Vaughan Smith in Afghanistan
Blood and Dust film
Vaughan's new film, Blood and Dust, is below for those who didn't catch it on Al Jazeera's People and Power strand. If you want to see it on a large screen we will showing it at the Frontline Club on...
Vaughan Smith's new film 'Blood and Dust' broadcasting on Al Jazeera
Above is a preview of Vaughan Smith's dramatic new film BLOOD AND DUST recording life and death with an American helicopter medevac unit in Southern Afghanistan. 'These Medivac teams, US military air ambulances, are amoungst the only soldiers that...
Afghanistan: the brittle compact between military and media
A chapter I wrote... Vaughan Smith argues that news management by the military is a risky business. Smith founded the Frontline Club in London in 2003 and during the 1990s he ran Frontline Television News. He filmed the only uncontrolled footage...
Ambush in Helmand
Here's my second piece on Channel 4 News, which was broadcast on Thursday night. This piece also went out on PBS Newshour. They ran it with few changes but here is the link to that version as well...I think the...
Tracking the Taliban: Vaughan Smith's video report from Helmand Province
I have just returned from a second trip with the Grenadier Guards, who I visited in Helmand in 2007. They are now in Nadi Ali, in Helmand province, Afghanistan. I was there for a month, but my computer got waterlogged and...
From the NATO Review
I've cross-posted this on the Frontline blog. Vaughan features in an article in the latest edition of NATO Review. Vaughan discusses how he got into journalism, military minders and the importance of independent reporting, Managing correspondents in the field has...
Media Guardian Innovation Awards
Stepping in for Vaughan here.... and have crossposted on the Frontline blog.... Here's some great news. Club founder and journalist whizz of the old school, Vaughan Smith, is up for a gong at the inaugural Media Guardian Innovation Awards,...
Owning Up To War
I have written an article in the Frontline Club newsletter linked above....