Best photographic reporting from abroad requiring exceptional courage and enterprise published in any medium. Sponsor: Getty Images Citation for Excellence: Nariman el Mofty Affiliation: The Associated Press Honored Work: “Disembarking in Hell”
Author: OPC of America
Press Freedom Update June 11
In this week’s OPC Press Freedom Update, we look at a press freedom role reversal for the U.S. and the Covid-19 outbreak..
Citation: The Olivier Rebbot Award 2019
Best photographic news reporting from abroad in any medium. Citation for Excellence recipient: Natacha Pisarenko Affiliation: The Associated Press Honored Work: “Bolivia, Political Unrest”
Citation: The Robert Capa Gold Medal Award 2019
Best feature photography on an international theme published in any medium Sponsor: Sony Images Citation for Excellence recipient: Adam Ferguson Affiliation: TIME Magazine Honored Work: “A Harbinger of Things to Come: Farmers in Australia Struggle With Its Hottest Drought Ever”
OPC Creates Networking Tool for Freelancers and Editors
The Overseas Press Club has invited freelance members to send a short pitch document, detailing their locations, specialty areas, and contact information. They have been collected in a Dropbox folder. We hope that editors will find this a useful tool when they need to find a journalist quickly in an overseas or U.S. locale…
OPC Condemns Attacks on Journalists Covering Protests
The Overseas Press Club condemns the harassment and targeted attacks on journalists covering the protests across the United States. The OPC and its Press Freedom Committee calls on U.S. law enforcement agencies as well as protesters to stop the use of violence and intimidation against the news media and accept the essential role that journalists play in a democracy.
OPC Makes Emergency Grants to Freelancers Coping With Pandemic
OPC Past President Deidre Depke writes about the recipients of the club’s $750 freelancer grants. Designed to offset some of the financial hardship created by COVID-19, 27 grants were awarded to freelance writers, photographers, and film and video reporters abroad and in the United States. A committee of OPC governors made the awards, working from nearly 50 applications…
OPC Weekly Press Freedom Update
The Overseas Press Club asks that people join us in supporting global advocates for press freedom, free speech, and human rights…
OPC Calls for Support for Press Freedom Advocates
Though World Press Freedom Day is now behind us, the Overseas Press Club asks that people join us in supporting global advocates for press freedom, free speech, and human rights…
Many Bangladeshis Fear Being Abducted During the Pandemic
Read commentary from 2014 Madeline Dane Ross Award winner Atish Saha, who writes about press freedom and an incident in which police in Bangladesh arrested photojournalist and editor Shafiqul Islam Kajol on May 3 after he disappeared under suspicious circumstances for 53 days…