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DATELINE
WINNERS OF THE OVERSEAS PRESS CLUB AWARDS
NO
SAFE
HAVEN
The Press
Under Fire
THE NEW RULES
OF ENGAGEMENT
2015 ANNUAL EDITION
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Lenovo is a proud sponsor
of the Overseas Press Club.
Congratulations to all of
tonight’s winners.
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PRESIDENT’S LETTER
MARCUS MABRY
I COULD NOT BE MORE PROUD OF THE There have always been dictators and
Dateline you are holding in your hands. The despots, corrupt governments and criminal
OPC’s annual gala is always the work of a cast of syndicates, determined to kill journalists. But
thousands. Dozens anyway. From our 79 judges the assassinations of Jim Foley and Steven
to our 441 entries, considered with great delib- Sotloff were made even more gruesome because
eration by people who have a lot of other work to of their manner and the distribution of videos
do, to Bill Holstein and his dinner committee that on social media. And the journalists of Charlie
round up the support needed to make this night Hebdo were killed in their offices.
happen, to Paul Moakley and Alexis Gelber, who I could not be prouder of the role of the
edited this beautiful and deeply alarming maga- OPC has taken in meeting these challenges. The
zine, and Victor Williams who designed it. OPC was founded by staff reporters at global
I could not be more proud to be president of news behemoths. But increasingly foreign cov-
the OPC. This is a time of enormous tumult in erage is brought to us by freelancers working
our industry and in our profession. For decades, several “strings,” or on contract for mainly one
technology and economics have led to a shrink- news organization.
ing of traditional journalism, even as they have Since I became president of the OPC last
provided new independent platforms for free- summer, we became one of the leading organi-
lance and citizen journalists. zations crafting the first ever industry standards
Those threats, as well as the Obama admin- for freelancer safety in conflict zones. As I said
istration’s zeal for pursuing journalists and their when we signed the protocols in February, this
sources, have been with us for a while. (We is not enough—it is only the first step in play-
were grateful that the administration dropped ing our part to equip, inform, and convene news
the case against NewYork Times reporter James organizations and foreign correspondents, what-
Risen, though also originally brought it.) But ever their employment status, in the global jour-
2014 and early 2015 saw one the highest death nalism environment of today.
tolls for journalists in an entirely different, if not But this is just one area where the OPC has
entirely new threat, an existential one: journal- found renewed enthusiasm for our mission of
ists targeted for assassination for doing our job. making foreign correspondence and foreign
correspondents as strong as they can be.
From new lower rates for students, to month-
ly meetups, to a soon to be re-launched web-
site and expanded Global Parachute reporting
resource—the OPC is more dedicated than ever
to enshrining, promulgating, and celebrating the
very best international coverage.
MABRY IS PRESIDENT OF THE OVERSEAS
PRESS CLUB OF AMERICA AND EDITOR AT
LARGE AT THE NEW YORK TIMES.
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CONTENTS
A MOST VIOLENT YEAR 8 THE CORNELIUS RYAN AWARD 37 OPPOSITE >
By Douglas Jehl Sub-Saharan African
THE MADELINE DANE ROSS AWARD 37 migrants on a fence
THE IMAGE WARS 18 between Morocco and the
THE DAVID A ANDELMAN AND Spanish enclave of Melilla.
By Fred Ritchin
PAMELA TITLE AWARD 46 For more than seven hours,
DIGITAL SECURITY CHECKLIST 20 migrants sat atop the 20-
By Robert Guerra THE JOE AND LAURIE DINE AWARD 46 foot fence dividing Europe
THE WHITMAN BASSO AWARD 46 from Africa, refusing to
WEIGHING THE RISKS 22 come down. Buffeted by
By Kathy Gannon THE ROBERT SPIERS BENJAMIN AWARD 46 winds whipping along
the cliffs of Africa’s
BATTLE SCARS 28 BEST MULTIMEDIA NEW PRESENTATION 47 Mediterranean coast, the
By Sebastian Junger men nursed their bloody
BEST INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING 47 feet and pleaded in broken
A VICIOUS CYCLE 54
BEST COMMENTARY 47 French for the Red Cross.
Infographic by Heather Jones April 3, 2014.
THE OPC ANNUAL AWARDS FOR 2014: ALSO IN THIS ISSUE:
PRESIDENT’S LETTER 3 PHOTOGRAPH BY
ROBERT FRIEDMAN By Marcus Mabry SANTI PALACIOS—
2014 AWARDS CHAIR 31 ASSOCIATED PRESS
DAVID ROHDE
THE HAL BOYLE AWARD 32 PRESIDENT’S AWARD WINNER 7
THE BOB CONSIDINE AWARD 32 WHERE OPC MEMBERS ARE WELCOME 51 ON THE COVER:
Yazidi refugees in Northern
THE ROBERT CAPA AWARD 32 AND 34-35 Iraq stranded in the Sinjar
Mountains wait for a rescue
THE OLIVIER REBBOT AWARD helicopter, Aug. 12, 2014.
33 AND 38-39
THE JOHN FABER AWARD 33 AND 40-41 While on a helicopter
DATELINE 2015: delivering aid to Yazidi
FEATURE PHOTOGRAPHY AWARD civilians, photographer
PAUL MOAKLEY Moises Saman survived a
33 AND 48-49 EDITOR crash in Northern Iraq that
THE LOWELL THOMAS AWARD 33 ALEXIS GELBER killed the pilot and injured
several passengers on
THE DAVID KAPLAN AWARD 36 EDITOR board, including another
VICTOR WILLIAMS photographer, Adam
THE EDWARD R MURROW AWARD 36 Ferguson, and The New
DESIGN DIRECTOR York Times’ Paris bureau
THE ED CUNNINGHAM AWARD 36
NANCY NOVICK chief Alissa J. Rubin. “If
THE THOMAS NAST AWARD we had been another 50
ASSISTANT DESIGNER meters higher we’d all be
36 AND 43-44 AND PRODUCTION dead,” Ferguson told the
THE MORTON FRANK AWARD 37 Times.
PATRICIA KRANZ
OPC EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR PHOTOGRAPH BY
THE MALCOLM FORBES AWARD 37 MOISES SAMAN—MAGNUM
OVERSEAS PRESS CLUB OF AMERICA BOARD OF GOVERNORS 2014 – 2015
PRESIDENT ACTIVE BOARD PETER S. GOODMAN ROBERT ASSOCIATE PAST PRESIDENTS
MARCUS MABRY MEMBERS Editor-in-Chief NICKELSBERG BOARD MEMBERS EX-OFFICIO
Editor at Large JACQUELINE International Freelance BRIAN I. BYRD MICHAEL S. SERRILL
The New York Times ALBERT-SIMON Business Times Photojournalist Program Officer DAVID A. ANDELMAN
FIRST VICE U.S. Bureau Chief CHARLES GRAEBER NYS Health
Politique LARA SETRAKIAN Foundation JOHN CORPORON
PRESIDENT Freelance Journalist
CALVIN SIMS Internationale and Author Co-Founder & CEO ALLAN DODDS
BILL COLLINS
President and CEO News Deeply FRANK
Director, Public &
International House RUKMINI AZMAT KHAN Business Affairs ALEXIS GELBER
CALLIMACHI Investigative Reporter MARTIN SMITH Ford Motor Company
SECOND VICE WILLIAM J.
Foreign BuzzFeed News President
PRESIDENT EMMA DALY HOLSTEIN
Correspondent Rain Media
ABIGAIL PESTA Communications
The New York Times DAN KLAIDMAN MARSHALL LOEB
Freelance Journalist Director
Deputy Editor LIAM STACK LARRY MARTZ
THIRD VICE Human Rights Watch
JANE CIABATTARI Yahoo News Breaking News
PRESIDENT ROY ROWAN
Columnist Reporter DANIEL SIEBERG
PANCHO BBC.com The New York Times Global Head of LEONARD SAFFIR
BERNASCONI EVELYN LEOPOLD
Independent Media Outreach LARRY SMITH
Vice President/News Google
Getty Images CHRIS DICKEY Journalist SEYMOUR TOPPING RICHARD B. STOLLEY
Foreign Editor United Nations Emeritus Professor ABI WRIGHT
TREASURER The Daily Beast, Paris of International Director
TIM FERGUSON Journalism Overseas Press Club
PAUL MOAKLEY Alfred I. DuPont
Editor Columbia University of America 40 West
Deputy Director Columbia University
Forbes Asia 45th Street—New
Photography and Awards York, NY 10036
SECRETARY Visual Enterprise CHARLES WALLACE 212 626-9220 www.
DEIDRE DEPKE TIME Magazine Freelance Writer opcofamerica.org
Journalist and Author @opcofamerica
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PRESIDENT’S AWARD WINNER 2014
DAVID ROHDE
David Rohde
reporting
from
Kandahar,
Afghanistan
2008.
SCOTT KRAFT, THE DEPUTY EDITOR not just journalism. They were a service to
of the Los Angeles Times, told Robert history, to humanity, and to memory.
Friedman, the head judge of the OPC And they were just the beginning of
awards, “It is an honor to serve.” what would be a celebrated career that
In addition to No Safe Haven, that would take him from Afghanistan to the
could be the theme of this year’s OPC gala: courts of New York’s outer boroughs. While
An Honor to Serve. on book leave from The New York Times,
The award winners—in their diversi- Rohde and two colleagues were held cap-
ty tonight, from The New York Times to tive in Pakistan by the Taliban for sev-
Medium, and in the diversity of the topics, en months in 2008 and 2009 before he
from Central African Republic to Doha— escaped.
all pay a tribute to journalism in the ser- So it should come as no surprise that
vice of something larger than headlines David was a leader—some might even say
and glory. the leader—in shaping the set of guide-
Tonight’s recipient of The President’s lines and protocols that more than 60 news
Award is in keeping with that theme: An organizations and journalism groups have
Honor to Serve. His life has been spent in signed on to. Others were crucial to get-
service to others. ting the effort off the ground and still oth-
I have known David Rohde for nearly ers in efforts to take it from a list of goals
half my life, meeting him in Zagreb during to industry doctrine. But David drove the
the Bosnian war. As a freelancer on con- process that got us to where we are today,
tract for The Christian Science Monitor, and he continues to be a linchpin in where
TOMAS MUNITA —THE NEW YORK TIMES
he brought back the first seemingly incon- we go next.
trovertible evidence that there had been a And that’s not even his day job. As an
massacre in Srebrenica. Those stories were investigative reporter for Reuters, and a for-
mer columnist, David continues to do the
exclusive truth telling, and serving human-
ity, that have been his stock in trade.
I can’t wait to see what he does in the
second half of his career.—MARCUS MABRY
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O LENT YEAR IN 2014 THE WORLD
SEEMED TO IGNITE. AND
JOURNALISTS WERE
OFTEN THE TARGETS.
BY DOUGLAS JEHL
BULENT KILIC
AFP/Getty Images
An Islamic State militant
just after an air strike
on Tilsehir hill near
the Turkish border
at Yumurtalik village,
Sanliurfa province,
Turkey. Oct. 23, 2014.
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MOST OF US WHO HAVE Post’s Tehran correspondent, had been horribly cursed.
detained by the Iranian authorities. In In many ways, 2014 was a year in
SPENT OUR CAREERS December, a satellite-phone delivered which the world seemed to ignite. All at
AROUND FOREIGN NEWS word that photographer Michel du Cille once, it sometimes seemed, came war
HAVE FOUND WAYS TO had fallen unconscious on an arduous in Ukraine and Gaza, renewed chaos in
COPE WITH THE DANGERS hike in a remote location while covering Afghanistan, the march of Islamic State
Ebola in Liberia. extremists in Iraq, Syria and beyond,
OF COVERING CONFLICTS. Michel, a three-time Pulitzer Prize and the awful toll of instability and
It will be fine, we tell ourselves. No winner, died before reaching a hospital. disease in West Africa. Not counting
one really wants to target a journalist. Jason, as of this writing, remained in Ira- du Cille, more than 60 journalists were
But all that can be punctured with the nian custody after eight months without killed in the line of duty, including four
ring of a telephone. Your correspondent access to a lawyer and without any pub- from the Associated Press.
has been detained, we hear. Your pho- lic indication of the charges against him. Perhaps most indelibly, the dead
tographer has collapsed. Your reporter Another reporter, Austin Tice, a freelanc- included American freelance journal-
is missing. er whose work appeared in The Post ists James Foley and Steven Sotloff,
In the deadly year that was 2014, and McClatchy Newspapers, remains beheaded so brutally by their extremist
we at The Washington Post were unaccounted for after being abducted captors in Syria in videotaped produc-
among the news organizations that in Syria in August 2012. The blow to their tions broadcast on social media.
received those kinds of calls. In July, via families has been unfathomable. Of course, journalists have never
a scratchy mobile phone connection, Other journalists and other news been immune from risk—even though
came news that Jason Rezaian, The organizations have been even more those of us who have worked as for-
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The Washington Post
MOISES SAMAN Eva Togbah waits in a
van to enter a Doctors
Magnum for TIME Without Borders clinic in
After surviving a
Monrovia, Liberia. Tobgah,
helicopter crash,
sick and bleeding from
Yazidi refugees, along
the mouth, came to the
with Kurdish and
clinic with four relatives
Iraqi Army personnel,
on Sept. 23, 2014.
board a rescue
helicopter transporting
them from the crash
site back to Kurdish-
controlled Dohuk
Province. Sinjar
Mountains, Iraq,
Aug. 12, 2014.
eign correspondents sometimes hoped with its detention of Rezaian and doz-
that a press card or a windshield plac- ens of Iranian journalists, do not appear
ard proclaiming “media’’ might spare to have been swayed by the concern
us from a missile strike or from captors about possible blowback.
wielding AK-47s. As The Post’s foreign editor, I see
But there was a time, not so long ago, my job as helping readers make sense
when it did seem possible to believe of what is most consequential around
that the essential role that news orga- the world. The size of our foreign staff
nizations played as a messenger might (which now numbers 20 correspon-
afford at least some protection; even dents in 15 bureaus) attests to our
the bad guys need us, we would tell commitment to up-close, first-hand
ourselves. coverage. But the places where the
It is now undeniable that this old cal- most consequential events were unfold-
culus does not always apply. Extremist ing—Syria, Ukraine, Iraq, Gaza—have also
groups such as Islamic State clearly see become the most dangerous.
public-relations benefit, not cost, in killing No journalist ever wants to limit cov-
journalists, not just in Syria but else- erage of a major story. But in practice,
where, as in this year’s attack on the the threats facing journalists in parts of
offices of Charlie Hebdo in Paris. Among Iraq and Syria controlled by the Islamic
governments, Egypt, with its conviction State mean that a historic narrative
of three Al Jazeera reporters, and Iran, there is unfolding without witnesses. At
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PONOMAREV
The New
York Times
Palestinians mourn
members of the Nigim
family who were
killed in an Israeli
airstrike in Jabaliya,
Gaza. Aug. 4, 2014.
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JEROME SESSINI
Magnum
Kiev, Ukraine: a
bloody stretcher in
the aftermath of
a protest between
unidentified snipers
and protesters that
left more than 70
people dead.
Feb. 20, 2014.
the same time, Iran’s cruel and uncon- by David Rohde of Reuters, who spent
scionable detention of Rezaian has so many months held captive by the
prevented The Post from covering that Taliban in Pakistan, has devoted par-
country at a pivotal time in its history. ticular attention to drawing up proposed
As Jason’s boss, I have worked guidelines to ensure that freelance jour-
closely with his family and with other nalists are better trained and equipped
senior leaders at The Post, including before they venture into conflict zones.
Frederick J. Ryan Jr., the publisher, to We at The Post take seriously our
explore every possible channel in seek- responsibilities to all of those who work
ing Jason’s release. The Post has also for us, and we’re working to sharpen
supported similar efforts led by the fam- our own practices for correspondents,
ily of Austin Tice. freelancers, and also for the local re-
While The Post’s ethical guidelines porters, translators, drivers and others
prohibit its journalists from engaging in on whom we often depend.
political activities, our executive editor, There are lessons to be drawn from
Martin Baron, advised the newsroom the toll of the past year—about training,
in February that it would be entirely planning, even cybersecurity. The world
appropriate to advocate for journalistic doesn’t show any sign of getting safer,
freedom and for the freedom of our and being clear-eyed about weighing
colleague. A number of Post employees the risks is the best way to make sure
have now joined in signing a petition on that we can keep telling these stories.
Change.org calling for Jason’s release.
A valuable initiative led, among oth- JEHL IS FOREIGN EDITOR OF THE
ers, by press freedom organizations and WASHINGTON POST.
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Getty Images
Omu Fahnbulleh
stands over her
husband Ibrahim
after he fell in
an Ebola holding
center in Monrovia,
Liberia, leaving
him unconscious.
He died the same
day. August 15, 2014.
CITATION WINNER
FOR ROBERT CAPA
AWARD
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NO SAFE HAVEN ESSAY
THE
IMAGE
WARS
BY FRED RITCHIN
THE RECENT MURDERS BY aggravates the initial horror to the point for ISIS. But looking at a video of the
where there seems to be no escape. last seconds of life of those killed can
ISIS OF FOREIGN JOURNAL- But there are crucial differences. In also be seen as an act of empathy with
ISTS AND AID WORKERS that kind of digitally enabled bullying, them, as well as with their families and
SPARKED ENORMOUS OUT- not only are the attackers at fault, but friends, sharing some of their grief and
RAGE AND CONDEMNATION. so are the others in the community who their revulsion. Just because murder-
view and pass along the video with an ers want people to look at these videos
But what seemed to have provoked expectation of voyeuristic enjoyment. does not mean that one should not, or
much of the fury were the videos of the But in the case of the videos produced should, comply—one can view them in
beheadings that were produced and by ISIS, viewers are not complicit in the many ways that deny their intended
distributed by the murderers themselves. murders and no social bond is being messages. As we have learned from
Committing horrific acts and then broken or frayed by watching them literary theory, the reader or viewer, not
broadcasting them is an attempt to (looking at something is not endorsing only the author, determines meaning.
humiliate the victims and, by extension, it). In fact, carefully watching the videos One way of interpreting these videos
to mock those in their home countries may well be a way to understanding (and there are others that were made
whose values they represent. No one the mindset of the murderers and the for regional viewing that are just as hor-
else, ISIS seems to say, can report upon, threats that they pose. It can also lead rific, showing massacres and behead-
interpret, or judge their organization’s to a political will to punish the perpetra- ings of local people) is that ISIS forced
actions, other than themselves. tors. their captives into what were essentially
In some ways these videos resemble There is more to consider, however, snuff films, presenting them as individu-
what has been called “happy slap- as became clear in the debate on social als but denying any sense of agency on
ping” among adolescents—someone media and elsewhere about whether their part or any sense of redemption in
is beaten up, or sexually attacked, and to post these videos online. One had to the killing. It is not, as in the Bible, Abra-
the video of the event that is circulated take into account the horrific character ham being told by God to spare Isaac,
afterwards becomes a re-victimization of the videos, their invasion of privacy, but a man, his face concealed, who is
that can, at times, lead to the suicide of as well as a desire not to make the announcing that members of his group
the victim. Social media, or what might individuals’ deaths a spectacle, poten- can kill with impunity any others unlike
in this case be called anti-social media, tially providing a public relations coup themselves. There are no scruples, no
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room for discussion, and no other pos- instead to focus on civilian casualties stepped in with its own macabre form
sible ending—due process is not part of on each side. In Syria a military police of cinema verité, and by doing so has
their vocabulary. photographer, code-named Caesar, managed to temporarily dominate the
The executions are also an assertion had to smuggle out tens of thousands image war.
of a media monopoly—not only are the of photographs of prisoners whom What is the best antidote to the im-
ISIS video creators the central protago- he asserted had been tortured and age wars assaulting us? Certainly we
nists in this image war, but as produc- executed in secret by the Assad regime. have to try to seek a more rational
ers and directors they also control the The impact of previous imagery on explanation of why such images are
exclusive rights to its representation. world opinion—such as the famous being made. In the case of ISIS, are the
Unlike the attacks of September 11, 1972 photograph of a young girl being people making these images powerful,
when the production and distribution of napalmed in Vietnam, or the one of the or desperate? Are we being asked to
the imagery was left to others, ISIS does summary execution of a captive on a watch holy war, or pornography? And
not allow individual interpretations by Saigon street in 1968—continues to play by looking at this excruciating imagery,
outsiders. After September 11, photo- a cautionary role. are we being complicit or are we do-
graphs by amateurs and professionals In the case of ISIS, which is not inter- ing our duty as citizens in a globalized
alike were used as part of a process ested in working within international world?
of grieving and remembering, because norms, an image war of concealment This act of resistance may be carried
many of those depicting the suffering makes little sense. The creation of hor- out in solidarity with those who have
did so out of empathy, unlike those who rors for public consumption is both an been so awfully victimized. One can
aim to humiliate and re-victimize. explicit rejection of such conventions recite their names.
Contemporary image wars usually as well an appeal to nihilistic youth who May their memory endure.
have tried to conceal activities that may are being encouraged to join, sanc-
not jibe with international humanitar- tioning their own rage and frustration.
RITCHIN IS DEAN OF THE SCHOOL
ian laws, rather than flaunt those that In their version of the image war, the AT THE INTERNATIONAL CENTER
can be perceived as war crimes. During shooter in the video game actually gets OF PHOTOGRAPHY. HIS LAST
the conflict in Gaza neither Hamas nor to kill the target, as brutally as possible; BOOK IS BENDING THE FRAME:
Israel wanted the media to accompany the man with the knife gets to mock PHOTOJOURNALISM, DOCUMENTARY,
their combatants, for example, but the world’s greatest military. ISIS has AND THE CITIZEN (APERTURE 2013).
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DIGITAL addresses cyber security as part of its
Journalism Security Guide.
SECURITY
Reporters Without Borders also has
published an Online Survival Kit, available in
five languages.
Digital First Aid Kit is a guide published by
a dozen media-related NGOs, including Free
Press Unlimited, Freedom House, Global Voices,
CHECKLIST
and Internews.
SURVEILLANCE SELF-DEFENSE PROVIDES
A PRACTICAL FIVE-POINT GUIDE TO
PROTECTING YOURSELF AND YOUR
INFORMATION:
1. Develop a data retention and destruction
ROBERT GUERRA policy: You should not destroy evidence, but
you can maintain a retention policy in which
you routinely purge your files. Make sure the
computer, including at least one in addition policy is written and followed by everyone.
INVESTIGATIVE REPORTERS to the default administrator account. Making 2. Basics of data protection: Require logins
FACE A TWO-FOLD sure the second account has no administrative for accounts and screensavers. Make your
CHALLENGE: surveillance privileges, then use that login for your daily passwords strong. Make sure you trust your
software has become mind- work. If malware tries to install automatically, systems administrator.
the computer will alert you with a message 3. Proper use of passwords: Don’t use
bogglingly sophisticated; requiring the administrator password. the same password for multiple accounts.
and funding is pouring in for And change the passwords regularly. Can’t
development of new technologies. MALWARE remember a lengthy password? Consider
These new products are Beware of suspicious attachments, keep an encrypted password manager such as
purchased on the gray market your programs updated, and install a good 1Password or Keypass.
antivirus program or malware scanner such 4. Data encryption: Governments can get
by governments that spy on their as Detekt. around password-protected data. But well-
public—and their press. If possible, avoid opening attachments on encrypted data is more difficult.
your computer. Instead use online editors 5. Protection from malware: Avoid opening
Robert Guerra, a Canadian based digital such as Google Docs to view and edit attachments and PDF documents on your
security expert, warns that most reporters documents. computer.
aren’t even taking the most basic precautions. Watch for emails from groups or people
“If you become known for investigative you might know, but which seem slightly Eva Galperin of the EFF provides this tip sheet
reporting, people can use digital tools to come off—small grammar changes or odd for Best Practices. Key points:
after you and your data,” says Guerra, who punctuation. 1. Skype isn’t as secure as you might think.
for more than a decade has trained NGO Outdated computers without the latest Instead you should use a more secure, peer-
staffers and journalists to securely manage security patches will put you on greater risk. to-peer service such as Talky.io or meet.jit.si.
relationships and data online. “Start with the 2. SMS messaging is not secure and not
principles. Know the risks”. WHEN SOMETHING GOES WRONG encrypted. If you have a smart phone, use
Guerra suggests starting here: Make noise if your computer starts acting a secure chat tool such as Redphone, Signal,
wacky. Reach out to one of the nonprofit Threema or Silent Circle
EMAIL groups dedicated to detecting and tracking 3. Instant message with Pidgin or Adium
At home, use “https” so that your web attacks and training users: (Mac OSX)
browsing traffic is encrypted. If you don’t, it’s The Committee to Protect Journalists, based
as if you were in a busy public place having in New York, advocates on behalf of reporters Steve Doig, a professor at Arizona
a conversation with a confidential source, around the world and fields requests for State University, provides these tips in his
Guerra explains, “but you’re both screaming.” assistance. presentation Spycraft: Keeping Your Sources
Install the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)’s Reporters Without Borders, based in Paris, Private (Powerpoint):
HTTPS Everywhere extension in your browser does similar advocacy as CPJ. 1. Search the web with IXQuick, which
so that your connection defaults to a secure The Electronic Frontier Foundation, based in doesn’t save your IP address or search terms.
connection “https” where possible. San Francisco, advocates for digital rights. 2. Disguise your caller ID with SpoofCard.
Don’t assume your employer is The Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto This works for international calls as well.
protecting your account. Ask your researches Internet security and human rights. 3. Buy no-contract cell phones with cash.
technology desk about what precautions it 4. Encrypt communications:
takes, and consider getting a personal account TUTORIALS AND TIPSHEETS Pretty Good Privacy is strong and
from Google, Yahoo or RiseUp over which you There’s no shortage of guides to digital security. an industry standard.
have control. Many are overly complex and not terribly Spam Mimic encrypts messages in
Passwords and the Two-Factor Login useful for working journalists. But there’s help spam-like email
It is recommended that you activate an out there, and it’s worth designating someone Clean out deleted files for good using
additional layer of protection—the two-factor on your team, in your newsroom, or at your Webroot Window Washer
login present in many online services today. nonprofit to take the lead in ensuring that your When obtaining leaked documents from
When you activate the two-factor login, you work is protected. a government source, beware of invisible
will need to enter your password and a unique Some resources: watermarks.
authentication code that can be generated via Security in a Box offers a series of video The London-based Centre for Investigative
a mobile app or sent via text message. tutorials on simple ways to maintain a low Journalism has an 80-page handbook,
Login Settings online profile. Available in many languages. Information Security for Journalists, full of the
Establish multiple user accounts on your The Committee to Protect Journalists latest tips and techniques.
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r2_150185opc_CS5.5.indd 20 4/17/15 5:06 PMCongratulations to all
the winners of the
2014 OPC Awards
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WEIGHING
THE RISKS
BY KATHY GANNON
LEFT:
Gannon (center
left) and
Niedringhaus with
Afghan police
recruits in Kabul,
Afghanistan in
October 2012.
RIGHT:
An Afghan
woman waits in
a changing room
to try out a new
burqa, in Kabul,
April 11, 2013.
IN DECEMBER LAST YEAR Doing up the zipper on my coat wasn’t a do I ensure that the shooting doesn’t define
I RETURNED TO PAKISTAN. near to impossible chore. I wore shoes with me, that one horrific incident doesn’t over-
laces. I didn’t wake every morning giving shadow a career that has brought me such
It was just for two weeks, but myself a pep talk or a berating—depending joy and pride?
it had the effect of helping me on the day—about coping with the pain and People often ask whether the shooting
reconnect with the person I had the value of putting a positive spin on the has changed me. The honest answer is that I
been before the April 4, 2014 progress I had made. am really not sure, having focused so much
shooting in eastern Afghanistan, So much, it seemed, had changed. of my energy on healing physically. I do
when a crazed gunman stole I have been humbled by the outpour- know that I am as impatient as I ever was. I
from me one of my dearest ing of kind words, and the talk of courage am still stubborn and opinionated.
and bravery. Still, most of the time I have felt I also feel incredibly lucky that I always
friends, the award-winning neither brave nor courageous. Instead my loved my life. I was doing what I wanted
photojournalist Anja Niedringhaus, time seems to be preoccupied with keeping to do, living in a region that offered glar-
and changed my life. fear at bay, not thinking about the next sur- ing examples of the very best and very worst
The last time I had been in Pakistan gery, nor dwelling on questions for which I of us. When the gunman stopped firing that
was in early March 2014—almost a month have no answers: What will the future hold? horrible day last April and I looked down to
before the shooting. I had originally gone What will I be able to do? Will I be able to see all the blood and my near-severed hand, I
to Afghanistan to fill in on the AP desk and type with both hands? How do I massage was sure I was dying. The recurring thought
then to cover the presidential election. Then the physical and emotional scars so that I as I prepared myself for death was that I had
I was strong. I could type with both hands. am not forever a walking wounded? How had an amazing life. I had no regrets.
PHOTOGRAPHS BY ANJA NIEDRINGHAUS—ASSOCIATED PRESS
r2_150185opc_CS5.5.indd 22 4/17/15 5:06 PMI looked to my left at Anja, not sure zone? No matter how much you seek to mit- ty of getting out, leaving behind the safety
whether she was alive or dead, taking com- igate the risk—and we all do—risk remains. of an office, to tell the story, was unshake-
fort in having her by my side. For me the answer is in the hearts of able. It was never about her. It was always
Since I survived—thanks in no small those journalists who have paid the price about those whose stories she wanted to tell
part to the emergency surgery performed by either with their lives or their once healthy through her pictures.
an Afghan surgeon at the struggling Khost bodies. She was smart in how she approached a
Hospital—I have taken a closer look at many I think of Anja, my friend who died at story. She understood the risks, always had
things that I previously gave only a passing my side. Her pictures captured the souls of a back-up plan, was never foolhardy or cava-
thought to, including our profession. the people, and the many conflicts she cov- lier about the dangers involved. But she also
Dozens of journalists have been killed ered laid bare those souls. The misery of never ran away from the risks to leave the
in the last year. The world has lost videog- war brings out the worst and best of people story untold.
raphers, photographers and writers, all of and everything in between, and Anja cap- Anja represents all of us who do this
whom believed in the value of telling the sto- tured it all. She made us see. We didn’t see job. None of us wants to die or be hurt, but
ry. Others have suffered horrific life-chang- only tanks and mortars. In her images we neither do we want to be held hostage to
ing injuries in pursuit of the story. saw people, their pain, strength, courage and fear nor debilitated by the question: “What
More than ever before we struggle with even their hope in what often seemed to the might happen?”
the question of what constitutes acceptable outsider a hopeless situation. What we want is just to tell the story.
risk. No story is worth dying over, but are Anja and I would often talk about why GANNON IS THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
there stories that are worth the calculated we did this job. Her belief in the rightness REGIONAL CORRESPONDENT FOR
risks we take whenever we go into a conflict of what she did and the absolute necessi- AFGHANISTAN AND PAKISTAN.
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r2_150185opc_CS5.5.indd 23 4/17/15 5:06 PMA Libyan rebel prays next to his gun
on the frontlines outside the city of
Ajdabiya, south of Benghazi, eastern
An Afghan Army soldier adjusts
Libya, March 21, 2011.
his helmet at a training facility on
the outskirts of Kabul, May 8, 2013.
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Injured U.S.Marine Cpl. Burness
Britt reacts after being lifted
onto a medevac helicopter
from the U.S. Army’s Task Force
Lift “Dust Off,” Charlie Company
1-214 Aviation Regiment,
Helmand Province of southern
Afghanistan, June 4, 2011.
ANJA NIEDRINGHAUS (1965-2014) WAS
A GERMAN PHOTOJOURNALIST WHO
WORKED FOR THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.
SHE WAS THE ONLY WOMAN ON A
TEAM OF 11 AP PHOTOGRAPHERS THAT
WON THE 2005 PULITZER PRIZE FOR
BREAKING NEWS PHOTOGRAPHY FOR
COVERAGE OF THE IRAQ WAR.
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r2_150185opc_CS5.5.indd 25 4/17/15 5:06 PMAn Afghan
National Police
officer mans a
checkpoint on
the outskirts of
Maidan Shahr,
Wardak province,
Afghanistan. May
15, 2013.
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NO SAFE HAVEN SEBASTIAN JUNGER
BATTLE
SCARS
BY SEBASTIAN JUNGER
I wasn’t going to be engaging with it
myself—I thought I could take that affec-
tion and take my energy and my time
and continue to be involved by starting
an organization that might help the jour-
nalists who are still working out there.
Tim died from a wound that was not
necessarily mortal. He bled out. He died
of loss of blood. He died in the back of a
pickup truck racing to a Misrata hospital.
He died minutes from help. And there
were journalists around him and other
rebel fighters, who conceivably might
have been able to help him and slow
down his blood loss. But none of them
I REMEMBER WHEN I WAS to Libya together on assignment in 2011.
were medically trained. None of them
YOUNGER THINKING, IF I WAS And right after we were at the Oscars
knew what to do.
for Restrepo, just about at the last minute,
COVERING A WAR AND I for personal reasons I couldn’t go. Tim
Just a quick lesson in this. If you’ve
WASN’T IN A SITUATION WHERE got nothing else, you just put your knee
went on his own. And he was killed in
into the person’s wound and bear down
PEOPLE WERE SHOOTING the city of Misrata. I got the phone call
as hard as you can. Even that kind of
IN MY DIRECTION, I WASN’T in New York, and within about an hour
pressure into a wound can collapse the
REALLY COVERING THE WAR. of the shock of that terrible phone call, I
artery and slow down blood loss. So I’ve
realized that I was never going to cover
started an organization called Reporters
A totally silly way to think. What war again.
Instructed in Saving Colleagues, RISC.
you’re really doing is answering a Not so much that I was worried per-
Its mission is to provide free combat
personal need for excitement—and not sonally for myself. But I suddenly under-
training and combat medicine: frontline
necessarily a pure quest for information. stood the effect on other people. I was
medicine for experienced freelancers
But we’re human. That’s going to married at the time. My wife, Daniela,
who cover wars. We unfortunately
happen. It’s an important thing to be loved Tim. I was watching the effect on
don’t have enough funding to train
aware of. I’ve been very lucky as a her, and on Tim’s girlfriend. And in the
people who are not reporters yet. We
journalist, in the stories that I’ve covered, coming days, I would see the effect on
focus on freelancers, because they are
and in people’s responses to my work. his family and friends. I realized that it’s
the majority of people in war zones.
I’ve also been very lucky, two or three absolutely possible to gamble with your
Their casualty rate has doubled in
times that I can think of, that I didn’t get own life. There are very good reasons
CHRISTOPHER ANDERSON—MAGNUM PHOTOS
the past ten years. They are often very
killed or really badly hurt. It’s interest- to do it. What’s ethically way more com-
broke, and they can’t afford to invest in
ing, though. Looking back, what I find plicated is gambling with other people’s
their own training. So we pay for four
is that the situations that really disturb happiness. Ultimately that’s what you’re
days of lodging for them, a four-day
you psychologically aren’t when there’s doing when you go to a war zone.
intensive medical training course, and a
danger to yourself. It’s the pain of others. I think there’s a point in your life
combat medical kit, for 72 freelancers a
Damage to other people. It’s incredibly where you do have to put the concerns
year. We exist completely from dona-
traumatizing. of others before your own concerns
tions and people’s generosity.
The event in my life as a journalist or ambitions. I don’t think 20 or 30—or
We’re going into our fourth year.
that fundamentally changed the stories maybe even 40—is that point. Nearing
We’re very, very proud of RISC. If you
that I would cover was the death of my 50 it certainly is. At least it was for me.
have any interest at all in it, please look
good friend, the British photojournalist So I stopped war reporting completely.
us up online—RISCTraining.org.
Tim Hetherington. Incredibly, I have never had even a
Tim and I were in Afghanistan together passing regret about that decision. JUNGER IS AN AWARD-WINNING
in a small American outpost called Re- But I’m incredibly proud of the people JOURNALIST, FILMMAKER AND AUTHOR.
strepo. We made a film together called who are still doing it. It’s a very necessary THIS PIECE WAS EXCERPTED FROM A
Restrepo. We were friends, brothers, job. What I wanted to do with my love SPEECH AT THE 2015 OPC FOUNDATION
colleagues—we were supposed to go of journalism and foreign reporting—since SCHOLARSHIP LUNCHEON.
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to this year’s award winners!
for Media
CHRISTOPHER ANDERSON—MAGNUM PHOTOS
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Hospital in Beit Lahia. July 24, 2014. OLIVER WEIKEN European Press Agency CITATION WINNER FOR JOHN FABER AWARD
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ANNUAL AWARDS 2014
ROBERT FRIEDMAN, AWARDS COMITTEE CHAIR
EACH YEAR, DOZENS OF JOURNALISTS America looked at the exploitation of foreign
volunteer their time to sift through hundreds workers employed on U.S. military bases in
of entries for 22 Overseas Press Club awards. Afghanistan. And Jason Motlagh in the Virginia
It’s a lot of work, for which they get neither Quarterly Review painstakingly reconstructed
pay nor much recognition. The judges—there what happened during and after the collapse
were 79 this year—include editors, foreign of a factory in Bangladesh in 2013, where
correspondents and journalism professors. As more than 1,100 garment workers perished.
Scott Kraft, deputy editor of the Los Angeles Three media organizations captured two
Times, a former bureau chief in Nairobi, top prizes each this year: The New York Times
Johannesburg and Paris and head judge for for coverage of Ebola and the cover-up by
the Hal Boyle Award this year, put it: “It’s such the U.S. military of the contamination of its own
a rewarding experience for me—it’s an honor soldiers by chemical munitions; the Los Angeles
to serve.” Times for reporting on the Ukraine conflict and
It’s also rewarding for the winners. They the wave of migrants from Central America;
deserve all the recognition they get for putting and Al Jazeeera America for reports on U.S.
their lives on the line to bring us their accounts military workers and the war in Gaza. One
of wars, epidemics and disasters. This year’s photographer, Marcus Bleasdale, won one
winners took us to the front lines of the fight award and one citation for his visceral images
against Ebola in West Africa; to eastern from the Central African Republic, where a
Ukraine whose fields were littered with the violent conflict has been raging for years as the
debris of a passenger jet shot down over this world’s attention was focused elsewhere. His
disputed territory; and to Mexico’s border work, and that of all the winning journalists and
with the U.S., where an army of children were photographers this year, is testament to why
seeking refuge from poverty and violence at we do what we do–those of us who witness
home. One theme that caught the attention of and those of us who benefit from their courage
judges this year: the horrendous conditions and skill. It is indeed an honor to honor them.
in which humans toil. HBO set its sights on the
plight of migrant workers building stadiums FRIEDMAN IS EDITOR-AT-LARGE,
for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar. Al Jazeera BLOOMBERG NEWS
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r2_150185opc_CS5.5.indd 31 4/17/15 5:06 PMANNUAL AWARD WINNERS 2014
THE HAL BOYLE AWARD THE BOB CONSIDINE AWARD
Best newspaper, news service or Best newspaper, news service or online
online reporting from abroad interpretation of international affairs
The New York Times Los Angeles Times
EBOLA FROM THE FRONT LINE UKRAINE: A NATION TORN APART
The Los Angeles Times coverage of the
When the world’s attention focused on Ukrainian conflict stood out from the
the devastating spread of Ebola in West rest for its guts, credibility, originality,
Africa, reporters for The New York Times depth and sophistication of interpre-
delivered, day after day, foreign corre- tation, and its engaging writing style
spondence at its best. In a series of power- that made every story a gripping and
ful stories, Times correspondents captured compelling read. The intimacy of de-
the crisis in all its dimensions – writing tail – the shattered glass of the airport
lyrically about the human drama and de- terminal, the magic helmet, the bullet
livering smartly analytical pieces about the hole described to the second decimal
global effort to stop the disease’s spread point, the minibus from hell – combined
ADAM NOSSITER and where that effort went wrong. They SERGEI LOIKO with sophisticated analysis of how the
@AdamNossiter also dug beneath the surface of the un- economic effects disrupted everyone’s
folding disaster with stories that showed a daily lives. The reporters’ bravery took
deep understanding of the continent, writ- us to places we hadn’t seen before.
ing sensitively about the toll the disease
was taking on African cultural traditions
such as hand-holding in church and kiss-
SPONSORS: WILLIAM J. HOLSTEIN
AND RITA SEVELL
ing friends and relatives. In the tradition of Judges: Amanda Bennett,
Hal Boyle, for whom this award is named, freelance; Melissa Pozsgay,
Times reporters never shied away from Bloomberg News; Carol Rosenberg,
the front lines despite the risk. In one Miami Herald; June Thomas, Slate
memorable piece, the Times wrote about
the death of a star basketball player in Li-
CITATION:
beria and several generations of a house-
ANTHONY FAIOLA, GREG MILLER,
hold destroyed. In another, a 4-year-old
KEVIN SULLIVAN AND SOUAD
NORI ONISHI orphaned by Ebola roams a clinic looking CAROL WILLIAMS MEKHENNET
@Onishinyt for someone to take her home, another @cjwilliamslat The Washington Post
soul adrift.
FOREIGN FIGHTERS
SPONSOR: NORMAN PEARLSTINE
IN MEMORY OF JERRY FLINT THE ROBERT CAPA GOLD MEDAL AWARD
Judges: Scott Kraft, The Los Angeles Best published photographic reporting from abroad
Times; Barry Bearak, formerly of The requiring exceptional courage and enterprise
New York Times; Scott MacLeod,
American University of Cairo; MARCUS BLEASDALE
Elizabeth Mehren, Boston University @marcusbleasdale
Instagram: marcusbleasdale
JUDGE BEARAK RECUSED HIMSELF
FROM FINAL AWARD SELECTION
Human Rights Watch,
Foreign Policy and National
Geographic Magazine
CITATION: CENTRAL AFRICAN
HELENE COOPER (Judge Kraft recused himself
@helenecooper REPUBLIC INFERNO
from final citation selection)
Marcus Bleasdale viscerally captured
RICHARD MAROSI the brutal violence in the Central African
AND DON BARTLETTI Republic at a time when the world’s at-
Los Angeles Times tention was focused on ISIS, Ukraine and
PRODUCT OF MEXICO other crises. His menacing, unnerving im-
ages of chaos had a profound impact on the judges. The images
place the viewer in the moment in a way that demands and holds
attention.
SPONSOR: TIME MAGAZINE
CITATION:
SHERI FINK (Judge Pancho Bernasconi of Getty Images
@sherifink recused himself from final citation selection.)
JOHN MOORE @jbmoore6400
AND THE NEW
YORK TIMES STAFF Getty Images THE EBOLA CRISIS IN MONROVIA, LIBERIA
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r2_150185opc_CS5.5.indd 32 4/17/15 5:06 PMTHE OLIVIER REBBOT AWARD FEATURE PHOTOGRAPHY AWARD
Best photographic reporting from abroad Best feature photography published in any
in magazines or books medium on an international theme
JEROME SESSINI RODRIGO ABD
@itsnotme3 @rodrigoAbd
Magnum Photos, Associated Press
TIME and De Standaard PERU’S ILLEGAL GOLD MINING
CRIME WITHOUT PUNISHMENT Rodrigo Abd shines a light on an under-
Jerome Sessini’s photographs reported subject, the threat looming for
of the wreckage of a Malay- 20,000 wildcat gold miners in Peru. His
sia Airlines jet shot down over photographs are intimate and straight-
eastern Ukraine last year cap- forward, documenting the subject with-
tured imagery that is profoundly out stylistic trickery, enhancing their
elegiac. There is a quiet strength journalistic value.
that propels the narrative and
shows the horrors in a manner
that doesn’t make the viewer
turn away from what is a difficult
SPONSOR: CYMA RUBIN, BUSINESS OF ENTERTAINMENT
JUDGES FOR ALL FOUR PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS:
scene to process. Pancho Bernasconi, Getty Images; Jim Collins, NBC News; Lucy
Gilmour, The Wall Street Journal, Ed Kashi, photographer;
Robert Nickelsberg, photographer; Alan Taylor, Atlantic.com
THE JOHN FABER AWARD
Best photographic reporting from abroad
in newspapers or news services
THE LOWELL THOMAS AWARD
BULENT KILIC Best radio or audio news or
@kilicbil interpretation of international affairs
Agence France Presse
EUROMAIDAN REVOLUTION PRI’s The World
IN KIEV REPERCUSSIONS OF THE ARAB SPRING
Bulent Kilic brings viewers right into In a series of stories for PRI, Marine Olivesi
Ukraine’s revolution, capturing the describes the ordinary people whose
chaos of the moment. His work is lives have been torn apart by extremism
inspired visual reporting under dif- around the Middle East, from a young Lib-
ficult conditions. Each image can yan freedom fighter desperately search-
stand alone, and together they ing for a brother who has joined jihadis in
form a strong narrative. Syria to the fellow who regrets bring-
ing Chechen fighters into Syria. Olivesi
is a brave, enterprising, creative young
CITATION: reporter who took on an extremely ambi-
OLIVER WEIKEN MARINE OLIVESI tious assignment that goes way beyond
European Pressphoto Agency @marineolives the headlines to examine the origins and
2014 WAR BETWEEN ISRAEL AND HAMAS outcomes of extremism.
SPONSOR: FELICE LEVIN
Judges: Dorinda Elliott, freelance;
Rick Hornik, SUNY Stony Brook; Sarah
Lubman, Brunswick Group; Alberto
Riva, International Business Times
CITATION:
EMILY HARRIS,
AHMED ABU HAMDA
AND ABU BAKR BASHIR
NPR
AARON WAR IN GAZA
SCHACHTER
@worldaaron
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r2_150185opc_CS5.5.indd 33 4/17/15 5:06 PMTHE
ROBERT
CAPA GOLD
MEDAL
AWARD
WINNER
MARCUS
BLEASDALE
Human Rights
Watch,
Foreign Policy
and National
Geographic
Magazine
CENTRAL AFRICAN
REPUBLIC INFERNO
Marcus Bleasdale
viscerally captured
the brutal violence
in the Central
African Republic at
a time when the
world’s attention
was focused on ISIS,
Ukraine and other
crises. His menacing,
unnerving images
of chaos had a
profound impact
on the judges. The
images place
the viewer in the
moment in a way
that demands and
holds attention.
In the Central African Republic, a Christian lies dead
seconds after being shot by Rwandan soldiers. He
had killed a Muslim civilian in revenge for the killing
of his cousin minutes earlier, and was dragging the
body to the fire when peacekeepers shot him. An
example of the hatred boiling over in Bangui, capital
of the CAR. Feb. 9, 2014.
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ANNUAL AWARD WINNERS 2014
THE DAVID KAPLAN AWARD THE ED CUNNINGHAM AWARD
Best TV or video spot news reporting from abroad Best magazine reporting in print or
online on an international story
Medium/Matter
WHOEVER SAVES A LIFE
In the best tradition of wartime story-
telling, Aikins’s vivid characters offer
a truly fresh window into the Syrian
conflict. The wisecracking, passionate
young men, a volunteer rescue team in
Aleppo, remain with us long after read-
ing. In an inspirational and even funny
story, Aikins captures the friends’ long-
ings and doubts with astute empathy.
Despite intense risks to himself, Aikins
NICK SCHIFRIN PHILIP MARAVILLA BEN MULKEY keeps himself out of his understated
@nickschifrin, @phil_maravilla
MATTHIEU AIKINS prose, which is enriched by the quiet
Instagram: nickschifrin; @mattaikins photographs of Tomada. A reminder
Al Jazeera America CONFLICT IN GAZA that the essence of war lies in these
intimate moments, far from the halls of
The reporting of Nick Shifrin and his crew from Gaza for Al Jazeera
diplomatic power.
America distinguished itself in a field crowded with excellence.
It offered a seamless shifting of perspective from both sides of the SPONSOR: FORD MOTOR COMPANY
border; empathy shown by reports from, in some cases, the living Judges: Vivienne Walt, Time; Clay
rooms of the ordinary people caught in the crossfire; and brevity Chandler, freelance; James Graff,
and wit in writing. The Wall Street Journal; Scott
SPONSOR: BEN AND KAREN SHERWOOD Johnson, freelance
Judges: Bob Ivry, Bloomberg News; Alison Fitzgerald, Center
for Public Integrity; Dean Starkman, Los Angeles Times; Jenny CITATION:
Strasburg, The Wall Street Journal PATRICK RADDEN KEEFE
The New Yorker
SEBASTIANO THE HUNT FOR EL CHAPO
CITATION: HOLLY WILLIAMS, AGNES REAU, ERIN LYALL,
JUSTINE REDMAN, ABDI CADANI AND ANDY STEVENSON TOMADA
The CBS Evening News with Scott Pelley HOLY WAR @sebastianoTP
THE EDWARD R. MURROW AWARD
Best TV or video interpretation or documentary on
international affairs THE THOMAS NAST AWARD
Best cartoons on international affairs
POV, PBS and American
Documentary Inc.
BIG MEN
SIGNE WILKINSON
@signewilk
A surprising story that takes the viewer to an Philadelphia Daily News
unexpected place and introduces uncon- Wilkinson wades into the big story and
ventional characters. ``Big Men’’ unpacks a emerges with fresh ideas, delivering an
single oil deal, in the Republic of Ghana, and alternative take on events explored by
examines it, Rashomon-like, from the points others. Her original treatment provokes
of view of oilmen, venture capitalists, mili- thinking on many of the most important
tants, human-rights activists, politicians and issues of the day. The missile targeting
citizens of other countries who have endured terrorists also targets people living near
RACHEL the same plight. It reveals a farrago of politics, them; the search for the wreckage of
BOYNTON corruption and greed that attends the com- Malaysia Airlines flight 370 is made even
@bigmenthemovie mercialization of natural resources in devel-
more difficult by an ocean full of floating
oping nations. Deeply reported and compel- junk. Signe is often irreverent – and funny.
lingly told, this is investigative journalism of
the highest order.
Judges: Robert Sullivan, freelance;
SPONSOR: CBS Allen Alter, CBS; Peter Goodman,
Judges: Bobby Ghosh, Quartz; Jaime International Business Times; Marcy
FlorCruz, former CNN; Micah Garen, McGinnis, Al Jazeera America; Victor
freelance; Belinda Luscombe, Time Navasky, Columbia Journalism School
CITATION:
MARCELA GAVIRIA
@marcellular
SIMON KILMURRY PBS Frontline and ProPublica
@skilmurry FIRESTONE AND THE WARLORD
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r2_150185opc_CS5.5.indd 36 4/17/15 5:06 PMTHE MORTON FRANK AWARD THE CORNELIUS RYAN AWARD
Best magazine international business news Best non-fiction book on international affairs
reporting in print or online
Bloomberg Businessweek EVAN OSNOS
THE HEDGE FUND AND THE DESPOT @eosnos
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Six years after Robert Mugabe brutalized the
AGE OF AMBITION: CHASING
opposition to win re-election in 2008 as pres-
FORTUNE, TRUTH AND FAITH IN
ident of Zimbabwe, Bloomberg reporters
THE NEW CHINA
Cam Simpson and Jesse Westbrook set out
to trace a $100 million cash infusion originat- A powerful look into the soul of China
ing from a U.S. hedge fund that helped prop as its 1.3 billion inhabitants clamor for
up his dictatorial, financially hard-pressed economic and spiritual success after
regime at a crucial moment. In this well- decades of deprivation. The book is
written, diligently researched page-turner, distinguished by Osnos’s ability to pen-
Simpson and Westbrook raised the veil on a etrate Chinese society at all levels and
series of financial transactions involving the tell revealing stories about the country’s
CAM SIMPSON Wall Street hedge fund, bankers and mining breakneck transformation. The writing is elegant, and the first-
@CamSimpsonNews companies headquartered in London, shell hand reporting breaks new ground in explaining the trajectory
companies and a rich platinum mining claim of today’s China.
in Zimbabwe controlled by the government.
SPONSOR: FRIENDS OF RICHARD THRELKELD
Their account shows how global investments Judges: Dan Hertzberg, former Bloomberg; John Bussey,
can end up in treacherous hands with ter- The Wall Street Journal; Joyce Barnathan, International Center
rible unintended consequences. Much of the for Journalists; Neil Hickey, Columbia Journalism Review
reporting was done from afar after Simpson
went to Zimbabwe with a valid visa, only to
have government officials there threaten his CITATION:
arrest and force him to flee. JACK FAIRWEATHER
Basic Books
SPONSOR: MARC LEMCKE THE GOOD WAR: WHY WE COULDN’T WIN
Judges: Allan Dodds Frank, freelance; Walt THE WAR OR THE PEACE IN AFGHANISTAN
Bogdanich, The New York Times; Richard
Greenberg, NBC; Consuelo Mack, Consuela
Mack Wealth Track
JESSE THE MADELINE DANE ROSS AWARD
WESTBROOK CITATION: Best international reporting in the print medium or online
WILLIAM LANGEWIESCHE showing a concern for the human condition
Vanity Fair THE CHAOS COMPANY
The Virginia Quarterly Review
THE GHOSTS OF RANA PLAZA
THE MALCOLM FORBES AWARD The Madeline Dane Ross Award goes to
Best international business news reporting in the best international reporting in the print
newspapers, news services or online medium showing a concern for the human
condition. That requirement is impossible to
STEPHEN GREY quantify – it must be felt. Of the nearly 40
AND REUTERS TEAM submissions to this category, “The Ghosts
@stephengrey of Rana Plaza” evoked the deepest of feel-
Reuters ings, of sympathy for and outrage over
COMRADE CAPITALISM the horrendous death of 1,100 workers in
This series of nine stories showed how Dhaka as a result of a factory collapse on
President Vladimir Putin and his billionaire April 24, 2013. The piece renders in heart-
friends control the Russian economy and JASON MOTLAGH breaking detail the humanity of the victims
siphon off billions of dollars for them- @jasonmotlagh and their would-be rescuers, linking them
selves. Reuters was the first news orga- to all of us through the clothing that Bangla-
nization to document how contracts and desh produces in vast quantities for the rest
money moved through offshore tax ha- of the world. Our cheap jeans come at the
vens because it was able to obtain access cost of their lives. The story was painstak-
to confidential bank and travel databases. The corruption extended ingly reported by Jason Motlagh, movingly
even to the supply of a Russian rocket to the U.S. space program. photographed by Motlagh and Atish Saha
and superbly edited and presented by the
SPONSOR: FORBES MAGAZINE Virginia Quarterly Review.
Judges: William J. Holstein, business journalist/author; Pete
Engardio,The Boston Consulting Group; Jo Ling Kent, Fox News;
SPONSOR: LINDA FASULO
Judges: Howard Chua-Eoan, Bloomberg
Azmat Khan, Buzzfeed; Leah Nathans Spiro, Riverside Creative
Businessweek; Jeff Chu, Fast Company;
Management
Dorothy Parvaz, Al Jazeera
CITATION: JO BECKER, STEVEN LEE MYERS CITATION: JOSHUA HERSH
ATISH SAHA The Virginia Quarterly Review,
AND JIM YARDLEY @sahaAtish
The New York Times THE LESSONS OF ATMEH
PUTIN’S WAY
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