Author: OPC of America

Rukmini Callimachi, a two-time OPC award winner and board member, has written chilling accounts of rape and slavery of women captured by the Islamic State, and explores how the organization uses sexual assault to recruit fighters and shame its enemies.

On behalf of the entire OPC, I would like to extend a heartfelt Thank You to the members of the Nominating Committee.

Since the early days of the war in Afghanistan, the U.S. has touted education as one of its premier successes in the country, trumpeting
impressive statistics about the number of schools built, girls enrolled, textbooks distributed, teachers trained, and dollars spent…

The following is a sample chapter of Larry McCoy’s book Everyone Needs an Editor (Sunstone Press, December 2014).

“Do We Have Anybody in Budapest?”

“It’s all up to you, a one-person band, in a do-or-die kind of thing.”
—Bill Gasperini, veteran stringer

Of all the get-rich-quick schemes ever devised, radio stringer has to be high on the list. (There’s that sarcasm again.) Though absolutely vital to a respectable news operation, overseas stringers or freelancers were consistently underappreciated, starting with the money they made—less than $50 for a report or piece of sound on a CBS newscast. That rate has inched up only a couple of bucks in the sixteen years since I left CBS. It was unbelievable then and even more so now.

The Foreign Correspondents’ Club of China has released the following report on press freedom, based on a survey of its members.

Click through the slideshow to see photos from this year’s Annual Awards Dinner, including the before-dinner reception sponsored by Lenovo and post-dinner “Meet the Winners” reception sponsored by Daimler.