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Our next door neighbours are foreign countries
[video:youtube:nokTjEdaUGg] I didn't want to post this here... but I have to. If there's one thing that impacts the work of foreign correspondents and war reporters more than any other it is US foreign policy. Should the Republican party win the US election in November Sarah Palin will become Vice...more
Mark Mardell in hostile environments
Mark Mardell heads into hostile territory for the BBC, but this is just make believe. The BBC's Europe Editor found it increasingly daft that he was missing out on stories because he hadn't done the requisite hostile environment training course, Why am I here if I don't want to get...more
Forgotten film season at the Frontline Club
[video:youtube:x2d6bVw7t8k] The Forgotten season starts at the Frontline Club from 4 August. The season consists of nine documentary films from some of the world's forgotten stories, Ranging from female soldiers in Sri Lanka to a forgotten war in Nagorno Karabakh, a covered up massacre in Uzbekistan to conscientious objection in...more
Hostile environment training for student journalists
[video:youtube:FxinugZalOA] Student Steve Lestrange reports from a Hostile Environment training course undertaken by University College Falmouth MA International Journalism students. Doesn't sound quite as hair-raising as the Reuters equivalent, but the weather looks worse....more
Journalists stamped
Five journalists feature on a new range of stamps issued by the US Postal Service. The stamps were announce last year and have just appeared. The journalists featured are: Rubén Salazar, a TV and Los Angeles Times reporter killed when covering a 1970 war protest in East Los Angeles....more
From the Frontline clubroom
The Frontline Club is profiled in The Independent newspaper today. Chris Green heads into the clubroom and rummages through the glass cabinets full of memorabilia left by the foreign correspondents and war reporters who make up the club's membership. Among the bits and pieces he finds is Vaughan Smith's...more
Mapping the media
Interesting wee mapping experiment that takes an image of the world and maps the number of stories written about different countries and lays it on top of the map. The results, unsurprisingly, tells us much of the planet goes unreported. Nicolas Kayser-Bril explains more, These maps allow you to...more
Frontline students
Students from the University of Indiana descended upon the Frontline Club this week to meet and talk with New York Times London Bureau Chief John Burns. John treated them to a talk about his experiences as a war reporter and about "embedding". One of the students, Rosemary Pennington, blogged...more
Great war painting up for auction
An historic painting, called Incident at Bullecourt, by war artist Mervyn Napier Waller goes up for sale next month. The painting depicts Australian and Scottish soldiers on the front line in France during World War I. It's unusual in that the artist painted it with his left hand after...more
Don't be a whiner
From the Digital Journalist way back in 2003, war reporter Joseph L. Galloway gives sage advice to wannabe war reporters on what to carry and how to avoid being killed. I've extracted a few highlights, Strive to look as much like a private of whatever service you are travelling with....more
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