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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......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

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......more

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......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

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

[video:youtube:QGf7fY98RhM] As promised earlier, here is an interview with Brigadier John Lorimer, the Brigade Commander of 12 Brigade, currently in Helmand.......more

Tonight is the night: 10.30pm on BBC 2. BBC Newsnight plan to show my 16 minute film. I could get bumped off by a major news event and if this happens it should then appear tomorrow night. The film might......more

[video:youtube:HEDRM6l0SKs] I was in Gereshk to witness the first deployment in Southern Afghanistan of what the military would call “proper armour”. A company of Scots Guards, called the Right Flank, arrived in a large sand-cloud with more than 20 “Warrior”......more