Category: News

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Winners of this year’s OPC Foundation scholarships are putting their talents to work around the world. Paul Sonne, Stan Swinton Scholarship winner is pursuing a master’s degree in Russian history as a Marshall scholar at the University of Oxford and working this summer in AP’s Moscow bureau.

OPC member Patricia A. Milton has left the AP and joined the investigative unit of CBS “Evening News With Katie Couric.”

OPC board member Marcus W. Brauchli resigned as managing editor of The Wall Street Journal April 22 while Rupert Murdoch, the paper’s owner, was remaking some of The Journal’s contents.

OPC board member Marcus W. Brauchli resigned as managing editor of The Wall Street Journal April 22 while Rupert Murdoch, the paper’s owner, was remaking some of The Journal’s contents. Murdoch bought Dow Jones & Company, The Journal’s parent, last December, and he is making the paper more of a general-interest paper with shorter articles, more coverage of politics, culture and sports, and fewer business articles on the front page. The Murdoch-owned New York Post wrote, “Brauchli’s departure follows a redesign of the business paper intended to beef up political and general news coverage and put it in closer competition with The New York Times.”

Death threats against foreign correspondents and hate campaigns against international media threaten coverage of this year’s Summer Olympics in Beijing, the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of China charged in a statement.

China demanded that CNN apologize for comments on Chinese broadcast April 9 by Jack Cafferty,
who said, “…they’re basically the same bunch of goons and thugs
they’ve been for the last 50 years.”

OPC board member George de Lama, the Chicago Tribune’s
managing editor for news who in the 1990s opened the first American
news bureau in Cuba in 35 years, announced on May 14 that he is leaving
the newspaper.

Based on real events, the film The Children of Huang Shi is set in war-torn China in the 1930’s. George Hogg, a recent Oxford graduate, arrives in Shanghai just as the Japanese take control.