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Frontline Club on Twitter
If you use the increasingly popular microblogging service Twitter, you might be interested to know who is on Twitter from the Frontline blogs, how often they tweet and how to follow them. First up, you'll need an account, Second, find and follow the bloggers that interest you most. Here's a...more
Press freedom report 2008
The 2008 Press Freedom Index was published on Wednesday by Reporters Without Borders. You can see a full listing of the rankings here, “The post-9/11 world is now clearly drawn,†Reporters Without Borders said. “Destabilised and on the defensive, the leading democracies are gradually eroding the space for freedoms. The...more
Mark Wood steps down from ITN
Mark Wood, chief executive of ITN, is to leave the television company after six years to “pursue opportunities outside the companyâ€. The one time foreign correspondent will remain as Chairman of ITN for the time being. He entered the world of foreign correspondents in 1976. He joined ITN after a...more
Foreign Policy bought by Washington Post
Foreign Policy magazine has been acquired by the Washington Post Company. Washington Post editor and foreign correspondent Susan Glasser will join the magazine as executive editor, "Foreign Policy is a terrific magazine, and I'm pleased it will become a part of our company," said Donald E. Graham, chairman and chief...more
Daniel Pearl jam session
FODfest, or Friends of Danny, is a concert tour to celebrate the life of Daniel Pearl, the WSJ journalist murdered in Pakistan in 2002. The first show takes place on what would have been Pearl's 45th birthday on Friday, Oct. 10, at 7:30 p.m., at the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center...more
The Kurt Schork newsroom
Matt Von Pinnon writes about the building of a newsroom at Jamestown College campus in the United States in memory of Kurt Schork, the Reuters reporter who was killed on May 24, 2000 in Sierra Leone, The Kurt Schork Newsroom. In a retrofitted space in the basement of the college’s...more
Channel 4 foreign movers
Channel 4 News international editor, Lyndsey Hilsum, will return from China to London after the 2008 Paralympic games have finished. While foreign correspondent and occasional Frontline Club events chair Nick Paton Walsh moves to the channel's Beijing bureau to become Asia correspondent. link...more
Bruce Wallace becomes LA Times Foreign editor
The LA Times blog reports that Bruce Wallace, Tokyo bureau chief for the Los Angeles paper, is to head the foreign desk with immediate effect, Bruce was based in Japan, but during the last four years he has been a kinetic firefighter, parachuting from hotspot to hotspot. He made...more
New job for Lara Logan
Lara Logan, CBS Chief foreign correspondent, is set to switch jobs and location. She will move from London to Washington D.C. Her new role will be Chief foreign affairs correspondent. However, she will still cover the war in Iraq and cover stories elsewhere, “She will still travel all over the...more
From Broadway to Baghdad
Campbell Robertson, New York Times Broadway gossip columnist, is heading to Iraq - "once the Tony's are over" - for the United States leading broadsheet. Explaining the decision James Glanz, Baghdad Bureau Chief, says the paper could do with some fresh ideas, “Look, he’s an untraditional war correspondent the way...more
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