Category: News Hound
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Review of Intellectual Property and Growth
Read More: Review of Intellectual Property and GrowthCopyright is of crucial importance to many NUJ members who depend on it for their living. The Government set up a review to look at how our current copyright legislation promotes or prevents economic growth which is being led by Professor Ian Hargreaves.
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Help needed for translator on the run
Read More: Help needed for translator on the runt is ironic that despite the severe risks attached to the work he did for me it was a desk job at a well-known NGO that caused my friend to uproot his life again and flee. After a number of threatening letters and text messages from the Taliban, he has left his family and is…
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Venue magazine to close
Read More: Venue magazine to closeStaff and freelance contributors were told yesterday that Venue, Bristol and Bath’s what’s on magazine, is likely to close with the publication of issue 962 on March 16.
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Fighting against the Cuts
Read More: Fighting against the Cutsby Simon Chapman The huge scale and depth of cuts in public spending planned by the Coalition Government is opposed by many trade unions and community groups. The Bristol & District Anti-Cuts Alliance (BADACA) was formed in 2010 on the initiative of some local trade unions, and is an alliance of trade union branches, voluntary…
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Newspaper cutbacks mean less investigation, Suzanne Moore tells Benn Lecture
Read More: Newspaper cutbacks mean less investigation, Suzanne Moore tells Benn Lectureby Robert Buckland Journalists need to hold those in power to account, but newspaper owners’ cutbacks in recent years mean there are fewer specialist reporters to do that, Mail on Sunday and Guardian columnist Suzanne Moore told the annual Benn Lecture in Bristol on Friday 26th November. At the same time, major changes in technology…
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Bristol set to become UK’s third ‘city of sanctuary’
Read More: Bristol set to become UK’s third ‘city of sanctuary’Bristol NUJ backs call for city of sanctuary for refugees and asylum seekers
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Suzanne Moore to give 2010 Benn Lecture
Read More: Suzanne Moore to give 2010 Benn LectureMail on Sunday columnist, Facebook personality, feminist, author, award-winning journalist and editor, and Independent candidate for Hackney North & Stoke Newington in this year’s General Election, Suzanne Moore gives Bristol’s fifth annual Benn Lecture on the state of the media.
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NUJ suspends Bristol NUJ strike
Read More: NUJ suspends Bristol NUJ strikeBBC NUJ reps have voted by 51-1 to suspend a strike planned for Monday 15 and Tuesday 16 November, meaning that staff at BBC Bristol will not be taking action.
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Do bloggers need a union?
Read More: Do bloggers need a union?Do bloggers need the NUJ? Bristol freelance writer and blogger explores the advantages of union membership and asks if they apply to bloggers
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