This year’s Annual Awards Dinner featured OPC Award recipients in 22 categories. In addition, OPC President Marcus Mabry presented the President’s Award to David Rohde, investigative reporter for Thomson Reuters.
During his keynote address, Dean Baquet, executive editor of The New York Times, praised award recipients for their tenacity, and called for more recognition of great international reporting amid “hand wringing” about financial pressures on the news industry.
“The issues confronting the world are big, and our ambitions should be at least as big,” he said. “The only institution big enough and powerful enough and unselfish enough to investigate is the press. There may be no time in our history when the absolute necessity of what we do is more powerfully evident yet our insecurity is too much on display. So let’s stop. Let’s go back to being arrogant please. Just a little.”
Click through the slideshow above to see photos of this year’s award recipients with their certificates.
Scroll down and click on the widow below to see a video archive of our livestream. Skip to the 30-minute mark to see the beginning of the program with opening remarks from Marcus Mabry. For individual clips from the program, follow the links below.
The Overseas Press Club of America: an Introduction >>
OPC Awards Dinner Keynote Speaker: Dean Baquet >>
OPC President’s Award: David Rohde >>
OPC Annual Awards Dinner: Candlelighting Ceremony with Kathy Gannon >>
THE HAL BOYLE AWARD: Adam Nossiter, Nori Onishi, Helene Cooper, Sheri Fink and The New York Times Staff
THE BOB CONSIDINE AWARD: Sergei Loiko and Carol Williams, Los Angeles Times
THE ROBERT CAPA GOLD MEDAL AWARD: Marcus Bleasdale, Human Rights Watch, Foreign Policy and National Geographic Magazine
THE OLIVIER REBBOT AWARD: Jérôme Sessini, Magnum Photos, Time and De Standaard
THE JOHN FABER AWARD: Bulent Kilic, Agence France Presse
FEATURE PHOTOGRAPHY AWARD: Rodrigo Abd, The Associated Press
THE LOWELL THOMAS AWARD: Marine Olivesi and Aaron Schachter, PRI’s “The World”
THE DAVID KAPLAN AWARD: Nick Schifrin, Philip Maravilla and Ben Mulkey, Al Jazeera America, for “Conflict in Gaza”
THE EDWARD R. MURROW AWARD: Rachel Boynton and Simon Kilmurry
THE ED CUNNINGHAM AWARD: Matthieu Aikins and Sebastiano Tomada-Piccolomini, Medium/Matter, for “Whoever Saves a Life”
THE THOMAS NAST AWARD: Signe Wilkinson, Philadelphia Daily News
THE MORTON FRANK AWARD: Cam Simpson and Jesse Westbrook, Bloomberg Businessweek
THE MALCOLM FORBES AWARD: Stephen Grey and Reuters team, Reuters
THE CORNELIUS RYAN AWARD: Evan Osnos, for Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth and Faith in the New China, Farrar, Straus & Giroux
THE MADELINE DANE ROSS AWARD: Jason Motlagh and Atish Saha, The Virginia Quarterly Review
THE DAVID A. ANDELMAN and PAMELA TITLE AWARD: Josh Fine and David Scott, HBO Real Sports With Bryant Gumbel
THE JOE and LAURIE DINE AWARD: Samuel Black, Anjali Kamat and Fault Lines Staff, Al Jazeera America
THE WHITMAN BASSOW AWARD: Nick Miroff, The Washington Post
THE ROBERT SPIERS BENJAMIN AWARD: Molly Hennessy-Fiske, Tracy Wilkinson, Kate Linthicum, Cindy Carcamo and Don Bartletti, Los Angeles Times
BEST MULTIMEDIA NEWS PRESENTATION: Steve Inskeep, Kainaz Amaria and NPR Staff, NPR
BEST INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING: C.J. Chivers, The New York Times
BEST COMMENTARY AWARD: Matthew Kaminski, The Wall Street Journal