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Frontline: Vaughan Smith Shot in Kosovo (1998)
Earlier this week we posted the first of two excerpts from the newly revised and updated edition of Frontline by David Loyn, published last month by Summersdale. The acclaimed book tells the gripping story of the Frontline news agency, founded by journalists Rory Peck, Peter Jouvenal, Vaughan Smith and Nicholas Della Casa. The second excerpt, […]
How to crush a revolution: Lessons from Iran and the Green movement
Watch live streaming video from frontlineclub at livestream.com The death of Haleh Sahabi, the daughter of a veteran Iranian dissident who died at her father’s funeral is one of many cases of the regime’s treatment of political activists that the world’s media should concerned with, said Iranian journalist Saeed Kamali Dehghan. Long-term prison sentences, violence and […]
Saleem Shahzad’s death and Pakistani journalists living dangerously
By Fifi Haroon Even in the face of daily suicide bombings and a recurrent crisis of governance Pakistanis tend to get prickly when the troubled country is tagged by the western media as the most dangerous place on earth. There is even a motley crew of turgid television anchors and sundry media commentators loosely termed […]
You say you want an Arab Revolution: the Green movement in Iran
By Gianluca Mezzofiore The current struggle for power in Iran and the impact of the Arab Spring on the country were the topics for an animated First Wednesday debate at the Frontline Club last night. Award-winning journalist Saeed Kamali Dehghan pointed out that nobody in the past 20 years dared to expose the Supreme Leader […]
The ‘Arab Spring’ and Iran: What’s become of the Green movement?
Download this episode View in iTunes Watch the event here. An interesting post on PBS Frontline by Hossein Borujerdi discusses Iran and the ‘Arab Spring. The subject is the focus of tonight’s First Wednesday where we will be looking at the power struggles within the government and what has become of its Green pro-democracy movement. […]
Graham Holliday: Five secrets about working abroad as a freelance correspondent
Frontline club – solo foreign correspondent View more documents from Graham Holliday Here’s freelance journalist Graham Holliday‘s presentation on working as a freelance. Graham, who is living in Rwanda where he runs Kigali Wire, a news wire, photojournalism site and blog, discusses freelancing in 2011 and his "five little secrets" about working abroad.
The Frontline Club: What’s coming up in the week ahead
Tonight Paddy O’Connell of BBC Radio 4’s Broadcasting House will be back in the chair for June’s First Wednesday. There are a few tickets left so book now if you want to discuss the effect of the Arab Spring in Iran and the power struggle at the heart of Iran’s government. Tomorrow evening there is […]
Frontline: a high peak of journalism
Today we are pleased to post the first of two excerpts from the newly revised and updated edition of Frontline by David Loyn, published last month by Summersdale. The acclaimed book tells the gripping story of the Frontline news agency, founded by journalists Rory Peck, Peter Jouvenal, Vaughan Smith and Nicholas Della Casa. The first […]
On the Media: Going at it alone as a foreign correspondent
View in iTunes Watch the event here. The rise of a new breed of foreign correspondent, a multimedia-savvy reporter who is comfortable working solo without the backup of a big news organisation – was the topic of Tuesday’s On the Media discussion. Chaired by Matthew Eltringham, editor of BBC College of Journalism website, the […]
Rethinking the veil: Leila Ahmed in conversation with Azadeh Moaveni
By Viola Caon Watch the event here. Few garments have been as discussed as extensively or emotively as the veil, which for many in the West has become a symbol of the repression of Muslim women. But Harvard Divinity professor Leila Ahmed, who was at the Frontline Club to discuss her recent book A Quiet Revolution: […]
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Bahrain, December 1990 Vaughan Smith sat in Bahrain for two months wondering how to bluff his way into the Gulf War. And while he waited, staying temporarily with a friend, whose bookshelves he explored, he searched for inspiration in books that charted the exploits of the prisoners-of-war who had escaped from German camps in the […]
What’s coming up at the Frontline Club: First Wednesday on Iran
Almost two years on from protests over Iran’s disputed presidential elections we will be bringing together a panel of experts for June’s First Wednesday to discuss the country’s politics today. We will be examining the power struggles at the heart of the Iranian government and asking what effect the Arab Spring has had on both the leaders and […]
Frontline volunteer opportunity for summer: FNTV Archive
This summer the Frontline Club Charitable Trust in Paddington is offering part-time volunteer positions on an Oral History project to a small number of bright individuals. If you’re interested in journalism, war or the history of the late 20th century perhaps this is the project for you.
Leila Ahmed and Azadeh Moaveni: the resurgence of the veil
Why are so many Muslim women around the world choosing to cover themselves when previous generations had decided against wearing the veil? This is the question Leila Ahmed sets out to answer in her book A Quiet Revolution, the veil’s resurgence from the Middle East to America. Having grown up in the 1940s in a family where […]
Aftermath: Kosovo’s civil wars photoessay
In the coming days we will be posting some of the best content from the last two years of the Frontline broadsheet, including an outstanding photoessay from each edition. Today we bring you Andrew Testa’s piece from Spring 2010 — a special report on the aftermath of Kosovo’s vicious civil wars. (You can subscribe to […]
Frontline Television News Archive secures funding to go digital
The Heritage Lottery Fund has recently granted the Frontline Club its support to digitise the Frontline News Television archive. Read about the project and ways to get involved.
The art of turning television into magic: Bill Neely in Haiti
This report by Bill Neely showing the incredible rescue of Janette Samfour from the ruins of Port-au-Prince in January 2010 won the ITV News international editor a news coverage BAFTA in the same year. Referring to the "art of the news package" BBC political editor Nick Robinson recently described Bill Neely as one of […]
Kidnappings, executions & bloodbaths: a photoessay from Mexico
In the coming days we will be posting some of the best content from the last two years of the Frontline broadsheet, including an outstanding photoessay from each edition. Today we bring you Julián Cardona’s piece from Summer 2009 — a special report from the Mexican city of Ciudad Juárez. (You can subscribe to the […]
John Pilger and The Wars We Don’t See
By Christopher Czechowicz As a daring and impassioned journalist with a decades-long career, John Pilger has inspired and motivated many to ensure human rights and preserve unfiltered truth. From films such as Year Zero: The Silent Death of Cambodia (1979) to The New Rulers of the World (2001), he has unrelentingly made this his commitment. […]
Realignment in the Arab world: what are Israel, Saudi Arabia and Iran worried about?
Watch event here. The impact of the Arab Spring on three regional neighbours: Israel, Saudi Arabia and Iran and how they might respond to the changing political landscape was the focus of last night’s discussion at the Frontline Club. Chaired by Sam Farah, lead presenter of BBC Arabic’s flagship interactive programme Nuqtat Hewar (Talking Point), the […]
Ministry of Defence reviewing communication strategy for a networked world
The Ministry of Defence is considering proposals that would empower more members of their staff to communicate so it can compete more effectively in a networked information environment. In particular, the MoD will decide whether to free deployed commanders from aspects of existing constraints which mean their operations are usually communicated through spokespeople. A more […]
The week ahead at the Frontline Club
We have recently announced an addition to our May programme – next week Leila Ahmed, the first professor of Women’s Studies in Religion at Harvard University will be with us to discuss the veil, Muslim women, Islamism and democracy. Tonight we will be discussing the realignment taking place across the Arab world with a particular focus on […]
Amnesty International: 50 years of speaking out for the powerless
By Antje Bormann The executive producer for BBC Four’s international documentary strand Storyville, Kate Townsend, was at the Frontline Club last night to introduce the film Amnesty! When They Are All Free, which marks its 50th anniversary. The film goes on to tell the story of not so much an organisation, but a movement, that […]
Julian Assange Sydney Peace Prize: full video
Last week at Frontine, WikiLeaks editor Julian Assange was awarded the Sydney Peace Prize gold medal for Peace with Justice. You can read our report of events here. Below you can find the full video of the event. A write up of a Q&A section with Assange, which followed the speeches, can be found here […]
Analysis and debate at the Frontline Club : making sense of the Middle East
Our discussion on Tuesday looking at Realignment in the Arab World – and what it means for Iran, Saudi Arabia and Israel, is the latest in a series of events this year which have sought to explain and analyse events in the Middle East and North Africa since the governments of Tunisia and Egypt were toppled […]
Frontline: reporting from the world’s deadliest places
A newly revised and updated edition of Frontline by David Loyn was published this week. The acclaimed book chronicles the work of the Frontline news agency, founded by journalists Rory Peck, Peter Jouvenal, Vaughan Smith and Nicholas Della Casa. First published in 2005, the latest edition features a foreword from BBC world affairs editor John […]
Leila Ahmed: The Quiet Revolution – women and the veil
Download this episode View in iTunes Throughout the early part of the 20th century there was a trend towards unveiling. In 1923 the Egyptian feminist Hoda Sha’rawi removed her veil,declaring it a thing of the past. Thirty years later in 1955, Albert Hourani, the Oxford historian and bestselling author of A History of the Arab […]
Thomas de Waal: Narrative of Peace necessary in the Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict
Caucasus Conflict Voices is a voluntary grassroots initiative to amplify alternative views on the conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the disputed territory of Nagorno Karabakh. Today marks the 17th anniversary of the 1994 ceasefire, but both sides are as far away as ever from signing a permanent peace deal. Marking the anniversary, the second […]
World’s Oceans in Crisis – What can be done?
View in iTunes By Mariah Hamalainen “We are facing a complete collapse of ocean ecosystems, globally”, said Professor Charles Sheppard at the Frontline Club on Wednesday evening during a panel discussion on the state of the world’s oceans. The oceans have been exhibiting the effects of global warming since the late 1970s and a quarter of […]
A Q&A with Julian Assange (part II): on Lockerbie, copycat leaks sites, and protecting whistleblowers
Yesterday WikiLeaks editor Julian Assange was awarded the Sydney Peace Prize gold medal for Peace with Justice at the Frontline Club. You can read our report of events here. After Assange gave his acceptance speech, there was time for a question and answer session. He spoke in depth in reponse to many questions, giving insight […]
