Jon Slattery: NUJ backs blogger banned from coroner’s court
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"The NUJ has condemned a coroner’s decision to deny a blogging journalist access to the Isle of Wight coroner’s court."
Category Archives: NUJ
Marc Reeves: Three things I’ll miss about newspapers – and three things I won’t
Marc Reeves on the conservatism of newspaper management - and journalists: "The most senior managers in most newspaper groups achieved their positions at a time when the world was certain, definable and predictable. The model was 150 years old and still going strong. Nothing – but nothing – in their experience equipped them to anticipate or create change, unless it was to manage decline and cut costs during one of the periodical and predictable cyclical economic downturns. ... The certainty that the [NUJ] would oppose any change has only helped confirm change-averse managers in their own conservatism."
Marc Reeves: Three things I’ll miss about newspapers – and three things I won’t
Marc Reeves on the conservatism of newspaper management - and journalists: "The most senior managers in most newspaper groups achieved their positions at a time when the world was certain, definable and predictable. The model was 150 years old and still going strong. Nothing – but nothing – in their experience equipped them to anticipate or create change, unless it was to manage decline and cut costs during one of the periodical and predictable cyclical economic downturns. ... The certainty that the [NUJ] would oppose any change has only helped confirm change-averse managers in their own conservatism."
Sky News: Government Wants Online ‘Rogues’ Galleries’ To Show Public How Criminals Dealt With By Courts
Government wants to introduce online sentencing information for local areas. Peter Murray, vice-president of the National Union of Journalists, tells Sky News: "The point about journalism, as opposed to information provided by arms of the state, is that it's filtered through people who have all the ethical training, political background and experience. That filtering process is not there on a police or local authority website, so people committing a minor offence may find themselves victimised, or subject to vigilantism because people would have no means of determining the seriousness of the offence committed."
One Man and His Blog: NUJ: Response from a Union Official
Adam Tinworth: "This dispute has never been about the NUJ not understanding the web or even new media, it's about them not understanding (or engaging with) social media."
Journalism.co.uk Editors’ Blog: OMC09: Levies for aggregators?
"Interesting suggestion from National Union of Journalists (NUJ) general secretary and Oxford Media Convention panellist, Jeremy Dear, that content aggregators should be subject to levies. ... Speaking to Journalism.co.uk, Dear said the idea is discussed in a report set for release next week, which focuses on public service broadcasting."
Jeremy Dear: Coming up with a cunning plan…
Jeremy Dear expands on his comments on the BBC local video plan: "I fully support the newspapers' expansion in to online media and I hope they capture a significant part of the audience - but it has to be done through quality content, with enough staff and resources to win "eyeballs" not by stopping the licence fee payer being able to access BBC local services. There's room for everyone in the 'market'."
Charlie Beckett: Is New Media Killing Journalism? Do you care?
"[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."
L’Observatoire des médias: 10 ans après, les journalistes se mettent au web
Nicolas Kayser-Bril at L’Observatoire des médias has a harsh-but-fair assessment of the NUJ's effort at putting The Journalist online.
L’Observatoire des médias: 10 ans après, les journalistes se mettent au web
Nicolas Kayser-Bril at L’Observatoire des médias has a harsh-but-fair assessment of the NUJ's effort at putting The Journalist online.
The Journalist: Say it loud: I’m a Luddite and proud
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
CTJT Media Blog: NUJ’s decline – that figures
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."
Press Gazette: Journalists ‘give away £6,000 a year in overtime’
"Journalists are among the media professionals putting in the equivalent of £6,000 in unpaid overtime a year, according to a survey by TUC."
Press Gazette: Journalists ‘give away £6,000 a year in overtime’
"Journalists are among the media professionals putting in the equivalent of £6,000 in unpaid overtime a year, according to a survey by TUC."