Foreign Press Association

The Foreign Press Association ( FPA ) in 11 Carlton House Terrace, London, is a Foreign Correspondents' Club.

It is a umbrella organization for foreign journalists,[a] offering support, social events, and a venue for press briefings in London.

History

• The FPA was founded in 1888 and claims to be one of the oldest clubs for foreign correspondents in the world.[1] The organization has 700 members representing around 1,000 media from some 70 countries.[2]
• In 1913 it was merged with the Society of Foreign Journalists.

Chair

• 1888-1911: Gabriel de Wesselitzky »Novoye Vremya (newspaper)«
• 1911-1919:Joseph Louis Condurier de Chassaigne, Le Figaro[3]
• 1936-1940 Adalbert de Segonzac [4]
• 1941-1942: Gabriel Keller[5]
• 1943 to 1950: Andrew Rothstein
• 1960: Claude Veillet - Lavallee France-Soir
• 1964: Nasim Ahmed ( Al - Jamhour Al - Jadid, Beirut, El Gomhouria)
• 1969-1971: Henry Gustav Alexander (1914-1986) [6]
• 1974-1982: Claus Toksvig
• 1983-1988: Roland Hill (journalist)[7]
• 2006 to 2007 Annalisa Piras was the first Italian president of the London Foreign Press Association[8]
• 2007–2009: Nazenin Ansari
• 2011: Mustapha Karkouti (*October 3, 1943 at Latakia, Syria)
• 2014: Paola Totaro
• Jan. 2018-14 January 2020: Bénédicte Paviot
• 2020-2021: Kate McCure, Australian Media
• 2022: Daniel Faitaua
• 2023: Dagmar Seeland (* September 1964), Stern Magazine, Germany

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The Foreign Press Association Media Awards

'Dialogue of Cultures'

• 2006: photojournalist Gabriele Torsello, known as 'Kash'. Making his first public appearance since being released by the Taleban on 3 November.

TV News Story of the Year

• 2010: Nick Martin, Mexican Girls, Channel 4 News
• 2024: Yousef Hammash, Inside the Gaza Siege, Channel 4 News
• 2024: Stuart Ramsay, Toby Nash, Dominique Van Heerden, The struggle to reach America, Sky News
• 2024: Darshna Soni, Undercover inside Reform UK's campaign, Channel 4 News

TV Feature/Documentary

• 2010: Antony Thomas, Saeed Kamali Dehghan, For Neda, Mentorn and HBO
• 2024: Daniele Hamamdjian, Kieron O’Dea, Marc D’Amours, Inside the ‘Little Gaza’ of the West Bank, & Living under Israeli Lockdown in Hebron, Global News, Canada
• 2024: Tiziana Prezzo, Child Slavery in the UK

Radio

• 2010: Tim Whewell, Keith Morris, Crossing Continents: Uganda, BBC Radio Current Affairs
• 2024: Gabi Biesinger, 85 years of “Kindertransport” to Great Britain, ARD, German Radio

Financial/Economic Story of the Year

• 2010: James Sterngold, Who Cares About Another $200 Million, Bloomberg Businessweek
• 2024: Alaric Nightingale, Julian Lee, Alex Longley, Angus Bennett, Leila Hussain, Russia’s Shadow Fleet, Bloomberg, David Collins, Will Roe
• 2024: Cocaine Inc: how British drugs cash is turned into solid gold in Dubai, The Sunday Times Magazine
• 2024: Amanda Chicago Lewis, Secrets of a ransomware negotiator, 1843 Magazine
• 2024: Fatima Lianes, Fanon Kabwe, Diego Barrero, Fran Pigni, Dying Earth – Beyond the Oil Age, Al Jazeera English

Environment

• 2010: Lindsey Hilsum, Rare Earth, China, Channel 4 News
• 2024: Jenny Kleeman, Why are so many young people getting cancer?, The Sunday Times Magazine
• 2024: Callum Macrae, Mark Williams, People & Power – A Crude Mistake?, Al Jazeera English
• 2024: Grace Malie, Tuvalu: Losing Paradise

Web Innovation

• 2010: BBC News website Election 2010 team, General Election Live, BBC News Website

Sports

• 2010: Alex Perry, Playing the Rebel Game, TIME

Travel/Tourism Story of the Year

• 2010: Horatio Clare, Rock of Ages, Conde Nast Traveller
• 2024: Miles Johnson, What happened to Russia's seized superyachts?, Financial Times,
• 2024: David Rose, 11,000 metres from daylight -- the inside story of the remotest ever cave dive, The Sunday Times Magazine
• 2024: Sue-Lin Wong, The cruise that will get you chased by the Chinese coastguard, 1843 Magazine

Feature Print/Web

• 2010: Dan McDougall, The Return of the Bloody Diamonds, Live Magazine, Mail on Sunday

Print & Web News

• 2010: Ed Crooks, BP: Inside Story, Financial Times, FT Weekend Magazine
• 2024: Mark MacKinnon, The Fearless, The Globe & Mail, Canada
• 2024: Michael Neudecker, Die Wut der Abgehängten (The anger of those left behind), Süddeutsche Zeitung, Germany
• 2024: Niels Posthumus, Merlin Daleman 'De brexit heeft een aanzuigende werking op bootmigranten' ('Brexit has a pull effect on boat migrants'), Trouw, Netherlands

Woman Journalist of the Year

• 2010: Marie Colvin, Swift and Bloody: the Taliban's revenge, The Sunday Times

PRINT&WEB News Story of the Year

• 2024: Will Coldwell, A teenaged migrant piloted a dinghy that sank in the Channel. Then he was charged with manslaughter, Prospect
• 2024: Stephen Grey, Maayan Lubell, Ryan McNeill, Hunted by Hamas, Reuters
• 2024: Neggeen Sadid, Why I opened a secret school for Afghan girls, 1843 Magazine

RADIO/PODCAST of the Year

• 2024: Chloe Hadjimatheou, Claudia Williams, Hannah Varrall, Gary Marshall, Jasper Corbett, The Gas Man, Tortoise Media
• 2024: Fiona Hamilton, David Collins, Stephen Drill, Cocaine Inc., The Times, The Sunday Times & News Corp Australia
• 2024: Poonam Taneja, Bloodlines, BBC Asian Network, BBC Sounds, CBC Podcasts

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FPA Member

• 2010: Catherine Mayer, Here Comes the Junior Partner, TIME

Journalist of the Year

• 2006: Dominic Waghorn of Sky News, for his report "China: Human Rights", in which interviewees risked their lives and Waghorn was physically assaulted three times to get his extraordinary report.
• 2010: Antony Thomas, Saeed Kamali Dehghan, For Neda, Mentorn and HBO

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See also

• Hollywood Foreign Press Association: 1943-June 12, 2023 rebranded to Golden Globe Foundation a nonprofit organization of journalists and photographers who reported on the US-American entertainment industry for predominantly foreign media markets is founding and conducting the annual Golden Globe Awards.
• Bundespressekonferenz
• Edgar Ansel Mowrer became president of the Foreign Press Association (ment is the de:Verein der Ausländischen Presse in Deutschland)

Notes

1. A foreign journalist is a journalist that has not the citizenship of a referring state and is subjext to alien law of the referring state.

References

1. "Foreign Press Association – The Parliamentary Press Gallery". Parliamentary Press Gallery. Retrieved 5 January 2025.
2. Cathie Burton, Alun Drake, Hitting the Headlines in Europe: A Country-by-country Guide to Effective Media Relations, 2004, [1]
3. Sonja Hillerich, Deutsche Auslandskorrespondenten im 19. Jahrhundert: Die Entstehung einer transnationalen journalistischen Berufskultur, 2018, p. 78
4. French Writer Adalbert de Segonzac January 4, 2002, [2]
5. The Swiss observer : the journal of the Federation of Swiss Societies in the UK, edited by: Federation of Swiss Societies in the United Kingdom, 1950, [3]
6. Werner Röder, Herbert A. Strauss, Biographisches Handbuch der deutschsprachigen Emigration, Institut für Zeitgeschichte, 2016, [4]
7. S. J. Goldsmith, Britain in the Eye of the World: The Foreign Press Association in London 1888–1988, London 1988, p. 5
8. Anna Politkovskaya had attended the FPA Media Awards in 2001, [5]
9. fpalondon, [6]
10. The Foreign Press Association Media Awards 2024 - Winners, [7]
11. The Foreign Press Association Media Awards 2010 - Winners, [8]