September 23, 2025
The Overseas Press Club of America condemns the guilty verdicts in Hong Kong of two former editors-in-chief of Stand News, Chung Pui-kuen and Patrick Lam, on charges of sedition. A Hong Kong court has found the editors, arrested in December 2021, guilty on charges of publishing and reproducing seditious publications. The conviction is part of a crackdown on news publications in Hong Kong since an opaque National Security Law went into effect in mid-2020…
Robert C. Neff, who was at the center of America’s debate about a rapidly rising Japan in the late 1980s, died on July 31 at his home in Hayama, Japan, south of Tokyo, after a long illness. He was 77 years old…
The Overseas Press Club of America is thrilled with the news that Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich has been freed from a Russian prison where he was unjustly held after being wrongly convicted of spying charges. Along with Paul Whelan and journalist Alsu Kurmasheva, among others, Gershkovich is being released as part of a prisoner swap…
A few days after the D-Day landings, an American press headquarters was set up at the Chateau Vouilly in Isigny-sur-Mer, Normandie. The press room is left as it was in 1944 and was open for tours in honor of the 80th anniversary of D-Day…
OPC member John McCormick is CEO of Groundhog Press Inc. and has authored 6 books. He was the Washington bureau chief for Newsbytes, a tech wire service, and over a decades-long career has written for tech journals such as Government Computer News and Newsblaze.com, among many others. In the piece below, he shares advice about self-publishing on Amazon and Kindle Vella…
In response to the challenges faced by photojournalists in the current media landscape, the OPC and the BarTur Photo Award have formed a strategic partnership…
If you have ever wondered what motivates a journalist such as Nick Kristof to travel to hellholes such as the Sudan’s Darfur region, Myanamar and Yemen, or to ride his bicycle into the middle of the Chinese army’s crushing of pro-democracy protests in Tiananmen Square in 1989, then you will be intrigued with Kristof’s latest book, Chasing Hope: A Reporter’s Life…
On June 7, a group of current and past OPC governors and presidents gathered at Hutong in Midtown to celebrate Patricia Kranz’s 10th anniversary as executive director of the club…
On World Press Freedom Day, the Overseas Press Club board of governors announced that it is naming the Continuing Coverage of Conflict Award, a new category created in 2024 to honor deep, dedicated reporting that sustains focus on underreported conflicts and global crises, after Shireen Abu Akleh, a prominent Palestinian-American journalist who was killed during assignment in 2022…
85th Annual Overseas Press Club Awards Honors the Finest International Reporting in 22 Categories; New York Times, Reuters Are Top Winners.
