The NUJ in the newsThe European Court of Human Rights has ruled in favour of journalist Pennie Quinton and Kevin Gillen who were stopped and searched under anti-terror legislation and prevented filming at an arms fair.
Judges ruled that police powers to stop and search without grounds for suspicion contravened section 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights
Missed this the first time. But Newsnight’s Paul Mason blogs movingly about Contract Journal, the magazine where he started his journalistic career. Contract Journal was closed last November after more than a 100 years of printing.
A story that could be told about many magazines
Last month saw many a retrospective on how the noughties had changed the media, entertainment and news. Some of it quite unexpected – who would have predicted social networking and twitter as media tools; then there were the more predictable parts such as decline of journalistic standards and the onward march of multinational control.
The Southport ADM has given the NUJ a strong platform to build a sustained campaign for action to resist a further assault on jobs, pay and the conditions under which we have to work. Here, Alan Gibson gives the highs and the lows of the conference and identifies some of the key issues in the coming year.
The NUJ Left will be at ADM. On the Thursday night we will be holding a public meeting at 6pm – 7.30pm, Southport Theatre and Convention Centre,
The Promenade, PR9 0DZ. So please come along to find out what we are about.
We here at the NUJ Left would like to congratulate Christine Buckley for winning the election for the post of editor of the NUJ magazine The Journalist. We wish Christine every success in the role and hope to work with her in the future to make The Journalist the best union magazine in the country.
NUJ general secretary Jeremy Dear and president James Doherty have appealed for more funds to help the Leeds strikers.
The appeal recognises the importance of the dispute at the Johnston Press-owned Yorkshire Post and Yorkshire Evening Post.
NUJ Left is backing today’s call by the chapel at the Johnston-owned Halifax Courier for a national strike to fight the cuts in local media.
The members in Yorkshire have written to general secretary Jeremy Dear, and their colleagues in the Johnston group chapel, to demand the union organises what would be the first national strike in provincial newspapers for 30 years.
Motion passed at the March meeting of NUJ press and PR branch:
‘This branch welcomes the march for jobs, justice and climate to be held in London on Saturday 28 March 2009 at the time of the G20, organised by the TUC, trade unions, and a wide range of NGOs, religious and other campaigning pressure groups.
The branch further notes the appalling rise in redundancies and unemployment both within our own industry and across the wider economy as a result on the continuing and worsening economic crisis, with even official unemployment figures expected to exceed three million by the end of the year.
The latest announcements by Guardian Media Group that it plans to make half its journalists in the Manchester area redundant and sack 95 workers in Surrey and Berkshire, are shameful and should be condemned by everyone on the left.