Past Events and Screenings

The phrase “good day to bury bad news” originates from the September 11 attacks, but it is just as relevant today amid growing that a number of autocratic governments are exploiting Covid-19 to seize new powers.

Environmental disasters and famines are being under-reported as lockdowns prevent access to journalistic scrutiny. Anti-government protests no longer take place in Iraq, Algeria and Lebanon. We have little news of the latest battles around Idlib, or the thousands held in squalid prisons across Syria. Join our panel to discuss some of the news stories drowned out by the pandemic and why these issues remain more important than ever.

Even before the emergence of the Covid-19 pandemic, the 2020 race for the White House was certain to be highly contentious. The coronavirus, however, has now created profound uncertainties for the campaigns of President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden: it is predicted to take hundreds of thousands of American lives, radically stall the US economy and result in deep recession and long-term unemployment. 

From Cambridge Analytica to voter manipulation in the 2016 US Presidential election; from alleged Russian interference in the Brexit referendum to the growing influence of bots on social media, and a surge of conspiracy theories around Covid-19 circulating around the globe, seemingly no-one is now immune.

In 2020, Vladimir Putin had hoped to alter the Russian constitution, secure his tenure as President and ensure any future transition would maintain his effective power. The Covid-19 pandemic and its resulting global recession has put this long-term strategy in jeopardy. Russia now faces its most uncertain period since Putin returned to the Presidency in 2012.

A discussion on the unprecedented challenges when it comes to covering the global pandemic in terms of accurately reporting a complex and fast-moving story. Covid 19 poses a unique set of challenges; to interpret the scientific data, tell the human stories, counter conspiracy theories and hold political leaders to account.

A discussion on the unprecedented challenges when it comes to covering the global pandemic in terms of accurately reporting a complex and fast-moving story. Covid 19 poses a unique set of challenges; to interpret the scientific data, tell the human stories, counter conspiracy theories and hold political leaders to account. 

Join our esteemed panel as they examine the internal dynamics of populism around the globe, with a particular focus on populist ‘charismatic’ leaders and the ideology and organisations of populist parties.

With rare insight into the day-to-day lives of women living within the battle lines, Christina Lamb address the systemic use of rape in war, and its continual deployment as a cruel, inhumane military tactic in a discussion chaired by Lindsey Hilsum.

Hackers have a bad reputation, as shady deployers of bots and destroyers of infrastructure. In Coding Democracy, Maureen Webb offers another view: hackers as vital disruptors, inspiring a new wave of activism in which ordinary citizens take back democracy.

American photographer Ismail Ferdous’s The Cost of Fashion – a photo and video advocacy project that began after documenting the Rana Plaza factory collapse in 2013 – continues to spread awareness about the fashion industry and its negative effects on workers. Chaired by executive producer of ‘The True Cost’, Lucy Siegle.

Frontline Club is in partnership with Wine Merchants Liberty Wines to bring you a series of focused wine tasting events to the Club.

Dr Louisa Egbunike’s documentary weaves together an engaging narrative of reflections from authors touched by one of the most devastating conflicts of the 1960s, one that still casts its shadow on Nigerians around the world

Reporter Karishma Vyas and director Charlie Mole are in California to meet the “TradWives” – a growing movement of women in the United States, young and old, who idolise President Trump.

Frontline Club partners with Human Rights Watch Film Festival this March to screen two documentaries, Collective (Collectiv) and Radio Silence

In the week marking the 9th anniversary of the Syrian uprising, the Frontline Club hosts a discussion with journalists, Sam Dagher, Elizabeth Palmer and Zaina Erhaim, and co-founder of the White Helmets, Abdulrahman Almawwas, on developments there and in the wider region.

Keenie Meenie Services – the most powerful mercenary company you’ve never heard of – was involved in war crimes around the world from Sri Lanka to Nicaragua for which its shadowy directors have never been held accountable. Discussion with the books author, Phil Miller and chaired by, broadcast journalist, Nalini Sivathasan.

The Frontline Club hosts this discussion on the legacy of man-made environmental disasters on communities, and the lasting fears and stigma around ‘hidden unknowns’ which resonate with current public anxieties towards coronavirus. With photographer Giles Price, environmental writer Fred Pearce and BBC journalist Ed Butler.

The Frontline Club host a screening and panel talk on this powerful and shocking investigation from BBC News Arabic into an online slave market enabled by the big tech companies of Silicon Valley.

For decades, the question has haunted the Arab and Muslim world, heard across Iran and Syria, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan, and in the author’s home country of Lebanon. Was it always so? When did the extremism, intolerance and bloodletting of today displace the region’s cultural promise and diversity?

The Frontline Club and Women In Journalism present this special screening of Bombshell, and a panel discussion, including Sylvia Ann Hewlett, Kay Burley and Eleanor Mills.