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2015.4.29 Club Event: Marking the 40th Anniversary of the Image that Symbolized the Fall of Saigon

2015.4.29 Marking the 40th Anniversary of the Image that Symbolized the Fall of Saigon At around 2:30 p.m. on 29 April 1975, Hugh Van Es, a Dutch photographer working for United Press International, captured the distant image of a helicopter perched precariously on a rooftop as a line of desperate people climbed a ladder in the hope of fleeing before North Vietnamese troops entered Saigon. Forty years later, it remains one of the most iconic images of the Vietnam War. Hugh, a legend not only of photography but also of his beloved Foreign Correspondents’ Club, passed away in 2009. But his wife, Annie, will be in attendance as we commemorate one of the defining moments in the history of war photography. The event takes place in the main bar ‘bunker’, where Hugh’s photo and camera are displayed alongside other haunting images from the Vietnam War. 2015.4.2 Speaker: Charles M. Sennott Co-Founder,GlobalPost Founder, The GroundTruth Project Topic: The Future of International Reporting in a Time of Peril - How the Next Generation Will Cover the Stories that Matter At a time of rising peril and struggling financial models for in-depth journalism, how will the next generation tell the stories that matter? The speaker explored answers to this question based on 30 years of working on the front lines not only on some of the world's most challenging stories as an editor and journalist but also based on 8 years on the front lines of creating the new business models we needed to sustain international reporting. He told the story of building GlobalPost's editorial team in 2008 and now shifting to a new model with GroundTruth that was more focused on mentoring and empowering a new generation of journalists who would be 'true north' in finding the path toward a bright future for international reporting in the digital age. GlobalPost co-founder Charles M. Sennott was also the Founder and Executive Director of The GroundTruth Project, a new non-profit organization that inspired and empowered the next generation of international correspondents to report and publish stories about the global challenges that impact us all. An award-winning foreign correspondent, author and documentary producer, Sennott was also an entrepreneur and pioneer in digital media. Sennott had more than 30 years experience in journalism and had covered cops, courts and criminal gangs as well as the biggest international stories of our time from the first Gulf War to the US invasion of Afghanistan after 9-11 and from the Arab Spring to the rise of ISIS. He was a longtime foreign correspondent for The Boston Globe and the former Middle East Bureau Chief for the paper. © 2015 The Foreign Correspondents' Club, Hong Kong. All rights reserved. http://fcchk.org/   / fcchk.org     / fcchk