📣Photographers and illustrators: update your details by 8 September to ensure you get paid by DACS. If you've not registered yet, do so now to get a share of Payback 2024. #copyright londonfreelance.org/fl/2309dacs.ht…

The National World NUJ ballot closes next Thursday, Aug 31
Not yet returned your ballot paper ? send it back in the pre-paid envelope ASAP
Cast your vote alongside hundreds of other National World journalists standing up for better pay at the company.

New on HTFP today: Regional journalists including NottinghamshireLive's Oliver Pridmore were banned from photographing or filming Rishi Sunak – with one even being denied access to the toilet – when the Prime Minister visited their patch.
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We're looking for a live news journalist at The Courier!

If you thrive on breaking news and can produce high-quality content that serves our communities, we want to hear from you.

Apply now 👇
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It's 45 years since the best ever account of an attempted crime.

From the Edinburgh Evening News, 18 August 1978.

To mark the 3rd anniversary of #Lukashenka 's disputed election in #Belarus , Index's @nikwilliams2 spoke to BBC Radio Scotland about political prisoners in Belarus and our #LettersFromBelarus project. Politzek.me | Political Prisoners in Belarus Human Rights House Foundation

Listen to the full story here:bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…

Press Gazette analysis has previously suggested a DMGT acquisition of The Telegraph would give the Mail group a 50% share of the daily national newspaper market pressgazette.co.uk/the-wire/media…

We're looking for a live news journalist at The Press and Journal!

Our reporters are on the frontline of what’s happening in our communities; they’re breaking news, chasing stories and producing quality content.

Apply now👇

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The #NUJ is encouraging journalists at National World to vote 'yes' to strike action, demonstrating strong opposition to the imposed below-inflation 4.5% pay award.
Journalists deserve a fair and meaningful pay package.
nuj.org.uk/resource/nuj-b…
National World NUJ Group Chapel

#UK : Marianna Spring, BBC's disinfo & social media reporter, receives 80% of all abuse reported within BBC. Since 2020, Spring has been viciously attacked online for reporting on conspiracies. #CFWIJ urges social media companies to step up & protect journos from online harassment

New on HTFP today: Eighteen independent news publishers have joined forces to launch a new national title for Scotland called Scottish Beacon.

Greater Govanhill CIC's Rhiannon Davies: 'I’m really excited to see what we can do together.'
holdthefrontpage.co.uk/2023/news/new-…

Pretty poor form from The Scottish Sun to run a cut and paste of Bryan Rutherford’s exclusive and without a single credit to the The Press and Journal. Couldn’t even be bothered to rewrite it.

Reach has asked for expressions of interest in voluntary redundancy as it warned that a decline in online page views has hit revenue holdthefrontpage.co.uk/2023/news/onli…

Trade unionists are invited to a series of discussions on the Festival’s themes, inspired by the writings of Martin Luther King. The first: Exploring Community over Chaos, is at The Hub, 2.30pm, Mon 7 August. Contact [email protected].
eif.co.uk/events/explori…

📣The Journalist Aug/Sept issue is now out!

The latest edition looks at the class ceiling in journalism and how working-class journalists can find it hard to break it into the industry. There is also a feature on AI, and a surprise guest writer... Enjoy!

National World “solid performance” results must be reinvested into journalists’ pay.
Half year results published today reveal a £22m cash balance, yet the company has imposed a below-inflation pay award for journalists. 🧵
National World NUJ Group Chapel
nuj.org.uk/resource/natio…

🚨 FOI findings reveal publisher Newsquest is retaining over £10,000 per role from BBC funding allocated for Local Democracy Reporters. The company says funds are spent on business costs - #NUJ says pay journalists a fair wage.
nuj.org.uk/resource/local…

📢 The case of Barry McCaffrey and Trevor Birney, who were snooped by Police Service of Northern Ireland, underlines how vulnerable journalists are to #surveillance . #IFJ DGS @timdawsn addresses the risks of surveillance and its impact on the profession. #ifjsurveillance ⬇️