Author: OPC of America

One of China’s most liberal newspapers pitted advocates of free speech against supporters of Communist Party control who wielded red flags and portraits of Mao Zedong.

An American war reporter, who was held captive by pro-Gaddafi forces
for six weeks in Libya last year, has been kidnapped by unidentified
gunmen in Syria. James Foley, 39, a freelancer reporter from Boston, was kidnapped
on Thanksgiving Day while working for Agence France Presse, his family
revealed today.

Richard Engel, the chief foreign correspondent for NBC News, and three of his crew members were freed on Monday after five days in captivity in Syria, the news organization said on Tuesday.

Egyptian independent and opposition newspapers refused to publish their Tuesday editions in protest against lack of press freedom in the country’s draft constitution.

OPC member Bill Keller writes an op-ed in Monday’s New York Times about how a committed diplomat and committed foreign correspondent are an endangered species. Keller won the 2011 OPC President’s Award.

New York Times reporter David Carr writes a profile of OPC member John Huey, editor in chief of Time Inc. who is departing at the end of the year, in this weeks’ the Media Equation column. 

News Corp. plans to name Wall Street Journal managing editor Robert Thomson as chief executive of its soon-to-be-created publishing company, people familiar with the matter said. Meanwhile, News Corp.’s U.K. newspaper chief, Tom Mockridge, is resigning.

The New York Times informed the chief of its Jerusalem bureau, Jodi Rudoren, a 14-year veteran of the paper, that she can’t be trusted with her own Facebook account.