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Churnalists fight back
JOURNALISTS cannot do their job properly any more, NUJ President Michelle Stanistreet said in a debate on the state of the profession in London in March. And it’s not their fault, she added. more …
Strike vote as £40m-a-year Desmond offers hacks 3%
NUJ MEMBERS at Express Newspapers in London are voting on strike action following a breakdown in talks over pay. more …
£6,000 a year: our gift to employers
BRITISH JOURNALISTS are giving employers nearly £6,000 a year each by working unpaid overtime, according to the TUC. more …
Strike wins promise of future pay
NUJ MEMBERS at the Milton Keynes Citizen have reached agreement with management at the paper, following months of negotiations and six days of strike action in January. more …
Reporter ‘not guilty’ in police leak case
MILTON KEYNES Citizen reporter Sally Murrer, facing police corruption charges, pleaded not guilty to obtaining police information illegally at the formal opening of the case on March 10. more …
Derry arms case
EAMONN McCANN, a well-known NUJ freelance and activist in Derry, will face an open trial for his involvement in a raid on an arms factory last year. more …
NUJ tells Ofcom to respect public interest
THE UNION has called on UK communications regulator Ofcom to use the digital airwaves to maintain and strengthen public sector broadcasting. more …
ITN cuts night-time cabs
BROADCASTING UNIONS are trying to stop ITN putting staff safety at risk by scrapping late night taxis to and from work. more …
BBC members vote
THE NUMBER of BBC journalists to lose their jobs compulsorily in the current round of redundancies could be in the low double figures. more …
Photographer wins compensation
FREELANCE PHOTOGRAPHER Marc Vallée has won an apology and compensation from the Metropolitan Police for an assault that left him quite seriously hurt. more …
Subs are so 20th century
JOURNALISTS at Archant’s daily newspapers in Ipswich are up in arms about plans to replace sub-editors with lower-paid and untrained staff. more …
Brendan joins the winning line
HOLLYWOOD screenwriters settled their strike (last issue) after 100 days when the Writers Guild of America (WGA) reached a deal that grants writers “residual rights” to income from the sale of DVDs and online syndication of their work. more …
President wins TUC place
THE BRITISH TUC Women’s Conference has elected NUJ President Michelle Stanistreet to a leading union body in the fight against gender inequality in the workplace. more …
Al-Jazeera
A PROMINENT NUJ member who tried to organise for the union at the al-Jazeera TV network headquarters in Qatar has won an amazing court case over her sacking. more …
Agencies
THE NUJ is calling on management at the finance news agencies Thomson and Reuters to get into urgent talks with the union, following the final go-ahead for their £8.7 billion merger by regulators in Europe, Canada and the USA. more …
George Viner
IT IS NOT the job of black journalists to “go out there and re-educate the overwhelmingly white, middle aged elite running the news”, Channel 4 News presenter and reporter Samira Ahmed told the union’s annual George Viner Fund ceremony in February. more …