Frontline Club
| Frontline Club link | |
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| File:Tackling Tools of Malign Influence.jpg Tackling Tools of Malign Influence, an Integrity Initiative conference about fake news and "Russian Propaganda". | |
| Formation | 2003 |
| Headquarters | London, UK |
| A venue used by the Institute for Statecraft/Integrity Initiative. Founded by former military officer turned "independent" journalist. | |
The Frontline Club has hosted over 1200 events since it started in 2003, including some by the Institute for Statecraft/Integrity Initiative.
Own words
The Frontline Club is a gathering place for journalists, photographers and other likeminded people interested in international affairs. We champion independent journalism and freedom of speech, and fight for the safety of freelancers in doing their important work around the globe.[1]
Background
The media club was founded by British officer Vaughan Smith in 2003. Smith was an officer in the Grenadier Guards, serving in Northern Ireland, Cyprus and Germany. In the 1990s, Smith worked as an "independent" cameraman and video news journalist, running an outfit called Frontline News TV.[2]
Smith actively collaborated with NATO, as an embedded reporter and cameraman in several US-NATO war theaters including Iraq, Afghanistan, Bosnia, Chechnya, and Kosovo. In 1998 - prior to the onslaught of NATO's war on Yugoslavia - he worked as a video journalist in Kosovo in a production entitled The Valley, which consisted in "documenting" alleged Serbian atrocities against Kosovar Albanians on behalf of US-NATO which invaded Yugoslavia on March 24, 1999. The video production was carried out with the support of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA).[3]
Keep your friends close...
In 2010, Smith gave refuge to Julian Assange, the founder of whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks, first at the Frontline Club and then at his country house.[4] Assange had been staying at the club for two months.[5]
Abroad
The Frontline Club partners with NGOs, media centres and others across Russia, Turkey and Central Europe and Eastern Europe to deliver a year-round programme of documentary screenings, journalistic training and public discussions.[6] Its partners abroad receive money from the Open Society Foundations and foreign embassies.[7][8]
Financing
Financial backers include the Open Society Foundations' program on "independent journalism".[9]
References
- ↑ https://www.frontlineclub.com/
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20100226194745/http://www.potterfoundation.com/frontline.php
- ↑ https://www.globalresearch.ca/wiki-gate-julian-assange-was-framed-by-the-people-who-supported-him/5660128
- ↑ https://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503543_162-20025866-503543.html
- ↑ http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/dec/07/assange-bail-request-refused-wikileaks
- ↑ https://www.frontlineclub.com/partners/
- ↑ https://www.frontlineclub.com/slovakia/
- ↑ https://www.institutemedia.org/donors-and-partners/
- ↑ https://www.frontlineclub.com/partners/