From the Frontline: June 2009 Archives
Live tonight - Reporting Iran
We'll be discussing the situation in Iran following the disputed election results at the Frontline Club tonight. Specifically, how did hotel-bound foreign journalists report from Tehran and beyond during the election and days and weeks following? We start at 7pm GMT and as usual if you can't join us in...more
Get back alive
Nicholas Kristof of the New York Times has "been around the block a few times" and is offering advice to would be foreign correspondents on how to report on a global crisis for YouTube's Reporters Center. The centre aims to give advice to newbies and non-journalists,The YouTube Reporters' Center is...more
Breaking news EXPLAINED
Say no more... found via Frontline blogger Mike Hills who is in Beirut and blogs with us here....more
Maziar Bahari arrested in Tehran
Maziar Bahari envoyé par Khanjar. - Explorez des lieux exotiques en vidéo. Newsweek reporter, film maker and Frontline Club regular Maziar Bahari has been detained in Tehran. Maziar has been living in the Islamic Republic for the past ten years. Foreign media have been barred from covering the post...more
An Afghan fixer in Sweden
Naqeebulla Sherzad is an Afghan fixer. He worked with Ajmal Naskhbandi, the fixer beheaded by the Taliban in 2007, and who inspired the formation of the Frontline Fixer's Fund - 100% of funds raised are given to the families of fixers killed or injured while working with international media...more
Iran and those elections - Live tonight
We're discussing the aftermath of the June 12 presidential elections in Iran tonight. We start at 7pm GMT/11am PST and as usual, if you can't make it to the Club in person, do please join us online in what should be a fantastic debate. We'll be streaming the event...more
Live tonight - Pakistan turmoil
Tonight we discuss the roots of turmoil in Pakistan at the Frontline Club. As usual we start at 7pm GMT/11am PST. If you can't make it to the Club in person, please join us online on the Frontline Club live channel, on this blog or on the Club events...more
The Narco Wars season is coming
The Frontline Club starts the Narco Wars season on the War on Drugs on June 23rd. The season is packed with films, discussions and events focussed on the topic of drugs from Colombia to Afghanistan and into South East Asia. Here's what's coming up, - June 23 - Photojournalist...more
Radio reporter held in Iraq
Jasim al-Kinani, a radio reporter with Al-Ahd network, was detained in Iraq on Wednesday following an explosion in the southern city of al-Bathaa in Dhi Qar province. The reporter is still being held by local security forces. The Journalistic Freedoms Observatory put out a statement in Arabic,Kinani detained today by...more
End Times at The New York Times
The Daily Show With Jon StewartMon - Thurs 11p / 10cEnd Timesthedailyshow.comDaily Show Full EpisodesPolitical HumorNewt Gingrich Unedited Interview The Daily Show take a tour of the offices of the New York Times. If you want to know what's black and white and red all over... watch the video above....more
That's all I can say
Amanda Lindhout, the Canadian freelance journalist kidnapped in Somalia along with fellow freelace Nigel Brennan, has reportedly telephoned the CTV national newsroom in Canada. In what appears to be an almost identical statement to the one telephoned through to the AFP last month, the 27 year old says she is...more
Few left to tell the story
These past few days have been littered with tales of misery coming out of Somalia. On June 7, a Radio Shabelle journalist shot dead, the fifth journalist killed this year. Ahmed Omar Hashi, was also shot but survived. Hashi called Frontline blogger David Axe from his hospital bed asking...more
Live tonight: MPs expenses - a triumph for journalism?
Tonight we'll be discussing the ongoing MP Expenses scandal in the UK and whether or not the story was a triumph of journalism or the chequebook. Roy Greenslade chairs the discussion tonight 8 June and we start at 7:30pm GMT. As usual, if you can't make it to the Club...more
Frontline Broadsheet is coming
The quarterly Frontline Broadsheet is coming. It's high quality. It's printed - and yes I do mean on paper, we're doing this the old fashioned way - and it's subscription only. To find out more send an email to broadsheet@frontlineclub.com with the word BROADSHEET in the subject header. For blog...more
Meanwhile in Somalia...
Another very powerful slideshow of images from Mogadishu in the Boston Globe's Big Picture section this week. The caption for the image above by Mohamed Dahir reads,31 Local journalists take pictures at the scene of the killing of a Somali government soldier near Mogadishu stadium, on May 11, 2009. Remains...more
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