Read what OPC Board member and Dateline editor Tim Ferguson said to this year’s OPC President’s Award recipient Ted Turner at the OPC Awards Dinner on Wednesday night.
What I Shouldn’t Have Said to Ted Turner
Author: OPC of America
2011 Award Sponsors and Judges
With 520 entries this year, picking winners was an especially daunting challenge. We thank our judges for donating their time and our sponsors to help recognize the best of international journalism.
Honoring Journalists Who Gave Their Lives
Another dangerous and bloody year for journalists abroad was signaled in early 2012 by casualties in Syria, including American reporters Anthony Shadid and Marie Colvin. The risks taken on behalf of the reading and viewing public are annually brought home at the OPC’s Awards Dinner by the lighting of our ceremonial candle honoring and remembering fallen colleagues.
Letter From the President 2012
The OPC has moved resolutely into the digital age but our winners and their skills remain grounded in the most fundamental tenets expressed through words and pictures — unwavering objectivity, unceasing curiosity, vivid storytelling, thought-provoking commentary.
Africa’s Free Press Problem
As Africa’s economies grow, an insidious attack on press freedom is under way. Independent African journalists covering the continent’s development are now frequently persecuted for critical reporting on the misuse of public finances, corruption and the activities of foreign investors.
Mother Jones and Magnum to Showcase Photojournalism
Magnum Foundation’s Emergency Fund will launch an initiative with Mother Jones to feature the work of Magnum Foundation EF photographers.
OPC Member Mike Wallace Dies at 93
Mike Wallace, the CBS reporter who became one of the nation’s best-known broadcast journalists as an interrogator of the famous and infamous on “60 Minutes,” died on Saturday. He was 93 and had been an OPC member since 1979.
Andelman Reports From Mongolia
OPC President David A. Andelman takes on Genghis Khan’s land, with a journey on one of the world’s most storied train lines
Iran Suspends Reuters Over Headline
After being wrongly maligned as “assassins” in a Reuters news report last month, female ninjas in Iran may have found the pen momentarily mightier than the sword. But as Reuters discovered after correcting the report, the heavy hand of government can be even stronger in Iran.
In Ecuador, a Thinly Veiled Threat
The headline looked like a victory: Ecuador’s President Rafael Correa announced he was dropping his cases against six journalists whose work had offended him. But after taking in the details, the champagne went flat.