Since I posted a story about The Spectator's malicious attack on Vaughan Smith and our Frontline Club that I have the privilege of chairing, there have been some developments that I wanted to share with you. The Spectator's Toby Young who had not only…
What could be more Frontline Club than giving a platform to the associate editor of The Spectator, Toby Young, whose magazine had just trashed the Club and Vaughan Smith? Young took part in a Brexit debate. See the link to Vaughan Smith’s email to memb…
I've just been thinking about often of late I've turned to The New Yorker but not just the magazine or the beautifully crafted digital version. I'm also finding myself listening faithfully to The New Yorker podcast that like the magazine is such appeal…
I'm pleased to see that the New York Times is again featuring the kind of thoughtful media analysis that was so brilliantly written by the late David Carr ( he called his column The Media Equation) and has been so sorely missed. His replacement- writin…
This is a disappointing and in my view unfair analysis by Gary Younge. I am generally an admirer of his reporting and analysis. But he's got a blind spot about Obama and has never given him enough credit. Younge is dismissive of the most reactionary o…
Last week, the Verifeye Media app developed by award-winning docuentary maker and photojournalist John D McHugh was made available in the App store. I have supported this project (even invested a little money in it) but have embraced it because I …
If you want to try and understand why Kenyan journalists are so haunted by what they witnessed and reported on in the post-election violence aftermath of the 2007 disputed elections, spend time watching these few disturbing NY Times pictures. http://go…
This is a new video posted by award-winning documentary maker John D McHugh who is now devoting his energies to Verifeye, a new smart phone app that can thanks to its metadata instantly authenticate any photos or video recorded and uploaded. What make…
It was vintage Marie Colvin. It was 19 October and the Frontline Club was heaving, jammed with journalists and human rights activists gathered to pay tribute to the Russian reporter Anna Politkovskaya. Politkovskaya had been murdered in the lift of her…