Author: OPC of America

Foreign female journalists face challenges most often in parts of the world where protections for women are weak even in peacetime — in societies where men and women lead highly segregated lives and often don’t have sex before marriage. In these countries, men often say they view Western women as the sexual equivalent of junk food: fast and cheap.

Thelma Schorr, widow of Norman Schorr, now is a lifetime honorary member of the OPC. The OPC board voted unanimously in April to honor her with full Club membership.

Sidney Harman, a multi-millionaire audio pioneer and manufacturer who bought Newsweek last year, died in Washington, D.C., April 12 of complications from acute myeloid leukemia.

The Associated Press reported that Altaf Qadri, an award-winning photographer working for the agency was missing since March 9 in Eastern Libya. Qadri was last seen near the city of Ajdabiya, where he became separated from colleagues.

Libyan officials confirm they have GlobalPost freelance contributor James Foley and three other foreign journalists in their custody. The four journalists are expected to be taken to Tripoli and then released, according to several sources in Libya.

OPC Board member Chrystia Freeland, arguably Reuters’ biggest star, just got a promotion.

A couple of years ago, accounts of the financial crisis were the big thing in the publishing world. Now, plans for the recovery have become the new hot trend in business writing, seeing the release of a stack of books about “rebuilding America” and “reinventing the economy”, each with a flag-waving red-white-and-blue cover.

Katie Couric is leaving her anchor post at “CBS Evening News” less than five years after becoming the first woman to solely helm a network TV evening newscast.

A freelance journalist who worked for Reuters was among more than 50 people killed on Tuesday when gunmen attacked a local government building in Tikrit, the hometown of former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein.