The Overseas Press Club of America strongly condemns a series of cyberattacks and violent threats on Farnaz Fassihi, an Iranian-American journalist who serves on the board of the OPC…
The OPC Condemns Cyberattacks on Journalist Farnaz Fassihi
Author: OPC of America
OPC Supports the National Press Club of New Zealand Amid a Defamation Suit that Threatens Press Freedom
The Overseas Press Club of America supports the National Press Club of New Zealand after a court decided against a journalist in a libel case and forced them to hand over source material used in their coverage…
War Stories From a Pro, With Lessons for Today’s Journalists Covering Conflict
In his memoir about covering the wars in Central America during the 1980s, reporter and photographer Bill Gentile describes how journalists teamed up on dangerous stories…
The OPC’s Lowell Thomas Played an Early Role in Explaining Tibet to the World
The following is another installment in a series of reviews by William J. Holstein of a collection of books that were donated anonymously to the OPC in April. Holstein reviews Out of This World: Across the Himalayas to Forbidden Tibet, by Lowell Thomas Jr., Seven Years in Tibet, by Heinrich Harrer, and The Silent War in Tibet: The Unknown Story of the Most Remote and Romantic Nation in its Struggle Against the Modern Might of China. by Lowell Thomas, Jr.
U.S. State Department Expresses Concern over China’s Treatment of Foreign Journalists
The deterioration in the treatment of foreign journalists in China, most recently demonstrated in their coverage of flooding, has reached the point that it has triggered a statement of concern from the U.S. Department of State…
The IAPC Calls for More Decisive Steps to Defend Journalists in Belarus
The IAPC is alarmed by yet another wave of repression directed at Belarusian independent media and appeals to those in power in Belarus to stop the purge and the attack on the freedom of speech. Journalism as a profession is being eliminated in Belarus. “Purging the media” is no longer merely a metaphor…
An Open Letter to the Government of Nicaragua
The Overseas Press Club of America, which represents more than 500 journalists engaged in international reporting and editing, has been monitoring with growing concern the deteriorating conditions for journalists and media organizations in Nicaragua…
FCCC Offers Help to Journalists Traveling to China To Cover the Winter Olympics
The Foreign Correspondents’ Club of China is offering to help any journalist who plans to travel to China to cover the Winter Olympics starting in February 2022 in Beijing…
IAPC Freedom of Speech Award 2021 Honors Yuliya Slutskaya
Yuliya Slutskaya – a recognized journalist, longtime media editor, founder and president of the Press Club Belarus – is the laureate of the 2021 IAPC Freedom of Speech Award…
People Remembered: Richard Stolley
The OPC is saddened to learn that OPC Past President Richard Stolley, who worked for Life and TIME magazines in various roles from reporter to bureau chief and managing editor, died on June 16 of heart complications in Evanston, Illinois at the age of 92. Stolley was OPC President from 2004 to 2006, and participated in many of the club’s events…