My favorite all-time movie moment about journalism takes place at the end of the Humphrey Bogart 1952 film Deadline USA. Bogart as the grizzled editor defies a gangster's threat and order not to print a story about him. He orders......more
John Owen on international news reporting: February 2009 Archives
Sri Lankan debate
If you read Graham Holliday's post about the Sri Lankan event controversy, you know how much pressure outside groups try on occasion to exert on us at Frontline. We all acknowledge that we do get it wrong from time to......more
The anti-photojournalist law
One issue we clearly have missed at Frontline is the new law- Section 76 of the Counter Terrorism Act- that makes it a crime to photograph the police if they don't want you to. 150 photojournalists protested at Scotland Yard......more
Brook Lapping at Frontline
Anyone lucky enough to be at the Frontline Club screenings this past week got reminded about what first rate powerful documentary making is all about. It's been far too long since we've had a blockbuster Brook Lapping series. But Iran......more
John Owen on international news reporting:
John Owen chairs the Frontline Club Forum, is a professor of international journalism at City University in London, international media...