Day: November 5, 2015
Former AAPA President Rony Koven Dies
Ronald Koven, a long-time Paris-based journalist who struggled tirelessly for the freedom of the press, died on Friday Oct. 30 in Paris of complications following a long battle with cancer. He was 80. Rony, as he was known to his friends and colleagues, had a long and distinguished career as a foreign correspondent for major U.S. newspapers, and was an ardent ambassador for press freedom around…
AAPA Gears Up for COP21 Climate Change Conference
AAPA members now know the who, what, where, when and why of the upcoming COP21 conference on climate change thanks to a briefing on Nov. 3 from Celine Ramstein, the COP21 project manager for the Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relations. Over 90 minutes, Ramstein, whose institute is working closely with the French government to prepare for the negotiations, enlightened us…