Author: OPC of America

CBS has confirmed on Twitter that several of its accounts were compromised earlier today, including those for 60 Minutes, 48 Hours, and a local Denver affiliate.

Other than financing a few fringe libertarian publications, the Koch
brothers — Charles and David — have mostly avoided media investments. Now, Koch Industries, the sprawling private company of which Charles G. Koch serves as chairman and chief executive, is exploring a bid to buy the Tribune Company’s eight regional newspapers, including The Los Angeles Times, The Chicago Tribune, The Baltimore Sun, The Orlando Sentinel and The Hartford Courant.

“Which Way Is the Front Line From Here? The Life and Time of Tim Hetherington” will debut on HBO on Thursday, April 18.

Al Jazeera has tapped veteran investigative journalist Ed Pound to lead the 16-person investigative unit at its new American cable channel, Al Jazeera America, the company said Monday.

OPC member and CNN chief international correspondent Christiane Amanpour will be honored this week with the Arab American Institute Foundation’s first-ever Anthony Shadid Award for Excellence in Journalism, named for The New York Times correspondent who lost his life last year in Syria.

The New York Times‘ foreign desk today announced a handful of staffing changes in its European bureaus involving some of the paper’s most recognizable bylines.

CBS News veteran Byron Pitts says he jumped ship to ABC for three reasons, in order of importance: “God, diversity and Diane Sawyer.”

NBC News’s Richard Engel was dispatched to cover Syria’s civil war last December when he lived every war correspondent’s nightmare: he and his crew were dragged from their car at gunpoint, blindfolded, gagged, and held captive by the shabiha militia for five days. Engel documented his captivity in April’s Vanity Fair in a journal-like format.