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OPC Awards Dinner
Apr23
OPC Annual Awards Dinner 2027
The Overseas Press Club is excited to announce that its 87th anniversary awards dinner will take place on April 20th at Cipriani in New York City.
OPC Annual Awards Dinner 2027
Name: OPC Annual Awards Dinner
Date&Time: 23 April 2027 - 6:00 p.m. Eastern Time
Location: Cipriani, 25 Broadway, New York City
More details coming soon.
OPC Events
Nov16
Combating AI: Can Lawsuits Protect Journalists from Copyright Piracy?
Join the OPC on November 16 as Avlon, Graeber and lawyers for the NYT talk about their battles with AI companies and what they mean for journalists, authors and creators of all types. What can creators do to retain ownership of their work?
Combating AI: Can Lawsuits Protect Journalists from Copyright Piracy?
Name: Combating AI: Can Lawsuits Protect Journalists from Copyright Piracy?
Date&Time: 16 November 2026 - 6:00 p.m. ET
Location: Online via Zoom
In 2023, The New York Times sued OpenAI, Microsoft and Perplexity for copyright infringement, alleging that the companies illegally copied New York Times journalism to train AI models and/or to deliver news to their chatbot users. The company has spent more than $30 million on the suits.
A.G. Sulzberger, publisher of The NYT, said in an interview with Wired that “Silicon Valley has tried to portray our lawsuit as anti-tech. It is not anti-tech. It is anti-theft.”
Charles Graeber, a journalist and author, was one of three creators who brought a class-action lawsuit against Anthropic for piracy and copyright violations. The $1.5 billion settlement was the largest copyright award in American history. But nearly half a million works were represented in the class action. Graeber says that after fees and lawyers, that works out to about $3,000 per book, which often the author must split with the publisher.
These cases show that fighting the big Silicon Valley companies is a vital but costly and time-intensive endeavor.
Join the OPC on November 16 as Graeber and lawyers for the NYT talk about their battles with AI companies and what they mean for journalists, authors and creators of all types. What can creators do to retain ownership of their work?
The Panel:
Charles Graeber is the author of “Good Nurse: A True Story of Medicine, Madness, and Murder” and “The Breakthrough: Immunotherapy and the Race to Cure Cancer.” He is a former governor of the OPC.
Karen Chesley is Assistant General Counsel at The New York Times. She is an experienced commercial litigator who manages The Times’s litigation against Microsoft and OpenAI for copying millions of Times articles to build and operate generative AI products that compete with The Times’s journalism.
Demetri Blaisdell serves as Senior Litigation Counsel at The New York Times, where he manages The Times’s litigation against Perplexity and handles First Amendment, libel, and general commercial litigation on behalf of the publisher.
Moderator: John Avlon is a journalist, author, OPC Governor, and former CNN anchor and Daily Beast editor-in-chief; he chairs Citizens Union and hosts The Bulwark’s “How to Fix It” podcast. He is the author of four books, including “Lincoln and the Fight for Peace and Washington’s Farewell.”
OPC Events
Dec02
Russia Hands Reunion: Russia From the Outside
Please join the Harriman Institute, the Overseas Press Club of America, and the Simon and June Li Center for Global Journalism for this discussion of the current challenges for scholars, foreign correspondents, and Russian journalists in exile who study and report on Russia.
Russia Hands Reunion: Russia From the Outside
Name: Russia Hands Reunion: Russia From the Outside
Date&Time: 02 December 2026 - 6:00 p.m. ET - 9:00 p.m. ET
Location: World Room, 3rd Floor Pulitzer Hall, 2950 Broadway at 116th Street
CITY: New York City
The full-scale invasion of Ukraine has sent thousands of Russians into exile — including many of the country’s independent journalists who are targeted as “undesirable” or “foreign agents.” Meanwhile, a Foreign Ministry sanctions list bans dozens of American journalists and academics from entering the country, while others find it too dangerous to go there. With Russia off limits, how do scholars and journalists continue to study and report on the country?
Please join the Harriman Institute, the Overseas Press Club of America, and the Simon and June Li Center for Global Journalism for this discussion of the current challenges for scholars, foreign correspondents, and Russian journalists in exile who study and report on Russia.
Speakers
Timothy Frye, Marshall D. Shulman Professor of Post-Soviet Foreign Policy; Former Director of the Harriman Institute
Valerie Hopkins, Russia Correspondent, The New York Times
Mikhail Zygar, Independent Russian Journalist; Book Author; Adjunct Professor of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University
Moderator: Ann Cooper, Editor-in-Chief, Harriman Magazine
Registration REQUIRED by 4pm on December 1, 2026 in order to attend this event.
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McGraw Fellowship for Business Journalism
April 14, 2025
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Do you -- or a reporter you know -- have a great idea for high-impact investigative or enterprise story that "Follows the Money," but few resources to take it on?
Applications are now open for the Spring 2025 McGraw Fellowships for Business Journalism, an initiative of the Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY. The Fellowships provide experienced journalists with a grant up to $15,000 and the editorial support needed to produce deeply reported enterprise and investigative stories with a strong economic or financial angle. The deadline to apply is April 14, 2025. Previous McGraw Fellows have explored a wide variety of issues — and you don’t need to be a business reporter to apply. Many have been generalists, or cover areas such as health care, inequality or the environment. Given the enormous changes in federal spending and policy priorities now taking place in Washington DC, we are particularly interested in story proposals that examine the impact of these changes during this round. The Fellowship is open to both freelance and staff journalists in all forms of media with at least five years’ professional experience. Journalists from diverse backgrounds are strongly encouraged to apply. If you’d like to learn more, go to www.mcgrawcenter.org, contact us at mcgrawcenter@journalism.cuny.edu or join us on Zoom for McGraw Fellowship Office Hours every Tuesday from 3/4/25 to 4/8/25 at 12-1 pm ET. We accept applications twice a year; Fall 2025 applications will be due Oct. 13, 2025.