October 2, 2025
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…
Press Freedom ought to be a cherished right within all democracies. But this notion is perpetually under assault, and labels like ‘fake news’ and ‘alternative facts’ or ‘post truth’ have inundated today’s headlines, and such trends are not positive developments…
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.
As the OPC’s award submission season kicks off, we are taking a moment to consider the careers and legacies of namesakes behind some of the 22 awards. Each year since 1978, the OPC has honored journalists with the Hal Boyle Award to recognize the best newspaper, news service or digital reporting from abroad…
Borzou Daragahi covers the Middle East, including Turkey and Iran, for BuzzFeed News. He formerly served as correspondent for the Financial Times in Cairo and as Baghdad bureau chief for the Los Angeles Times. He is a graduate of the Eugene Lang College of the New School for Social Research and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. Daragahi was a 2005 Pulitzer Prize finalist for his coverage of Iraq and was a part of a Los Angeles Times team that 2007 Pulitzer Prize finalists. He was also named a 2010 Pulitzer Prize finalist for coverage of the election in Iran…
On Christmas Day, 1997, my mother gave me a copy of Dan Eldon’s recently published journal. The book had a profound effect on my life path…
When billionaire TD Ameritrade founder Joe Ricketts on Nov. 1 shut down DNAinfo and Gothamist, two digital news operations for hyperlocal New York reporting, many in the media industry were dismayed. Claiming the motives were financial and that he was unable to turn a profit, Ricketts abruptly closed the two companies – which had been set to merge – just a week after employees had voted to join a union…
The OPC has established a fund to subsidize dues for freelancers who have trouble financing membership…
We invite you to submit entries for international coverage in Newspapers, News Services, Digital, Magazines, Radio, Podcasts, Television, Video, Cartoons, Books and Photography. We will begin accepting applications online on November 29, 2017…
The Bangladeshi capital of Dhaka has seen a rash of kidnappings over the last few months, a trend that has been climbing steadily over the last few years…
