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Tolpuddle gathering should be a date for our members, says South West NUJ
Read More: Tolpuddle gathering should be a date for our members, says South West NUJMEMBERS of the NUJ had their first organised presence at the Tolpuddle Festival for many years as the South West England branch of the union encouraged the region’s journalists to attend. The SWE branch staffed a stall in the festival’s Martyrs Tent on the Saturday of the weekend festival, which was well attended by journalists…
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NEXT MEETING
Read More: NEXT MEETINGMonday, July 8th 6.30pm-8.45pm Online via Zoom (link will be added later) In person at Tony Benn House, Victoria Street, Bristol BS1 6AY
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The birth of the spin doctor
Read More: The birth of the spin doctorNUJ life member Mike Jempson has published the results of his research into an unusual private asylum in Bristol which gave rise to the term ‘spin doctors’. ‘No Cure, Nor Pay: Boarding excepted’: Mason’s Madhouses in old Fishponds, published by Bristol Radical History Group, tells the story of a family dynasty that ran a profitable…
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How the Post Office scandal highlights the need for well-resourced journalism: Private Eye reporter opens NUJ event on dire state of newsgathering industry
Read More: How the Post Office scandal highlights the need for well-resourced journalism: Private Eye reporter opens NUJ event on dire state of newsgathering industryVideo: Michelle Stanistreet, general secretary of the NUJ, explains how the union’s News Recovery Plan can help revive newsgathering – and how the tech giants must play their part. © SWE NUJ “I THOUGHT it could be the tip of an iceberg of a certain size – but not the size it has turned out…
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Journalists killed and injured around the world are remembered at International Workers Memorial Day
Read More: Journalists killed and injured around the world are remembered at International Workers Memorial DayNUJ South West England branch chair Paul Breeden lays a wreath in Castle Park in memory of journalists who have died in Gaza, Israel and elsewhere in the last year. Picture © Felix Wong SOUTH West England NUJ took the message about the unacceptable dangers facing journalists in Gaza and elsewhere to fellow trade unionists…
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Service honours NUJ member who was a WWI war correspondent for The Times
Read More: Service honours NUJ member who was a WWI war correspondent for The TimesSOUTH West NUJ branch was represented at a ceremony to honour a former journalist and war correspondent who is buried in a North Devon graveyard. In a moving ceremony, a lone piper made a slow march into the cemetery of Braunton Methodist church, leading a standard bearer from the Royal British Legion and the Deputy…
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Prize-winning students hear about difficulties of reporting on Gaza-Israel conflict
Read More: Prize-winning students hear about difficulties of reporting on Gaza-Israel conflictJOURNALISM students at the University of the West of England heard about the ethical considerations affecting journalists covering the conflict in Israel and Gaza as part of a presentation by South West England NUJ. Branch chair Paul Breeden led the students through some of the issues thrown up by the continuing conflict, not least the…
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Journalists join Cheltenham march to affirm the right of all workers to strike
Read More: Journalists join Cheltenham march to affirm the right of all workers to strikeMEMBERS of South West England branch of the NUJ joined thousands of trade unionists from all over the country on a march through Cheltenham to protest against the Conservative government’s attempts to restrict the right to strike. The event on Saturday January 27 also marked 40 years since a previous Tory administration banned workers at…
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NUJ members lead Bristol vigil to mark unprecedented scale of journalist deaths in Gaza conflict
Read More: NUJ members lead Bristol vigil to mark unprecedented scale of journalist deaths in Gaza conflictMEMBERS of the South West England branch of the NUJ held a vigil in the centre of Bristol to marks the deaths of scores of journalists in the Gaza conflict since October 7. Branch members took it in turns to read out the names of 71 journalists who have died – 64 of them Palestinian,…
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SWE branch calls for action to protect journalists in Gaza conflict
Read More: SWE branch calls for action to protect journalists in Gaza conflictThe South West England Branch of the National Union of Journalists has voted to issue a statement calling for action to protect journalists in the Gaza conflict. The NUJ takes no partisan position on any conflict but the utterly unprecedented death toll in the past two months has led the union to call for a…
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Tolpuddle gathering should be a date for our members, says South West NUJ
MEMBERS of the NUJ had their first organised presence at…
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NEXT MEETING
Monday, July 8th 6.30pm-8.45pm Online via Zoom (link will be…
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The birth of the spin doctor
NUJ life member Mike Jempson has published the results of…