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NUJ in talks with Johnston Press following news of sale
11 October 2018: Chapel says its priority is to support its network of workplace reps and to get the best possible deal for every NUJ member, whatever happens in the weeks and months ahead.
NUJ submission to the Cairncross review
20 September 2018: The union highlights the challenges facing NUJ members at work and proposes a range of options available to tackle the crisis in the UK media industry
Journalists knocked sideways by more Newsquest cuts
12 September 2018: Further staff cuts have been announced in Wiltshire and Oxford
Corporate greed drives Newsquest Stourbridge cuts, says NUJ
12 September 2018: Proportionate to existing staffing levels, the latest Stourbridge proposals represents a huge cut, staff reporters were culled just over a year ago, and the Worcester-based group editor was made redundant in December last year
Newsquest announces cuts to sports staff in Bradford
10 August 2018: Plans to axe a third of Newsquest’s sports department in Bradford has been announced the day after the company revealed it had benefited from a $13.2m windfall.
Latest cull has made Newsquest’s flagship northern newspaper “unsafe for staff”
26 July 2018: Management at Newsquest’s Northern Echo, which faces the loss of eight further posts, had already been warned by staff that the situation in editorial was at crisis point.
Newsquest asked to come clean on plans to shift Barrow Mail staff 30 miles away in Kendal
18 July 2018: Chapel says the paper is already criticised for not having enough local news.
More jobs to go in the north west as Reach pursues its digital strategy
2 July 2018: The NUJ is fighting compulsory redundancies following a merger of journalist roles at the Manchester Evening News and Huddersfield Daily Examiner.
NUJ reacts to Newsquest’s cull of four out of five photographers in Cumbria
27 June 2018: The cut from five photographers to just one in Carlisle will come into effect next week, affected staff are being made redundant on Friday 29 June.
Welsh government called on to fund public interest journalism
10 May 2018: NUJ welcomes a report which has called on public funding for news provision,because the commercial model is failing.
