This position will be based in our Paddington, London office three days per week with a flexible schedule.

The selected candidate will have the opportunity to attend all Frontline Club events during the duration of the internship including film screenings, talks and media making workshops.

This position is ideal for someone who is seeking career experience and learning opportunities in the fields of marketing, journalism and film while working part time.

Responsibilities:

-Managing marketing campaigns to promote upcoming talks, workshops and film screenings
-Answering phone calls and taking bookings through our online box office
-Researching opportunities to promote our events and workshop programme to young audiences
-Occasionally assisting with tech and audience support during evening events and workshops
-Dealing with general email enquiries related to upcoming events
-Assisting with event management for our Annual Journalism Awards on 27 October 2016
-Editing and publishing content on the website

Required:

-Bachelor’s degree or practical experience in journalism, marketing, cultural studies, political science or another relevant field
-Familiarity managing social media accounts for an organisation, including Instagram, Twitter and Facebook
-One work placement or previous position in an office setting
-Ability to communicate professionally via email and over the phone
-Demonstrated interest in journalism, documentary film or politics
-Willingness to adapt to new responsibilities when needed
-Ability to work independently and manage time efficiently

Beneficial but not required:

-Experience as an audience assistant for public events
-Experience public speaking
-Experience volunteering or interning for a charitable organisation
-Self-teaching attitude and interest in acquiring advice directly from experts in the fields of journalism, film and multimedia

The successful candidate will receive a weekly stipend of £120 and support in seeking employment after their internship has finished. The deadline for applications is midnight on Friday 2 September 2016.

To apply please send a CV and cover letter to Julianne Rooney at julianne.rooney@www.beta.frontlineclub.com.

Participants will have the chance to be involved in the digitization of the Frontline News Television Archive, participate in the organisation of an exhibition and help run and edit interviews with former members of the agency and the families of those who died in their work. The most committed volunteers will be given training in oral history taking and have a chance to conduct some interviews themselves.

With footage from the late 80s to the present day, Frontline’s video archive is a unique treasure trove of cutting-edge journalism from the front lines of Afghanistan, the Former Yugoslavia, the Gulf War and the Romanian revolution. The story of Frontline News Television is told in the BBC’s David Loyn’s book Frontline: Reporting from the World’s Deadliest Places.

For more information visit:

Participants will have the chance to be involved in the digitization of the Frontline News Television Archive and record interviews with former members of the agency and the families of those who died in their work. Training in oral history taking will be provided.

With footage from the late 80s to the present day, Frontline’s video archive is a unique treasure trove of cutting-edge journalism from the front lines of Afghanistan, the Former Yugoslavia, the Gulf War and the Romanian revolution. The story of Frontline News Television is told in the BBC’s David Loyn’s book Frontline: Reporting from the World’s Deadliest Places.

For more information visit:

www.frontlineclub.com

and:

http://www.beta.frontlineclub.com/blogs/theforum/2011/05/frontline-television-news-archive.html

Dates: Early July – Late August 2011

Deadline for applications: 10^th June 2011- earlier applications welcomed

Candidates must have at least a basic knowledge of the history of the late 20^th century, an interest in journalism and good communication and research skills.

To apply, email a CV and short covering letter to Flora Carmichael: flora.carmichael@www.beta.frontlineclub.com

The Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) has recently granted the Frontline Club its support to digitise the Frontline Television News (FNTV) archive. Not only will the HLF funding help to preserve 1,000 hours of footage covering all the major wars from the late 80s onwards, but it will ensure the involvement of volunteers to compile oral histories with former members of the agency and their families.

In 1989 a small group of young British men and women created a pioneering international news agency for freelance video journalists that was 20 years ahead of its time. In 2003 the agency closed, half of its camera-people having been killed while filming around the world. The dramatic story of the agency is told by David Loyn of the BBC in his book, recently brought out in paperback, Frontline: Reporting from the World’s Deadliest Places.

Frontline’s cameramen were the first to pick up small format, consumer, cameras and aimed to use this technology to do to television journalism what the French photo-agency, Magnum did to photojournalism 50 years earlier. Frontline’s successes included getting the first interview with Bin Laden in the western media, the first film of the stinger missiles that altered the course of the 1980’s war in Afghanistan, the key footage of the Romanian revolution, the only uncontrolled footage of the ground conflict in the first Gulf War, key footage of the Kosovo conflict that led to British and NATO involvement…the list goes on.

John Simpson, BBC World Affairs Editor is recorded as saying "Frontline will be remembered as one of the high peaks of journalism. Martha Gellhorn certainly thought so, and she was a pretty good judge"

The footage, around 1,000 hours in total, covers the period from 1989-2003 and needs to be converted into digital format urgently to save it from degrading. The Imperial War Museum and the British Library have both expressed an interest in using the footage for research and exhibition purposes. The footage will be made available online in low-resolution format for the public to view, though FNTV will retain the rights to the footage.

An Oral History portion of the project will give volunteers the opportunity to interview the remaining Frontline journalists and those who knew them to compose a lasting record of the adventures and misadventures that the members of the Frontline Television News agency undertook in pursuit of some of the most vivid and truthful accounts of war. It will add to an existing set of recordings made by David Loyn for his book.

If you are interested in volunteering over summer to help research the material, assist in the digitisation and cataloguing process and take oral histories from former contributors to Frontline Television News then please send a CV to Flora Carmichael, the project coordinator: flora.carmichael@www.beta.frontlineclub.com Deadline for applications: 10th June- earlier applications welcomed.

The question of how President Barack Obama would tackle the Middle East and the United States relationship with the region was the topic discussed at the Frontline Club shortly after he was sworn in as America’s 44th president in January 2009.

With: Professor Sir Lawrence Freedman, from the War Studies department at King’s College London, Dr Emanuele Ottolenghi, executive director of the Transatlantic Institute, Sadeq Saba, BBC’s Iranian affairs analyst, Zaki Chehab, political editor for the London-based broadsheet Al Hayat and a senior editor for the Arabic TV channel LBC and Dr Rosemary Hollis, director of City University London’s Olive Tree Israeli-Palestinian scholarship programme.

In April 2010 we had Neil MacFarquhar, United Nations bureau chief for The New York Times, talking about life in the Middle East as told in his book The Media Relations Department of Hizbollah Wishes You a Happy Birthday.

The book is his personal cultural investigation into life and thought in a variety of countries from Lebanon to Beirut, Kuwait and Cairo

In September 2010 we had poet, writer and journalist Joumana Haddad speaking to BBC Middle East editor Jeremy Bowen about Arab women and her new book I Killed Scheherazade: Confessions of an Angry Arab Woman.

As anti-government demonstrations take place in the Middle East Jordan’s royal family has come under scrutiny.

Journalist Randa Habib‘s talk at the Frontline Club with Hosam El Sokkari, head of BBC Arabic, is well worth watching or listening to again for insight into the country’s politics.