The NUJ in the newsThere was a lively protest at Richard Desmond’s Express and Star offices on Thursday 15 July over the newspapers’ homophobic attacks (pics of protest here).
The Daily Express had condemned a judge’s ruling that gay people facing oppression in their own country were entitled to asylum in this country. The Express ran a headline on its front page “Now asylum if you’re gay”. The papers also claimed that the ruling would mean that the UK would be overrun by gays people.
Newsquest staff in the Midlands have 100% in favour of action in defence of three colleagues.Newsquest are planning to move the three from the current workplace in Stourbridge to Worcester – 30 miles away.
NUJ member, Hassan Ghani – who was arrested when the Israeli military stormed the Gaza flotilla on Monday – gives his first account of what happened when the Israeli military stormed the ships.
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Staff at the Financial Times recently had an impressive victory in standing up for four Chinese journalists. Management had planned to move the four to China and cut their pay by up to 50 Per cent. In only a few days NUJ members organised a mass chapel meeting and beat back the attack. Here, Father of the Chapel, Dave Crouch, explains how the victory was achieved and how it has improved morale on the paper
The NUJ Left will be holding a meeting on Saturday, 6 March in London from midday to 4pm. There will be a session on Expose, the media campaign against the BNP, which was launched recently. Also there will be sessions on the Press Association, union democracy and organising activists.
NUJ members around the country are continuing to fight back against attacks on jobs, quality and conditions.
The NUJ has welcomed a decision by the BBC to develop its Radio Foyle output in Derry, rather than scrap it. The change of heart follows a campaign by local NUJ members and leaders of all sections of the community to keep the service going.
The European Court of Human Rights has ruled in favour of journalist Pennie Quinton and Kevin Gillen who were stopped and searched under anti-terror legislation and prevented filming at an arms fair.
Judges ruled that police powers to stop and search without grounds for suspicion contravened section 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights
Missed this the first time. But Newsnight’s Paul Mason blogs movingly about Contract Journal, the magazine where he started his journalistic career. Contract Journal was closed last November after more than a 100 years of printing.
A story that could be told about many magazines
Last month saw many a retrospective on how the noughties had changed the media, entertainment and news. Some of it quite unexpected – who would have predicted social networking and twitter as media tools; then there were the more predictable parts such as decline of journalistic standards and the onward march of multinational control.