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Fixers’ Fund – Frontline Club http://www.beta.frontlineclub.com Championing Independent Journalism Fri, 17 May 2013 09:12:15 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 The Frontline Club quiz returns http://www.beta.frontlineclub.com/the-frontline-club-quiz-returns/ Wed, 24 Apr 2013 09:38:39 +0000 http://www.beta.frontlineclub.com/?p=30494 Club Room
The infamous Club Quiz returns on Thursday 16 May with quizmasters Caroline Johns and Dr Keith Surridge. Having previously been billed as one of ‘the hardest quizzes in London’ it is sure to attract the cream of Frontline Club quizzing talent.

Teams can consist of up to six people, and there will be five rounds of 10 questions. The entry cost is £5 per person, with all money raised going towards the Fixers Fund, assisting families of fixers around the world killed or injured while working with the international media.

Get a team together and purchase tickets here.

Caroline Johns is a reformed historian, having given up her PhD when the roof of her garret caved in and the novelty of penury wore off. She left the hallowed groves of academe (lecturing on the BA Journalism course at City University) to cross to ‘the dark side’ that is the private sector and now works for Deloitte as speechwriter to the UK CEO and chief of staff to the global chairman.

Dr Keith Surridge is a history lecturer in several American college programmes in London. He is the co-author of The Boer War (with Denis Judd), which, if you look hard, may even still be available in some good book shops.

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About the Fixers’ Fund http://www.beta.frontlineclub.com/about_the_fixers_fund/ http://www.beta.frontlineclub.com/about_the_fixers_fund/#comments Thu, 12 Nov 2009 15:40:10 +0000 http://www.beta.frontlineclub.com/dev/?p=1326 Ajmal, a 24-year old journalist from Kabul, was taken hostage by the Taliban in Helmand province on March 4, 2007. He was working with the La Repubblica reporter Daniele Mastrogiacomo and their driver Sayed Agha. Jon Lee Anderson wrote about the murder for the Frontline Club Magazine and his article inspired the creation of the Fixers’ Fund,

"Agha was beheaded shortly after the group was abducted… On March 19, the Italian was freed in exchange for five senior Taliban prisoners held by the Afghan government…

After Mastrogiacomo’s release, Ajmal remained in Taliban hands. Supposedly, he was being held until the government handed over two more Taliban prisoners. But then, two days before the expiration date they executed him…

There can be no better moment than this one to establish a special compensation fund for the indispensable, underpaid and often unnamed Ajmals and Sayeds who pull us through and help us get our stories around the world, and who, increasingly, are paying the ultimate price for doing so."

Frontline donated £5,000 to the families of Ajmal and Sayed in 2008.

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You can make a tax free donation here. Thank you.

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What is the Fixer’s Fund? http://www.beta.frontlineclub.com/a_special_event/ http://www.beta.frontlineclub.com/a_special_event/#respond Thu, 23 Oct 2008 09:50:56 +0000 http://www.beta.frontlineclub.com/dev/?p=1322

Prompted by the murder of Ajmal Naqshbandi in Afghanistan in 2007, the Frontline Club has initiated the Fixer’s Fund – a special project to raise money for the families of fixers killed or injured around the world while working with the international media.

Please support this worthy cause. The death of fixers and support staff in the field are all too often swiftly forgotten but foreign reporters could not operate in the field without them. To try and help these unsung heroes of the industry, the Frontline Club has set up this fund and pledges to pass on 100 percent of all the contributions it receives to the families involved.

All cheques should be made out to The Frontline Club Charitable Trust or donate to the fund on the Charity Giving website.

If you’ve nipped into the Frontline Club recently you might have noticed the Fixers Fund gift donation envelopes, on the stairs, at the bar and in the forum. We’ve also put together a short video explaining more about the fund and how it was started following the murder of Ajmal Naqshbandi. Afghan journalist and fixer Najibullah Razzaq discusses the importance of their job along with BBC journalists Alan Little, Jeremy Bowen and Martin Bell. 

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