Past OPC Presidents
| Allan Dodds Frank, 2008-10 |
Allan Dodds Frank is a contributor to The Daily Beast, the website founded by Tina Brown. He has been a television correspondent for ABC News, CNN and Bloomberg. Frank has been an Overseas Press Club member since 1985, most recently served as second vice president and previously OPC treasurer, governor, chairman of the OPC Awards Committee and President of the Overseas Press Club Foundation, where he serves on the board and executive committee. |
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| Marshall Loeb, 2006-08 |
Marshall Loeb is a Senior Correspondent and a member of the Advisory Board of CBS MarketWatch.com, a leading financial and business news service on the net. He is also a daily commentator on CBS Radio Network. He is author of 13 books, most recently Marshall Loeb's Lifetime Financial Strategies. |
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| Richard B. Stolley, 2004-06 |
Richard B. Stolley is Senior Editorial Adviser at Time Inc., where he has worked in various editorial jobs since 1953. He started his journalistic career at the age of 15, when he took over as sports editor of the Pekin, Illinois, Daily Times, while he was still attending high school. (The war was going on, adult males were in short supply and “the publisher didn’t want to hire a woman, so he hired a child instead” was the explanation). He worked for two... |
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| Alexis Gelber, 2002-2004 |
A longtime top editor of Newsweek, Alexis Gelber supervised award-winning coverage of politics, social issues and international news as the magazine’s National Affairs Editor, Assistant Managing Editor, and Managing Editor of Newsweek International. |
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| Larry Martz, 2000-2002 |
The retired editor of World Press Review magazine, Larry Martz was a Newsweek staffer for 32 years, including assignments as business editor, national affairs editor, assistant managing editor and editor of Newsweek International. He remains co-chairman of the OPC Freedom of the Press Committee. |
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| John Corporon, 1996-98 |
John Corporon won numerous awards from the New Orleans Press Club, local Emmys in New York and a national Emmy in 1964 as executive producer for a documentary on the Ku Klux Klan. He retired in 1996 and was elected president of the OPC. He is currently on the OPC Board and vice president of the OPC Foundation. |
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| Bill Holstein, 1994-96 |
Bill Holstein has been involved in international journalism since being dispatched to Hong Kong in 1979 as a young United Press International correspondent. After winning an OPC award for his coverage of China's economic modernization, he rose to became Beijing bureau chief and returned to the United States in 1982. |
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| Larry Smith, 1992-94 |
Larry Smith was born in Michigan in 1940, and graduated from the University of Michigan with a degree in English in 1962. He began his newspaper career with The Wyoming Eagle in Cheyenne, and subsequently worked as a reporter and editor with five newspapers, including The New York Daily News and The New York Times. |
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| Leonard Saffir, 1988-90 |
Leonard Saffir has spent a major part of his working career as a reporter, foreign correspondent, editor, columnist, publisher and author. After service in the Marine Corps, Saffir joined International News Service in New York and later in Texas. In Dallas he was assistant bureau chief. He was transferred to Tokyo where he reported news from all over Asia for three years. |
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