Overseas Press Club of America

The Overseas Press Club of America was founded in 1939 in New York by a group of foreign correspondents. The OPC seeks to maintain an international association of journalists working in the United States and abroad ; to encourage the highest standards of professional integrity and skill in the reporting of news ; to help educate a new generation of journalists ; to contribute to the freedom and independence of journalists and the press throughout the world, and to work toward better communication and understanding among people. OPC Third Vice President Arlene Getz is leaving Newsweek to take up a new position as Editor in Charge, Media at Thomson... In the latest blow to Newsweek, its best-known columnist, Fareed Zakaria, has gone to work for Time magazine, its... Washington Post Company has agreed to sell NEWSWEEK to Sidney Harman. As part of the transition, editor Jon Meacham...