May 14, 2024
News
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…
The Overseas Press Club of America is posting the “We are Kyiv Press Club” emblem in solidarity with our Ukrainian colleagues….
The Overseas Press Club of America announces that it is making grants of $4,000 each to 17 Afghan journalists who have taken refuge in the United States, raising the total it has given to $133,000. The most recent round of grants was made possible through generous support from the Ford Foundation as well as gifts from members…
American journalist and filmmaker Brent Renaud, 50, was killed March 13 in a suburb of Kyiv, Ukraine, while covering the war there. Photographer Juan Diego Arredondo, the 2020 winner of the OPC Foundation’s Harper’s Magazine Scholarship in memory I.F. Stone, also was wounded in what Kyiv police described as an attack by Russian forces…
The OPC since May has sought to engage in a dialogue with the International Olympic Committee over the rules of the road for journalists covering the Winter Olympics in Beijing in February. We reached out to other media organizations and non-profits, 28 of which signed our letter appealing to the IOC to include press-freedom issues in its negotiations with the Chinese government over the Games. The bad news is that, despite a volley of letters back and forth, we’ve received no assurances from the IOC that it has or will convey our concerns to the Chinese government, let alone seek the kind of coverage ground rules that journalists traveling to Beijing have every right to expect.
The U.S. departments of State and Defense are failing to follow through on resettlement of tens of thousands of Afghans, including journalists who adopted American-style media practices during the 20-year U.S. presence in Afghanistan, a coalition of organizations coordinated by the Overseas Press Club of America has concluded…
Please support the OPC’s efforts to help Afghan journalists who are resettling outside of the country, and spread the word using the hashtag #OPCAfghanAppeal…
I Can Tell It Now: Stories Behind the Great News Events of the Past 25 Years, which the OPC acquired as a result of an anonymous donation, is a collection of 38 compelling stories written by OPC members about events they covered starting in 1939, the same year the club was founded…
Please join the OPC on Oct. 22 for the 82nd Annual Awards Dinner to celebrate international journalism…
The OPC elected seven new governors to its board at the club’s annual meeting tonight. Members also voted to re-elect six journalists or media professionals who have served on the board for the past two years…
