581 Media Talk: Is it over for frontline reporting? Tue 13th November, 7.00pm RSVP essential Location: New York – Powerhouse Arena, 37 Main St, Brooklyn NY 11201 Is it now too dangerous to do frontline reporting given the targeting of journalists and the risk of being taken hostage in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Somalia? What can be done to get access to those countries shutting out journalists and preventing them from showing the world what their governments are doing to their citizens? Burma/Myanmar, Zimbabwe and Sudan? Is going undercover or training local journalists the way to tell these stories? Speakers: Jon Lee Anderson (The New Yorker), Ron Haviv (VII Photo Agency), Francesca Unsworth (BBC), Chuck Lustig (ABC news), Ghaith Abdul-Ahad (The Guardian) other speakers to be confirmed. The Frontline Club’s second New York is together with VII Photo Agency. The event will be opened by Open Society Institute’s President Aryeh Neier. The Frontline Club and VII Photo Agency will then pay tribute to Alexandra Boulat who passed away in Paris on October 5. After the discussion on whether “Is it Over for Frontline Reporting?” there will be an open reception. Speakers Jon Lee Anderson— Staff writer for The New Yorker, reporting from Afghanistan, Iraq, and Lebanon. He is the author of "The Fall of Baghdad" and "The Lion's Grave: Dispatches from Afghanistan". Fran Unsworth – the Head of News Gathering at BBC. It is the world's largest broadcast Newsgathering operation with 41 international bureaux and seven in the UK and Ireland. Chuck Lustig -- Director of Foreign News at ABC news. Ron Haviv – Co-founder of VII, his work is published by Fortune, The NY Times Magazine, Time, Vanity Fair, Paris Match and Stern. He has published two collections of his photographs Blood and Honey: A Balkan War Journal and Afghanistan: On the Road to Kabul. Ghaith Abdul-Ahad -- an Iraqi journalist who began working after the U.S. invasion and has written for The Guardian and Washington Post and published photographs in the New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, The Guardian, The Times amongst others. Book your place by contacting Lydia El Khouri or go to www.frontlineclub.com and reserve your seat online. 2007-11-13T00:00:00Z 3 2007-10-25T17:17:34Z 0 2008-03-12T12:56:36Z false 17875 false 5185 2007-11-16T14:41:54Z New York, DUMBO true false frontline-in-dumbo-11-13-07 1 2008-03-12T12:56:36Z 5185