From his column in The Telegraph**, in which he explains why he barely noticed the BBC journalists’ strike: I consume vast quantities of news – but almost entirely without the assistance of the BBC. I get up early and read a…
NUJ
A collection of 22 posts
(Still) Criminalising Photographers
I finding it deeply worrying that the police are still doing this kind of thing: > The [National Union of Journalists](http://www.nuj.org.uk/ "National Union of Journalists") (NUJ) has hit out at the [Metropolitan Police](http://www.met.…
NUJ Moving With The Times
Credit where credit’s due time. The NUJ has come a long way since the kerfuffle earlier in the year. How so?- NUJ General Secretary Jeremy Dear has [finally found his blogging mojo](http://jeremydear.blogspot.com/2009_11_…
A Note to Prospective NUJ Members
We NUJ members are not a bunch of humourless Trots, despite the best efforts of the commenters on the Grey Cardigan blog to prove that we are… As noted elsewhere, there are some pro-active things happening amongst the membership. It’…
#newsinnovation : New News Business Models
Kindle: the problem is not technological but business. 70:30 split between Amazon and publishers. Nobody can afford to do that right now. Kevin sees the iPhone, with its new ability for in-app charging more interesting. The Kindle isn’t…
Blogging Etiquette & The NUJ
[](https://i1.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2009/03/guardian.jpg)Looks like the “[effing blogs](http:…
York Journalists in Lunchtime Stoppages
The other side of the NUJ debate is, of course, the fact that there are dramatic levels of job cuts happening in the industry. And, in some places, those are being fought. NUJ members in York are conducting lunchtime stoppages…
NUJ: Response from a Union Official
I have been given permission to publish this response from Jenny Lennox, assistant organiser at the NUJ. The e-mail was broadly agreeing with another member’s post which stated that the member hadn’t come across any journalist who don’…