CITATION YEAR: 2015 CITATION NAME: David A. Andelman and Pamela Title Award CITATION RECIPIENT: Marine Olivesi CITATION RECIPIENT AFFILIATION: PRI/The World CITATION HONORED WORK: “Trauma and the Syrian War” Listen to Marine Olivesi’s work on The World >>
Author: OPC of America
Citation: The Whitman Bassow Award 2015
CITATION YEAR: 2015 CITATION NAME: The Whitman Bassow Award CITATION RECIPIENTS: Ian James, Steve Elfers, Steve Reilly CITATION RECIPIENT AFFILIATION: The Desert Sun/USA Today CITATION HONORED WORK: “Pumped Dry: The Global Crisis of Vanishing Groundwater” Read “Pumped Dry: The Global Crisis of Vanishing Groundwater” >>
Citation: Best Multimedia News Presentation 2015
CITATION YEAR: 2015 CITATION NAME: Best Multimedia News Presentation CITATION RECIPIENTS: Ken Dornstein, Brian Funck and Michelle Mizner CITATION RECIPIENT AFFILIATION: PBS investigative series FRONTLINE CITATION HONORED WORK: “My Brother’s Bomber, Inheritance, The Libya Dossier, A Brother’s Quest” Watch “My Brother’s Bomber, Inheritance, The Libya Dossier, A Brother’s Quest” >>
Citation: Best Investigative Reporting 2015
CITATION YEAR: 2015 CITATION NAME: est Investigative Reporting CITATION RECIPIENTS: Ken Dornstein, Brian Funck and Michelle Mizner CITATION RECIPIENT AFFILIATION: PBS investigative series FRONTLINE CITATION HONORED WORK: “My Brother’s Bomber, Inheritance, The Libya Dossier, A Brother’s Quest” Watch “My Brother’s Bomber, Inheritance, The Libya Dossier, A Brother’s Quest” >>
77th Annual Overseas Press Club Awards

77th OPC Awards Recognize International Reporting Excellence Amid More Hostile Climate for Journalists; Winners Cited For Stories On Slave Labor, Refugees, ISIS and Corruption
Europe Under Attack | How Paris Changed Us

OPC Governor Vivienne Walt reflects on the aftermath of attacks in Paris.
“Journalists in Europe were accustomed to covering hate and terror in the field, not at home. Then the story arrived on our doorsteps…”
Fighting ISIS | Clashing Agendas

Martin Smith writes in Dateline magazine: “To listen to the current crop of presidential candidates, defeating ISIS is just a matter of enlisting more of our regional allies’ help. We need to build a coalition of Sunni Arab nations, the candidates all say, to form a ground force to go in and take ISIS out. If only it were so simple.”
Reporting a Calamity | The Syrian Refugee Crisis

NPR’s Middle East reporter, Deborah Amos, follows the flood of the displaced and the desperate out of Syria and into Europe.
The Myth of the Reckless Young Freelancer

Independent journalist Anna Therese Day writes about the risks of reporting in hostile areas, and the growing movement to give more professional support to freelancers.
Citation: Best Commentary 2015
CITATION YEAR: 2015 CITATION NAME: Best Commentary CITATION RECIPIENT: Bobby Ghosh CITATION RECIPIENT AFFILIATION: Quartz CITATION HONORED WORK: “What the Iran Nuclear Deal Means for the Middle East” Read commentary from Bobby Ghosh >>