Every two years, the NUJ delegate meeting meets to decide on a range of issues including union policies, campaign priorities and changes to the rules. The delegate meeting brings together representatives of NUJ branches, group chapels and councils.
National Executive Council
Between delegate meetings, the National Executive Council (NEC) is responsible for enacting the instructions of the delegate meeting. All but one member of the NEC are elected from the membership every two years and are unpaid.
The union's general secretary also sits on the NEC. The general secretary is an elected, paid union official whose term of office runs for five years.
The union's national officers, the president, vice-president and honorary general treasurer are elected from the membership of the NEC for the two-year period between delegate meetings.
General secretary
Laura Davison
Laura Davison is the NUJ’s general secretary. Elected in 2024 Laura was previously a full time official of the union, and worked in multiple sectors including Broadcasting, Newspapers and Digital. Before joining the NUJ Laura worked as a journalist for the BBC.
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National officers
The union's national officers, the president, vice-president and honorary general treasurer are elected from the membership of the NEC for the two-year period between delegate meetings.
Gerry Curran
Gerry Curran has acted as an advisor and media liaison for the Courts Service in Ireland, and to five Chief Justices. He is a well-regarded and prominent figure in the media industry having started a career in broadcasting 30 years’ ago. In the past 25 years he has served on local, branch, Irish and NUJ-wide committees in a variety of capacities. He is the NEC's Republic of Ireland rep.
Fran McNulty
Fran McNulty is an award-winning journalist and has been an active member of the NUJ for almost 20 years. A television presenter and reporter with Irish National Broadcaster Raidió Teilifís Éireann (RTÉ) Fran presents Prime Time, Ireland’s most watched current affairs programme. He has also presented some of Ireland’s biggest radio programmes including Morning Ireland, the News at One and This Week. He has reported from all over the world for RTÉ, from South Africa, to Palestine. He has covered stories as varied as papal conclaves and Westminster politics. As a presenter Fran’s stories focus on social justice issues and the impact of poverty and deprivation in some communities. He is the NEC's Republic of Ireland rep.
Georgina Morris
Georgina Morris joined the NUJ in 2008, before becoming a workplace rep and active member of the Leeds and West Yorkshire branch. She worked in the regional press for 16 years and chaired the National World NUJ Group Chapel for around a decade. Now working in an online role for BBC England, she is co-chair of her branch and will finish a two-year term on the Newspapers and Agencies Industrial Council in April 2025. She has joined the NEC for the first time as the representative for the North East and Yorkshire.
Chris Frost
Professor Chris Frost is emeritus professor of Journalism at Liverpool John Moores University and has been a journalist, editor and journalism educator for more than 40 years, working in newspapers before moving into the academy. As well as being an NEC member, he is chair of the Ethics Council, a member of Profcom, the NUJ's training committee and a former president of the union.
He is also a National Council member of the Campaign for Press and Broadcasting Freedom and the National Chair of the Association for Journalism Education. He has written several books on Journalism, including Journalism Ethics and Regulation (now in third edition).
