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Writing Libya's revolution

on April 27, 2012 11:04 AM

By Richard NieldSpeaking to a packed Frontline Club on 26th April, Channel 4 News' International Editor Lindsey Hilsum shared a fascinating personal insight into the revolution in Libya last year that overthrew the regime of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi after 42......more

Are cheap, local hires saving or ruining foreign reporting?

on March 20, 2012 12:57 PM

By Helena WilliamsForeign reporting is changing. With news outlets' budgets tightening, and competition, pressure and risks on the rise, foreign journalists working in conflict countries are abandoning traditional methods of reporting in favour of using cheap, local hires to get......more

Apps for the Paps

on March 14, 2012 11:13 AM

By Thomas LoweIt could have made no sense. But with a gently-gently approach to explaining new apps and why they exist, the gap between the journo geeks and the journo technophobes was momentarily bridged - with a little help......more

Jasad & the Queen of Contradictions

on March 10, 2012 11:59 AM

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It's the Military, Stupid

on March 8, 2012 8:43 AM

By Thomas Lowe ‘Memogate’, nuclear weapons, Bin Laden, Imran Khan, US foreign policy, Afghanistan - it seems that global issues are destined to pass through Pakistan. But it’s the vast military apparatus at the very centre of the state of......more

The promise and peril of the Arab revolution

on March 6, 2012 11:08 PM

By Helena Williams “’It came out of nowhere because of Facebook and Google’ is not true. It was a long time coming.” So said Marwan Bishara, Al Jazeera English’s senior political analyst and author of ‘The Invisible Arab: The promise and......more

Screening: An Arab Spring in Saudi?

on March 6, 2012 11:40 AM

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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

Frei at The Frontline Club

on February 29, 2012 1:48 PM

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

Matt Frei and the 'light touch' (five tips for journalists)

on February 29, 2012 7:05 AM

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