Your OPC has been busy! Since the new officers and board of governors took office at the end of the summer, we have dedicated ourselves to three
priorities, all designed to increase the already impressive contribution that the OPC makes to our members and our industry.
We have restructured the board to dedicate ourselves to services for members, both existing and potential, whether those members are veteran reporters and
editors, freelancers or students. In addition to services, we have reinvigorated our social mission, creating a committee dedicated to planning regular
networking opportunities for all members. So if you are in New York – or coming through New York – look us up and come for a drink with members and
potential members.
But I am most proud of the work that we are doing in conjunction with other journalism organizations to create, for the first time, a compact between news
organizations and journalists, in particular freelance, around safety and professionalism. We have only just begun, but our partners include the Committee
to Protect Journalists, Reporters Without Borders, the Frontline Club, the International Press Institute’s Foreign Editors Circle and the OPC Foundation.
We met in September at The New York Times headquarters to try to align efforts that many of our groups had started separately.
We will keep you updated on our efforts. In the meantime, please help us in our drive to bring our members the professional services you need and the
social events you want. And, just as important, get friends and colleagues who are not members of the OPC to join. We are stronger together.
Your President,
Marcus Mabry