by admin | Nov 22, 2010 | Durham Miners' Gala, nuj
Some 8 months after his death, family, friends, admires and others gathered together in the Lyric Theatre in London on Monday 8 November to celebrate the life of Michael Foot. The NUJ was represented by vice president Donnacha DeLong and I – Michael had been a...
by admin | Nov 7, 2010 | international, media freedom
On 5 November the European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) and its affiliates marked ‘Stand Up for Journalism Day’ and its adopted the motto “journalism as a public good” to rekindle the spirit of mission and solidarity in journalists’ work. In...
by admin | Nov 6, 2010 | Campaigns, media freedom
News Corporation’s bid for the 61% of shares in BSkyB that it does not already own has been filed with the European Commission. They will now have 25 working days, until 8 December, to conduct an intitial investigation into the deal on competition grounds. It...
by admin | Nov 3, 2010 | BBC
With less than 48 hours to before the first NUJ strike action against the great pensions robbery proposed by the BBC management, news of how programmes will be affected are being reported. BBC Journalists stand to lose thousands of pounds every year under...
by admin | Nov 2, 2010 | BBC
At last week’s meeting of the NEC Policy Committee, (28 October) we had an update from the meeting with BBC reps being held at the same time, on the fifth floor, to discuss the outcome of the ballots on the BBC mangement’s latest ‘pensions...
