by admin | Mar 6, 2011 | Campaigns, media freedom
On the evening of decision by Culture Secretary to give the green light to Murdoch’s proposed takeover of BSkyB, the Campaign for Press and Broadcasting Freedom (CPBF) and the NUJ held at demonstration outside Hunt’s office, just off Trafalgar Square. It...
by admin | Mar 3, 2011 | Campaigns
Media tycoon Rupert Murdoch is trying to buy up BSkyB and he got the green light from the government to do so today. He already owns 39 per cent of the company and he controls the biggest national newspaper group. Owning the whole company – the richest broadcaster in...
by admin | Feb 24, 2011 | BBC, Campaigns, international, nuj
Free and independent news and information is essential in developing and defending democracy, the latest example is demonstrated courageously across North Africa and the Middle East right now. In this context, it is bizarre and inappropriate for the British government...
by admin | Feb 13, 2011 | international, nuj
Yesterday lunch-time a little of the Egyptian revolution came to London’s Trafalgar Square, when thousands of people came together to celebrate the fall of Mubarak who had fled Cairo some 24 hours before. Called by Amnesty International and supported by the TUC, the...
by admin | Feb 13, 2011 | BBC, Europe, media freedom, nec, nuj
This year the union holds its election for a general secretary and after having served two five year terms, Jeremy Dear announced to the FebruaryNEC meeting that he would not be standing again. Jeremy was the union’s youngest ever leader when he was elected in 2001...
