MEMBERS 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…
Monday, 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
NUJ 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…
Video: 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…
NUJ 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…
SOUTH 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…
JOURNALISM 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…
MEMBERS 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…
MEMBERS 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,…
The 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…