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We Went To War: A Healing Portrait of Veteran Loneliness
By Jim Treadway In 1970, English documentarian Michael Grigsby released I Was a Soldier, which explored life after war for three young men returning from Vietnam to their homes in the heartland of Texas. Grigsby went back to Texas last year, rekindling his friendships with these men and their families, and telling their updated story in We […]
Frontline Club Awards Winner
Winners of the Frontline Club Award for journalism: 2011: Nick Davies and Matthieu Mabin 2010: Jerome Starkey 2009: Emilio Morenatti 2008: Yuri Kozyrev (special commendation for Arkady Babchenko) 2007: John D McHugh Winners of the Frontline Club Memorial Tribute Award: 2011: Anton Hammerl, Tim Hetherington and Chris Hondros 2010: João Silva 2009: Lasantha Wickrematunge 2008: Firle Davies […]
Addicted in Afghanistan: Beautiful and bleak
By Merryn Johnson Jawed Taiman‘s award winning film, Addicted in Afghanistan, which screened at Frontline on 13 September, is beautiful and utterly bleak. The documentary follows the lives of two young boys, best friends Zahir and Jabar, through the streets of Kabul. The film moves between their sober, childish hilarity and the painful grips of […]
Obama’s reckoning?
By Nigel Wilson It was standing room only as an energetic audience gathered for the Frontline Club’s monthly showpiece First Wednesday. Chaired by the BBC’s ever exuberant Paddy O’Connell, a panel of political experts and commentators tackled the state of play as the US gears up for the Presidential election on 6 November. Following Mitt […]
Iraq Today: “A Sort of Grisly Stability” – Part 1
By Jim Treadway CBS News’ Elizabeth Palmer led an expert discussion at the Frontline Club on 11 September regarding the latest crush of violence in Iraq. The panel painted a portrait of a country desperately in need of peace, independence, rule of law, reconciliation with its traumatic past, and unity amidst hardening divisions along ethnic, class, […]
Iraq: Escalating violence and sectarian division – Part 2
By Lizzie Kendal In the past few months a fresh wave of violence has swept through Iraq. The 23 July saw the worst of these attacks when a string of coordinated bombings and shootings in 15 cities across the country left over 100 people dead and many more injured. But do these recent events really […]
Donate to Reporters Instructed in Saving Colleagues (RISC)
Reporters Instructed in Saving Colleagues (RISC) was founded by Sebastian Junger in reaction to the death of his friend and colleague Tim Hetherington, who lost his life covering combat in the Libyan city of Misrata a year and a half ago. RISC trains freelance journalists in battlefield medicine and in April they completed their first […]
Screening: The Suffering Grasses – Iara Lee
Director and activist Iara Lee’s new film The Suffering Grasses caused more than a stir at the Frontline Club on the 7th September. Returning to the very start of this protracted and continuing struggle – graffiti scrawled by children on a wall in Deraa – the 52 minute piece documented the conflict through the eyes […]
Is drone journalism coming to the UK?
In November 2011, Polish firm RoboKopter filmed striking images of a political demonstration in Warsaw using a video camera attached to a drone or unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). The New York Times heralded the footage as signalling the arrival of ‘drone journalism’. Since then, we haven’t seen many newsgathering drones in UK skies, but we might […]
Here and There exhibition of photojournalism opening next week
Recent graduates of Westminster University’s MA Photojournalism course will be exhibiting their work at the Ambika P3 Gallery, 35 Marylebone Road from 11th to 13th September.
“Poetry on a deadline” – remembering Anthony Shadid
By Merryn Johnson A gathering at the Frontline Club was held in remembrance for Anthony Shadid, two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner, who died in February this year while crossing the border out of Syria. The room was filled with family, friends and colleagues, including his wife, Nada Bakri; Jonathan Rugman, foreign affairs correspondent at Channel 4 News […]
Vaughan Smith packing for Afghanistan
As Frontline Club founder and independent video journalist Vaughan Smith prepares to embed with the Grenadier Guards in Afghanistan he talks through what he will be taking with him and why.
We Are Legion – The Story of the Hacktivists
We Are Legion tracks the evolution of hacktivism from the ludicrous website 4chan- a mish-mash of memes, revolting images and heated discussions about Manga- through to the formation of Anonymous, which builds its backbone from declaring an international war on Scientology and gains it political purpose from Wikileaks and the battle for free information on the internet. Through interviews with hacktivists, scholars and the victims of hacking, we learn more about what motivates some members of this diverse group of young idealists.
Whoever said that journalism should be safe?
By Merryn Johnson Last night’s talk was a whistle stop tour through the history of the Frontline News Television agency, with its two surviving founding members, Vaughan Smith and Peter Jouvenal, in conversation with long-time cohort, BBC World Affairs Editor John Simpson. From FNTV’s origins over a Christmas dinner amid the chaos of the Romanian revolution […]
Insight with Lydia Cacho: Slavery Inc.
By Jim Treadway In Mexico over the past decade, several dozen journalists have been killed, abducted, and tortured. Crime flourishes, and ties between cartels and politicians are deeply intertwined. Yet journalist Lydia Cacho has persisted in uncovering these networks, risking her life to tell the stories of their victims and reveal the businessmen and politicians […]
Bahrain’s unreported oppression continues – with a little help from the West
Written by guest blogger Richard Nield At an event hosted by the Frontline Club, an expert panel of speakers shed light on the ongoing oppression of political opposition in Bahrain, one of the most under-reported aspects of the Arab Spring, and the government’s systematic use of Western public relations companies to manage the regime’s global reputation.
US Navy to spend $249 million on “battlespace awareness”
The US Navy has announced that it will spend up to an estimated $249 million on “battlespace awareness”. Last Thursday, the Navy awarded a new contract to five intelligence, computer and security companies to provide both hardware and “the development, integration, and test of intelligence, battlespace awareness, and information operations applications”.
Contact Badri Koplatadze and Flora Carmichael for more information about Frontline Club events in Georgia.
In 2010 a Frontline Club was set up in Tbilisi to host events, press conferences and support independent journalism in Georgia.
Contact Remzi Lani and Flora Carmichael for more information about Frontline Club events in Albania.
Frontline Club events take place at various venues around Tirana in collaboration with the Albanian Media Institute. Established in 1995, AMI is now one of the main actors in civil society in Albania and one of most important journalistic training institutions in the Balkan region. AMI is actively engaged in media policy issues in Albania, such as the […]
Contact Maja Hadziosmanovic and Flora Carmichael for more information about Frontline Club events in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Mediacentar Sarajevo was founded in 1995 as an educational hub supporting the development of independent and professional journalism in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Over time, Mediacentar’s activities have expanded to include publishing, PR training and consulting, TV and audio production and the organising of cultural events. Mediacentar has hosted debates, screenings and concerts in association with […]
Contact Olga Kravtsova and Flora Carmichael for more information about Frontline Club events in Russia.
Frontline Russia has hosted documentary screenings and discussions across the country for six years. Frontline Russia events have taken place in over 20 cities. Regular hubs exist in Moscow, St Petersburg, Yekaterinburg, Perm, Barnaul, Nizhniy Novgorod, Chelyabinsk, Novosibirsk and Tomsk.
Contact Iva Bartsova and Flora Carmichael for more information about Frontline Club events in the Czech Republic.
One World is one of the leading festivals dealing with human rights in Europe. It takes place in Prague in March every year. Throughout the rest of the year the Frontline Club partners with festival organisers People In Need to produce the Right to Know programme at the Langhans building in central Prague. Meanwhile the […]
Contact Ondrej Starinsky and Flora Carmichael for more information about Frontline Club events in Slovakia.
Frontline Club events take place in collaboration with NOS-OSF at the OPEN Gallery in the centre of Bratislava. NOS-OSF is a non-governmental organisation which has been operating in Slovakia since 1992. It is one of the founders of the Donors’ Forum – an important group of grant-making organisations in Slovakia and hosts an annual photojournalism award […]
