Author: OPC of America

Even for a woman who has been known to jump out of helicopters, this fall has been “particularly crazy,” says Martha Raddatz, the senior foreign affairs correspondent for ABC News.

The usual reason anyone not from Dana, Indiana, comes to Dana is to visit the Ernie Pyle museum. But if you have no memories of World War II, you may not recognize the Pyle name, which is a problem for Dana and too bad for you. Ernie Pyle, once a peerless war correspondent — the bard of the grunt — deserves your notice.

American photographer Stephen Ferry has been awarded the first Tim Hetherington Grant from World Press Photo and Human Rights Watch, set up to celebrate the legacy of the photojournalist and filmmaker killed in Libya earlier this year. The annual grant of €20,000 was given for Ferry’s project “Violentology: A Manual of the Colombian Conflict”, chosen by a selection committee from among 222 applications by photographers of 56 nationalities.

Joao Silva completed his first New York City Marathon in less than three hours, camera in hand. A year ago, he was lying in a hospital bed, his legs lost to a land mine.

Experienced crime photographer Gelson Domingos da Silva shot and killed while covering dawn special forces raid on Antares favela.

The Atlantic: Eleven years after she was drugged, kidnapped, and gang-raped, a Colombian journalist is seeking justice for women, for journalists, and for herself.

A Journal-Sentinel photojournalist was arrested during a rally connected to the Occupy Wall Street movement in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Photographer Kristyna Wentz-Graff was covering the rally for the Journal-Sentinel, which began at noon in a plaza beside UWM’s student center.

The offices of Charlie Hebdo have been destroyed by a petrol bomb, a day after it named the Prophet Mohammed as its “editor-in-chief” for this week’s issue.

Newly released documents show that an outside lawyer for News Corp. in 2008 warned of a “culture of illegal information access” at the company’s News of the World newspaper, raising new questions about News Corp.’s longtime assertion that it was unaware of how widespread phone hacking was at the now-closed tabloid.

Prime Minister Vladimir V. Putin has bestowed an annual state prize on a muckraking journalist who was beaten nearly to death after investigating official corruption in Khimki, a Moscow suburb. The case of the journalist, Mikhail Beketov, has become a symbol Russia’s culture of impunity.