Vaughan Smith in Afghanistan
Ambush in Helmand
Here's my second piece on Channel 4 News, which was broadcast on Thursday night. This piece also went out on PBS Newshour. They ran it with few changes but here is the link to that version as well...I think the...
Tracking the Taliban: Vaughan Smith's video report from Helmand Province
I have just returned from a second trip with the Grenadier Guards, who I visited in Helmand in 2007. They are now in Nadi Ali, in Helmand province, Afghanistan. I was there for a month, but my computer got waterlogged and...
From the NATO Review
I've cross-posted this on the Frontline blog. Vaughan features in an article in the latest edition of NATO Review. Vaughan discusses how he got into journalism, military minders and the importance of independent reporting, Managing correspondents in the field has...
Media Guardian Innovation Awards
Stepping in for Vaughan here.... and have crossposted on the Frontline blog.... Here's some great news. Club founder and journalist whizz of the old school, Vaughan Smith, is up for a gong at the inaugural Media Guardian Innovation Awards,...
Owning Up To War
I have written an article in the Frontline Club newsletter linked above....
Newsnight - report from Sangin valley, Helmand, Afghanistan
This is the full 16 minute documentary that originally aired on BBC Newsnight on 26 September, 2007. It's available for download on Google Video. My original text from the evening that I returned from Sangin:I have been out on...
In the Press Gazette
Vaughan is interviewed in the Press Gazette this week about the hows, whys and history of frontline journalism, “When we started off we wanted to have complete independence, we were paying for our own trips and we were risking our...
Afghanistan Newsnight website
You can view the 16 minute Newsnight documentary on the Newsnight website for, I think, three days. We'll post the entire film on the blog, on YouTube and Brightcove as soon as we can. Meanwhile, take a minute to...