DAVID R. SCHWEISBERG MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP
Sponsored by the Schweisberg Family
Schweisberg joined United Press International in 1980 and worked for its bureaus in Detroit, New York, Washington, Hong Kong and Tokyo. In 1987 he worked in UPI’s bureau in Beijing. During the Tiananmen Square student uprising in 1989, his astute dispatches, delivered under the threat of censorship and arrest by the Chinese authorities, were read and heard throughout the world. He was one of the last reporters to leave when the protest was finally crushed by the Chinese Army.
Cadence Quaranta
Northwestern University
Cadence spent parts of her childhood in China. The experience of being the green-eyed outlier instilled in her a love of the Chinese language and culture and a compelling interest in international affairs. In her essay, she wrote about the environmental impact of Chinese cement-based construction projects and the constant dust she recalled as an eighth-grade student in Changee. A college senior, she spent last summer as an intern for CNN’s Fareed Zakaria GPS and previously did a seven-months-long reporting project for the Washington Post. She speaks Mandarin and Spanish.
REUTERS FELLOWSHIP
Sponsored by Reuters
Reuters, the news and media division of Thomson Reuters, provides trusted intelligence that powers humans and machines to make smart decisions. Reuters supplies business, financial, national and international news to billions of people every day via desktop terminals, the world’s media organizations, industry events and directly to consumers. This award reflects the commitment of Reuters to help foster the careers of correspondents in the fields of international affairs and economics.
Angelique Chen
New York University
Experienced in data journalism, Angelique learned firsthand the impact of global business on a local economy observing the role of the semiconductor industry in her native Taiwan. A graduate of National Taiwan University, she wrote about how Hong Kong journalists who fled to Taiwan amid the crackdown will likely improve the quality of Taiwanese journalism. She is fluent in Mandarin and English. Angelique has an OPC Foundation fellowship with Reuters in New York City.
HARPER’S MAGAZINE SCHOLARSHIP in memory of I.F. STONE
Endowed by John R. MacArthur and the Pierre F. Simon Charitable Trust
In a career that spanned more than 65 years, Stone, a veteran Washington reporter, is best known for publishing I.F. Stone’s Weekly from 1953 to 1971, a newsletter that printed the news that was overlooked in the mainstream press. His work almost single-handedly revived investigative reporting. He is remembered as a tough-minded but pacifist gadfly, a hectoring critic of public officials, and a pugnacious advocate of civil liberties, peace and truth.
Talia Mindich
University of California-Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism
Talia’s two years as a Peace Corps volunteer in Indonesia led her to journalism to investigate, among other issues, why this vastly diverse archipelago island nation has turned to more conservative Islam. In her essay, she wrote about the efforts of a Bosnian immigrant in Vermont who fled the country in 1992 and now works with others to commemorate the Srebrenica massacre by collecting coffee cups and serving coffee to her Burlington neighbors. A Kenyon College graduate, she speaks advanced Bahasa Indonesia, beginner Sundanese and Spanish. She works in both short video and print.
IRENE CORBALLY KUHN SCHOLARSHIP
Endowed by the Scripps Howard Foundation
Despite amazing obstacles, Kuhn fought her way into newsrooms in New York, Paris and Shanghai. After the death of her husband in China, she was hired as a reporter by her friend Roy W. Howard, publisher and editor-in-chief of the New York World Telegram. Kuhn was the first person to tell the world about the romance between Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson. Her 1938 autobiography, Assigned to Adventure, was a best-seller. A founding member of the Overseas Press Club, she died in December of 1995 at the age of 97.
Olivia George
Brown University
A college senior, Olivia once took a six-month long solo hitchhiking trip through Southeast Asia where she visited, among other places, the Veranda Community Youth Café in Myanmar, the subject of her essay. The restaurant/school/community center is struggling to move on despite the double crisis of Covid and a military coup targeting the country’s youth. A dual UK/Canadian citizen, she interned at the Virginia Pilot in Norfolk and is headed next to the Tampa Bay Times.
STAN SWINTON FELLOWSHIP
Endowed by the Swinton Family
Stan Swinton spent 42 years with The Associated Press, filing stories with his byline from 100 different countries. He joined AP in 1940 and also worked for Stars and Stripes during World War II. One of his best known stories was an eyewitness account from behind the German lines in 1945 in which he described how Benito Mussolini was slain and hung upside down by Communist partisans in Milan.
Katherine Swartz
University of California-Santa Barbara
During a semester abroad in Jordan, Katherine interviewed and wrote about how women refugees from Gaza were benefitting from new hypotonic technology that brought water to their refugee camp, the subject of her essay. An Arabic speaker, she is editor-in-chief of her college newspaper, the Daily Nexus, and has had internships with the Sacramento Bee and the Santa Barbara Independent. She has an internship this summer with USA Today in Washington DC.
EMANUEL R. FREEDMAN SCHOLARSHIP
Endowed by family
Emanuel R. Freedman, known as Manny, was the foreign editor of the New York Times for 16 years and then an assistant managing editor. He died in 1971. Freedman is credited with hiring an entire generation of correspondents for the Times and building its global presence during his career there which lasted from 1948 to 1971. He guided coverage of such events as the Korean conflict, the Hungarian Uprising, the Suez Canal Crisis of 1956 and the 1954 Geneva Conference on Indochina.
Hayley Woodin
Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
Hayley wrote about the complex and sometimes violent seven-year history of the Tahoe Resources’ Escobal mine in southern Guatemala, the world’s third largest silver mine, a story she first covered as a recent graduate of Kwantlen Polytechnic University in British Columbia. She has continued to pursue the mining story throughout her career and intends to return to Guatemala for more on-the-ground reporting. A business journalist and former executive editor of Business in Vancouver, she also has experience in video, on-air hosting and podcasting.
ROY ROWAN SCHOLARSHIP
Endowed by family, friends and admirers
Roy Rowan, correspondent, writer, editor and former OPC president, spent 35 years at Time Inc. serving as bureau chief in Shanghai, Hong Kong, Rome, Tokyo, Bonn and Chicago, and as assistant managing editor for the weekly Life in charge of news. As a foreign correspondent, he covered the civil war in China, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, and was among the last Americans evacuated from Saigon by helicopter in 1975. He died in 2016 at the age of 96.
Humza Jilani
University of Oxford
A Harvard graduate and now a Marshall Scholar at Oxford, Humza’s goal is to report from the Arabic- and Urdu-speaking world. Fluent in both languages as well as Spanish, he traveled to the Poland-Belarus border last November for a feature story in Foreign Policy. In his essay, he wrote about how an unexpected gift of a goat herd led former World Bank official Fariel Salahuddin to create UpTrade, a tech start-up that benefited small holder livestock communities in Pakistan. Humza has an OPC Foundation fellowship in the Reuters bureau in London.
FLORA LEWIS / JACQUELINE ALBERT-SIMON SCHOLARSHIP
Endowed by the Pierre F. Simon Charitable Trust
Flora Lewis was a Paris-based commentator on international events for the New York Times for more than 25 years. Her indefatigable reporting and graceful writing received wide recognition. She received more than a half-dozen honorary doctorates, lifetime achievement awards from the OPC Foundation and the National Press Club, and awards from Columbia University and the Aspen Institute. The French government made her a Chevalier in the Legion of Honor. Jacqueline Albert-Simon had a distinguished career in journalism, most recently with Politque Internationale, and was a beloved member of the OPC Foundation board.
Sofie Kodner
University of California-Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism
Sofie is focused on covering the human story embedded in each new technology and how people within their unique cultural context navigate privacy, accessibility, and innovation. In her essay, she wrote about France’s Culture Pass, a phone app that provides French youth free access to cultural events while tracking their locations. Comfortable reporting across mediums, including video, audio, and print, she has reported on text alerts warning of ethnic violence in South Africa and recycling trash in Prague. She studied Arabic and Spanish in Cape Town.
S&P GLOBAL Award for Economic and Business reporting
Endowed by S&P Global
The S&P Global scholarship was created specifically to encourage talented young reporters considering careers in financial journalism. It is intended to reward the study of accounting, financial analysis, and investment related to functioning of global markets and to enhance the coverage and understanding of international business and investing. S&P Global is the world’s foremost provider of financial market intelligence, including independent credit ratings, indices, risk evaluation, research and data.
Cheyenne Ligon
Craig Newmark School of Journalism at CUNY
In a story she first covered as a regulator reporter for CoinDesk, Cheyenne wrote about WorldCoin, a German cryptocurrency company whose business plan is based on Orb technology, which uses unique devices to scan the retinas of people worldwide. After graduating from Tulane, she worked as a security analyst and traveled to South Korea, Lebanon, and Japan to cover the Syrian Civil War and Asian economics. She intends to cover cryptocurrencies, new technologies, and the people that use them across the world. She has studied French and Korean.
JERRY FLINT FELLOWSHIP FOR INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS REPORTING
Endowed by family and friends
Jerry Flint began his career at the Wall Street Journal in 1956 and spent 12 years at the New York Times. He joined Forbes in 1979, holding several senior positions and covering international stories in Cuba, Nicaragua and Africa. In 1996, Flint became a columnist writing about the automotive industry, where he earned the moniker, Dean of Automotive Writers. He received numerous awards and was recognized by his peers as one of the smartest, most contrarian, and relentless reporters of the last century.
Prarthana Prakash
New York University
A graduate of Singapore Management University, Prarthana was drawn to business journalism as an editorial intern in the CNBC Singapore bureau where she learned that every story has both international and local implications. She wrote her essay about how the market for lab-grown diamonds has been expanding rapidly in her native India although their status as family assets is still unclear. Prarthana, who has an internship with Bloomberg this summer, speaks English, Hindi, Tamil and Spanish.
WALTER & BETSY CRONKITE SCHOLARSHIP
Funded by Daimler and Supported by CBS News and friends
Walter Cronkite was called “the most trusted man in America” during his two decades as anchor of the CBS Evening News. He began his career as a correspondent for United Press International during World War II, and joined CBS in 1950 as a reporter. He became the evening news anchor in 1962 and held that post until his retirement in 1981, ending each broadcast with “…and that’s the way it is,” his television signature. Betsy, his wife of nearly 65 years, was also a veteran foreign correspondent for the Voice of America and the Kansas City Star.
Iqra Salah
University of California-Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism
After graduating from the Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology in her native Kenya, Iqra spent several years as a freelance field producer for CNN and as a reporter/researcher for the BBC covering breaking news in East and Central Africa. Among her investigative pieces, she uncovered the story of infanticide in Kibera, Africa’s largest urban slum, especially among young rape victims. In a short video she submitted, she interviewed two young women who described their hopelessness and desperation. She next plans to travel to Senegal to document the untold story there.
NATHAN S. BIENSTOCK MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP
Endowed by the Richard Leibner and Carole Cooper Family Foundation
In 1964, Nathan “Nate” Bienstock along with Sol Leibner and his son Richard formed the talent agency N.S. Bienstock, Inc. Run by Richard and his wife Carole since the 1970s, N.S. Bienstock became part of United Talent Agency in 2014. The company has represented, among others, Walter Cronkite, Dan Rather, Mike Wallace, Diane Sawyer, and Anderson Cooper. Richard and Carole have been inducted into The Giants of Broadcasting by the Library of American Broadcasting, the Broadcasting & Cable’s Hall of Fame, and NATAS Gold Circle.
Neirin Gray Desai
Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
An engineering graduate of Imperial College in London, Neirin pivoted to journalism after investigating the case of an innocent man executed in Alabama. Having already trekked from London to Gambia, he would like to return to West Africa with a renewed focus on uncovering corruption and injustice. In his essay, he wrote about the coastal town of Dakhla in the disputed territory of Western Sahara and the 20-year conflict between Morocco and the Algerian-supported Polisario Front.
FRITZ BEEBE FELLOWSHIP
Endowed by Anne and Larry Martz
As the regent who ran The Washington Post Co. between the death of Philip Graham in 1963 and Katharine Graham’s full command in the early ‘70s, Frederick S. “Fritz” Beebe had a special appreciation for journalism and journalists. A Wall Street lawyer and adviser to the Grahams, he played a key role when The Post bought Newsweek magazine in 1961. As acting CEO, Beebe had the astonishing idea that editorial talent was vital to making money in journalism, and he bestowed corporate stock and options on reporters, writers and editors as well as the business side. His vision made this award possible.
Ha-kyung Kim
New York University
During an internship in NPR’s Seoul bureau, Ha-kyung met Park Tae-seung, a former child soldier conscripted by the South Korean government during the Korean War. In her essay, she wrote about the long-term consequence of his service and the struggles of other child soldiers. A senior economics major in NYU’s Stern School of Business, she speaks Korean, English and Mandarin. Currently interning in longform podcast development, Ha-Kyung has an OPC Foundation fellowship with the Wall Street Journal in Seoul.
SALLY JACOBSEN FELLOWSHIP
Endowed by family and friends
An experienced Associated Press foreign correspondent in Mexico City and Brussels, she was the first woman to serve as the news service’s international editor, overseeing coverage of wars, terrorism and a daily stream of history-making events. Her 39-year career took her from a Washington economics correspondent to the pressure-packed job at New York headquarters. A former vice president of the OPC Foundation, she helped establish the current fellowship program.
Sara Herschander
Craig Newmark School of Journalism at CUNY
After graduating from Boston University, Sara moved to Chile for two years and then on to Mexico City, working in several jobs and getting on-the-ground experience in the subjects that interest her most: labor and migration. As a freelancer, she reports and writes in both English and Spanish in a variety of media, from print to podcasts. In her essay, she wrote about female Ecuadorian day laborers in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, who are part of what some describe as the largest exodus of Ecuadorian migrants in history.
RICHARD PYLE SCHOLARSHIP
Endowed by family and friends
Richard Pyle devoted his life to the cause of being a correspondent. His long and accomplished Associated Press career spanned the globe and a half-century of crisis, war, catastrophe and indelible moments in news reporting, from the Cuban missile crisis, the resignation of Richard Nixon to Desert Storm. He will be remembered most for his Vietnam War coverage over five critical years, the last half as chief of the news organization’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Saigon bureau.
Nick Trombola
American University
After graduating from Indiana University, Nick returned to Uganda to write for the Daily Monitor, the largest independent newspaper in East Africa. While there he met Joseph Kawesi, an HIV-positive transgender woman living in a country where her gender identity could cost her years in prison, the subject of his essay. Before starting graduate school, Nick spent nearly two years at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette covering breaking news and investigative projects. He is currently on the climate investigations team for the Washington Post.
RICK DAVIS-DEB AMOS SCHOLARSHIP
Endowed by Deb Amos and friends
Deb Amos, an award-winning correspondent for NPR News, met Rick Davis in Beirut in 1982 and they became a husband-wife team covering the Middle East for decades. Rick, a Middle East correspondent for NBC News, passed away in 2019 and Deb has chosen to endow this award in both their names in support of high-quality Middle East coverage. Deb is a vice president of the Overseas Press Club and the Ferris Professor of Journalism in Residence at Princeton University. She previously reported for ABC’s Nightline and PBS’s Frontline.
Euan Ward
Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
Euan spent more than two years in Beirut as a reporter for the The Daily Star Lebanon and as a freelancer for The Guardian and CNN, among others. He was on the ground throughout both the 17 October Revolution, and the 2020 Beirut explosion. A UK native and a graduate of the London School of Economics, his essay told the story of Victoria, a Nigerian widow, who is one of thousands of migrant domestic workers in Lebanon who have been sold off on Facebook amid the country’s economic collapse. Last year, he led a cross border investigation for The Guardian into the abuse of “golden passport” schemes by the world’s rich and powerful, and was recently named The New York Times 2022-2023 international reporting fellow.
EDITH LEDERER SCHOLARSHIP
Endowed by Edith Lederer and friends
Edith Lederer, who is the Associated Press’ chief correspondent at the United Nations, has worked for the AP for more than five decades on every continent except Antarctica covering wars, famines, nuclear programs, political upheavals and major global issues including the break-up of the Soviet Union. She was AP’s first full-time female correspondent to cover the Vietnam War in 1972-73 and AP’s first female bureau chief overseas based in Lima, Peru in 1975. She has also been based in Israel, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Hong Kong, East Africa, the United Kingdom and Saudi Arabia. She is the winner of five lifetime achievement awards including the OPC’s Fay Gillis Wells Award in 2014.
Emma Tobin
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Primarily a video journalist, Emma is focused on what happens to communities after natural disasters, specifically the environmental trauma suffered by those who endured fire and its aftermath. She spent six months in rural Australia to document the recovery process of victims of the 2019-2020 bush fires in New South Wales, the subject of her video Hard Yakka. In her essay, she wrote about what a PTSD expert called Act Two, the period when healing and processing occurs. Emma has been a videographer and writer for PBS North Carolina, CNN, and is now with The Associated Press in New York.