award – Frontline Club

Friday deadline for nominations of the year’s best journalism

Frontline Staff — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 14:32:49 +0000

There are only four days left for Frontline Club members to nominate the best journalism they have seen this year in each of the following categories: Print | Broadcast | Photojournalism | Tribute.

The Frontline Club Awards for excellence in journalism aim to recognise recognise journalistic integrity, courage and independence of spirit, and include the work of freelances.

Nominations should be sent to flora.carmichael@www.beta.frontlineclub.com by Friday 21st September 2012. Please indicate the category of your nomination in the title of the email. You will need to provide the names of the journalist(s) who created the work and the broadcaster, publication or website which disseminated it. Please also send links to the piece of journalism you wish to nominate if available, or provide the work in an attachment. Work nominated should be from the period October 2011 to October 2012. It can be from any country and cover any topic, but must possess the values of journalistic integrity, courage and independent spirit that the Awards seek to recognise.

The Frontline Club Tribute Award (formerly the Frontline Club Memorial Tribute Award) acknowledges lifetime achievements or work that has not received the acclaim it deserves and is judged on a lifetime of work rather than a single contribution.

The awards will be presented at the Frontline Club Awards ceremony on 25th October 2012. Winners receive lifetime membership of the Frontline Club, a prize from our sponsors, a certificate, and their names will be engraved on a plaque in the main clubroom.

Vaughan Smith wins war reporting prize for his film Blood and Dust

Julie Tomlin — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 12:24:38 +0000

Frontline Club founder Vaughan Smith has been given a prestigious Bayeux-Calvados award for Blood and Dust, a film shot during 10 days spent with a US Medevac helicopter team in Afghanistan.

The awards, which were launched in 1994, recognise the work of journalists covering conflicts around the world.

Smith’s film, which was shown on Al Jazeera in February this year, won the grand format television category with his coverage of the work of the paramedics of the US Army’s 214th Aviation Regiment.

This year the awards were dominated by Libya, with Sky News’ Alex Crawford’s team announced winners of two awards at an event in north-west France for their reports from Libya’s besieged town of Zawiyah, between 4 to 6 March.

Smith, who has filmed in Afghanistan several times in the past, said he decided to go back because he was concerned that his previous work had shown the machinery of war but not the suffering:

"This being a grevous omission I went back last winter to film US army air ambulances, ‘Dustoff’ helicopters, flying over Marjah in Southern Afghanistan, " he said: "The pictures are strong and show both US marines and Afghan civilians being lifted off the battlefield in equal numbers."

Of his decision to work with Al Jazeera, he said: "I couldn’t find another news broadcaster in Britain that would show the film without cutting out the stronger images. I have huge respect for the way Al Jazeera as a broadcaster engages the world while so many others appear to retreat from it."

Read more about Vaughan Smith in Afghanistan.

Choose the best photojournalism of the decade

Adam Blenford on Photojournalism — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 10:59:30 +0000

Photo District News is seeking an answer one of journalism’s great subjective questions: what are the best news photographs of the current decade?

PDN’s 30th anniversary issue will honor your choice of the most memorable and influential photographs of the last decade in every genre. Readers’ selections will be reproduced in the January issue of PDN and on our Web site that month.

PDN is asking for five nominations. There’s no shortage of candidates; there has been a glut of major news events, wars and disasters during the 2000s, and a simultaneous explosion in the number of photographs shot and published – especially online.

Could you pick the best five? Vote here