Financial Times – Frontline Club

Samoan Tsunami appeal today @ Financial Times

Flora Carmichael — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 10:34:07 +0000

The Financial Times is hosting an auction of fantastic photographs on Tuesday 9th March to raise funds for Oxfam’s relief effort in Samoa. It is seven months since an 8.3 magnitude earthquake triggered a tsunami in Samoa, American Samoa and Tonga. In the immediate aftermath of the disaster Oxfam provided safe water, sanitation and food to the villagers affected. The longer term effort is focused on helping families to rebuild sustainable livelihoods and providing counseling to help individuals cope with their personal trauma.

The auction features photography from top fine art photographers and photojournalists, including Jane Bown and Dave Stewart. The photographs include some limited edition signed works, featuring well known personalities and political themes. The photography will be sold by Sotheby’s auctioneer Adrian Biddell. This fantastic evening will also include performances from London based ‘Beats of Polynesia’ and Special Guests on the night will include members of the Samoan rugby team. The event will be held at the Financial Times, 1 Southwark Bridge on Tuesday 9th March from 7pm onwards.

For more information and details on how to attend Annabel Cook can be reached at print.auction@ft.com. RSVPs by 3.30pm today.

Live tonight – Gillian Tett on the credit crisis

Graham Holliday — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 13:50:16 +0000

We’ll be discussing the credit crisis, financial journalism and scaremongering with Financial Times Assistant editor and journalist of the year Gillian Tett at the Frontline Club tonight. Gillian will be in discussion with BBC economics editor Stephanie Flanders. We start at 7.30pm GMT and as usual we’ll be streaming the event live above and on our new Livestation channel where we will also be fielding questions from viewers, so please join in. And don’t forget to download the Livestation software to watch in great quality on your PC or fed through to your TV,

When she picked up her prize for journalist of the year at the British Press Awards recently, the Financial Times’ Gillian Tett claimed the accolade was a vindication for “the geeks” and “anoraks”. The assistant editor of the Financial Times has been documenting the rise of credit derivatives banking since she was appointed in 2005 to cover the the rather unglamorous capital markets patch. But it was only after the full consequences of the risks bankers had been taking became so catastrophically apparent that Gillian Tett was promoted from “geek” to luminary, regularly making appearances on TV and radio. link

Live tonight – David Gardner on Obama and the Middle East

Graham Holliday — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 11:08:03 +0000

You can now watch the event here.

David Gardner will be discussing Obama and the Middle East with Channel 4’s Jon Snow at the Frontline Club tonight. David is a Financial Times Associate Editor and the Chief Leader Writer. He recently published Last Chance: The Middle East in the balance. We start at the slightly later time than normal of 8.15pm GMT/9.15pm PST, tonight Tues April 21. If you can’t join us at the club in person, you can watch the discussion and join in the chatbox below, on the Club Events page or on the Frontline Club live channel page,

While the world waits expectantly for the Obama administration’s Middle East policy, Financial Times Associate Editor and Chief Leader Writer – the hugely respected David Gardner speaks frankly with Channel 4 News’ Jon Snow about what needs to be done now.

Gardner advocates nothing less than a reappraisal of what realpolitik means as we enter the 21st century. Truly ‘smart power’, he argues, would not continue to prop up despotic regimes from Syria to the Gulf in the interests of short-term stability.

In his new book: Last Chance: The Middle East in the Balance he argues that if democracy is suppressed for even a few years longer in the Arab world, the Middle East will be lost to anti-Westernism and violence for several generations. link