by admin | Dec 4, 2010 | international, nuj
Last weekend’s NEC received a very disturbing report from Foster Dongozi the General Secretary of the Zimbabwe Union of Journalists (ZUJ) who has been in the UK and Ireland, touring newsrooms explaining recent developments affecting journalists and promoting the call...
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 | Sep 29, 2010 | international, media freedom, nuj
Do we need laws to protect journalists’ anonymous sources? This was the central question posed at a round table discussion initiated by the European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) and held at the headquarters of the NUJ on Tuesday 21 September. Attended by...
by admin | Sep 22, 2010 | international, nuj
Last week, campaigners in the UK marked the tenth anniversary of the abduction and be-heading of Ukrainian internet journalist Gyorgy Gongadze this week by demanding answers about the investigation into his death. A delegation from the National Union of Journalists...
by admin | Aug 1, 2010 | nec, nuj
‘I think Rupert Murdoch made the wrong choice this time’ wrote the Daily Telegraph’s media and technology specialist Shane Richmond on Murdoch’s decision to erect a paywall around the Times and Sunday Times. A number of media commentators share that view believing...
by admin | Jul 27, 2010 | nec, nuj
Cameron and that TUC invite – it’s the NUJ what done it! Within days of the union’s NEC passing a motion deploring the decision of the TUC general council to invite prime minister David Cameron to address Congress in Manchester in September, Cameron decided not...