September 23, 2025
OPC member Edie Lederer visited Horst Faas, also an OPC member, in Germany in July, and they started making plans for a reunion of Vietnam War correspondents in Ho Chi Minh City next year on April 30, the 35th anniversary of the end of that war.
WASHINGTON: In a letter to AP President Tom Curley, an OPC member, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates called “appalling” the wire service’s distribution of a grisly photo of a U.S. Marine mortally wounded in Afghanistan taken by Julie Jacobson.
Four recently published books written by or about journalists are featured in this month’s New Books column. Authors are: John Jessop, Mark Bryant, Stephen Mansfield and Justine Hardy.
To mark the 60th anniversary of the Foreign Correspondents’ Club move from Shanghai to Hong Kong, the Club’s magazineThe Correspondent published remembrances from five former Club presidents in its May/June issue.
Sawyer, the longtime co-host of ABC’s "Good Morning America," was named the successor to Charles Gibson, who
is stepping down as the anchor of "World News" on ABC. The network
announced the moves on Wednesday; they will be effective in January.
Long-term Associated Press staffers retire, about 100 employees accept a buyout and a few are relocated to new bureaus.
Laura Ling and Euna Lee, the two American journalists released last month after being imprisoned in North Korea, tell their story in the Los Angeles Times and remind people of the story they wanted to cover.
CBS News correspondent Cami McCormick was wounded August 28 when a
roadside bomb hit the U.S. Army vehicle in which she was traveling south of Kabul.
President of the Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez’s United Socialist Party of Venezuela accused Globovision, the nation’s last independent TV broadcaster, of “media terrorism,” but terrorism struck the station on July 3.
President Obama surprised OPC member Helen Thomas on her birthday with a cupcake while Christiane Amanpour served her CNN colleague a lesson on Thomas’ objectivity.
