For many people across the UK, settling down on a Saturday afternoon and listening to how local teams have fared has become a staple part of the week. Presenters like Hedley Feast, who has spent many a Saturday afternoon trailblazing the length, breadth and cold blizzard openness, reporting on Oxford City, could soon disappear from the …
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Jeremy Dear on the BBC
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!
NUJ general secretary Jeremy Dear’s final DM speech
NUJ General Secretary Jeremy Dear launched an attack on Coalition cuts, Murdoch and working conditions in his opening speech to the NUJ delegate meeting in Southport. Dear attacked government policy saying it was politically motivated. He called it George Osborne’s “big lie” and called for tougher laws on tax evasion. Dear said” “Firefighters did not …
Profile of Paula Dear
Paula Dear is a tap-dancing, musical loving, NUJ activist and journalist. She is also the wife of the Union’s current General Secretary, Jeremy Dear. Her determination to gain recognition for the NUJ, passion for travel and relentless ambition to become a journalist only contribute to her warm personality. Personal Paula Dear, BBC correspondent, NUJ activist …