TV

Friday 1 December 2017, 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Workshop: Writing and Storytelling for TV & Video Journalists with Vin Ray

Join us for a day-long masterclass with Vin Ray, moving from the basic elements of television and video packaging through to the most sophisticated scripting techniques to help you improve your storytelling. It is designed to work for both newcomers and experienced professionals who want to improve their storytelling.


Friday 26 May 2017, 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Workshop: Writing and Storytelling for TV & Video Journalists with Vin Ray

Join us for a day-long masterclass with Vin Ray, moving from the basic elements of television and video packaging through to the most sophisticated scripting techniques to help you improve your storytelling. It is designed to work for both newcomers and experienced professionals who want to improve their storytelling.


Friday 10 February 2017, 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Workshop: Writing and Storytelling for TV & Video Journalists with Vin Ray

Join us for a day-long masterclass with Vin Ray, moving from the basic elements of television and video packaging through to the most sophisticated scripting techniques to help you improve your storytelling. It is designed to work for both newcomers and experienced professionals who want to improve their storytelling.


Friday 20 May 2016, 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Workshop: Writing and Storytelling for TV & Video Journalists

Join us for a day-long masterclass with Vin Ray, moving from the basic elements of television and video packaging through to the most sophisticated scripting techniques to help you improve your storytelling. It is designed to work for both newcomers and experienced professionals who want to improve their storytelling.


Friday 16 October 2015, 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Workshop: Writing and Storytelling for TV Journalists

Join us for a day-long masterclass with Vin Ray, moving from the basic elements of television packaging through to the most sophisticated scripting techniques to help you improve your storytelling. It is designed to work for both newcomers and experienced professionals who want to improve their storytelling.


Friday 15 May 2015, 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Workshop: Writing and Storytelling for TV Journalists

Join us for a day-long masterclass with Vin Ray, moving from the basic elements of television packaging through to the most sophisticated scripting techniques to help you improve your storytelling. It is designed to work for both newcomers and experienced professionals who want to improve their storytelling.


Friday 31 October 2014, 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Workshop: Writing and Storytelling for TV Journalists

Join us for a day-long masterclass with Vin Ray, moving from the basic elements of television packaging through to the most sophisticated scripting techniques to help you improve your storytelling. It is designed to work for both newcomers and experienced professionals who want to improve their storytelling.


Friday 25 April 2014, 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Workshop: Writing and Storytelling for TV Journalists

Join us for a day-long masterclass with Vin Ray, moving from the basic elements of television packaging through to the most sophisticated scripting techniques to help you improve your storytelling. It is designed to work for both newcomers and experienced professionals who want to improve their storytelling.


Friday 17 January 2014, 10:00AM - 5:00PM

Workshop: Writing and Storytelling for TV Journalists

Join us for a day-long masterclass with Vin Ray, moving from the basic elements of television packaging through to the most sophisticated techniques to help you improve your storytelling. It is designed to work for both newcomers and experienced professionals who want to improve their storytelling.


Friday 13 September 2013, 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Workshop: Writing and Storytelling for TV Journalists

Join us for a day-long masterclass with Vin Ray, moving from the basic elements of television packaging through to the most sophisticated techniques to help you improve your storytelling. It is designed to work for both newcomers and experienced professionals who want to improve their storytelling.


Friday 26 April 2013, 10.00 AM - 5.00 PM

Workshop: Writing and Storytelling for TV Journalists

Join us for a day-long masterclass that moves from the basic elements of television packaging through to the most sophisticated techniques to help you improve your storytelling.


August 18, 2011

Humanising Iran: Insights with Kamin Mohammadi

By Helena Williams Iranian author and journalist Kamin Mohammadi explained her reasons for telling her family’s story without saturating her book The Cypress Tree in her homeland’s complex political history at the Frontline Club last night. “The greater truth I want to communicate about my country is a human truth – it’s not about politics,” said Mohammadi, adding: “the more […]


March 19, 2010

John Simpson: BBC under threat from politicians and Rupert Murdoch

By Gouri Sharma John Simpson is in no doubt over the very real political and regulatory threats the BBC is facing and doesn’t trust either of the main UK political parties to protect the organisation. The BBC world affairs editor, who was at the Frontline Club on Wednesday night to talk about his latest book, […]


March 15, 2010

War reporting fail

A Georgian TV channel caused panic at the weekend after a mock up news report suggested Russian troops had invaded the country and President Saakashvili had been killed. Many viewers had missed a warning that went out before the broadcast. The video below is Russia Today’s report on the biggest (non)-story so far this year: 


July 22, 2009

A Tale of Two Mayors: Who is the Mayor of London?

If I am not mistaken, then I think that the Mayor of London is ought to be Boris Johnson nowadays. Without checking any online news or information sources, looking up any official websites – I can recall that it should be Boris Johnson. I clearly remember when he was elected – people were talking  whether […]


June 27, 2009

Breaking news EXPLAINED

Say no more… found via Frontline blogger Mike Hills who is in Beirut and blogs with us here.


April 24, 2009

Taking the flak

Original Frontline TV agency camera woman Tira Shubart recently finished filming and producing a TV comedy series called Taking the Flak about the world of war reporters, stringers and fixers all set in a fictional African country called Karibu. Tira produced the film with Jon Rolph and it draws on her experience as a foreign […]


February 15, 2007

Inside Out – February 07

Two years ago, CBS News introduced its “Public Eye” forum as part of its re-launched and revamped website. One of the publicity grabbing things it did was to shoot video of a CBS News editorial meeting and post it on the website. The notion was that the public could then see for itself how the […]


November 30, 2006

Al-Jazeera English (1)

Bad news is often good news for journalists. The assassination of Lebanese opposition leader Pierre Gemayel may have been exactly that for Al-Jazeera English, the Westernized cousin of the channel the Bush administration loves to hate. It wasn’t so much that AJE triumphed in its coverage of the Lebanese event but it did show signs […]


November 6, 2006

Picture imperfect

With the notable exception of t-mobile, mobile phone operators and broadcasters are clamouring to get into the mobile TV market but is the technology ready and do consumers really want it?  At the moment most mobile TV is streamed over 2G, 2.5G or 3G networks to mobile handsets. “Unicast streaming” is the most common where […]


June 27, 2006

In-depth Charger

Serious, in-depth journalism may be unwell but it is still alive in Britain despite an almost complete lack of institutional support in television, and limited resources in print and radio.  The definitions are many – but most would agree that investigative journalism is ‘normal’ journalism plus money and more importantly, plus time. Getting complicated, difficult […]