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The week ahead at the Frontline Club: Assange and
This evening’s screening and panel discussion organised by BBC Perisan will shed light on the extent of persecution suffered by The Baha’is of Iran. Tomorrow we will be joined by award winning ITV News‘ international editor Bill Neely who will be talking about his recent work in Libya, the stories he has covered since he began his career and […]
The week ahead at the Frontline Club: Assange and Žižek, Somali pirates & kill/capture in Afghanistan
This evening’s screening and panel discussion organised by BBC Perisan will shed light on the extent of persecution suffered by The Baha’is of Iran. Tomorrow we will be joined by award winning ITV News‘ international editor Bill Neely who will be talking about his recent work in Libya, the stories he has covered since he began his career and […]
Defusing Human Bombs
The shouts and laughter of boys playing games fills up the hidden away in a remote valley near Swat Pakistan. With their green and red school uniforms, these boys and seem like any other school children. But there is no other school quite like this in the world, where most of its pupils were expected […]
Slavoj Žižek: From the end of capitalism to WikiLeaks changing the world
If you want to get a measure of what you can expect from renowned philosopher Slavoj Žižek on Saturday, then take a look at the video above, which shows his talk at the RSA last year. The Slovenian, who is widely held as one of the most influential living philosophers, will be speaking with WikiLeaks […]
Afghan free media is a matter of time, says one who should know
Afghanistan’s media industry is one of the youngest and most vibrant in the world, having burst into life to fill the vacuum left just 10 years ago by the demise of the Taliban. From a country without music or movies, Afghanistan is now jam-packed with radio, television, newspapers, magazines, film, music and theatre. Much comes […]
‘Harassed’ US journalist fights to protect source
A Pulitzer prize-winning New York Times journalist is being pressured by the Obama administration to reveal the identity of a whistleblower. James Risen, who wrote extensively about the Bush administration’s domestic wiretapping programme, has been issued a subpoena forcing him to testify as part of the prosecution of Jeffrey Sterling, a former CIA agent whom […]
Frontline Club blogs: a round up of this week’s posts.
After the screening on Monday of Israel vs Israel the discussion focused on the four Israeli activists who were featured in the film and the impact the Arab Spring could have on the Middle east conflict. Our talks programme continues next week with a Reflections event with ITV News international editor Bill Neely. You can […]
Looking ahead to the week’s screenings and talks at Frontline Club
Monday’s screening Defusing Human Bombs takes us into Pakistan’s Sabaoon School, where young boys are rehabilitated and helped back into normal life after years of indoctrination at the hands of theTaliban and grooming for suicide missions. A year on from the first broadcast of The Baha’is of Iran, which coincided with further persecution of the community, BBC Persian will screening […]
Action needed to stop South Sudan becoming a “failed state”
The world’s newest nation, South Sudan, will be at risk of becoming the next failed state without the support of the international community, a House of Lords committee has warned. In a report published today the Lords EU foreign affairs sub committee called on the European Union to work with the United Nations, African Union […]
Israel vs. Israel: Why some Israeli activists represent hope
By Helena WIlliams The first ever UK screening of Swedish Director Terje Carlsson’s film ‘Israel vs. Israel’ was shown at the Frontline Club yesterday evening. Responding to half an hour of questions from the audience, Carlsson emphasised the importance of peaceful co-existence between Israelis and Palestinians, saying that the four activists he focuses on in […]
BBC appeal for release of detained Tajikistan reporter
The BBC World Service is “highly concerned” about the safety of their correspondent in Tajikistan, Urunboy Usmonov, who has been detained in the country for a week without regular access to his lawyer. A statement was made by the BBC on June 16 condemning the detention and demanding the immediate release of Usmonov. But despite […]
Australian media access to Afghan mission vital for understanding
It’s been a bad year for the Australian military fighting in Afghanistan. Three soldiers were killed in May, another in early June, bringing the total to 27 since Australia committed troops to the coalition that invaded Taliban-controlled Afghanistan in 2001. The deaths highlighted for Australians the reality of being at war and led to calls […]
On the Media: Celebrities, Super Injunctions and Phone Hacking
View in iTunes Watch the event here. By Millie Cartwright Last night Frontline Club was host to a panel of experts discussing celebrities, super injunctions and phone hacking. The panel comprised of David Aaronovitch, writer, broadcaster and regular columnist for The Times; William Bennet, a barrister at 5RB chambers who specialises in defamation and […]
Events and screenings coming up at the Frontline Club in July
July at the Frontline Club features Daily Telegraph correspondent Colin Freeman discussing his experience as a Somali pirate hostage, a panel discussion on South Sudan’s independence and BBC Newsnight’s economic editor Paul Mason sharing his journalistic knowledge at July’s Reflections event. July’s First Wednesday will focus on the expansion of kill/capture missions in Afghanistan. The month will also see the return of our networking parties for people […]
Bill Neely’s advice to journalists: stick at it, never give in, never say no
If you are an aspiring journalist or perhaps more seasoned, but want to sharpen up your skills, our Reflections events are a great opportunity to gain insight into the craft. Jeremy Bowen, the Middle East’s foreign editor since 2005, is just one of the leading journalists who has taken part in these events, which are […]
Shooting Libya: Inigo Gilmore and Andrew Winning at the Frontline Club
Reuters photographer Andrew Winning and freelance video journalist Inigo Gilmore spoke to a packed audience at the Frontline Club last night about their differing experiences of covering the conflict in Libya.
Gay girl hoaxes: what does it mean for journalists and Syria’s bloggers?
Hot on the heels of the ‘outing’ of the Gay Girl in Damascus as 40-year-old straight American came the revelation that a second "lesbian blogger" was in fact a man. While the media was getting to grips with the fact that Tom MacMaster had been masquerading as Syrian blogger Amina Arraf, Paula Brooks, the deaf lesbian […]
Phone hacking, super-injunctions and celebrity and a focus on Israel at Frontline Club this week
Our In the picture event on Libya this evening is fully booked. You can still buy tickets for tomorrow evening’s panel discussion on celebrities, super-injunctions and phone hacking with, amongst others, writer, broadcaster and commentator David Aaronovitch and lawyer and writer David Allen Green. Next week the focus will be on Israel: On Monday we have a preview screening of Israel vs. […]
Enough is Enough! A plea for peace
In recent weeks we have been posting some of the best content from the last two years of the Frontline broadsheet, including an outstanding photoessay from each edition (see here, here and here for more). Today we bring you John Morris‘s piece from Winter 2010 — an impassioned plea for a world free of nuclear […]
Kazan: Last chance for an Armenia-Azerbaijan peace?
16.7 kilometers south of Lachin, Armenian-controlled Azerbaijan © Onnik Krikorian for IWPR Expectations of ending the long-running conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the disputed territory of Nagorno Karabakh are high ahead of a meeting between the two presidents hosted by Russian President Dimitry Medvedev in Kazan on 25 June. The war fought in the early 1990s […]
From internships to the WikiLeaks truck: catch up on the Forum blog
Here’s a round-up of this week’s blog posts, which began with an anonymous piece about the life of an intern and ended with a piece by Ryan Gallagher In praise of… the WikiLeaks truck. This week we posted Frontline: Vaughan Smith Shot in Kosovo (1998), the second of two excerpts from the newly revised and […]
In praise of… the WikiLeaks Truck
Described as part prank, part art and part activism, the WikiLeaks Top Secret Mobile Information Collection Unit has been bothering US authorities in recent months. A white van emblazoned with the WikiLeaks logo by the artist Clark Stoeckley, the Collection Unit has paid unwelcome visits to notable sites including the White House, Capitol Hill and […]
Internships: opportunity or cheap labour?
View in iTunes Watch the event here. By Gianluca Mezzofiore Controversial internships were the subject of a heated debate at the Frontline Club last night. Chaired by Martin Bright, political editor of The Jewish Chronicle and founder of New Deal of the Mind, an organisation which aims to boost employment in Britain’s creative industries, […]
Lindsey Hilsum: ‘My job is reporting how war affects the lives of people’
Lindsey Hilsum, international editor at Channel 4 News, received the British Journalism Review’s 2011 Charles Wheeler award last night. The award recognises her outstanding contribution to broadcast journalism and is in memory of the journalist and broadcaster Charles Wheeler, who died in 2008. On receiving the award, Lindsey Hilsum said: Charles Wheeler was my role […]
Plunder of the oceans – The rise of pirate fishing, impacts and solutions
By Shyamalie Satkunanadnan With more than one billion of the world’s population reliant on fish as their main source of protein and up to 90 per cent of fish disappearing in some parts of the oceans, the impact of illegal, unregulated and unreported fishing operations – known as ‘pirate fishing’ – has never been greater. […]
Why internships can be valuable
By Elizabeth Davies There’s no doubt that I would not be in the position I’m in today if it weren’t for the internships I’ve done. The first two were as a bored 17-year-old trying to find something useful to do while spending the summer with my family in upstate New York while my parents […]
The unpaid internship boom
By Alex Varley-Winter The internship boom, many of the positions unpaid, illegal and unmonitored, is an unfettered phenomenon. ‘Work experience’ is now so coveted that not only are people doing it for free, they are also paying to work. The fact that we can now auction internships off and trade on these experiences as commodities […]
The time for silence is over: Journalists and sexual violence
One of the most striking aspects of the accounts of sexual assault the Committee to Protect Journalists has documented is the concerns the women and men expressed about speaking about them. Umar Cheema, a prominent political reporter for Pakistan’s, The News, who spoke to the CPJ about his abduction, torture and sexual assault in 2010, said […]
Talks and screenings in the week ahead at the Frontline Club
Tomorrow evening Ross Perlin, author of Intern Nation, and a panel chaired by journalist Martin Bright will discuss the internship and the impact of this now common practice on education, the work place and society. Tonight there is a screening of Deadly Catch, a film that exposes the devastating consequences of pirate fishing in Sierra Leone. The event is organised by […]
‘I have no rights, no security, no leverage’: the life of an intern
I don’t begrudge the principles underpinning unpaid internships or placements. To offer somebody the opportunity to gain experience, exposure, contacts and hopefully some structured training in an area or sector that interests them or in which they hope to build a career, seems perfectly sensible. In most of my experience, however, they rarely amount to […]
