Pop back here at 7pm for a livestream of the Colin Freeman event at the Frontline Club.
From the Frontline website: “Colin Freeman, who was kidnapped in Somalia in November 2008 and held for six weeks, is at the club tonight to discuss his experience and the future for the ‘failed state’ in the Horn of Africa. He’s joined by Mary Harper, a BBC Africa correspondent and Mike Thomson, chief foreign correspondent for the BBC Today programme.”
It’s not finished yet, but FrontlineClub.com’s new look has soft-launched. We’ll be following up with more details next week but for the time being you can check out its new look news page, with ‘Blogs’ split from ‘News’. And for any foodie journalists (or journalistic foodies) you might be interested in the new blog on the Frontline Restaurant page. So watch this space and we’ll update when it’s fully functional in the next week or so.
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Tonight at the Frontline Club, ‘Gaza Missiles and Messages,’ hosted by Roy Greenslade and with:
Jonathan Miller, (C4)
Alan Fisher (Al Jazeera)
Harriet Sherwood, (the Guardian)
Ruthie Blum Leibowitz (The Jerusalem Post)
Lior Ben Dor (Israeli affairs specialist)
Here is the video from the event:
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Sean Langan, the British journalist kidnapped and held hostage by the Taliban for three months in 2008, spoke to the foreign correspondent Sam Kiley at the Frontline Club on Friday.
Langan talks about his work, the kidnap and the “film that wasn’t made: ‘Kidnapped by the Taliban.'”
- “There’s an element to it (…) perhaps I was like Icarus flying too close to the sun.”
- “It goes well – you’re at the top of the pile; it goes wrong – you’re seen as irresponsible.”
- “I don’t regret doing anything I’ve done. I would do it again. I might not do undercover with terrorists again, too often.”
In December 2008, Journalism.co.uk launched a new Dipity Timeline to track international media and we watched it attract a considerable amount of interest. The idea is to bring together international journalism news and comment, focusing on issues which affect journalists’ freedom of speech. We’ve played around with it a bit and re-launched the timeline (so please make sure you update your bookmarks).
It would be interesting to see if we (media and journalism reporters) could collaboratively track a breaking press freedom news story some point in the future, as the journalists did with the floods in Washington.
Please contact Judith (@jtownend on Twitter) or Laura (@lauraoliver on Twitter) at Journalism.co.uk with ideas for how to improve the service, or with suggestions for your own involvement.
Live stream from the Frontline Club tonight: ‘Insight with Jon Ronson’. Peter Curran will chair tonight’s event.
“Why are Iraqi prisoners of war being forced to listen to Barney the Purple Dinosaur’s theme tune repeatedly, at top volume? Why have 100 de-bleated goats been secretly placed inside the Special Forces command centre at Fort Bragg, North Carolina? Has the US army really enlisted the help of Uri Geller? In The Men Who Stare at Goats, soon to be made into a feature film with an all-star cast, author Jon Ronson searches for answers to these and many other questions, revealing some of the extraordinary beliefs at the core of the War on Terror.”
UPDATE: we have removed the video portion while we search for the right archived footage from the frontline.