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Meet the OPC Members: Q&A With Christopher Dickey

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Christopher Dickey is the Paris-based world news editor for The Daily Beast. He has worked as a foreign correspondent since 1980, with postings in the Middle East and Central America for The Washington Post and Egypt and France for Newsweek. He is also the author of seven books and has written for Foreign Affairs, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, Wired, Rolling Stone, The New York Review of Books, The New York Times Book Review and The New Republic, among others. In 1983 he won the OPC’s Mary Hemingway Award, and was part of a Newsweek team that won the 2001 Ed Cunningham Award for reporting connected to 9/11…

People Remembered: George Bookman

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George B. Bookman, one of the OPC’s most senior members, passed away recently in Seattle, WA at the age of 103…

Tyler Mathisen’s Remarks at the Memorial Service for Marshall Loeb

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The following is a transcript of remarks from Tyler Mathisen that he delivered during a memorial service for past OPC Presisent Marshall Loeb at Temple Emanu-El on Fifth Avenue in midtown Manhattan on Jan. 18, 2018. His remarks are posted here with his Mathisen’s permission. Read more about the memorial service here >> Read remembrances from…

Marshall Loeb: Journalism is God’s Work

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The wit, wisdom and extraordinary work ethic of past OPC President Marshall Loeb were remembered by his family and friends during a memorial service at Temple Emanu-El on Fifth Avenue in midtown Manhattan on Jan. 18…

People Remembered: George Bookman

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The OPC is saddened to learn that longtime member George Bookman has died at the age of 103…

Meet the OPC Members: Q&A With Roopa Gogineni

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Roopa Gogineni is a freelance photographer and filmmaker who has worked around the globe, covering a range of issues including health care in India, food shortages in Sudan and turmoil in Somalia…

Overseas Press Club of America Names Best Digital Award for Kim Wall

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New York, Jan. 3, 2018 — The Overseas Press Club of America has named its Best Digital Reporting Award in honor of Kim Wall, a Swedish freelance journalist and OPC member who was murdered while working on a story in Denmark in August, 2017…

People Remembered: OPC President Marshall Loeb

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The OPC is deeply saddened to learn that past OPC President Marshall Loeb, who helmed the club from 2006 to 2008, died at age 88 on Dec. 9 after a long battle with Parkinson’s disease.