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Frontline Club launches broadsheet for independent journalism

Posted: 12/06/09 By: Laura Oliver

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The Frontline Club has launched a new quarterly publication promoting independent journalism and 'resurrecting some traditions lost from the British market'.

Frontline: A Broadsheet will offer international news coverage from reporters in the field, as well as articles on British politics, culture and conflict.

The new publication contains no advertising and has been made possible by the support of the club's members and wider community, Vaughan Smith, founder and managing director of the club, told Journalism.co.uk.

"More than 1,000 journalists from all over the world support the Frontline Club and use it as a place to meet and exchange ideas. This is an extraordinary pool of editorial and journalistic talent. Late in the evening, at Frontline over drinks, documentary ideas are hatched, book deals are agreed and idealistic plans for new media ventures are launched," he said.

"Frontline's Broadsheet was one of those idealistic plans that has been made possible by the many members who have contributed in there spare time. All of the contributors, editorial supporters and the design team worked for free."

Items on Tony Blair's Catholicism, the future of peacekeeping in Kosovo and the return of British sleaze are just a few topics featured in the first edition of the new title, which will cost £15 for an annual subscription (including postage) or £3.99 an issue.

"Frontline's Broadsheet should be read by anybody who wants journalism from independent sources and delivered by correspondents who aim to do things differently from the mainstream," added Smith.

"Frontline will be political, but party-politically-allergic, irreverent and iconoclastic in equal measure with overseas reporting done by local correspondents."

For more information or to subscribe contact broadsheet at frontlineclub.com.

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