Oscar Webb

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Date registered: March 16, 2011

Biography

Hello. Throughout the DM I mostly concentrated on interviewing delegates, but I also took photographs. Please see my website oscarwebb.wordpress.com for my work outside of the DM.

Latest posts

  1. Socialist Workers Party takes active role at NUJ Delegate Meeting — April 14, 2011
  2. Photographer and NUJ member Jess Hurd on reporting in Egypt — April 11, 2011
  3. Lionel Morrison OBE speaks about racial discrimination within journalism — April 9, 2011

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Socialist Workers Party takes active role at NUJ Delegate Meeting

SWP member, Gary McFarlane speaks at Saturday's fringe meeting (Oscar Webb)

Despite the NUJ not officially supporting any political party, the Socialist Workers’ Party (SWP) took an active role at the NUJ Delegate Meeting in Southport this year. Although other campaign groups were present – Stop The War Coalition, Palestinian Solidarity Campaign – the SWP was the only political party with a visible presence, with members …

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Photographer and NUJ member Jess Hurd on reporting in Egypt

NUJ member Jess Hurd talks about the problems working as a photojournalist in an area of conflict and her experiences of Egyptian security forces.

Lionel Morrison OBE speaks about racial discrimination within journalism

Lionel Morrison speaking at the NUJ Delegate Meeting in Southport 2011

Of approximately 160 NUJ members who attended the Delegate Meeting in 2011 about half a dozen – 3 to 4% – were black. And of approximately 38,000 members of the NUJ, 1,000 are black – about 2.6%. For Lionel Morrison this is a disgrace. The number of black people in the media, as a proportion …

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