This Thursday Grapevine hosted a meeting of new media minds at the Frontline Club. Journalists such as Mona Chabali soon to be of the 538, Nicola Hughes of Data Miner, Dan Knowles of the Economist, Helen Lewis of the New Statesman and Luke Lewis of Buzzfeed UK among other journalists discussed in two panels how […]
How to make ‘serious’ journalism as popular as cats, and other stories
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The other side of Athens
December 2, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Petros Koublis captures the silent countryside that surrounds the capital’s “desperate cry”
The changing state of reporting on Syria
November 20, 2013 by Leave a Comment
It is becoming more and more dangerous to report from inside Syria. At the Frontline Club on 19 November a panel chaired by Stuart Hughes, a senior world affairs producer with BBC News and in association with the Overseas Press Club, discussed how reporting has changed since the conflict began and how journalists at all […]
North Korea – life inside the secret state, the women who fight back and getting the outside world in
November 13, 2013 by Leave a Comment
North Korea is the most totalitarian regime still in existence, yet knowledge of the outside world is slowly but relentlessly filtering in, in the form of USB sticks and wind-up radios. Channel 4′s Dispatches followed North Korean defector Mr Chung and Japanese journalist Jiro Ishimaru, who smuggle information and video footage in and out of […]
Has the NSA spying gone too far and what damage has been done?
November 7, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Following the latest revelations from whistleblower Edward Snowden, the Frontline Club’s First Wednesday panel on 6 November gathered to discuss Has NSA spying “reached too far”? Read the full report here
Ben Marcin photographs the last house standing
November 5, 2013 by Leave a Comment
German-born US-based photographer looks at single houses that hang on when the neighbours have gone
The Sochi Project: Documenting the run up to the 2014 Winter Olympics in a city with no snow
November 4, 2013 by Leave a Comment
In 2007, what would become the most expensive Olympic Games in history was announced. Sochi, on the banks of the Black Sea and known as the Florida of Russia – complete with palm trees and sandy beaches – would host the 2014 Winter Olympic Games. The story caught the attention of filmmaker and writer Arnold […]
Just Kenya’s problem? The Westgate Mall terror attack and the internationalisation of al-Shabaab
October 3, 2013 by Leave a Comment
A week after the climax of the 3-day terrorist attack which started on 21 September at the Westgate shopping mall in Kenya’s capital Nairobi, the Frontline Club’s First Wednesday panel on 2 October 2013 – chaired by BBC Africa Editor Solomon Mugera – gathered to discuss the Kenyan government’s response to the event and how […]
How can Mexico live without drug money?
September 12, 2013 by Leave a Comment
From over five years of interviews with members of the main cartels in Mexico, ex-policemen, army generals and officials in the government, journalist Anabel Hernández‘s book Narcoland: The Mexican Drug Lords and Their God Fathers investigates the corruption and compliancy of the official governmental system and the drug cartels in her home country of Mexico. […]
Talking to the Taliban
July 4, 2013 by Leave a Comment
The Taliban have made steps towards wanting to be seen as a legitimate political force, by setting up an operations office in Qatar on 18 June this year. The First Wednesday discussion chaired by Paddy O’Connell at the Frontline Club on 3 July asked: Is talking to the Taliban a solution? Read the full report […]
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