Taking on the media barons - TUC conference on media ownership and regulation

  The TUC, together with media unions and campaign groups, is organising a one-day conference on media ownership and regulation on Saturday 17 March in London....

Union welcomes support for independent inquiry into journalist’s murder

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and its affiliates, the National Union of Journalists (UK), and the National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ), have called on William Hague to ensure that the “independent inquiry” he called for into the murder of Hassan Osman Abdi, union branch secretary and director of Shabelle Media Network, is truly independent....

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