Southport 2011 was my second Delegate Meeting. My first was Southport 2009 (new window) when I attended as one of the student reporters. I returned this year as the student coordinator, looking after all of the students and editing their work before it was published on this site. It’s amazing how much difference 18 months …
Category Archive: Features
Socialist Workers Party takes active role at NUJ Delegate Meeting
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 …
What Delegate Meeting meant to me
After finding out I had the chance to be a part of the Student Delegation at this year’s Delegate Meeting, I was super-excited; however, all I knew was that this was the biggest date in the NUJ calender. I didn’t know what to expect, I didn’t know what would become of it and more innocently, …
Interview with NUJ President Peter Murray
Interviews and script: Susa Dickerson. Camera and editing: Dominic Simpson. In this video Welsh delegate Neil Taylor discusses why professional photographers are still important in the 21st century; and incumbment NUJ President Peter Murray discusses his feelings about leaving his post and what he plans to do next.
Claudia Duque tells NUJ DM about reporting in Columbia
Claudia Duque, a Colombian investigative journalist, spoke to the NUJ delegates meeting on Saturday about the way journalists in her country are silenced and abused and called for support to end the atrocities. In his introduction, Jeremy Dear said of Claudia Duque: “She is one of the most hunted journalists in a country where hunting …
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.
This Weekend in Numbers
Time for some statistics on this weekend, though this is likely already out of date the numbers are really impressive: Students this weekend wrote a total of 21,276 words over 78 posts, that’s an average of 273 per article, just 27 words off Chris’ ‘ideal news article length’. Our longest post was 963 words: Profile …
A round up of fringe meetings at NUJ DM
Away from the intense voting and hustle and bustle in the main hall, the fringe meetings at the NUJ’s Delegate Meeting provided a more intimate environment for discussion. The Stop The War campaign have been present at the conference, and organised the first of these fringe meetings on Friday. The three members – David Crouch, …
The best tweets of #nujdm Sunday morning: Part 2
Albert Evans, social media editor, posting up the key themes from the NUJ delegate meeting. Diversity #NUJDM Michelle Stanistreet I’ll try to be brief. This is a motion that would accept us agreeing to the end of the NUJ as we know #nujdm motion 127 – NUJ to become a union for media workers and …
NUJ executive will support campaigns for media freedom
Great steps were made on the issue of media freedom, specifically relating to the Freedom of Information Act and the Terrorism Act on Saturday afternoon at the National Union of Journalists (NUJ) Delegate Meeting. Freedom of information | photographers’ rights | New media Freedom of Information London Freelance branch proposed motion 103, which wanted to …