Frontline Club

Past participants include John Simpson, Robert Fisk, Jeremy Paxman, Tim Hetherington, Nick Robinson, David Aaronovitch, Alan Rusbridger, Jeremy Bowen, Louis Theroux,[1] Gillian Tett,[2] Christina Lamb, Julian Assange, Jon Lee Anderson the late Benazir Bhutto, the late Boris Berezovsky, the late Alexander Litvinenko, and his widow, Marina Litvinenko.

It was founded by surviving members of Frontline News TV, a cooperative of freelance cameramen formed during the chaos of the Romanian revolution in 1989.

[5] Vaughan Smith, one of two surviving founders of Frontline News TV, turned the operation into a club, offering a meeting place for those who believe in independent journalism, as well as to honour dead colleagues.

Cabinets show personal items, some with shell still embedded, that have stopped a bullet and saved a journalist's life.

[citation needed] In December 2010 Vaughan and Pranvera offered Julian Assange of WikiLeaks their private home, Ellingham Hall, in Norfolk as an address for bail.

The exterior of the Frontline Club building
BBC World Affairs Editor John Simpson being questioned about his career by fellow journalists, October 2007