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Remembering the fallen
Robert Fox,
To those who paid the ultimate price for their journalism
The dedication of Jaume Plensa’s giant glass vase ‘Breathing’ on the roof of the BBC at Portland Place as a memorial to all who have fallen in the cause of news and reporting was moving, fitting and strangely remote. more++
From Forgotten Frontlines
Nancy Durham,
As the Frontline Club's "Forgotten" season gears up, Nancy Durham highlights three memorable documen
Remember when Nagorno-Karabakh topped the news? Two decades ago it became the war to report. For a while we all knew how to say and even spell the name of the disputed territory fought over by Armenia and Azerbaijan. more++- When hope turns to fear: Hunger, death and fear stalk the streets of Zimbabwe as the election crisis continues. -
- Rough Justice: The tale of the journalism student and the Afghan warlord. One sentenced to death, the other remains -
- Africa's Dark Heart: An unnavigable river, barbarous treatment of the natives by Belgian colonists and despotic rule have -
- Congolese Cliches: Victorian era cliches about Africa are all-too-often the mainstay for reporters and writers -
- Far from over for FARC: Despite the killing of two top leaders, the Colombian revolutionary movement is still going strong -
tools and tips
Twitter's quicker
Graham Holliday,
From China to Exeter the micro-blogging tool broke the news ahead of the mainstream media.
“Just heard a big blast near badi chowpak. Donno what it was.”Not much of a quote, but it was enough to get the story out. Sandil Srinivasan, or 2s as he is known on the microblogging service Twitter, was in Jaipur on 13 May when the first of a series of nine synchronized bombs exploded in the capital city of the northern Indian state of Rajasthan. more++
Citizen Cameramen
Graham Holliday,
Cheaper cameras and the power of the internet is driving a revolution in the world of video-journali
By the time the members of the original Frontline TV agency hit Grozny in the mid-90s to report on the Chechen war, it became clear that the market for pictures and video was changing. more++Kitbag: John Coghill
John Coghill,
Zimababwe and Uganda
John Coghill started the Radios for Africa charity in 2003 that distributes Freeplay Lifeline wind-up/solar-powered radios to Africa’s rural poor and has recently started operations in Northern Uganda. more++
inside out
Inside Out - January 2008
John Owen,
When we began recruiting members to the Frontline Club, we were often told that it would never work. After all, the sceptics said, why would you want to become part of a club that catered to war journalists and ex-hacks who would bore you with their tales of near death experiences? more++Inside Out - November 07
John Owen,
One of the most important debates in journalism is far from over at the Frontline Club. It’s about whether the war in Iraq and the dangerous conflicts in Somalia and Gaza and elsewhere have made it nearly impossible for correspondents and news teams working for “western” news media to do their jobs. more++Inside Out - October 07
John Owen,
There’s something startling about passing by the most hallowed Serbian monument in Kosovo en route to a bold new journalism school in Kosovo. more++reviews
Palestine Inside Out: An Everyday Occupation
Najwa Najjar,
Book by Saree Makdisi
How do you review a book that articulates what your life under occupation is like so honestly and clearly that you are left feeling shocked and angry? To an outside world that sees only the issues of “peace” and “terrorism,” occupation loses its significance and becomes a mere abstraction. more++
My Grandmother: A Memoir
Hugh Pope,
Book by Fethiye Çetin Introduction by Maureen Freely
While a young girl, Turkish lawyer Fethiye Çetin adored her grandmother, a Muslim matriarch named Seher. Then she learned that Seher was in fact Haranuş, an Armenian Christian. more++
The Man Who Pushed America to War: The Extraordinary Life, Adventures and Obsessions of Ahmad Chalabi
Ed Harriman,
Book by Aram Roston
Read this. It’s sober, well written and ruthlessly forensic about Ahmad Chalabi’s business affairs and propaganda operations. more++new media
AP vs. Bloggers
Graham Holliday,
The Associated Press riled bloggers in June by asking them to pay for quotes lifted from its reports
As freelance word rates go, $2.50 per word isn’t bad. It’s what you might expect from some of the higher end magazines in the US. However, it might not be what you expect the Associated Press (AP) to charge bloggers for quoting AP material. more++Reporting on the forbidden
Graham Holliday,
RSS feeds and news aggregators are powerful new tools that offer journalists a way around news black
When Georg Blume of Germany and Kristin Kupfer of Austria left from Lhasa train station in the early hours of Thursday March 20 they were the last two foreign journalists to leave Tibet after being forced out by the Chinese authorities. more++
Public or Private?
Graham Holliday,
Social networking sites have brought new opportunities for journalists, and new problems
Social networking sites like Facebook and Bebo are awash with video and pictures uploaded by the general public. News organisations are grappling with what they can and can’t use from the sites, but there is no agreed standard and recent months have seen them make a litany of mistakes. more++