HARD PRESSED: Two events on the future of the media, March 16th, 2012 By Bristol NUJ and Bristol Festival of Ideas, supported by MediaAct and Mediawise Hacked to bits: Restoring public trust in journalism The 2012 Benn Debate, 7.30pm Friday March 16th, Arnolfini, Bristol. Tickets £6.50 and £5.00 concessions and NUJ members The reputation of journalism…
A NEW TV network for Bristol could unite independent production companies, student journalists and bloggers in providing an ultra-local digital service for the city’s communities.
Bristol NUJ invites all journalists – especially past and present employees of the Evening Post, Western Daily Press and other Northcliffe titles – to a Christmas get-together at The Punchbowl, Old Market, Bristol, from 6pm, Friday December 16th
INSIDE Out West, the weekly current affairs show covering Bristol and the West of England, is the worst affected of the region’s BBC departments threatened in a wave of cutbacks at the corporation.
THE Bristol branch of the National Union of Journalists has condemned as “outrageous” a reader poll by the Bristol Evening Post which asks readers to vote on which of two TV weather presenters should lose their job in BBC cutbacks.
The Western Daily Press, is to return to its Bristol base, little more than a year after a controversial move to Plymouth
The NUJ is disappointed with the Government response to Hargreaves report on Intellectual Property.
Police are investigating if the attack is linked to the Evening Post’s extensive coverage of the Bristol disturbances.
A new small claims court for copyright may be on the cards. This promises to facilitate cases with claims valued at £5,000 or less. It will address a recommendation of the recent Hargreaves’ Report on reforming intellectual property law.
VICTORY in the battle over standards of reporting and ethics in the UK’s media may at last be in sight following widespread public anger over the phone hacking scandal allegedly operated by titles in Rupert Murdoch’s News International empire, the Campaign for Press & Broadcasting Freedom heard (writes Chris Youett). The Campaign’s annual meeting on…