NUJ says 'bye, bye Sly' and calls for a new Trinity chief with vision
The National Union of Journalists has called on Trinity Mirror to hire a new chief executive with "a vision and a strategy to chart the newspaper group to a brighter future."The NUJ's general...
View ArticleNUJ urges Trinity Mirror shareholders to withhold Bailey's pay-off
Shareholders attending tomorrow's Trinity Mirror agm will be lobbied by members of the National Union of Journalists.They will be handed a letter as they enter the Hilton hotel at Canary Wharf, close...
View ArticleI fear the NUJ is on its way to oblivion
It can hardly be a surprise that the National Union of Journalists is facing a financial crisis.Its members are being laid off on a weekly basis due to the economic problems of newspapers and the BBC's...
View ArticleNUJ to cut jobs
Journalists' union takes action after being hit by a fall in income, rising costs and a 'challenging industrial environment'The National Union of Journalists is to cut jobs and reduce costs in order to...
View ArticleNUJ condemns seven-day Mirror decision
The announcement of a seven-day operation at the Daily and Sunday Mirror has been condemned by the National Union of Journalists.Its general secretary, Michelle Stanistreet, described it as a shock...
View ArticleWhat Leveson should do about regulation - the unsubbed copy
Newsprint space restrictions mean that articles usually have to be cut. So it was with the contributions to today's Media Guardian print feature about the Leveson inquiry: After all we've heard, what...
View ArticleWhy Dacre's press card restriction has so few supporters
I said during my evidence to the Leveson inquiry last week that I didn't favour the proposal to use press cards as a way of compelling publishers to comply with a new form of regulation.It amounts to a...
View ArticleCouncil removes advertising over story it didn't like
A local authority withdrew advertising from a weekly newspaper because it published a story the council didn't like.Carmarthenshire county council pulled an advert after the South Wales Guardian...
View ArticleRoll up, roll up! It's the travelling Leveson debating circus
The travelling Leveson debating circus moves on to Oxford and Bristol this month. First up is a discussion called "The press we deserve" at Hertford College Oxford, on Sunday 18 November. The expected...
View ArticleConference on the coverage of wars
Goldsmiths is staging an all-day conference, "Media and war: challenging the consensus", on Saturday (17 November). It is linked to the publication of the book Media & Terrorism: Global...
View ArticlePipe bomb attack on photographer's house
For some reason, last week's story about a pipe bomb being left at the front door of Northern Ireland press photographer Mark Pearce didn't make it on to the Media Guardian site. So I'm putting that...
View ArticleThe NUJ urges a newsroom culture change after Leveson | Michelle Stanistreet
Editors must create a truly independent regulatory body and not penalise reporters who refuse to contravene the code of conductNewspaper editors are due to hand in their homework to the prime minister...
View ArticleBBC schedules face disruption from strike action on Thursday
Union members will stage half-day walkout likely to affect live programming, including BBC News and radio news bulletinsBBC programmes face further disruption on Thursday when broadcasting union...
View ArticleBBC chief urged to halt job cuts with staff morale at 'all-time low'
Tony Hall to meet with officials from NUJ and Bectu in effort to clear the air following industrial action last ThursdayThe BBC director general, Tony Hall, has been urged by the broadcasting unions to...
View ArticleAfter Leveson: newspapers need not fear statutory underpinning
Today's final extract from the book After Leveson* is by Professor Chris Frost, head of journalism at Liverpool John Moores university. A former president of the National Union of Journalists, he gave...
View ArticleBBC bullying is systemic and institutionalised, claim unions
Rose report, published after Savile scandal, shows inadequate complaints procedure which meant whistleblowers were ignoredBullying at the BBC is "systemic" and "institutionalised" according to trade...
View ArticleBBC bullying highlights an issue across all of the creative industries
The Federation of Entertainment Unions launches a campaign to try to prevent employers from ignoring workplace bullyingIt is quite clear from Dinah Rose QC's review, Respect at Work, that bullying has...
View ArticleNUJ condemns loyalist threats against Northern Ireland journalists
Threats to two journalists in Northern Ireland by loyalist paramilitaries have been condemned by the National Union of Journalists.The NUJ's general secretary, Michelle Stanistreet, said: "Anyone...
View ArticleDavid Montgomery's 'robot' journalism will terminate both jobs and local news...
The Local World chief's plan to remove the 'human interface' from publishing is a nightmare vision of journalism's futureHello there all you journalists in the "twilight world" of subeditors and...
View ArticleBBC's India correspondents complain about redundancy offers
Three BBC correspondents based in three of India's largest cities have complained to the corporation's director-general, Tony Hall, about the size of their redundancy offers.Ram Dutt Tripathi, who...
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