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Absolut Fallout
It’s been a full week since the eruption of fury over the Absolut advertising campaign that ran in Mexico. Since we broke the story it has gone international, appearing on the Los Angeles Times, Reuters, AP , the Drudge Report, The UK’s Independent, Radio Five Live and other major media outlets, as well as thousands […]
Absolut fallout
It’s been a full week since the eruption of fury over the Absolut advertising campaign that ran in Mexico. Since we broke the story it has gone international, appearing on the Los Angeles Times, Reuters, AP , the Drudge Report, The UK’s Independent, Radio Five Live and other major media outlets, not to mention thousands […]
Best of Photojournalism awards 2008
The results in the judging for Best of Photojournalism 2008 are now in. The winners in the International news category can be found here. Cedric Gerbehaye, working for Agence VU, and publsihed in Newsweek won second prize for the image from Congo above. For the full list of winners click through here.
Bayeux award for war correspondents
The call for candidates for the Bayeux award for war correspondents is open until 6 June. The radio, photo, television and print reportages must have been made between 1 June 2007 and 31 June 2008. There is a €7,600 prize for each category. The panel is always chaired by an experienced war correspondent who knows […]
The Foreign Correspondent in 2013
You’ve got until 2013. At the Media Re:Public conference in Los Angeles last month Solana Larsen threw out this provocative statement, In 2013, there will be no foreign correspondents link Or rather… not foreign correspondents as we have known them. We’ve discussed a possible future for them before – basically one that is economically feasible, […]
See the world
It must be a remarkable thing to grow up in rural Nepal, join the army, fight a guerilla insurgency in your own Himalayan backyard, and then be given a blue hat and deployed to militia-ridden, gold-rich Ituri, north-east Congo. Since few Nepalese soldiers speak French, let alone Swahili, they have to rely on local interpreters. […]
No Football Please, We’re Janjaweed
Sileia’s football pitch Sileia in West Darfur was snatched by rebels of the Justice and Equality Movement (Jem) last year. It was recaptured by the Government of Sudan in February, using Antonov bombers and the Janjaweed to do most of the work. It is a dusty, broken-down town reached by a bone-crunching three-hour drive along […]
The News Carers – are aid groups doing too much newsgathering?
You can now watch the event here. The Frontline Club’s second sell out event in New York is now online. The focus is on aid groups role in the media and whether or not the media relies too much upon aid groups and NGOs to get the story out in words, pictures and video. John […]
Somali journalists win award
The National Union of Somali Journalists (NUOSJ) received an award from the fifth assembly of World Movement for Democracy (WMD) in Kiev, Ukraine today. In what is turning out to be something of a media awards week the NUSOJ were presented with the Democracy Courage Tribute on behalf of all Somali Journalists. NUSOJ Secretary General […]
Edward Lucas on the new cold war
[video:youtube:VmSu9Z9XihU] Edward Lucas talks with the BBC’s Olexiy Solohubenko about Russia at the Frontline Club. Edward works for The Economist and is based in Eastern Europe and keeps an excellent blog here. He talks about Russia’s increasing military muscle, its use of energy politics to pursue its international agenda and the affect of a resurgent […]
Bob Woodruff wins Pearl Award
On the back of winning a Peabody last week, Bob Woodruff has just been announced the winner of the Daniel Pearl Award for Courage and Integrity in Journalism. Woodruff works for ABC and was seriously injured in a roadside bomb in Iraq in January, 2006, “We couldn’t find a more deserving recipient of this award […]
John Burns talks Iraq
[video:youtube:cBkhFU11DWc] John Burns, Frontline Club founding member and the London bureau chief for New York Times, talks about the legacy of Iraq, his time in the country and the failings of the mainstream media in this ten minute interview on the American show Horizon. John talked at length about the same topic at the club […]
Photojournalist needed
I received a commercial request for a photojournalist. If you’re interested, read on I am contacting you on behalf of Sony Ericsson, who would like to commission a photojournalist with global credibility to write tips on taking a good photo e.g. how to use light to your advantage etc, to support the launch of their […]
Rob’s Safari Soundtrack IV
It’s been a while (largely thanks to the inability of Kenyan politicians to agree on anything) but now that I’m back on the road it’s time to dip back into the Safari Soundtrack. For the uninitiated, it’s my attempt to match Africa’s vast landscapes with the perfect music. It means big, bold and epic. For […]
Journalism is a dangerous business
[video:youtube:gkrOK3sfWpE]Foreign correspondent of the year 2008
The British Press Awards have just announced that Ghaith Abdul-Ahad has won Foreign Correspondent of the year for 2008. Ghaith works for the Guardian newsaper and is a regular at the Frontline Club having taken part in the first club event in New York. Frontline Club members have a good record in the Foreign Correspondent […]
In Event of Attack First Remove Tie
This post is a couple of days old, for reasons I may explain once I am out of Darfur with no possible risk of arrest… “So should we be worried?” I asked the man sitting across the table from me at the Humanitarian Aid Commission in El Fasher, North Darfur. He didn’t answer. Instead, he […]
Social media news tracking
Georg Blume of Germany and Kristin Kupfer of Austria left from Lhasa train station in the early hours of Thursday March 20th. In so doing they became the last two foreign journalists to leave Tibet after being forced out by the Chinese authorities. “If they don’t have anything to hide, then why are they making […]
Ilyas Shurpayev murder suspect charged
Ilyas Shurpayev was murdered in his Moscow apartment on March 21. Today, authorities announced formal charges against the suspects arrested soon after the killing, The Tajik Prosecutor-General’s Office has announced formal charges against one of the detained accomplices in the murder of Russian television journalist Ilyas Shurpayev. He is Masrurdzhon Yatimov, Prosecutor-General Abdusami Dadabayev told […]
Pulitzer prize winners 2008
The Pulitzer prizes were announced last night. Among the winners are Steve Fainaru, from the Washington Post, who receives the prize for International Reporting for his reports on private security contractors operating in Iraq. Also, Reuters Bangkok senior snapper Adrees Latif wins the prize for Breaking news photography for his images of Japanese video journalist […]
Macmillan bid for Iraq war story
Frontline club founding member Hala Jaber, who works for the Sunday Times, has auctioned the account of her time spent reporting in Iraq to the publishers Macmillan. She calls her account The Flying Carpet of Baghdad. Jaber was named foreign correspondent of the year at the British Press Awards in 2005 and 2006. The Bookseller […]
Michael Kelly’s widow reflects
Michael Kelly was the first American journalist to be killed covering the war in Iraq. He worked as a columnist for the Washington Post and the Atlantic Monthly. Last week marked the fifth anniversary of his death. His family reflect upon his death and their loss in his local Mineral Wells Index newspaper, “I wish […]
Colin Farrell to play war photographer
Irish actor Colin Farrell headed to Bosnia at the weekend to get a taste for how it felt to be a war reporter during the war during the early 1990s. Farrell will play a war photographer in a new film called Triage. The film is directed by the Bosnian cinematographer Danis Tanovic who won an […]
“A very poor choice of career”
War reporter Matt McAllester gave a talk to students at Stony Brook University in New York last week, McAllester said being a foreign correspondent meant never stopping. He said that when journalists are covering dangerous situations, they have to ask themselves, “Am I prepared to die for this?” “It is dumb. It’s a stupid job… […]
Barry Bearak starts fifth day behind bars
New York Times reporter Barry Bearak and the un-named British journalist being held in Zimbabwe since last Thursday are now into their fifth day behind bars. They are being held even though Zimbabwe’s Attorney General said at the weekend that there was no case against them. According to lawyers no-one wants to hear the case, […]
Kabul street named after journalist
Today the authorities in Kabul named a street in the Afghan capital after the local journalist Ajmal Naqshbandi. The 20 year old journalist was beheaded by the Taliban in April 2007. It is the first street named after a journalist killed in Afghanistan, While unveiling the plaque of the avenue, President of the Afghanistan National […]
Robert Fisk covering wars
Download this episode View in iTunes [video:brightcove:1491695798] Robert Fisk, the Independent’s Middle East correspondent, talks about his reporting career spanning three decades with the BBC’s Jeremy Bowen, “We should be able to have feelings too. We’re not machines that sit out in the Middle East…” link Be prepared for a Fiskian barrage from this recording […]
Jon Swain remembers Dith Pran
Sunday Times war reporter Jon Swain remembers Dith Pran, the man who saved his life in Cambodia in 1975 and who died last week, I first met Pran in 1972. Although his loyalty was always to Schanberg, he was ready to give help and advice to me and all the other journalists. Never more so […]
Spoofs of Absolut’s spoof…
Following, Absolut’s controversial Mexico advertising campaign, here are some spoofs that have sprung up over the last 48 hours:
Sparks continue to fly over Absolut ad
Since the publication of the Absolut Mexican ad campaign story, the comments have been flooding in and controversy around the campaign has been growing. You can see MexicoReporter.com’s 130+ comments here and comments on the La Plaza post, which have pushed past the 7000 mark, here. Here’s an update on La Plaza with some more […]
