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Eulogy for Norman Schorr
Monday, 28 Mar 2011

Until this last year or so when illness and injury began to overtake him, Norman’s concern for journalists in jeopardy never stopped, never quit. It might be a reporter imprisoned without trial in Belarus. Or an editor in Sri Lanka whose office...

People Remembered: Barry Zorthian
Thursday, 06 Jan 2011
Veteran journalist and U.S. diplomat Barry Zorthian

Barry Zorthian, 90, died December 30 in Washington, D.C. Few correspondents could write his obituary better than Richard Pyle, an AP reporter in Saigon during the Vietnam War.

People Remembered: Dan Kurzman
Tuesday, 28 Dec 2010
Dan Kurzman

Dan Kurzman, 88, who reported from Europe, Asia, Africa, the Middle East and Latin America, and who won two OPC awards for his books, died December 12 at Sloan Kettering Memorial Hospital in New York City of pneumonia following...

People Remembered: Richard C. Holbrooke
Tuesday, 14 Dec 2010
Richard C. Holbrooke

Richard C. Holbrooke was the speaker at the OPC’s award dinner on April 22, 1999 during which he surprised Endre Marton, the father of Richard’s third wife, Kati Marton, an author and journalist...

People Remembered: Alfred Balk
Tuesday, 30 Nov 2010
Alfred Balk served as an editor at four national magazines and also had a long w

Alfred Balk, 80, an OPC member since 1976 and founding editor in 1974 of the World Press Review, died November 25 of colon cancer at this home in Huntley, Illinois.

People Remembered: Elizabeth (Peggy) Loeb
Friday, 05 Nov 2010
Elizabeth (Peggy) Loeb

Elizabeth (Peggy) Loeb, 84, wife of Marshall Loeb, OPC president 2006 to 2008, died October 27 in Scarsdale, New York, where they lived. Peggy and Marshall, met in post-WWII Frankfurt, Germany, when he was a...

People Remembered: Frank Bourgholtzer
Thursday, 14 Oct 2010
Frank Bourgholtzer

Frank Bourgholtzer, 90, a former NBC News foreign correspondent and the network’s first full-time White House correspondent, died October 8 in his Santa Monica, California home.

People Remembered: Jay Colton
Wednesday, 13 Oct 2010
Jay Colton

Longtime TIME magazine photo editor and photographer Jay Colton died on September 18 while attending a photography festival in Brazil.

People Remembered: Murray Sayle
Monday, 27 Sep 2010
Murray Sayle in Nepal before joining a 1971 Everest expedition.

Murray Sayle, 84, an Australian correspondent who reported from Europe, Asia, the Middle East and South America, died September 19 in Sydney. After reporting for the Sydney Daily Telegraph and writing a column for the...

People Remembered: Jerry Flint
Thursday, 12 Aug 2010
Jerry Flint

Jerry Flint, 79, who covered the automotive industry for more than half a century, died of a stroke August 7 in Hudson, New York. He was the husband of Kate McLeod, a board member of the OPC Foundation.