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A Day Without News?
Today we remember Marie Colvin and Remi Ochlik, who a year ago were killed by Syrian military in Homs, Syria. A Day Without News? is a campaign set up in their memory to bring attention to the growing issue of journalists being targeted in the field, and to put pressure on UN and government officials to prosecute […]
HIGHLIGHTS The future of British military engagement with the media
Highlights from debate on British military management of the media, chaired by Stewart Purvis from City University London. Featuring Frontline Club founder Vaughan Smith, Robert fox from the Evening Standard, Major General Jonathan Shaw and Lorna Ward, deputy foreign news editor at Sky News and Media Advisor to ISAF Deputy Commander, Afghanistan.
The media & the military: an amicable separation?
By Sally Ashley-Cound The past, present and future of British military engagement with the media was the centre of a lively debate at the Frontline Club on 20 February 2013. Chaired by Stewart Purvis, professor of television journalism at City University London and former Editor-in-Chief and CEO of ITN.
Coding & data journalism resources for journalists
Here are several free resources that could be useful for journalists interested in online media.
Front-line safety is a collective challenge
Part two of article on freelance journalism safety by BBC world affairs producer, Stuart Hughes. Join him and freelancers Aris Roussinos and Julia Macfarlane; head of foreign news at Channel 4 News, Nevine Mabro and director of the International News Safety Institute (INSI), Hannah Storm for the debate on Wednesday 27 February. Book tickets for the debate here, if you can’t attend you can […]
The immense power of the state
By Laura Hughes A screening of Reportero took place at the Frontline Club on Friday 15 February, followed by a Q&A over Skype with the director Bernardo Ruiz. Ruiz’s documentary follows the story of reporter Sergio Haro and his colleagues at Zeta, an independent Mexican weekly newspaper. Since Zeta was founded in 1980, three of […]
Rewards versus risks for war zone rookies
On Wednesday 27 February in a debate chaired by senior world affairs producer with BBC News, Stuart Hughes, we will be discussing the risks and rewards of young journalists learning the ropes in some of the most dangerous countries in the world. Ahead of the event read the piece below by Stuart Hughes and join the discussion on […]
Syria’s bloody conflict, fallout from North Korea’s nuclear test, and Italian elections set the scene for another whirlwind week in world news
By Jasper Wenban-Smith, international editor of ForesightNews. A round up of world news in the week ahead from journalist resource ForesightNews. Monday 18 February UN investigators looking into atrocities committed in the Syrian conflict will release their latest report on Monday. The commission chair Paulo Pinheiro and member Carla Del Ponte will discuss the report’s […]
Window of opportunity for the DRC
By Richard Nield The coming year could be a window of opportunity for the international community to tackle the violence and lawlessness that has claimed more than 5 million lives in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in the past 15 years. The panel: Kassim Kayira, Noëlla Coursaris Musunka, Jean-Roger Kaseki, Patrick Smith, Ben Shepherd. Photograph: […]
Connecting film with debate: Between the Lines launch event
By Caroline Schmitt Between the Lines, a festival dedicated to connecting new journalism with documentary and film-making, was launched at the Frontline Club on Tuesday 12 February, 2013. Documentary programmer, Wotienke Vermeer, introduces Between the Lines at the Frontline Club. Photography: Caroline Schmitt Elizabeth Wood, one of the festival curators, introduced the Club to the […]
‘Prisoner of conscience’: preview screening of British drama Complicit
By Nishat Ahmed The moral dilemma of being compliant in the ill-treatment of terror suspects was tackled at the Frontline Club with a preview screening of the feature-length TV drama, Complicit, on Monday 11 February. The audience watched a compelling account of the complexities faced by British intelligence services in their attempt to foil terror plots. […]
Defending justice in the DRC
By Holly Young The event on the 8 February at the Frontline Club was a screening of Justice for Sale, followed by a Q&A with Femke van Velzen, one half of a documentary duo – twin sisters who make up IF Productions. For Femke and Ilse, this is their third film about the Democratic Republic of Congo. […]
Al Qaeda in Yemen – Part II: Poverty, frustration and exploitation
By Alex Glynn A lively discussion between journalists, audience members and Yemeni diplomats followed the screening of In the Hands of Al Qaeda at the Frontline Club on Monday 4 February. The documentary, which saw Jamie Doran, and Ghaith Abdul-Ahad, along with their camerawoman Safa Al Ahmad, travel to Yemen, investigating how al Qaeda in the […]
Talks between Tehran and Moscow, Obama’s State of the Union, and elections in Ecuador make for another busy international week
By Jasper Wenban-Smith, international editor of ForesightNews. A round up of world news in the week ahead from journalist resource ForesightNews. Monday 11 February Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi is due in Moscow for two days of talks with Russian counterparts, likely to include civil nuclear cooperation as well as the upcoming talks on […]
Untangling Mali
By Sally Ashley-Cound The complex situation of the French-led intervention in Mali and the issues in the surrounding region was untangled somewhat on 6 February 2013 at the Frontline Club’s First Wednesday: A new front in the fight against terrorism? Paddy O’Connell of BBC Radio 4’s Broadcasting House was the chair and started things off by asking the […]
HIGHLIGHTS First Wednesday: A new front in the fight against terrorism?
In light of the hostage crisis in Algeria and the French-led offensive against Islamist militants in Mali, on Wednesday 6 February we were joined by Channel 4 News’ Lindsey Hilsum, Lord Ashdown, Ibrahima Diane from BBC Afrique and Wilfred Willey, president of the Malian Community Council in the UK. In a debate chaired by Paddy O’Connell of BBC Radio 4′s Broadcasting House we examined […]
Mumbai – A Microcosmic Megacity?
Pavements teem, cars crawl and deals are done in Mumbai, a city whose challenges reflect those of the country as it sails towards next year’s general election. As the proud inhabitants of India’s commercial capital jostle and toil, Mark Mistry looks at how infrastructure needs, as well as legislative and political problems in a city […]
Transforming Egyptian Journalism
By Richard Nield The key to the development of the media in Egypt is not the transformation of journalists but the transformation of institutions, argues Naomi Sakr in her new book, Transformations in Egyptian Journalism. “I wanted to demonstrate that journalism as such may be the least of the problems in the Egyptian media,” said […]
Al Qaeda in Yemen – Part I: Divisions, distrust and mutual hatred
By Tom Meade Kalashnikovs, dilapidated cities and drone destruction gripped the audience at an overflowing screening of In the Hands of Al Qaeda on Monday 4 February at the Frontline Club. Award-winning journalist Ghaith Abdul-Ahad and producer Jamie Doran were on hand after the screening to answer questions on Yemen, al Qaeda and the making of their latest film.
Around the world in five short films
By Anna Reitman Shorts at the Frontline Club on 1 February showcased five documentaries that highlight different ways of telling non-fictional stories. Four of the filmmakers were on hand to discuss the themes and process behind their work. The first film of the evening, Afghanistan: The forgotten war, was shot by Vaughan Smith, who spent […]
All roads lead to Brussels in week dominated by European affairs
By Jasper Wenban-Smith, international editor of ForesightNews. A round up of world news in the week ahead from journalist resource ForesightNews.
The blight of our societies
By Jonathan Couturier Inequality blights our societies – the panel that gathered for the Inequality Debate at the Frontline Club on 30 January had no doubts about that. Charles Sennot, of GlobalPost, put the problem into perspective: the gap between rich and poor in developed economies is growing so fast that inequality is reaching developing country levels. You […]
Living the American Dream
By Natricia Duncan Regal thrones, miles of marble and fairy-tale affluence graced a packed Frontline Club on Tuesday 28 January. Award winning director Lauren Greenfield was on hand for a Q&A, and the audience was treated to the compelling story of a family who lived the American dream, but had a rude awakening when the […]
Congo Dreams
Images from I Dream of Congo: Narratives from the Great Lakes, join the debate on Wednesday 13 February. BOOK HERE
Alma’s violent confessions
By Nicky Armstrong On Friday 25 January, the Frontline Club hosted it’s first live film screening – interactive web-documentary, Alma, a Tale of Violence by Isabelle Fougère and Miquel Dewever-Plana. Joined by award-winning e-producer Alexandre Brachet and moderated by Himesh Kar from WorldView, the audience took part in a unique viewing, following the ‘route’ of the […]
I Dream of Congo: Narratives from the Great Lakes
Renowned international artists have come together with women from eastern DRC for a unique exhibition, I Dream of Congo: Narratives from the Great Lakes, which aims to celebrate the hope and optimism that pervades in the region, despite years of conflict. As part of the exhibition the Frontline Club will be holding a special event […]
Berlusconi’s libido, Israel’s human rights record and Argentina’s fudged economic data just the tip of iceberg in a varied week for international news
By Jasper Wenban-Smith, international editor of ForesightNews. A round up of world news in the week ahead from journalist resource ForesightNews. Monday 28 January The case against former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, who stands accused of paying for sex with the then 17-year-old call girl Karima el Mahroug (aka Ruby) continues Monday with a […]
There will be blood
By Nigel Wilson Photograph: Mahvish RazzaqWith foreign troops preparing to leave Afghanistan, a panel of experts gathered at the Frontline Club on Wednesday 23 January to assess the prospects for the country. With the Western media narrative focused on troop withdrawal, chair David Loyn urged the panel to gaze into their crystal balls and predict […]
How to gain commercial success – Third party: PhotoTALK with WPO
By Sally Ashley-Cound For the second PhotoTALK event with the World Photography Organisation the subject was how to gain commercial success. Discussing this topic at the Frontline Club on Tuesday 22 January, chaired by designer Stuart Smith, were the managing director of Balcony Jump Management Tim Paton, Magnum Photos photographer Chien-Chi Chang, director of Panos […]
“Why did anybody go along with totalitarianism?” – Insight with Anne Applebaum
By Jim Treadway Free societies crumbled in the decade after World War II, when Stalin took much of Eastern and Central Europe, and in a single-minded fashion, dismantled the existing institutions to build totalitarianism. This period provides the subject for Pulitzer Prize-winning author Anne Applebaum’s latest book Iron Curtain, which she discussed with journalists and columnist for The Times, Oliver Kamm […]
