October 3, 2025
The International Press Institute (IPI) said in a statement that since Sept. 1, the organization has been battling “a targeted and sustained cyberattack” that seems to be retaliation for advocacy work on behalf of independent media in Hungary, amid a spate of similar attacks since this summer…
We, the undersigned journalists, press freedom organizations, and unions, write this statement to denounce the war crimes committed by the Russian Federation against journalists in Ukraine and to call for immediate action to hold the perpetrators accountable…
The Overseas Press Club of America elected seven new governors to its board at the club’s annual meeting tonight. Members also voted to re-elect five journalists or media professionals who have served on the board for the past two years…
The OPC recently received a letter of thanks from a man who used the OPC’s digital archives to research his own family background. We hope you enjoy reading his account and find the story as moving as we have. It is a testament to the importance of the OPC’s digital archives as a tool for researchers as well as a chronicle of club history…
The CFWIJ has published its first quarterly report documenting press freedom violations against women and LGBTQI journalists.
TRAINING AND GUIDELINES The nonprofit journalism organization 100Reporters launched a project that tracks government moves around the world that exploit the COVID-19 crisis to expand surveillance, enable corruption, and weaken transparency and government accountability. UnderCovid aggregates news about those issues from a broad range of media sources with an interactive world map, to highlight “encroachments…
by William J. Holstein United Press International (UPI) veteran Patrick Killen managed to publish a book, Asia Earnie, about the swashbuckling Occupation-era United Press Tokyo bureau chief Earnest Hoberecht, before he passed away in Dallas on May 3 after a brief hospitalization at the age of 92. It was Killen’s first book. One of Killen’s…
Simpa Sampson, a freelance videographer who was part of the Bloomberg team that received a Citation for Excellence in the Morton Frank category this year, did not set out to specialize in covering conflict, but career and opportunity nudged him in that direction…
On World Press Freedom Day, the Overseas Press Club of America renews its call for the release of journalists around the world who have been unfairly detained, imprisoned and sentenced to incarceration simply for doing their jobs as journalists and exposing information that governments would prefer to keep secret…
Members of the International Association of Press Clubs (IAPC) – representatives of dozens of press clubs from around the world – presented the IAPC Freedom of Speech Award 2023 to Andrzej Poczobut and Mortaza Behboudi, two journalists imprisoned by authoritarian regimes…
