The OPC is saddened to learn that OPC Foundation board member Maria Mercader, CBS network veteran who covered breaking news for nearly three decades, died from COVID-19 in a New York hospital…
People Remembered: Maria Mercader
Category: People Remembered
People Remembered
People Remembered: Harriett Sloan Corporon
Harriett Sloan Corporon, wife of OPC Past President John Corporon (1996 – 1998) passed away on Sunday, Jan. 26 in hospice care at home in Park Slope, Brooklyn…
People Remembered: Jim Lehrer
Jim Lehrer Longtime PBS NewsHour anchor and recipient of the OPC’s President’s Award in 2009, died on January 23rd, at age 85…
People Remembered: James P. Colligan
James P. Colligan, a Roman Catholic priest and a longtime member of the Overseas Press Club (OPC) and Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Japan (FCCJ) who died at 90 on Jan. 31 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, had something in common with Cold War-era journalistic contemporaries who represented government-funded news organizations ranging from VOA and Stars and Stripes to Komsomolskaya Pravda and Novoye Vremya, and who did not wish to be – or to be seen as – anything less than first class correspondents…
People Remembered: OPC Member Bob Gibson
One of the longest standing members of the OPC member, Bob Gibson, known for shaping foreign coverage at the Los Angeles Times, died on June 22 at the age of 89. He had been an OPC member since 1957…
People Remembered: George Bookman
George B. Bookman, one of the OPC’s most senior members, passed away recently in Seattle, WA at the age of 103…
People Remembered: George Bookman
The OPC is saddened to learn that longtime member George Bookman has died at the age of 103…
People Remembered: OPC President Marshall Loeb
The OPC is deeply saddened to learn that past OPC President Marshall Loeb, who helmed the club from 2006 to 2008, died at age 88 on Dec. 9 after a long battle with Parkinson’s disease.
People Remembered: Wilbur G. Landrey
The OPC is saddened to hear that OPC member Wilbur Landrey died on Sept. 29. at age 93…
People Remembered: Richard Pyle
The OPC is deeply saddened that longtime OPC member and renowned Associated Press reporter Richard Pyle died on Sept. 28 at the age of 83…