October 2, 2025
Tanya Bindra is a freelance photographer and filmmaker based in Brooklyn. For the last five years, she has reported on conflict, postcolonial politics, and migration in over 20 countries across West Africa, South Asia, and Europe. Her work has been published Newsweek, The Washington Post, The Associated Press, UNICEF and others. In 2016 she won the inaugural Ali Mustafa Memorial Award for People’s Journalism.
Next January, in response to the Trump Administrations’s attacks on the media here at home, Vienna-based International Press Institute will join a press mission to the United States, headed by the Committee to Protect Journalists. In advance of that meeting, the ICI’s North American Committee held an informal discussion with a small group of journalists and free press advocates in Washington on Oct. 6…
Please consider supporting the work of international freelance journalists by donating to the Membership Fund of the Overseas Press Club of America. Accurate, unbiased reporting is more important now than ever. But much of the work is being done by freelancers who have little institutional support from news organization…
In the winter of 2013, I heard a story about U.S.-backed forces burying a child alive in a remote village in Kandahar, Afghanistan. While investigating, I was arrested by forces loyal to the brutal police chief Abdul Raziq, America’s man in Kandahar. I was expelled from Kandahar and barred from ever returning…
The OPC is saddened to hear that OPC member Wilbur Landrey died on Sept. 29. at age 93…
The Overseas Press Club of America strongly condemns the conviction of Wall Street Journal reporter Ayla Albayrak of terrorism charges in Turkey on Oct. 10…
The OPC is deeply saddened that longtime OPC member and renowned Associated Press reporter Richard Pyle died on Sept. 28 at the age of 83…
Are you an editor looking for a reporter in Thailand, or a photographer in Timbuktu? Or perhaps you are a freelance reporter in Egypt or Brazil who wants to pitch a story to staff editors. You can do all those things and more on the OPC’s new networking service called OPC Connect…
In this enterprise piece for OPC, Amy Russo explores whether new nonprofit endeavors from large news organizations are sustainable. “As news organizations struggle for funding, the Guardian and The New York Times have announced they will both be pursuing philanthropic initiatives to support their reporting…”
OPC member Moana Tregaskis is an author, photographer and anthropologist specializing in Asia and the Pacific. She is the widow of Richard Tregaskis, a journalist who served as war correspondent during World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War, and is best known for his book, Guadalcanal Diary…
