by admin | May 11, 2020 | Campaigns, media freedom, nuj, whistle blowing
On 23 January in an adjournment debate in the House of Commons on the UK-US Extradition Agreement, David Davies, the Conservative MP for Haltemprice and Howden opened as follows: “Since we agreed the UK-US extradition treaty in 2003, it has been abundantly clear that...
by admin | Mar 23, 2019 | BBC, Campaigns, international, media freedom, nuj
On 12 March 2018 the BBC website reported on the harassment of its Persian staff. It stated that it was making an unprecedented appeal to the UN to stop Iran from harassing its Persian service staff in London and their families in Iran. It said that Iran had...
by admin | Apr 12, 2018 | nuj
The 2018 NUJ Delegate meeting to be held in Southport on 20 – 22 April will debate a motion (104) from the Public Relations and Communications branch calling for a ballot of the members to set up a political fund, whilst reaffirming the union’s continued party...
by admin | Jan 8, 2018 | nuj
Chris was a long standing colleague and his death at the end of last October came as a great shock. I sent the following appreciation of his life to the editor of The Journalist (the NUJ magazine) in early January for possible publication in the next issue of our...
by admin | Dec 15, 2017 | nuj, Press
Newspapers have started publishing articles jointly written by robots and humans according to a report written by Tom Horton (not a robot) in the Financial Times (“Rise of the machines extends to news reports” 13 December 2017). Funded by Google’s Digital News...
by admin | Nov 17, 2012 | Campaigns, international, media freedom, nuj, Turkey, unions
As part of the European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) campaign in support of journalists held in prisons or under threat of imprisonment in Turkey, I visited the country between 15 and 17 November. I attended two trials: other members of the EFJ’s governing board...
