Two OPC board members will
be recognized this fall for outstanding work. New York Times correspondent
Rukmini Callimachi will receive the Marie Colvin Front Page Award for Foreign
Correspondence, and OPC second vice president Abigail Pesta will receive two
Exceptional Merit in Media awards from the National Women’s Political Caucus.
The Newswomen’s Club of New York, the only professional
organization in the New York area dedicated to supporting newswomen, grants Front
Page Awards to recognize exceptional work by women in the news business. This spring, Callimachi won both the Hal Boyle and Bob Considine awards for her reporting on a trove of al-Qaida documents uncovered in Mali.
Pesta will receive awards from the National Women’s
Political Caucus for two of her stories, both about teenage girls who fought
back against courts and schools for their handling of sexual assault reports. The
stories were reported on NBC News and in Cosmopolitan magazine.
The 2014 Front Page Awards will be given out during a black
tie gala on Thursday, November 13, at the Down Town Association in Manhattan.