An Overseas Press Club panel of two distinguished writers and a former Justice Department spokesman has highlighted the Obama Administration's prosecution of government whistleblowers as spies. Both writers, and one of the six insiders charged with espionage, warned that this targeting is undermining Americans' Constitutional right to free speech.
On Wednesday, April 25 the OPC celebrated the finest in international reporting. Lester Holt and Alison Smale presented the awards, Ted Turner received the OPC President's Award and Joao Silva lit the candle honoring journalists killed in the past year. Dinner chairmen: Sir Harold Evans and William J. Holstein.
The Overseas Press Club Foundation has a broad mandate to improve the media's understanding of international issues and to raise the quality of news-gathering efforts in covering the world. The most tangible expression of this charter is a scholarship/internship program for undergraduate and graduate students in American colleges and universities, who aspire to become foreign correspondents.
The Overseas Press Club of America was founded in 1939 in New York by a group of foreign correspondents. The OPC seeks to maintain an international association of journalists working in the United States and abroad; to encourage the highest standards of professional integrity and skill in the reporting of news; to help educate a new generation of journalists; to contribute to the freedom and independence of journalists and the press throughout the world, and to work toward better communication and understanding among people.
The Overseas Press Club of America was founded in 1939 in New York by a group of foreign correspondents. The OPC seeks to maintain an international association of journalists working in the United States and abroad; to encourage the highest standa...
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