The American media did a fine job of covering the Olympics in China this summer, but the really big story now is, “What happens after the Olympics?” And the American media has been largely silent on that subject.
Author: OPC of America
Europe Resolution on Journalist Safety
The International News Safety Institute urged governments to comply with the terms of a landmark resolution on media freedom adopted by the parliament of the Council of Europe.
Egypt October 10, 2008
The OPC joins with other human-rights and jounalists’ associations to condemn the continuing — indeed the increasing — repression of the media in Egypt.
Arsonists Attack Home of Publisher
Arsonists set off a fire in the house of publisher Martin Rynja in September after he announced that he would publish The Jewel of Medina, a novel about the early life of A’isha, one of the wives of Prophet Muhammad.
Thomas’s Typewriter Has a Buyer
Steve Geimann, a finance editor with Bloomberg News in Washington, won the September e-mail auction of Helen Thomas’s Olivetti Lettera 32 portable manual typewriter. .
Syria Releases Journalists
Two American journalists who had been missing for more than a week in Lebanon were turned over to the American Embassy in the Syrian capital on Thursday night and were on their way back to Jordan.
Mabry on Financial Crisis
Marcus Mabry, The New York Times‘s international business editor, discusses in a recent report how the financial crisis has spread to Europe. Mabry is a Vice President on the OPC board.
NYT Pulls Plug on IHT Web Site
Forbes.com reports that an internal e-mail at The New York Times on Tuesday said the paper’s flagship Web site will soon become host to news from sister paper the International Herald Tribune and that the Tribune’s site will be shuttered.
CFR Launches Group Blog
The Council on Foreign Relations launched the CFR Forum, a new group blog that will feature a series of expert discussions moderated by CFR fellows.
China October 7, 2008
We write to the Chinese government to protest two extremely serious violations of press freedom, and to urge President H.E. Hu Jintao
to take immediate steps to reverse them.