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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......more

 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......more

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......more

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,......more

I have written an article in the Frontline Club newsletter linked above.......more

This is the full 16 minute documentary that originally aired on BBC Newsnight on 26 September, 2007. It's available for download on Google Video. My original text from the evening that I returned from Sangin:I have been out on......more

Vaughan is interviewed in the Press Gazette this week about the hows, whys and history of frontline journalism, “When we started off we wanted to have complete independence, we were paying for our own trips and we were risking our......more

You can view the 16 minute Newsnight documentary on the Newsnight website for, I think, three days. We'll post the entire film on the blog, on YouTube and Brightcove as soon as we can. Meanwhile, take a minute to......more

The Newsnight film shows in half an hour - and just in case you're still tuned in here - there's a bit more background and preamble on the BBC Newsnight website, Twenty years ago I left the Grenadier Guards to......more

Sadly my time is up with the British Army in Afghanistan. There are lots of journalists who want the space and I will have to wait my turn to come back. I tried to get back to Kabul in......more