September 24, 2025
A documentary on Ruth Gruber, appropriately titled “Ahead of Time,” will open in New York City and Los Angeles in September. Gruber — foreign correspondent, author, photojournalist and OPC member — was honored with the OPC Fay Gillis Wells Award in 2009.
In the latest blow to Newsweek, its best-known columnist, Fareed Zakaria, has gone to work for Time magazine, its direct competitor.
A new word has been written into the lexicon of Mexico’s drug war: narco-censorship. It’s when reporters and editors, out of fear or caution, are forced to write what the traffickers want them to write, or to simply refrain from publishing the whole truth in a country where members of the press have been intimidated, kidnapped and killed.
Let’s be clear: WikiLeaks is not a news organization; it is a criminal enterprise. Its reason for existence is to obtain classified national security information and disseminate it as widely as possible — including to the United States’ enemies.
The battle for ownership of France’s state-subsidised paper of record has dealt a blow to Sarkozy. Could this be a turning point for French politics?
OPC member Micah Garen has a large format portrait project, Marja’s Hearts and Minds, on Vanity Fair.
Former publishing magnate Conrad Black was freed from prison Thursday afternoon, hours after a federal judge in Chicago set a $2 million bond while he appeals his fraud conviction.
Flashing victory signs and expressing defiance, the first seven political prisoners released by President Raúl Castro of Cuba arrived in Madrid on July 13 and vowed to continue their opposition to the island’s Communist leadership.
WaPo‘s investigation of government contractors and the intelligence community has been called a “roadmap to our enemies.” But WaPo‘s editor and OPC member Marcus Brauchli disagrees.
The state of the media business these days is frantic and fatigued. Young journalists who once dreamed of trotting the globe in pursuit of a story are instead shackled to their computers, where they try to eke out a fresh thought or be first to report even the smallest nugget of news — anything that will impress Google algorithms and draw readers their way.
