"[P]ut a bunch of journalists in a room and they will disagree about the role of New Media in their industry but they will agree about keeping the public at arm’s length. I think that is unsustainable."

Nicolas Kayser-Bril at L’Observatoire des médias has a harsh-but-fair assessment of the NUJ’s effort at putting The Journalist online.

Nicolas Kayser-Bril at L’Observatoire des médias has a harsh-but-fair assessment of the NUJ’s effort at putting The Journalist online.

Donnacha DeLong: "Nedd Ludd’s gang of angry artisans were not conservatives and were not opposed to technology. Like us, they were opposed to the way machines were being used to destroy wages, conditions and the professionalism they brought to their tra

Cleland Thom: "The National Union of Journalists is in financial trouble - because of falling membership. [W]hen we ran out of membership forms - and asked the NUJ for some new ones FIVE times - all we eventually got was a pile of abuse."

"Journalists are among the media professionals putting in the equivalent of £6,000 in unpaid overtime a year, according to a survey by TUC."

"Journalists are among the media professionals putting in the equivalent of £6,000 in unpaid overtime a year, according to a survey by TUC."

Dave Lee reveals that Roy Greenslade has not cancelled his monthly membership payments to the NUJ following his public resignation from the union last year… "I know I should do it, but somehow I just can’t,” Roy says.

Andy Dicksinon rounds up some links to health and safety issues in video production, one of the areas highlighted for attention in the recent report of the NUJ mutlimedia working commission.

Neil McIntosh: The report of the NUJ multimedia commission "shows a level of understanding completely absent from much of what the union has had to say about the web to date, and is a signficant step forward."

"The report - and presumably the NUJ - conflates journalists with journalism. It assumes that not only is there a clear line between a professional journalist and a non-professional … but that journalism can clearly be distinguished from non-journalism

Bill Thompson: "Each year I tell my students on the online journalism course at City University … hat once someone e-mails them from a work address then that person can never be guaranteed anonymity in future, simply because it is so easy for employers

Ha: "several overweight, 40-something hacks secured an emphatic 8-2 victory against students from Cardiff University’s School of Journalism. The students denied they had "thrown" the game amid fears their journalistic careers may be over before they even