Author: OPC of America

The New Zealand Press Association is closing, ending 131 years of supplying news to the country’s print media.

Granta‘s latest issue, “The Years After,” reflects on the complexity and sorrow of life since 11 September 2001. The issue features many past OPC winners foreign correspondents like The Guardian‘s Declan Walsh, Janine De Giovanni, and Anthony Shadid, among others.

The journalists from media organizations including the BBC, the Associated Press, Reuters, CNN and Fox were held for five days by two Gaddafi soldiers who refused to leave their posts as the regime collapsed around them. Matthew Price, a BBC correspondent held at the Rixos, said he feared for his life.

Journalists trapped in the Rixos Hotel in Tripoli described a darkening mood there, wondering what would happen to them as the Qaddafi loyalists who still control the building become increasingly cornered.

The slow arrival of American networks highlights Al Jazeera superior coverage of the Middle East and North African uprisings, previously praised by media figures and Hillary Clinton alike. While they jumped in with a live feed from Libya not too long after Shafer’s tweet, CNN couldn’t compete with Al Jazeera’s access.

The Irish Post, the biggest-selling Irish community newspaper in Britain, has gone into liquidation. The 10 staff, who will all lose their jobs, have been told that last Wednesday’s publication was its final issue.

Samer Allawi, Al Jazeera’s Kabul bureau chief who was arrested by Israeli officials last week, has been charged with being a member of Hamas, Al Jazeera reports.

Associated Press photographer Rodrigo Abd recently traveled to
Coban, Guatemala to document the women competing to become this year’s
National Indigenous Queen of Guatemala.

New York Times reporter and former Marine C.J. Chivers tells Esquire and “Fresh Air” some of the things he’s learned in reporting from conflict zones.

Marie Claire magazine has picked five female news producers to profile. From the three major networks and CNN, these “women who run the show” share their accomplishments, nightmares, and stories behind the story.