Megan Chapple

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Date registered: March 16, 2011

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  1. The highlights of student Daniel Richardson’s speech to DM — April 12, 2011
  2. Quality of journalism paper a success at the National Union of Journalists’ Delegates Meeting — April 10, 2011
  3. Student delegate Sam Butler speaks on Wikileaks motion — April 9, 2011
  4. Speaker elected from the NUJ students — April 9, 2011
  5. Best #nujdm tweets from Friday afternoon: Part 2 — April 8, 2011

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The highlights of student Daniel Richardson’s speech to DM

April 12, 2011

by Megan Chapple

Student delegate Daniel Richardson spoke to NUJ members at the Union’s Delegate Meeting about the exploitation of student journalists in unpaid internships and calls for greater awareness of these issues. You can listen to the full speech here (new window) Listen to the speech that got Daniel elected for this role here (new window) Read …

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Quality of journalism paper a success at the National Union of Journalists’ Delegates Meeting

April 10, 2011

by Megan Chapple

The whole of Order paper 14 on the quality of journalism was carried at the NUJ Delegate Meeting 2011 in Southport. After John Lister introduced the paper, it went straight into motion 116 which was proposed by the Oxford and District branch. The speaker spoke of how “quality journalism needs to be defended”. Jenny Simms, …

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Student delegate Sam Butler speaks on Wikileaks motion

April 9, 2011

by Megan Chapple

Student delegate Sam Butler spoke on order paper 13 motion 112 on Wikileaks. Sam mentioned that a lack of scrutiny of these websites could put “lives, careers and liberty” at risk. Sam ended by quoting Gargi Patel “We have rights, but also responsibilities” and said that he “couldn’t agree more.” The motion was carried.

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Speaker elected from the NUJ students

April 9, 2011

by Megan Chapple

Student Dan Richard speaking about why he would make a good speaker at the NUJ Delegate Meeting

Three students put their names forward for the role of student speaker at the NUJ Delegate Meeting this year. Dan Richardson was voted for by fellow students for the position and is expected to be speaking in front of the delegates later today. Dan wants to raise the issues of rising tuition fees and unpaid internships. More …

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Best #nujdm tweets from Friday afternoon: Part 2

April 8, 2011

by Megan Chapple

My name’s Megan Chapple and I am the third student social media editor. These are the highlights from the second part of this afternoon’s DM proceedings. 60+ nuj group members suspicious of Facebook and twitter – think CIA are listening in! #nujdm @fredpipes Time for change “48 female delegates to 108 men” says Mindy Ran …

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Delegate Meeting will not be held annually

April 8, 2011

by Megan Chapple

The National Union of Journalists Delegate Meetings are to be held every 18 months despite a motion from London Central branch to change it back to annual meetings. The debate was met with equal amounts of support and opposition. Leeds branch showed particular support but broke the rules when they provided more than one speaker …

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Jeremy Dear on the BBC

April 8, 2011

by Megan Chapple

Jeremy Dear asks why the BBC bosses are making huge bonuses whilst other skilled journalists are put out of work in his speech to delegates at the NUJ DM. Jeremy asks the NUJ to stand together and fight against redundancies that are sweeping across the industry and threatening the future and quality of journalism. Listen!

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The challenges of new media

April 6, 2011

by Megan Chapple

In the past decade, the NUJ has been involved in on-going debates over new media. Some journalists have doubted its ability to engage with new media and recent have events have encouraged this. In his opening speech at the Delegate Meeting 2009, the then NUJ President James Doherty attacked “blogging, facebooking and dare I say …

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