USA: executive order risks journalists’ jobs
President Trump’s order dismantling the US Agency for Global Media threatens thousands of posts.
Evening Standard to launch weekly newspaper as daily edition ends
The NUJ is urging the title to ensure journalists' job security as proposals to end the daily paper is announced.
NUJ slams National World job cuts
The union’s Newspaper and Agencies Industrial Council has called the move a ‘cynical attempt to undermine and destabilise staff.’
Closure of Newry Reporter is another ‘Canary in the coal mine’ moment
The announcement today that the Newry Reporter is to close its doors later this month, will pierce the very heart of the town, the NUJ has said.
TUCG demand better on climate and jobs
The Trade union co-ordinating group comprising the NUJ and ten other unions, calls for action on climate and jobs.
NUJ calls on government to end fire and rehire schemes
The NUJ has joined a coalition of sister unions and politicians calling on the government to introduce new measures to prevent fire and rehire schemes.
Journalists' unions unite with plan to save journalism from the tech giant bullies
The National Union of Journalists in the UK and Ireland has joined unions representing tens of thousands of media workers in Australia, Canada and the US in presenting a plan to save journalism from the greedy and anti-democratic tech platforms, which are sucking the lifeblood from the industry.
NUJ Branch October 2020
Pippa Crerar, Daily Mirror political editor, on press and government relations during the pandemic; Paul Siegert, NUJ national broadcasting organiser, on the union's Hands off Our BBC campaign; and The Voice's Izin Akhabua on why unions must listen to under-represented groups
NUJ joins calls to protect planning notices in local newspapers
Loss of the notices would cost the industry £10m. Proposals to scrap them are contained in the government's Planning for the Future White Paper.
