October 4, 2025
The Overseas Press Club of America, an 83-year-old organization that awards highly coveted prizes devoted to international news coverage for an American audience, elected a new president Tuesday night. Scott Kraft, editor at large for enterprise journalism and special projects at the Los Angeles Times, was elected president of the OPC, as the club is widely known…
In the fall of 2019, I was asked to talk about the OPC’s history to recently elected governors. On the shelves next to my desk were OPC Bulletins dating back to 1945 and Dateline magazines from 1958 to the present. The Bulletins were particularly interesting to me because they were published once a week for decades and gave a detailed description of the club’s programs, parties, and periodic controversies…
“We are a group of news and press advocacy organizations in the United States that have previously worked with or assisted a journalist who has previously provided reporting on Central Romana. We write to notify you about some alarming information we have received over the past year, involving threats made to this reporter and ask for your cooperation with this matter.”
The Overseas Press Club of America (OPC) is pleased to announce that it will award a limited number of grants in cash or photographic/video equipment to Ukraine journalists working in any medium whose livelihood or ability to pursue his or her profession has been adversely impacted by the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Longtime OPC member Jaime FlorCruz visited New York in late July, gathering with a group of club members at the Bryant Park Café to chat about his new book, “The Class of ’77: How My Classmates Changed China”, and to toast the efforts of OPC President Paula Dwyer and Executive Director Patricia Kranz in guiding the club through two years of the pandemic. Below is a review of FlorCruz’s book by OPC Past President William J. Holstein, who also attended the gathering…
The Foreign Correspondents’ Club, Hong Kong (FCCCHK) has expressed deep concern about restrictions against some media organizations from covering the inauguration of Chief Executive-designate John Lee and the 25th anniversary of Hong Kong’s handover to China…
Club Quarters has launched a special program for members of the Overseas Press Club of America and their family and friends. They have created a special link for OPC members to book rooms that automatically deducts 10% from the best available rates at that time…
Fatima Faizi was a reporter in the Kabul Bureau of The New York Times from 2017 to 2021. When the country fell to the Taliban in August 2021, she escaped and with the help of The New York Times made it to the U.S. along with her brother, sister, mother and father and is now attending Columbia University on a fellowship sponsored by the university’s Journalism School. Rod Nordland, Faizi’s longtime boss and mentor, who is now on leave for medical reasons from his latest job as international correspondent at large for the Times, explains in an introduction below how Faizi’s role as the only female Afghan reporter for a major West-ern news organization in Afghanistan came about. Nordland is a past OPC Governor and has been a club member since 1985…
Read background information about the 2022 OPC Foundation Scholars and their work…
The Overseas Press Club of America is posting the “We are Kyiv Press Club” emblem in solidarity with our Ukrainian colleagues….
