Frontline Television News is a cooperative of freelance cameramen formed during the chaos of the Romanian Revolution in 1989.
Founded by Vaughan Smith, Peter Jouvenal, Rory Peck and Nicholas della Casa.
[1] During the next 15 years they went on to film some of the most memorable images of modern television, despite paying a huge cost.
[2] Altogether eight cameramen, some linked directly with Frontline News TV, others indirectly, were killed while working.
In 2003, Vaughan Smith, one of the two surviving founder members of Frontline News TV, turned the operation into a club in London aimed at offering a gathering place for those who believe in independent journalism, a place to remember colleagues that had died and a lobby to push for better support of the freelance community.