Author: OPC of America

OPC Board Member Jim Laurie has written the January/February cover story for the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Hong Kong titled: Cambodian Survivor’s Story.

As Paul Reynolds leaves his post as world affairs correspondent for the BBC News website, he reflects on the shock he experienced nine years ago when he left the “mainstream” BBC to join the then orphan child of News Online.

Barbara Walters‘ 1989 interview with Libyan leader Muammar el-Qaddafi has gotten a lot of play over the last 24 hours. Walters appeared on CNN’s “Anderson Cooper 360” and parts of her interview were playing on “Nightline,” “World News Now,” “Good Morning America” and “The View.”

Anderson Cooper appeared on “The Daily Show” and told Jon Stewart he was “stunned” by the controversy his reporting about Egypt had caused in the past few weeks.

A veteran blogger in Syria was jailed Sunday — yet another example of just how important to demonstrators, and threatening to government regimes, the Internet can be.

CNN’s Cairo bureau chief Ben Wedeman has made it into Libya — the first western TV journalist to report from inside the nation as it descends into chaos.

The chief executive of Time Inc., Jack Griffin, is leaving the company after less than six months on the job — forced out over what company executives said was a widespread sense that his management style was brusque and did not fit the corporate culture there.

On the front lines, in the middle of the action, at the tip of the spear—that’s where reporters like Fox News correspondent Greg Palkot always want to be. But what happens when you find yourself a little too close to the story, caught up in a melee of thousands of protestors, fighting not for the best interview or angle, but for your very life?

The Washington Post Co. is preparing to launch a free news-aggregation website, part of a growing push among publishers to personalize the news-reading experience.