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Snowball war correspondent
The streets of Rhondda valley in Wales prove to be a tad dangerous for this Sky News reporter.
5 tips for better blogging
The Daily Telegraph’s Shane Richmond does a very good job of sifting through a thread about blogging to come up with 5 tips on building a blog audience. Here’s number one, 1. Get prominent bloggers to link to you – Chris Garrett says: “That involves (for best chances) being known to them, creating killer content […]
Barbi in a burqa
Looking for something for the little ones? The perfect Kabul keepsake – Barbi in a Burqa. Not from Kabul, from California. via Afghanistanica. if you’re into dogs more than kids, how about a dog burqa. Big in NYC I’m hearing,
An Evening with SubComandante Marcos
It was rather an unlikely setting for a press conference with one of the world's most famous rebel leaders, Subcomandante Marcos of the Zapatista National Liberation Army(EZLN). Mexico City's Casa Lamm, a cultural centre and converted mansion in the Roma neighbourhood is the kind of place you expect to see expats and well-off Mexican families […]
Swedish journalists feel the Burmese heat
Several Swedish and Danish news media outlets said on Monday they had been contacted by Burmese regime officials urging them to withdraw their reporters from the country for their own safety. link Meanwhile Reporters without borders lay into the Burmese junta once again, “Several other correspondents of foreign news media, including Reuters and Agence France-Presse, […]
What it’s like to be in a firefight
John D McHugh was shot in Afghanistan and was lucky to survive. He talked at the Frontline Club about his experience working as a photographer in Afghanistan. Today, on his blog, he retells the story he wrote from his hospital bed, So, here it is. This is the account I wrote of the 14 May […]
Is the media a weapon?
Retired major-general Lewis MacKenzie was having a natter during his keynote at the University of Waterloo in Canada when I got onto the subject of war reporting. It’s all just too darned quick these days, MacKenzie, known for leading peacekeeping troops in the former Yugoslavia… commanded soldiers in the Gaza Strip, Cyprus, Vietnam and shot […]
From war correspondent to lawyer
C. Justin Brown recounts his life as a war correspondent in the Maryland Daily Record. Last year, after being nominated for a Pulitzer Prize for his Balkans reporting, he ditched the flak jacket for a lawyer’s wig, Looking outside, he saw a NATO Tomahawk missile slam into the upper floors of the nearby UÅ¡ce Tower, […]
The Saffron suppression
The most senior official to defect so far, Hla Win [a former intelligence officer for Burma’s ruling junta ], said: ‘Many more people have been killed in recent days than you’ve heard about. The bodies can be counted in several thousand.’ Mr Win, who spoke out as a Swedish diplomat predicted that the revolt has […]
Wildlife-Viewing Journal – 30/09/07
So our second grizzly bear season since moving to the ranch is well underway. So far all our guests – and this year we have been pretty much full – have left after seeing at least a few grizzlies. Some have seen many. To keep our guests and friends up-to-date with the latest we have […]
Burmese Junta detains journalist
Authorities in Burma were detaining a journalist reporting for a Japanese newspaper for the third day Sunday, his family members said. Min Zaw, a Burmese national working for The Tokyo Shimbun, was taken from his home early Friday by plainclothes security personnel who said he would be held temporarily for questioning. Family members said his […]
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 operations with Colour Sergeant Jim Bastin of the Inkerman Company and a platoon of the […]
Burma 29 September 2007
Only the milita who surround the journalist are willing to be interviewed. When he asked them what they thought, as Buddhists, of the fact that the junta had shot monks, they replied that it was not the monks who were demonstrating, but rather people desguised as monks, paid by powerful westerners to plant the seeds […]
World Press Photo exhibition opens in Mexico City
The World Press Photo awards exhibition opened in Mexico City's beautiful Franz Meyer museum last night in collaboration with Mexico's National Commission of Human Rights. The event was attended by hundreds, and features 200 photographs representing the best in press photography of last year. Images in the show range from photographs of conflict zones to […]
Not Twittering but CBoxing the saffron revolution
Twitter might be the trendy kid on the microblogging market, but it’s CBox that’s getting used. Here’s a ‘live’ sampling, 28 Sep 07, 17:43 Ko Hla: Protesters are shouting slogan on 33rd street (between 83rd and 84th Street) in Mandalay. 28 Sep 07, 17:40 forthecountry: Myanmar PM Soe Win is well in SG hospital. http://www.straitstimes.com/Latest%2BNews/Singapore/STIStory_162156.html […]
Burma cuts the net
But, The Irrawaddy continues to get information out from sources on the ground (I’ve added relevant links) Rangoon; Afternoon—Trucks loaded with troops raided the offices of Burma’s main Internet service provider, Myanmar Info-Tech, located at Rangoon University (Hlaing campus) around noon on Friday in an effort to cut all public access to the internet. The […]
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 lives as well as our livelihoods but there was a problem – the only place […]
From the frontline to the Press Gazette
The Press Gazette run a piece about what we’re all about. Vaughan talks about plans for the club and for supporting journalism online which is what fromthefrontline.co.uk is essentially all about, “I think the future is going to be journalist.com, Fredbloggs.com and if that’s the case, then we’re in the best position to compete with […]
Kenji Nagai shot dead in Rangoon
What appears to be footage of the Japanese photojournalist, 50 year old Kenji Nagai shot dead on the streets of Rangoon yesterday. Nagai was working for the Tokyo based APF video and photo agency. Killed for taking photos of protesters and soldiers. Here is an emailed tribute to Kenji Nagai on ko htike’s blog, On […]
Eve-Ann Prentice dies
From the Herts Advertiser, Author and journalist Eve-Ann Prentice died this week aged 55 after a four-year battle with cancer. Eve-Ann, who has a house in Albert Street, St Albans, lived in the city until her marriage to Irishman Aidan Morrin more than a year ago. She then moved to live in Drogheda with her […]
Traders
In what looks set to become a latter day Hotel Le Royal the Traders Hotel in Rangoon is allegedly where the foreign journalist contingent find themselves housed. Or at least they did, until this afternoon according to The Irrawaddy, Rangoon, 3:30 p.m.—Soldiers entered Traders Hotel, situated in the heart of Rangoon, near Sule pagoda, on […]
Death of a journalist
The Daily Telegraph has a series of photographs that purport to show the death of a Japanese photojournalist in Rangoon, Burma today. I suspect these photos originally surfaced on Ko htike’s blog
Cellphone journalism
“This time, compared to 1988, there are lots of new technologies to get the news out of Burma … People are able to take pictures, videos to evidence what is going on. It is quite amazing for Burma, which is a very poor country,” said Vincent Brossel, director of the Asia desk for Reporters Without […]
Lacking correspondence
Writing on the Guardian Editor’s blog, Murray Armstrong explains how the newspaper is approaching the Burma story without having a correspondent in the country, Colleagues on Guardian Unlimited reported this morning that they had been working with Burmese-speaking translators yesterday and today to gather as much information as possible from blogs and other communications from […]
Bloody saffron revolution
Reporters Without Borders is appalled by the death of a Japanese news photographer on the streets of Rangoon this morning. Another foreign journalist was reportedly injured. The press casualties came after the security forces opened fire on demonstrators near the Tarder Hotel in the centre of Rangoon. link Meanwhile… One photographer imprisoned and five journalists […]
You’re all mad
Interesting nuggets aplenty in the NPR interview with Paul Watson I linked to previously. Including this, Are you saying being a war correspondent is a form of mental illness? I think it is. I’ve spent enough time around people who do this a lot. In my opinion and I include myself foremost in this group […]
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 peruse the Newsnight Afghanistan page for related video, interviews and links to Flickr, Google Maps and […]
Media made easy
In yet more film news, War made easy is showing in “select theatres” across the USofA. The Valley Advocate says War made easy makes an easy job of the media, Perhaps more searing than its indictment of the politicians who lead us to war is the film’s unflinching critique of the major media, including once-highly […]
Pre-Newsnight showing build up
The Newsnight film shows in half an hour – and just in case you’re still tuned in here – there’s a bit more background and preamble on the BBC Newsnight website, Twenty years ago I left the Grenadier Guards to become a freelance cameraman. Three months later I was in Southern Afghanistan filming Afghans shelling […]
