NEWS CONFERENCE Iran Post-Election Crackdown In her first U.S. press conference, Roxana Saberi, the U.S. journalist recently freed from an Iranian prison said the Iranian government's forceful military response to dissent was going to increase, especially in the wake of last week's protests. Read more >> Photo: Saberi, left, and a family member of Silva Harotonian who is currently being held in the same prison where Saberi was detained.
Egypt July 1, 2009Wednesday, 01 July 2009 The OPC is very disturbed by the latest indications that authorities in the Egyptian government are being allowed to ignore Egypt's commitment to freedom of information. Read more...
Report to OPC Board of Governors June 30, 2009Tuesday, 30 June 2009 The Freedom of the Press Committee has had a productive month, having written 13 letters to foreign governments protesting violations of press freedom. The bad news is that there were so many cases... Read more...
Pakistan June 29, 2009Monday, 29 June 2009 The OPC has been informed by the Pakistan Press Foundation of a serious incident of abuse of press freedom by members of Pakistani security forces in the Pakistan Northwest frontier area. Read more...
OPC Calls for New Birth of Press Freedom in Sri LankaWednesday, 24 June 2009 The war is over, but Sri Lanka remains one of the three or four most dangerous countries in the world for a journalist to work. Even if the Sri Lankan government is not directly responsible for... Read more...
The American media has done a disservice to both the Iranian and American publics by blowing a few demonstrations way out of proportion. News outlets have been overtly campaigning for the protestors, as if democracy was breaking out after the farce of the election that will keep President Mahmoud Ahmedinejad in office.
When USA Today appeared in 1982, we pterosaurs (you know, toothy jaws, extinct: reporters) laughed it off as the newspaper for people who find TV too challenging. These days, its America-first, news-bits-for-dummies formula typifies our national view of the world.
This year's OPC Awards honored the amazing work that journalists managed to accomplish in 2008, despite the economic free fall and its impact on media companies. The 2008 OPC Awards marked the beginning of the club's 70th year. 2008 OPC Award Winners
The American media has done a disservice to both the Iranian and American publics by blowing a few demonstrations way out of proportion. News outlets have been overtly campaigning for the protestors, as if democracy was breaking out after the farce of the election that will keep President Mahmoud Ahmedinejad in office.
This year's OPC Awards honored the amazing work that journalists managed to accomplish in 2008, despite the economic free fall and its impact on media companies. The 2008 OPC Awards marked the beginning of the club's 70th year. 
