Tag: The Western Daily Press
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Lifetime award for Trevor at Wiltshire social
Read More: Lifetime award for Trevor at Wiltshire socialThe last time he received an award, Wiltshire Times’ photographer Trevor Porter was flown to Virginia, USA. There, he was feted by Gannett, owners of the paper’s publisher, Newsquest. Now Trevor has won another award, life membership of the National Union of Journalists (NUJ), for clocking up four decades’ membership. To collect it he had…
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Gloucester celebration kicks off events across the SW
Read More: Gloucester celebration kicks off events across the SWTHE FIRST regional event held by the South West England branch of the NUJ in Gloucester was a packed-out success. The excuse was to mark the presentation of a gold medal, one of the union’s highest awards, to its popular and long-serving NEC member for the region, Tim Lezard. Tim invited some of his many…
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Covid conspiracy theories – what’s a journalist to do?
Read More: Covid conspiracy theories – what’s a journalist to do?‘It’s easy as journalists to feel a responsibility to people who are genuinely concerned, and seem to have found some “worrying evidence” that they want explored. The problem is that if you enter a discussion with a conviction that there is a smoking gun to be found, then you will find it.’
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Bristol NUJ response to the Covid-19 crisis
Read More: Bristol NUJ response to the Covid-19 crisisCompiled by Robin Whitlock The information put out by the NUJ directly to help journalists during the crisis can be found here. The top concern for many freelances will be how they can get help from the Chancellor’s scheme, announced yesterday, for grants to the self-employed. The NUJ’s advice on the freelance scheme can be…
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Students hear about the advantages of joining the NUJ
Read More: Students hear about the advantages of joining the NUJJOURNALISM students at the University of the West of England heard about the benefits of being part of the world’s largest union for media workers when Bristol branch’s chair and secretary dropped in on a lecture. First-year students were told by chair Paul Breeden that students can join the NUJ for a one-of fee of…
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Shocking revelations about state collusion in NI killings – and the persecution of journalists who exposed it
Read More: Shocking revelations about state collusion in NI killings – and the persecution of journalists who exposed itTWENTY FIVE years after the Loughinisland massacre of six men as they watched a World Cup match on TV in a Northern Ireland bar, the man named as their killer continues to go about his life running a pest control firm in Northern Ireland. Even more astonishingly, he is still living with his wife, who…
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Prizes for winning students in Bristol NUJ journalism scheme
Read More: Prizes for winning students in Bristol NUJ journalism schemeWINNERS of the 2019 Bristol NUJ student journalism prizes were given their awards today. Students from every year of the journalism courses at the University of the West of England (UWE) are rewarded annually by the Bristol Branch of the NUJ, with a £50 prize in each year for the best features, layouts, news stories, broadcasts or…
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Pioneering study compares abuse of women journalists in UK and Pakistan
Read More: Pioneering study compares abuse of women journalists in UK and PakistanA MASTERS student has produced a groundbreaking piece of research comparing violence and other forms of abuse directed at women journalists in Pakistan and the UK. The study by Iqra Iqbal, a student of mass communication at the University of Faisalabad, contains some shocking and surprising statistics drawn from responses by 50 female journalists from each…
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First awards presented in Bristol NUJ student competition
Read More: First awards presented in Bristol NUJ student competitionBRISTOL NUJ has announced the winners of the 2018 Student Prizes run in conjunction with the journalism department at the University of the West of England. An impressive standard was observed from al four years of entry but the best piece submitted by any young journalist this year was Matthew Sterling’s ‘Peace in Belfast’. Matthew…
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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…