Frontline Club
The Frontline Club is a media club located near London Paddington Station . The club aims to promote independent journalism. The focus is on war reporting .
Career
The club was founded in 2003 by Vaughan Smith . Smith was tired of only seeing his friends at funerals of colleagues who died as reporters in the war. The club has been a registered charity since 2006. It now has 1,500 members. The club conducts more than 200 lectures and demonstrations per year and serves as a forum for exchanging ideas, discussing, debating and being inspired. Former speakers included a. John Simpson , Robert Fisk , Jeremy Paxman , Jeremy Bowen , Gillian Tett , Christina Lamb , Benazir Bhutto , Boris Berezovsky , Alexander Litvinenko , and his widow Marina Litwinenko.
In addition to the members' rooms, there is also a public restaurant, two bedrooms and a conference room. Julian Assange used this at the end of July 2010 to present explosive documents about the Afghanistan war . Assange later found refuge from the police at the Frontline Club. In May 2011 he was awarded a gold medal for peace and justice from the Australian Sydney Peace Foundation, which also awards the Sydney Peace Prize . In January 2011, the Swiss whistleblower Rudolf Elmer held a press conference at the Frontline Club, at which he handed Assange two data carriers that were supposed to contain customer data from Swiss banks.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Stern online on December 9, 2010: The club of tough reporters. Retrieved May 12, 2011 .
- ↑ Eric Pfanner: In London, a Haven and a Forum for War Reporters. The New York Times , August 28, 2006, accessed May 11, 2011 .
- ^ The Frontline Club Charitable Trust
- ↑ Monika Kennedy: Frontline Cub in London - Julian Assange found shelter in the journalists' club for months. The New York Times , December 9, 2010, accessed May 11, 2011 .
- ^ Welt online on May 11, 2011: Assange honored for "extraordinary courage". Retrieved May 12, 2011 .
- ^ Deutsche Welle on January 17, 2011: Schweizer transfers bank details to Wikileaks. Retrieved May 12, 2011 .
- ^ Video of the press conference with Rudolf Elmer. (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; Retrieved May 12, 2011 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
