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Joe the War Correspondent
Joe the Plumber, who shot to fame when he questioned President elect barrack Obama about his tax plans, is heading to Israel. Yes, Joe the plumber is embarking upon a new career as... a war correspondent with the conservative website pjtv.com. Don't believe me, watch the video above and...more
Shooting the messengers in Mexico
Just over a week ago crime reporter Armando Rodriguez was shot dead in his driveway in the border town of Ciudad Juárez. Two other crime reporters have since received death threats including Jorge Luis Aguirre, the 51-year-old editor of the Juarez news Web site called La Polaka. Frontline blogger Deborah...more
Amanpour hour to launch on CNNI in 2009
Foreign correspondent Christiane Amanpour is set to head up a new nightly programme, The Amanpour Hour, on the CNNI channel in the United States beginning in the summer of 2009, "Our thinking was we wanted a big, the biggest, name to hub our international prime time, and when it...more
Behind the scenes on election night
This will be the last US election post... The Obama campaign used a whole bunch of social media sites to propel their man to the White House. One of the tools they used on election night itself was Flickr. The election night slideshow is an extraordinary view behind the...more
From Chicago to the streets of Tehran
Ramin Mostaghim blogged the reaction on the streets of Tehran to the election of Barrack Obama to the presidency of the United States, Hassan Mosavi, a 47-year-old barber, said he’s been closely following the campaign for days, mostly watching the Voice of America satellite channel. This morning, he awoke...more
US Election night continues
[video:youtube:lhT5pTYJKWo] If you're still awake this side of the pond - and I am barely - there are more photos from the Frontline Club election night party and there's a bit more video action taking in the first and second floors of the club down to the wee press room...more
Live from US election night at the club
[video:youtube:4yT7oGZsYDA] Click the video above to get some live atmosphere from the Frontline Club as the exit polls start to come in. And a big shout out to Natalie and Anna who are blogging live from the Frontline Club for the Guardian Weekly. See Anna in action below on a...more
CBC staff protest war reporter lay off
Staff at the Canadian TV channel CBC are up in arms at the laying off of 26 correspondents including reporting "icons" Patrick Brown and Don Murray, "These are journalists who in many ways defined foreign reporting at CBC in the past few decades," says [a letter to network president Hubert...more
$1 million Baghdad security budget
Peter Morello of University of Missouri-Kansas City (UKMC), Matthew Schofield of The Kansas City Star and activist Mike Murphy held a roundtable at UKMC to discuss the war in Iraq and the nature of reporting conflict, issues around embedding and the sheer expense of it all, "It's become expensive to...more
Richard Bourne on Lula of Brazil
[video:bliptv:1362360] Last night author Richard Bourne discussed his latest book, Lula of Brazil, at the Frontline Club. You can watch the discussion above, President Lula of Brazil has a life that reads like a film script. The child of a dysfunctional family, his early life was one of poverty and...more
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