The Forum - Journalism, insight and debate at the Frontline Club: February 2012 Archives

By Alan Selby A packed house at The Frontline Club heard Matt Frei regale them with tales from his long and illustrious career. The former BBC Washington correspondent, recently poached by Channel 4 News, was on fine form as he......more

By Thomas Lowe In conversation with Vin Ray, Matt Frei let us into the deepest, darkest and funniest recesses of his journalistic mind. Here is his advice for putting together a good story for television. 1. Pictures Writing well for TV is quite......more

 By Charlene Rodrigues Torn by a lack of cultural identity, a Schwarzkopf or "Darkhead" is the word European born immigrants use to define themselves in Austria. Arman T. Riahi's documentary of the same name is a portrait of immigrant life in......more

 By Nicky ArmstrongWomen leaving Moldova and crossing the border into Romania and then on to European countries to work illegally has become a mass phenomenon that is tearing families apart.Bordering Romania and the Ukraine, Moldova is the poorest country in......more

On Monday February 27th, 2012, WikiLeaks began publishing The Global Intelligence Files, over five million e-mails from the Texas headquartered "global intelligence" company Stratfor. The e-mails date between July 2004 and late December 2011. Watch the press conference held at......more

Almost a year since the uprising began in Syria, 7000 people are estimated to have died at the hands of President Bashar al-Assad's regime. The death this week of the revered journalist Marie Colvin - a founding member of the Frontline Club - has intensified the media spotlight on what has become a humanitarian crisis. A panel of experts on the situation came to the Frontline Club on Friday for a #FCBBCA event exploring possible solutions to the situation....more

From Vaughan Smith of the Frontline Club, Dear Colleague, I am convinced that there is an exciting opportunity, post embed-free Libya, for a practitioner-led initiative to move the industry forward on news safety.So in April this year the Frontline Club......more

Friends and colleagues of Sunday Times journalist Marie Colvin gathered at the Frontline Club last night after hearing of her death during a rocket attack on the besieged city of Homs.  There were many tributes to Marie Colvin - and......more

By Helena WilliamsNo one who attended last night's discussion at the Frontline Club on the safety of journalists was under any illusion that the issue was not an important one, but few there could have anticipated that it would be......more

UPDATE: Friends and colleagues are invited to the Frontline Club tonight from 7pm to remember Marie Colvin.  Sunday Times journalist Marie Colvin remained in Syria because she was determined the terrible story of events  there had to be told. Marie......more

By William TurvillA sell-out crowd last night gathered at the Frontline Club for an exclusive screening of Robert Mugabe... What Happened?, followed by a question and answer session with the film’s director and producer.The documentary, which premiered at last year’s......more

by Ivana Davidovic "If it was fiction, you would not believe it.” That is how Nadene Ghouri, a journalist and a writer, described Fawzia Koofi's remarkable life story told in her new memoir The Favored Daughter: One Woman's Fight to......more

By Alan Selby Much has happened since this time last year. The 15th of February 2011 saw the first Libyans take to the streets of Benghazi against a brutal dictatorship which ruled over them for 42 years. The events that......more

by Rosie Scammell In the wake of intimidation of BBC Persian journalists by the Iranian authorities, last night saw the screening of ‘The Ayatollah’s Seal’ – the first documentary to be made about the country’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Khamenei. Refused......more

  By: Will TurvillThe Frontline Club last night hosted an exclusive screening of an Al Jazeera documentary Tweets from Tahrir. The film, set to be broadcast on the network for the first time on Thursday, portrays the uprising in Egypt from......more

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By Natricia Duncan    The Frontline Club was treated to an explosion of colour, culture, festivity and debate as photojournalist Jeremy Hunter explored the “DNA of countries” through pictures.Hunter described how he began travelling as part of his job as......more

 By Antonia Roupell “Albinos are human too” was the resounding message from Marc Hoeferlin, Barney Broomfield, and Juan Reina’s film Albino United. A story that  follows not only Tanzanian Albinos’ struggle for equality but their struggle for survival.  Dangerous beliefs that......more

By Ivana Davidovic   "With our souls, with our blood, we would sacrifice anything for you Bahrain" people chanted on the streets of Bahrain. In February 2011, while the media glare was firmly focused on the uprising in Egypt, the Bahraini......more

By Emily Wight A key element to the Arab Spring was the role of social media in giving momentum to the revolution. In countries such as Egypt, Facebook and Twitter have been used as a democratizing force, a platform for......more

By Charlene Rodrigues Interestingly, condemnation of Berlusconi's media involvement was not wholesale. Paolo Mancini, professor at the University of Perugia said: "Everyone here will expect me to say one thing but I don't think Berlusconi is controlling the media. It’s......more