OPC President Pancho Bernasconi participated in a panel titled “The Power of the Image in Foreign Coverage” at the 7th Foreign Editors Circle at the New York headquarters of The Associated Press on Nov. 15. The day-long gathering was hosted by AP and the International Press Institute’s North American Committee…
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ACOS Editors’ Workshop Highlights Urgent Need for Digital Vigilance for Journalists
Online harassment of journalists, particularly women and minorities, is at an all-time high and only going to get worse. That’s the warning delivered by an expert panel of press freedom defenders who conducted an Editors’ Safety Workshop at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism…
OPC Awards – Call for Entries
We invite you to submit entries for international coverage in Newspapers, News Services, Digital, Magazines, Radio, Podcasts, Television, Video, Cartoons, Books and Photography…
Meet the OPC Members: Q&A With Benedetta Argentieri
Benedetta Argentieri is an independent journalist and director based in New York. She has covered Iraq and Syria for Italian and American publications, and directs full-length documentaries. She began her career as a local reporter in Italy, working at Mediaset and then as staff writer at Corriere della Sera. She started as a metro reporter focusing on education and right wing extremism, foreign politics, anti-austerity protests in Europe, and reported from Iran and Cuba. In 2013 she co-directed Capulcu Voices From Gezi, a documentary on the Istanbul revolt. Later that year she began studying journalism and politics at Columbia University as a Sanpaolo fellow…
Christopher Dickey Calls Trump ‘Delusional’ on Syria Withdrawal
OPC second Vice President Christopher Dickey has blasted President Donald Trump’s decision to green-light a massive Turkish incursion, which he wrote would “open the way to ethnic cleansing,” calling it a betrayal of the Kurds who led the fight against ISIS…
Rukmini Callimachi Watches Turkish Invasion in Syria with Dismay
OPC member and former governor Rukmini Callimachi has closely followed escalating conflict in northern Syria after President Trump’s decision to withdraw U.S. troops. She is a New York Times foreign correspondent covering Al Qaeda and ISIS, currently at home on maternity leave. Callimachi warned of a growing humanitarian crisis, and expressed dismay that Turkey’s invasion of Syria could revive ISIS and reverse hard-fought gains against the group…
William J. Holstein Urges US to Boost Defenses Against China’s Campaign of Tech Theft
OPC past president William J. Holstein wrote an op-ed piece for The Wall Street Journal warning that the recent arrest of a California tour guide on espionage charges is only a symptom of Beijing’s wider tech espionage campaign…
OPC Member Reports from Front Lines in Hong Kong
OPC member Suzanne Sataline has witnessed turmoil in Hong Kong from close range while covering protests, and experienced firsthand how police are targeting and intimidating journalists. She wrote an extensive piece for The Atlantic recounting how over the last five months, “police tactics have grown more sudden, more violent, and more arbitrary against civilian demonstrators and the press.”
OPC Offers Press IDs With Chinese Script
The OPC is pleased to be able to offer OPC press IDs labeled with “PRESS” in Chinese characters. This new option is in addition to IDs that are available with “PRESS” in Arabic script. Both options are available for the larger government-style badges for $40, as well as the credit-card sized press IDs…
Meet the OPC Members: Q&A With Jacob Kushner
Jacob Kushner is an independent journalist who writes about migration, conflict, extremism, foreign aid, corruption and human rights abuses in East and Central Africa, the Caribbean and Germany. His work has appeared in a range of media, including The New York Times Magazine, National Geographic, Harper’s, The Atlantic, VQR, Outside Magazine, Newsweek, The Associated Press and the L.A. Times, among many others. Kushner won the OPC Foundation’s Nathan S. Bienstock Memorial Scholarship in 2013. He is a 2019 Logan Nonfiction Fellow at the Carey Institute for Global Good. Kushner wrote about “solutions journalism” for the OPC’s Dateline magazine this year…