October 2, 2025
Andre Borges is a news production manager, video producer, and social news reporter for BuzzFeed, based in Mumbai, India. He previously worked for the newspaper Dna India from 2013 to 2014, covering entertainment, film, television, literature, theater and culture, and served as film critic for the site…
Two documentary events are coming up on the calendar for March, including a screening of Just Vision’s latest documentary Naila and the Uprising at the United Nations Headquarters on Thursday, March 7 at 6:30 p.m., and the New York Launch Event for the acclaimed PBS series, Women, War and Peace II, on Tuesday, March 12 at 7:00 p.m…
The ACOS Alliance has reshaped its board of directors to expand the organization’s geographic reach and to draw in an excellent cross-selection of media organizations, non-profit organizations and experienced freelancers…
James P. Colligan, a Roman Catholic priest and a longtime member of the Overseas Press Club (OPC) and Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Japan (FCCJ) who died at 90 on Jan. 31 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, had something in common with Cold War-era journalistic contemporaries who represented government-funded news organizations ranging from VOA and Stars and Stripes to Komsomolskaya Pravda and Novoye Vremya, and who did not wish to be – or to be seen as – anything less than first class correspondents…
Alice Driver is a bilingual journalist, translator and video producer based in Mexico City. Her work focuses on migration, human rights, and gender equality…
OPC member and former Governor Robert Nickelsberg has been awarded a fellowship at the Logan Nonfiction Program, which is part of the Carey Institute in Rensselaerville, New York. He plans to write about his return to Guatemala’s Ixil region, where from 1981 to 1984 he worked on stories for TIME magazine on the massacres committed by the Guatemalan Army during its civil war. He returned this January to find survivors more than three decades later…
After 18 years in business, The Half King bar and restaurant in Chelsea closed its doors at the end of January 2019. Earlier that month, the owners held a farewell party, packed with longtime patrons. Among them were members of the Overseas Press Club…
The exhibit opened on Jan. 19 in a museum in Intramuros, an old district of Manila. It was attended by over 200 invited guests and featured a Q&A on stage between Jaime FlorCruz as interviewee and two local journalists.
C.J. Chivers, Pulitzer Prize-winning correspondent for The New York Times, will be the keynote speaker at the annual Overseas Press Club Foundation Scholar Awards Luncheon on Friday, Feb. 22, 2019, at the Yale Club…
On January 9, the OPC hosted its annual holiday party at the dining room of Club Quarters. OPC members and guests chatted over cocktails and a buffet dinner to help launch this year’s calendar of club events…
