2025 OPC Awards Citation (Runner-up) Winners (For work in calendar year 2024) THE HAL BOYLE AWARD Christopher Miller and Staff Financial Times “Russia’s war in Ukraine” THE WILLIAM WORTHY AWARD Staff The Washington Post “Repression’s Long Arm” THE ROBERT CAPA GOLD MEDAL AWARD Mohammed Salem Reuters “Fragments of Despair: A Visual…
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NYT Columnist Nicholas Kristof to Deliver Keynote at OPC Awards Dinner; President’s Award to go to photojournalist Lynsey Addario
As the OPC marks the 86th anniversary of its founding at the Annual Awards Dinner on April 17, the club will honor all the journalists who dedicate, risk, and even lose their lives covering the world…
OPC Joins 24 Calling for Sri Lankan President to Uphold Press Freedom
On Jan. 13, the OPC joined 24 civil society organizations in urging recently elected Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake to uphold press freedom….
Iranian Cartoonist Released After 8 Months in Prison
OPC Past President David A. Andelman writes about the recent release of Iranian cartoonist Atena Farghadani, who had been jailed at the infamous Evin prison since her arrest in April. Andelman has been covering her case and the international campaign to free her on his Substack, Andelman Unleashed…
2024 OPC Awards – Call For Entries
We invite you to submit entries for international coverage in Newspapers, News Services, Newsletters, Digital, Magazines, Radio, Podcasts, Television, Video, Cartoons, Books and Photography…
OPC Awards Submissions
Submissions for the next OPC Awards competition will be open on Dec. 2 this year. Please check this page for rules and information on how to submit on or after Dec. 2…
OPC Condemns Saudi Arabia’s Jailing of Cartoonist for Political Speech
The OPC strongly condemns the government of Saudi Arabia’s 23-year prison sentence of cartoonist Mohammed al-Ghamdi, who draws under the pen name of Al-Hazza, for expressing himself via his cartoons…
OPC Condemns Israeli Raid on Al Jazeera Offices
The OPC strongly condemns the Israeli military’s recent raid upon the Ramallah bureau offices of Al Jazeera, confiscating documents and removing journalists from the newsroom. According to news reports, the Israeli military ordered that the office be closed for 45 days, saying that the news organization was “being used to incite terror.”
Scott Kraft Re-elected President of the Overseas Press Club of America
The Overseas Press Club of America elected Scott Kraft, editor at large for enterprise journalism and special projects for the Los Angeles Times, to a second term as president…
OPC Board of Governors 2024
Officers: President Scott Kraft, editor at large for enterprise journalism and special projects for the Los Angeles Times Vice Presidents Sandra Stevenson, deputy director of photography at The Washington Post Deborah Amos, a longtime NPR correspondent who covered the Middle East for three decades and now teaches journalism at Princeton, Columbia and SUNY New Paltz…