by barry | Jul 25, 2026 | Campaigns, media freedom, nuj, Press
The National Union of Journalists (NUJ) has welcomed the decision by the Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT) to order MI5 and the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) to pay £20,000 in damages to former BBC journalist Vincent Kearney (pictured centre) over...
by barry | May 6, 2026 | Campaigns, Government, unions
The government announced the setting up of the Local News Fund worth up to £12 million over the next two years to support local media outlets. The fund aims...
by barry | Feb 10, 2026 | Campaigns
Airedale NHS microbiology workers responsible for carrying out diagnostic tests at the West Yorkshire hospital are taking three days of strike action from 9 – 11 February in a dispute about pay and additional work. The Unite members who carry out the diagnostic tests...
by barry | Nov 17, 2025 | BBC, Campaigns
MI5 disclosed it made and authorised unlawful ‘sequential applications’ for Vincent Kearney’s phone data during his time at the BBC, but will neither confirm nor deny whether it undertook further ‘lawful’ surveillance of BBC journalists The Security Service, MI5, made...
by barry | Sep 25, 2025 | Campaigns, media freedom, nuj
Police in Northern Ireland unlawfully used covert powers to attempt to uncover eight journalists’ sources, a review by Angus McCullough KC and published on 24 September has found. The report was commissioned by the Police Service in Northern Ireland (PSNI) to examine...
by barry | Sep 15, 2025 | Campaigns, media freedom, nuj
The NUJ has condemned the failure of the Northern Ireland police to disclose two covert surveillance operations against journalists to the UK’s independent surveillance watchdog, in breach of their statutory obligations...
