Freelance/Student £140
Members £115
*Tickets include a light lunch
NGOs and journalists often have to operate in challenging contexts and with difficult subject matter. Producing quality material whilst maintaining levels of professionalism and sensitivity can be hard. There is increasing pressure on NGO’s and story gatherers to bring back “thumb stopping content” but at what cost? This course will examine mistakes NGO’s have made, look at ethics around story gathering and current trends in digital content that can help you maximise your audience.
What you will cover:
- Producing stories in conflict zones and challenging environments
- Maintaining ethical standards while producing stories with impact
- How to avoid “Poverty Porn” – Common pitfalls NGO’s make when creating content (the Rusty Radiator Awards)
- Organising productions in challenging contexts and balancing field staff versus production staff
- How to create powerful content yet balance against ethical standards
- Working in groups on specific scenarios and discuss best practice
- Examining the differing trends in digital content and how this is influencing the types of content gathered
Note – this is not a hostile environment course.
About the trainer – Nadene Ghouri
Arete is the expert humanitarian storytelling agency for non-profits and NGOs, working with award-winning journalists and content specialists to help tell stories that make a difference. Nadene Ghouri is an award-winning investigative journalist and a key member of the Arete team, with two decades of global experience producing news, current affairs, documentary investigations and features. She has been a staff reporter/producer for the BBC and Al Jazeera English. She is a two-time finalist for Broadcast Journalist of the Year, Popular Features and Best Television Documentary at the One World Media Awards and a former winner of the Amnesty Media Awards (Best Radio Investigation). Ghouri is also a winner of the Human Trafficking Foundation Media Awards (Best National Newspaper Investigation) and the Ethnic Minority Media Awards (Best Broadcast Journalist and Best Documentary). Ghouri is a highly experienced international media trainer and consultant, with a particular focus on storytelling training and strategic communications.
Freelance/Student £125
Members £100
NGOs and journalists often have to operate in challenging or hostile contexts. Producing quality material whilst maintaining levels of professionalism and sensitivity can be hard. This course will help you navigate through the complexities and give you the confidence you need to bring back a story safely and sensitively.
What you will cover:
- Producing stories in conflict zones and challenging environments,
- Organising productions in challenging contexts,
- Balancing the needs of field staff and production projects,
- How to brief a commissioned photographer/ videographer on behalf of an NGO to ensure maximum benefit of commission,
- What men need to know,
- What women need to know,
- How to research your location and minimise risk.
Note – this is not a hostile environment course.
What to bring:
- Laptop to take notes,
- At least two story ideas.
About the trainer – Nadene Ghouri
Arete is the expert humanitarian storytelling agency for non-profits and NGOs, working with award-winning journalists and content specialists to help tell stories that make a difference. Nadene Ghouri is an award-winning investigative journalist and a key member of the Arete team, with two decades of global experience producing news, current affairs, documentary investigations and features. She has been a staff reporter/producer for the BBC and Al Jazeera English. She is a two-time finalist for Broadcast Journalist of the Year, Popular Features and Best Television Documentary at the One World Media Awards and a former winner of the Amnesty Media Awards (Best Radio Investigation). Ghouri is also a winner of the Human Trafficking Foundation Media Awards (Best National Newspaper Investigation) and the Ethnic Minority Media Awards (Best Broadcast Journalist and Best Documentary). Ghouri is a highly experienced international media trainer and consultant, with a particular focus on storytelling training and strategic communications.
This workshop is part of a series being run in partnership with Arete. To find out more about their other workshops, click here.
]]>Freelance/Student £125
Members £100
NGOs and journalists often have to operate in challenging or hostile contexts. Producing quality material whilst maintaining levels of professionalism and sensitivity can be hard. This course will help you navigate through the complexities and give you the confidence you need to bring back a story safely and sensitively.
What you will cover:
- Producing stories in conflict zones and challenging environments,
- Organising productions in challenging contexts,
- Balancing the needs of field staff and production projects,
- How to brief a commissioned photographer/ videographer on behalf of an NGO to ensure maximum benefit of commission,
- What men need to know,
- What women need to know,
- How to research your location and minimise risk.
Note – this is not a hostile environment course.
What to bring:
- Laptop to take notes,
- At least two story ideas.
About the trainer – Nadene Ghouri
Arete Stories is the expert humanitarian storytelling agency for non-profits and NGOs, working with award-winning journalists and content specialists to help tell stories that make a difference. Nadene Ghouri is an award-winning investigative journalist and a key member of the Arete Stories team, with two decades of global experience producing news, current affairs, documentary investigations and features. She has been a staff reporter/producer for the BBC and Al Jazeera English. She is a two-time finalist for Broadcast Journalist of the Year, Popular Features and Best Television Documentary at the One World Media Awards and a former winner of the Amnesty Media Awards (Best Radio Investigation). Ghouri is also a winner of the Human Trafficking Foundation Media Awards (Best National Newspaper Investigation) and the Ethnic Minority Media Awards (Best Broadcast Journalist and Best Documentary). Ghouri is a highly experienced international media trainer and consultant, with a particular focus on storytelling training and strategic communications.
This workshop is part of a series being run in partnership with Arete Stories. To find out more about their other workshops, click here.
]]>Director Sebastian Junger and producer James Brabazon screened Which Way is the Front from Here – The Life and Time of Tim Hetherington, on the 7th October 2013 at the Frontline Club. Tim Hetherington was not only a close friend to both Junger and Brabazon, but also one of the Club’s founding members and a former speaker. The screening was followed by an emotional and heartfelt Q&A.
Director Sebastian Junger (left) with James Brabazon. Photo: Pete Ford
According to the HBO synopsis, the film ‘traces Hetherington’s work across the world’s battlefields, to reveal how he transcended the boundaries of image-making to become a luminary in his profession.’
Covering his life from childhood, to self-discovery in India, to finding his photo-journalistic focus in Liberia, to his last moments in Libya, the film is a moving and loving tribute to a close friend of Junger and Brabazon. Using Hetherington’s own footage, it offers an not only an insight into his progression as a journalist, but also into the reasons why did he what he did. As he put it:
“I probe this idea: the who am I, what am I doing?”
In the Q&A session that followed the screening the question of the film’s focus was asked, with Junger replying that:
“I didn’t want it to be a film about Tim’s death. I wanted it primarily to be a film about his incredible life.”
Brabzon said that he saw there being a legacy for this film:
“I have lost count of the number of young photographers who say they got into this because they saw Tim’s work. If the work in this film inspires other people to approach their work in the same way, and the same spirit as Tim did, then for us that is a small success.”
The harrowing footage of Hetherington stepping in to save the life of a suspected spy in Liberia raised the debate on whether a journalist can ever justify participating in the events they are reporting.
Hetherington’s attitude to this is clear throughout the film, with him at one point stating that: “I’m a big white guy, I’m in your country, and for me to pretend otherwise is just stupid”. Brabazon added:
“The point is not whether you are being objective, but whether your work is credible and authentic.”
While Junger has stopped filming in war zones as a direct result of Hetherington’s death, Brabazon reached a “diametrically opposed conclusion…[feeling] somehow that it would be a betrayal of what Tim and I did together, to stop.”
Junger has gone on to found Risc Training – “Reporters instructed in saving colleagues” – as a response to a lack of medical knowledge among frontline reporters.
The film will be released in cinema’s across the UK on 11 October. More information about the film or details about upcoming screenings can be found the Facebook page, and you can view the trailer here:
]]>The following week we will be launching a series of discussions, screenings and workshops examining the risks faced by journalists around the world.
The award-winning, genre-bending documentary filmmaker Mads Brügger launches our new masterclass series, and Tweets from Tahrir is the first of our Screenings from the Frontline with Al Jazeera.
February’s #FCBBCA will bring together a distinguished panel to discuss Iran’s internal power struggle and its turbulent relationship with the West.
We will also be examining the rebuilding of Libya and Fawzia Koofi will be discussing why she wants to become President of Afghanistan, while Matt Frei will be joining us to look back on his career.
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ALL EVENTS ARE OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
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