NUJ members work across a diverse range of sectors and roles.
We represent staff and freelances working in digital media, newspapers, news agencies, broadcasting, photography, magazines, journals, book publishing, public relations and communications.
Our members work in roles including:
- Writers, sub-editors and editors
- Presenters, correspondents, producers and podcasters
- PR and communications professionals
- Illustrators and creative artists working in the media, PR and communications
- Photographers and videographers, including in fashion and advertising
- Advertising copywriters
- Editorial content creation and social media
- Front-end developers and coders
- Teachers of journalism in further or higher education
- Translators who work in editorial and communications settings
Membership is open to any staff at media companies where no other union is active.
It is also open to English language journalists or journalists working in English who are members of a union with a reciprocal agreement with the NUJ.
Journalists seeking asylum in the UK or Ireland can apply for membership too.
Find out more about the types of members and how much it costs.