People Remembered: Frederic WiegoldMonday, 21 July 2008 | Al Kaff
Frederic Wiegold, 61, an OPC Foundation board member and a senior editor of the monthly magazine Bloomberg Markets, died July 19 after being stricken in his New York office with a brain aneurysm... Read more...
People Remembered: Faith D. WatermanMonday, 21 July 2008 | Al Kaff
Faith D. Waterman, 102, an OPC secretary in the 1950s, died July 15 in her New York City apartment. She had served as a personal assistant to the noted journalist Dorothy Thompson and to... Read more...
Twenty journalists from the United States and Germany will spend nine weeks in August and September working as foreign correspondents on either side of the Atlantic as 2008 Arthur F. Burns Fellows. Today, at least half of German journalists who report on international issues are former Burns Fellows.
The Cabot Prize honors journalists who have covered the Western Hemisphere and, through their work, have furthered inter-American understanding by reporting on Latin America and the Caribbean.
Gordon G. Chang will discuss the long-term implications on China of the August Beijing Olympics, China-Taiwan relations and America’s changing relations with Taiwan on Thursday, July 31, at the Taipei Economic & Cultural Office in New York, 1 East 42nd Street, starting at 6 p.m. after refreshment at 5:30 p.m.
OPC Member Marcus W. Brauchli will become the executive editor of The Washington Post on September 8 at a time when the paper is undergoing changes under younger leadership.
Human Rights Watch has published a pocket guide for reporters planning to travel to China to cover the Beijing Olympics. Produced with the support of the Committee to Protect Journalists, the “Reporters’ Guide to Covering the Beijing Olympics” addresses how to report in a largely closed country, with particular attention to the hazards facing Chinese sources and news assistants.
IWMF will also honor Edith Lederer with the 2008 Lifetime Achievement Award. Lederer, chief correspondent at the United Nations for the Associated Press, was the first female resident correspondent in Vietnam in 1972. She has worked on every continent except Antarctica since she began her journalism career in 1966.
At least 82 journalists were forced to leave their home countries last year because of assaults, kidnappings, death threats or harassment, the Committee to Protect Journalists reported. More than half of the journalists fled conflict-ridden Iraq and Somalia: at least 22 from Iraq and 21 from Somalia. The Committee reported, “The rate of journalists going into exile – about seven per month – is double the average that CPJ has recorded since it began compiling such data in 2001.”
Edie Lederer has reported from every continent except Antarctica for the Associated Press for 41 years. She is currently the APʼs U.N. bureau chief. Bulletin editor spoke with Lederer recently about her reporting career during breakfast at the Ambassador Grill Millennium Hotel in New York City.
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IWMF will also honor Edith Lederer with the 2008 Lifetime Achievement Award. Lederer, chief correspondent at the United Nations for the Associated Press, was the first female resident correspondent in Vietnam in 1972. She has worked on every continent except Antarctica since she began her journalism career in 1966.
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