NEW YORK: World Policy Journal added six new members to its editorial board in November and appointed longtime OPC member Seymour Topping as its first chairman. Topping spent 33 years with The New York Times as a foreign correspondent, foreign editor and managing editor. After retiring from The Times, he was administrator of the Pulitzer Prizes and San Paolo Professor of International Journalism at Columbia University, where he now is president of Emeritus Professors.
New board members: Ying Chan, founder and director of the journalism and media studies center at the University of Hong Kong. Naresh Fernandes, editor-in-chief of Time Out India, Mumbai, India. Sulaiman Al-Hattlan, CEO of the Arab Strategy Forum, Dubai. Azubuike Ishiekwene, executive director of Nigeria’s Punch newspaper group. Paul Kelly, editor-at-large at The Australian. Patrick Wajsman, founder and editor-in-chief Politique Internationale, France.
David A. Andelman, an OPC board member, is editor of World Policy Journal, a magazine published four times a year and daily on its global website, worldpolicy.org. In October, the website reached its highest readership with more than 120,000 visitors, 60 percent from abroad, 40 percent in the United States.