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25 years of Panos Pictures: "It's about who you're working with and why"

on April 25, 2012 11:17 PM

By Helena Williams For 25 years photo agency Panos Pictures has been covering stories the mainstream media won't. The commercial arm of the development NGO the Panos Institute (now Panos London) has had photographers documenting history as it unfolds, with a focus on social and development stories globally....more

Bosnia 20 years on - Part 2

on April 13, 2012 12:21 PM

By Ivana Davidovic It was a full house at the Frontline Club, the audience gathering to mark two decades since the ill-fated weekend in April 1992 when first shots were fired in Bosnia. The worst carnage in Europe since World......more

Bosnia 20 years on - Part 1

on April 13, 2012 10:10 AM

By Merryn Johnson Twenty years after the beginning of the Bosnian War, Ed Vulliamy still rages against the powers that failed to act, the perpetrators not held to account, and the international organisations continuing to profit from the fractured regions......more

Defending collaboration, with A. A. Gill and Tom Craig

on March 2, 2012 10:48 AM

By Alan Selby The advent of new media has seen an increasing pressure placed upon journalists to become multidisciplinary, but often to the detriment of each medium. During an evening moderated by David Campany, reader in photography at Westminster University,......more

Russia: A Mafia State?

on October 27, 2011 11:40 AM

By Thomas LoweThe panel painted a largely sombre picture of present-day Russia, overshadowed by a resurgent FSB secret service and their close allies, the oligarchs. Author of Mafia State and Guardian correspondent Luke Harding began by explaining what it is like to......more

Frontline volunteer opportunity for summer: FNTV Archive

on May 25, 2011 11:00 AM

This summer the Frontline Club Charitable Trust in Paddington is offering part-time volunteer positions on an Oral History project to a small number of bright individuals. If you're interested in journalism, war or the history of the late 20th century perhaps this is the project for you....more

10 years on: the unsettled, unsettling legacy of Slodoban Milosevic

on October 6, 2010 8:27 AM

By Sara Elizabeth Williams On 5 October 2000, Slobodan Milosevic was removed from power in a people’s revolution that ground to a halt 13 years of conflict. Watching half a million Serbians swarm the streets, the world had high hopes......more