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.
Category Archive: Interviews
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.
Exploring new ways of recruiting student journalists to the NUJ
The NUJ is finding that it is best to attract emerging journalists while they are still at university and is adapting its recruitment methods to appeal to more students. Report by Holly McCormack, Vicky Britton and Gareth Dowling.
The youngest journalist at #NUJDM
Josh Taylor is 19 years-old and has been a member of the Derby and Burton National Union of Journalists branch for six months. After doing a six month NCTJ crash-course in journalism, Josh got a job as a trainee journalist on the Burton Mail. Josh joined the NUJ because many of his colleagues were also members. “I got a job at the Burton …
NUJ Vice-President nightmares over Delegate Meeting ‘commagate’
NUJ Vice-President, Donnacha DeLong, refuses to be drawn on his alleged night terrors about punctuation and grammar which began on the first night of the NUJDM. The delinquent comma that halted Friday’s proceedings, surrounding composite D order paper 7 on government policies, was apparently haunting the man who will be assuming the NUJ presidency when Pete Murray’s …
Lionel Morrison OBE speaks about racial discrimination within journalism
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 …
NUJ legal team on how student journalists can be paid for internships
Getting paid for journalism work as a student can be hard and students often think that they are not entitled to money for an internship, but legal advisors for the National Union of Journalists (NUJ) insist that this is not the case. Neil Todd, from Thompsons Solicitors, says students can be paid and it is …
Student journalists urged to start NUJ chapels within universities
Students attending this year’s National Union of Journalists (NUJ) Delegate Meeting have been given a masterclass on how to get active and set up union chapels at their own higher education establishment. The students that attended the session had the opportunity to find out from a guest speaker about chapels, which is the union’s term …
Exiled journalists speak to the NUJ about the conditions of UK asylum
Aleiu’s story | James’ story | Charles’ story Exiled journalists passionately spoke to fellow NUJ members about the conditions of asylum seekers in the UK. Members of the union expressed their views that exiled journalists are not receiving the right treatment from the UK Government as they are intending to send the journalists back to …