October 3, 2025
The mastheads of Cambodia’s two storied English news outlets look the same as they did when I arrived in the country, but for those of us working covering the swiftly developing Southeast Asian country, the last two years have been a sea change…
This article is reprinted with permission from the online magazine Witness, where it first appeared. Co-authors are Jason Reich, ACOS Alliance Board Member, and Elisabet Cantenys, Executive Director, ACOS Alliance…
The OPC is pleased to announce it is donating $5,500 to pay the cost of one of three trainers at a hostile environment and first aid training course (HEFAT) in Beirut for freelance and local journalists during the last week of November. The program is run by the ACOS Alliance in partnership with International Women’s Media Foundation, Samir Kassir Eyes Center, Golf Center for Human Rights, Frontline Freelance Register, Rory Peck Trust and the Maries Colvin Journalists’ Network.
I was pleased to chair the nominating committee that chose the slate of candidates to run for the OPC board this summer. Thanks to the other members – John Avlon, Pancho Bernasconi, Paula Dwyer and Adriane Quinlan…
Rebecca Murray is a freelance print journalist with work published for Vice News, McClatchy, Al Jazeera English, Middle East Eye, IRIN, The Christian Science Monitor and Inter Press Service. She has focused on reporting on Libya since the 2011 revolution, and traveled the country extensively. Murray was a contributor the book The Libyan Revolution and its Aftermath, which was published in 2016. She has also served as communications advisor and field researcher with humanitarian organizations, and trained local journalists in countries at war or in recovery, including Afghanistan, east Sri Lanka and Liberia. Murray is currently in Tunisia.
Chateau Vouilly has loomed large in my mind ever since OPC member John Morris and I worked together to present several events, most notably introducing his book Quelque Part en France in Bayeux, Normandy…
Jim Huylebroek is a freelance photographer currently based in Kabul, Afghanistan. His work has been published by a range of organizations and news outlets, including The New York Times, The Guardian, Al Jazeera, The Washington Post, Bloomberg, Der Spiegel, The Telegraph, VICE, UNICEF, UNHCR, The Norwegian Refugee Council and others…
Just days ago, it appeared that press freedom was hurtling toward one of its most crushing blows yet. Despite a massive peaceful protest march by some one million Hong Kong residents—roughly one-seventh of the territory’s population—all signs suggested that the government of the Special Administrative Region was poised to ram a bill through the Legislative Council that would have allowed fugitives wanted by Chinese authorities to be extradited to the mainland…
It was an historic eight days in Hong Kong, culminating in the biggest demonstration the territory had ever seen. It showed that peaceful mass action can still work…
Krithika Varagur is an American freelance journalist based in London. She spent more than two years working in Indonesia, filing a range of stories for print and online media on topics including fundamentalism and extremism, politics, an investigation into Ivanka Trump’s clothing factory in West Java, violence against gay Indonesians in Aceh, reunions of East Timor’s stolen children, and immigrants who were deported from her hometown in New Jersey to Indonesia…
