Policy matters
Last week’s policy committee considered its usual wide range of issues. Progress on conference motions was reported, a written update on the work by our representative Pat Healey on the National Pensioners Convention (NPC) was received. The NPC was the driving force...
Grounded
This weekend I should have been in Istanbul as part of the NUJ delegation to the European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) annual meeting. But along with two others I’m grounded. Only John Barsby, who had to leave a day earlier for a meeting of the steering committee,...
Two campaigns kick off
This month’s NEC gave the green light to two important campaigns which members are urged to get involved in. The first is against the cuts at the BBC. By now this campaign is well underway with many media interviews being undertaken following the cuts announced by BBC...