International Reporting in 22 Categories; the New York Times Dominates Awards this Year
OPC Award Judges for work published in 2024: Head judge: John Daniszewski, The Associated Press The Hal Boyle AwardBest newspaper, news service, newsletter or digital reporting from abroad Barbara Demick (head), author, former Los Angeles Times Gady Epstein, Economist Carlos Rajo, Spectrum Noticias/Spectrum Networks Eleanor Randolph, former New York Times Keith Richburg, The Washington Post…
