OPC Foundation Scholars: Winners Around the Globe

The OPC Foundation has a broad mandate to improve the media’s understanding of international issues and to raise the quality of news-gathering efforts in covering the world. The most tangible expression of this charter is a scholarship/internship program for undergraduate and graduate students in American colleges and universities, who aspire to become foreign correspondents. Twelve, $2,000 scholarships are awarded annually, and sometimes accompany a paid internship with the Associated Press or Reuters. Help us help them and donate to the Foundation today >>

Here are updates on a few of our recent winners:

Ed Ou, 2007, worked for Reuters and AP and is now a featured photographer with Getty Images in Kazakhstan. His photo featured right was part of The New York Timesinterview with Ou on what it was like to photograph the uprising in Egypt.

Martin Patience, 2004, is a correspondent for the BBC in the Middle East.

Ben Hubbard, an AP/Foundation intern in 2007, returned to AP as a reporter in Jerusalem.

Krista Mahr, 2004, is with Time in Hong Kong.

A Foundation intern with Reuters/Buenos Aires, Katie Paul, 2007, is a reporter with newsweek.com

Melissa Chen, 2001, is with Al-Jazeera English in China.

Max Strasser, 2008, is with Al-Masry A-Youn in Egypt.

Emily Steel, 2005, covers media and tech for The Wall Street Journal.

The blog on Yemen by Haley Sweetland Edwards, 2009, is on LATimes.com

Sarah Mishkin, 2008, is with Daily News Egypt.

Simon Akam, 2009, a Foundation intern with Reuters in Istanbul, had a front page story in The New York Times last summer.

A Foundation intern with Reuters/Mexico City, Mariano Castillo, 2008, is now with CNN.

An AP/Foundation intern, Michael Miller, 2009, is stringing for AP in Mexico City

Jason McClure, 2003, is a reporter for Bloomberg News in Ethiopia.

An AP/Foundation intern in Moscow, Paul Sonne, 2008, is now with The Wall Street Journal in London.

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