From left: Mateo Hoke, Jacob Kushner, Jad Sleiman, Stephen Kalin, Valerie Hopkins, Christopher Harress, Patricia Rey Mallén, Frederick Bernas, Marina Villeneuve, Tom Finn, Justine Drennan, Anders Melin, Xiaoqing Pi, and Adriane Quinlan

Congratulations to the 2013 Overseas Press Club Foundation Scholars!

The Awards will be presented at the Annual Scholarship Luncheon on Friday, February 22, 2013 at the Yale Club

Frederick Bernas, Columbia Graduate School of Journalism
(BA, University of Bristol, England)
Walter and Betsey Cronkite Internship
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Justine Drennan, Cambridge University (BA, Princeton University)
Stan Swinton Internship
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Tom Finn, New York University
(BA, School of Oriental & African Studies, London)
H.L. Stevenson Internship
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Christopher Harress, Columbia Graduate School of Journalism (BA, Edinburgh Napier University, Scotland)
Emanuel R. Freedman Scholarship
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Mateo Hoke, UC-Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism
(BS, University of Colorado-Boulder)
Harper's Magazine Scholarship in memory of I.F. Stone
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Valerie Hopkins, Columbia Graduate School of Journalism
(BA, College of William & Mary)
Jerry Flint Internship for international Business Reporting
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Stephen Kalin, American University in Cairo
(BA, Davidson College)
Roy Rowan Scholarship
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Jacob Kushner, Columbia Graduate School of Journalism
(BA, University of Wisconsin-Madison)
N.S. Bienstock Memorial Scholarship
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Anders Melin, New York University (BS, University of Missouri)
Reuters Internship
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Patricia Rey Mallén, CUNY Graduate School of Journalism (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid)
Theo Wilson Scholarship
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Xiaoqing Pi, UC-Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism
(BA, Fudan University, China)
Standard & Poors Award for Economic and Business Reporting
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Adriane Quinlan, University of Minnesota (BA, Yale University)
Flora Lewis Internship
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Jad Sleiman, Temple University
David R. Schweisberg Memorial Scholarship
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Marina Villeneuve, Dartmouth College
Irene Corbally Kuhn Scholarship

Congratulations to the 2013 winners of the OPC Foundation Scholarships. The awards were presented at the annual Scholarship Luncheon on February 22, 2013.

Congratulations to 2008 Stan Swinton winner Paul Sonne (center) for winning an Overseas Press Club Award. Based in London, Paul and his colleagues from the Wall Street Journal won the Malcolm Forbes Award for best international business reporting in newspapers. The winning series of articles, “Censorship, Inc,” described how Iran, Egypt, Libya and Syria used technology from Western and Chinese companies to spy on dissidents, conduct surveillance, and track mobile phone use.

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The work of 2006 OPC Foundation scholar Rawya Rageh reporting for Al Jazeera English on air and on Twitter was named one of the top 50 news stories produced by graduates of Columbia Journalism School as part of its Centennial Celebration. Rawya was in Cairo’s Tahrir Square for the dramatic protests that toppled Hosni Mubarak and marked the historic bloom of the Arab Spring. 

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2009 OPC Foundation scholarship winner Jeff Horwitz is a finalist for a 2012 Gerald Loeb Award for Distinguished Business and Financial Journalism for his article, “Banks Took Billions in Insurance Kickbacks” in American Banker.   

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2001 OPC Foundation/Kendrick scholarship winner Melissa Chan has been expelled from China. Melissa had been a reporter for Al-Jazeera English based in China for five years. Her press credentials and visa were not extended and AJE had no choice but to close its Beijing bureau.

The Overseas Press Club Foundation is the 501 (C)(3) charitable organization affiliated with the Overseas Press Club, which was founded in New York City in 1939 by a group of foreign correspondents to improve the profession of international journalism. The 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 program for undergraduate and graduate students in American colleges and universities, who aspire to become foreign correspondents. The program began in 1992 and every year offers $2,000 scholarships to 14 talented student winners of a national essay competition. In 2006, the OPC Foundation began partnering with media organizations to offer internships. The Foundation pays travel and living expenses for interns in foreign bureaus. Six of this year's winners will have internships with Associated Press (Cairo, Johannesburg, and Bangkok) and Reuters (Singapore, Beijing, and Hong Kong).

The Foundation feels it is more important than ever to encourage young correspondents to travel and work abroad particularly at a time when many major news organizations have sharply reduced their networks of experienced correspondents around the world.